Eite4tatasta2 fattilignaw, PCrBL/I*ED sy ssi tVis.rosrEsDAY By U°.°:EIL , MANDE/ 180 N *ICO. t3)&bi J.' M. COOl,lll, ALIrEED BArlDictsolt WK. A. MogroN; • Vaintsis—Tw6 Dollars per annum, payable all rases In advance. maxim or Orwrnic 7,QuAllm ear letters on business shoul dressed tO .COOPRE, sezrozzsozi a Co.d: be ad- Xiterag. I Detective's Story. (The following, which we translate frorn the French, appears in a little vol ume before us, entitled " Annals of the Empire and Restoration," published at Brussels in 1839 :3 A police agent should never be a man who has a conscientious regard for truth. Fouche compared those honest men of the force, but which the public insist on calling as spies, to the stage coach which must make its regular trips, full or empty. A detective should make his report every day, in order that he may receive his pay, and show his fidel- ity and zeal; if he knows nothinge must invent a story of some kind, and. if, perhaps, he does know something, he should seek in every way toamplify the details, and magnify the importance of the whole affair. The police are very good for the detection of counterfeiters, murderers and other violators of tbe ci vil law, but when they dabble in politi cal matters, they often commit as many blunders as they gain successes. The secret political police, however, has its ramifications throughout the country, and its agents in all classes of society.— If a Frenchman, or for the matter of that, a European of almost any nation, gets upa conspiracy against the govern ment, and imparts his ideas to even a feiv particular friends, it would be truly extraordinary if among his confederates there was not at least ene particular friend of the minister or chief of police. Under the Empire this class was never more effective, although it then employ ed the fewest agents, and yet each day Fouche, the minister of police, had two or three baskets full of reports which he never read. Of all the governments that have fall en to the lot of France decidedly the most ridiculous was the Directory. The members, with one or two exceptions, believed in the police as they believed in the Bible, and Collier, one of the di rectors, was the most credulous of them all. The agents, hoWever, were capable, honest, intelligent men, and they soon learned to keep away from the enter tainments which the members of the Directory often gave, for there they were certain to see the tall, lank figure of Gohier, asking for the thousandth time the question " What do you know : Have you any report to make to me?" The answer was always in the negative, and Gohier was not slow in showing his vexation. M. Real, Who was then one of the _principal fuctionaries in the department .of police, happened to meet FOuche one evening just as the latter was going to the Laxembourg ; Fouche asked him to go to the Directory. " Not I," said Real. " Why not *" Because Gohier is there, and the moment he would see me he would come shambling across the room to ask if I had any report for him ?" " That's the trouble, is it?" said Fouch. " See this basket, there are two hundred reports there; choose the most amusing or the most foolish; there will be enough to keep him going for a week or two." Real took the basket and commenced to look at the endorsements on the papers. The first was bad enough, and the next was no better ; but at last he found one giving information of an un lawful meeting of between four and five hundred men, which had been held in a garden a short distance from Paris. The meeting had been seen by the agent for several days in succession, and al though he approached very near and watched for some time, he was unable to hear distinctly what was said. He was, however, certain that they had met to organize a plot against the govern ment. " If Gohier is not content with such a discovery," said Real, " it be be cause he is the most unreasonable man in existence." They wen tto the Luxembourg. Gohier was there in all his glory. His first question was " What is there new ? Have you a report ?" " Here is one. I tell you honestly that I do not place much reliance in it ; but anyhow you can read it, and per haps/you will think differently from what I do." Gohier took it and read. His eyes glistened. Then, having rapidly run over the first few pages of the report, he approached the detective and said softly : "Friend Real, your report is much more important than you appear to think. This is not the first time that my attention has been called to this meeting, and I am astonished that you attach such little importance to so grave a matter. Look up this affair, and let me know what progress you make, and as soon as possible." Real at first thought he was wrong and that Gohier was right. Have I been unfortunate enough, said he to himself, to stumble upon areport which is really true,and got in by some strange mischance from about two hundred oth ers which were undoubtedly false? But on reflection, he became convinced that the case was not so bad as it appeared. He perceived that Gohier had been in formed of the matter by some one of his agents, and he concluded that where there was so much smoke there was at least some fire. Filled with these re flections he arrived at his office, and sending for oneof his most trusty subor dinates, he despatched him to the local ity mentioned in the report, charging him to find out all about the matter. The next day he made his appearance, and was ushered into the presence of the chief. " Well," said he, " I have caught them in the act." "Really !" "Yes, Monsieur; right in the act." "What is there in the matter?" " About as much as there generally is in these police reports. But to the points. I went to the spot. The garden spoken of is the propgrty of a hatter. It was a fine night, and the hatter had put out a number of hats on sticks to dry Now, suppose a hedge about the same height as these sticks ; an observer would only see the hats, and the agent naturally supposed that the, said hats were, on the heads of as many men. That is all I" That evening Monsieur Real went to the Directory. Goliier was there and propounded the eternal question, ask-! ing particularly concerningthe affair of the unlawful asserahly, Zl:fie former, with as serious a tone as he could as sume, related his story.. 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A stepping stone in the bed of the Great River. It isa round in the ladder leading to Heaven or'to per dition. It is a tear which will wash away the storms of the week, or burn its - blistering way to the soul. Let us rest to-night, weary toiler. Sit you down and be happy. Leave your head at your place of business and bring your heart to the hearth tend fender. Not your worldly heart but the one yet fresh in memory. Sit by the fire, be it of coal or wood. What a battle life is! How few of us realize the warfare. We hardly know who our friends are. What u blessing the grave has no eyes! How the 'land of time closes its grasp to-night, bearing its wondrous gathering to God! What a medley to present to Hut! Good acts and bad acts. Old age and child hood. Men, maids and matrons—hopes, fears, promises kept and broken, hates, injuries, tears, sobs, sighs, smiles, re joicings, pain, pleasure, sin and good ness all woven together like a tangled skein—unravelled by a glance from that Wondrous Eye. The hill is steep —its sides are rough to the feet and its tracks dangerous. Look back—down its slopes and juttings—over the mem ories of the past and into the vault of shadows wherein lie torn and bleeding the hopes which led you