The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-12-11
NUMBER 26

interior Department, So, IO2,9S5 81 under the
War Department, 1894 1863 ,4O7 SO; under the
Navy Department, $40, 664, 500 60; for interest
on the public deqt, $l3, 100, 324 45, and for the
payment of the public debt, including reim-
bursement of temporary loans and redemtions,
sgt, O96, 622 %; making an aggregate of $57O,-
S4l 700 %, and leaving balance in the Trea.
sury on the 1st day ofJuly 1862, of $I3, O43,-
SAG 81. 1t should be observed that the sum
of 500, 09S 922 %, expended for reimburse
ments and redemptions of the public debt, be-
ing included also in the loans made may be
properly deducted from both the receipts and
expenditures, leaving the actual receipts for
the year $4S7, 7SS, 234 90, and the expenditures
$474, 744, 7SS 16. Other information on the
subject of the finances will be found in the
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to
whose statements and views l invite your
most candid and considerate attention
The Reports Of the Secretaries of the Navy
and War are herewith transmitted. These
reports, though lengthy, scarcely more
than brief abstracts of the very numerous and
extensive transactions and operations conduct
ed through these Departments, could l
give summary of them here upon any prin-
ciple which would submit of its being much
shorter than the reports themselves ] there
fore content myself with laying the reports
before you, and asking your attention to
them.
1t gives Inc pleasure to report decided i'm
provement in the financial condition Of the
Postofice Department as compared with seve-
raj preceding years The receipts for the ifs.
cal year 1861 amounted to S., 349, DOB 40 which
embraced the revenue from all the States of
Union for three quarters Of that year. Not
withstanding the cessation of revenue from the
so-called seeded States during the last fiscal
year, the increase of the correspondence ofthe
loyal States has been sufficient to produce
revenue during the same year Of -, 299 $50 30
| being only $50 900 less than was derived from
| oil tbo or bo TTnion In, n tho pra
year. The expenditures show still more IA
vorable result The amount expended in 1861
was Is, 7O3, 759 ii. For the last year the
amount has been reduced tosll l25, 4o4 IL,
| showing decrease Of about s.. 4el 900 In the
expenditures, as compared with the preceding
year, and about So $50, 900 as compared with
the fiscal year 1860 The deficiency in the
Department for the previous year was $4,53l,-
966 9S For the last fiscal year it was reduo.
ed to 81 ll2,Sl4 81. These favorable results
are, in part, owing to the cessation Of mail
service in the insurrectOnary States. and, in
part, to casual review Of all expenditures in
that department. in the interest of economy
| The efficiency of the Postal service it is be-
lieved has also been much improved Tho
Postmaster General also opened . cOrrespon-
dence, through the Department Of State, with
foreign Governments. proposing 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 / ask the attention Of
| Congress to the suggestions 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 - fol-
lows in regard to the public lands:
Ss'Tha nuh1ic land, bav 70 no
source of revenue. From the lst of July,
1861, to the 30th Of September, 1862 the en-
tire cash receipts from the sale of lands were
$l3I, 416 20, a sum much less than the ex-
pensc of our land system during the same pc
Rod The Homestead Law, which will take
effect on the LIST Of January next, offers such
inducements to settlers that sales for cash can
net be expected to an extent sufficient to meet
the expenses of the General Land Once. and
the cost OF surveying and bringing the land
| into market"
! The discrepancy between the SUN hero sta
ted as arising from the sales of the public lands
and the same derived from the same source, a.
| reported from the Treasury Department, arts
es, as | understand, from the fact that she pc.
riods of time, though apparently, were not,
really, coincident at the beginning point-the
| Treasury report including a considerable sum
now which had previously been reported FROM
! the Interior, sufficiently large TO oyerreach
| the sum derived from the three months now
reported upon by the interior and not by tho
Treasury.
The Indian tribes upon our frontiers have,
during the past year, manifested a spirit Of
insubordinaton, and at several points have
engaged in open hostilitics against the white
settlements in their vicinity. The tribes oc-
cupyin% the Indian country south Of Kansas
renowned their allegiance to the United States
and entered into treaties with the insurgents
Those who remained loyal to the United States
were driven from the country. The Chief Of
the Cherokees has visited this city for the
purpose of restoring the former relations of
the tribe with the United States. lie alleges
that they were constrained by superior force
to enter into treaties wit h the insurgents, and
that the United States neglected to furnish
the protection which their treaty stipulatiOns
required.
In the month of August last, the Sioux In
dans in Minnesota, attacked the settlements
in their vicinity with extreme feroclty, killing
unfortunately men, women and children
This attack was wholly unexpected and, there
fore, no means of defense had been provided.
Ii is estimated that not less then 500 persons
were killed by the Indians, and Il large amount
Of property was destroyed. How this out
break was induced is not definitely known,
, and suspicious, which may be unjust need
not be stated Information was received ~
! the Indian Bureau from different sources,
, about the time hostilties were commenced,
g that a Simultaneous attack was 70 De made
f 'nnon the white settlements by all the tribes
between the Mississippi River and Rocky
: Mountains The State Of Minnesota has suiI
T.. God great injury from this Indian war 4
Il larce portion Of her territory has been depopu-
lo.od aard a severo loss has been sustained bv