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| ' 4 spo, eta ere, 062; Seemere Sef ope, 1 rigs, + 1b; yeonts nd email iy to ‘ scertain. tmeat seve @ roperty aroun 300,300 exe! 8, $1,237 yange, Loreal ta tbe way ef om! commenders in our sone Te A 5 ; ing, Be diseret! to | whom tbe nation may weil bave one '@r diatribaliom, one Dail to |. raptors, aud | officer of he Bn I Rh an ety yer ler ita bys achievements ae ae the Unlied States as © paval peosieo fund, ofiene. dasteee tobestienat , though dale necessary correct | rank as that offeer 190,641. " — atmagicmmenae sons coast be recent bitians risty the | | nsased iota repre i abe giving ane vamont | a iy ver + un Hod src ‘sompetiive engines Dellers sow under con- ‘Mobile, more pornaps, im some eel. , . Contract P= ‘trial wi! pomp tmertong which wil! be | dents even than or poems conilict that gave i esi; a iat Of canes Biready adjudicated, showing | law: a Ssapet a beats teal aad under of great public utility. and ultimately restored the free ‘evipation She groms proceeds of sale, the expense of condempatios | practice that nas prevailed, the whole system bas ‘BAavY YaRD TOR be Me nmered AND MACHINERY. ey was, “test apie, Pe and the net amount for dwtribuation. come tainted with demoralization and fraud, by w: Joint rea tation of Congres, approved op the Ist of | ine bi duly Maat, eetucrised the tascetsty or tue Navy ee invent | tearner iu {Air dealer io, often ET dR, Ro | Rave cosnrved, and qumne Articios Inferior In quality ficlent in | department vasecepted Somach of the naval veosion fund ag was acd required | quantity are deliveres oud pasted na tbe vusasicien. for the immediate payment of peusions in the registered | improper practices are resorted Mew 4 oo io pan bot oe mene LATE oes securities of thi ited States. the authority con | the employ ment of the go: id i ry eu the wi character of | the office of vice admiral ehould nacteaned a r |, and the ap- dovirabie im commons ry ‘wars it will ‘be found that a few | pointment conferred op Rear Admiral David Q. Farragut, have invested $5,000,000 as prov! Mairearance on rable in pay aad postion. The + by seem, wi ce aaniniinte tbe | {but respoad,as i'veRove, to tne voloe and wiahes of WHO 0%, and 0 ihe “Isto January | the purchase and applies ‘was alleged to | tiose are suielis te cont ia eal eonroens, most Delligereut nations. Baval service and of the whole country. wilt be the further eum of $2,000,000, | exist, and with pu rt iog and bringing | an aiteration of the aw of tierce A pansing to bean by sbis civil war to ‘The attention of Congress, through the naval comi be invested without interfering with | such fraudulent practices to light, application was made | value of ratious of sek Wreneorred to ‘anaes owe take the initiative im organizing & vast steam navy wi tee, bas heretofore been called to fact that the sum of pensions. This amount | to War Dep: rtment, job dotalios olflcer to prowe- | gested. Authority to tne beleace ich $0 establish and enforce the blockade of our whole | ber of officers on the active list in the grades of eommo- ,000, suMicient for the | cute these inquiries. The reguit # that m: 0 B48) to the city of Wasi An trom the Grande: it affords mo a0 | (raudg bave Deon discovered. Proceed Wa also ‘requested. The geretnins peake Bay to th ; and | dore, captain, commander, and lieutenant commander, Is epredations of somi-piratical pri. | not ‘equal to the number of weasels of the dife vateers, skilled English mechanics in English | ferent rates required by law to be commanded by shipyards, and manned by Englishmen, which, under } Officers of these grades. A small increase was recom- the rebel flag, have roved the ocean, destroying our | mended as well as an alteration in the law. rela. mercbant shipping, and have found refuge aod supplies | tive to oor) cauicies in the grade of admiratin time of or) ish and neutral Peace, My letter on this subject, with the accompanying When hostilities commenced, our government had pro- | draft of a bill, making provision aleo for the incorporation” fogly been instituted, and are cow ip progress againat me of the parties implicated betor: mailitery trib oals Suste, that the p-¥ foser reume ws re.ted a fund, the income from which | woder the statute, and against others in the civil courts. be under ovvtri of the Sepertment ample for the payment of the autbor. ANCRBABE OF SALARIES. The colnge! com manda r) ° fzed pension to ture who have been wounded, aud to the Tn consequence of the greatly increased prices that pre. } bi# command in » good widows ecd crpbavs of those who have been Killed tn the | vail, many whoare In the clerical employment of the gov- } number i# sow tally b id 108, OF died from disease contracted in the line of | erument, at » compensation established prior to the war, | law, he vi suitable aavy yard, with machine shops and | Into the regular service of a few volunteer officers who, | d ees eiihous calling upon the national treasury, are receiving aremuueration wholly inguiiotent, Thestate | » foundries to manufacture the necessary machinery for | by geal, ability ana service during the war, bave merited Pension rol) on the 1st of November, 1304, was ag | of tho currency, wich other causes, bas so affected prices | eral our rapidly inceesaiog and expanding navy; but the de ‘bis reward, will be found in the appendix to this report. | follows:— that these men are receiv! 769 invalids with pensions, amounting to, 840 widows and orphans, amounting to 1,609 persons receiving a total amount of.. @ relatively but about one- | the galiant deeds of bait the pay of (ormer years, aud the eifect has a - Such ag to compel many of the best cl Partment to leive the government service. This ie public ijury, especially in a crisis like the present. The jornent was compelled to rely on the few private estab- lishments which it-could divert from other engsgements, The enactments of th: for the inimense work that was calling ous t! to enlistments have beer ‘ion, ‘the naval service, and io iced in consequence } the anfertunate legislation bUporabie part. ENLISTMENT. jst session of Congress In regard im their operation beneficial to § degree have corrected ‘of the prece of Great embarrassment was experien: ding session, Not } in this connection | ask jace of au experionted and accomplished clerk 1s at 20 of this negiect of the government at the vei only the full complement of men required has entered the | of the cbicf of the Bureau of [com ooetth auaal 3 but when such ment of war, and althoug® the naval sei service, but & surplus of many thousands Tho the reason that it is not remun 0 pay is | additions to it now Ip progress country are suffering constantly from this neglect, mea- | landsmen have offered, who could not bo received ulating pensions, below corresponding positions in private establighments, | tutes, ior ali the sures for tne establisnment of @ suitable navy yard for | But the wans of seamen te mill felt, Large | for the ew grades of the navy —' the difficulty ig increased. It 1g therefore suggested that | cow: most quent, the our the construction aud repair of irom vessels, tbeirarma- | Dumbers of that valuable class were induced to Heutenant commander, & thorized by act | the ries of the clerical force, oF a portion of the bes ay | ture and steam machinery are still delayed. r the army when high bounties were given to the Congress on the 16tb of July of the same year. The | clerical forca, be increased until the close of ogress As early as March, 1862, and omseveral occasions since, | soldiers and withheld from the sailors, Many