through the lanes of childhood into the broad road of life. Hope lives forever, but her children die one by one ! Here and there they drop off as we toil upwai . d to the great gate where stands a sentry of our own choosing. * * * Yet there is much to live for. Not for ourselves but for others. Humanity in the integral is but an infinitisimal sand, not worth living for. But we can live for others. tin der a million roofs to-night, side by:Side sitting,are young hearts fitting out their frail bark for a voyage on an ocean far more tempestuous than ever was the billowy waste grandly rolling its defi ance between distant shores. Side by side to-night all over the land lovers sit, thankful that the labors of the week to the many are ended, happy in turning and anticipating the apple the flavor of which is not yet fully known. Another downward turn to the light. Closer and yet closer the hearts as nearer come the chairs. The watch within us lays its seconds away—making up its bundle of shadows against another Saturday night. * * The sea og life is smoothed by love. Heart readings or attempts—lips meet—the summit is reached—the word is spoken—the apple plucked and life dates, not from birth, but from Saturday night. * * * * * * * c.* * * How fruit differs in flavor. Some is luscious to the taste. Some is dry, hard, tastelessand unsatis factory. Good to the eye, but a little in describable something makes the beauti ful apple but a cake of ashes. Life is an apple which is long growing—soon de caying. Over the stepping stones like this night, from the cradle so far on the road to the grave we have carried our apple, waiting for a chance to eat it alone instead of dividing it'with those who in turn, would divide with us. What is the influence that draws peo ple into themselves and away from others? Whence comes the unseen hand that beckons hearts to wander off in the bye ways of solitude and live within little castles of their own build ing -cells of selfishness—instead of mix ing with the ,crowd which hurry on, anxious to reach—where? Why not look over the past and guide better for the future from the resting place given us by the clicking of the reel which marks His seconds—our weeks? There is so much done which ought not to be. So much left undone. Somehow or other the thread of life is wound up fullof dirtand uneven places, no matter how straight and perfect we intend it to be. We reel it too fast. Down in the heart is a hidden power. Who of us all can solve the mystery? The heart is not a golden cloud, but a wide reach of prairie where grow some beautiful flowers—many delicate grasses—nu merous gnarled shrubs fit but for shin ney clubs, with here and there a fruit bearing tree—a well from which others can drink—a bower where the weary can recline—a vine under which loved ones can sit —a lofty, firmly rooted oak from whose limbs climbers can see wide over the country—an occasional evergreen which will call us to the mind of those who follow us from stone to stone on the way we all are wending. * * Let us pull up the shrubs which have no beauty—cul tivate the flowers which breathe forth no fragrance and plant the waste with vines—with trees which bear good fruit —with oaks rising high and strong, toy ing with the tempest and kissing the clouds which roll over them—with ever greens which shall mark our resting place and cause others to say that we lived not in vain. Some of us can plant vines—some flowers—some tall trees— some of us the apple which shall be an apple of life=others the evergreen which shall keep the sun and storms from the marble visiting card we inva riably leave behind when going on a long journey. * * * * * But to-night and to-morrow. Renew your love and energies against the tri als of the unknown week. We would see all men happy. There ate a million homes in the landwhereshould be more happiness than there is, if men would break loose from the vice like influence, which surround them. Look back from to-night and then resolve for the future. Let the rich be more generous to the poor and the poor truer to themselves. There are too few homes—too many pictureless walls in the land. But to night. Save the surplus earning of the week, hard palmed, honest laborer whose earnest friend we are, no matter what tongue you speak, or from whence came ye. A thousand kind words might have been spoken• but were not. A thousand little luxuries might have been bought but you would not thus use your_ earn ings. Into the cess pool of revehy glides many a week of labor, leav!pg , poverty, want, sickness and orihappi ,ness where should be love, :plenty ; and coutentmpnt. If for none other, be. a 1 MIL foi your own. take. Do right for the golden 'reward it always brings. Be a man. Stand andlet the crowd rush on to - the breakers 'which line the far shores of dissipation and caieless ex penditures. Begin the week with money in your pocket—happinness in your heart—the smiles of those around you—the good wishes of friends—the glorious renewal of faith in life which results from being a man. Then you will enjoy money as you should, and will this SATURDAY NIGHT. IL W.. BeeChr on Fairs. Who can imagine the scene in Noah's Ark on the day of the embarkation, and indeed, for a week or two after? The crowding multitudes, their unfitness for neighborhood, the multifarious work on hand for Noah and his family—was there ever anything like it? Nothing, until the days of Sanitary fairs. Had Noah been transferred from the Ark to Brooklyn during the access and develop ment of the fair, he would have sought repose by retreating again to his floating museum and universal stable. This war has developed many sur prising things, but none more remarka ble than these gigantic popular fairs. Unless they are soon brought to an end, our head will resemble the lumber room of a museum. First come your friends with amateur dramatic festivals, to which you receive exquisite cards, which you are to ac knowledge by the return of 9, dollar bill ; parlor concerts follow, and tableaux, and school exhibitions, and military promenades, and all manner of associ ations break forth into surprising invi tations—one dollar—till your days are covered two or three dollars deep for a month ! Every one that looks at you means a dollar., Indeed, an invitation to a wed ding, a notification of taxes due or three days' grace notice of your bank, or the black-margined notice of funerals, all strike you as for so many hints for a dollar. Autograph collectors want your signature; they rummage your bundles of letters, they count it no robbery to march off with your General Washing ton's letter or Israel Putnam's signa ture. And then come charming com mittees to secure your promise to write for the post office, to do this and that, and a hundred other things cunningly planned to extract money in the pleas antest manner. Everybody is given to devising means by which to extract money from everybody else. The whole town is a vast taxing ma chine. Never were such imposts levied by a people on themselves. It is called indirect taxation. What then is direct taxation. Direct taxation is when a man puts a pistol to your head and says, "Your money or your life?" Indirect aeration is when out of a sweet face are leveled at you the most fatal eyes, and a musical tongue sylables, "Your mo ney, or your heart !" You give the one and find the other stolen—and so you lose both, and a score of times a day. Is there to be no Sanitary Commission for the poor and bankrupt benefactors? Children shake their locks in your face that means at least fifty cents; the rosy