Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1876, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1876—TWELVE PAGLS un . a feased undor | Fitory or the Missouri River, with full re- | The recelpts for the year ending Juna 30, 1870, eurvey of the Rocky Mountstn reglon, under the | celved, fncludng 201 from laat flacal year, was packets, plying between San Francisco and the i : i Yu‘»"":""[’m]"fl’h?flffi st biem leantd Unquishiment of any clalma to u‘,c Black Hills or | from unn'»l‘pormllun Of passengers wern sk,cm'- Alrectton of Prof. J, W. Powell, duting the past | 5,74, "of which 5,422 were deliveréd, ' The mlnnles‘.p ’Th 8 convention was carrled Into L‘,‘:‘, ,{".’.',f,’!,;’,‘;fif,‘, ,“’,‘:nfc':”fi,,'“,?,‘f;"‘:;"&",j; {:; rna l“‘f“"l’ TAGNITUDE OF THE AERVICE rights in Montana, and the establishment of | %01, and of freight, $7,101,50.155 total, | year, will, it fs believed, show practial and im- | amount of mnoney takenfrom letters which could | operation the 1st of January, 187, notbe restored to the owncrywas $0.0525% | An miditional posial agrotment with the Em- | Witk any s iornance of servlce, to contract Amount reallzed from sale of Dead-Letter Of- | pire of Japan, modifying the provisions of the Al g 4 fice property at auction, £2,55517, postal convention with that country, and re- :’m“{’“ ‘r’zfl;?\-‘:\‘finsfimfi,n?!tar::m(alnlwv:‘k ‘::;,)I'El; CONTRACTS, ducing postage rates Lo the basia established | praciles hy which the atarservice ' haszo lang There were in the acrvice of the Department | with the nostal-union conntrles, was concluded cen at thie merey of combinations formed for on the 80th of June, 1876, 6.120 contractors for | on the 8th of February, and carrled into opera- rat 3 -lr‘”:\l)'lll bt :{‘!nr‘fl‘l“(":!;"vlfi:_““f:'f"' Toads aeroms the reduced reservation from the pment of 2 Jspiby 0 Missauri River to the Binck Iilills, The north- 3 anicn, Al proceeds of the sale Nt rllfl(“'“"'l'l"f,gf :f.'\,x;,)fjl»,, il e praperty, no | ern line of the reservation s to he changed from of K‘tl' rerviceable or reguired forusgare, under | the forty-sixth parallel, which fsa houndary- he present 12w, covered uto the Treasnry 18 | iine unintelligible to the Indian, to the natural $14,410,400.19, The operath road for tioe year were $6,830,045.59, leaviug net The rc{;llm aurveyed during the prerent gea- carningato ‘the amount of §7,72045L61,° AL | son has Licen chicfly in the Terrdtory of Utah, the cluse of sald year the fude btedness of the | but o small part in‘the northern part of Arlzoe Company nmounted to 850,001, 503.43, of which | na. In the region cmbracel In this survey nvery £27,856,080 {n_duc to the United Btates, This | small portlon of the conntry can le redeemed ¢a of tho | portant results, New \-,,,rq erson, whether a ldder or not, win t o corrupt and fraudulent purpascs. Tho com- 4 peelpts, A ch property” be- Compuny embraces, by consolldation (heeldes | by Ierigation for agricultire, and no part of it | the transportation of the mafls on nublie rontee. | tion on the it of April, 1870, g 5 . ! il T S aita. {3 pd | boundry of th Bouth Forc of and matn Cane | G ofioracoe, by ¢ Company), Ui Wert: cin‘be vultivated ithout rigation: Teappears | - Of puble mallroutes i persiom tenc et | tion povtal conventipn fias heen concladed with Dbl s e Jractice ean only” bo Jouging 7 the seawen’s fund wihen purchnsed, | non-Ball River, ern lacific, the Callfornla & Oregon, the Ban | from the reports that loss than one per cent can | 9,003 (of which 019 were rallroml, belng an tn- | the British colony of Bermudaon the basis of Wwith which f onity af,m::xszm“" tha* Conzress shonld provide For tho general government of the Indlans that the proceeds for their suls should ho ered- | the Commissioner rocommends threo principles {ted to the larluc-Tiospital fund us repay- | of poltey, which he supports by able and con- ments. 1T 18 PURTHER SUGGESTED vincing arguments, and {n which I most heartily ¢ the unclafined myoney and eflects of aea- | concur: Tho concentration of sll the Indfans mn who die while under the care of Lhe Ma- | upon a fow rescrvations, neceptance Ly them of Franclaco, Onkland & Alameda, and the 8an | thus be msdo aynilable, Jusquin Valle Companies, Exteusive voal-fields exist in the reglon sur- Btock of the Centtsl Branch Unfon, Paciflc | veyed, but, ns in mnoy otlicr parts of the world, Rallroad Cotnpany Lo the amotnt of £1.000,000 | these conl-fichls are of practical value at come has boen submcribed, of which €990,600 has | paratively fow places, Tha quantity of avail- been patd, Tho recelpts for the vear endiug | able coal I8 practically incxhaustible, and the June R, 1876, were, from transportation of pas- | mincs that can bs economically worked are of is clothed, crease of forty-one routesof Lhiaclass over the | postal-union rates. This convention was carrled Wi 2 previous ymt{. aggreguting in length 281,303 | into operation on the 1st of October, 1870, Over r:;nlen ".émhfi'ru"émfi.'n" :m l’[%lld!(m miles; fo annual transportation, 138,200,703 An additional agreement has been concluded River, and the Lake Shore and_MichigagSouth- ' inlies: In annual vost, $15,201,140. _Adding the | with Newfoundland, redieing the single pre- | ern Ralironds, an exclusivo mail-tral g‘;finflam compensation of raflway post-office clerke, | paid letter-rate of postage between the United | qf finely equipped postal-cars, wnlcl’:" Were pro- ol gents, maoil-ronts inessencers, local | Btates and that colany to 5 cents, vided itk ull the convenlences nemunrpln r’nfieu y and mafl-messengers, amounting to Nerotlations are atso pending ranFnshl €on: | rapid und perfect distributl i h - & ¢ for n fow m ettt Iy scngers, $4,910.93, and of freight, $70,467.845 | preat number. the aggregate annual cost will .be | ventions with Pern, Victorla, and Chill. That Yoy Yorras, R pncionrlel BEESR euil, 'of aiok. anal: | Lands in Ui i o the extenalon over theis | {0 k114,12, The ‘amourt Exponded i | = Tn the Usis Mountains ilver and copper | ST ofs. e THRTeE s Chl an bt orimaily executed with the | o nteior booreen, New York and ot AP teamen. At prosent this Departmont hay | of the United States law and furlsdictlon of | gaig yenr for runntng oxpenscs and repalrs was | mines have been discovercd and worked by | Theservice was divlded ss followa: Chillan Minlster, st Washington, and sent to | those citles: 2 U an abled !fizm‘y.tn determine the disposition of | United Biates courts, and consequent dissolu- HKL07, The road amt fixtiures have cost | rivate vartles, The extent of thesc siiver anit H 3131, i Haliruad routes: length, 7243 miless annual | Santiago for ratification by the Chillas Govern- | rosdacy s Lnd over the Ponneylvania Rail- $3,703,700, The Company's indebledness, In uup{.crbunrma rocks lias been defermined, but 741,17 !mlli‘mrln(lnn. 7041172 miles: annual cost, | ment, It will be carried [nto operation on the traln, with a Sonpectiu lnea a limited- mall. rs"&.,nqn. The Supervising Kurgeon-Qen- tlon af tribal ergauization, ~e 1 o crior accommodations, was run e ' " ¥ " i n o 4 bilshed only by extensive | $9,343,131—about 12.27 cents per mile. 1at of January next, should the notice of {ts rat- L g ént's Lhat great embarrassinent arls For scveral years the number of agonclea his | RUILON to the Government loan, nnd first | thelr value can b estab y by exten s, v ¥ next, g between New York, Clucl e e et nttcmpta to reak down the | heen dc‘.mmj' ws It lioa bean found that thely | HOrigone of $1,00,000 and futerest unpald, in | wworking. ) Etoamboal foute lgnggx. 