Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-12-15

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d seventeen dollars and thirty-nine cents
/ 1855 III 39). The fees received for tn
succeeding twelve months amounted {,
o three hundred and sixteen thousand min.
4 hundred and eighty-seven dollars anC
!. twenty-seven cents, f$316,gS7 ~. The
expenditures during the same period were
/ two hundred and sixty-two Thousand
four hundred forty-hve dollars and forty.
/ seven cents, (S262, AS AZ. Leaving q
balance on the first day of October, 1865,
Of one hundred and ten thousand six
hundred and tifty-nine dollars and nine
teen cents, (Sli0,s59 49,.
The law provides that in interference
cases, or where letters patent have been
refused, an appeal lies from the decision
OF the primary examiner to the exam
iners-in-chief, and from their decision TO
the Commissioner of Patents. According
TO a Judicial construction Of existing laws,
an appeal may be taken from the decis-
ion of the Commissioner to the Chief
Justice, or n of the Associate Judges of
the supreme Court of this District. This
procedure Is unnecessarily circuit0us and
~prOtracted, and should be abridged by an
amendment of the law so As TO allow an
appeal from the decision of the primary
examiner or examiners-in-cnief directly
to the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, if the party against whom it
is rendered so elects.
The COMMISSIONS of Patents is elothed
with unrestrained discretionary power in
all cases Of application for the extension
Of patents. His decision, whether favor
able or unfavorable, is final, and ire
quently involves private and public in
terests of enormous value. IL is submit
ted for the consideration of Congress
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power with a subordinate officer, without
subjeeting its exercise TO the supervisory
control of the head of the department.
CENSUS.
Immediately after entering on the dis
charge of my official duties, my atten-
ton was directed to the condition Of the
work relating to the returns Of the eighth
census. Two quartO volumes had been
published; one in March, 1864, entitled.
Population the other in March, 1865,
entitled, agriculture - and materials
had been compiled for a portion Of the
third volume. A preliminary report,
puTporting to present ga synopsis of the
results established by the census, had
also been transmitted to Congress on the
Dist day of May, 1862.
The entire appropriation of 81 $4,000
was exhausted, and liabilities amounting
TO n considerable sum had not been dis
charged. The liberal appropriation justi-
fled the general expectation that an au-
thentic and faithful record of our popula-
ton, condition and resources, at the COM
mencement of the decade, would be pub
iished at an early period after the com
pletiOn Of the census returns. The value
of statistical matter derived from such
records is materially impaired for practi-
cal use by prOcrastinating its publca-
ton. This is especially true in q country
rapidly increasing in the elements Of ma
terial wealth, where all industrial pur-
suits are prosecuted with unexampled
vigOr and success.
The work on the census OF 1850 had
been Unreasonably delayed, and the de-
partmenU deemed the immediate and
energetic prosecution Of 1t Of vital impor-
lance; but there was no fund specifically
applicable TO the purpose. The dimin-
ished business of the General Office,
resulting from the condition Of affairs in
the Southern States, had not required the
appointment of the fall number Of clerks
authorized 10y law; and some of those
engaged upon the census were, with your
APPRECIATION, transferred 10 that bureau.
This placed them under the supervision
of its efficient head, and rendcged the
services of the former experimenting
clerk Of the census no longer necessary.
[ expressed to the Commissioner an
anxious desire that the remaining
volumes should be prepared for the press
with al the prOmptitude consistent with
a ]scrupulOus regard TO accuracy, and l
am happy 10 say that il has been fully
realized. The returns have been ar
ranged and classified TO the most careful
and thorough manner, and the work has
been advanced with a dispatch in striking
contrast with its former tardy progress.
The third volume, entitled "Manufac-
lures, :" has been completed and printed.
The fourth and last volume, embracing
mortuary, educational and miscellaneous
statistics, has been prepared for the pub
lie printer, and will be ready for distri-
button at an early day. The clerks were
transferred to positions inferior in grade
and remuneration TO those they had pre-
viously held, rs there We're no other va
cancies. Isubmit to Congress the pro-
priety of making their pay equivalent 20
hat which they formerly received, and
of providing additional compensation for
the Commissioner and the chief clerk of
the General Land Office, in considera-
ton of the increased duties and response
bilities which devolved upon them.
The eXpediency Of providing means TO
ElldDlE AllAS utAAA AAAEllA 10 AdN bFADLt ADll-f
gress annually a report on population,
and the manufacturing and other mate
rial interests of the United States, is, in
my opinion, worthy Of the consideration
Of Congress.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The act approved July ], 1862, to aid in
the construction of a railroad from the
Missouri river to the navigable waters of
the Pacific, and subsequent legislation on
this subject, with its hearty approval by
the people, furnish a striking proof Of the
uncomfortable determination Of the ma
ton, and an unfalteTing faith in its ability
to preserve its territorial integrity. Had
it been deemed possible that our country
could fall a prey to rebellion, and its
discovered parts become subjected to
the control of separate and alien
governments, the construction Of
such a work would never have been I'M
dertaken, and its execution would have
been impracticable. Although, at the
date Of the enactment of these several
the resources Of the nation Were
severely taxed, measures were adopted
deemed adequate to induce capitalists 10
engage in the construction of this great
thoroughfare, in the conviction that it
forever remain the property of a
people. The energy displayed in
It's prosecution for two or three years, did
not, however, equal public expectation
and the wishes of the Government. But
during the past year, as viii be seen from
the report of LieUt.-Col. Simpson, Of the
engineer corps Of The army, detailed by
order TO serve under the instructions
Of the Secretary Of the Interior, in su-
pervising this and other kindred works,
il has been progressing in n satisfactory
manner, from Omaha, Kansas City and
Atchison, Westward, and from Sacra-
meuto, Cal, eastward.
The amount Of private capital already
invested, the high personal character Of
the gentlemen connected with its prose-
and the municiticient subsidy of
the Government, combined to give assu-
rance that the whole will be completed
the period fixed by law, thus fur
a~cOntinuous line of railway from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific.
Its effects, in promoting immigration, ,
opening vast and rich regions Of the con-
-ineut to settlement, developing u in
national resources, and per- ]
netuating The unity of the American
VII he more and more apprecia-
led as it approaches completion.
Tie Union Pacific Railroad Company,
Incorporated under the Congressional act
above cited, reports, by its President, I'M
Ter date of the fifth ultimo, that on the
nineteenth of October last sixteen miles Z
IF track had been laid west from Omaha,
and that arrangements had been made to !
prosecute the work at the rate of One-half
nile per day. The company has five To-
,omOtives and seventy cars On the road. :
AIachine-hops and station buildings Of
he most permanent character are ia pro- I
gress Of construction and will be finished 4
n the course of the present month.
The grading Of the first hundred miles l
at that date, nearly ready for :
he su-perstructure and that Of the |
econd hundred miles had been COM :
nenced. The first sixty miles of the track
viii be ready by the end of next month, I
md no doubt IS entertained that the first {
hundred miles viii be in operation by the J
irst day of fully next, in compliance with {
he requirements Of law. The directors Z
the belief that an additional hum
ired miles viii be I'm operation by the {
irst day ofJuly, eighteen hundred and
iXty-seven, and they are not with
,ut hope that they will at that rate have
constructed two hundred and fifty miles G
# road, and reached the one hundredth
meridian, where the line of the eastern I
division, commonly called the Kansas 5
)rauch, is TO unite with it. 7
Several parties of engineers have been !
engaged; in surveying the |