cheeked boy that frolics with you is a decoy for fifty cents. Well, bless their hearts! I would not have it otherwise. Come on ! There is a little more left yet! I shall doubt the patriotism of every one that asks for nothing. He that can get five dol lars for a fair and don't do it, is proba bly a latent " secesh." Come on ! believe that those eyes that now look so sharply after gains and garments, cash and customers, would be turned in pity to poor wounded soldiers; and those bills so nimbly would, with equal skill bind up wounds; and those lips that ask for bargains would whisper prayers and consolations in the ears of the desponding and homesick in our hospitals. These are the minor solieitions. What shall we say of the major ones? There are committees for every trade, calling, or money-making business. And the tone of the realm seems to be, " Ask and ye shall receive." It is astonishing to behold the liberality of merchants of all kinds. Every body asks, nobody re fuses. There is a kind of patriotic mama. Benevolence exists as an epe demic. At the opening night of the Brooklyn Fair there were one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the treasury of cash contributions ! And of goods and provisions for sale, full as much more ! Considering this as the work of "money-grasping Yankees," it is pretty well. Ethan Allen An amusing story has been told of his interview with George III.: The king, hearing that the captor of Ticonderoga was confined iu one of his prison ships, aad that he was a man of mark and influence in the colonies, re solved to make a trial of his constancy. Accordingly he had him brought into his presence; set before him the ab surdity and infallible overthrow of the rebellion, the irresistible power of the mother country, etc. " Col. Allen," said the king, "if you will go home, and, like a loyal subject, use your influence there to bring my rebellious children to a sense of their wickedness and folly, after talking with the Privy Council, I have decided to make you a present of ten thousand acres of valuable land in the colonies." " Your Majesty is very liberal," said Ethan Allen. " Your Majesty reminds me of a dark-complex ioned personage who took our blessed Master up into a high place, and prom ised him all the kingdoms of the earth if he would fall down and worship him, but the old scoundrel owned no more of the kingdoms of the earth than your Majesty owns of the colonies." Theft and Accountability. " Patrick, the widow Maloney tells me that you have stolen one of her finest pigs. Is that so ?" " Yes, yer Honor." " What have you done with it?" " Killed and ate it, your Honor." "Oh, Patrick! when you are brought face to face with the widow and the pig on the judgment day, what account will you be able to give of yourself when the widow accuses you of the theft?" "Did you say the pig would be there, your Riverence?" "To be sure I did." "Well, then your Riverence, I'll say, Mrs. Maloney, there's yer pig." Burning of a Steamer. NEW YORK., Dee. s.—This morning the steamer 'Wybosset took fire, : and was partially consumed. She arrived from Savannah last Saturday with; a valuable cargo, consigned to Wakeman, Gooken & Dickinson. The cotton on board was valued at $40,000. The:whole cargo was valued at about $250,000.. It is impossible.to give an estimate of the loss, but it will be very heavy. —The total receipts of the government from all sources,, for, the.year: ending the 30th of June last,: wera $1,810,000,000; of whiCh '5209,500,000 wiire'froin iriternarreire nue i $85,000,000 friiiiis Cusiditia ; l and. $5; 50: 000 commutation rnons*_fro4 drafted 'it ien The total, expenditarea were $1,891,00000 ; of-'which 41,031,000,000 were for the itriny, wad 1122000,000 for the tatv3 , : i .- '' " LANCASTER; PA.., WEDNESDAY!MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1865. ifteibutono, Report of the Secretary of the Nayy Secretary Welles rehearses in his re port the immensity of the task of or ganizing the navy arid maintaining the blockade,- and the operations of our fleets toward the close of the war. In four years the navy added 208 (steam) vessels and 43,900 men to its rolls, be side purchasing 418 vessels, of which 313 were steamers, which on sale have de preciated in value $12,700,000. A fall history of the co-operation of the navy in the capture of Wilmington, Charles. ton and Mobile is given. .The conduct of England in building and equipping privateers and blockade runners is re ferred to in emphatic terms, and an en largement and perfection of our navy yards is urged that we may be prepared for future emergencies. There are now five squadrons of national vessels—on the coast of Europe, (7), Brazil (10,) East India (4), Pacific (11), West India (8). At the highest period of efficiency of the blockading squadrons, in January last, there were 471 vessels, with 24,5.59 guns. Of prizes there have been captured of all kinds 1,151 vessels, which 210 were steamers;rams and gun boats, 17 ; and 3,55 of all kinds have been sunk or destroyed. The estimated value of those sunk and captured is over $31,- 000,000. The amount of prizes con demned up to the Ist of November is $21,829,543.96, and a number of im portant cases are still before the courts. Most of the whole has been British property. There are on the pension roll 2,027 re ceiving an annual sum of $248,529.50. An increase of the salaries of otli cers and clerks is asked for. The resources of the Department for the fiscal year were $l4O, 091,125.99, and the expenditures $116,781,675.95, which, together with unexpended appropriations and those for the curreutyear, leaves a balance for estimated current expenses of $142,291,- 919.40, exclusive of the proceeds of sales of vessels, etc. The working expenses of the navy for the year ending June 30, 1867, are estimated at a little less than twenty-four millions. The Secretary offers some suggestions for the laying up of iron-clads ; location of a Naval Academy, and for the educa tion of seamen. He concludes by stat ing that the navy is iu a state of excel lect physical and moral efficiency ; con gratulates .the country, his subordinates and himself upon the success of their past labors, and commends the naval force to the cherished care of the goy eminent as the best hope of our national defense and glory. Report of the Comptroller of the Cur This is a voluminous document of 14.5 pages. It is exceedingly well written, clear and lucid in style. since the last annual report 283 new banks have been organized, and 731 State banks converted, making a total Nov. Ist of 1,601 national banks, 922 being old State banks reorganized.