14,533 miles: | fileation be récetved prestons to that date. and Bt Loulas the sima onoatl, pdlanaplis ’fn‘.mfl“ ‘,r?;.u Marlue-Tospital Service regula- | oecupunts could bo removed and consolidated | $1S30.04. . CAPITOL EXTENBION, nnuuM‘trnnspmmunnl 3,704,535 miles; annual AIPOINTMENTS, York and Cincinnati, via Philadelplita, Harris« ! tlons, requiring flhrnmunldwrnllmlnnwcxnmlnw- with other tribes upon one rescrve or could be The amount of stock of the Kansss Pacifle The Architect reports that the Capitol Bulld- | cust, $606.46—about 1087 eénts per mile, The report of the Appolutinent-Office shows burg, and Columbus, C Y belng twenty-four hours; between New York and Indfana, olis, twenty- elx hours; and between New York and 8t. Louls, thirty-threc ours. Thesc lines afforded fucillties for the transmission of mails from the Freut commercial centre of tha Fast to all points n the West and Southwest, hithierto -anknown in the history of railway transportation in this country, and enabled “the Department to su tlon Intoprofesslonal qualificationsof candidates | settled In the Indlan Territory, Within the for appointment to the corps of surgeons. 'The | Jast four years onc mpurlntemlnnc‘y and twen- eamun, Whose enrutigs aro taxuld for the es | ty.two agencies have been abolfshed, with o peclal puspnse of creating a fund for thelr rellof | corresponding reductionofagenta and employes, when slck or. disabled, are certalnly entitled to | and “an anmis! saylng i salaries and wogos the best medtienl and aurgieal skiil, and mani- | amountingto over £00,000, festly none other should “he employed, 1t I8 | = As n malter of cconomy, the grontest saving theetorey sugiceated that leglslativa provielon | could be made by uniting nll the: Indlans upon le made for theexatmination of medical ofticers | " fow rescryations; the fewer the better, A of that service sfmllar to that now cxlsting for | nuch less number of emylnyes would be re- medical ofiicers of the army. and navy. quired. at correspondiugly lexs cxpense, but o 0f the hospital dues collected from seamen, | yreater saving would resilt from the reduction $344,070.78 were covered into the Treasury dur- | ot transportation, Many of the agencles are {og tho yoar. For twenty successive yeara, up | almost inaccessible “during cortaln months nf toJunod0, 1874, the anuual defleloncy appra- | tho year for the purpose of teaching them with rations nade by Congrees, and expended, | provisions, and It can only bo done at very her roules, upon which the iails are re- e following: Oth L pon which th I the follow| quired to be conveyed with “ccler(tf', certalnty, and sceurity s length 104,507 miles; annual transportution, 54,424,003 1iles: annual cost, $3.031,541—about §.41 cents per mile, Increase .. e There was an Inciease over the preccding | Number {“ Sitialion duss O Lus year In Tengih of routes of 3,625 miles; in an> e ioneratlon June f t7h ) sual l.rm‘uerilIrn;n,in{mfl#’T,fliJ dnl\llus:t LT Rt e deerease fn cost of $152,22). Addiug the fn- { completely meet the demands upon it forapeed vrcfllflid n&m llur rallway-post-office clerks, route, | master-Qceneral. ,815 lrunspnrtivtlnn that the most su’n:m;{- ::Feecuy- local .||n ntlAcr ngér;t;._s 228,107, the total in- The following table shows the number of em- | tlous of the business communitics dependent bt o ek L have been fncreseil fn | Ploves in the Post-Ofce Dcpnrlmcnt;lnlm the umlzllicm for postal supplles were more than Tength £2,205 miles, and in cont §526,610, ngalnst number of Postmasters, contractors, clerks in | realized. Raflrond Com m&' allowed by law is $10,000,- | Ing has been kept In good repalr and many fm- 000, Of this i’n. 02,500 haa been subscribed, and | prove:ncnts made to It'in the past year, These $0,630,000 patd, ‘The receipts for the year end- | fimpravements hnve been of n subatantial char- Inug June 80, 1870, were, from transportation of | neter, and [nelude finportant ehiauges In tha Wacnnm 81,085, 100,703 of frelght, $2,120,- | methud of introduclne fresh alr in the halls of 17: mlncnnnucou. $20,45.87; total, $1,- | legisiation. 1 am, sir, very respectiully, your 54,64, Total cxpenses of the year, $1, obedient servant, 7. CnaxnLER, 080.40; leaving net oarning: 61,4071 Secrctury of tho Interlor, funded debt o the Comitany s $27,247,100, of Tug PRESIDENT, which &5,05,000 1s duc to the Unlted'Btates, - ‘There are_othier labflities to the mnount of n 3,604,%6.19, making o entira dabi of o THE POST-OFFICE. Compuny §0,801,625.13, - Btock of the 8joux Clty & Pacific Rallrond TYNER’S REPORT. Company to the amount of $4,478,600 has teen TXPENDITURES AND RECEIFTS. sutbscribed, of which §1,701,800 his been pald. | mne expendiree of (in Dopare, 8 d an increase last ‘Vear of 2,340 mfles (n length, [uul-umcen‘ fouteauonts,, rallway post-ofiics K aves clatmed by the raliroad eoi'npnnlcl 2 and $020,653 In cost. A clerks, and othicr officers In service, June 80, | the urganization of this cxpodited distribution { ! A0 1875, and Junc 90, 1879, respectively: pystem that the ratea of pay then provided b Feraged $152,462, but. no deflelency approj H- | rreat exponse. To reach some few of them i "“"! receipts ’m'fllc)e(fll' cuding June 30, ISI’U, ment during the frcal year d PRy nul.‘uzdx-lzlzyumx;)s.m_b S Dopartmontal oflicars and omploye cxisting luw were. insulfioent to ':umpcllnnuy! jon Las been aalied tor this gervico afnco 1873, °| fransportation cquals, if not cxceeds, the first | STOM transportation of passcnyers, were §50,- 833,203, 487,58 uring the year ended June 80, 1870, 201 per- Y 1870, | them for the extraordinary cxpense fneurred i L 'L noue witl be required for the year 1578, Sost ot thb tosiaong, J 790.10; of frelwht, $200,057.80; from express, sons xcru arrested for violations of the poatal | poyimaster.General........er...s 1 1 | running trains nt such o apeed, and there is good il 3 ‘Were there but five or alx Inrgo servatlo 7,832 and from miscellancous sourcen, 8,- | Ordiuary recelpts.. 828, 4 0 laws Md regulations, and given in charge to the | Assistant Postmaatr-Genetain. E3 4 | reason to helieve that they offered thelr tfuln- — e RO Tl 8, | 051.09; total, $202,490.14, The expenses of the | Recelpts from United States authoritics for trial, with tho fol- | kuperintendent of Foretyn Malis 1 1 he De e A IN GENERAY, ensy of accees, Lie annual savlng In transportas p § ‘moncy-order busl+ 1 11 to the Department us an experiment, out of a PRl e tion alone would b over $100,000, soud and fixtires during sald Jenrarers L I d 180,770.84 lowing results, viz: Superintendent of money-orde: % o | Birit of enterprise, rather than an cxpectation 8T - 3 2 o .83, leaving net carnfnes $28,204.81, The N A o Ayntem..er.s s 5 The Supervlshug Inspector-General of Bteam- P,X,:!"kfl:’m"h“",crfi”gtfi_‘:fi,‘é‘;‘;h’ b'f"fl’a‘"&“fl;:fl 0“!::“ Donded ludub‘(zmlnf:su of tie company s §8,250,2 | AToURE, 'Efr:;r”:l CHich Slenk 'to 1 1 orslé;lrm: e"xfi'f,’fr'&‘ls'?fxfum"fl."f ;nu:’:lxl.lc‘:d trom a sscls reports tho followin matters connected | wienayor M s Ty 1 iyt o FOmO%e: | 20, of which §1,638,390 fs duie fo tho Ubited | Ao, he Sener] Chlef of division of dead-ietters. I 1 | dtscontinuance of thcss fast Tines, shich Have Yith this branch of servico for the flscal year | practicable, any {ribe of hand, or A portlon of o | Statcs: The flonting dobt i3 $70,305.78. Anprapriatod - to Awalling L., Chlet of dirlsion of depredstion. 1 1| been augmented by the refusal of the rallrund. with this branc o ¥ lrlbu e band, to: the Tndlen ,‘.m?‘w un.of l“ Stock of the Bouthiern Paclle Rallrond Come Juunumplmu... 