Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-01-23

The receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year
ending July l, 1886, according to the Secretary
figures, may be briefly summed up thus:
RECEIPTS.
Balance in the treasury July l. 1854, 800 13967 80
Receipts from all sources, 0o.OO3,95O 90
Total for the service of the fiscal
year ending July l, 1866, 30, ,e9e 10
EXPENDITURES.
Total expenditures for the fiscal year
ending July l, 1856, 500, 2O9,922 VI
Balance in the treasury July 1865, 1921, 976 ot
s5,l4l, s9s 05
The sum of SIS, G23, 1868 is put down the esti-
mated balance in the treasury on the LIST OF July,
1856, and the sum Of So, 497 as the estimated
balance in the treasury on the 1st Of July. 1857.
On the 4th of March, 1858, the public debt amour
ted to the sum of 500, l23.937 p. This has been
reduced up to and including the 18th of November,
1856, to $39, S69, 731 O5.
The receipts from customs for the remaining three
quarters of the present fiscal year have been advanc
ed from the estimated receipts submitted in the re-
port of last year. This has been done" says the
Secretary, because the abundant agricultural pro-
auctions in all sections of country will justify
larger expectations and because of the demand TOR
provisions in Europe, caused by the war and limited
crops but with the expectation of less demand Tor
cotton and diminished prices and also the return OF
American stocks under continued stringency liz the
money markets Of Europe, growing out of the de-
mand of money for the war and for brcadstufS, and
the withdrawal of money from circulation, under
IN apprehended scarcity, ami its effects upon the
money market in the United States. The advance
may not be realized but it is believed the estimate
is fair one; and, at all events the receipts from
customs and lands will meet the estimated expendi
lures IS far as they will be called for, and allow
consi derable for the redemption of the public
debt. should the holders be willing to part with il"
The Secretary again recommends a repeal of the
fishing bounties. In regard to the tariff question,
he says: An examination of the several tariffs
acted in this country, in cOnneXun with the increase
Of banks, banking capital and bank-note circulation.
will afford evidence that the increased duty has, al
most in every instance, to some extent been coun-
tsracted, within short time, by the increased cir
culation Of bank notes." Again THE United
States. with its mixed currency of gold, silver, and
bank notes, has been good market for the sale of
foreign productions and manufactures; and, in the
general, bad market for The sale of our own-the
foreign article taking the gold and silver, the better
part Of our currency, with the increased price given
by our bank-note circulation and raising pro-
ductions to such price as not to allow of their ex
poraton, unless in times Of great foreign demand
large, and not the least interesting, portion of
the report Is devoted to full explanation of the
workings Of the accounting system of the Treasury
Department. accompanied with practical suggestions
derived from experience. Vigorous efforts max
ing for the collection of all outstanding BALANCES due
the government.
The independenttreasurya act still continues emf
nently successful in all its operations. The trans
fers for disbursement during the fiscal year, to the
amount of $39 407, 674 O3, have been made cost
of tl9,762 30, whilst the premium on the sale of
treasury drafts has amounted to $3O,43 81. The
receipts ard expenditures during the fiscal year,
amounting to SSl ,4l3,s59 SO, have all been in the
constitutional currency of gold and silver without
OefceUtibe effects the nut tho
healthy business operations of the country
Efforts arc now making TO have the accounts of all
the custom houses kept upon the same uniform prin-
ciples, and the same forms and routine for the entry
OF goods at all the ports, with the like advantage of
warehonsIng, expectation, and transportation.
In regard to the co. structon and repair of build
,ngs under authority of the Treasury Department,
the Secretary says that efforts are now being made
to have all the work done with the best materials,
and in the best manner the appropriations will allow
and as near fire and thicfproof possible with pro-
vision for warming and ventilation.
The report closes with brief reference to the
steamboat act of August 80, 1852 as follows "Th.re
can be no question but that the operations Of the
act have been beneficial, and might be made more
30 by more energetic and uniform enforcement of
its provisions and by extending the same to the Pa
cifiic coast. The law requires some notifications
amendments, and additions, recommended to the
last Congress- and should he placed under the direc
ton and control of one of the executive depart
ments; without which the necessary and proper d.
rection and control cannot be had
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
From the organic character of the Interior De-
partmcnt the annual report from it's head is now
looked Tor with universal interest. To use the lam
guage OF Secretary McClelland, this department is
one OF the largest in the government; its branches
are numerous and extensive and in no respect no.
mogeneous: hence the labor is the more perplexing
and intense. The report this year has many feat.
ures OF peculiar interest In brief but compre-
hensive manner it gives history of the operations
OF Its various branches bureaus for the past
year. rS@
The careful, judicicus and successful manner, in
"ncn the Important and intricate affairs of the Gen
erai Land Office have been administered, is spoken
o. IN terms Of warm commendaton. The quantity
Of land sold at graduated prices during the last ts-
cal year was acres; amount received there
ior. During the year Is Bis. 2s3 acres
have been surveyed. The total quantity sold. loca
ted, selected, and donated, amounts to 24557 4oa
acres The quantity of land covered by warrants
issued to soldiers of all the in which the Uni
ted States have been engaged is 37,95s,412 acres
when enormous amount, taken in connection with
our liberal system Of pensions, eyinccs in an emf
nent degree that the gratitude of cur country for
the patriotism Of its citizens is not impaired by the
lapse of time, nor its acknowledgment extended with
An liberal hand. "''A
Granting lands for railroad purposes in new States
spoken OF, with the recommendation that such
grants be accompanied by restrictions and guards to
prevent frauds and protect the public interests The
recommendation is again repeated to prohibit Off
GERS connected with the survey and sale of the pub
lie lands from becoming purchasers.
Inc report states that the affairs of the Pension
Omce nave been conducted with frcat efficiency
And signal ability. Its business has largely i,,creas
rendered tho lob 80