Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-12-10

Customs 49,03S, 4a9,62
Direct tax 1,693, 53l, Is
Public lands 1o2,203i.
Miscellaneous 931, 7S9, GA
| .oans in all forms 525, 692, 80
Balance from last year 2jS, 065, 30
Total 5S3i So, u 80
The disbursements during the same pc
riod were;
DISBURSEMENTS.
For congressional, executive
and judicial purposes o,959' 0oy ~
For foreign intercourse ,259, 'Io,3o
For miscellaneous expenses,
including the minis, loans,
postoiiice Deficiencies collec-
ton OF revenue, and other
charges t,lZJ,t II, %
For expenses under the Int
rior Department 5,toZ, $500
Under the War Departm't 3J4 sos, l0I ,3S
Under the Navy Depart
!nent 42,oifi9o9lo 9
For interest on the Public
Debt including reimburse
ment of temporary loan and
redemption @o,V}6, ,O0
Total 570,Stl, roc; .
Balance in the Treasury on
the lst day Of July, 1852 1908, 81
1t should be observed that the sum of
500 ,096. 923 ,06 expended for reimburse
ments and redemption Of the public debt
being included also in the loans made, may
properly be deducted both from the recei-
PTS and expenditures, leaving the actual
receipts for the year s489783 324s 81, and
the expenditures S474,74A 1873 Is. Other
information on the subject of the finances
will be given in the report of the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, TO whose statements
and views invite your candid and con
sideratc attention
WAR AND NAVY REPORTS.
The reports Of the Secretary of the Ma
w and War. are herewith transmitted. =
These reports, though lengthy, are scarce
" more than brief extracts Of the very
numerous and extensive transactions AMI
operations conducted through these de-
partments, nor could | give a summary Of
them here upon any principle which we d
admit OF its being much shorter than the
reports Themselves
| therefore content myself with laying
the reports before you, and asking your
attention to them
THE POST OFFICER DEPARTMENT.
1t gives me pleasure to report decided
i'm provment in the financial condition Of
the Post Office Department as compared
with the several preceding years. The
receipts for the fiscal year 1861 amounted
to IS, $40 ,296, 40, which embraced the rev
enue from all States ofthe Union for three
quarters OF that wear Notwithstanding
tho cessation of revenue from the SO cali
ed Confederate States during the last fis
cal year the increase of the correspond
euce Of tho loyal States h been spHici
ent to produce revenue during the same
year Of SS,299, S20,90, being Only 5000
less tfan was derived from all the Sttes
OF the Union during tie present year
Tho expenditures show still more IA
vorable result The amount expended in
1861 was 2I3, 600, TS9 H. For the last
year the amount has been reduced to 81
I25, 364,l3, showing Il difference Of about
-, 4S7 900 il the expenditures, as colnpa-
red with the preceding year or about 3,
100000, as compared with the fiscal year
Of 1860
The deficiency in tho department. for
the previous year was 81, 81 ,9G6,9S For
the last fiscal year it was reduced to 50
ll2,Sl4,59 These favorable results are,
in fact, owing to the cessation ofmuil con
veyancc in the insurrcct.onary States and
in part to a casual review Of the expendi-
lures in that department, in the interest
Of economy.
EFFiCIESCT-PoSTAL CONVENTION.
Thu efficiency of the postal service it is
believed has been much improved The
Postmaster General has opened CORES
popdence, through the department Of state
with Foreign Governments, proposing Il
Convention of postal representatives,, for
the purpose of simplifying tie rates Of
foreign postage and TO expedite the foreign
mails This proposition, equally import
ant to our adopted citizens and to the COM
mercial interests Of this country. has been
fagorafly entertained and agreed to buy
all the Governments from whom supplies
have been received ask the attention
of Congress to the suggestion OF the Post
master General in his report respecting
the further legislation required in his OPP
irion for the benefit Of the postal service
DEPARTMENT o. TINS INrE"Ion.
The Secretary of the Interior reports Is
follows in regard to the public lands
The public lands have ceased, 10 be
source. of revennc From the Ist of july
1861, to the 30th of Sept, 1862, the entire
cash receipts from the sales of public lands
were Sl37, AZ ia sum much less than
the expenses Of our land system during
the same period
The homestead law which will-ta-e ef-
feet on the lst OF January ncx+, offers such
to settlers that safes for cash
cannot be expected 20 an extent sufficient
10 meet tae expenses Of the general land
Office, ana cost Of surveying and bringing
the land into market
The discrepancy between the sums here
stated as arising from the sales Of public
Iands and the sums derived from the same
source as reported Fl IA the Treasury De
partment arises rs | understand from TIE
fact that the periods Of time, though ap-
parsntly, were not really eoincidentat the
beginning point The Treasury report
includes q considerable sum now which
had been reuorted from the interior sui
icicntly large 10 oyerrcach the sum deri-
sed from the three months now reported
upon By the Interior, and not by the Trea-
surv Department
THE INDIAN WAR
The lsdian tribes upon our frontiers
have during the past year manifested
spirit Of INSTRUMENTATION, ana ut several
H.