637,500,00 Total o1 | Chief of division .,;VW,,“,,EI companies Lo re-cstablish the fncomplete aecom- ended June 30, 1670; eitier of two hromincnt. reservations-und. by | [ Of Califorata to the amount of $33585.100 —-— 20,181,007.50 SRl e 291 | ©atamph ‘stamped” envelopes, modatlons they b previouly furnishod, Tho otal receipta from the igspection Tomes the the Earth in Miuncsols and “:“ has been subscribed, of which $27,227,200 hos p ———————— | _ Inaddition to the nbove, 148 persons werear- | - Sin postal cards..... 1 1 | malls are now conveyed between the Atlantic ot siameyostale gud Tskeingoty oo o | AR ENE Ste et in. Mlukotols: and. e {yjcq0 fid. The amount recoived from trans- oot Cxpenditarts over | os1,700.08 | [pricd, clarged With sinilar offenscs, but as Topographiot for Depart 1 1 | seaboard and poluta I tho West and Southwest T&Tffii:fz;r';ififlfifi ToE cfii'&'t‘ 205,582, 63 Torritory—and suitablo npp‘:‘oprlallon plnéfil‘r’u’ !’mru {on of passcupers In the year ending June FECEIDLd 1oaesveesiieoriiaene i$ 4,081,700.08 | there were dreumatances connected with mald | Clief elorks of bosesue a 0, 1870, was &040,045.42; of freight, $1,186,073.- Included {n the aboye atatement of expendl- 80: total, $2,130,018,72, The cxpenscs of the | tures Is the sum of §167,301.42 pald on Hablil- road and fixturca for sald gear were 31,140,330 | gica incurred In previous flscal years and not ,280, r 4 5 | with less dispateh, and with C Arreats which made the partics ameratle to | Sisbursing ofcorand s for dlstribds s and w ‘},;v",‘,}‘gff;,',?,fifl‘fi‘,’; i 1 oth - s disposal to enablo hiy d nalarles, traveling and or con: l“ o iln to do so, there {s no 1 | inauguration of the fastona tate | e ¢ 22%164,82 | doubi that the suceess of such removals would Drer o i S dogmel betterio liand, thens e over to the State authorities. These, mlded to | Btenographer... £ 1 aystem, be apparent within the next two or tarco yoars, % o % h Tnited Statos | Clerks, meeaengers, watchimen, INTERFRUENCE WITI POSTAL OPFICERS AND 4,019 Mnnar of tho presont reservations are critirely %}:‘fflz{,‘zfi‘{:"fi;z"“{{:fi&" ke flom;rq‘s‘) l!’)‘(’,gd properly chargeable to the expenditures of the C:,'..,’é;‘,"’,,‘; ‘;,_.gfll‘% 2’;‘;, ;’.,';',’.’,lm,': .‘r‘,fl'{é{l ‘fi:?(lncé BLE R sisssysnd versvys etivene TG4 203 EMPLOYES, pag | unbE for culttvation, and the dlsnpr(‘nrmlce of | “on the 10l of Jume st you nccepted the | Jast flscal year. Deducting this sum from the | the year > Of e Lorhors only 151 were em- T a1 | comdefinite Inforimation lias occaslonally bees oo B e apldly rowingscarce lonves tholr | guvcuth ‘seotion. (of twanty Milés eac) af the | segregato amount, the actaal expenditurcs for | loses. of the Lom-Oics Demnmorc® Sy Ottier offienrs and ageat 7 M communieated to this Dopartinent uf Ui theant ;E;fbne'r: of " pilota "of “steamora 8,00 | O b sne i "",}fi-‘fifi‘;gz&"fi main Iine of this rond, and, on tho 21st of Julv | thc year wers $82,706,180.16, when ¢ 15 coneldercd that United malls are | patimartars Plince Lo persons emploged by fb o rnment for thelr nugporl‘ Jicensed coesvererens 2,834 | tion cnnlxlmt }:‘a‘(;lunrfavu uv‘n.fll:huynmdlocnled ~———7—— | 1non soil snitable for agricultura and stock- Totalnumber of oficers licensed. 14,563 | rafsing, o i ne Femberof inspectorsand clerks em- Brluflf,tum arguments aroall In favor of the i 4r e "ZJ':Z ‘g;"};’: some of the States because of .thelr polltfeal 1 4,718 | opinions und party assoclations. A few Posts ayagp | masters in the Southern States have expressed 1,017 | Kreat apprehension of thelr persanal sately on Inat, the third section (of fifty miles each) of its Tiie expenditures and receiptd of the Dopart- :’lfi:{lg‘; l,'l,',':’n';{";',“{'(f"'}éhbg{ 'i‘é?lfw"""w rd see- | nont, therefore, on account of and appertaintog "The Northern Pacifie Hailroad Company has | to the business of the Inst fiscal year (excluding transported annually over 186,000,000 miles of | Contractors. ... mail-routes, and aré handled i)_r 50,000 persons, | Clerks [n post-offices, this exhibit will be consldered very satisfuctory. I "The number of recorded complaints durl - i 5 s | the year 18 6,640, fnvolving the loss or rifling o Jtallway poat- 1,082 | seeount of thelr connection with the postn) K::Q{:’fl 363 | comeolistion; v "’l“nm":“i"x'v':lf:-.‘."'fi"“,’ Vs g?:‘v‘e::l?:?‘:?r”?l‘fl:m:)%l&rugf«lfilx‘-m ll:tlxrr‘:(‘l?l tg{r fl:g ::g;;ll‘;l\::: n‘::::cmnne SERETIOUS yeacs) A1y U»flfilfiuernv ug rusulln;.g in \'ullt'lc. in mm’fav. Nall-roate mesaon 210 | service, and have spectally requested that theit ! S ¢ tnore * Anspeoted, 4,008 | ablighied, tho Indiuns Agrregalo tounugo of stoumors In- | oen,84z,00 | Cusily waiched over and controlloed, ovll-doslgn. ? nir men be better kept away from them, and Toavold the expenso Incurred by the annual | iy iaae and barter 13 lrms,y nmmuul!’i:.::;,:ml meeling of the Board, as required by Sec. 4,605, | whiaky prevented; ;ivumn cotild be supplicd'nt a Renzed Statutes, it s recommended that pro- fflm savings the military scrvice relleved; tho vislon be made for the mecting of tha Board at | Indlans better taught, “and friendly rlvniry such times aud places as the Sccrefary of tho | estublished among them, their most civitized Donds, drafts, ecic. U,028,20, of which 2,155 | Local neents 7 | reports of apprehended danger should not he Were: eistarons Al st e ko g ek %163 | Ebecial agen G5 6% | made public, lost it should result a the 108t of unregistered! valued al uuo.m!.m. O tie 1,597 Total In 6erviee. .. ..ve.ver o BLATT BR891 }hulr lives. Hut no positive tcnumunr of actual regletered letters reported missing, 13 were PIEE DELIVERY, : nterferchice with sych oflicers or employes while ratfefuctorily nccounted for, and 104, valued at No additions to the nawmber of free-lelivery In lt,hc dllu'lur;:c of ‘their ofticial dutles has been 810,704, 16,Yaro reported a6 actually los! offiees were made during the year. The service | fubmitied, except in the cass of o mail-me: Of the 81 lost, 100, valued ut £4.205.4, were | was, however, Improved n soveral of the eities | KCf 4t Spartanburg, in tho State of South ( Company into *preferred stock,” and_of its * stock into “common stock.”” Upto June 30, and from money 1870, of preferred stock there had been issued vevessesssansenser 26,044,107.50 to bondholders, who hal susrendered thelr —_— honds for conversion, 833,450 shnres, of §100 Leaving an oxcess of expendl- euch, and_scrip for fractlons of shares nmount- turcs over and above Depart- ing to $198,934, No *‘common stock " bas yct mental receipts of..ioveeene. 4,151,088.60 + ieear oo. ., $32,706,180,10 A 2 ) A & liua, who reported through one of the offlecrs g 2l | poon fante ‘The expeuditures during the flscal vear were | Mmodegood: ana of tho 538 reclstered lotters | by establishing branch oflices and extending the ] b e loTont] Treasury lhxllfififi:nfignmmus. 2:«‘1‘%‘;‘;50?% upm‘;&c:; ‘::‘t‘ clt!::;;l'idbfl»;c ati‘r‘\fi The aniont recelved for traneportation of pas- £523,100.21_more than thoso of the preceding reported vitled of contents, valued at $9,47.08, | carrders’ dellvery. of the Departinent that he had been violently the contents of 77, aggregating in value ‘,'&“‘_ The gencral résults of the service during th driven awuy while in charge of the muails, of 04, were recovered and restored 1o the owners, _“u-m-fi satisfactory. The postagze on lm,“”mufi :s-,gg‘lgm:{mhufil“suflltlwl afl}llulnu.d'r Tht Cuscs nuinbering 852 remaln 0 the hands of | ter exceeded the eiitire expense by 334,075,500, g y v Ak i e e i the speclal agents under fnyestigation. The Increase in the cost of the sorvice was but | youilisoreivs for comepicny of the rallivay Tue whole number of letiers recistered | 5 per cent, while the Increnso on the postage on Te88, Who tespondoll thet the sy Sorrcet throughout the United States during the year | Jocal matfor was 6 per tent. The averaze cost Alanieaed ,'rl.’,m i “:t "”d "l‘fi!f“!.