thousaod [ act should be so revised as to include these grades; and | until the currency sball return to te stan le 7 duty to enabit I have had the honor to present my view to Congress on | trained seamen, under those extraordinary inducements, { ft is suggested that a better adaptation of the amonnt of This recomm iuctanee, ‘ty 4 this subject, Tho earnesinoss end frequency with which | eulisted in the army before the legisiaiion for the two | pension to the respousibility of the oficer might bo | and only under a sense of its absolute pecessity at this | s comparatively small begiovlog, eder [3 it bas been brought forward must find an apology in ite | branches of the public service was equalized. Although } advantageously made. The highcst pay now authorized | time. of an unexampied ex geocy, the vast aevel great importance. the law now authorizes thelr transfer to the navy,a very } ie thirty dollars per month, the family of @ captain ‘MACTER’S MATES. since your accessioe to the rrenaeney, teed Ithas never been the purpose of the department, In iderabie portion of them still remain the army, | reeeiving no more than the family of a master com. When the rate of pay for master’s mates was estab- | brought into existence; te state the contrita- any of its suggestions or recommendations, te increase landsmen would be of equal service. Seamen are the number of our my. ‘ards, nor to alter their local ‘perts, and cannot be procured by draft, or secured for distribution, The yard which we now bave at Philade!. | an emergency like the present, any more than engineers. pbia te altogether inadequate to our present or future | or accomplished gunnery officers. wants. It was proposed, therefore, to substitute a new Stimulated by patriotic impulse, mon may volunteer one on the Delaware, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. } to serve their country in any capacity; but they cannot League Island, within tho limita of that city, if adopted | be made available as seamen without training aud expe- as a site, must gradually absorb the works at the present | rieuco at sea, yhra, which would then be di tinued. The organization of a man-of-war is very dit. Allof our rng navy yards, it willbe remembered, | ferent from that of a merchant vessel A fret wore established for the construction and repair of | rate saiior will soon make himself at bome on wooden sailing vessels. Steam and armored vessels have | board of avy ship; but the division of dutit supe! 4 these, and the jvability of our present estab- | the system of petty officers. Msbments for the work impoged by this war has been the | and in boats—the diecipline, the ol A Cg of great | thorough and complete system of a mun of-war, are ut jury. rel 4 they execute, and to secure neves- | shipboard, and there is difficulty in inducing sary repairs, the department has been compelled to estab- | Americans to enter either the aval or merchant lish stations for machinery, and means of refitmont at | In other countries the field of adventare is restricted; Mound City, Memphis, New Crieans, Ship Island, Pensa. | bi are many, bestdce ocean life, 1am not cola, Key West, Port Royal, Beaufort, Norfolk and Baiti- ate but more. But theso and all the private establishments of emont i y the , besides other calls upon'them, have been { other calling; but the naval and merchant service, io inguficient to keep the present navy in necessary order; } time of peace, depond almost entirely upon the foreigners » if to the duty of blockading thore were added } and the homeless for mariners to sail their shire, ‘These Manding, and ise reduction of twenty dollara per month | lished it was thought to correspond with that of other | tions whi our | from the amount formerly paid, Tho act of Congress | grades; but the changes in currency and values which | commercial marine; to indicate the sppiicssion of ail the approved on the 4th of July last provides that a person | have since taken place render it diflicult to retain in the | revources of our public naval establishments to ite con- fo the ‘military service’? wo shall lose b'th feet shail | service a sullicient number of this bigbly serviceable and } stroction and preparation (or service, to show how jodi Tecolve a pension of tweaty dollars por month, and those | meritorious claes of officers. I would therefore recom- | vilual ecergy and skill aod ceyiial have come success who shail lose both bands twenty Gve dollars per | mend that the pay of master’s mates be increased {rom | {uly in ald of insufficient governmental provision jor the month. As the law is construod not to include persone | forty to sixty dollars per month, due prosecution of tbe work, aud Lo irece te general out in the naval service, those who bave suffered asimijar BXPENSES AND ESTIMATES. line the processes and resulle of loventive gene sed loss in. the Bhvy coutiuue to receive but elght or ten | On tho Ist of July, 1563, thore was an unexpended balance } scientific experiment which bave changed, to & great ex- dollars per month—an inequality which it ja believe! waa Standing to the crodit of the departm»att o1.$39,101,970 | tent, the materiain and forme of oaval structore aed are not intended. Tsuggest such changes !p tbo law aa will | The appropriations for the fiscal year endip mor and armament, apd bave enabled our couutry, whe Place the sailor upon the same footing as the auldier. June 30, 1864, WOre....ssseee + 16,668,567 } in 80 brief a period assuming & foremost place emong PRIZB LAW. ————— } maritime nations, to create aiso a Bow orn ie the develop: ‘The seventh section of the act in relation toabandoned | — Total available means + 115,765,537 | ment and application of naval force, and captured property, approved July 2, 1864, reverses | The expenditures of the In connection with such accouut of the suddemcreation of t puocess, of which guine, ke among the experiments that the period and the ezt- gemcies of tho ocomotry haye imposed upon the depart- Four turreted vessels bave been built in the oavy of wood and caced with iron, differing therein the original monitors, which are exclu- sively of iron. One of them, Movadnock, Bow in commission, bas performed her trips from Beston to Hampton Roads with eptire satisfaction, esis, Gisurapce -that thie experiment, deviating in ea- ial respects from others, is likely to be successful, Phe draught Pa i the dionadnock is twelve feet, I urce of inexpressible anxiet; bad with dependent screws she bes a speed of ten | disappointments and public inj ve the | known out of vaval ships, There are no means by Jaw of prize as it stood prior to the present rebe jica, the same time wer 85,733,293 | a now Americ: ‘al power, it bas been at the Four other similar veesels of a stil! re formid- Le yards from work wi we but | which to teach landsmen to become sailors except op | and also as adjudged and applied since the commencemect time my privilege ore CoOmMubicati os to. make means able and invulnerable character are building. ‘The oly seagoing tron-clad ships besides the two Varreted vessels al mentioved are the New Iron- tides, Dutit in 1862; the Roanoke, one of the old frigates bas been armored, and the Dunder! ‘vessel. For this vessel the contractor bas SB epeed of fifteen know at sea. The department has on several occasions invited propo- sitions for fron seagoing armored sbips, but Congress i record of a ser of the rebellion by the courts in their exercise of prize | Leaving a balance at the commencement of juriediction It reverses also for the future the public policy of the country upon the sub cct, as manifested in the legisiation of Congress both before the rebellion and since its commencement up to the date of this act. brupt reversal of settled law und of public policy iscal fo to ‘property seized or 2 upon any inland The estimates subm: wators of the United States by the naval forces thereof,’’ and does not vy. fiscal year Of.......... ions for the current year art he total available resources, for the var ending June 30, 1805 ....