Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-12-16

The estimates tor 1eb6 afe O. pillows: Expenol-
turss, $I2. oos. 241; Rsvenosv 6o4 o74 leaving
the sum Of s.! 469, l73 to be appropriated by Con
eress to defrny the expenditures Of the coming
year.
and Bremen lines Of steamships. have been continued
for another year, and the adoption OF . permanent
contract with these lines is recommended. The Pam
ANA Railroad Company receives an annual compen-
sation Of 100 900 for mail transportation. the con-
tract to continue till October, 1864 The temporary
contract with G. K. Garrison, for mail transportation
between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, expires June
80 1885, The contract on the Pacific side must be 4
extended one year. The hostages on mail transpor.
tel by the Collins line during the year, were $2l0,
46s 03S previous year, $46l, $40. The amount of
letter hostages upon mails exchanged during the year
with Great Britain was 1874, 1874; of which 1914
1914 were collected in the United States. An elabo
rate tabular statement is furnished of the number
of letters and papers conveyed between the United
States and Great Britain during the last four years
excess of British postage collected in this
country, Of $1932s7 last year result disadvanta-
geous to the department. The balance is every year
largely against u.s. The cause lies in the fact that
nearly two-thirds of the transatlantic mails have
been conveyed by the Cunard line, the British Gov
eminent thereby receiving nearly four.fths of the
postage. Negotiations for q radical change are
pending. .47-
The subject of the adoption of plan of moncy-or-
der drawn by postmasters urged upon the attention
of Congress- with allusion to former proceedings
The establishment Of Sub-Post Offices in New York,
intmation that the Postmaster General had hoped
to be able to reduce the City deveryfee to one cent
but this was found to be impractcable in Newly
and Philadelphia the law requires that the entire
cost of delivery shall be betrayed out of the carriers
receipts. In Boston, one cent pays. The system Of
earnestly commended. In regard to delays and fail
ures on the great mail.route from New.Orleans to
New York. the report is very full This line is com.
posed of sixteen links each under seperate contract.
The causes Of delay are reported upon-consstihg
Of railroad disasters, broken bridges, ice and snow,
&c-and as q remedy, the closing Of a contract with
the Florida Railroad Company is recommended,
whereby party, instead Of sixteen, becomes the
contractor-the mails to be conveyed from Neo Or
leans to Neu. York By sea in flee days-an arrange
ment which the Postmaster General thinks will OBJ
vate not only the delays that attend and-carriage,
but will tend also to prevent robberies and losses
of the nails well as to effect the preservation Of
mail matter from the damage it now frequently i'm
ours. The Company referred to offer to perform
daily service during the year for $456, $50. An ex-
tension of this great Southern route may be made to
include the convey of the CaifoI mia mails by
way of Cedar Key, Aspinwall, Greytown, or Hnasa-
cnalco The report enters into particulars Of mail
service the Mississippi, and in regard to the set
Element of the San Pedro claim of Mr. Chorpenng. ami
then passes to consideration of the proposals for
carrying the Overland California mail The con-
tract for this service has been awarded to JoHNBUr
TERRIFIED and Others who engage to convey the mail
and from San Francisco each trip to occupy TWEEN
ty'five days, the ng-points TO be St Louis and
Memphis-thence by way of Little Rock, Arkansas,
to the Rio Grande. and by way Of Ell Paso and Fort
Yuma to San Francisco-the contract to run for six
years from Sept l6, 1865, at the yearly compensa-
ton of $6OOOO The advantages Of this Ell Paso route
over the albuquerque are set forth at considerable
length. The distance by the route selected. from
Memphis to San Francisco, is g 1903 miles. This is
regarded the pioneer route for the first great Rail-
road that may be constructed to the Pacific. A com.
muncation from Hon. John r. Bartlett on the sub
ject Of Overland Nails is embodied in the report, in
illustration of Mr. Browns views. This subject ends
the report and forms valuable feature Of the docu.
ment
Report Of the Secretary of the Interior.
Secretary Thompson's report opens with an exhib-
it Of the operations of the Land Bureau A hstor:-
cal sketch is given of the methods by which the pub
lie domain was originally acquired and then follows
a schedule of the organization of the surveying sys
tenn, The whole surface of public domain is stated
at ,45O, 900 900 acres, of which 7442, $40 acres
have been offered for sale and 80 900 900
were subject to entry at private sale on the 3Oth
September last. The number of acres thus far sold
is 1858 1862 464 acres leaving undisposed Of 1885,
1877 ,536 acres Last year, % $50 45l acres Of pub
sold for cash 7,3s1,O1O were located
with military warrants, and the Railroad grants
der the act of March, were B, 600 acres The
received cash sales Was 81, 225, 9OS, falling
off Of S. 1872 145. with corresponding falling off in
the location of lands with warrants of more than 20
per cent There are SO organized Land Districts
but none for New Mexico or Utah. commission
for the settlement of Spanish and Mexican claims in
New-Mcxico is recommended; geological survey
of the same Territory is also urged. No change is
suggested in the laws applicable to the working of
the Department. In regard to Indian affairs, the
Report is explicit. The Indian tribes within our
limits now number 1876. 900 souls. The Indian Bu-
reau is putting forth efforts induce the savages
take up with fixed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which little
can be done towards ameliorating their condition.
plan, recommended by the Secretary, suggests the
gathering Of the Indians on smaller reservations and
in denser settlements-ther reservation be divided
into farms and distributed among the individuals of
the tribes, without the power Of sale or transfer.
with central farms for the instruction of the children
and a supply of implements of agriculture for all
The tribes which have advanced in civilization, and
whose prospects are gratifying, are those in the
Southern Superntendency,- Choctaws, Chicka-
saws, Cherokees and Creeks, with the Seminoles in
the territory west Of Arkansas. The establishment
of District Court for this Superintendency is rec
commended, to heal disputes among the people. In
washington and Oregon the sava,,es remain belliger-
ent. 1t is recommended that the expenses of dele
CATION from these tribes to the Federal capital he
paid by the Government in order that they may
have an opportunity to be set right Indian trust
funds have been invested in State Stocks to the
amount Of 81 ,4sl ,476.
The Bureau of Pensions returns satisfactory re.
port Up to June, 1867, total of $61, 3l4, $40 in
money, and large donations of land, had been paid
to Revolutionary soldiers or their widows. During
the past year Al ,4s3 warrants for bounty land have
BEN issued, requiring to satisfy them 5,352, 100
acres of public land The number of warrants is
sued under all the Bounty Land acts of Congress
from the Revolutionary War to the present time is
547, 25o-requiring 6O7o4 942 acres ofland. Frauds