Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-12-17

THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
The report of the Secretary of tue Navy pre-
scnts comprehensive and satisfactory exhloi.
of the affairs of that Department OF the naval
service. 1t is subject of congratulatlon anu
laudable pride to countrymen that n navy OF
such vast proportions has been organized IN SO
brief period, and conducted with so much M
cheney and success. The general exhibit OF Tue
navy including vessels under construction on
the lst of December. 1861, shows total OF Oh
vessels, carrying 1910 guns, and having q ION
mage of $40, 39G-being an actual increase, during
the year over and above all losses by snlP"reeh
or in battle. of SO vessels, 100 guns anu f--+-,
TONS The total number Of men in the naval
service including officers, is about 81 JUL
There have been captured by the navy during the
wear 324 vessels, and the whole number OF haFdl
csptures since hostilties commenced Is 300, "i
which 267 are steamers. The gross proceeds
arising from the sale Of condemned prize prop
erty thus far reported amount to Sl4 ,396,23o 81.
A large amount of such proceeds is still under
authorizations and yet to be reported. The total
expenditures of the Navy Department. OF every
description including the cost of the immense
sauadrons that have been called into existence,
from the 4th of March, 1861, to the lst OF No
Tember.
able consideration is invited to the various re-
commentators of the Secretary of the Navy,
especially in regard to navy yard and suit
able establishment for the construction and re-
pair of iron vessels and the machinery and arma-
ture for our ships to which reference was made
in the last annual message. Your attention is
also invited to the views we expressed in the re-
port in relation to the legislation of Congress at
the last session in respect to prizes in our inland
waters. cordially concur in the recommends
ton of the Secretary to the propriety of
creating the rank of Vice Admiral in the
naval service.
NEVADA AND THE TERRITORIES.
The organization and admission of the State
of Nevada has been completed in conformity with
the laws, and our excellent system is firmly es-
tabished in the mountains which once seemed Il
barren and uninhabited waste between the At
lantic States and those which have grown up on
the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The Territories
of the United States are generally in a condition
of prosperity and rapid growth Idaho and
Montana, by reason of their great distance and
the interruption of communication with them by
Indian hostilities have been only partially Or
ganized but it is understood that these diff
culties are about to disappear, which will permit
their Governments, like those of others, to get
into speedy and full operation.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
AS intimately connected with and promoted of
this material growth of the nation. ask the at
tention of Congress to the valuable information
and important recommendations relating to the
public lands, Indian affairs, the Pacific Railroad
and mineral discoveries contained in the report
of the Secretary of the Interior, which is here
with transmitted, and which report also embraces
the subject of patents, pensions and other topics
of public interest pertaining to his Department
The quantity of public land disposed of during
the five quarters, ending on the 30th of Septem-
Der last, was POI ,342 acres of which ,53S, GA
acres were entered under the homestead law
The remainder was located with military war
rants and agricultural scrip, certified to the
States for railroads and sold for cash. The cash
receipts from sales and location fees 81 ,0l9,-
44G The income from sales during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1864, was S67S ,007 81
against S63G,077 9j-the amount of receipts
during the preceding year. The aggregate of
acres surveyed during the year has been equal
to the quantity disposed of, and there is open to
settlement about 133, 900, 900 of surveyed
land.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The great enterprise connecting the Atlantic
with the Pacific by railroad and telegraph lines
has been entered upon with n vipor that gives
assurance of success. Notwith standing the en-
barrassments arising from the prevailing high
prices of material and labor, the route of the
main line of the road has been defnately located
for one hundred miles westward from the initial
point at Omaha City, Nebraska, and prelimin-
airy location of the Pacific railroad of California;
made from Sacramento eastward to the Great
Bend of the Truckee river, in Nevada. Numer-
Gus discoveries of gold, silver and cinnabar mines
have been added to the many heretofore known,
and the country occupied by the Sierra Nevada
and Rocky Mountains, and the subordinate
ranges, now teens with enterprsing labor, which
is richly remuperatiye. 1t is believed that the
product of the mines of the precious metals in
lIri 20 he re + q
exceeded, Sl0o, 600, 00G in value.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
1t was recommended in my last Annual Mes
sage that our Indian system be remodeled. Con-
greSs, at its last session, acting the recon-
incubation, did provide for re-organizng the sys-
TEN in California; and it is believed that under
the present organization the management of the
indians there will he attended with reasonable
success. Much is yet TO be done to provide for
the proper government Of the Indians in other
paats of the country to render it secure for the
advancing settler and TO proyide for the welfare
of the Indians. The Secretary reitcrates his
concentrations, and to them the attention of
Congress is invited.
THE PENSION SYSTEM.
The liberal pensions to the invalid soldiers
and sailors of the republic, aud to the widows
orphans and dependent mothers of those who
have fallen in battle or died of disease contract
ed of wounds received in the service of their
country, have been diligently administered
There have been admitted to the pension rolls
during the year ending the seth day of June last
the names of 1910 invalid soldiers, and 2,1i0
disabled seamen-making the present number of
army invalid pensioners, %, 767, and of navy in
valid pensioners 7l2. Of widows, orphans and
mothers, %, 1913 have been placed on the army
pension rolls, and 249 on the navy rolls. The
present number of army pensioners of this class
Is 25 ,433, and of navy pensioners 1913. At the
beginning of the year the number of Revolution
airy pensioners was l ,430. Only twelve of them
were soldiers, of whom eight have since died
The remainder those who, under the law,
receive pensions because of relationship TO Rer-
dictionary soldiers. During the year ending
3oth of June, 1864, s., 504. SIG 90 have been
paid to pensioners of all classes
THE REBELLION.
The war continues. Since the last annual
message all the important lines and positions
then held by our armies have been maintained,
and orr armies have steadily advanced, thus