-'" ha pded June U, 1670, s 407,813 whils Ll ex- | per plece of landling the matter was 0.1 mija. | Grapheared from bis post of dutv, leasing it hibit sliows an actual logs of only 1,049, about | ‘[le azercgate results fur the fiseal year cnding What the o il ke s T Tl ,gur:é |tuu.g E u:,',‘l" ..dur 285 for overy 10,000 | June 30, 1570, were a8 follows: does not appear imm‘";:in nntem’c:?mo?tehmnfi R v L e pracreass oter | the ofller Who investiguted tho care, but the The number of rnlhmv-jmuflmw lines in op- | Xumber of offcers.. 87 - | fact of his having been ""I’Wrt‘l‘])‘ interrupted sengers for the year ending June 80, 1876, was o 12 $103,023.77; of freight, 8424,001.00; from mis- Y‘:fll’: ;md $8,700,640.42 lcss than the estimates cellnncousgources, §75,010.40; total. §003,092.10, | therefor. The operating expenses for-tho vear werd $40l,- | Tho ordinary receipts for the year wero $1,- 801,835 leaving net enrnlnfil, £202,002.81, 782,203.16 (or 6.26 per cent) more than those of 50! ‘Tho Company reports ftself frea from debt, 2 541 3 Bt b “hd Tk + | the preceding year, and $33,541.60 (or 0.1L per ¢ tes therefor, Stock of trie Atlantle & Paelfle Raflrond Com- | ¢¢) more than the cstimat vany to the amount of $10,700,300 has been aub- | Thero was drawn from the Treasury during scribed and paid, The recolpts from transporta- | the fiscal year on appropriations: tion of passcngers for the {“r emllu%mm 40, | Forateamship servico toJapan and reight, $1,000,500.53; China. -3 600,000,00 The work on publie buildings durfog the past | revertlng to the General Government, would be sear has progressed antlsfactorily whors sufl- | open to entry and sale. tent appropriations for ita contlnuance liave The Comnilssioncr's recommendations for the been made. While ronewing the suggestion | sllotments of lands to Indlans In severalty— contained in the lust aunual report of this De- | such aliotinents to be fnalienable for a termi of artment, that In the present stato of ths | years—must ultimateiy be udopted, snd I warm- Fuaces i 48 ok adslaable to mako Larwe appro. | 1 favor ite conutderation. pristlons for commencing new buildings, Jtis | =~ In my annual report last year I taok oceasion recommended that, for the dnsulng year, suffl- | to quote from thu report of the comm/ssion ap- dent sppropriations be made to Iustire & rapld | pointed durine that year to vislt tho Red Cloud srotecution of the'work already begun. and Spotted ‘Tall agénties, in regard to thoar- 1870, were 338,074,063 of i wreresseenne | gl 3 The eugestion contained In the report of tho | Bent tccessity of laws for the protection and 580,09, ¢ Tof slearaship sorvico 10 lirazi #7,600.00 | eratlon on the BULh of June, 1870, wan 63, ex- | Numher of letters u the perforinance of his dutles acoims to have Sapeivising Aschitect relative 10 Ui propara- | punishment Gt Indlans, ' In provlous reports of Lu’?l‘h(x‘t‘)’?c‘;z:lsl?é‘wc‘xpen!u o sald year wero | To suppiy delslencios in tho ' teading over 17,71 miles of raliroad ruule}'; an | carrlers ... .. 2,260 74 | been carroborated by his disappearunce Immic- : on of plins for public buildings under compo- | tho Du{mrtmem tho samo subject has been re- | g710.01558: Leaying not earnlngs 8025,665.80, | Ducs for tho year ended June 40, increase of 1 1ine and of 781 miles compared with | Mall lettera déilverd 189,630,443 10,675,075 | dintely thereafter. T refer to this case because, . tion I8 worthy of constderatior, aud theatten- | peatedly alluded to, and tho absence of any | Tho’ entive codt of the road and fixtures has | 1870 4,000,000.00 | the Preuedlnn)uur. Alail postal cards de- Inmy judzment, it {s suflivlently supeestive ta tion of Cangress I8 respectfully fuvitod thereto, | Droner incans for the aidministration of justlcs | o, piire S0t of “Tho total Indcbiedness of | TO meet de o The nutnber of clerks employed was 1,042, at | . livered Y 5.818,810 | Junts rne Iu recommending that o more severe Inthls connection hio fattetition of Congress | over Indlan territory presented. ‘Tho present | giio Compuny is $17,348,400, il e R 551,020.23 | wn nunual cost of §1,278,8401 any Increast of 191 fentittiegeliv, 4#34,710 | punihment should be provided for the offenss ; {ilnled o the nocuasity fororccting a proper | Y e entirely Inadequate ta punish an Tndlan | ™0 5 Gk "ot Pebruney last you accopted | 1% Jreuance of act of Gongren clerks and §155,700. ' Upon 14,501 miles the ser- | 1931 ros 3,007,078 | OF ussaulting any person In chorge of the mails, tuilding for the Liht-honso Board, for bih | for a erime. conmmitted Dgalnst, nuuther, elther | ywonty miles of tho road constricted by ths | oar, N0 12) of Juno i, .80 | Vicels J)crfurme(l dally, and upon 8,122 mies | negietared - skl or of retarding or otherwise ubstructing them ielaltér hins submitted an estimato of 8100, | Without the limils of Iis reacrvation or tpon It. | GEiey miles of tho rond uc ‘Company (no by SisebetirTateedy " | twice daily, equivaicent 'In all to 20,835 miles clivercde ... .. : .. | by threats of personal (njurv. 0. The Board uow aceuples different parts of | The only punishment which can be faflicted cousolldation purt of the Central Lueiic Nait Tolalsvrs earseneen seen oo enss s § 5,086,583,04 | cach vrnty dadlv. Newwpapers deliy'd. 1 B, TOSTAL DEFICIENCIES, sprivate bullding, nelther conyenient nor fire- | Upon a white tan for a erfme azalust an Tudian | foud Company of Galifornis extending from | The cutimated exponditares for the Counting all the lincs both ways, the aggro- | Letters collected 12,040,418 | A very gratifving result I presented In the wof. Au appropriition Is thorofore recom [ 18 to fores him off the rescrvation. This lim- [ Fast \iolpaay of Callfornly, fecal ding June 0, 1678 gate scrvice Is 41,671 miles daily. Tostal cards colle b7z onn | fact that tke deficloncy of this Department dur- mended for d’m crection of a bullding for the | munity for erime lsmost unfortunate, and loud- On tho 28d of June lnst 1'““,‘:"][\3‘1 ascetlonaf i 36,'723,432.43 FORBION MAILS, Newspap'ra collect'd 1,122,670 | Ing the last flseal year was reduced to $1,03 the Oregon Central Railrond, cxtending from Bt extttiated a3 :.’Ilm‘t\ventlft:! mlllqust to tliu ll'mlnrhlll" [ver, & per cent over tho fis. Istance of twenty-seven and o half miles, Al yoar, making....$30,445,105 Block of tho Toxas, & Tacife Nolway Com- | By ek 31045, any to tho amount of $50,000.000 is authorized from money-order wtablishinent, sutable to sccure the requisite | 1y calls for correction, Were the jurisdiction dispateh of current business by its oflicers and | Of the Unlted States Courts extended over tho dlerke, the accessibllity and safoty of its records, | reservations, and the Indinn taught that he 1ad the prosccution of its constant experiments | must sufler the same penalty for Iifs crime as a In fllurmlnants, aod In sound and light, which | Whiteman, apd at the same timo be prorccted wenow conducted, at conslderable” disadvan- | In llke manner, the lsbors of the Department The P Ut A Whole number of e T80.18, 23 nalusy 80,160,089.88 of the preceding opm“mfflfil i ‘Z_gm;")l;’;"_‘cvn‘,‘gz‘lg’:fl"mlfl’:fg pleces bandled..... 031,777,470 57,575,000 | vear. 