The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

year. The aggregate number of acres surveyed during the year has been
equal to the quantity disposed of, and there is open to settlement abcut
133,000,000 acres of surveyed land.
The great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific
States by railways and telegraph lines has been entered upon with a
vigor that gives assurance of success, notwithstanding the embarrassments arising from the prevailing high prices of materials and labor.
The route of the main line of the road has been definitely lb'ated for
one hundred miles westward from the central point at )Omaha City,
Nebraska, and a preliminary location of the Pacific Railroad of California lhas been made from Sacramento, eastwarl. to the great bend of
Mucker River, in Nevada. Numerous discoveries of gold, silver, and
cinnabar mines have been added to the many heretotfor known, and the
country occupied by the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains and the
sul:ordirate ringes now teen's wit1i ent rpris'ng Iborv hich is rillyv
remunerative. It is believed that the product of the mines of precious
metals in that region has during the year reached, if not exceeded,
$100,000,000 in value.
It was recommended in my last annual message tlhat our Indian
system be remodelled. Congress at its last session, acting upon the
recommendation, did provide for reorganizing the system in California,
and it is believed that, under the present organization, the management
of the Indians there will be attended with reasonable success. Much yet
remains to be done to provide for the proper government oft the Indians
in other parts of the country, to render it secure for the advancing settler
and to provide for the welfare of the nation. The Sccretary reiterates
his recommendations, and to them the attention of Congress is invited.
The liberal provisions made by Congress for paying pensions to invalid
soldiers and sailors of the Republic, and to the widows, orlha:lns, and
dependent mothers of those who have fallen in battle, or died of disease
contracted, or of wounds received in the service of their country, have
been diligently administered.
There have been added to the pension-rolls, during the year ending the
30th day of June last, the names of 16,770 invalid soldier., and of 271 disabled seamen; making the present number of army invalid pensioners
22,767, and of the navy invalid pensioners, 712. Of widows, orphans,
and mothers, 22,198 have been placed on the army pension-rolls, and
248 on the navy rolls. The present number of army pensioners of this
class is 25,443, and of the navy pensioners, 793. At the beginning of the
year the number of Revolutionary pensioners was 1,430; only twelve of
them were soldiers, of whom seven have since died. The remainder are
those who under the law receive pensions because of relationship to Revolutionary soldiers.
During the year ending the 30th of June, 1864, $4,504,616 92 have been
paid to pensioners of all classes.
I cheerfully commend to your continued patronage the benevolent