— One bank (Attica, N. Y.) has failed, and one (Columbia, Mo.) gone into liquidation. The use by these con verted banks of their old circulation, while they avail of the new, making a total of both beyond the limit pre scribed in the act, is declared to be con trary to the spirit of the law. The report gives the authorized paper circulation of the country on the Ist of October at $1,083,452,233, but deducts $409,323,097, which was held in the banks and Sub-Treasury at that date, assuming the remainder "actual circu lation." This is hardly legitimate, for money in a man's pocket is as much out of " actual" circulation as legal tender notes held in a bank to meet daily liabilities. The Comptroller urges "compulsory redemption ' of national bank notes at New York, Boston or Philadelphia. He also advocates a contraction of the currency, and the discouragement of imports by an increase of the duty as the premium on gold declines, thisin crease to be followed by a gradual de crease, say of ten per cent. each six months. He evidently does not see that such fluctuations in the tariff would have a blighting effect on commerce, and do far more injury than could be done by a permanent advance to the highest figures ever known. He advocates the increase of one hun dred millions in the authorized issue o National Bank notes, only on the, con dition noticed by us the other day. The banks receiving the notes shall deposit Five-twenty bonds to be purchased directly of the Department in exchange for legal tenders, the latter to be can celed. He recommends the abolition of all internal taxation, except a duty on whis ky, malt liquors, tobacco, cotton, stamps, and licenses—the last two to be abolish ed also after the next fiscal year. He es timates that these, with one hundred and twenty millions from imports, would bring a revenue of 405,000,000, leaving a surplus of at least thirty mil lion dollars (perhaps one hundred - mil lions) towards a sinking fund to pay off the national debt. He argues against the right to tax the banks, or any one else, for capital in vested in government securities; but suggests a tax of one per cent. on capi tal, and one-half of one per cent. on cir culation in lieu of all other assessments; or, instead of the latter, " a direct as sessment on the banks " for "expenses of circulation and supervision." He proposes a penalty for printed signatures, so as to compel the officers to sign their issues with their own hands. He recommends a removal of the Currency Bureau toN,ew York, and suggests to buildings owned by the government next to the Sub-Treasury as a desirable location. One of the most important changes recommended is the proposition to re lieve the banks throughout the interior from the obligations to maintain a re serve of fifteen per cent. The argument for this change is very striking, al though it may be less convincing, and we give it in his own words : " There is no real strength or safety derived from the provision as it exists. When a bank fails, neither money nor reserve in any shape would be found QII hand, and the sooner those that are improperly con ducted or are organized for other than a legitimate banking business are closed up, the better will it be for the system and the public," Of scarcely less importance is the recommendation, in which we would heartily join, that the banks be relieved Of the obligation to each others' notes in payment of debts. How can a bank pay its own debts in greenbacks when it can collect from its debtors only the national currency? In conclusion the Comptroller alludes to the gravest objection to the entire system, when he expresses "the hope that these institutions may never be come subject to the schemes and capri ces of political parties." No lover of his country will refuse to pray that this hope may be fully realized. Boport of the secretary of the Interior. It appears from the report of the Sec retary of the Interior that during the past year 4,512,738,460 acres of the public lands have been granted to varies parties and that on the 30th September there were still 132,35035 acres surveyed and undisposed of. -For lands sold he has received $748,327 25, an excess of ten per cent. over the previous year. Different regulationa are in force in the different Territories regarding - claims to unoccu pied lands, and some uniform law is asked. The lands are wisely sold for the sum necessary to survey and_ trans fer them to actual settlers and purcha- Itis eStimated that 250,000 able-bodied men are mining upon the rill - 611e domain witliont - paying anything for the ' privi lege. In view of tax upon most' other putsuits, it is suggSsted they be not The number of pensions added to the rcillihrrink the year was 16,328,- requir ing!sl4226,7B6:9o annual-payment.' Al lowed during the year were 24;693, , at-an shoos' charge 0f.52,574;17 . 9."- Or naval pensiOns:there' were 266 'aiivarded, , .'l43d 420q,480.62 13aid:which• is'amply;:wo zviiied •for!hy =investment of the government share of prize money: The increasing number of pensioners de mands a largely increased appropria tion. There are within ourboundariet3about 350,000 Indians, most of whom have been amicable, and a few loyal and pro gressive. Some, however, have been incited by rebels and by resentment to wage war against the government, and in the Territories, by the collisions with the white race, have kept up predatory warfare, which we have sent troops to suppress. It ought not to be the policy of the government to exterminate the red men, but rather, through missions and treaties, to pacify them. There have been 6,291 patents granted during the fiscal year. The work of the census has been pushed as far as' was possible. The work upon the several branches of the Pacific railroad appears to be progressing satisfactorily, and they will doubtless be finished by the speci fied time of their charters. Surveys are being made of the main line west- Wlird. More money is asked for the comple tion of the Capitol. The inhabitants of the District also want the Government to help them pay the local taxes, and to clean the city, and for other benevolent and humane purposes. Report of the Postmaster General. DOSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT, 1 . November 15, 1865. : The revenues of this depart ment for the year ended June 30, 1865, were 514,556,158 70,and the expend itu res $13,694,728 28, leaving asurplus 0f5861,- 430 41. The ratio of increase of revenue was 17 per cent., and of expenditure 8 per cent., compared with previous year. The estimated expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1867, are 518,678,000. It will be necessary to make special appropriations from the Treasury for steamship service between San Fran cisco, Japan, and China, for six months from January 1 to June 30, 1867, $250,- 000 ; also for steamship service between the United States and Brazil for eight months of the current year commencing Nov. 1, $lOO,OOO. The number of postage stamps Is sued during the year was 387,410,- reprecenttng W,009,787 50 Stamped envelopes 2i,040,425, rep presenting Stamped wrappers, 1,165,750, repre senting Malting In all 012,047,457 50 CONTRACTS The mail service in operation on 30th June, 1805, embraced 6,012 routes, of the aggregate length of 142,340 miles, costing $6,246,884, (exclusive of com pensation to route and other agents, amounting to $556,602.75.) Railroad `3,401 miles, costing $2,707,421 Steamboat, 13 149 miles, c sting 359,593 Celerity, sc., 105,851 miles, costing 3,179,985 The cost, per mile, for transportation by railroad was .111 cents; steamboat, 14.