Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1868, Page 4

eS a _EVENING STAR. Departmental Reports. REPORT OF THESECRETAR Y OF WAR. port says: The th of the Army on the Sith of Sepiember Si, which, by the Ist of January uext, ‘will be reduced, by expiration of term of ser. vice alone, to about 13,000. Orders were issaed m November Inst to redace aM regiments of Totautry and Artillery (except tem hight bat. teres) to 50 men per company. No recruiting rendezvous are now im operation except for the Cavalry service, and the expenseot (her sruit- ing service is reduced to the minimum. Ali Volanteer officers, excent one, have been ‘mus- tered out of service. “At the suggestion of Lieutenant General Sherman, authority was given ou the 6th of October Inst for the muster: in of one regiment of Volunteer Cavairy from the State of Kansas for service against hostile Indians. The service of this regiment 1s 20t expected to exceed six months, atter which i! iS boped the Regular Cavalry will be suilicieut for the frontier service. It may be reasonably expected that 8 COm- siderabi® Teducuon of the Lufaatry of he ATMY may be Made within the next year Without detriment to tbe in f the country, and the Secretary rec at sug reduction be authorized by de gradually by ordinary castaities, by discharge of incompe- rt and unworiby utficers, aud by consolula~ hou of regiments. He alco recommends that the four regiments viwume the V Reserve Corp Active ser transter elistm incre and ei ary Sehotield in bis r rests The term oi 2 service should be ney ‘The cilicers of the Buream of Military Justice consist of a Judge teneral, an Assis- tnt Judge Adv ud eight Judge Advocates. The sce im the grade of Judge Advor sence of any legal Provision for Lianee w memt Ci of the Tecords of m aud recister has prevented a ations from De- The 543 e ceived, reviewed aud. 1457 reports on various lly reterred for opinion. It menaed thatthe number and crades of cificers of the Bureau be permanently fixed by Jaw, so that vacancies may be fll Provision bas beeu made during the past year forsuch general iustruction m military ielegraphy and signaling 4% may be necessary tor the service. Books of instruction have been furuished each company aad post, aud steps have been taken to provid necessary tele- gtaphic apparatus and the equipments for sig- naling. The report of the (Quartermaster General shows the total expenditure of that Depart- ment during tae fiscal year ending June 30, 3-68, including claims for stores taken for the the army during the war, to be lod Claims tor property taken during war have been allowed to the | Amount of S500,313.2; Teyected $2.654,43).9%, and | are still PeBding to ibe amount of $6,9.6,001.18. | In the National Cemeteries 314,233 remains of soldiers have been collected, of which 75,754 are identified. The total cost has been about , B20. Sebuy iii! arsenal hes been corupleted, and the expense of rent greatly reduced thereby. The The fe-proof warehouse at the | warebouse authorized at Jefferson viile will not | be erected, as that depot will be broken up. ‘The $150.40 appropriated for that warehouse | bas been remitted to the Treasury. Of the debt of Southern railroads for material sold to them | after the war, 81,6274 remain uupad. The , erection of a suiiasle building to accommoia: the several branches of the War Departmeat is | Tecommended as a measure of economy and efficiency. AD appropriation of $5.0 is asked sor a stock fara to supply horses ior the Cay- ry. An increase of the number of Assistant Quartermasters to fifty is urgemtiy recom- mended as necessary to the proper adiministra- tion of that Department. Attention is invited to the operation of the Jomt resoluuion of March %0, 16s, by which the coutrol of the appropriations tor the War De- partment is 'akew, in & gTeal Measure, from the Secretary of War and v 4 in the accounting efficers of the Treasury, in consequence of which Isrge sums have been and are being paic from those appropriations contrary to th. advicy on of the War Depariment. The disbursements of the Pay Department | during the last fiscal year have been— dar Army. ary Acadewy To Volunteers, Total. 17, 853.908.53 $60,669,6 11.65 There are Piymasters of , the reguls ment Aud 15 of the tempo- FAry estal . it bez expected that all | of the latter will be mustered oui date of the next report, The disbursements for Reconstr Poses Bave been =2,: AD available balance of 6.46, Which, it is ed, Will cover all expenses: but as #fic amount for each Military District is fxed by law, authority is asked for the trans. fer of amounts from districts not requiring them to others wsuificiently supplied. During the year claims for addit: ty were allowed to th: m Volving am expenditure of £23,612, Claims were rejected to the pumber of 1407, and W0,iG4 were still unsettled at the close of ction pur- There remains I year. Since the date of the act Jaims bave teen received, 357.0% paid, | d, and 15,705 were ye ettled at | the Paymaster General's ‘Yeport. ments on th: 478, to which mu sing the aggregate up to more | The expense of settling these | m a kept v x'bs of one Fer cent.on the amount disbursed, or about cost of seventy per claim. It ix jed that the 4th of March next b= 5 as the date beyond which no more clsims will & and that all claims | psettied be trausferred to the of the Treasury for dispo: tien. Allofficers of the Corps of Engineers, except | 15, are employed on various special sud de- | tached dutwes—engaged upon the nal detenses, sarve Provement cf rivers and barbors, explorations, | comn and and on of engineer troops, | and iw charge of the public buildings, grounds | and works in the District of Columbia. $45,000 for erecting tin ui racks are submitted. Extensive surveys for the improvement of Tivers and barbors bave been and are being made, and the preparation of the necessary Fiams is being conducted with great energy. ‘The appropriations for public woras ia the n of Engineer bar- ' bie toattain these o | reduction during the year of 14 vess Instrict of Columbia have been well applied | and with satisfactory results. ‘The expenditures of the Ordnance Depart- ment during the last fiscal year, tor all purpo. ses, inclusive of the paymeat of war clai Were a littl more than $1,000, 0—less thaa three-fifths of the expenditure of the preceding year. A few smooth-hore and rifle guns, of heavy andendurence. When the most suitabie kinds will be & Surplus of @An,24y!L, jed Appropriations w mh » General of the afihy submits, v Liowing letter, the reports of Commaa ary Divisions, Depwuneat Staves, WasuiseTox, D.C. Nos. 24, ist.