Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-12-10

II NPSihiiolS ttluuucIt-u through these III
4 partments. Nor could | give summar
II of them here upon any principle whic
e would admit of its being much shortt
l. than the reports themselves | therefor
J. content myself with laying the report
Is before you and asking your attention +
}, them t t
u IL gives me pleasure to report decide,
improvement in the financial condition
u of the Post office Department. as compar
i td with the several preceding wears
4 The receipts for the fiscal year. 1861
e amounted tn S., ,349 296 80. which EN-
+ braced the revenue from all the States o
' the Union for three quarters of that year
Notwithstanding the cessation of revenue
| from the so-called Confederate States du
1 ring the last fiscal year. the increase o
the correspondence of the loyal States
has been sufficient to produce a revenue
during the same year, of IS. .29g, $40 90
being only $4,000 less than was derived
from all the States of the Union during
the previous year.
The expenditures show a still more fa-
vorable result. The amount expended in
1861 was $l3,G06, 100 H. For the last
year the amount has been reduced to
Sll, ,l25,3 ,3G4 l3, showing difference of
about S2,4Sl,O 900 90 in the expenditures
rs compared with the preceding year, and
about S3,I5O,0OO as compared with the
fiscal year of 1860. The deficiency in the
department for the previous year, was
81, 4,55l goo 9o. For the last fiscal year il
was reduced to -, 1854 81. These IA
vorable results are in part owing to the
cessation of the mail conveyance in the
lnsurreceiOnary States, and in part to a
casual review of all expeditures in that
department in the interest of economy.
The efficiency of the postal service, il
IL believed, has also been much improved
The Postmaster General also opened
correspondence through the Department
OF State with foreign governments, pro-
posing convention of postal representa-
tlves for the purpose of simplifying the
rates of foreign postage and to expedite
the foreign mails. This proposition,
equally important to our adopted citL
gems and to the commercial interests OF
thIs country, has been faVorably enter
tained and agreed to by all the govern
ments from whom replies have been re-
celved. | ask the attention of Congress
to the suggestion of the Postmaster Gen
eral IN his report respecting the future
legislation required, in his opinion, for
the benefit of the postal service 500 g
The Secretary of the Interior reports as
follows in regard 10 public lands The
public Lands have ceased to be a source of |
revenue. From the lst of July 1861 to |
the Both of September 1862 the entire |
cash receipts from the sale of public lands /
were Sl37 ,477,- a sum much less than /
the expense of our land system during /
the same period. The homestead law /
which will take effect on the LIST of Janu-
airy next oilers such inducements to settlers h
that sales for cash cannot be expected to /
an extent sufficient to meet the expenses
of the general land Office and cost of sur
Eeylng and bringing the land into market
The discrepancy between the sum here
stated as arising from the sales of public
lands and the sum derived from the same
source as reported from the Treasury De-
partment arises, as understand. from the
fact that the pefiods of time, though ap-
parently, were not really coincident at
the beginning point. The Treasury report,
including considerable sum now which
had previously been reported from the
interior sufficiently large to greatly over
reach the sum derived from the three
months now reported upon by the Interi-
or and not by the Treasury. l.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
The Indian tribes on our frontiers have
during the past year, manifested a spirit
Of insubordination, and at several points, Il
engaged in open hostilities against the II
white settlers in their vicinity. The tribes
the Indian country south of {
Kansas. renounced their allegiance with Il
the United States and entered into a
treaty with the Insurgents. Those Who'll
loyal to the United States were
driven from the country. The Chief of
the Cherokees has visited this city for the I
purpose Of restoring the former relations
ofthe tribe with the U. s. He alleges that
they were constrained by superior force
TO enter into treaties with the insurgents, L
and that the United States neglected to
furnish the protection which their treaty
required. In the month of
August last, the Sioux Indians in Mime
sofa attacked the settlers in their vicinity l
with extreme ferocity, killing indiscrim-
nately men, women and children.
The attack was wholly unexpected and !
no defense had been provided. {
1t is estimated that not less than 800 per- {
sons were killed by the Indians and q
large amount of property was destroyed. II
How this outbreak was induced is not {
definitely known, and suspicious which {
may be unjust need not bestated Infor-
nation was received by the Indian Bu-
reau from different soucres about the time
lostilities were commenced that a stimuli 8
aneous attack was TO be made upon the {
white settlements by all the tribes be-
.ween the Mississippi river and the Rocky i
The State of Minnesota has
suffered great injury from this Indian
var.
A large portion of her territory has
oeen depopulated, and a severe loss has |!
been sustained by the destruction of prop
erty. The people of that State manifest .
much anxiety for the removal oft
he tribes beyond the limits of the State
Is guarantee against future hostilities !
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs will
'urnish full details.
| submit for your special consideration
whether our Indian system shall not be
'emodeled. Many wise and good men
have been impressed with the belief that
his can be profitably done. H.
PACIFIC RAILROAD. IF
] submit statement of the proceed Ii
ngs of the Commissioners which shows Ii
the progress that has been made in the $
enterprise OF constructing the Pacific I
and this suggests the earliest |
Of the road, and also the fa- lr
1orable action of Congress upon the prof. e
ects now pending before them for enlarg- q
ng the capacity of the great canals in a
New York and Illinois, as being of vital Ii
md rapidly increasing importance to the fr
yhole nation, and especially to the vast
Interior hereinafter to be noticed at some .
greater length. propose having prepar-
I'd and laid before you at an early day /
'ome interesting and valuable statistical
on this subject -D1n' !
The military and commercial import C
tnce of enlarging the Illinois and Michi- I
gan canal, and improving the Illinois riv- e
II. is presented in the report Of Col. t
Webster to the Secretary of War and now i
to Congress. respectfully g