Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-12-11

hitherto so difficult TO procure. Several
hundred American boys are now on three
years. cruise in our national vessels, and
will return well trained seamen. In the
ordinance department there is decided and
gratifying indication of progress creditable
TO ii and the country. The suggestions Of
the Secretary of the Navy, in regard to fur
Their improvement in that branch of the
service, | commend to your favorable ac-
ton.
The new frigates ordered by Congress are
now anoat and two of them in active service.
! They are superior models OF naval architect
ure. and with their formidable battery add
largely to public strength and security.
! | concur in the views expressed by the
Secretary of the Department in favor Of q
still further increase of our naval force.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR.
The report of the Secretary of the Interi-
or presents facts and views in relation to
internal affairs over which the supervision
of his department extends, Of much interest
and importance.
The aggregate sales Of public lands, dur
ing the last fiscal year, amount to nine mil
lions two hundred and twenty-seven thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-eight acres;
for which has been received the sum of
eight millions eight hundred and twenty lone
thousand four hundred and fourteen dol
lars. During the same period there have
been located with military scrip and land.
warrants, and for other purposes thirty
million one hundred thousand two hundred
and thirty acres, thus making total aggre-
gate Of thirty-nine million three hundred
and twenty sight thousand one hundred and
eight acres. On the 30th of September
last, surveys he'd been nude Of sixteen mil
lion eight hundred and seventy-three thou
send six hundred and ninty-nine acres,
large proportion Of which is ready for mar
| kei.
The suggestions Of this report in regard
to the complication and progressive expan.
sion Of the business Of The different bureuux
of the department.; 10 the pension system; to
! the colonization of Indian tribes, and the
recomendaii ms in relation to various i'm.
provements i'll the Distric, of Columbia, are
especially commended 10 your consideration.
POST OFFICE.
The report of the Postmaster General presents
fully the condition of that department of the Gov
eminent. Its expenditures for the last fiscal yenr
were ten million four hundred and seven thousand
eight hundred and sxty-eight dollars; and its gross
receipts seven million six hundred and twenty
thousand eight hundred and one dollars-making
an excess of expenditure over receipts of two
million seven hundred and eghty-seven thousand
and forty-siX dollirs. The defciency of this de-
partmcnt is thus seven hundred and forty four
thousand dollars greater than for the year ending
June 30 1853 OF this deficiency three hundred
and thirty thousand dollars is TO be attributed TO
the additional compensation allowed posmasters
by the act Of Congress of June %, 1854. The
mil facilities in every part Of the country have
been very much incI eased in that period, and the
large addition of railroad service, amounting 10
seven thousand nine hundred and eight miles, has
added largely to the cost of transportation.
The inconsiderable augmentation of the income
of the Post Office Department under the reduced
rates of postage, and its increasing expenditures.
must, FOR the present, make dependent to some ex-
tent upon the treasury for support. The recon-
mendations of the Postmaster General, ;n,reaton
10 the abolition of the franking privilege and his
views on the establishment OF mail steamship lines
deserve the consideration of Congress. ! also call
the special attention Of Congress TO the statement
Of the Postmaster General respecting the suma
now paid for the transportation Of mails to the
Panama Railroad Company, and commend 10
their curly and favorable consideration the sugges-
ton; of that officer in relation TO new contracts
foI mail transportation upon that route, and also
upon The Tehuantepec and Nicaragua routes.
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