The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-05

195, 23l 73 from the direct tax from
public lands, S152, 203 IL from miscel-
laneous sources, 1881, 7S7 81; from loans
in all forms, S529, 692, $50 so. The re-
mainder, 2,257, 065 SO, was the balance
from the last year The disbursements
during the same period were: For Con-
gressioual, Executive and Judicial pur-
poses, $5,939009 %; for foreign inter
course, 81, 329, 40 So; for miscellaneous
expenses, Including the MINIS, Loans,
Post Office deficiencies, collection of
revenue and other like charges, Sl4, l29,
al so; for expenses under the Interior
Department, 50, I02, 9S5 50; under the
War Department, 1874, 1868. 40T SO; under
the Navy Department, S42,674, $50 90;
for interest On the public debt, Sl3, $780,
324 40, and for the payment of the pub
lie debt, including reimbursement of
temporary loans and redemptions, S96,
OS6, 922 90; making an aggregate of
$50, S4l, 700 25, and leaving balance
in the Treasury on the lst day of July,
1862, of Sl3,043, $40 ST. 1t should be
observed that the sum of 500, 096, 500 09,
expended for re-imbursements and re-
demption of the public debt, being in
eluded also in the loans made, may be
properly deducted both from the receipts
and expenditures, leaving the actual re-
ceipts for the year $4S7, 7SS, 324 81, and
the expenditures, S474, 744,7S 10. Other
information on the subject of the finances
will be found in the Report of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, to whose statements
and views invite your most candid and
considerate attention.
The Reports of the Secretaries of the
Navy and War are herewith transmitted.
These reports. though lengthy, are
scarcely more than brief abstracts of the
very numerous and extensive transac-
tons and operations conducted through
these Departments, nor could | give a
summary of them here upon any princi-
pie which would admit of its being much
shorter than the reports themselves |
therefore content myself with laying the
reports before you, and asking your at
tention to them.
1t gives me pleasure to report a de-
cided improvement in the financial con-
dition of the Post-Office Department as
compared with several preceding years.
The receipts for the fiscal year 1861
amounted to s., 349, 296 40, which en-
braced the revenue from all the States of
the Union for three-quarters of that year.
Notwithstanding the cessation of reve-
nue. from the so-called Seeded States
during the last fiscal year, the increase
of the correspondence of the loyal States
has been sufficient to produce revenue
during the same year of IS, 299, $50 80,
being only $4,000 less than was derived
from all the States of the Union during
the previous year. The expenditures
show still more favorable result The
amount expended in 1861 was $l3, 606,-
759 H. For the last year the amount
has been reduced to $Il, l25,3 64 l3,
showing a decrease of about 81, 4Sl 900
in the expenditures, as compared with
the previous year, and about So, 100000
as compared with the fiscal year 1860
The deficiency in the Department for
the previous year was $4,55l 900 9S.
| For the last fiscal year it was reduced to
81, lI2,Sl4 81. These favorable results
are, in part, owing to the cessation of
mail service in the insurrectionary
| States, and, in part to q casual review OF
| all expenditures in that Department, in
the interest of economy The efficiency
of the postal service, it is believed, has
also been much improved. The Post
master General also opened correspon-
| dence, through the Department of State,
with foreign Governments, proposing
a Convention of Postal Representatives,
for the purpose of simplifying the rates
of foreign postage, and to expedite the
foreign mails. This proposition, equally
important to our adopted citizens and to
the commercial interests of this country,
has been favorably entertained and
agreed to by all the Governments from
whom replies have been received. L ask
the attention of Congress to the sugges-
tons of the Postmaster General in his
report respecting the further legislation
required, in his opinion, for the benefit
of the postal service
The Secretary of the Interior reports
as follows in regard to the public lands
1.-THE public lands have ceased to be a
source of revenue From the lst OF
July, 1861, to the 30th of September,
1862, the entire cash receipts from the
sale of lands were $l37,476 PC, sum
much less than the expense Of our land
| system during the same period The
Homestead Law, which will take effect
on the lst of January next, offers such
inducements to settlers that sales for cash
can not be expected to an extent suffi
cient to meet the expenses of the Gener
al Land Office, and the cost of surveying
and bringing the land into market.
The discrepancy between the sum here
stated as arising from the sales of the
public lands and the same derived from
the same source as reported from the
Treasury Department, arises, as | under
stand, from the fact that the periods o
time, though apparently, were not, really
coincident at the beginning Poiut-tiit
Treasury report including considerable
sum now which had previously been re
ported from the Interior, sufficiently
large to overreach the sum derived from
the three months now reported upon by
the Interior, and not by the Treasury.
The Indian tribes upon our frontiers
have during the past year, manifested &
spirit of insubordination, and at severa
points have engaged in open hostilitie;
against the white settlements in their vi
cinity. The tribes occupying the Indian
country south of Kansas renowned theil
allegiance to the United States, and en-
tered into treaties with the insurgents
Those who remained loyal to the United