Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-03

II HuUulu Ut Ou5GINEu NuhL tue SUN HOI |
SOC, O96, 922 90, expended lur reimburse
ing included also in the loans made, may be |
properly deducted, both from receipts aud |
expenditures, leaving the actual receipts |
for the year S4s7, 1ss, 1924 81; and the ex-
penditures, S474 ,744 ,TTs 10.
Our Information on tue subject of f. |
nances will be found in the report Of the
Secretary of Treasury, to whose state
meuts aud views / invite your most cam
did and ,eonsiderAte attention. - -Af
The reports OF the Secretaries of War,
aud of the Navy, are herewith transmitted.
These reports. though lengthy, are scarce.
Iy more than brief abstracts of the very
numerous and extensive transactions
and operations conducted through
those departments. Nor could 1
give summary of them here, up
NIT ofits being much Shorter than the re-
port themselves. therefore content my
self With laying the reports before you, and
asking you attention to them. "''f
1t gives me pleasure to report decided
Improvement in the financial condition of
the Post ONCE Department. as compared
with several preceding years, The receipts
for the fiscal year 1851 amounted to So
$40, 2ss 40, which embraced the revenue
from all the States of the Union for three
quarters of that year. Notwithstanding the
cessation of revenue from the so-caIled Sc.
ceded States during the last fiscal year, the
increase of the correspondence of the loyal
States has been sufficient to produce rev
enue during the same year of Sc, 299, S29
80, being only $4,000 less than was de-
rived from Gll the States of the Union dur
ing the previous year. The expenditures
show still more favorable result. The
amount expended ia 1861 was $4,000, 1853
IL. For the last year the amount has been
reduced to ST., l25, 1854 ID, showing de-
crease of about 50, 49l 900 in the expendi-
lures as compared with the preceding year,
aud about 50, 100000 as compared with the
fiscal year 1860. The deficiency IN the de.
partment for the previous year was 81 ,55l,-
966 SO. For the last fscal year il was re-
duced to $2,ll2,Sl4 81. These favorable
results are in part owing to the cessation of
mail service in the insurrectionary States,
and in part TO careful review of all ex.
penditures in that department in the inter-
est of economy, The efficiency of the pos
tai service, il, is believed, has also been
much improved. The Postmaster General
has also opened a correspondence, through
the Department Of State. With foreign gov
ernments, proposing Convention of postal
Lying the rates of foreign postage, and to
expedite the foreign mails. This PROPOSE
ton, equally important to our adopted cit
IiZens, and to the commercial interests of
this country, has been faVorably entertain
ed, and agreed to, by all the governments
from whom replies have been received.
ask the attention of Congress to the
suggestions of the Postmaster General iu
his report respecting the further legislation
required, in his opinion, for the benefit OF
the postal service. f0- ar1r p gst
The Secretary of the Interior reports as
follows in regard to the public lands
I" The public lands have ceased to be a
source of revenue. From the lst July,
1861, to the 30th September, 1862, the en-
tire cash receipts from the sale f,lands
were SI3T,476 26--a sum much less than
the expenses Of our land system during the
same period. Tho homestead law, which
will take effect on the LIST OF January next,
offers such inducements to settlers, that
J sales for cash cannot be expected, to an ex-
} tent sufficient to meet the expenses OF the
General Land Office, and the cost of sur
yeying and bringing the land into market"
The discrepancy between the sum here
stated as arising from the sales of the pub
lie lands, and the sum derived from the
same source as reported from the Treasury
Department arises, as / understand, from
the fact that the periods of time, though
apparently, were not really, coincident at
the beginning point-the Treasury report
including considerable sum now, which
had previously been reported from the In
tcrior-sufEiciently large to greatly over
, reach the sum derived from the three
months now reported upon by the Interior,
and not by the Treasury. 10 En- l5dz
The Indian tribes upon our frontiers
have, during the past year, manifested a
spirit of INSTRUMENTATION and, at several
points, have engaged in open hOstilities
against the white settlements In their vi
cinity. TheNtribes occupying the Indian
; country south of Kansas, renounced their
allegiance to the United States, aud enter
ed into treaties with the insurgents Those
who remained loyal to the United States
were driven from the country. The chief
Of the Oherokees has visited this city for
the purpose of restoring the former rela-
lions Of the tribe with the United States
He alleges that they were constrained, by
superior force, TO enter into treaties With
the insurgents, and that the United States
NEGLECTED to furnish the protection which
their treaty stipulations required. ,7ssi
In the month of August last the Sioux
Indians, 10 Minnesota, attacked the settle
ments in their vicinity with extreme feroe-
lily, killing, indiscriminateIy, men, women.
aud children. This attack was wholly uu!
expected, and, therefore, no means Of de.
Tense had been provided. It is estimated
that not less than eight hundred persons
were killed by the Indians, aud a large
amount Of properly was destroyed. How
this outbreak was induced is not definitely
known, and suspicious, which may be nm.
just, need not to be stated Information
was received by the Indian bureau, from,
different sources, about the time hostilities
were commenced, that Simultaneous at.
tack was to be made upon the white settle.
nents by all the tribes between the Missis-
sippi river and the Rocky Inountains. The
State of Minnesota has suffered great injury
| from this Indian war. A large portion Of
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