-...... 189,289, d for the fiscal year ending June $23,327,722 ta bas @ young in ciber gigantic Seale of 6 Raving declined to make the necessary appropriations a conflicts with @ caval Power by which our ships } men, who hardly touch the shores without finding theme ‘gone discussion ip either | Construction and repair of steam machinery. 17,145,000 th army forces in expeditions and 20 mexsures bave beon taken for their construction. would be often disabled, the sad spectacle would be pre- | selves the viotims of landsharks, and who scarcely re- is. Whether the words “no property | Constiuction and repair of vessels, }, 530,000 oars, aud The vessels recently built, and at presedt constructing | sented of our naval vessels laid up in time of war for | ceive a thought in the vast and generous sanitary opera- | seized or taken upon any inland waters of the United | Ordnance and magazives...., . 9,187,615 jer ous of 2g the nayy yards, are of wood, the smaller cliss of | want of a proper ostablishment with the shops and means } tions, put in motion by wealth and beneficent patriotism, 1 forces thereof”? comprehend not only | Fuel, bemp and equipment of vessel 14,059'000 | tion. can anywhere bo found of @ eboracter to sRem being gunboats, Sigh} of which are of tbe class of to repair them. have enriched our country by their labors in commer- Our country, whose strength and power among nations | cial employment nd ip danger, privation and bardavip must.ever be identided with and maintained by Ite navy, | have adhered with unwavering ll to the fag—nover ad which possesses in such abundance the means of | dissppointing us, and never giving ia dofeat. creating and sustaining one, has not, inall the navy yards With a view of doing some meagure of justice to this combined, ‘the appliances possessed by single establish- | meritorious but too much neglected class, and as» pre- ments in boiens or pane. ATS t entalde ot our tear ep aoweria shote: olanation apd usefulness, pavy yar iehments to perio ‘orn fitted up for the purpose of g school requisite work in time of war, ¥' boat to fa Bia ot it fa, in fact, a. vevieals wii fome time again press the subject of yard for tron work | modificatiovs, of the apprentice system, which, while for the construction of ‘the eonsideration | it was continued, worked beneficlally for the sailor and 13.923.280 | with the triumphs these forma of pavei 4617,313 which It bas bono the uly 4 ibis department during be 6€2 620 ast three years tO organize reper 5t2 020 | Pa iy tbe pronecution of dutiea ao arduous, Compticated 1,599'087 [ @0d oxacting, the trust confided to sbis department shell 2'970,018 | Sppear to Dave been faithfully and Sui Soomeres, thee safri certainly my ackoowledgments areati|i due, as bave $12,187,663 | Been boretofore expressed, to the geatiemed eels, may be questioned but Wt gan | Provisions and cloibiog. hardly be supposed that Congress intended to deny that | Navy yards avd superintendents aval vessels captured fo naval conflict, as at New Or. | Navigation and Naval Academy or Memphis, or in Mobile bay, are the legitimate | Surgouns’ necessarios and hos) tals. yject of prize. The same is. true also of transports, | Marine corps....... ‘med or unarmed, conveying the troops :r munitions of | Contingent and miscellaneous . enewy, which may Php roar a roca Let pe fe $ ttat to deprive such captures of tbe character tal % prize could have been deliberately intended. ‘The exp o pa ce the 4th of | With me in its management, tothe whole bs sty el ng ~J Do the words ‘any inland ‘waters of the United | March, 1861, have been as follows:— to the sevarel chie[p of bureaus, and sepeeialia States”? embrace the Chosapeake ond Nolaware bays, the | From 4th of March 10 close of fiscal year, valuable 8 the Ni ‘of 600 tons, mounting goe heavy pivot and four Yonaiide ube. "there are four of the class of “Nantucket, of 900 tons, mounting one Keavy pivol, w: atx droudalde Fue th addition to these there are four Teasels Of 188 Algona, with @ tonnage boos and proportionate armament. All of these vi la Dave very considerabie steam power, and will, of them Dave already proved, be eificient cruisers at sea, The immediate wanis of the biockade having been sup- Pied by the vensels bulit avd altered in the navy yards, aad by purchase of the best merchant steamers capable | of our au the country, Some measures aro requisite to elevate tne | Bay of Mobile and },ake Pontchartrain? 30, 1801...... Beis $6,244,857 | clerk of the department, RPE EY hcocoen, the attention of the depart- 4nd zealousl; Condition and the cbaracter of tbia class now, when the |B; he vers of Abi om At aval officer selzing | For fiscal year ending June 80, 1862, 42'200'529 |. But it is to the oicers ang mee ear x! oeree peepee pel gd had and more imposing | by private contra yet the bat aalior is neither flogged nor taught to become a drunk. | or rte, Property bas the option either to send St | For fisca! year ending June 30, 1863 meisanaonny [Neer saP Tomes ot Siete ee rh ships, such ag.would be formidable aot only for home | tomer but the goverament for much ard—two Important stops in the rigbtdirection toWnrds | in to the courts or to turn it over under the act of | For fiscal year ending June 30, 1864..... 65,138,208 | 16 doing, justly belongs | Tee ott oe pues S deieuco, but ' fox forelgu service, | The Peantoa | af roa work, forbide us to expect that indisidual enter: | making bims man to be trusted on shore £5 wail as | March 12,1565, to tho Treasury agent, No one bub | From July 1. 1864,t0 November 1, 1é64”.... 41,287,070 | department can, do Title mate Os any Sime See agg and” tnflarnce the prige will be prepared to execute It without (ull remuce. | sfloat, the naval geizor has this option. All other persons | Estimated expenditures from November 1, sige “a therate aS and. el ‘a) and, w c ‘wor! to vation for all the vpn f for shops, tools and machinery Commencing as apprénticea on the school ship, it | must turn over their seizures to the Treasury agent. 1864, to March 4, 1865 ......., sevese 62,000,000 when tbele own oour Lt jeat exient de) abil which be requ! in preparation, Resides this, un- | would be well to open to the B.l'or boy tho way to pro- | It is diMcult to perceive the purpose for whieh this dia- recognize navel may ‘iations ly been made by Congress limited time is taken by them for the completion the | motion by glving him an opportunity, if he suall deserve of this character. Each work. It may be proper to mention, as ap {instance of | it, of entering the Naval Acadomy, From among tho ap- war bas produced from foreign ebipyards steamers of | the delay to which the government is subected, that in | prentices on the school ship a selection of one-half of the greater speed to run the blockude, aud the reliable pre. | October, 1862, contracts were made with a* manufacturer | midshipmen avnualiy appoiated might be made with ‘Veutive of this tilicit. trade must be found in vessels of | of reputation and ability for making and setting up the | groat advantage to the service and the country, These steam er. By making them of enflcient } turrets of the Wi and Miantonomah, which were | apprentices, in-their preliminary trainiug On the school ‘Maze they will be formidabie, not only to neutral viclators | to have boen completed in February, 1863; but they will | ship, will’ bayo developed their capabilities and ‘of our ‘awa, but to any enemy. Of the vessels on which | probably not be finished uptil February. 