'The differencs can be traced to the Tt g 8 Plecer handled per ncrease in its ordinary receipts (which greatly 5;:% lias grestie ,;Jé“&’flfi% utrl;ep E:'r:eur‘g&lno‘f;;cg{ CATFIETLce vrevee HTASE o1, 254843 | cxeeeded the estimates therofor), und. & clight a8, under Its provisjons, cach conntry retnins to | Totalcontofservice. $1,081,180.51 {ur 5 por cent ?fi:r:::fi:g ]ifiamaixdmuuflurcn. Tho mrowt" ol 3 ¢} , 000 its excluaive use all the post: which i 1= | Ave cost per s hranclies hus substautially tage, In New York. would be made much easler, b ho‘:,‘:';ul"‘f“‘;fl;‘t’l‘;&gjmiJ;“J“}:g“m}fi‘g’f}&- usiness 200.000 Tects: thie postages L g Diece in millst 1o - 813 %......... | Kept pace with tho Increase of former years, CLAIMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. Though the plan of uniting all the Indlans were, from Lransporiation of passengers ’g40u,. | Total estimated revo- The tatal welghts of the malls dfspatehed | Average rear- B ’l'lu: additivnal miles of sorvice established vqual Tl falure, Lo mnakes tho suall appropriation | o o few roscrvations and. alluying thein | G18.6; of frelglt,”$1,107.000.17% from cxrcss | 200, for, tho fscal S e adnilod States: to- Postal Unlyw cou- SLO8 SRR, | forscveral peors et s desreae b e wled for ceret: con- ul ay meot opposltion, an i % 2207047 . 30, - - | trics during the y lows : 5 L i ¥ ok crease d e the exyamll?mtlun of {h: or’t’:’:mr:’lalox;' cn[fi?x’rl- must necessnrily, [0 Lmvgmbl,v cuvx:nflv.lnrud,' hea ;’é‘:}&ifie !;IEig!:;:.‘?flh:xa%lh%l?gm "'l'lh'u"élfl‘;zflls)?sv BT Hikapesiser 00,046, 165.00 Mo, equal o a0 163 cune; | ponIocH matler i g {““ L )mruunnl R ALy huriui rodulted from the 084,180 grrama, equal to 38D 103 ounces; | pecess of postage o e g g 1 — creased he total cost o e 3 p ’ weight over 1575 of 155,038 ounces of Jtters, | Servicosers o svor $SK,OTELL .vore e e ,ohla an pearly all the routce e 274007 ouuces of priuted matter and sani= | In consequence of the reductlon mads by Cone | fro for yonor sy Luelad ranged for sinflus sorv- L gross ot its lust sesslonin the approoriatlons for | furcement of the law aguinst tho few bilders Iho cost of tho United States transatlantlc | the free-delivery service. I was compelled to | nnd coptractors who fnlled iad the offect 1o i mallsteamsllp servleo for the vear 1630 wus | further reduce the salarics paid to the hurd. duew others to execute thelr obligations. $173,013.00, belng a reduction of ¥55,755.16 from | worked and falthfal letter-carriers dn cities 1t will he Instruetive to study the vatlance m’?hs‘l’jfift:g’éfifl: 'g:::fi:fn‘:& ifi‘g’;&‘;’m n‘l‘h“g the free-delivery system has been estub- | gy, ycrcumagc of increase and decrease fn the i L Y shed, Ty v o e s tflm: ,"",'J" lh"u \\‘;f;{) {ullll]es. l’g‘"m{:fl;’ Csn‘fl""“l At tho closc of the fiscal year ended June 30, ;fixfluicfi v?."‘r’é‘,“'h?‘c“iflz"fic“\?&.' w;vcc!ar‘;f (1';3 New Granudta, Veneatian f,';fi"fi:,‘lax‘:n:, ot the 1%'5' the number of domestle moncy-order | Erdfary rovenues have adyanced beyond ts ex- o fl;.mfmy aud Confederate archives fn his cus- | Work of time, “yot tho cunctinent of suitable Iy, for fnformatlon for usein the defense of | laws for the govirnment of Iudians should he overument sgatnat- improper clals, hos | delayed no longer. I ber that you willcall this really fmpeded thut serviee, especlally to tho attentlon of Congress. The slighit examination that it has been possi- The unccessity of devising some simplg and Seto mako of those recordsnud archives in [ satisfactory forn of government for tio Indian onvectlon with the privata rellef bills vresent- | Territory is yearly grnwln% nore urgent, and el toConerees at ita lust scesion, Involying | wust, cre long, bé met. A present tho eastern shout 5,000,000, londs to the conclusion that | whd richest portion, agriculturally, 18 occupled ibeycantaln much valuable fnformation which lcy the Ohorokees, ~Choctaws, Chickasuws, thould be sought for and furnished to the sev- | Crecks, and Scminoles, numbering something Commilttees to which auch bills havo been | over 55,000 souls, with a total of 20,714,600 acres, rferred, It s rcn}»ecumly submitted that an | Or an uveraze of Sibacres for cach man, wornan, for sald nflgnr\rure, for conducting transporta- | Estimated excess of expenditnres tion, $303,011.43; motlve-power, 831,016,183 to bo sppropriatod out of tho majntenance of way, §316,035.65: malntenance general Tressury oa a deficiency. $ 6,078,207.48 of enrs, 801,250,115 reneral expenses, $45,8%1.175 | POBTAGL-STAMIS, BTAMPED ENVELOFES, AND totnl, §694, 604447 leaving net. earninge, $700,- POSTAL OANDS 188UED, 40L4b, "The entirs Indebicducss of theCompany | Tho numbor of ordinary postagre- 13 $18,197,427.81, stampy lssued during the &ulm Denver Pacitie Rallrond stock to tho amount | flscal 004, 700, of §4,000,000 has been subscribed and paid, Lelng tho total amount authorized by law. The recelpts for the yenr ending Junc 80, 1576, were, from trausportation of passengers, 8107,312.73; S, 818,773, 454,00 045,254, 76 saverersissiie £,280,318,74 sdequate appropriation should be mnde for this | and child amoug themn. 8o lone as this great) g",‘,fl}cf ',{:!",:,};?’%;flfifluflf“%’f’,"c‘i"“c:’}:)""""fi n Tequeat, 14, - = reduced rates established from July 1, 1675, 3.3,‘?,&::& &‘r?ll.]; %fi“;&‘,‘;fl-‘.’fi;“{;{f‘&:{’;‘,fl%‘ penses, as will moro sutisfactorily dppear from . purgose, disproportionuts alluance of lund to tho ul. | SU=0; totel, SSBRIOTS, Exp mes for. sl A B #1070, 278 70 | amounted to $110,017.68, and the cost of the sea | and the. number dlscontinued was i making s | LIS DEUres given below : : REPORTE OF OFFIOERS Fldual continucs, the greater portion of 1t must | Fi55 8 *Tle cort of " noeber,aaruluge, Poipaner woapoiac A e 7200 | convoyance thercof was $45,430,7, total of 3,097 oflices fn opuration dure 50, 1650. | The ordinary recelpts for tho year : Teports of Lieads of Bureaus aud Distslons are [ e 1dle and unproductive, and b the oblect of | Goufiuilileof th youd wan neow Bost amn, Sy | bostal carde, 160,815,000 V603, 831:50 | ,Tho United States postages on malle, ex- | “Buring the Tast schl §ons 409000 doiutpis PO NG year ened Juhe B T, M 2050 it tranemitted and rofurred to for dotall- | (CA 5 B, Mo settlor, Tlie ensat woy to | {lichivinees of thie Company in §5051,00173. © | ONclal” atapipm. ohvelopes"and oo 100 | chaniged with Japu and Gy, by moans ot thg | i s e, ast lseal year 4095, agiregnte | Fohey S imrated o e o 00, Sa.10.78 o statements of the business of this Depart- seeure that Territory to its present occupints PATENT OFPICE, wrappers, 10,800, 106,00 pue-40ee 420,110.09 | Bubsidized Ve ol airect mull steamers, amount- | valuewas $77,035,972.78. The numberuf such 7 Piciasbic ozl ment. and protecy It from the encronchuments of white | o work of the Patent-Oflice shows a gratl- —— ———— | cd to §15,6i0.34, orders paid was 4,047,085, amounting o value Stowing an Increase of.........