The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-12-09
RECEIPTS.

DISBURSEMENTS.
For Congressional, executive
and judicial purposes $5,9s9,oo9 q
For foreign intercourse l,239,7l0 3!
For miscellaneous expenses,
including the mints, loans,
postoffice deficiencies, col.
lcctio, Of revenue, and
other charges. l4,l20,77l 81
For expenses under the Int.
rior Department. S,l62,9s5 s:
Under the War Department 394, ,36s, ,407 81
Under the Navy Depart
ment 42,e74,5s9 ss
For interest on the public
debt l3,l9O,32l Al
For the payment of the pub
lie debt, including rein.
bursement Of temporary
loan and redemption 96,097 ,9?3 OF
Total 570,s4l,7 200 2t
Balance in the treasury on
the lst day of July, 1869 l3.043,446 81
1t should be observed that the sum of 500,
096,923 90 expended for reimbursements and
redemption of the public debt being included
also in the loans made, may properly be de-
dacted both from the receipts and expendi
lures, leaving the actual receipts for the year
$487.7SS, ,324,07, and the expenditures, 474,
744,7SS l6. Other information on the sub
ject of the finances will be given in the repor,
Of the Secretary Of the Treasury, to whose
statements and views invite your ost can
did and cousidcrale attention.
WAR AND NAVY REPORTS.
The reports Of the Sec clary of the Navy
and War, are herewith transmitted These
reports, though lengthy, are scarcely more
than brief extracts of the very numerous and
extensive transactions and operations conduct
cd through these departments, nor could
give summary Of them here upon any prnci
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 attention
10 them.
THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT..
1t gives me pleasure to report decided i'm
provement in the financial condition Of the
Post Office Department as compared with the
several preceding years. The receipts for the
fiscal year 1851, amounted TO $8,349,2 ,296 4C
which embraced the revenue from all States
of tho Union for three quarters Of that year.
Notwi,hs anding the cessation of revenue from
the so called Confederate States during the
last fiscal year, the increase Of tue correspond
ence of the loyal States, has been sufficient to
produce revenue during the Same year OF
IS, ,299,S 90, being only $4,000 less than
was derived from all the States Of the Un!or
the previous year.
The expenditures show still more favor
able result. The amount expended in 1851
was 81 3,606,7S0 IL. For the last year the
amount has been reduced TO $ll,l25,364 13
showing difference Of about $2,4S7 900 in
the expenditures, as compared with the pre-.
cediug year, or about $3.50 900, as compar
ed with the fiscal year of 1860.
The deficiency in the department. for the
previous year was 5,55l,966 90. For the
last fiscal year it was reduced to 2,ll2 ,sl4,.
81. Those favorable results are, in fact, ow.
ing to the CESSATION of m4i conveyance in
the iusurrectonary States, and in part to &
cas- al review of all expenditures in that de
partmcni, 10 the interest Of economy.
EFrIcIENcY-pcsrAL CONVENTION.
The efficiency Of the postal service it is be-
lieved has also been much improved. The
Postmaster General ais, opened a correspond
cnce, through the Department of State, with
Foreign Governments. proposing Conven'
ton of postal representatives, for the purpose
Of Simplifying the rates of foreign postage and
to expedite the foreign mails. This PROPOSE
ton, equally important to adopted citi
zens and to the commercial interests Of thi;
country, has been favorably entertained and
ag,eed to buy all the Governments from whom
replies have been received. ask the atleu.
ton of Congress to the suggestion oft Post
master General in his report respecting the
further legislation required in bis opinion fol
tho benefit Of the postal service.
DEPARTMENT OF TIE INTERIOR.
The Secretary OF the Interior report as fol
lows iu regard 10 public lands:
The public lands have ceased TO be source
of revenue. From the LIT Of Jlly, 1861, tc
the 3Oth of September, 1862, the entire casl
receipts from the sales Of public lands wert
l37,477 2G-a sum much less than the ex
penscs Of our land system during the same pc
Rod.
The homestead law, which will take cffec
on the Isl Of January next, ffers such induce
mcnts to settlers that sales for cash cannot bt
expected to an extent sufficient to meet the
expenses OF the general lard office, and cost o.
surveying and bringing the land into market
The discrepancy between the sums here
stated as arising from the sales of public lands
and the sums derived from the samc source
as reported from the Treasury Department,
arises as | understand from the fact that The
periods Of time, though apparently, we're moi
really coucident at the beglunirg point. The
Treasury report includes a considerable sun
now which had previously been reported from
the Interior sufficiently large TO greatly over
reach the sum der we'd from the three month.
now reported upon by the Interior, and no
by the Treasury Department.
THE INDIAN WAR.
The Indian tribes upon our frontiers have
during the past year, manifested spirit o
insubordihatiop, and !, at several points, eugag
ed in open hostilities against the white set
tiers in their vicinity. The tribes occupyin,
the Indian country south Of Kansas renounc
ed their allegiance to the United States, an'
entered into a treaty with the insurgents.- =
Those who remained loyal 10 tho Unitet
States were driven from the country. Th,