{ cents ; celerity, &c., 10 cents. The number of routes ordered into o I eration in States lately in rebellion is 2 1 ; their length 18,040} miles ; and compensation $721,149 ; a reduction, compared with former cost of service in those S aces, of $881,109 per annum. FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE. The general results of tLe foreign ser vice are as follows : The aggregate postage, sea, inland and foreign, upon the correspondence ex changed with foreign countries, amount ed to $1,819,928.56; of which amount $1,449,530.76 accrued on the mails ex changed with Great Britain, France, Prussia, Bremen, Hamburg, and Bel gium ; $275,197.06 on the mails ex changed with the British North Amer ican Provinces ; and $95,200.74 on the mails transmitted to and from the West Indies, Central and South America. The cost of the United States trans- Atlantic service performed by steam ships receiving the sea pbstage only was 5405,479.56. Of this amount $213, 330.23 was earned by the New York, Queenstown and Liverpool (Dale) line ; $71,106.70 by the Canadian line; $73,- 273.11 by the New York, Southampton and Bremen; and $47,769.52 by the New York, Southampton andHamburglines respectively. The cost of the ocean transportation of mail to and from the West India ports by United States steamers, received dif ferent rates of compensation within the limit of the postages, was $50,864 90, be ing $22,178 9:5 less than the total post ages on the mails conveyed. And $14,- 691 62 was paid for the sea and isthmus conveyance of the correspondence with Central and South America. The excess of collections in this coun- ' try over the postages collected• abroad, upon the correspondence exchanged with Great Britain and the continent of Europe, was $411,582 32, causing bal ances against this department on settle ment of the quarterly accounts with the respective post departments, amounting to $232,439 55. The service to Brazil, authorized by act of May 28, 1864, has been put into operation, the first steamship of the line left New York with the mails for Bra zil on the 30th of October last. The contract for the mail steamship service to Japan and China was award ed on the 28th of August last, to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The company are to build four first-class sea-going steamships, of from 3,500 to 4,00 tons burden each, government measurement, and commence service on or before the first of January, 1867. _ By existing law no provision is made for compensation sailing vessels con veying the mails to foreign ports. It is recommended that the authority be giv en the Postmaster General to allow such vessels so employed compensation not to exceed the sea postage. The subject of subsidizing American lines to British ports may be presented to Congress at its approaching session, Although in the last report the policy was commended of granting incidental aid to certain classes of new routes, as of those to Brazil and China, no modi fication of the system, based upon the postage earnings, was proposed in favor 01* established routes. The iesults of this system in regard to the service on new as well as old routes are encoura ging. As to the new, several lines have been established since the close of the war, to which less than the postage have been allowed. While it would gratify our nationa pride to encourage the commercial en terprise of the country, through the agency of subsidies, in the establish ment of steamship lines'of the highest grade to all ports where foreign lines are or may be in operation, and which it cannot be doubted would contribute to the earlier development of the com mercial interests of the particular routes covered by such lines, this department is not prepared to recommend any de parture from the established policy. NEW POSTOFFICE BUILDING AT NEW The attention of this department has been again called to the subject of erect ing a new postoffice building in the city of New York. The Chamber of Commerce of that city has recently adopted a series of resolutions recom mending the measure, in which it is urged that the present building, as re gards its dimensions, accessibility by the public and accommodations in gen eral, is inadequate for the proper man agement of the large and increasing postal business centering at New York. If the proposed improvement can be made upon terms just to the govern ment and the citizens of New York, this department has no hesitation in commending the measure to the favor of Congress, The number of dead letters received, examined, and disposed of, was 4,363,- 087, an increase of 859,262 over the pre vious year. The numbar containing money, and rimailed to owners, was 42154, with inclosures amounting to $244,973 97. Of the5e,•35,268, containing $210,951 90, were' delivered, leaving 6,886 undeliver ed, with inclosures of the value -of, $3B,- 419 07. The number of letters conveyed in the mails during 1865 is estimated at467,591,- 600. Of these 4,368,687-ivere returned to :the. Dead lietter. °Mee, including 666; 097 army and navy letters.: POS TAT, MONEY-45RDEJI SYSTEM. _ , Tlift number of iAlces la 419; including time in WO PaciSc states = and Tiring). ries, and some of the principal offices in the Southern States. Orders have been issued for putting into operation fifty five additional offices. The number of money orders issued during the year was 74, t. 76, of the value of $1,360,1 52. CONDITION OF THE DEPARTMENT. The Post Office Department was es tablished on the principle of defraying its expenses out of its revenues. Its financial history shows that its annual receipts have rarely equalled its expen ditures: During the last year there was a surplus of revenue, a result more gratifying because no part of the appro priation for franked matter has been drawn upon. But so favorable a result cannot be anticipated for the current year, in consequence of the expendi tures incident to restoring the service in the Southern States. Lieut. Gen. Grant's Report Gen. Grant's Report opens at the date of his appointment to the chief com mand of the Union forces at which time and from an early period, he says, he had been impressed that only active and continuous operations in the fiend, re gardless of season and weather, would terminate the war. While the enemy's resources and numerical strength were inferior to ours, the ease and rapidity with which he moved upon interior lines gave the rebels a decided advan tage over us. The Lieutenant General therefore determined to mass the troops against the enemy, and then "to hammer against him until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left but submission with the loyal section, of our common country, to the Constitution and laws of the land." And with this idea he set to work. Gen. Grant reviewed the situa- I tion of the Union and rebel armies—the immense districts held by the latter, and the continuous and lengthy lines of fortifications to be garrisoned and held by the armies of the Union while meet ing the rebel forces in the field. The operations of guerrillas and bushwhack ers in the Southwest are also reviewed. Of the operations of the Army of the Potomac, the Lieutenant General says that he tried as far as possible to leave Gen. Meade in independent command of it, and his instructions were all sent through him, and were general in their nature, leaving the execution of the de tails to Gen. Meade. The campaignethat followed proved him to be the right man in the right -place. His commanding always in the presence of an officer su perior to him in rank, has drawn from him much of that public attention that his zeal and ability entitle him to, and which he would otherwise have receiv ed. The movements across the Rapidan, the battles of the Wilderness, &c., with which the public are familiar, are re counted, and their relations to the great result shown. The position of Gen. Butler's forces at Bermuda Hundred were as completely cut off by the ene my's operations in his front, th ,, Lieu tenant General says, as if they had been iu a bottle strongly corked. The ene my took advantage of this isolation of Butler's position, and collected their scattered forces under B reck.in rid ge and others, and laid iu subsistence and other stores which came to them from the States. From the proximity of the enemy to his defenses around Richmond, it was impossible by any flank movement to interpose between him and theoity, but our forces might invest Richmond from the north side, or continue the move