1866, two years") apti fer the profession, ond iv trans‘erring them sactitice of armament has been made to obtain speed | after the expiration of the time specified in the con. | to 4i ademy, there will not be the manifol @. are seven building, three of which tract. At the commencement of hostilities this depart- | which attend ao large a portion of those wh and the others will seon be ready. Two of | ment had equipped, and at itsimmediate disposal, three | ed under the present system. Were each Congressional are bélng built by contract and Ove in the | vessels of war, Those which were laid up, and those | district authorized to placo two or moro apprentices ou yards. This class of vessels is resented by the } which were recalled from abroad, bad to undergo exter the school-ship, and the aunual selection of midebi,men, jooguc and the Chattanooga. algo in } sive repairs, for which no provieion had been made. The’ | or one half of ihe midshipmen, directed to be made {rom ‘of construction twenty vessel ith steam ma- } government bas not even at this time an establishment | thezo apprentices, its effect would be moet beneficent of Father iess power, but, which are to be much | where a shaft can be made for our steamers or a plate for | on the sailor, us we!l as the schools aud the service. It heavily, armed. of these, of the class | our tron-ciads. The frontage or wharfage at ali our navy | would popularize the vavy, and open to those who may mm. the Aimels, tbe Guerriere, aod the Java, | yards, so tinportant for repairs, is ices than is required | havo enlisted the highest positions and bovorsof the Bave covered gun decks, and will Sorry. Sweaty. heavy | at each of them, service, 4 platiug of thin ‘as a protec. Our next contest may be with a naval Power which will NAVAL ACADEMY. toa from shells, e remaluing ten, of the class of the | attempt to direct upon our shores a course of operatior Congress having by the act approved May 21, 1864, ai. Doatovccuk and Mavitou, building in the navy yards, are } similar to those whioh we have applied to the Sout! rected that “the United States Naval Academy shall bo oC less'size but with equal machinery and intended for | coast for suppressing the rebellion. One yard, at leat returned to, established at, the Naval Academy greater speed. As all of them will be provided with | where iron vessels, iron armor and iron shafting can be | grounds’ lis, in the State of Maryland, before Masts 404 sails, they can De cruising vessels and used on | manufactured, is now imperatively necessary. ‘Among | the commencement of the acadomic year 18¢5,"” a ee eee ea tena tou tr | Toaeseion co earage’ minal wipes forioes | Bomar, 4 atecaci, of patsale heroism tho Treasury agent? and if it be nab 80 Hable, why sbould | tions of the departmont bave heen conducted on the true | 7, character of prize of war treme wert which may | equal, the current expense of either of tho great mari- Sie Witt vat Be Topeal ts not demanded by the considerations of | structed and in commission. a 1d as to be of supreme importance in the prosecution of department commercial Property delouging to thoge who aro Bow | lotrinsic value, the money paid for tI aud along their shores belonging to the wader | oo prize of war. ’ By the exercise of this right a naval force | oihera bag still further increased the ag; ‘be 0 liable, he is bound to send ft to the prize court, | four yenrs of expensive war, prosecuied under any and Why, then, should: he have authority to turn it ovor to | great disadvantages, of $10,161,813. Could the traosag- | ational life which is lluatrates oer the naval seizure alone be relieved from the obligation of | standard of value—that of gold und sliver, or of paper PRecIDEN » Beoratary of the Navy. wounding it to the Treasury agont? oosvertibie into money at the will of the bolder—our it be tho object of the section to take away the | paval war expenses would scarcely exceed, perbaps not RSONAL. be captured by naval forces on tne ‘watore of the | time Powers during the eame period. There ts also this United States, it is peng + ag submitted whether its | groat dijerence—thuse Powers had ® navy a i st YOU WILL FIND 4°LB' : ‘vite poliey., ‘The Jnland waters of the United states | pay for one in addition to our annual current w aM Ming “nny Ym 4 stitute oruising stations of vast extent, aad so situ- Peseae: Were tus cost of our vessels deducted from the } we netenent! core Mesers. Brown, Shi * needs $$ ED indeed, of time war, Theso waters low. go aponis, jyeerross..cameas seme 908 TOO, adiest naval access to vast amounts of | As the vessels which were built and ey “cy may joauing war wgninst the goverameot, The property, | sidered to bo well invested. 0.37: . . . both pubjic and private, found upon these . pemy the public law of war, Hlablo to capture ‘by naval bel penditures macy milton ligerenta, and, when ‘0 captured, to condemnation as | promptly and when. er ‘can reach and capture property which should ve takea | expenditures and augmented the difficaities in the work from an evemy, and which ts yet left untouched by our erent jing and orgauizing the aval force. i « a ” & PERSO! ange Sd bate about Bre ogock. wilt pie . Pe a suis bie generomty, aithoagh ‘the loser as poor maa. foreign stations. “4 ‘the considerations that should cont ‘the selection «f is will be mecessary that preparations should . Ly iy spiel poodles pzerd be ae an Bae Lig tgs Se ry vapticnctnatn ‘ne pelt inland waters withia tbe insurrectionary re- The reports of the sere ord eve vera) bureaus presen’ — 8 Gzp ~ eva beng = e ensuldg spring y } ee 7 ane eng hoa pee rg oot Cerne ie oer ee tena ‘abou: The sotool nad or atfordlng accoes to-or egresa frm it, our uaval | to dorail the operations of thelr rospective depariments | VW ANTED—INFORMATION OF JOUN SUUry. LORD If esse! are DOW { Dumbers, and while the war | for the yoar. Ae they will be printed at the commence. | gnh wit tor sereol anes which tian oe of bia wharee areal lasts will continue to be engaged in belligerent. opera. | ment of the session of Congress, it is uncecessary that [| abouts could be seceriained, Any int regal tions. Wby should the law intervene, and deprive that | should do more than refer to tbe principal subjects | him will be thankfully recéived by hie ian, Ma Dolan, 4: ‘tel son" iby York. come savy, bute very large one, with an enormous consump- | peace, with which to batld and repair our naval ves War Depar : Tower cont iy expenditure for the coustroction | aed be eagregnied machiDe! service will be benefitted by Jog, the. snanivudl ‘ead repair ot maghinory, it becomes a matter ofthe first | as at present are not to permanently established, and whoa this js effected, it eeusequence that only ‘the best machinery be obtained | country, and which, when once peccured could not, | will be enabled to pursue Its career under circumstances for ft. Ibis problem is one of very difficult, costly aod | if destroyed, bo easily or readily replaced, will be its ab’ | more favorable to tho eflicient training of the midahip- dow solution, The great warftime countries of England rae saiety from attack by senor land, So faras pos. | men. t France have not yet solved 1t, either in the com. | sible we should avail ourselves of natural advantages in ‘The able