$10,200, 080, 78 The Beeretary deaires to express his acknowl- "f‘}lcm‘l’"_‘ I8 “’ ]’“""l“‘ 1t by ather Indiaus, and, | poine increase I recelpts and o decronto 14 ex. Argrogating 1,049,707, 507.,..820,053, 421,72 { The total cost of the United States ocoan | to_ $70,642,571.45. To the total wmount of [ Tt will thus be secn that In seven years the re- wgr:»'c:xlxluumr tho efllont. sid and support. e Eiviug thiom alt | {:n“(f‘;:‘{{‘fl‘{“';‘";‘,lc;,‘rzl};‘fl;f “f;;; penditurcs, with slfeht ncreaso In tho amowni | The following tablo shows tho increase fn | mallatcamabin sorvice for the year 1850 (nelui: orders pald fs to bo added 8173,767.40, the | colpts have fuercused 50.14 por. cont, or ot un mes recelved inthe discharge of his Y of Inbur performed. stamps of nll kinds, etamped envelopes, news- From Oct. 1, 1875, to Seot. 80, 1676, the total | paper-wrappers, and postal cards over the receipts from ull sources wero $i8r,580.75, au ruvious years fucrcase over the provious year of $55,300.88, | P! ¥ ingg 337,600 puld {rom special ‘appropriation for | nmount of orders repaid to remitters, makin g f over 8 per cent sitamuip sérvice o ‘Tapan atul Chiu. and 15 | She tarat pmmorr Bl o temittern, malking Ko Tho same Yoa the. cependirares wore a6 Brasil) was $755,270.88, belng o reduction of | coss of the puyments over the Issucs $10,300.07, | foliows: & $201,50.78 from tho cost of thie same service for | The total amount of fees recelved by Post~ d i e transfer to a white mun, and only from oue In- P ] s no doul ut the portion of the Territor, Becretary of the Treasury, iying botwoen the Bt moridian and its eastorn ) c 1300, 3 the year 1975, i 3 For the year ended Juno 30, 1870, $13, 207, 47.58 bounilary Is aufilclontly Iarge for the occupntion | BSTAFALS sumg perlad he' expanditurés were FeTeEe "l contract with the Pacie Mol Stenmubip | e Shisiop g 1.0 °f domeshie movey-orders | For it S e 36 I SH SR AT THE INTERIOR. of all tho Indians that can’ be removed there. previous year, ‘L number of applieations for e 5 §§= E] Company, authorized by scts of Conzressap- |~ The foreoing statement of the year's trans- Shavtidan tncréaie’of, § 0,503, 330,08 i s g Wero it possible to get them all there, there putents was 22,408, an Icrenss over the former E’,. Bing RERRE proved Feb, 17, 1865, and Feb. 1867, for the con- nctlons, when compared with that of the pre- T v Inth Aeangeren as en oS CHANDLER'S REPORT would be an arerge of seventy-live acres for | Yn'of 019, T umber of ‘patents Lisucd, i E3RIRE Bggaa veyuneo of a mouthly wall from Sun Frauclseo | ceding year, shows & decrense of $305,277.80, or e ‘“’“cl“l“ nans expendltures for the en- LBS T . el of the ST0,000 Indin mon, women, and | Jii5% e'usucs and. Hasisia s ToALS! g 23EEEC gldzeg) v to Japuu, and Gl il oxniro by - gnoaic of . per cent, o the amount ot mi:fcrn T ATt .50 Sy Dot ity OF M An avcragy h cl U o 181, , SSeto ¢ 332 Bl LT cember, l, sued 3 cerease 2 R reo- N gt sflcte 1 beg to call your attentlon to the accom- ‘Tho souner the fdea’of conalderlm;r and treat- I “rw’u": “;lf“.'fl?‘fifflyfi;f E"}_.fim,n, ‘2,‘:;“;‘;‘{‘\’,‘3 ? -’iTiE:nf 183 a‘;g i in the sence of speciul leglslation m:ltllds' n? 1 pu‘l’-‘ccnt?ln t%?xnufltg; ;meru l:?r t."“f‘""c T"“ !‘h“ elilency o the : Puying report of tho Commissioner of Indian | IniE the various tribes in tho Indiau Torritory as | AT M m\amu and two were extended; 2,43 i 5.8 5. 393 5 by Cu authorlslog u - continusnce | paid, and a gat-of §132,087.00, or a1 per cent, in | Tovenucs wero as followa: Afairs, which, together with the roports of the | PO8sessing & sort of indencndent power and nu- | 808 80 vera Hled; 3,618 patents wera allowod B GERIEE ig3frm) = °¥"‘“ "“‘m”"'m on this inportant routesas | the n’mmunl’o! foes reecived. For the year ended dane 30, 1870, ..$4, 010, 200. 08 Sathiimyed R ) P tlonallty s douo uway with, the carller will we | {iNCIS WEre BikGs BOLS et Tallute 19 pay the H g;u‘ o8 2%awi| % higher rate of compensation, the provisions of | ““thc past Hlacal year {8 the first, sloco tho cs- | 1'0F the year ended June 30, 180975, 850, 620.78 B cudent and Agents, shows proeress and | reach some practienl solution of the mbarrass: il ey 1,037 aputteations wero reslved for i gEpiNR sy the gonerul luw, liniting the coupensation 10 | tabllshment of the money-order system, i Showing a dec. of doficlency of..§ 77, 110,70 tady linprovement, giving most satisfactory | monts whicli now surround the question of thulr nsrront S ol bl Y i g3R, 25 §3! be allowed for the trausportation of the mails which there hns been a decrénse In tho number T Frudbriehepot. @ Vo, s s tidenco of tho gradual advancement of the In- | government. The most of these rcofnlu Lave | wiurke wore rogistered: G4 applicationa. were <=1 3 by 6ea to the amount of postages on tho mafls | orumount of domestic money-orders fasucd or | A deerease of deflelency of 18,71 per cent, or &inin the hubit of Industry and development, | 1140 great advancemnent in givilzatlon, wnd | 5160 oy rogiatering of labels, and 430" abels E3Ei g8 i conveyed, will Lecome applicavle to uny stoati- | paid. This decrense 14 belfeved to have been | A1 BVerage rato of nearly 2 per ceut per an- pareulural ably ond dposton, "Each | ST mirics e ull advuuiages o | et egulcfl - © fiiEs Py o and e Sa sk o o0 U | falkd, o mos ek by he oot of | *S7% opreaponding vat of jercntago e Jaradds preatly to the total number of acres | Government as mideh us any other portion of Tty The penslon-roll has bern” diminished diring i _Bigs 39 T Guneral Postul-Unlon Lreaty concluded at | Sily 16 60 great an extent the nes of the moner | €cints and expendittires shall be. steudily main- Wvated by Indian labor and most gratifylng | people, and it I8 as reaponsibl and I some ro. I3 Aide 2% o Berne Oct. 6, 1874, has been In uperatfou wiice | order system, in the direction of its emplayment | talned fu futire years, thero is renson to belleve . i the year by w greater nunibor than during any = d ystem, in the direct! ploy! Taults fn the fncreuslug mumber of laborers | Bpects more responstble for thelr weltare. There cuf pliics 1873, whon the InGXimum wus resched 5] guly 1, 1875, with the most satisfuctory results, | fur bustuess’ purposes, during the proceding | the postal servicewillcease tabu a burden on thy mdamount of products. Personal Indust 18 no renson why tho laws aud Jurladietion of the | Ji RN CEA IS0 LAST on the 80th of dune, gl The territory of the Unlou hus been greatly et- | year, Ueneral Treusury, It cannot, however, he speed!- ¥ith Its practenl '1 h 1 Ty | courta shuuld not bo extended over thom and | fuzs '}y .,ug{“mm than at the closo of the g5 lnrged by the accossion, from tho st of July, The nversge amount for which dowestic ly brought to g sclf-sustainivg basis; it must wessed o hlenl Iessons of the benefits and In- | gy bo treated the sume us any other ko pur- Vst Naenl JoiaE e SR 1 e j0C the ali 150 of ritish Tndia. comprising Lindostai, | mones-orders were lastied during the year wus | Fonct thit polnt by stow marclics, with! the atd x ed comforta It secures, and a growlug taste | tlon of our population, und soine form of terrl- almiors “"y“m'mm of Juuo, 1874, wus e';m. !