ment by the enemy's right flank to the south side of the James—the former would have left all the rebel lines of communication south open, and, the Lieutenant General designed, if possible, to beat Lee's army north of Richmond, and then, after destroying his lines of communication, to either invest him in Richmond, or pursue him south, if he retreated. The latter plan was adopted and successfully carried out. The move ments from Cold Harbor and against Petersburg were important in deciding the final result. The operations of Guns. Sheridan, Wilson, Kautz and othercav alry officers hastened the glorious con summation. The season of inactionw h ich followed. WAS necessary to wear out the enemy and exhaust his accumulated resources, and to prepare for the spring campaign of 1865, which was being de veloped by Sherman in his great march to the Atlantic seaboard. The capture of Wilmington, Charleston and Savan nah, sent terror and dismay to the hearts of the rebels, while the loyal North and the Union armies= were thrilled with joy. The movements against Lee in the early part of April, 1865, were so successful as to induce the Lieutenant-General to demand the sur render of the Army of Virginia, which he did in a communication to General Lee, dated April 7, 1865, to which Gen. Lee replied by asking the terms of sur render, which, as the civilized world is now aware, were more liberal than any other successful military commander of any nation would grant to his opponent. On the 9th of April, therefore, the rebel forces under Gen eral Lee surrendered to the national forces under Gen. Grant. The.. surren der of Generals/Johnston and Dick Tay lor soon followd, and the rebellion col lapsed in the capture or flight of its chiefs. A force sufficient to ensure an easy triumph over Kirby Smith was then sent to Texas, but before they reached their destination, he, too, had surrendered; but in bad faith he first disbanded hisarmy, and permitted them to carry away their arms and equip ments, and they then engaged in an in discriminate plunder of public property. .In consequence of these lawless acts and the reports that many of those late ly in rebellion had taken refuge in Mex ico, carrying with, them property right fully belonging to the United States, which had been surrendered by agree ment, and the disturbed condition of af fairs on the Rio Grande, the orders for troops to proceed to Texas were not changed. The Lieutenant-General con cludes as follows: FETEIM " It has been my fortune to see the armies of both the West and East fight battles, and from what I have seen I know there is no difference in their fighting qualities. All that it was pos sible for men to do in battle they have done. The Western armies commenced their battles in the Mississippi Valley, and received the final surrender of the remnant of the principal army opposed to them in North Carolina. The arm ies of the East commenced their battles on the river from which the Army of the Potomac derived its name, and received the final surrender of its old antago nist at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. the splendid achieve ments of each have nationalized our victories, removed all sectional jealous ies, of which we have, unfortunately, experienced too much, and the cause of crimination and recrimination that might have followed, had either section failed in its duty. All have a grand rec ord, and all sections can well congrat ulate themselves, and each other, in having done their full share in restoring the supremacy of law over every foot of territory belonging to the United States. Let them hope for perpetual peace and harmony with that enemy, Whose man hood, however mistaken the cause, drew forth such herculean deeds of valor." [Signed] U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant General Abstract of the Report of the Secretary of the Treaaary. The report ofthe Secretary of the Treastu7 discusses the three questions of the CurreneY, the Public Debt, and the Revenue. He goes into a inn exposition of the objections to United States notes as. a permanent 'cur rency, the chief of which he states to be the act that the government ofthe United States is one of limited and defined powers, and that the authority to issue, notes as money is neither expressly given to Congress by the constitution, nor fairly to be inferred except as a measure of neoesEdly in a great riatiotalkanaergeney, , He holds it to be the crowning glory of the. Constitution that great' war tuts been Waged and closbil without the power of the gevernmentlieTrig enlarged or rte relatiens to the States being - - The-paper circulation of the United States . 62 -0- - e,W4t. 3 7•Waa $7003,038 Th's Sticremry - veryably meeting - the fiatiqua otdentionicto °reduction -of thechr rency recommends; . - • • , r&ist, - That "Caigreea - are. decl that the , - NUMBER 49. compound interest notes shall cease to be a legal tender.from the day of theirmatnrity. Second, That the Secretary be authorized, in his discretion, to sell bonds of the United States, bearing interest at a rate not eiceed ing six per cent, and redeemable and pay able at such periods as may be conducive to the interests of the Government, for the purpose:of retiring not only compound inter est notes, but the United States notes. In reference to the debt, the Secretary be lieves that, if kept at home, it need not be oppressive, but that it is still a national burden, and the work of removingitahould not be long postponed. The Secretary sees no way of removing it but by an increase of the national income over the expenditures. It should be our ambition not to bequeath it to our descend ants. The first step should be to fund the ma turing obligations. The next should be to provide for raising, in the least odious man ner, the revenue necessary to pay the in terest and a certain definite annual amount for the payment of the principal. Mr. Mc- Cullough hopes that Congress will be de cided and emphatic on this point. The debt on the 31st of October was $2,- 808,549,437.55; deducting monies in the Treasury, it was $2,740,854,759. He esti mates it on July 1, 1866, at $3,000,000,000. The annual interest, if funded at 5i per cent., would be $165,000,000, but if funded at 5 per cent. it would lite $150,000,000. If M 0,000,000 per annum should be ap plied to pay accruing interest and to reduceN the principal funded at the higher rate of per cent., the debt would be paid in thirty two years, or at 5 per cent, in a little over twenty-eight years. The Secretary believes that no act of Con gress would be more popular than one which should provide for such an extin guishinent of the debt. Upon the subject of Internal Revenues, the Report recommends : First. That the collection of internal re venue taxes which accrued before the estab lishment of revenue offices in the States recently in rebellion, be indefinitely post poned. ' Second, That all sales of property in those States, under the direct tax law, be suspen ded until the States shall have an opportu nity of assuming (as was done by the loyal States,) the payment of the tax assessed upon them. Third, That all transactions in such States, which may be invalid by the non use of stamps, be legalized as far as it is in the power of Congress to legalize them. The Secretary regards the national bank ing system as one of the great compensa tions of the war, and gives some interesting statistics about its operations. Report of the Secretary of War We give as fill an abstract of the Report of the Secretary of War as our crowded col umns will permit