superintendent, Commodore Goorge 8. Blake, mercial or war marine, and at this hour the best authori- | obtaining the indispensable eecurity for such an ostab- | bas preserved bis connection wiih the school daring {ts Wee do my ree upoa it. So many conditions enter | lishment, without depending entirely on fortifications and | unsettied state, aud its management, under many dis- imto the probiem that as prominence is given mire or | artificial meavs, which would be more costly tham the | advantages, bas been creditable to bim aud nis aszoci- teas $0 one or the other different conclusions are reached | navy yard itself. p. ates. Wie @¥idont that as tne question ts purely a practical The additional milits defences of Portsmouth, Eng- CADET ENGINEERS, ope, it can only be answered by extensive experience | land, rendered necessary by the proximity of that great Preliminary measures have beeu taken to carry into aed accurate vations. Mindful of the Importance } naval ferro to Cs ocean, and Se inenaney, a affect a eure we ayo hos greet eyphbentine by modern ordnance, are now being constructed at ap | the education at the Naval Academy of cadet engineers, eee caaere pon is revourors by tbe war, bas kepe it | expe ‘“ to be selected from youths not over cignteea years of part of the navy of one of its primary belligerent | embraced in them. rights? It certai ay ae not am ted ded to = chief = the Bureau of Yards and Docks calls cripple the po the navy to cripple ony, OF ention to the great iucrease in the cost of materials Dy liaw to hedge found and protect from cupture aad con. | aud abor, aid the consequent deficloncy. in 0 "OST AND FOUND, @ demnation an enemy’s property, The service on inland | appropriations. He urges @ change In the ee a waters !3 not less dittcult, peritous and barasging than | contract system, and gives it as bis opinion that, io OST. —TARSN, BY, MISTARE, OM, ATURDAY that-on tho. sea, that there should be tis discrimination | eoasequouce of its operations, tho bureau is compelied to | Express Gomipans's aalee, corner of Brow away and Reade oe againat it, nor hae it beeu less useful to the country. pay twenty per cout mora thin the market price (or some | street, a fine brown silk Umbrella, mounted with two sliver Under the operation of this act no more of the pro | of the emalier articler, which could better be procured | plates, one of which bears the iniuale "tk a. Mol kee ceeds of any capture go into tho Treasury than under | by open purchase. Tho intelligence, judgment and great | Person who took, it ‘will retura the law of war, because the sixth fection authorizes the | experience of this officer entitle his suggestions to respect- seobawes 2 aer-nad allowance of a moivty to “informers, collectors of the | ful consideration. The delay in passing the appropriation O8T-ON MONDAY, ON TWRENTY-THIRD STRE! " 7 it | expense of $60,000,000, BT, ey Sar are rerun umes inensqulsition, of Davy. neo if we bave ono for naval iron work, | age, who shail have Deen engaged at least two years in | customs, snd other persons,” as au fucentive to‘ vigi- | bill until near the close of the long session of Congress Is J near Ninth avenoe, of on Forty .Ofth street, near Sev. $h@ necessary information. The proportions of hulls f should be established on fresh water; for this \s essential | the fabrication of steam macvinery. A circular has been | lance in projecting the public interest.” In taking this | considered another fruitful source of evil. The purchase | enth avenue, around Pocket Handkerchief, trimmed with Dave been varied with a view to determine tho relat: to the preservation of iron vessels, which cannot be laid | issued and printed in the papers of the great manu‘actur, | moiety from the officers and crews who make tbe cap- | of additional laud at Boston aud Philadelphia to enlarge | Valencignaes lace, The finder will be rewarded by leaving tures, and conferring it on the informer or custom houre | the navy yards at those piaces is recommended, store | I at¥) Murray singel officer, the Treasury und country ar@ not devellted. | water front is indispensadly necessary. = = ps ‘The right to make capture or prize of war, in all places ‘The report of the chief of the Bureau of Construction L,°8t-o8 SATURDAY, IN AN EIGHTH AY ; os and npoa all property, sulgect to the law of war. is one | and Repair explaios in detail the kind of vessels it is pro- car. an Account Book, The finder ili be iberaly re: of the ragoments w maritime nations bave [ posed to build, and for which estimate bmitiod. | Warded by returning it to George B. = , extended to their navies fo all time, and ours has been Je recommends that provision be made for procuring bo exception until this enactment, The exercise of this | and keeping ou band a supply of building timber and right in catting of tho resources of an enemy is one of the accumulations o! past years baving bees we during peact al, ing cities, inviting applications in coniormity. to tue law. and timber is also important, for these cesential — Bofore this plau shall be put in operation it is respest- articles should be always avaliable on the inland waters fully submitted, in view of the radical changes which without exposure to an enemy by coastwisetranspor- have been wrought by steam as @ motive power for navel tation. Tho vicinity of a large city, where skilled arti- vessels, whether steam engincering should not be mada sans can be obtained without difficulty, and the facilities to constitute herealior a becestary tof the education of markets and tenements are abundant, should be of al midsbipmen, s» that i considered. A foundition of grave! would, for the pur- officer will be ® steam engineer, a development of epced in proportion to given power; mi: . Ready access to ab.very bas been constructed upon different types a systems; and the from citizens, as well ew machinery and ga Bavy ct tuls moment contains marine ma ive sale of every kind; their results Iogton Market - pat adic TY OF 2. from which can be determined t! Spring i vice and for lar appli. | poses of machinery, be pre‘e able to stone, Anexten. complete command and direction of \ netuods by which uations seek to bring war He n'so recommends that measures by tiken ara of Lan MLA eae aaa a rte both for geneeal segrignad fer Partioelar Spplt- F poses re + troneage, audi ala besiearel. Yor teen a every vecnol Of war most bea steam vessel. Those de- the facilities in the several navy yards for 'd Will be paid on returning bim to 88 Sullivam bess gy ‘and | signed for ocean service will be Curnished with sails in he coustruction of vessels. In case of @ foreign war, a Yo the new screw gunboats machinory has been used | depot and establishment, where costly machiver reason why in this war againat the rebel. designed by Corless, of Providence, R. I.; J. Erlesson, of | material would accumulate during years of peac t ding g; the present ond rightful pro ould be xban- | additioval number of dry docks would bo. requi the | order to economize fuel while cru : © mAd® rolativo to the size titling OST—ON THB NIGHT OF DRC. 6,4 LEATORAFR'S r tiara Wright, of Woodruff & Beich’s | advantages of an interior location are most manilest. | future navy will therefore comt 118 nod etenm oe rule adopted that must operate to our na- | Many import Rgostions City Express Receipt Book. Tho find-r will be aut! phil CAT Warford: Merrick & Song, of Philadel | These favorable conditions are to be obtained uowhers — motive power,-abd seamansbip and aie gine driving | tional "Injury in all wara, 1 can see no reason upon | of steam war ig aud the construction of armored | femurdet hy returuing te same to 55 Weal Fifieess phia, and the Bureau of Steam Engiveering of the depart. | else so completely as on the Uelaware river; aad the po- | will each be uecesaary to make the finished j ro(essioanl ch to concluie that “in Oghting down this rebel, ‘i treet, N.Y, Ereng,, This was competitive machinery to be of equal | sition of League Island, within the limits of tho cily of | officer, ‘Tho ollicers to gail and navigate a ship and the | lion we should reverse all previous usage aud law, of Steam Eng!