— Gen. d. Schofield, Se ry of have ouef to subu sete Deear. These reports give fall ac- F cr f ee we erations aad services of the SnRS Sle the year, and I refer to them for de- t = ee earnestly renew my recommenda. tion of Ist Year that the control of the Indians | be transteried to the War Department. I call specis! &ttention to the recommendation of Ger. Sherman on this subject. The recom- roendation bas my earnest approval. Itis an- neveseary that the argumenis in favor of the transfer should be re-stated; the necessity for the transfer becomes stronger and more evideat every day. While ‘the Indian war continues I do not deem apy general legisiation for the redaction of the Army advisable. The troops on the ne are all needed; troops are still needed in the South And farther reduction can be made in # ady used aud now ia operation wbere itis sate, namely: py allow- anes to dimisish by discharges, with- gthened by recruits, and by stopp:ng appointments of second lientenants. If it shoald be deemed advisable, the Vere. rep Reserve regiments might be discontinued by sbsorption aad retirement of oificers and discharge of men without detriment to the ser- Vice, yur obedient servant, S. Grant, General, says that during the time he has had ‘geoff the War De ent ii lias been his constant aim ca the expenses of the ; the discipline » Army; to proseente sw engineering ‘and ord: uction of the officers and mau as are ion of our mili ve all needful streng*h fo ihe hostile Very respectfully Secretary Schofield 0 syse civil authorities in the States where recently nized governments need military and Mastary | of War—siur: £ | the reports ot Di- | trict Aad Department Commanders | Eretted, because a policy had been adopted for | manifested on the subject affords aa ample ine future of the mayy, which, if properly en- | usrantee that systems of common schools will | couraged and sustained, would have furnished | te maintained ibroughout the country. Such | between western Am better than at any previous time s wer. The efficient action of courts martial, | xecutive confirma has re. 1 from the se} eof a con. able number of unwerthy officers and ex- emplary punishment of othe The S cretary refers to the report of Lien- tenant General Sherr for a es it manifest t should be made in our the Indians. While x y ahke require us y & treaties so long as the Indians like good faith. when any tribe bas violated its treaty it should no longer be regarded as a m with which to treat, butasa dependent, uncivilized people, to be cared for, ted when becessary, and gore rned. I: as manifest that any branch cf the public € cannot be efficiently and economically managed by te Departments of the Govern. iment. If the Interior Department can alone manage Indian affairs, and thus save the large expense of the Army in the Indian country, yery well. Butif the Army must be kept there for the protection of railroads and frontier sei- tlements, why not require the Army officers to act as Indian agents, and thus save all the expense of the civilians so e:nployed. Be- Sides, am Army officer has his military reputa- tion and commission at stake, and is subject to | trial by court martial for any misconduct in office. “Thus is afforded the strongest possible urity the Government can have for an honest administration of Indian affairs by offi- cers of the Army; while the civilian ageut, being only a temporary officer of the Govern. ment, and practically exempt from trial and nishment for misconduct, zives the Govern- we 13 possible security for honest ad- ministration. For the sake of economy to the Government, for the sake of more efficient protection to the F ttlements, and for the sake of justice be Indians, he recommends that the man- ut of Indian offairs be restored to the T Department, with anibority to mike rez. for their government and for their su against lawless whites a of the Army to the civil antl es Tecently Festoted tociv ment bas been a subject cf no little per- plexity. While those governments were yet Tieetly orzanied, lacking to a great ex- e sympathy and support of the mc viluential citizens, without organized police or militia forces, without arms and withoat and without even anthority of Iaw to and ar tia, the military gov yple bad learned by nee to Tely upon erty, was y followed an for protec deuly withdraw e exeiiing p , having for its alter. mative Te in popular expectation, the support or overthrow of those newly formed governments, The result has been unusual disposition to lawlessness and crime, and corn. parative i tho-e Si eificiency of civil goverument ess providing f unt of the military force of the T ort of the government of Were passed in the lafancy of the With a jeatons care to avoid undue the National Government in nd noi designed for such a con- ae DOW exists in the Southern | "Hence, with an earnest desire to do all in the power of the Executive to preserve peac decide at the polls the exciting questions in- volved in the canyass, it bas been found po: yjvcts only in an imperfec degree, but it is believed that, considering the | difficulties of the situation, there is abundaut reason to be satisfied with the comparative | good order that bas prevailed throughont the country. The instructions iseued from this Da. | partment, with the President's sanction, for the | goverpment ot Department © mmander=, aud correspondence with those Commanders and overners of States, are submitted with this ort for the information of Congress. a—— REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAV Secrstary Welles reports the nn in squadron service, as cru phips, and returning, is 1, carrying 411 guns; a ing 96 gums. The number of vessel ScTiptions in use, aS cruisers. storeships, re- ceiving ships, tug: guns: a reduction yeur of carrying 205 guns, The total number of vesseis borne upon the navy list is 24, carrying 1.743 guns: ion during the year of 52 vessels, | carrying 126 guns. | citizens abroad greatly exposed. 5 ' y ce the Department mamediately alias, arobeing made, for trisl of their power | Tatioa Ot peace ihe Department, iamediately Dave been determined, a large uumber of gans | tor fortifications will have to be made. aad au- thority to make them us fast as can be done is asked. ‘The necessity of draicing the extensive ™arsb-lands reclaimed by enlargement of the Wasbington arsenal groutds is eet for-h in the the Chief of Ordaan ge reductious of the officers and agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau have been made during the year, aud arrangements are in progress to love it up by the Ist of January next, except the educational and claims divistons.’ The to- tal expenditures of the Hereau during the fis. eal year were =. 2. The balance om . The Commissioner Tecommends appropriations to continue the hospitals at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Rich- Mond snd Washington. To dispose of the school buildings itis proposed to transfer them to the corpora'ions and trustees who now have them im charge, guarantees to be taken that they shall pot be diverted from their proper uses, A grant of public lands im aid of the schoals of the District of Columbia, of all grades, is re- ecmmended. ; The Corps of Cadets at the Military Academy on June 1, 1, Bumbered 21" members, under the care and « uction of a Superintendent, eight Professors, and thirty-two officers of the Army. Fifty-four members of {he first class were graduated Juve 1s, aud appointed vo the Army. During the past academic year pinetyssix candidates have been admitted into the Academy, and thi, ty-seven rejected. The ts now at the Academy number 225, which, ig Inws. car eventually be i The necessity of a further i ‘ain mentioned, and the superiority be Milvary Academy over all other plans }¥ proposed for meeting that want is pointed out by the Inspector im Dis report. The Artillery Schoot was orcanized at the clove cf Isa by order of the General of tne Army. snd Brevet Major Geueral Barry, Col- opel 2d Artillery, was assigned to its commaed. It was sstablisbed at Fortress Monroe, andone attery from eab of the five regiments ot Ar- lullery was ordered to that post as the instruc. tom batteries for the firs: year, The course of truction acopted for the schvol is both thee si and practical, embracing & variety of sthrch, aud i pursued both by the officers tod non-commissioned officers of the batteries. Itts believed that thie school will supply 2 Jong-felt want im the Artillery arm, and prove greatly beneficial to the miliary service The actua) current expenses of i+ War wparmment for the last fiscal year were 2.00871, to wich is to be added the sum of $9,061.406.43, old war debts pad during the year. making the total expen- ditures of the Department $74,704,014; appropriations for the present fiscal year were, $15.MM557.4; the esctmated