to-day : WAR DEPARTMENT, '1 WASHINGTON CITY, Nov. :&.2, .1865. MR. PRESIDENT: The military appropia lions by the last Congress amounted to the sum of five hundred and sixteen millions two hundred and forty thousand one hun dred and thirty-one dollars and seventy cents, ($516,240,131.70). The military esti mates for the next fiscal year, after careful revision, amount_ to thirty-three millions eight hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty three cents ($33,814,461.83). The national military force on the first of May, 1865, num bered one million rive hundred and sixteen men. It is proposed to reduce the military establishment to fifty thousand troops, and over eight hundred thousand have already been mustered out of service. What has occasioned this reduction of force and ex penditure in the War Department, it is the purpose of this report to explain. OUR MILITARY FORCES, Official reports show that on the first of March, 1885, the aggregate national military force of all arms, officers and men,was nine hundred and sixty-five thousand five hun dred and ninety-one, to wit : Available force present for duty 602,598 On detached service in the different mili tary departments 132,.":38 In field hospitals or unfit for duty 35,628 In general hospitals or on sick leave at home 1.1.1-119 Absent on furlough or as prisoners of war '31,6% Absent without leave 19,683 Grand aggregate. This force was augmented on the first of May, 1865, by enlistments to the number of One million rive hundred and sixteen of all arms, officers and men (1,000,516). READINESS FOR FOREIGN WAR. The war appropriations at the lastsession of Congress, as has been stated, amounted to the sum of $516,240,131 70. The estimates for the next fiscal year, commencing June 30, 1866, $33,814,461 83. The estimates are based upon a standing force of fifty thousand men, so organized as to admit of an increase, without additional organizations, to 82,600 troops of all arms. This estimate has been made after confer ence and careful consideration, and is be lieved to be adequate for any national exi gency, if the country should be blessed with peace. The reduction of the national mili tary force in its rapidity and numbers, is without example, and if there be any alarm in the public mind because this reduction is made while grave questions at home and abroad are unsettled, a brief consideration of the subject will show that there is no cause for apprehension. The force to be retained is small compared with that which was organized to subdue the rebellion. But the only reasons de manding greater force are—lst, renewal of the insurrection ; 2d, a foreign war. For either or both emergencies the national re sources remain ample. The chief demands for war, as shown by our experience, are, Ist, troops ; 2d, arms and ammunition ; 3d, clothing ; 4th, transportation ; and sth, sub sistence supplies. The troops disbanded were chiefly volun teers, who went to the field to uphold the system of free government established by their fathers, and which they mean to be queath to their children. Their toils and sufferings, their marches, battles, and vic tories, have not diminished the value of that government to them; so that any new re bellion would encounter equal' or greater force for its reduction ; and none can ever spring up with such advantages at the start, or be conducted with superior means, abil ityor prospect ofsuccess. A foreign warwould intensify the national feeling, and thous ands, once misled, would rejoice to atone their error by rallying to the national flag. The question of time in which armies could be raised to quell insurrection or repel in vasion is, therefore, the only question rela ting to troops. Our experience in this point is significant. When Lee's army surrendered, thousands of recruits were pouring in, and men were discharged from recruiting sta tions and rendezvous in every State. On several occasions, when troops were prompt ly needed to avert impending disaster, vig orous exertion brought them into the field from remote States with incredible speed. Official reports show that after thedisasters on the Peninsula, in 1862, over eighty thous and troops were -enlisted, organized, armed, equipped and sent into the held in less than a month. Sixty thousand troops have re peatedly gone to the field within four weeks. And ninety thousand infantry were sent to the armies, from the five States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, and Wisconsin, within twenty days. When the-rebellion commenced, the na tion was a stranger to war. Officers had little experience, privates none. But the present generation of men In this country are now veteran soldiers. For the battle, the march or the siege they are already trained. They are as much at home in the tented field as in the farm house, the manu factory or the shop. No time is required to train them; and the speed of the railroad and telegraph determines the time required to raise an army in the United States. Second—As to arms and ammunition. The disbanded armies were allowed to take home their arms at a nominal price. Rust is not likely to gather on the musket or sa bre borne throughlthe:campaigns of 1864 and 1845. The government retains inflow arsenals more than a million of the best quality of arms and equipments. The artilleryon hand tasks the department for its means of stor age. The manufacture of ammunition re quires materials" for which we have in some degree relied upon other countries, because they could baha.d cheaper. For this reason and to guard against any mischance, three years' stock of material for ammunition has already been kept in store, and the supply on handits ample for any war that can be waged'against us by any nation. Third--Clothint tran...rtation and .sub sistence. After se ing or tributing among freedmen and refugees all damaged or ir- I regular clothing,. the stook of clothing and material in the quartermasters' depots is sufficient for any armies that may be called ' into service. The water transports =dron ing stock,. mules, wagons and horses . held by the government were adequate to the movement and supply of - larger forces in less time, than had heretofore been known in war. The government has disposed or is disposing this 'tr9nspcatation, but' it re mains' in- this Country, and can answer any • Army subsistence is .derived from the .eountq• which military: _operations are carried on, or supplied from other.inarkets. During the war this most vital branch of the service - never' lclt - answers to the - _danand, and,is .ever, ready to meet - the nar It'is, pleln; iherefore;"tinti abundance . 4inktr-nfeitteorl*iii:enablits , -the *Mil.* Jnentorctner:Elnited riatalka \to:redline , the standing force to a lower degree tlntn arty APlKAlrrillarAllisie-: • •,• SS.DVNIMAISEI 11, $l2 year prr l lcia!W+Pf terrlinestrteri'per oetitalloreaue for xatax Anuxurtomerui 1 - oentir iFtine - for the first, and 4 cumin for eaoh . sutugment, laser- PATXR* Drirratt*ii and the One eatltnn4 Half column, 60 , Third column, 40 grunter BO Busrerxsa Quinn, of ten lines or ces* • one year, "Business QT . :1876 Biles or e one Year • ..... . 5 LEGAL arm ' Executors' notieee.:.. • Administrators' 2.00 Assignees' notices, 2.00 Auditors' notices, L5O Other.."Noticee,7 ten Bnes, iesx, other nation. "Unless War be actually raging, the military force can be... brought within very narrow limits. 