{i’ British Burmah, and Aden), aud’ the French | g15.4 being 6 conts lesa than the average of | Of wise udministration und Judiclous economy. P ud desire for educatiou, must be relied upon | toriul governtwent devlsed which sbull seeure for Dy 9,910 than b the closs of the sAn Fioneh I colonles in Amerlen, Africa, Asts, und Oceantca, | tire provious year, Whatever thearles may be ddvunced to relicra {tbogreat olements f worklogg out the prob- | thein, 88 guaranteed, thie exclustvo occupaniey of | (Y S0 thin at L wiille the roll of widows 8= under au armngement fixing tho conditions of | s total namber of duplicate money-orders | It of chronle deficienties, they must yield to tho mof Indlan clvhization. thelr territory by InJlum. andy while protecting | g0 ,é,m,m' o) ,‘y,.h.,_.', and survivors and widows 3 thelr adtheston to the stipulations of the tresty, | {ssuod was 17,451, of which 37 were afterward | OVer-present necessity of -upgl,rlnw abundant . them from the enrouchments of the whites, L e Who seryed in the war of 1812 contaln: Slgued at lerne, the 2ith Juiwary, 1876, by delt- | canceled, leaviu 17,414 oa thio number actually | Mulls for the wholo “country ¥ Mberal appro- gates of the several postal aduinlstrations fu- | used, befog a decs of 8,270, or 18 per cent, | Priatious and reasonablo ‘expenditures. ‘Tho toreated o thelr admlssion,a copy of which I8 | Hasie -ths oss COF nis memibos 1ens ensd | ublle would condoma e experimant of highor uppented. British Imdla and tho' French col- | fagued’fn lied of tnoney-orders lost in the muils, | Tates of postage in the atlempt to scquire onles hiaviug been admitted subject to anaddis | o which, by reuson of lmperfect nddress or | Sreater revenues, and the experlment fisclf tanal churge of 25 francs ver kllogram of let- | from somo unknown cause, had failed to reach | Would fall of its 'abject; white & limited and ed 5,003 names less than it dkl on the B0th of June, 1870, In vouscquence of the large num- her of minors’ pensfons that will expice, and from other caures, it Is anticlputed that duriy the present year a atill greater diminutlon will "n;m‘ the exception of the troubles fn Dakotn, | provide the necessary means for the protection the hosyile Soux, wa may say thut, pruc- | and government of themselves Yally, all of ‘the Tudiuna aro upon roscrvations PUHLIG LANDS. tirely under the control of the Departmient, ae o the year iR dune 50, 161, pubille "0 00°BLF 125 RIS SIS LLE making commendable Improvement. Itis ok Acres, - p o ters, und 1 frane per kilogram of privted matter & stinted service would provoke criticlam and . lleved that by spring the trouble fu Dakota 010, goL.a7 | St 1o this cluss of penatoncrs, whiley on the i AL BAINpIS, 1 CavOr ThE Spenies OF Boa, e e et o rted the following stato- | complutut. 1t Is upparcut, thorefore, that such "l be euded wnd alt Dabillty of Indian wars in B | s DEIRIE Sl ik St the - 04 + | Lrasportatln beyond the Muuits of the postl | ment, ‘showinz the revenue wiilch accried on | Tevenues s are cescutial (0 make the Denart- ¢ future remoyey, hnherse i T :{. du"r“cll e ] i 5 .l:,. 8 Uuivn aa orlginally formed by the Berne treaty, | domestic money-order transuctions for the fiscal | fient sclf-supportiug cannot be obtalned from z toublo with ¢ Yhborcuiturs coi SOnastar | sy eimberdiipasec of durlme uny, year slite 5 e ot it wus necessary o fix the ratos of potaze 0 | yeur euded Jutis 80, 187 Increased rules of postago; they can ouly coivo ho non-treaty Tndlans, consfat- | Agricultural colleg 871, This presumption arlsvs from the fuct = §§ R Lrithsh Indw and the French colonics at uouble | 3 J from active, intelligent, and prosperous com- wgprincipally of reucgades from varlous tribcs | APhIoved lo States an that the bumbor of fvalld elulms iiled during 2 & el tho ondinury postal knlon fatee. Feos tecsived vo fom munities, evenly and “thickly scattercd over foer the leadership of Sitting Bull, lnd been | Certled for agriculte Lolat fdacal yoar far exvacds that of any year s S el ‘| Muntencgro, Givaltar (s subordinate to the | Premiuwe, etc, the sovoral Slates and Territorles, Ex- ¥ I::‘“‘}l for a loag time, and the services of the Sortitie ;:‘;:‘"l‘;‘“m‘"'““"" panero ually tnvoked to put a stop to the | EERIeH foF RMIElER oo e o aging ang outrages perpetrated by them | Approved to Btates for iuternai fme ostal adminlstration of Great Britaln), und the nuds of Gozzo, Comuo, aud Cominotto, as travagant _outluys, even for frequent ] Total ... dopendeles of Malta, huve also been embraced | Commissons and clerk. $647,091,52 | malls, would not clallen; ublic ™ ap- ¥ ]nmvnl. but no wndemnnm x'v‘uuld tull- * The whole number of names borna upon the enslon-roll on the 80th of June, 1876, wus 2, 37, Of this number, 110,083 were pensioned og 4,400.44 3,118, 84 o B LiEg vaee e $420,487,43 W wise oxpenditures fo d, 20n the whito scttlers and frieudly Tialans in | - BrOFOHERS reeeesrors: 52,331.00 | fuvalids, and 011 as widows aud dependent glz | {0 iy postel uakon ea the terms of thie origlonl | , (I8 i us 30,800, 00 froquent Al OBt Botwaes ot thelr Bloux Lnlf-breed werlp Tocatio 1,508,74 { relutiveas 19,195 were pensluncrs of the war of Srasty Loat remity 4,000.04 Yelulty, Chlppews hail-beeea ?crul Tocutiona,. 10,480, 3, 1,05 OF wham Were sirvivors, witd dyps7 | ‘The amount of pos ed durlng the | Propositions Lave becn formally submitted by | fio6t feittance ' Widely-sepacated sections of country, Tiie fuct v ;Porti had been recetved showlng that sixty ————— | wldows, 'Lhers romalied un tho roll six widaws | Yooy, under the act of Congress approved June | the Interuationsl Bureau at Berné to the Yot of- Net revenu 100770, 84—§047,021. 52 [ thut I wuly suven of tho States aud two Terel- - iy 06624, 3200 | of thiosewho gerved fn the wur of ths Revolus 24, 1874 (which took effect Jun. 1, 1873), on | tho postal udministration of the unlon, for the torles Lhe recelpts equal the expenditures, Is ‘lp“m" tud heon kitled and $300,000 worth Total.. This amount of revenuo is $70,628,75 grenter el ¢ Tontrty destroyed by them, and thelr depre- | —4 Quantity Iess b e than thatdle- | tion who were marrled prior to Jun, 1, 1500,and | newspaoer and purlodical publications matled to | Bdtission futo the anlou, from the st of April suflicfent to show that s long time must clapse oL 4 than that of the previous yeur, being a gal of | pef 1 {nd: vl # v vext, of all the Spanish and Duteh colonles, = s + hefore the remalnder will be ablu to bear o pd Lecome stmply unbearable. p"i‘fi“\:fi:}:ull" \T47,915.85; a sum mt)}‘l:;gé"“IT'}-\u::.b'l‘l:;}-lxlall’";z‘x{:llfied ul‘fflnwluq regular subscribers or news ogencea from | qud deytadu of the Britlsh coluuics, as follows:' newely 53»2;”55:’:5« of domestic and futerna- | HHET SUATS of 4 sell-austaining service, So lons 8 3 e 3 31,003 e, | o8 second-cluss matler, was . lo- | frum Avr n 1 ¥ 3 . “’"""'"msrfixb:éfifmméh;l::;“::‘f tner | V' Ditm o vear 91,800817.25 acres were aur. | Bl i SALHILIDS Lo army whlove, etey Trom DIALLGU pounds of mevter 't 3 | (o Eroneh Cotontca’ wnd Tiictun din, 5,108,000, wilounting to 87010161081, und the | Ko Toommunication wish tho comser af 1o su,mlfiauu;;‘u "“:'1"".}@3“[;'1;’ l‘ld'.'.fl!l&ofl;t? rived from BUAH,609 pounds of matter at 9 vy wi vy, el J + to survivors g el k B O 1615, S 1 0 s o | centa por DO SR HUGATI ponoil i enita thoso who served In sald war, $145,772.05: k- | PCF pound. The amount collectad during the ing a total amount_of !%,XLH,M.W, which jn- | 81 montla ending Juve 80, 1875, was $430,- 8 [n Dokoty sud Montaua, and it became | TEY©Us wmking, with' the quantity previously By 3 ¢! " ¥ cres, and’ e *e13aty 40 Lurn them over to tho War Dopurt- | fo e Zf.‘fl'v.