defleiencies fer the rent year ar ete mated that the 5.1 of $65.68 9a 85 will bra. quired for the expenses of this Departracut for At the commencement of the rebellion the naval force on foreign stations was recalled to AS-tst Im establishing and enforcing the bioc ade, leaving the commerce and persons of our On the resto- which bad been broker up, and a course of active cruising was ordered by which the tla, so long withdrawn. might be promptly exhib- ited im every important port where the com- iuerce of our country hax penetrated. It has been the purpose of the Department to have one or more of our naval vemels visit an nually every commercial port where Ameri- can capial is employed, aud that aman war should not be long sbsent from the vicinity of every merchaut ship that might need assist- ance of protection. To accomplish this pur. pose and meet the requirements of the Depart- ments, great activity and vigilance were necessary with our hmited navy, numbering im men and ships less than one-fourth the ef- fective force of any one of the principal mari- time powers. Yet the work has been performed with energy and zeal, and the views of the De- partment well sustained. ‘An interesting recapitulation of theevents of Admiral Farragnt's recent trip is given, and Secretary Welles speaks of it deservedly as “oI the most marked and interesting cruises ‘mn paval history, which cannot fail to prove of national benefit, during which extra- ordinary courtesies and entertainments were everywhere received and reciprocated.” In none of our navy yards is there more than & single dry-dock,aud there are but six in all— three built of stone and three flouting docks. In the event of a maritime war this deficiency ‘would be seriously felt—perhaps tos greater extent than any other of our pressing wants— ‘And it is worthy of consideration whether steps ald not be taken without delay to place our val establishments in this respect in a con- Gitice approaching, at least, our Felative im. portance with other 5 & ards at aval powers. The dock. at Portsmouth in 7 to those named While Great Brit and other maritime powers are inaretng thant dry-dock faciliues, already far ours, we are doing nothing in Congress, By mag th ho wor hours instead of ten, Bas Imposed ArUME! H larger uumber of bands to execute , and enable the people to fairly | vessels. | | broken up and disposed of as old material. | of the final fee; 3.759 caveats filed: 1s) appl ‘The naval pension roli on the Ist of Novem. | tions for the exiension cf pateuts received, of ber, 1865, shows 2. persons, receiving atotal which 13) were grante|, he receipts were Araount of $347,031.19, $566,156.75, being $171.64 lees than the expendi. There bas been during the year an increase | tures. | as a necessity, the it of ameunt of work; and ifit was intended that the day of or diem compensation for a working fea bouts tn cuteide. establishinente uuder the statute, fix the rate of wages Bae 3g twenty per cent. is added to the cost of bor. ‘Tbe estimates for labor for the current year were based on the standard which hea always previoutly Ween recoguized and obsecved, but Copgress, while diminishing the sppropria- hons bet the estimate, also lesse: the amogat of leror to be daily rendered by each individna! workman. While, therefore, de the riument is furoished with less means, it ts compelled to emplcy one-fifth more laborers | property at our tuat date a cesser of the present office of Commissioner. A new office, | taking effect in futuro, bas been created, al- | though the mode of filling it bas not been'pre- scribed. The appointment of an officer by legis. lative engc'ment is confessedly usconstitn— tional, as the appointing power is otherwise | To preserve and protect the vessels and other vy yards is aduty prompted by economy and Gictsted by a proper regard | jor the public interest, Work should not be | wholly suspended on the ships which have been commenced and are not yet finished, but | they should be completed, and graduaily | vested. But, without dwelling apon this ques. launched, amd brought into service as they | tion, inasmuch as the duties appertaiaing to the may be wanted. bureau are to be discharged under the direction Vice-Admira! Porter continues in charge of | of the Secretary of the Interior, it becomes his the Naval Academy, The high standingofthe | cu‘y to offer tor consideration some general institution conUinnes to be mamtained and the | viev = which haye impressed him with th= con- officers yearly added to the service possess the | viccion that all legislation touching the D-part- arlvantage of excellent serdemic culture with | ment, and the Office of Education shouid = profrssional d pline. The number of gradu. | repealed. The acts of Congress aud the reports ates a the clos# of the last academic year was | of the Commissioner of Public Lands diceio-s | sthe number of admissions the present year, | the exient of the several land grauts made by | 49; total numoer of midshipmen now at the | the General Government for seminarins oi academy, 26. Jearning. The approaching census will exhibit The act of June 17, 1565, limits the number of | iull and suthentic educational statistics. and persons authorized to be enlisted in the navy, | he is unable to perceive the propriety of mats. including apprentices and boys, to eight thoa- | taining @ bureau for the purpose of compiling sand five hundred and no more. Taus limita- | from the published reports of the local auta se tion, which ts actnally below the maximum | ities or other sources, information touching tne which exisied prior to the war, has compelled | practical operation of the school systems in the Department to reduce the number of naval | force in the several States. Thos reports are apprentices, A discontinaince of general en- | widely diffused and are accessible 'o the public. | listments was ordered immediately on the pas- | The matter which may be elicited is not rec sage of the act, and discharges bavetakem place | quired to enable Congress to discharce ite to such au extent as to require the Department | legitimate duties, Education in the Sta fo put one of the school ships out of commis- | within their exclusive province. Tae enlieht. The neeessity for this step is to be re- | ened and active zen! which most of them have oth the naval and commercial marine with a body of ma rpassed exc+llence, In view of the rapidly increasing totercourse | ica and Asia, of the | growing commerce of the Pacific Siates, and of the important and yarious interests which are springing up in connection with our receat ive acquisitions, it is impertant that a more complete and systematic survey shoald wie of the North Pacifle ocean. | The Department has continued previous ar- gements for the custody and preservation | f the iron-clad fleet which it bas on hand. These vessels can be servicesble only in time Mf war, and the probabilities are that with a | prolonged peace they witl, from corrosion and other cnuses, greatly deteriorate and not an- lisely become useless before they will be | | Modifica'ions as may he required to acapt them to the peculiar condition and wants of the various classes of the population will be sea. | sonsbly introduced. We shail all gladly hail | the day when a title to instruction im the ‘rnd:- ments of k ledge will be regarded as the birthright o American child. Tae man- eut of this at interest may, however, be y and w ft to the States, to whom . under ihe Constitution, it belongs. in the past. so in the future. when new s shall be atmitt to the Union, Con. grani them land for educational aud ovber purposes, and the administration of the Yond derived trom the sale of }t shoutd be fided to them, Interference