Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-12-17
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| grants, of March, 1857 5,1l6,000,00
The amount of money received
on cash sales is - DOS 900, IL
This shows falling off in land receipts, from
those for the corresponding period of the prece-
ding year. of $5 1922, 1859. With falling off
during the same period, in the location of lands
with warrants. of more than 20 per cent.
| In the Territory of the United States there are
eighty three organized land districts, each hav-
ing register and receiver, for the sale and dis
posal ofthe public lands. Yet We have no land
district for either the Territory of New Mexico
or Utah. In New Mexico the public land sur
veys have been executed to a very limited ex-
TENT owing to Indian hostilities. In Utah the
| surveys had rapidly progressed until the Sur
| veyor-General abandoned his post; owing to re-
ported hostities of the Mormon authorities at
Salt Lake City. The extent Of the surveys.
since the beginning of the operations in Utah,
exhibits sphere of field work embracing 2,OO0,-
900 acres.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GRANTS.
Prescriptions upon unsurveyed lands are
now limited to particular States and Territories.
general law authorizing pre-emptions upon
lands of this character, superceding or repeal
ing special statutes on the subject, would con-
duce to the harmony of the system; and such q
law is recommended.
In order to remove all doubt in the eonstrue.
ton of existing law, presumption privileges
should also be extended to alternate reserved
railroad sections, in cases where settlements
have been made after the final allotment.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Secretary recommends that Congress give
it's early attention to this subject and prescribe,
in one comprehensive enactment, wei. consid-
ered compact and uniform system of laws for
the regulation of Indian intercourse.
The Indian tribes within our limits, number
ing about 325, 900 souls, may be divided into
three classes: The first, wild, rowing, fierce. re-
tanning all the traditionary characteristics which
marked the race before the advent of the white
man, exc out by plumber the uncertain subsist.
ance rerive6 from the chase. To this class, COM
prising nearly three-fourths of the whole num-
Der belong most of the bands whose hunting
grounds lie in the interior of the continent, and
in the Territories of Oregon and Washington.
The tribes of California, Utah, Texas, New
Mexico and q portion of those in Oregon, consti-
tute the second class. Some three years, since,
the policy was adopted of concentrating these
Indians on small reserv atoms. where they might
be practically taught the industrial arts, and Ia
Dor for their support under the Immediate super
vision of their agent. These establishment are,
in fact, manual labor schools on large scale and
the Secretary is gratifed to be able to state that
the happiest results have followed their introduce
ton.
The Indians along the west bank of the Mis-.
souri,, those of Kansas, and the four great tribes
occupying the territory west of Arkansas, form
third class, differing in many particulars from
either of the others. Generally true and reia-
bic, they constitute people for whom we justly
feel the deepest sympathy and the greatest soic-
itude.
1t is recommended that Congress grant discre-
tionary powers tothe Department in the matter
of the disbursements, to subserve the cause of
good morals and the general interests of the
tribes. Several plans are suggested for the anne
Iteration of their condition. the most prominent
of which is the restriction of the tribes to small
er and more compact reservations. 1t is also
recommended that the FESTIVE spirits in Oregon
and Washington be enlightened ~ TO the power
of the United States to take care of that part of
The national domain. The method suggested is
to make an appropriation to defray the expenses
of delegation from each of the large tribes to
Washington and the other Eastern cities-a
more sensible plan, to say nothing ofthe human
ity involved, than mourning further expense in
powder and ball to let the light of this informa-
ton through them,
PENSIONS.
During the past year al ,453 warrants for boun-
ty land have been issued, requiring, to satisfy
them, five millions nine hundred and ffty-two
thousand one hundred and sixty acres of public
domain; and the number issued under all the
bounty land acts of Congress from the revou-
tionary war to the present time is SAT $50, re-
quirng. to satisfy them, sixty millions seven
hundred and four thousand nine hundred and
forty-two acres of land.
THE WAGON ROADS.
BY an act of the last Congress- this depart.
| ment was charged with the construction of the
following wagon roads.
One from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, by way of
the South Pass to the eastern boundary of Cali
fornia, near Honey Lake: one from Ell Paso, on
the Rio Grande, to Fort Yuma, at the mouth of
the ella River; and one from the Platte river,
via the Omaha Reserve and Dacotah City, to
the Running Water River.
Provisions had been previously made for open
ing road from Fort Ridgely, Minnesota, to the
South Pass, and operations had been commenced
thereon. under instructions from the previous
Administration.
PATENT OFFICE.
From the LIST of January to the Both of Sept
1857, ,065 applications for patents have been
received, and 800 caveats filed; 22,066 patents
have been issued, and 2.2S7 applications reject
ed.
The receipts of the three quarters ending Both
of September, 1857, were $l6l,445,97 The
expenditures were $l63,942,04. Excess of ex-
penditures over receipts, 81, 52607.
The Agricultural division of this office is grow
ing in popularity with the country and increas>
ing IN usefulness.
The crop of Chinese and African sugsr-cane
alone. for the present year, will more than CON-
pensate for the money heretofore expended in
this behalf.
Measures have been taken for the establish
ment of more satisfactory system for the dis
tribution of seeds; the Introduction of the tea
plant; the collection of the seed and cuttings of
the native grape vines with the view of testing
their value for the manufacture of wine; the in
vestigation of the nature and habits of the in