- _ power propelling the same bull, Philadelphia, presents probably a stronger combination | ofiicors to rum the steam engine are about equal in our. | either ag ngainst the rebels thom volves, or their abet ons of the bureau T OsT—ON THE 6TH, OFF A WAGON, 0! way Tn the double bowed paddiewhee! steamers machinery | of the points thas are necessary than any other jocation. | ber. tors, or the propegty upon which they rely for their ro commencement of the war. Detatied state- | 14 from the New York Hoiel toavenue it, ¥ Niuth bas boon employed designed by Merrick & Sous, of Phila It is to be regretted that competition for supposed | ‘The department {is not aware that any line officer, | tierent right, On the contrary, it will be well to pre. sare made ot tbe size and power of the different | But Tenth strecte, e Bag of king. A liberal reward will be jalpbia; by F Mckerson, aod by the Bureau of Steam { local benefits should lutorfore with, retard, and perhaps | whatever attention may have been given by to | serve to our navy upon all the waters where it oan oat f engines designed by the buroau and by other | Bald for the ae Eee Evgineering. ‘ entirely dofeat the government In its efforts tosecure 80 | the theoretical study of steam, ts yet cai or fight all its rt ear nimorired, and of the results attained in each cass, Pare WNER WANTED—FOR 25 CASKS CONTAINING COT pr tue large sloops of war, of thrée thousand tons and | imp rtant a national establishment. If ia such ® conitict | taking charge of au euging, nor aro ateam engive wv ivers | sources, or why " we suouid relingaish any one bel- | ticular notice je givon to the experiments which bave | ()* AP WANTED FOR 28 OASKS CONTAINING COR: over, competitive machinery is beiug placed by the above | for sectional favor the country shiou'd Jose forever the | capable of taking charge of @ man of war, nav hor, | With these vlows tho expediency of arepesl of the | poeu made to test the relative value of engines and boil | February, Is62, If novelalied by the 20h Inet, they will ives, and by J. Ericsson. best situation for such @ Davy yard acd establiah- | fghiing ber gucs and preserving ber discipline. Whea | sevonth eection of tue act alluded to is recommended, | ers, the economy of using super-bented over salurated | de sold topay expenses, =F. M. WIT RELER A Ci eh ia ats And sloops of the old wavy, and in some | ment, tho result would be always deplored ‘yeseois were propelled exclusively by sails thore were | and the substitution in its placo of some provision of ike | steam, as well as stoam with different mersnres of expan. | ___ W Atlantic Dock, of those built durmg tue carly part of the pr ‘ad. | The departmnont has studiously avoided the controversy | put two officers, excepting in flagabips, the surgeon and | elect to chat which is found in tho Inst section of (ho act | giou; the value of tho different kinds of coal snd of - OP LARGD Slee, BED Min stration, mochivery was employed designed by most | which has arisen in consequonce of the eftorts | paymaster, who werd not line Olficers. But coder the | upon the same subject approved Maroh 12, 1803. petroloam ag a substitute, and of other less Important | () , ae, B of the principal establishments of the country. ‘The } tosecuromnavy yard at New London, which is foreign | prosent naval system a pew and additional corps i tn- CONTRACTS. combinations which enter into the construction aud | evening Deed The fi “eae Fulton Iron Works and Morgan [ron Works, of New York; | to the question or gubstitutieg @ more troduced, a8 many steam engineers being required fora The present contract system fs open to many and | working of steam muchivery, Drawings and a. 4 serious objections, Whatever may havo been its merits | tions have been furmished for the machiuery of ono bun when originally establis ondition of the country | dro «ad sixteen stevmors, having an aggregate burden * puta teageer ons find of trae has so changed as to render exsontia! modid- | of 149,900 torm, besides supplying the necessary draw. | WILL THE PERSON WHO PICKRD UP 4 PORTS. ein Twenty third. near Fourth are: titra street, and be ‘a veers. Woodruil & beach, of Hartford, Conn.; Harrison | modious establishment at Philadelphia, A multiplicity | vessel as there are tine oft) and, whilecrus Torug, sod thersbalas ‘of Boston: Merrick & | of small yards, similar in charactor, crowded into ong } gail, or lying In port, or perforiaing any duty whea thé 0 section of the country, was not the object or purpose of rest, one balf of tue ollicers are, by eo isting abe, cof lbediaaniemet Mionggeations and reommendations ide'and incsprble of participating in dutes | Lions neceesery, Mf NOt the abrogation of the systom itself, | {ngs and directions for tho alteration and renewal, in return the the department in tb . to Ti East 7 over and type of en~ } which it has from time to timo urzod upon Qongrees, ofcera of | Tho” fustad lity’ of prices, and a rising markot | whole or in port, of the macbinery of a very largo num- h ae eee eer ek fete of bxpansien, of DUTIAO8 G08: dy three Bay yards east of the Hudson, raw nid | during. the progress of the war, have made it | ber of otver yosucls. : Of Stew ‘propeller and of boilers, bave been | and should Covgress deem tt advisadie to add another to | willingly sh {ovrcogbly tested, Dut the results thas {ar show that | that section or elsewhere, it Is to be hoped tbat such | them, But half ths machinery designed by the Steam Engineering | determination will not interfere with or prevent tho | cannot keep watch, {ted with | dificult, aul ju some instances almvst impos. Tho chie’ of the Burean of Fquipment and Recruiting steamship ie, to” procure o! for contracts to furaish | gtatea tho personnel of the navy at about 6,000 officers caunct | yearly auppiies (or the navy from hovest aod hie con- 4 45,000 men, Under the @3 RBWARD.—LOST, ON MONDAY B mi vk tablish of at gt r ot te which does not contemplate the highest giving seamen th b : oD ‘ing from Niveteeath street to Fifth & Porean of the department bas not been surpassed, per- | government from having a proper establishment for the | exercise tho great guns or aor, rs, ataral ° t te i " ; tog f , hapa Lot equalled, by any of its competitors, while In | copstruction of tron vessels, iron armor and irou work of | except as volunteers under a ifte olficer, take | market price of gold. ne well as long delay in the timo of iting their evlistment upon the quotas Searet Society Badge, oot in pearls, having | val deficiencies have been filed, ‘The nto the contrac: | about two huodred and fifty apprentice beys ou the ay cases their resulls have been greatly below it. every description for naval purposes in the immed) “Mo hie trou-clids the department ins ‘experimented by } vicinity of the iron and coal region of the more central West Twentieth aireet will recei art 1b any expedition agaiust the evemy. On he otwer | payment, Avy cuacge for the bector ia the condition of Bana. the other balf of the officers are incoy (man | the country or the market will bt Ybe