by Coug matters of purely local cuctive of nothing +n concern, cin be pro- unmixed evil. needed for service, | | Should, however, “the Otfice of Education’ It has been and still ts the opinion of the De- | te perpetuated, he suggests the propricty of partment that the true policy of the govern- | enacting by whom the Commissioner shall be ment is to dispose, if possible, of all the vessels | appomied of the classes whose sale has been authorized | During the year ending September 30, 1 by Congress. To keep them entails a large an- | there were 20,1i2 pplicatius for patents; 14,15} pual expense upon the government, and ina | patents (including reissues and designs) were few years if unused they will become value. | issued; 1,02 applications allowed om which jess “as vessels-of-war, and will have to be | patents di vot © owing tothe non-payment on the pension list of S27, 2A During the year the naval pension fund has been increased $1,400,000, making a total at the present time of $14,000,000, The Secretary again calls attention to the fact | that the present pension jaws make no pro- Vision for pensions io the families of the ad: mural, vice admiral, rear admirals, commo- dores, and other grades ot the line ‘and staff. AS persons, calling for | The Secretary renews his formes recom- mendation in favor of repealing so mach of the law as allows an appeal from the decisious of the Commissioner ov applications tor letters patent and in interference cases, Corsideradle space is devoted in the report of the Secretary to the Union Pacific Railroad and other rozds, to which subsidies have been granied. Accompanying the report of the Special Commissioners appointet to make a and ‘scain urges that suitable provision be revision of the work upon the Vnion Pacific msde in each of there cases. Railroad, the Secretary gives an estimate of the actual cost of this road. Should the road. as is expected by the company, form a junction with that of the California company. near the northern extreme of Great Salt lake, a little West of Monunient Point, its length would be about 1,110 miles. The cost of locating, con- | structing, and completely equipping it and the year bre $34,57 E ‘The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 2), “Tl, are as follows: Pay of officers and seamen of the navy... Repairs of buildings, docks, and in- 7,359,726 67 cidental expenses in uavy yards. 1,285,996 00 | telegraph’ tive ts $35,524,721, an average per Pay of civii establishment in navy | mile of 34,9 vards, hospitals, & 3975 | The government subsidy in bonds for that Grdnance, repair of maga; , &e. $50,000 OF) | distance at par amounts to $29,504,000, an ave- Coal, hemp, and equipments. ...... 1,320,010 00) rage per mile of 926,58). The company’s first Navigation and navigation sup- mortgage bonds are rstimated at ‘2 per cent., plies........ tee 207,500 06 | and woald yield $27,145,680. The fand realized Naval Academy. 210.5-4 40 | by the company from these two sources Naval Observatory ‘and Nautical amounts to ‘, being an ayerage per Almnnac...... mile of $51,134, exceeding by $15,506.65 the ac- Repair and preservation of vessels, 3, Steam machinery, tools, & Provisions and clothing. Repairs of naval hospital boratories, Contingent expens Support ot Marine corps, Total . The esti men, including apprentices, the number es- tablished by the act approved on the 17th of last June, In the Burean reports. the commandant of the Marine Corps reports the force in the best possible condition of #fficteucy and discipline, and the barracks and public property in their charge well cared for and in admirable order, A rednction of the force corresponding to th of the naval service bas been mare, and the entire strength of the corps, vlficers aud men, ow but 2.0). The marine barracks in ton. built of indiiferent mate iy ears Qg0, Are represented as rapidly bling to decay. and in such a dilapidated tion that it will be impossibie for the S much longer to occupy them. The ne- y for the erection of new barracks, which tual cost of constructing and fully equipping | the road, and yielding a profit of more than $17,750,000, ‘The deficiencies in the road noted by the commissioners are, m their opmion, almost without exception incident to new roads, or of a character growing out of the peculiar difli- culties, inseparably connected with the nunex- ampled rapidity with which it has been con- structed. Supplying them in the first instance would have materially retarded the progress of the work. and the expenditure at the present time tor the purpose will but little exceed that originally required. It is obviously the duty, and no doubt the desire, ot the company io bring up the constructed portion of the road to the required standard, while at the sume time they are evergetically pressing forward the work upon the remainder of the line. An perative duty is devolved upon the Executive to insist upon the exact ment of the en- ts of the compan: d to use all yust and availible means to re it. The Secre- ed are for 8,500 for land ard of bonds be suspended til such deficloncies shall have been su plied. ‘The following statement ext onnt has teen repeatedly urzed, is again respecttul. | ot Vnited States bond: ly recommended. | Fulroad companies: & The Secretary, in concluding hiseiznth an. | Union Pacitic, 80 mile: Hen to his lot to sus , and to have a Central Pacitic, Calitorn: Vion Pacifi nual report, says it h tain a greater responsibilt much more e longer experie one of his exemption fro: sem’sand Pils anch, Union Ps'tic, 5 ted to him have been | and that the record he services and ac ve. ors, nlso beers evidence. tion that the duties ex acceptably perform which commesnaor: ments ef our na ly. 4 miles nes The obvions neces: ath ed Congress to the contiga: he annexation of Cortain sq the property Inuispensabi« in the year ce ot legisla. tion, no further step has been taken in acquir- ing a title to them. The appreciation of other Teal estate in that portion ot the city would seem to require their re-appraisement, Del complicates the difficulties incident to the sub- ject, and the Secretary earnestly repeats bis former recommendation of immediate and fa- vorable action by Congress. ‘The north portico of this Department has been completed, and considerable made in enclosing the adjoining gr. 1p flagging the sidewalk which b The fund appropriated for these purposes, although carefully and economically expended, Was insufficient, He confidently trusts that Congress will, at am early period of the ap- proaching session, provide means for the com- | pletion of these necessary improvements and | for paving G sireet, between Seventh and | | tration of our n: he pays a of those as 1e cone 1 tribute to the ser- with Bim in the re- jepartment. sre appraised REPORT OF THE SECRETARY THE INTERIOR. Secretary Browning reports that during the last fiscal year public lands were disposed ot to the amount of 6, 50 acres, n quantity jess by 995,372 acres than that disposed of the pre- vious year, The cash receipts of the ollice duriwg the same period, from all sources, amounted to #1.602,745.00, which exceeds the amount received from the same sources the previous fiseal year by $24).s%3.