The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-07
THE REPORTS OF SECRETARIES.

| each, as the others would not pay the exsense
| oeing old that the frigates Sabine and Santee
| 10 oe ieit as they are, and the remaining sig
| sailing frigates converted into steam sIoops
| oi-waf, and finally into store-ships that new
| eloops o. var should be built to replace Those
| suiit prior 10 1910. The present condition of
| the active navy is commended. Screw steamers
are favored, and side heels, in case of war
| opposed. An increase of the Navy ia demand
| cd, on the ground that we have now q navi.
| eatlhg interest OF live million tons an i'm mort
and export trade of six or seven million of dol
| lars, and coastiDg trade Of equal extent and
| Vaiue. All additions to the navy should en-
| pioy steam power. Attention is called to the
| Itct tnat the Constitution prohibits individual
| States from creating navy of their own.
| Estimates are submitted for replacing all the
| prominent Nayy-Yards of the country in q
| eohuition OF full activity. The efficiency and
discipline of the Naval Academy under Capt
| BLAKE is approved. In the Saue trade tgsiue
ctSSefs hare been captured Ibis year 6y the African
squadron, and more than 5000 negroes rescued. A
| strong hint Is given that the Slave trade can
| only hnaily be suppressed by Eagland's en-
| forcing her treaty OF 1917 with Spain In refer
| ence TO Cuba, or the annexation of Gu ba by the
| United States. The bill introduced by Jeffer-
| son DAVIS prohibiting the purchase OF paten ted
| articles for the Army and Navy is opposed as
| inj urious TO the service.
The Secretary recommends that he have
| power TO purchase butter, cheese. -four. and
| tobacco for the Navy by private parchase and
| not by advertised contract. The present state
| ana services OF the various sqUadrons and
|
| being PAID to Commodores Poor, Porter and
| Brent for prompt action in rightng the
wrongs OF American citizens. The Japanese
| Embassy, reports as to the marine corps sur
geons and paymasters, together with brief
| statistics of the various exporting expedi-
| tions, form the balance Of the Secretary's re-
port, which closes with summary of naval
estimates for the fiscal year ending June 80
| lo62-total amount S1I ,9W0l.
| From the report of the Secretary of the In
| terror, we learn that of the Public Lands 12,-
| O50,O33 acres have been disposed of, 3977,6l9
| selling for cash, yielding So 90 ,425 and s. =
6G5, 723 absorbed under railroad grants, and
the rest in bounty land warrants and swamp
grants. Over million OF dollars were ex-
pended in the payment OF pensions during the
fiscal year. The income of the Patent. Office
| is $4,000 above expenses; 1896 patents have
| been issued and 36l2 applications rejected
| The Census will be prepared for the present
Congress. The necessity of revising the laws
prohibiting the Slave trade, and especially in
providing for the disposal of rescued negroes,
is urged
The Secretary of the Interior first alludes to
| the extraordinary development of the in ter
nal resources of the country, especially as ex-
hibited in the report of the Land Offices -
| During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860,
and the quarter ending the Both of Septem Der
last 1886 36l acres OF public lands have been
proclaimed for sale. During the same period,
i9,6i947l acres have been surveyed and pre-
pared for market, and II GOO, 053 ~ acres have
| been disposed of in the following manner
l3977,6l9 50 acres have been sold for cash. yield
ing 81 U2l ,425 81; 1873, lIO acres have been ab
| sorbed by the location OF bounty land war;
rants; 2,O37,770 % acres approved to States
under the swamp grants; and 2,6G5,623 acres
under the railroad grants. The number of
military bounty land warrants outstanding
on the Both Of September last was 7i,469 and
they Will require &, i96, $50 acres of the public
domain TO satisfy them
| The Secretary can find no fault with the ex.
listing public land system 4; for forty years the
price of public lands has been SIPS per acre,
| which has satisfied the majority. The home
stead system has every where failed the pu biic
discussion of this system has greatly retarded
emigration.
