Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-12-13

tbe homestead law. The remainder was
located with military warrants and agrI-
auIturaI scrip certified TO states toI rail'
yoaIs. and sold for cash. The cash re-
ooiota from sales and location teea were
SI 0lo 446. The income from sales during
he fScal year ending June Both, 1864. was
S67S.OO7 81, against 1886. OF IS receipts
durinz the preceding year. The aggregate
Of acres surveyed during the year has been
equal TO The quantity disposed Of, and there
N op0n 70 settlement about 1873 DOC, 600
Osrss Of surveyed land.
zWl PACIFIC RAILWAY AND TELEGRAPH.
The great enterprise Of connecting the
Atlantic with the PsCi6o by railroad and
0aloRrsph lines has been entered upon
nth VieOr that gives assurance OF sue
cess. Notwithstanding the eDoarrass-
msuts arising from the prevailing high
orices Of materials and labor, the route OF
The main line Of the road has been det-
nitely located for one hundred miles west |
ward from the initial point at Omaha City, |
Nebraska, aod q preliminary lOcstiOn Of
the Pacific railroad Of California has been
made from Sacramento eastward to the
great bend Of Mucker river, in Nevada.
MINERALS.
Numerous discoveries OF gold. silver and
eiuuabar mines have been added to the
ueny heretofore known. apd the country
occupied by the Sierra Nevada and Rocky
mountains and the subordinate ranges now
teens with eOterprising labor. which il
richly remunerstiVe. tits believed that
the products Of the mines of precious met
ais in that region have, during. the year,
reached, if not exceeded, $l00, 600 900 in
value.
THE INDIAN System.
II was recommended in my last annual
massage that our Indian syste N be remod>
oIed. Congress, at its last session. actirg
on the recommendation, did provide for
Fsorgau izing the system in California; and
il is believed that, und6r the present or
eaniEatiou, the management ofthe lndIsns
there will be attended with reasonable sue.
Gees. Much yet remains TO be done to
provide for the proper government OF the
Indians 10 other parts of the country to
render il secure for the advancing settler,
and TO provide for the welfare Of the indian.
The secretary rciterates his recommends
NioDs, and to them the attention otcoDgress
10 invited.
PKNsI,Hs.
The liberal provisions to the invalid SOL
6ieru and sailUrs of the republic, and TO the
vidoWs, orphans, and dependent mothers
of those who have fallen 10 battle or died
of disease contracted or Of wounds received
In the seryiee Of their country, have been
diligently administered. Tfere have been
admitted to the pension rolls, during the
year ending the Both day Of June last the
names of Is 40 Invalid soldiers and of
27l disabled smen,-making the present
number OF army invalid pensioners ID 767,
and of navy invalid pensioners 7l2. OF.
widows, Orphans and ID Others, % 1873 have
ham placed on the army pension rolls, and
24s on the navy rolls. The present ndm-
Der of army pensioners Of this class is 25,-
433, and of navy pensioners I93. Al tie
beginning of the year. the number OF reVo-
lutioDary pensioners vas l43. Only twelve
Of them were soldiers, of whom eight have
since died. The remainder are those who,
under the law, receive pensions because Of
relationship to revolutionary soldiers. Dor
ing the year ending the SOiE of June, 1864,
81 504,6l6 90 has been paid to pensioners
Of ell classes.
the WAR.
The war continues. Since the last an
null message ell the important lines and
positions thon held by our armies have
been maintained, and our armies have
steadily advanced, thus liberatiug the
states left in the rear, 30 that Missouri,
Kontueky, Tennessee and parts pf other
statss have again produced reasonably fair
crops.
CEN. sHERNAN'G EXPEDITION.
The most remarkable feature in the mil
Isary operations of the year is Gen. Sher-
mans attempted march Of three hundred
miles directly through the insurgent re-
Rion 1t tends to show q great increase OF
our relative strength that our genersI-in-
chief should feel able to confront and hold
IN check every active force of the enemy,
and yet TO detach wsll-sppoiDted army
70 move on such an expedition. The re-
suit not yet known, conjecture in regard to
it is not here INDUCED.
LOYAL STATE GOVERNMENTS WITH FREE
CONSTITUTIONS.
Important movements have also occurred
during the year, 70 the effect of molding
society for durability in the union. Al
though short Of complete success. it is
much in the right direction that II, 900
citizens in each Of the states of Arkansas
and Louisiana have organized Vol state
governments with free constitutions, and
are earnestly struggling to maintain and
administer them. The movement in the
same direction, more extensive, though
less definite, in Missouri, Keutucky, and
Tennessee, should not be overlook ed but
Naryllnd presents an example of conn.,
Tlete success. Maryland is SECURE to lib
Briy and uni. for the future. The genius
Of rebellion will no more claim Marya land
like another foul spirit, being driven out.
1t will seek to tear her, but it will WOO her
no more.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ABoLIsHING
SLAVERY.
At the last session Of congress o propos-
ed amendment of the constitution, ABOLISH
ing slavery throughout the United States,
passed the senate. but failed, for lack OF
the requisite e-thirds vote, in the house
Of representatives. Although the the
present is the same congress and nearly
she same members, without questioning
tbe wisdom or patriotism of those who
stood in opposition, venture to recon-
mend the passage of the measure at the
present session. OF course the abstrao,
question is not changed, but on interveu-
ing election tas almost certainly indicated
that the next congress will pass the meas
ure, if this does not hence there ID only q
question Of time as to when the proposed
amendment will 60 TO the states for their
action, and, as it Is to 60 at all events, may
We not agree that the sooner the better p
IL is not claimed that the election has i'm
posed duty on members to change their
views or votes, any further than, as an adj
ditional element to be considered. their
judgment may be affected by 1t. Is is the
voice of the people, now for the first time
heard on tho question. In great notion
al crisis like this, nnanimity of action
Gmung those seeking common end IS very
desirable, almost indispensable, and yet nc
spprOssh to such ununimity as sttsInable
Onless some Difference shall ba paid to the