>. The quan- lity of lands still undisposed of is 1,400.38 acres. Measures bave heen taken for estab- | lishing the boundary lines between Nebraska | and Colorado: Nebraska and Wyoming: Ne. vada, Utab, and Arizona; and for runuing the northern boundary of New Mexico. ‘Lhere are at the present time on the rolls the names of =8 widows of revolutionary soldiers, and 1,33 widows and children of soldiers who served im Wars subsequent to the revolution | aud prior to the rebellion. During the year there were added to the number of pensioners of all classes, 28.021; there were dropped, from Various causes, 14,752, leaving on the Tells, Jone 30, 1868, 159,643. ‘The total amount paid for pensions of all classes, iucluding the ex- penses of disbursement, was $24,010,951.09, a sum greater by $5,391,(25.53 than that paid the previous year. There were 1,077 bouuty-land ‘warrants issued for 167,720 acres. Secretary Browning treats at considerable Jergth upon the Indian question, and holds that we bave no just ground of reproach Against most of the tribes for the non-fulfill- ment of their treaty stipulations. Itis a sig- nificant fact, he thinks, that during the winter of 1867-8 when more than 27,000 Indians were subsisted by us, not & single act of depredation or violence was reported. It is believed that peaceful relations would have been maintained to this hour had Congress, in accordance with or Ninth streets, The office of Commissioner of Public Puitd- ly under the snpervisory con- ary of thé Interior, The act abolished it, and devolved upon the Chief Engineer of the Army its duties, as well as the superintendence of the Washington Aqueduct, and of all the public works and improvements im this District, Bnless otherwise provided by law. lt was evidently impracticable for him to discharg, in person. these obligations, m addition to lis other arduous labors. An act, approved the 20th of that month, provided that the expendi- ture of the moneys which had been ppropri- ated for disbursement by the Commissioner, should be under the direction of such o‘hcer of the corps as the Chief Engineer might direct. On the tollowing day Congress provided that all moneys appropriated for the Washington Aqueduct, and for the other public works in this District, should be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. The terms of this act were broad enough to embrace the Capitol and the contiguous public grounds, but, by another act of the same date, the con- ings was for of the Sec of March 2, 18 the estimates submitted, made the necessary | tro! of them was reserved to this department. appropriations to enable this Department to | | The Secretary recommends that these rform engagements for which the public | acts be yao and the of of = jaith was pledged. A costly Indian war, with | missioner of Public Buildings re-establis! all its horrors, would have been avoided. |¢¢ He hazards nothing in saying that since it was discontinued, the duties which appertain to it bave not been discharged more efficiently than formerly. This improvi- dent legislation divides the charge over the ablic grounds and works between two execu- Bre See oe hada stoi i eapragenlg the army from his approp jai r- form cervices having uo relation to his profes- ‘The lands wi:hin the limits of reservations set apart for Indians who have made some pro- Tess in the arts of civilized life, should not be Sela imcommon. When surveyed, the title in severalty to small tracts designated by specific legul subd. visions, should be ves' indi- viduals, with no power of alienating them, ex- cept to members of the tribe. The government bould guarantee to the Indians the perpetual | sional pursuits and acquirements. and exclusive right to remain in undis- On the Ist instant there were oe custody turbed ion of the reservation, and pro. | Of the warden ot the District jail 1 ers, hibtt, by the severest penalties, the settlement | Of this number 33 were females 113 per- sons of coler. date 1,022 1s were committed; 233 were convicted of various misdemeanors, and 69 sen- tenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the tentiary at Albany. The expences, includ- g the cost of the transportation of prisoners, ‘were $34,388.37. an of the jellvandits tafliness ta every’ Te- tion of the jail, and its uni “| T place of confinement, Gon of white persons within it. The latter tres- pass upon the land of the Indian, and often compel him to abandon bis home and seek an- other in a distant wilderness. The —- the Indian burean bo the War Department been suggested. Our expe- renee durmg she period when the Indians were under military care and guardianship affords no ground for hope that any benefit to them or the treasury would be foot 4 the ap- measure. It 1s our duty to promote, by ropriate and peaceful means, the moral, in- Eitectual, and material condition of these wards of the government. There 1s nothing in the pursuits or character of the soldier which epedially ree gr him to this daty. It can be better fulfil by our civil officers. No di- vided control should, however, be tolerated. Undue interference with the exercise this department of its acknowledged and exclusive jurisdiction over the Indians has seriously im. paired its efficiency and disturbed our relations with them. ‘work, approved March 2, 1967, established a | and it was activel ‘when, under 8 Daerises: of ‘Pdwoation, intrvsted the man- | mistaken imy fact, en the agement Sheree to 8 Ouas lastoner, provided 11th day of january Inst, direcied ito pesus- tment, a1 al orized em- forty days. piopeent Of sasery clerks, who were made feat lod the expediency of ‘logisia- subject to bis -tppointing and removing | tion grap ann map gen mime Ser power, It devolved upon him the duty of pre- | tion, and was recei: of Searing to Congress anuual reports, the aret of Congress, | 4 Dill subsequentiy passed one we wes to contain a statement in relation wetrgerte tend die 3 mote aoe and Grounds, the work bas not been. ares that This protracted and unnecessary delay has cease fromand aioe tae arisen’ from causes beyond the comtrol ot the department, and occasioned serious to this department an innocent parties amd@ the As the pro. the Ofer of Ed ily ne rhe which shail be the Commissioner of Educs- that Congress will take prompt and de. tion. ‘As the Department ot Education will, at the jppropriated by the military authorities. it was never restored to its original uses, and has been since destroyed. Adults, convicted of felony and sentenced by the supreme court ot the District to imprisonment at hard labor, are | sent toan institution in the State of New York. Considerable expense is incurred in transport. ing and subsisting them. Persons convicted of ctime against the United States may be im- prisoned in a State prison or house of correc- tion of an adjoming State or district, 1f, within | the yurisdiction of the court pronoaucing the sentence, there be no suitable place of confine- ment, Convicts from some of the southern States were formerly confined, during the term | of their sentence, in the penitentiary here, but ¢ pow conveyed to more distant points at in- creased expense. A penitentiary, properly constructed and judiciously managed. couid be Tendered self-snstaning by the labor of the con- yiets. The government is the proprietor of vicinity which afford excetlert & building. The neighboring ries furnish stone of & superior quailty. Considerations ot economy suggest to Congress the expediency of adopting, at their approach. ing session, measures for the erection of a Dis- trict penitentiary No addinon bias been made to the Metropoli- tau Police force, Its members have been active and vigilsnt in the maintenance of good order, and the protection of the nights of person aad Property, witain the Drsirict. The labors of the sanitary company, rithough insufficient for the purpose, were chieily directed to the abaie- ment of nuisances and the enforcement of the police regulations for promoting th cleanti- pees of the city. More efficient me: Tes uld be devised to secure objects so essential to the bralth and comfort of the population. 