construction of different classes and sizes, both in { portions of the Union, Such an establishment as tue det | aging the steam mot! r, OF Of taking charge of the | tor who baa an annual contract, aud a corresponding losa | school ship Sabine, ond tho system, as well as tho prot wood and iron, propelled by one screw, and by two | partment bas advised on the Delaware wonid oo- | engine room tn an emergency, Dor can the counniand: to the governmont. ciency of the pupils, is well apoken of. Tho co " tor.ws, workiog indepoudently of each other. Iu its | add to the number of yards, but would be & | a vossel, though carefully taught every duty “fs sailor | A proposal mado tho progont year for the annual # tion of coal this year will be about five hund ed th most recevt constructions, of the Miantonomah class, a | mefe substitution, without ove doilar’s expense | and drill officer, understand, of his own knowledge, | ply of flax canvass, which is mostly imp rted, jilustrates | sand tous Tho ropewalk at tho Coariestown Navy Yard in me oY wooden vessel designed by the naval constructors and overnment for fand, of the more commodious and | whether the engineers and fireinen are competent or not. | (bis polut. The bide were received when exchange was | furuigies all the larger eizes of rope ‘od, Lut the bop este 2 4 wen Walton, Gusven strane Duilt at the navy yards, with Ericsson turrets, and ma. sive grounds and water front of League Isiand, in The remedy for all this {s very simpic, proviled | ot nearly the highest rato it las attained, and from an 4 facilities at the Wasbington Navy Yard are entirely inade- | 1s ‘he same with W. M. Walton, ned his entcery ned by the Bureau of Steam Engineering, | place of the present limited and restricted sito at Phila- | the principle were once recogtized aud adopted of | honorable and reliable contractor who has for yours sup- | quate to supply the needed quantity of exbics and an- | @ REWARD.—LOST, ON GOING DOWN TOWN b bich'Pote of speed, porfect ventilation, impregnabliity, | deiphim, which ts wholly inadequate acd ingufllcient for | mcking our officars engioo drivers as weil as siliors. | plied the government faithfully. Tho aggregate of the | chors, and additional establishments are recommended. $10. orSicirtay woralng, a shore gold Ww ‘and the onormous battery of four fifteen inch guns, bave | the purposes of a yard for even wooden ships. It would pot be expedient to interfore with tho present | olfer was, for payment ia currency, $1,445,;19 60, or for The report of the chicf of the Bureau of Ordnance pre al and other pendanie, oner (hinge hy deen combined In a veavol Of the moderat Among the reasons which impel me again to fatroduce | status of ine oillcers or enginoers—ihe change would be | payment in gold, or iis equivalent, at the time each bill | gents a resume of the bistory and ecoromy of our caval Tho Cader will rece ve ee feet of water, These vessels | this subject aud earnestly pross it upon the immediate | too radical; but we sbould begin by teaching exch mid- | was paid, $536,038 There was ao altoroative,under the | ordnance. Tho constant demands of the navy during No. 24 Wes, Mi are Sa Te ago of fouling, which Attention of Congress, 18 tbe fact that the great Pennsyl- | shipman to be able to discharge the duties of jive oflicers | law other than to accept (be currency bid. andas the | the year for ordnance aud ordnance siores bave been th and Sixth avenues, d of fron ones, vauia Contral Railroad bas moved with a view of obtain. | and steam engineers; to combine the two in coe pro | rate of exchange has f.llen, there has been a correspoud- |- promptly met, and at the same time full attention bas T, IN BROADWAY, YRAR ut cf increased tonnage, are in | jug @ portion of the teast valuable part of League isiaad | feasion, eo that officers so educated can take thelr watch | ing Increase of prolits (o the contractor beon given to the masy oew and importaot ordnance ‘spotted Coach Dom: anewers te process of constryetion, to havo still higher wpeed and } for a depot, objections urged that position | ajternately in the engine room aad op deck. . In this case, aud othera of \ike character, the trae in. | questions of the day. Atmong other suggestions, is that right ald of the face white, 0 adapted to coast wervice, for 'y yard, with its workshops, bave no weight Obsection may be mado that the duties are dissitr|'er, | terest of the government would audoubtedly be promctod | of tho removal of our large magazines from their present | the ofber biack, avout seven months old, medium F Io thestoawors bought from the commercial marine of } with this company, which requires shops and bi aud that steam engine driving is a apeciaity. Tho | were the dopartwoot permitted to asavme the Fisk, aud | Jocations to more secluded situations. The Importance of | #iall aear on the hack side of the bead near the ese, | Phe he captured blockade runne! w own Interest. Unies duties are not ftotlar than seamonsnio and | omit makiog snoual contracts, relying upon purchases as | the permanent orgsnization of a gunnery ebip, as a eehool hs epee yi ba nals BGRetbirn Souabet mete Bivins hondred acres of Jaad, with 8 | gunnery. W reo feet depth extending for more | given to an oflic ite of Philadelpbia, should | ever teara to tesch sailors to drill, and a sere nly edvention | wanted, under the direction of the department, at the | for the instruciion of a ho Current’ market price, [he govervmont is sel’om bene- | being placed oo board ery fied by @ rise in prices; fur while the lawapompel its | ed. Owing to the great iver manship was tho r ik was not bel ers and mon, preparatory to rvioe, are to be found every var! % vessels, I$ again present 'y 1 screw and paddie wheel, constructed ked. street. No qu eltuer in this o¢ airy of Great Britain, as the i of ordnance work «nd $25 SEAR. LOST. ON THE BVENING OF THR exigencies of tho war would permit, tho di b typos jccepted du the present session of Congross, it | of marines performod the duty which is now #0 ain! Agents to pursue s defio to course of action, the contractor | tne accumulation of material at the Now York Navy 20 ‘Tith of November's lady's Gold Wateh, No, 2,83, bf machivery tiaye beon submitted to Careful experiment | will probably pase into private hands, and the moat do- | bly discharged by the graduates of the Naval Acade generally Onde litte d pity io evading penalties, and @ | Yard, more room is needed, To meet this requirement | With guard ana fob chi locket, containing the hair of to Groertain their reintive merits. Nearly every var! ‘avie aud available position in this country for such | When gunnery became # epeciaity it was income) ier’ losing Contract te th re abandoned. It is worthy of | the bureau bas commenced the Ailing up of the unoceu- & vee rh, ee ID, po} In Hudson street, sees f botler aud of expumwive gear, of rate of expans! @ yard will be diverted to other purpose and unwisely proposed toh corps of ordnance | terious consideration whether, for the present at lenst, it | pied marsh adjaceut to the cob deck, which when com- | GAs ® a y Joaviny same with Ro to 1 service, @ geparate | Would Not bo for the true tnierest of the government to | pleted will afford ample accommodations. Py Hobe pens Ban to {teelf Ind knowledge oquigh the system of avnual contracts aitogetuer, dnd | nied a park for two thousand caonon, wil refore proper to be dis | autborize purchases to be made by agents of probity, | for Mtting them for service, ity and totegrity have beon tested througd | The chief of the Uurean of Provi b(ul service, and who have a