He knows of no reason why the title to the
| lands at the Hot Springs OF Arkansas should
| be reserved in perpetuity, and therefore re-
commends that the disposal of the four Sec
| tions reserved be provided for by appropriate
legislation
As to the grant ofIand to the State Of Iowa
| for the Improvement of the Des Moines river,
| he says: "Having recommended to the Com
mittee Of Public Lands of the Senate, in June
last, q reiiaQ ushment to the State of all title
remaining in the United States to the 212. .572
| acres Of land enormously listed and certified
| under the Des Moines grant, have directed q
| suspension of immediate action under the rail-
| road grants, far the two conflicting
claims interfere. The lands along the upper
| portions of the Des Mones river, not EN- braced
| in any of the certified lists, which have been
surveyed for four, five and six years, bu tn
| held from market on account of the claim of
the State, have recently been proclaimed and
| offered al public sale"
The progress of the public surveys in the
| Territory Of Washington has been interrupt
| ed on account of the existence of certain land
| claims under the treaty of JuLe 49, 1916, with
Great Britain. Two tracts-one at Nisq ually,
| containing by estimate 10000 acres and ano-
| ther at CowlitZ, containing about g. GOO acres
have been claimed under the 4th article Of the
| same treaty, for the Puget's Sound Agricul-
| turaI Company. ut is due to the people OF
| Washington Territory that some decisive ac-
DVxIi hnt tynr nduia iaadf hot
| any portion of the tracts claimed OF any
| public or political importan TO the United
| States, and l recommend that the Surveyor
! General of Washington Territory, under the
supervision of this Depar tment, be authorized
by special enac tment to decide upon the Validi-
| ty OF the claims Of the Puget's Soand Agricul-
| tural Co., and, If they are entitled to confirm
ation to determine the location and bounda.
| ries Of the farms and lands that belonged to
| the company, which should be required with
| IN given period to present its claims for final
| action"
1.-THE colonization system which was tried
| In California aud Texas, under the direction
| OF Congress, and from which l al one time
hoped for the most favorable results, has proved
an entire failure. It's expensive ana radically
| defective.''
Az to q strip of land in dispute between the
| Cherokees and white squatters, the Secretary
| recommends that it be sold, and the proceeds
| given TO the Cherokees.
| The Shawnees, Miamies, and the confede-
| rated bands Of Kaskas kias, Peorias Weas, and
| Piankeshaws, belonged TO that class of In-
dians whose lands have been divided among
the individual members Of the tribe, and are
| held in severalty. He recommends that their
| lands be sold without their consent, and 4
home purchased for them in the Usage Reser-
| yation or the Cherokee neutral lands.
| Little progress has been made in negotiating
| with the Red River Indians.
| The whole number of Pensioners, of all
classes, now remaining on the rolls, is IA ,58l,
| and the sum required 10 pay their pensions is
g, ,O0I ,OiS.95. During the past year the amount
| thus expended was 81, l03562 03
The income of the Patent Office for the three
| quarters ending September 30 1860, was Sl97,-
6i5 40, and its expenditure. S1e9,672.23, show
ing surplus of s., ,976.17. During this period,
five thousand six hundred and thirty-eight t
applications for patents have been received,
and eight hundred and forty-onc caveats filed.
Three thousand six hundred and twelve ap-
| plica.ions have been rejected, and three thou
| sand eight hundred and ninety six patents
| issued, including re-issnes, additional i'm
| provenents and designs. In addition TO this
| there have been forty mine applications for
extensions. and twenty-eight patents have
been extended tor period of seven years from
the expiration of their first term.
For the completion of the Eighth Census,
the sum of Si37, 900, as deficiency, will be re-
| ouired for the cnrrenI fiscal year, and q fur
| ther appropriation of $780, 600 for the fiscal
| wear ending June 80 1862, which, with the ap-
| propriatien here tofors made for this service,
will make the entire cost OF the present emu
| meration about s ,6i2, 900, of which sum about
81, 100000 will be paid to the Marshals
and their assistants, in accordance with the
| ra ties established by the law OF 1850, for their
services in this connection. The sum de-
| manded for the execution OF the Eighth Gen.
sus exceeds the cost of the Seventh ia the sum
| of S245 O00-an excess rendered necessary by
| the increase Of our population and Its diffu-
| sion over the vast plains of the interior. "In
this, my last annual report, feel II to be my
duty 10 suggest the propriety and Importance
OF establishing Bureau OF Statistics"
| Under the head of Judiciary, We find that
| the slaves taken from slave vessels TO Key
West viii cost, for one year, Ss9,oCo. The