1n previous reports be invited attenuon to the expedierey of creating a court for the sam- mary trial of offencesof aminor grade A jus. thee of the peace of this District, in the ex Frese of criminal jurisdiction, chiefly acts as an ex- amining m: strate. Most of such offences are cog! le in the supreme coart, where the cused is rarely pat upon his trial mntil the term after an indict pi against bim hes been found. If unabie to give bail he remains in ly. When & prima farie case against bin een made out at the fpreliminary exa nation, the witnesses are recsyuized to appear before the grand jury, an ently beiore the court after indictment fonnd. ‘Tiggir fees for such attendance are taxed against United States. Many of them are transient persons without a fixed residence. It often oc: urs that when the cause is called for trial, itis discontinned by reason of their absence beyoud the reach of process. thus escapes deserved punishment. the Inst fiscal vear the expense of the court inthis District amounted to $26,612.12 It was defrayed exclusively by the governs ment. A tribunal such as he bad suggested, bas been orgenized iu almosteyery other popu. to nd with evident benefit to the pub- By its instrumentality tim ends of crimi- ral justice would be effectu.ty and cheaply served, and the right ot the accused to a speedy trial attained. The supreme court of the Dis trict, relieved of ajarge and increasing nnm- ber of prosecutions, could with greater des- patch dispose of the civil cases on its calendar. During the year ending June 30, 1845, the expenditures of the Government Hospital’ for the Insane were 113,35 *1, and there were ad- mitted 152 patients, being an excess of 43 over the number admitted the preceding year. One hundred and nineteen of them were males, of whom were from the army and navy. The whole pumber under treatment was ¢ Seventy-six were discharged; of these 63 wer restored and eight improved. There re- mained under treatment at that date 029. There have been 1,461 persons treated in this mstitn- tion since it was opened, of whom 1,135 were natives of this country’ The board recom- mended that there be appropriated $9.10 for the support of the institution during the year ending June 30, 13°¢; £10,000 for the completion of the wail enclosing the grounds, and $3.00) for ihe parcbase of 11+ acres of ground. The excellent management of this institution emi. neotiy entitles it to the continued confidence and patronage of Congress. The estimates are Teasonable. and the Secretary cordially com- mends them to the most fayorabie considera- tion. Dynring the last fiscal year 2 pupils were ad- Muted into the Columbia Tnstitution for the Dest and Dumb, and the directors request the follow ficit for the current fiscal year, $ Port of the institution for the year ending June AS70, $31,000; for buildings, $66,000; and for improving grounds, $4,0\t); making in all 18,500. During W); for sup. si lator, requiring for ats formance, intelligence and special knowledge. ng aad long continued t is As well as faithful train service, is Bot adequately remunerated. settled opinion, the ranit and of experience’in bis presen! bat the eificieocy of the cleriesl fore# &, promoted by thoroughly o clerks of ex per ced compeusation. ing it, a tred ability an euba nee aad itis hoped that a subject of so much importance to the suecessful workings of the executive de- | partments will receive the consideration it so The accused | al | ‘well merits. REPORT © ee Y THE Post MASTUR GEN- ERAL. The report ot Postmaster Gew States that the estimates for ibe curren! Gecal year as submitted to Cougress with the lasts Bual report showed an autictpated de of $3,296,000; to m hich there the ireasary LO, DEIN th valances of former Appropriations ding the credit of the department, leaving the amount to be provided by appropriation from the g eral treasury S1,0%0,000; of this sum Cong> appropriated $s ‘The expem-es during the fiscal year just exceeded the estimated amount, u the item of transportation, ted teas oD to’ aes) meetng the antictpated deticismcy tor the rent year. The ordinary expenditures for the current year were alse estimated too low, from that the department could not, at ihe 1 Randall by acts fiscal year s the current year ( gress. & baste, 4.00. There will al for service on the rote from For bie to He vA of July 30, 14 for servi makin be required to meet deficie for the current fiscal year. The ordinary expenditures for the year ent. inc June 00, 1-7, including $615,250 tor over. land and sea maiis to an excess provided for It will also be nece prop! hip service % ‘The free-delivery system bas been in opera. tion during the year in 4 of t cipal cities, It conta ued to grow in popalar favor, and bas, toa greatexteut, supplanted the general and box deliveries. 1a Puiladelpuia, Carcago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Louisville, and otaer cities, the number of post oifice noxes has bea greatly reduced, and the hope is confidently entertained that this ynode of delivery will ulti- mately supersede all others The number of money-order offlces now im operation is 1.4¢+, Since the date of the last annual report, 245 additonal offices have besu oe, and one office hes been discontin- ued. The department is at present engaged in ar- ranging the details of conveatioa fur the imierchange ot postal money orders between certain Money-order post olfices of this country and those of Switzerlaud. Alter it shall have been put into successful operation, similar arrangements will gradually be made wita other foreign countries which may desire the ry to mike tons as asual for mail steam. | establishment of aa intermauonal money-order system. The increase of the expenses of the postal service, based as it is upon public necessity and public demand, instead of being cause of discouragement, is @ subject of congratulation. The restoration of so large a part of the postal service, suspended during the war, aud the Dew service created by Congress since the close of the war, equal to one-third of the amount of service in operation at that Ume, hav= pro- duced a less deficiency than existelin time of peace and prosperity previous to 150. The proportion ot deficiency to revenue is far less now than then, notwithstanding the service is very much greater than ever belore. | In 1:39 the sum of the detictency was only one Mg appropriations :—To supply a de- — In his last report the Secretary earnestly | commended to the fostering care of Congress the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lyinz- im Asylum. The act of the 27th of July Last appropriated $15,000 for the suppor s'rution during the current year, aud re- quired that all expenditures should be made under the direction of the Surgeon General of the army. Duriny the year ending the 30th of June last. the i Mmber of women under treatanent wos 5 33 ct them were pay patien:s, from whom the sum of $1394 was received; 519 Were restored to health; (2 died. The small amount of receipts is ascribed to the want of requisite accommoda. licns. Most of the available space was occupied by free patients, to the exciusion of many who desired to secure private apartments, The in. creased number of intuate: Tendered necessary @ considerable outlay for turniture and bed- ding The funds derivea during the last fiscal year, from all sources, were insnfficient. to cover the actual expenditures, and, at the close thereof, the institution was $7, in debt. ‘The directors request that a clanse appropriating that sum be inserted im the deficiency bull. The estimates for rent and the support of the institution during the next vear ure Sis,0u0. The Secretary does not doubt that Uongress will cheertnliy accord that amount. He also submits an estimate for the purchase of ground and the erection of pestinanent buildings