live-long com- | commends a new arrangeme & cbarsctor to lose asa pouaity for | they be entirely diseonnec Aiso tho establishment of two @ + In procuring naval | the preparation by the government of the pres forever the government. As @ mea. | officers engrafted upon the Pradence it {s most oarnestly | organization, whic! the oifer of Leaguo Island bo | 0 necessary ti for its improve | tributed among all the oMice: Fortunately our ere are taught seamal guonery and the jnientry drill, and the e yord tot ercise 14 | saved from distinct Organizations in these respects, ates | discretion in determiniog tho amount of expenditure | which would inevitably have Impeired its oiliclency. [t aad of satirated and sviperheated steam, has been ma Ake gubject of accurate experiment, and it ts belie that tho files of the department covtain the jateat an moat roilablo information on thewe subjects, A chief pogiveer of the navy his been seus to Kurope to collect (acormation on these topics to addition to tue published socounis and official reports. dearly oil the kinds of ooals of the seaboard § ve rd id name), Dam, Claremont, on the Bloom |n; Fhe deder will please eal at she Amer jeventeenth street and Broalway And rece've the above reward aut vot oa@ question asked, Dave deen tbo cud; are ul eriment, with a view roper for this purpose, only remains to commence at this time, and, as prepara: dl uocertainty of pay- | meats and desicosted vegetables, which oow form o part —_—— ~ to artortasn tel Spanpatesty y value. for naval vurpoess ee NAVY YARD ON THR MoSereni¢P1, tory to the future of the navy, to teach the imidsbipmen ees & definite time for payment is fixed, | of the navy ration. Hi mende an yocreasa in | @4)()() 8h OY, SATORDAT. DEO S A doard of oncireors baw also experimented witb petro~ By an act of Congress, approved June 50, 1864, the | steam euginecring, a8 applied to runping the engide, promptly mot, or unless interest be allowed | the numbor of pay sistant paymasters ta | © -¢ e paid on e oun an 4 sds! ture for coal in naval ers, Socretary of the Navy was “authorized and empowered | This would be Independent of the art of desigolog and | during the delay of payment, the goveroment will in- | the reguiar service, and (be estadlishmect of the grade of | ease, TI 7 Wa ‘Af opin on appears to Bae wattied upon the horizontal | (0 appoiut a commission, consisting of one naval officer, | ounstructing, which i purely # gpeciaity, and nowise | evitably become a largo suiferer. Many of the beet | passed assistant paymaster. The extraordinary rise in ead ios perticcl sabuiey” Welibe an vee ‘ones proper | one offfoer of the Engineer corps apd one civilian, to | necessary in the maoagement and direction of the abip. | merchants ia our principal cities, who bave heretovore | the price of provisioos and clothing, sud tbe increased oe a rervict, the departmont has select the Most approved site fora onvy yard or naval | And to this specialty, as @ highly a@cientific body of ofl, | sought dealings with the goverment, Bow deciine ao | number of meu in the service, render additional appro- cara MATRIMO ind mauulactired, aecording to designs (u station on the Minsissipp! river or upon one of its | core, would the present corps of engineers ba always ro- | cepling an order On any terms. priations necessary. a AAA Amen NAA board of nine engine employed in the tribatarios, and to rt to tho next session of | quired as inspectors and constructors of machinery, With jt BAS Never been the policy of thia department to ad ‘Ihe chief of the Burean of Navigation submits the ueual YOUNG OENILEMAN, ABOUT STARTING ON AN wing manufac »” in pursuance of the authority cooferred | (he aduptiou of the suggestions bere made we shall in | vance money to its agents, and they Cannot (or this rea- | reports of the Navol Observatory, Nautical Aimanac offic A extensive tour, yal 5 cg TY d by the Bureau of Steam Fngi yy thie act, # commission has been constituted | due time havea homogenous corps of officers, who will | son mako erediie ents, Requisitions are drawn on | and the genera) adinio'stration of bis department. Nea: of accurate experiments to 7 4 Vormine their 1° iq” vow engaged In making the required | be masters of the motive power of their ships 1a the fu- | the Secretary Treasury ovly for All the nautical instruments use the navy, which. Feapective merite, These experimente will be of the | examination®. Rear Admiral Ohi vis, | tare, 7 have been of seamanship tn the past. By id overy day's delay in the payment of prior to the w broad, are’ now of most elaborate nature, and will, it ie presumed, enable gw | who has bavi experience as commanding officer of | thie a rare there will be in each ship double the fe @ wrong and a loss to the hoki ebronometers and | ————— a pom ‘bey are now In progress, he the Minsinipy ¥ sauadree ME gn My dd a Bangi hee nm Of fighting end rannt Hi ‘advance cai wistt pas AOQUACRPAROS OF AM Avra Aorty, commission of nine, cn pract! @ngineer! @ f Of the commis 00. 0 Seoretary of if Having been | veasol without Al Appointments oF expent \ for flags, as # yous een, a appointed ty ine’ department, oonvistiog of Uhree (ed to pa te @ suitable officer of the Engineer corps | numerabie other advantages Commer d tt ibetandiog the | mony. Address ( Broadway Post omen, es Aeademy of Acqualutance of fravetling, with dress FV, = lied to pay for subsequent purchires Bolenee, three from tho Franklin | to be associated o8 this commission, and having named | of trial, and it is presented for favor intend of being abunoed and com: an Mute, and three-om the part of (be departmental f and ‘devaned ie utonant Colovel A. HH. Bowman (or the | The work can be commenced and carried, forward at (08 y make prompt payment for Cee rit city, wiehee. % eminent in physical scrence—to devise (he per a) parpese, vai ome was appointed. George W. Blunt, a | Ni Witbout additional appropriation, 1, ta, be inducing Americag manu. me young lad: tus, aod sw Pe monte ¢| hppa to a ot tioal LS pene aie’ LB aha of ome oy! os Conerems ts favoured s8 Gonat of the 3 ad Eset ry fact ect, Address M. J. W., acer! 7 ‘economy of usla w York, is the thitd centioman com! Dy suggent re Bubmitt }@ manufactarer oF Of Medicine and § ens Og Zuferont degrece of oxpansion. Thate expert waval RANK. PRIERS AND PRNSOS®. With second and bird thenamber of caguaitien reported during the 7 IPWO,TOUNG GENTLEMEN, OF 75 TH ARS OF AS progress, wili be ae olaborate There ia in the ‘branch of the public tervicé no The number Of veaseia captured by she equadrons ance Tt supplies are procured when wanted and ag wanted, | 171 killed and 361 wounded, Total oumber of one’ ‘oe Pow ad gr bye steers ino make thou, “Ad frank correaponding wit bat of auiousnt general. | tho igh agaual report, ang reperted to Ae depariment he MATKEE Price. chiher 10 Oped porchtem, by aB | aickiows turer treitmant, a{,270, of oic™ amber 1,048 F TRE Lo Jouns ladies OC the sue conliton Aad MEA tam enginceriag, it Congrest bas Ne lpofrear admiral, which | prior © November 1, Js $24, olnssified follows ib, OF upon Dida received for immediate de~ | died«63,070 were roturned to dniy or de preferred. Address, Ur of . 1 a ‘bet At reat thd amount Corresponds with that of fenera!, and it would be hooners, 106; eLeAmerA, 49; wloor#, 40; Drige, G; harks, | livery, with prompt payment, Immense H.ms would ath aod 7" 38 Ge ine y bY with aidecoat App sot° of reeoquinon itay'wur weaned, ‘0d wOIQD p B; nail Doalec 86 Moo lola) aster 9¢ eayiores ince L sbved ¥o $09 depuriiaens ata ine xoverusoeuR, Lescabed of uit fit23, "alo wuxcess’» reergaiza