The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-12-11

Tom puplc lanuSi plOS, SUo - fHVin
miscellaneous sources, 1891, l,797 Ga;
from loans in all forms s529, ,692 AGO
so. The remainder, 2,257O65 80, was
the balance from last year. The dis.
bursements during the same period
were: For Congressional, Executive
and judicial purposes, S5, ,939, ,OOo 30,
for foreign Intercourse, 81 339,7l0 30;
for miscellaneous expenses, including
the Mints, Loans, Postofice deficiencies,
collection of revenue and other like
charges, sl4,129,77l so; for expenses,
under the Interior Department, SO, 1922.
985 SO; under the War Department,
1894, 369, 4O7 sc; under the Navy Dc.
partment, s42, ,674569 60; for interest
on the public debt, sl3, 100 ,324 As, and
for the payment Of the public debt, in.
cluding reimbursement Of temporary
loans and redemptions, $06.006,9 ,922 09;
making an aggregate Of $50, ,84l 200
%, and leaving a balance in the Treasu
ry on the lst day of July, 1862, of Sl3,-
O43,546 81. 1t should be observed,
that the sum of 500, ,096, ,922 O9, expen-
ded for reimbursments and redemption
) of the public debt, being included also
, in the loans made, may be properly de-
, Quoted both from the receipts and ex-
. penditureS, leaving the actual receipts
f for the year s4S7, 1888 81, and the
+ expenditures, S474,744,768 l6. Other
, information on the subject ofthe fnan
f ces will be found in the Report of the
r Secretary of the Treasury, to whose
statements and views | inVite your
$ most candid and considerato attention
e The Reports of the Secretaries of the
$ Navy and War are herewith transmitted
These reports, though lie ngthy, are
: scarcely more than brief abstracts of the
> very numerous and extensive transac
! tons and operations conducted through
Q these Departments, nor could give 9
d summary Of them here upon any princi'
pie which would admit of its being
much shorter than the reports them
selves. l therefore content myself with
. laying the reports before you, and ask
ing your attention to them. ...-.
1t gives me pleasure to report deci
ded Improvement in the financial condi
tion of the Post Office Department a'
compared with several preceding years
The receipts for the fiscal year 1861
mounted to SS,349,296 40, which EN-
braced the revenue from all the
States of the Union for three quarter:
of that year. Notwithstanding the
cessation of revenue from the so called
3 Seeded States during the last fSca]
year, the increase of the correspondents
- of the loyal States has been sufficient to
= produce revenue during tho same
! year of $8, ,299, $40 80, being only $50,
900 less than was derived from all the
States Of the Union during the previ
Gus year. The expenditures show I
' still more favorable result. The amount
= expended in 1861 was Sl3,606,759 IL
For the last year the amount has beer
reduced to Sl1l25,36 l3, showing
decrease of about 50, ,4Sl 900 in the ex
penditures, as compared with the prece
ding year, aud about SO, ,750, ,000as com
pared with the fiscal year 1860. Tn,
deficiency in the Department for thu
:, previous year was s4,55l 1866 90. Fo
the last fccal year it was reduced to So,
lll2,814 81. These favorable result
|; are, in part, owing to the cessation o
= mail seryise in the insurrectionarl
, States, and, in part, to a careful review
= Of all expenditures in that department
A in the interest Of economy. The eff
cheney Ofth Postal service it is believ
;. ed has also been much improved. TIL,
! Postmaster General also opened q cor
: respOndenoc, through the Department. o
State, with foreign Governments, propo
!, sing convention ofPOstal Representa-
:. tives, for the purpose of simplifying tn
= rates of foreign postage, and to expedit
i the foreign mails, This proposition
: equally important to our adopted citizen
and to the commercial interests Of thi
country, has been favorably eptertaine,
, and agreed TO By all the Government
> from whom replies have been received
!. l ask the attention of Congress to tn
suggestions Of the Postmaster Genera
in his report respecting the further leg
a islation required, in his opinion, FOR th
benefit Of the postal service.
ID The Secretary Of the InteriOr report
as fOllOwsip regard to the Public lqud'
nj o HThe public lands.hqvs ceased to b
% source OfreysHue. From the lst Q
al July, 1861 . tOithei Both of September
g. 1862, the entire cash receipts from tn
m sale of lands were sl37,476 &c, a SUI
s. much iess7steee tho expense # OV
'dios 'ovA yigno7is I tsdi & ybse7la 81
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