tor the use of the institution. The tile to the 10 were relieved, and | | portions of the country | tories w Property. when sequired, should be vested in | the United States One of the Secretary's predecessors, on the eve of his retirement from oflice, urged opriety of an appropriation for erecting and furnishing suitable resideaces for the Vice President of the United States and tue beads ot | PEt ‘ME the executive depar: Atter alluding to the value of money whev the government went into operation, and the saiaries of those officers Were crigimaliy fixed, as compared with that Which it bore in December, 1-52, when his re. Port wes submitted, he expressed the opinion that 86,000), at the latter date, was not worth much more then $3,(00 at the former. The cost of rent, provisions, fuel, and other neces suries of life in this city, hud then risen to such & degree that the most rigid economy was re. quired to enable those officers to live within their incomes, and be declared that, as far as bis observation extended, tw of them had been ale to do so. Congress did not accede to his recommenda. tion; they, however, passed the act of March 3, 1-53, which increased the‘ salary of the Vice President trom $5,000, prescribed by the act of September 24, 1789, to $8,000, and gave to the Members of the cabinet the same amount. The addition thus made was estimated to be suffi. cient for bouse rent. No increase has been Yoted since, notwithstanding the constant ap- preciation of labor, rent, and every article of consumption. The Secretary's observation and experience enable him to affirm, with unhesi- tailing confidence, that the income of the office will not equal the outiay, if the incumbent lives in a style at all compatible with the pro- prieties of bis position. and the relations which decent regard to the just claims of society compels him to maintain. “The bigh offices of Ue Country should be open to the poor as well as to the rick; but the practical effect of the present rate ‘of compensation will soon be to exclude frum ~ executive councils all who aye uot ample resources independently of their official salaries.”’ . Several of the annual reports of this depart- ment refer to the compensation ef the judici- ary. The salary is far from being pi jon ate tothe weighty bilities of the sta- tion. It is even less than is paid to som bordinate officers in other branches of thi lic cervice. It is asingular and disreputable anomaly, that the chiefs of bureaus of the War Department, each, received in pay and emolu- ments, during the last fiscal year, a larger compensation than the Ubief Justice of the be added to their present salary and to Sar Of the justices of the Sarrene Court. It ‘will even then be much less is allowed to officers of a similar oe an een ‘and he does not doubt that the ‘of that le body will render, in some to Br te Talc. aecdy’ scared SPS selves. He to of the Assistant Secretary of bureaus. The Commissioner million less than the entire revenue, In 185) the snm of the detlciency was about thre» millions five hundred thousand doliars less than the entire revenue. For the year 1-05 the deficiency is ten millions less t revenue. The majority of the southern St bave never paid their own expenses for postal service. They will no: doso fora loag come. With the exception of lowa ax sonri, none of the States or Ternitories west of the Mississippi river have ever paida revenue equal to their postal expenses. Phe cost of ihe transportation of the mails in all new States and Territories, apd in all sparsely populated never bas brea pard by these States or Territories out of their own revenues. It is ouly as popalation and basi- Bess increase, and the country ts developed. tat postal service can be self-sustaiuin, The idea that the Post Oifice Department can be seif-sustaining. in the presrut condition the country, is absurd. It cauuot ie, and ought not to be, for fifty years to come. The reve- 8 will larg : 1 expen- ures. Ten years hence the Postinas'er Geue- she estimates the expenses of the Po: + Department at $10,100,.00, aud the reye- T2900, This increase must goon @s Jong as he country prospers, and mineral, agricultutal, and comercial’ business im. caedces, ‘The Pos: Office Department can be made self sustaiming in one way, and th n the postal service im the St ere the rece! On hues equal to expenses. ail but lows and Mi PDiy aud ail the States oyerborne by the rebellion. 1t could further econom:ze nid from the China, Brazil, and Sandwich Jsiand steamship lines, thas saving $725, 1t could save $9510) by abolishing the ie! carrier system for the cities. It could also withdrawing all + economize to the extent of over $700,000 by over= turning the system of postal cars. Itis (rus that in public estimation fhe letter-carriers for cities are thought to be almost indispensable, but the sysiem costs monéy and briugs «mall I. is all disbursement and no Teceipt. | What iftrom 12 to 24 hours are saved ia tae transmission of mails hetweea Washington and Cincinnati, or St. Louis, or Chicago, aud the whole west and northwest, by these travel- ing post offices, which put off and receive mails While traveling at ih.rty miles an hour, and which receive mails, make up mails, and dis- tribute mails as they go burryingaiong? It costs money, and the Government, like a mise. can Keep its money in its chest. It gives no return and helps nobody. but is safel boarded. A halting, timid, illiberal policy like this will save one million and lose twenty. The Postma-ter General says he bus twice in his apuual reports called atention to the gross abuses of the franking privilege. It is es- tumated that the loss to the department by this species of abuse of the franking privilege has amounted to trom one million to one million and a balfot dollars during the past year He bas thus far failed to secure amy atiention to these urgent appeals, and is becomiug satisfied that the only way toavoid an abuse which is be- coming sysiematized and which is so severe a tax upon the revenues of the department is to abolish the tranking privilege altogether. ‘The rapid growth of the postal service of the United States since the present organization of the Post Oifice Department was established b; the act of July 2, i536, has devolved on its of- ficers an amount of business of so extensive, varied, and responsible a character, that ares organization, wisely adapted to the present and prospective condition of the service, is n»- cessary to secure the greatest practicable effl- ciency in its administration. Postmaster General states thathe will iake an early op- portunity to prepare, and submit to Con- gress, for its approval, a plan for its reorgani- REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, The report of Hon. E. A. Rollins, Commis- sioner of internal Revenue, states that from 1-61 to 1663 the costs of the war were annually ic- creasing, and the necessity of preserving the 2 credit made constantly tax- ancreasing ation absolu’ im bat the he cared the burdens thus imposed upod them uncomplainingly, giving evidence of their power and their loyalty. The largest receipts of internal revenue were a the fiscal year 3566, when taxation had its highest Limits. Since then, by various acts of Congress, taxation has been reduced about $173,010,000 annum. The recei; for 1566 were $310,- 17; for = 474.65, and for 1563, e. holesale, 780; Tetail liquor, $3,2%2,- 33.31: sale, eure tiquor, eome.045.3: from dis. llers—coal oll, $19.629.06; till spirituous liq $74,185.45; from Sot eecron from inearance anes 968,149.99; from dealers—retail, ae ian ie ere, Maau- fncturere,, $1,427 68.52; from peddlers, “E724, 210.29; from and 6 B50u,- 566 31; trom fiers. $57.770.28: ‘cortun, gte.ot7 77; from cigars, $2.29 from chew- ig tobacco, At ‘aieulied 4 revenue and judic’al officers, rather the increased stringency of the law roved regu an in or im- Department, The amount of warehouses on July It, 18>, gations The expense of assessing and nding sa.anes Of all employees, sales of | con ions on stamps, cc. daring t st Fear was 9.927.201 74 ated that the receipt 1 year will be 845.00" : | the falling off teing the repeal of ine tax upoo | manufactures. The number of distilleries registered thus far reported, including those not intended for present use and those for the disitliation of 1, ts The number of div raion as 20, with an ageregate gE capacity Of 227,75 ea a reduction of s large number of 11! iu most parts of the couutry eration have paid. it is believed proportion of their liability than previons Iaw. ‘The total amount | boned to the eleven insurrectionry | Ssstow “23 dh #20 bas been | collected. The Commissioner recommends the | passage of a law allowing the States to pay the n 8 definite period, g'ving them * emium forsuch payr He ree that more than twenty-five ry ber ince 18s and ton of the t session, b nue laws, began poned for year, and then a # passed embracing all that is valu ing laws, and in the m: me all a and modifications as to binkers’ nnd brokers’ and succession » can be mmends the passage of a oniaining the pri orted by Mr. Jer ub advantage, sud due ttax-pa ntation alike demand above in- ivtdmal pretercr urtion partes, : postive <e in the method of makiag appoim'm oa Will secure Tecommendat wh bad app. - made, suiler. pointment dering good behavi | parative fitness, and which | Sicilant from the =m | tacks of the felons whom they opsiract or F S Pressed for place because TF political service or their p ssities, will prostitute p T enriching themeeives at sury,and the guilry, serk to blind the and the public, and cheat justice of b: by assaulting the character of the whom they fear. The inevitable tendency of sacl che demoralization of our im- jegradation of official f tion — good men all parties relay terest im public affairs when place-h | instead of principle isthe controlling 7 | aud men of well-earned and established repu- tari ‘fusing to imperil it in places which have been desecrated by imcompeteucy or fraud. He concindes his report by referri bill reported at the tnst session to create the revenue office into a separate department. He says it would conduce to a more vigorons aud thorough entorcement of the law in the first place by greatiy simplifying the work in the office of the Commissioner; and the public im- terest would be best subserved by the erecti of anew department, which should embrace the collection of all the national reve cept those derived from the sale of the public lands. tions the ing to the ——i ae REPORT OF TREASURER SPINNER. General Spinner, Treasurer of the United States, in his report states the amount of fra tional currency mow in circulation exceeds $13\(40,K0, This saves to the people “0 in inwerest yearly. Abou: $22,000 being nearly two-thirds of the entire citculation—is returued every year. Asa like sued it requires the preparing, ing. aud the redemption, count | om of $53,000,000 of this small cw annually, So long as this i timed, the ser- Vices of female clerks caunot be dispensed With, save by replactug them by male the goveramen: pad levis, whose salaries would cost nearly double the amount service. He pggests some plan submitied in bis list annual raps | reorganization of the office, The j change is epe higher grad» tor fe | This additional grade of the female | the pay of that, the best ju } that paid v0 the lowest cla~ j He urges the increase oi an the office. now for this salaries of ye The prese mpensation of the | employees ia the depariuenuis of the zoveras Ment is Wrong, unwise, Ua aud very de- moralizing. Although so ta great degree im all the branches of the pubic service, it is par- | ticularly eo with respect to the females soleme | ployed. Some of thes+ are in places of great | pecuniary responsibility, and imcar grea: risks | This is especially true of such as are employed | im the redempuon of the matoual ca | where a loss of notes, an error i | the overlooking of counterte clerk so engaged personally | in money to the amount of uy errors so | These amounts are de ted from the «a are of such clerks regularly at the eud of each | month : | He says:—As soon as young men become | properly educated to the correct under-tand- ing and proper mavagement of the public basi- Bess they receive imvits'ioms to go elsewhere as bookkeepers, tellers, aud cashiers, at Laing salaries. Instead of educating men io man. other men’s business, the govermmest should employ only such persons as had alrendy a good business education, and pay salaries as Would command talent. The Treasurer speaks of the flve-cont pi As base metal tokens, they having taken the place of the convenient five-cent notes under the plea of a speedy return to specie pay- ments.” He says the fiye-cent tokens are made @ legal tender for Si, and are redeemable in sums of not less than $1, Al the others, sn- cluding the one-cent and the three-ceu! te are entirely irredeemable, and have be Quisance by their great accumulations bauds of emall dealers. Postmasters a: law compeiled to receive these goverument tokens in payment tor postage stamps, aud are then immediately labile wo the goverumeut for the amounts of such sales in coud money. But the government that sold these tokens a: par for their face value, or paid them as money (> | #s creditors, now turms round And reiuses to receive them back in payment from its own officers, who were by Jaw compelled to reocive ‘them on account of the government. Postmaster: who were so obliged to receive these tokens bave offered them by the bactal im payment of their pos! office receipts at the counter of the trensurs, and have been com- Pelled to carry them home again, because tue Treasarer cannot receive over 60 cents in Ubree-ceut pieces, wor over four cents in one OF two-cent pieces, in one payment. Was there ever an act of the government of a re- spectable people that, for meaness, can cotn- pete with this? An individual that would ce such @ confidence game would pe Tanded as 4 two-peuny thief, and wovid soon be consigned to a house of correction. A gov- ernment that practices such frauds upon the Peopie cannot hope long to retain the re=pect of anybody. It has teen intimated, and there are thove that are upcharitabie enougd to believe the et x hat the ownersmp of an anprofit able mine bad something to doin imfiu- encing the passage of these “specdy-return-to. specie-payment™ laws. A goverument that has the meanness to open- ly repudiste the paymentor redemption of its One and two cent issues will soon be suspected of being none too good to repudiate payment of the larger obligations of the nation. He rec- ommends immediate provision for their re. demption in lawful money. Three hundred persons are engaged in the Treasurer's Office, two-thirds of whom han. dle money, but the Treasurer reports that nota single d as been lost. re mu. BURXS & Co. re ONLY at 340 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, de 3-1m NEAR BINTL STREBT. 30 . AyY&@&cO.’Ss 6 PARIS KID GLOVE DEPOT. ti) 398 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB, (Between *b and 10th streets.) Importers of the “ALEXANDRINE” SDESPHE'S" KAS Gloves. «ihe beat pd ALSO On HAND ieee of ALBXABDBE'S and COURVO- a7 150 DOZE! EFOUSSE atgise, work se anti sae 87 On all rales of Glover of ove doren - fakes dduction of t) pevoces 4 sf PIANOS OF WM. KNASE 2 CO. PARLOR AND ORVECH ORGANS AND MELODBOBS for Sale and Reut, on Kasy Terms, a DENBaeR. ierenth street, dea ety