The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-12-16

Ss3 than the amount realized from the
same sources during the previous year;
The entries under the homestead law
cover two millions three hundred and
tventy-eiRht thousand nine hundred and
twenty-three acres. nearly one fourth OF
which wa> taken under the act of June Il,
1866, which applies only TO the State oi
Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas
and Florida.
On the S0ih of June, 1868, one hundred
and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and
forty>three names were bore on the pension
roofs, and during the year ending on that /
day the total amount paid for pensions, in-
cludlnC the expenses OF disbursement, was
$24, ,Ol0, ,9S2, being S5,S9l OPS, Areater
than expended for like purposes during the
preceding year.
During the year ending the Both Of Sep>
tember last, the expenses OF the patent oil
fee exceeded the receipts by one hundred
and seventy. one dollars, and including re-
issues aud designs, fourteen thousand, one
hundred and fifty-three PATENTS were issued. |
Treaties With various Indian tribes have |
been concluded and will DO submitted to
the Senate for its Constitutional action. l
cordially sanction the stipulatious which
provide for rcserving lands for the various
tribes, where they may be encouraged to
abandon their noma1ic habits and engage
in agricultural and industrial pursuits
This pelicy, inaugurated many years since,
has met with signal success whenever II
has been pursued in good faith and with
becoming liberality by the United States.
The necessity tor extending it as tar as
practicable in our relations with the abo-
riginal population is greater now than
at any preceding period. Whilst we fur
nish subsistence aud instructions to the In
diaDs and guarantee the undisturbed en-,
joyment of their treaty rights, we should
habiiually insist upon the faithful ooserv-
ance of their agreement to remain within
their respective reservations. Ibis ls the
only mode by which collisions with other
tribes and with the whites can be avoided,
and the safety OF our frontier settlements
| secured.
The Companies constructing the railway
from Omaha to Sacramento have been
most energetcally engaged in prosecuting
the work, and it is believed that the line
will lie completed before the expiration OF
the next fiscal year. The SIX per cent
bonds issued to hese Companies amounted
on the 5th inst. to $44, 337 900, and addl-
tional work had been performed to the ex>
Interior, in August last, invited my atten
tiop to the report Of the Goyernment direc-
tor Of the Union Pacific Railroad Company,
who had been specially instructed to exon-
iue the location, construction and equip
mept Of their road. | submitted Tor the
opinion OF the Attorney General certain
aues.ions in regard TO the authority Of the
Executive which arose u pon this report, aud
| al ush knA
presented by the commissioners appointed
to examine this and other lines, and have
recently submitted u statement OF their IN.
vestigatioBs, OF which the report OF the
Secretary of the Interior furnishes specihc
information.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
The report of the Secretary Of War
contains information of interest and
importance respecting the several bu-
reaus of the War Department. and the
operations of the army. The strength
of oar military force on the 3oth ei
September last was forty eight thous-
. and men, and it 10 computed that this
number will be decreased to $4,000. II
is the opinion Of the Secretary OF War
{ that within the next year considera-
Bile dimiaution Of iuisntry force may
= be made without drtriment to the ia
! terest of the country In view OF the
great expense attending the military
peace esta blishment, and the absolute
2 necessity Of retrenehHsat wherever
= y II can be applied, it is hoped that Con,
= greSs will sanction the reduction Which
his report recommends. While i'll 1861
16,300 men cost the nation SID, ,472,OOO
the sum Of $65,6S7,000 is estimated a,
: necessary for the report of the army
' during the flScsi year ending Jlna 81
, 1870. The estimates OF the War de-
partment for the last TWO fiscal years
were, for 1867 $33, 1854, ,46l, aud for lS6S
S25,205,6G9. The actual expenditure:
y during the same periods were respect
:, lively sos, ,224,4l5 and Sl23. 46,64S. The
a estimate .submitted in DsceInher Las
/ for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1869
: was $77,l24,TU7 The expenditures fol
' the first quarter, ending the S0th o
. September last, were $27,2l9,llT, Sud
/, the Secretary OF the Treasury gives
E S66, 10000 40 the amount which viii
, probably be required during the re-
S naming three quarters, if there should
, be no reduction OF the army, making
\ its aggregate cost for the year consid
g erably in excess Of $93,OO0,O00. Tbs
difference between the estimates anG
!. expenditures fer the three fiscal years
e which have been named 10 thus shewr
e to be $175,545, ,343 for this single branch
$ of public service.
THE POST OFFICE.
The Postmaster Generals report fur
y nishes full and clear exhibit Of the
. operations and condition Of the posta
: service. The ordinary postal revenue
for the fiscal year ending June 81, 1858
+ was $l6,292,6 500, and the the total ex
\ penditures, embracing all the service
y for which special appropriations have
! been made by Congress, amounted tt
. S22, ,730, ,592, showing an excess Of ex
e psnditures Of $6.437,9 ,99l. Deductine
:, from the expenditures the sum of III
{ 396,525, the amount Of sppropriatiof
!. for ocean steamship and other .specia
: service, the excess of expenditures wa
a $4,54l ,466. BY using ali unexpendet
n balance in the Treasury Of $3,S0O,0OO
i the actual SUM for which special ap
l. preparation is required to meet the de
n ficiency 10 $74l .26G. The causes which
produced this large excess of expendi
!. tureover revenue, were the restora
r ton of the service in the late insurgen
Il States, and the. putting into operation
, of new service established by acts O
st Congress, which amounted. within tn
it last two years and half, to about 4e
d TOO miles, equal to more than ons-thirt
of the whole amount of the service 1
y the close of the war.
,f THE TROUBLE WITH PARAGUAY.
e The expressed wish of Congress
e that our national good offices might b.
p rendered to these republics, and ais
+ to Brazil and Paragua, for bringing T.
n an end the calamitous war which ha
8 80 long been raging in the valley of th
T. Ia plata has been assiduensly com