Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-12-12
INTERFERING NATIONAL FACTss

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For the benefit of those OF our readers
whs have not had timeto wade through
the numel ous public documents we have
Lid before them, we Gull out and condense
many Interesting facts bearing upon'the
national welfare and progress We have
avoided the footings ofptheVditerent de-
partments embodied in the Presidents
message, as we presume that all our rea-
deis who pretend to any interest III pub'
lie affairs will have carefully peruscd that
document, for their owl sake, II not for.
the writer's.
The aggregate area of the public lands
of the United States, surveyed and unser-
ycyea, Is |, 1855, 463, 800 aeres--whlch Is
seventeen times the whole sarface Of PruFs IS
sia. including her territorial increase since
the war wielilAastria.bsmm:,f 7uY
Only one of the old Revolutionary pcn-
siouers is nowO hving-Sanuel. Downing
of Edinburg. Saratoga county, N. York.
lie is, more than a hundred years old, VI
the widows Of revolutionary pensioners
who were married, before the close Of their
husbands military service, only two arc
living, rE = s > u ".- - =
The present strength of the regular ar
my Us Is oily $685. which is nearly ~
600 shors-pf the minimum strength con-
taapBtdd iby NV. The volunteer force
is now Hob, colored and white. mostly
colored. During the last four years the
G5yteilinmeht Has supplied to disabled sol
di.rs about, 1000 legs, .224o arms, 9 feet
and So hapds--,and it has about 1000
more limbs to distribute
We have now an iron clad feet of 81
vessels, aud there are. more to be com
pie,ed. 35Efz} 4 N't)AJAN3
The income last year paid revenue of
$G0,S94,i35, which was nearly three
times the revenue Of the year before from
the same source. The cigar smokers con-
tributed for the support of the govern
meat S3.474.439. and tho 'chewers aud
tobacco smokers nearly four times as much.
Distilled spirits gave revenue OF Wv
l9S,578, and the Commissioner thinks
that the Government loses more by eva
sion under this head than under any 9TH
er. except possibl Y that of income.
1t is estimated that 10000 freedmen
and their children are now attending
school in the Southern States The is
sues Of rations on the last of June, to
whites and blacks we're about equal. The
Frecdmen's Bureau has now in its posses
sion for distribution 272, 23l acres OF
land. besides 22S tracts III Tennessee, aud
lll9 parcels of town property. "''ls.'
The COVE, nmcut sold during the past
year s ?, 2Of,729 worth of postoge stamps
and envelopes We sent abroad 1856
GIG letters, and received from abroad, A.
543, $50 We sent peurly three millions
Of newspapers, aud received a little over
one million. The number Of post Offices
is 28.S29; of which there have been re-.
oRluGdin the reheIlious states, 1898, For.
tysix have the free-dcivery sy stem, and
the plan gives excellent satisfaction. p Li,'
The number Of money order offices now
IN operation is 766-about double that Of
the previous year. Nearly four millions
of dollars were thus safely passed through
the mails. The average amount Of each
order was Sl6,32 The number OF dead
letters was about four and u half mil
lions. They contaiued S24l,5S9; and
drafts. ohWkB. deeds. &c. having nom,
inat-taue of S7.S26.SSl|; aud 67.Ol6'
photographs, articles Of jewelry. &c. Be
tween eighty aud ninety per cent Of the
whole were returped.ly The Postmaster
Generlllindorses previous estimate that
more than three fourths eff the dead let
tiers are owing TO carelessness inj writing
the aldiess ~ -,
The ezpensoss Of Congress list year
were 81 Ojf.533; of the Executive De.
partmcnt, So 92l $50 of the Judiciary,
Sl.627 $40 Oar foreign intercourse cost
us. 81 ,33St3SS' The lighthouse sestab.,
hsbment Of the country cost 81 ,37S.S5S.
The funeral expenses Of the late President
Lincoln were $50 coo , The gas for the
Presidents House and the Capitol is put
down at So. 000--we,hope tho high. was
in proportion. The fuel for the Presi-
dents House cost 5 10000; the, painting
of it $4,000 the repairing of the con
servatory $40 600: and the re furnish,
ing Of the house S76,000--all of which