The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-12-27
TIE REPORTS.


lures for all purposes, including Sl7.6i3,G2G
applied for redemption of the public debt.
were $77,46e lo2, leaving balance on hand
of SS S,69e, 2o6; or S7lo,oo0 less than at the
commence ment Of the fiscal year. The total
receipts of the present year, inclusive of bal,
ance on hand, are estimated at S84 3i8. 996.
Expenditures estimated at S6S l78 ,704, to
which is TO b. added $50. ga 600 Or the loan
of 1860, to be met during the present fiscal
year. The exports of the last fiscal year tx.
ceeded 500 0O0, 900. and the imports three
hundred and siXty-two millions, Tho public
debt on the SOth of June last WAS $45.O7o..
203, besides Sl9,69o, 500 of treasury notes
then in circulation--a total debt Of "a. .769.-
703 dollars The deficiency of estimated
means for the service of the fiscal yesr,
ending June 3Oth, 1862, is So 876, SCI
/ The amount of bullion received ut the Mint,
during the year. was S22 2,673, l92 in gold,
and SO | 55 iS7 in silver, aud the coinage
amounted to $95 Az. e83 in gold, aud So,
ESQ 635 in silver, The Report states that al.
ready the treasury has been seriously affected
by the commercial revusion; that the receipts
from customs have fallen oil greatly; aud the
early action of Congress in aid of the depart
ment is invoked, Authority to issue ten mil
! lions Of dollars additional Treasury notes is
asked, and MIR. Cobb recommends that the
public lands be Internationally pledged for
the ultimate redemption of all the Treasury
notes which il " become necessary to issue.
! GENERAL PosT OEFtcE REpoRr.-The re-
ceipts of the Post Office last year, amounted
to $8, 5l8 OCT, IN increase of over half
million dollars over the preceding year; but
the expenditures for 1860 have run up to
Sl4,87l772, an excess of 80 656, 705 over
receipts. Post master General Holt estimates
the deficiency for the ensuing year, ut over
four and u half million dollars, On the 3O,h
of June last, there were in operation $500
mail routes, estimated at 24O, 59l miles in
length; of which miles, 27,129 were by rail
road, l4,976 by steamboat, 81 All by coach,
and ll3,9l@ by inferior modes There has
been decrease Of ~. 518 in the length of
mail routes, but this is made up of a reduction
of 8 as miles ia tho longth Of coach routes
and 4,2 233 in the steamboat routes, while the
length of railroad routes has increased | ,ll9
miles. The railroad service costs II cts
per mile ; the steamboat 2,O7 cents the
coach, 1857 cents and ohcr modes about
- cents. Whole number of post offices in
. the Union, %, $50 whole number of postage
SIdlhpo ouPpltu w ppob uulHS lut
year, 2l6 $40, 500; value, 1920, 939; dollars;
stamped envelopes, 90, 2Go,o25 value, 9l9.
ST.. The law providing for the registration
Of valuable letters, whether regarded asia
precaution for protection, OF as an instrumeu-
tally for the detection of depreda(ions upon
the mails, the Report says has proved fail
ure. There has been large falling ou of
registered letters and packages the past year.
} A uniform rate of ten cents postaga TO Cuba,
Mexico, aud other foreign countries with
which we have no postal arrangements, is
recommended and also on AL letters con.
yoyed over the Rocky Mountains to the Pa
ciic coast, Notwithstanding the distance is less
than three thousand miles.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY or WAR Soc
retary Floyd Reports the actu. strength of
the army about the same rs last year. He
recommends lhat the Indian Bureau b placed
} again under the supernlendence of the War
Department AMI deyotes much Of his report
to operations carried on during the year
among the Indian tribes of The Plains, the
Great Basin, and on the Poetic coast wi,h
more OF less success. La Washing on Terri-
tory, the Indians have not yet beun reduced
to subordnaion. The sum of half million
Of dollars has been required for the movement
and support of troops to punish and hold in
check the warlike Indians Of the plains, and
in the remote regions of our mountanous te,-
rtories. The sue esstul openi0g of the mil
ltaTy foad fran Fort Benton, ON the head of
the Missouri River, to Fort WallN Wala, on
the OREGON River, is dwelt upon rs a step
which ought to be followed up. BY it, an
army can be sent from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, in the course of three or four months
and the route passes through a country be-
tween the Mis- souri, and Oregon Rivers, capa-
bic OF sustaining large population. The
climate is salubious, the county mountain
GUS, the soil well adapted to grazing, and il
/ is believed that the mountains abound in rich
veins of the precious metals. Important cx.
ploratious have been made ia the Colorado
Valley, resulting 10 the establishment Of
new route across the Great Basin, between
Salt Lake City and the Oregon river. Mr.
Floyd recommends an appropriation OF fifty
thousand dollars for experiments in the i'm
pIoyement OF arms and military supplies IA
vors the establishment of a national armory;
the rifle growing # cannon, aud the ia.ro-
duction Of brecch loading des anionS our
light troops, and asks for steamer on the
Pacific coast to guard the settlers en- Puget
Sound against the incursions Of the Indian
tribes from Br sh and Russian America.
REfoRT OF THE SECRETARY OF TUE NAVY
According to Secretary Toucey's Report, the
expenditures of the Navy. last year, show
decrease Of nearly three millions of dollars
over l358 and 1859 Tho estimates for the
the fiscal year ending June 30 1856 are l..
Tie $50. and those for the following year,
1873. 944 dollars. Five of the six NJ " steam
sloops have been completed, and the report
urges large increase ofthe present navy TO
guard our txteaded sea coast, and to protect
our rapidly growing foreign commerce Ill
IS proposed to alter eight SHIPS OF the Iine IA.
to steam frgotes, n tie cost of.ore, hundred
and ,.y.ty.three thousand collars each Tie
.ieort'lry ttafes 'ha; the A',oar ,iavo trade