'However, sudden the exigency calling for an exhibition' of mili tary power, it can be promptly met. With our education, habits and experience, the nation, while in the midst of peace, is pre pared for war. By the heads of the respective bureaus of the War Department and their staffs the government has been served with a zeal and fidelity not surpassed by their breth ren in the field. To them the honors and distinction of an admiring public have not been opened, but in their respective voca tions they have toiled with a devotion, abil ity and success for which they are.entitled to national gratitude. Looking to the causes that have accom plished the national deliverance,there seems no room henceforth to doubt the stability of the Federal Union. These causes are per manent, and must always have an active existence. The majesty of national power has been exhibited in the courage and faith of our citizens, and the ignominy ofrebellion is witnessed by the hopeless end of the great rebellion. EDWIN M, STANTON, Secretary of War Negro iinlrrage and the Teachings of the Jamaica Insurrection. The teachings of the late diabolical atrocities committed by the negro in surrectionists in Jamaica should not be lost upon those intemperate radicals in our own country who are endeavoring to elevate the negro beyond the sphere the Creator intended him to occupy. They should serve to them as a terrible warning of what may occur here, and what bloody scenes may be enacted in our midst, especially in the Southern portion of the country, if they persist in their designs • and to what a fearful ac countability they will be held if they re fuse to listen to the counsels of reason and learn nothing from present occur rences. In the case of the - Jamaica butcheries we perceive that the " brown man," Gordon, possessed of an intelligence be yond the ordinary standard of the black man or negro, and entertaining a de gree of ferocity and vindictiveness only found in the latter race when in their most savage state, was the leader of the assassins, and had been elevated to are sponsible official position by the votes of the -inhabitants of Jamaica, where negro suffrage, or negro equality, is legally recognized. Restless and ambi tious, he inflamed the mindsofhis ignor ant followers, just as Wendell Phillips, Cheever, Garrison and other negro agitators are doing at this day in our country, and awakened the revenge ful passions of the ignorant blacks to an extent that knew no bounds. The blood curdles as the record of the bar barities committed is read. We see here—what the history of St. Domingo and attempted slave insurrections in other portions of this continent have al ready shown—another instance of the utter incapacity of the negro race for self-government. Their normal • and natural condition is that of dependents. In the South the great mass of them are more helpless and improvident than the merest children. As a race, if an effort is made to elevate them, to bestow upon them the rights and privileges of white men, they return to their natural in stincts of barbarism or utter helpless ness, and become a burden and a pest in whatever community they may reside in any number. It is true there are ex ceptions to this rule; but we refer to the present wretched conditions of the mas ses of the Southern negroes, to the new ly gorged gibbets of Jamaica to the sanguinary massacres of both Jamaica, and St. Domingo, for evidence that our assertion can be substantiated. What must be the result to the entire race if such brown men as Gordon and Fred. Douglass, and such " white men with black hearts" as we have named, shall be permitted to continue the agitation of the subjectof negro qquality ? In the first place, we shall see the whites in the West Indies opening a war of extermi nation against the blacks, and in our country we shall see every Southern plantation and roadside covered with the graves of negroes or their uncoffined corpses. They are dying so fist there now of starvation and exposure that the humane planters cannot care for them or their dead bodies. What folly it is to *talk to hundreds of thousands of miserable beings like these about free dom and equality, negro suffrage and all that! On the other hand, there are many thousands of the Southern blacks who have been taught to believe by the negro worshippers of. the North that they are the equals of the whites in every reaped., and that fact being denied by their former masters, the natural in stincts of their savage natures, or, as the London Times expresses " the very moral of their African forefathers" burst forth and humanity sickens at the deeds of blood, pillage and massacre that ensue—all, of course, followed by sanguinary and merciless acts of retali ation and punishment. President Johnson, in his reconstruc tion policy, should approach this grave matter of negro equality and negro suf frage in the most careful manner. He should be cautious in bestowing rights upon the negroes to which they are un used and, by the great mass of those in the South, never to be appreciated by them. At the same time, the Northern agitators and radicals, such as Phillips, Cheever, Greeley, Fred Douglass, Gar rison, Higginson, and all the rest, should take warning by the horrible scenes which have resulted from an attempt to spread their insane doctrines of negro equality over the once fair island of Ja maica.—H. Y. Herald. Sumner's Impudence A Washington correspondent of the World relates the following incident, with positive assurance that it is true : One day last week a well-known gen tleman of this city, and old time person al acquaintance of the President, made a brief call on Mr: Johnson, as it has been his wont to do. Buts few moments had elapsed when a servant entered with a voluminous telegraph, dispatch forthe President. Refound it to consist of sev eral foolscap pages of manuscript con . taining instructions to the President 0n.., all these topics, such as the abolition of slavery, the Freedmen's Bureau, negro -suffrage, etc., which might be supposed likely to find more or less of place in it, and which are the well known hobbies of the genuine radical party.. The dis patch came from Senator Sumner, and in one corner of it was written a sum, nearly $l4, as the cost of the dispatch, which Mr. Johnson was left to pay. It will not be considered a matter of won— ' der if the human nature of Mr. Johnson exhibited tokens of displeasure and in dignation at this evidence of Mr. Sum ner's impudent and unmannerly inter ference with his personal and official independence. Mr. Johnson gave vent _to his sense of the ambitious busybody, and negro struck senator's dictation, in a decidedly. terse and characteristic way. Items of News. General Howard's report was submit ted to the War Department on Wednesday. It will not be published until examined by Secretary Stanton. A large mass meeting of workingmen was held in New York on Wednesday eve ning, in furtherance of the:eight hour vs tern. Speeches weremade by Edwin James and others. —Since the 11th of March litst, the num ber of major generals honorably discharged is 10 ;" resigned 22; total 32. Number of brigadier generals mustered out 78; resign ed. 55; died 4; total 137. Total of both 169. —General Grant was at Augusta, Geor gia, on Wednesday. He was to leave yes terday for Atlanta, --- Some men got into a row in BostOrt on Wednesday night and a young man who was walking On - the Opposite side of the Street was killed by a pistol shot fired ..by one of them. —The debt of the War. Department Is, heavier than-hes been keneraW • et,itilta ; alidgis said t41it.0.01. 4 6 0*( 1, 0 1 4:be 'il"t befoio"t4o end Ot the asota ' Year. MMEI
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