}"ed, 1,iulr)‘3m‘h7.fl“4‘:wm mcl.u“mg b n ":‘!:Nm brought fu upon the reserervations. | ‘The qmmmir of Jaud tuken up under the Lelng raptdly done, and, but for the dis- | homestend and thnber-cultured acts fa 661,000.68 sny, upon thic conditians of the arrangeino gross number paid was 5,010,420, awountlog to | gud Lusiness, and wso carry the malls to towns at Burno, 27th Jenuary, 1830, aliof tha $75,005,533.60, and cities (n tho first yeurs'of thelr existence as y '{'fll[llllullulc .13:'t“nm 'u:u;llnmcvl‘nln.r;h;; ‘:‘l, |}:E{Lefl-":‘: e tl.;mmlw-nm:i 1 a rruqulug.ly us khuyuruwnva_r;dwmolw unnlrucr ritish colunies o ¢ e urin, 6 last Hacal year the loss and annoy- opulation aud niore mature: rowth, so lon Detrolt (strulta Settlomments), Labusn, and Trinls | guce” tor the l)cpmm’cu: occusloned by the e General Treasury will nmbghly have to beay v ludes costs of dishursement, and s 81,834,- | 44340, Tho Increase ls therefore at the rute of | dad, swd Britlsh Guia l tom Of * atraw-bids " almost wholl 3 ) Ao o lrous wng g farq cLes greuter than that reported Just As | 516,08 ended £or th 3 2 Sécoud—To udufl also futa the Unlon from | Yiclous system of W atraw-bis s alin | & partof the cost, " Whon our siew Status an of Gen, Custer and his | #118 preater than that reported lust year. As | 516.04;(eas than was expended for the samo pur- | $41,267.29, or 4.34 per vent per annum, disappeared. In all cuses of failure by bidders | Torsitaries shall becoms tnore populous, and - MY counmand, would have been consumimted, theso entrics are geuemlll by actual settlers, | pose during the prem‘lunn--r. The operations of the Deud-Lotter Offico may | AVl 1 1877, and upon the sume couditious L P by a8 the above-mentioned colunies under No, 1 | tu exceute coutracts under the law, and by con- | our juexhaustible resources more’ menerslly de- . uboye, the Lirlish colunies of the Bermuda Istands | tractors to perforin seryice in ascordance with | velaped, the earnings of the Department will aud Jumalea, but with the reseevation, speclally | thelr coutracts, suita were promptly commenced | be nore than suflivdent to defray is cxpenses, conceraluyg the postal rolatlons betwoen the United | on their bonds, and pressed tollual Judement. Very respectfully, your obedient servaut, Btutenand thesotwa colonied, Abat tho maritiwe | Tho number of fuilurce was less than In any Jaz. N. Traee, Probabllity, with shight Tous 0 e forves. }‘l’u;.luvrmle Is at onve gratifylig and encourag- lar trouble with Lauds in the Bouthe HAILWAYS. muy;dl few years atnce, was successfully re- | The facts and Sgures lioreiu sot forth are com- h 4nd to-day the Kiowas, Comanches, ana | Pled frous the auniual reports of the companies: it o hc‘,’;g;‘:ll:,’;“,";:‘ 'ngfigmgffl%@fi;m‘{& be briefly summarized as follows: Total num- ensulng fiscal year. ber of lotters received during the year, 8,542, UEOLPGICAL AND OEOGRATIIOAL BURVEY, 401, an average of lldb-lo for cach wmklng d:;, A Hirat Dlislon, and classitied thus: Ordinary mall letters, 3,855« | rato of francs 0.60 per kilugram of letiers whall other year foralong period of time past, and . Postiusstee-General, i Pacheq Stock of the Unlen Pacifle italiroad Compan) The Unitad Btates Geological and Geographe | 194; local or drop, 445,000 of domestic origin place (hal of 25 franca, applicable to the relatlo: y i # ol [4 * 3 i Lyger ly under control, and realize | 1o thie mmount of §30,185000 hua ot Wl | e Brvey of o peagoipicil aud Geograph- | 1043 local or drop, 410, ‘countrics, 103,632; | of il the other Unlun conntries with the Bermuda | L0 1088 to the Depurtment resulting therefroin ‘ Islauds snd Jamalcu. » x:m’ffl:‘{“{flg?m:fi:?fi‘i‘a J&';‘“::"cl: h':’:{"?: A day or two before the assembling of the ‘This Depurtinent has given its assent to the b T unt than would natiirally oceur un late Republican Natlonal Convention bt Cineln- admisslon of all theso colontes futo tha postal | Ber ahd wino y : % Ul | uuth, Senator Jones, of Novada, gave s littls ; B | e it s st | it I Bt | T o Jhude to thepdulfusion of tho Burs | =% c%e atd of the law passed st the late ges- | 1EW.ie b pponed. g anlsh and Dt ({nrwl &?,Lumug'nu ‘Indies, | Londs of Lidders to thske sworu_ siatemicnts laud luy,"” but hia gucsts wore very wary in re- Dblications hav slea baon nibge fo the s, | SDeclfylug the lucation, ‘place ot recordy and T uia querics, Finully b sddressed tha mistlon nto the postal ualon of the Empire of [ probd lo value, above bicuiubrances, of the real | FYIIE X {rom 1linols: ¢ Well, Gen, Logau, who ter condition sufficfently to make it | scribed, of which $30,702,800 Lins beon paid. ¥ lmpronate that mny future dificulty | The recelpts for the yesr ending June 80, 1870, Yourg rlrhlch canuot readily be disposed of &?-'fib"“‘(“f"‘.‘"i' loghullsufla‘f‘ usse) l" ,20]1,. vil oflicers, 7,801 of frelght, L55: and from mls- 0 ]y celluneous sourecs, 087.05; total, $123,118,~ st e e e e fr | 08 i e i U St wction and scon- | earued from, but wi 2 he Unlte ales, Yent g gy o Iudians at the reservations, and | {0 transpartation of its m{-’nkerl, {relizht, un 1t could be done to provent the racent palle Lo expeise uf aheruting thy foad for ea, " 0 year was $5,347,410.27, leaving uet earnin, o gy o 1987 bo boped tlat the results of T Tl st of the road Las. b tlen of Prof, Hayden, during the brlef seuson of | forelgn orliin, 195,800; rcturned to 1876, continued “fts work in_ Colorado, vomplet- | Post-Oifices Ly pruprfemu of ho- fug_ the westorn und northiesten portlons, Ine | tels, —45,188; Leld “for yostoge, 807,350; cluding a donsiderable portion of Eustern Utall, | misdirected, 69,7073 ship, 2,554; without ud- smbraclug un wres of ubout 1,000 square miles, | dress, 04453 and 5,547 registered letters, They ‘The topographical ss well us the geologicul | ura further clussified according to thelr contenty structurs of tho arcas surveyed the present | ua follow: 23,740 contulied $41L447.17 fn stason wus of the highest fnterest. 1t has been | moncy; 12,043 contalned commercial paper to called the platean region, anid sll the dratnego | the value of $1,754,033.815 616 contulned oedi, extemls westward fnto the Colorado River, uud | wortguges, leases, radroad and other yassagy . st % : cstate owned by them, aud imposlng penulties 1 Q[0 v the slreains, with their uumerous brauclies, have | tickets, peusion certilleates, and bank-books; | Brazil, Cunadu, Newfoundiund, the Suudwich | £ . is your candidate 8lr,"? repiied the swarthy K Cloud gy the prescat Commisslon to the Red | $114,416,653. The Ocrelis. Lildge cost 2,500, | worn deep gorges or canons Into the crust of | 57,054 Gantained 1o, rc-u'umln', 41318 cont | Islands, Japan, zud tho British Colovy of Houg- {f;;:&fz‘:fi{“‘;fif‘f;“}i‘l‘l‘" ‘P:flt‘g:\:l “:g:l'n':‘; anl.or[,l WTam for the best and dravest man—" -t Bpotted Tufl Agoncles and the | 404.72 'Tho total Londud udubtedness of tha | the e 4,000 fect or more {n depth, Contle | talned photograplis: 20,307 contaitied! ewelry, | Koug, but no agreement has been reached fnree | © NI W and tha otfier provisioue of the | Sefore L could flulsh the seutence, up sprune maten ) O the Aissourl River will afd most | Coutpany i 830,074,312, of which §27,280,612 1 | uous sections of struta were thus exposed nearly | elot] 4, bouks, chromos, juusle, werchandlee, | gurd to tho conditions of thelr admissfun. L Benator Authouy, of Rhode Lilaud, who, with w l'l:flally W sotving the Sloux problem, They uFlm the Uullui Slnl);'n. el die e N vwltu mlludlu |hlcl.;-un rendering the gool- u:fi,d ; mlw:"m"mz &u«l-clpt:mbm: of ladln;;‘ " A(‘Jmllm m;ngnuuu lhu.:l bi“&:fi';:““fi‘;,fi‘:,h 4 Not reportod lsst year, i % imd ::(l‘i‘k}.ul{:llfil; e :fi:;‘;lutld :SM&::E Loy :::15 :::‘u . 5 * Tho umouny ¢f stotk subserihed in the Con- | vy shiuple and expressive. ailldavits, sbatructs of title, noles, and can- he Colony o! uccnslaud, Aus! esl Ishe 4 Based on the aggregata , 576,484, 65) pal N 'y A ? h - g A Norty uly secured the removal of the Sloux tral Pavifle 1«’1}:5&-; Company of Callfornla s plaee Skoondd Disfaion celed ol:l[gut:ona of all sorts ) an exchange of correspondence with that milel’l:. tncludiog flufi\:‘nul“flpeml ai s Boy- | der ho clreutnstances could'T accept, the noiluan ¥ Nebreaks to elther the Judlan Ters 02,600,600, of Wulch §54,975,500 Lius been pald. | Tho works of the geugraphicel and geologleal | Tho whulo mawber of reglsiered Icttezs ko | coluny by awans of this colontad contract malle tion!? Gew Luisun did uot fulsh the scotenves