The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

THE ANNUAL REPORTS.

The Cabinet Ministers at Washington and the
heads of the various bureaux are very busy with
their annual reports. The subordinate officers must
report first, as on their returns the head of the de-
partment grounds his to the President, who embo-
dies all in his address to Congress. These reports
give very full information on the progress of the
nation, and the above heading will have to stand
for a considerable period in our columns before we
can give even the briefest summary of them all.
First, then, as regards the Army, the following are
reports seat to the Secretary of War, the year ter-
minating the 30th June, 1868. The Adjutant-
General states the strength of the Army on Sept.
30th to have been 43,741 men,besides4,34o men in the
Engineer, Ordnance, and other special branches of
the service. The regiments of infantry are rapidly
decreasing in numbers in consequence of the numer-
ous discharges and individual application in addi-
tion to the ordinary discharges and casualties.
Before January 1, 1869, about 4,500 men will have
left the service in consequence of the expiration of
their term of service. The losses to the army by
desertion are considerably less than they were last
year, the number of desertions having been 2,700
less, and the number of arrests having been 1,000
greater than during that periol The cavalry re-
giments have been kept up to their full force
in consequence of the demand for troops to re-
sist the Indians. Recruiting for all branches of
the service was carried on till November 26, 1867,
when orders were issued to reduce all the regi-
ments of infantry and of artillery, except the ten

light batteries, to the number of 50 privates:for each
company. On July 24th, IS6B, instructions were
issued prohibiting all enlistments, except for the
cavalry, and in the latter arm of the service only
five stations for recruiting have been continued. The
strength of the coloured regiments is nearly up to
the required standard. The Adjutant-General re-
commends that the term of service of enlisted men
be extended from three to five years, and that
boys over twelve years old, with the consent of
their parents, be enlisted as musicians. Ile also
recommends the passage of a law empowering the
President to drop from the army rolls any ollicer
who deserts and cannot within three months be
arrested for court-martial. The 203 volunteer
officers in service at the date of the last annual re-
port have, with the exception of General Howard,
been mustered out, and the mustering and disburs-

ing offices at Philadelphia, Albany and Columbus,
Ohio, have been closed. The Adjutant-General
concludes with an extended report and recommen-
dations on the subject of military punishments.
The Report of Commissary-General of Subsist-
ence, A . B. Eaton, discusses the supply of the troops
on the plains, and between the Mississippi and
Rocky Mountains. There the cost of subsistence
has hitherto been very large, which the construc-
tion of the Pacific Railroad and the settlement of
country will hereafter materially reduce. The ave-
rage cost of fresh beef per pound this year, east of
the Rocky Mountains, was 11 3-10th cents, being
3 -10 ths of a cent per pound less than the cost last year.
The average cost this year at nine of the principal
points of supply was 23 cents and two mills per
complete ration. The average value of tobacco

furnished per month to the army was $19,366,
which amount is deducted from the pay proper of
the men who use the weed. The value of the sub-
sistence stores supplied the freedmen and refugees
for the fiscal year of 1867 was $882,684, and in
1868 it was $632,776, making a total of $1,515,461,
of which the Freedmen's Bureau has repaid
$1,048,669. The value of army stores is-
sued to the Indians during the fiscal year of

1867 was $644,439, and in 1868 it was $373,926.
Referring to the money commutation for rations to
soldiers who were prisoners during the war, 4,944
applications were received, on which $250,000
have been paid. In reference to the subsistence
stores taken and used by the army, there have been
received 5,386 claims, of which 3,534, aggregating
$2,088,373, have been disallowed ; 996, aggregat-
ing 663,034, have hot yet been examined ; and
845, aggregating $196,930, have been recommended
for settlement. All army officers' accounts re-
ceived during the year numbered 12,502, of which
12,215 have been examined and sent to the Treasury.
All volunteer Commissaries of Subsistence have been
mustered out, and Congress is again recommended
to authorize the appointment of Assistant Commis.
saries from line Lieutenants, and also the appoint-
ment of Post Commissary Sergeants.
The Report of the Quartermaster-General states
than 111.4 branch expended $36,500,000, leaving
with the ili.lance of appropriations for 1868, and
those for 1869 of IV 4,000,000, nearly $15,000,000
available for the fiscal yar 1869. Transportation
es
over other railroads than the Pad!.tic lin has been
utt.
as follows :-90,000 tons freight, at a cost of
$289,221, and 40,000 persons, at a cost 0f484,122.
The Union Pacific transported from June 30, .1.:::97)
to Sept. 90, 1868, about 20,777 tons munitions
of war and 7,415 persons, at a cost of $1,070,655 ;
the Union Pacific Kansas Division, for the some
time, 15,157 tons and 6,395 persons, at a cost of
$531,275. The fleet of transports, one thousand
strong at the close of the war, has been sold or
otherwise disposed of. In reference to the debts
due from the Southern Railroads to the Depart-
ment, it is stated that 16 companies have paid un
in full. The total debt remaining for material
purchased and interest is $8,500,000. The total
number of animals now in the service is as follows :
—Horses, including officers' horses, 13,291 ; mules,
17,866 ; oxen, 211. The establishment of two
stock farms; one in Texas, the other on the Plains,

for the purpose of raising horses for the army is re-
commended.

The large stock of clothing on hand at the end
of the rebellion s•tonlied the more important articles
used during the year, and the sale of damaged
articles have paid the expense of taking care of the
stock and of purchasing the new articles needed.
It is not expected that any appropriation for cloth-
ing will be requital for several years. The number
of national cemeteries is now seventy-two, and
reports have also been received of 320 local post or
private grounds. The total number of graves is
316,233 ; the bodies of 175,764 of these graves have
been satisfactorily identified. The amounts ex-
pended for sites, coal, transportation, and all pur-
poses connected with the work to June 30, 1868,
was $2,600,000. The estimated expense for next
year is $500,000.

TIIE SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT.—Surgeon
General Barnes has made his annual report to the
Secretary of war. The whole number of deaths
among the white troops during the year was 1,353,
among the coloured troops, 268. Dr. Barnes re-
ports at length what has been done in his office
toward studying and classifying the records of the
various injuries received by soldiers during the
war, as well as what progress has been made in
arranging the Medical Museum, which has become
a very valuable feature of his department. His
expenditures during the year were $1,756,600.

W. 11. Reed has been appointed internal re-
vonue gauger for the third Massachusetts district, and
Charles L. Williams for the first Connecticut.

Dr. Charles H. Bartlett, of Northampton, for
many years assistant physician of the Lunatic Hospital,
has been appointed to the Minnesota State Hospital, va-
cant by the death of Dr. Shanley. Dr. Van Nostrand was
displaced from the State Hospital of lowa for alleged mis-
conduct, and Dr. M'Farland, of the State Hospital of Illi-
nois, resigned from Dec. 10 to visit Europe next spring
which leaves two vacancies.

The Rev. Drs. Eels, of California, and Henry
Potter, of Grace Church, New York, aro mentioned eS
possible candidates for the Presidency of Union College.
General Grant remained at the Metropolitan
Hotel, New York, the greater part of the 18th November,
but received very few visitors. In the evening the Gene-
ral was entertained at dinner by Mr. A. T. Stewart, at the
residence of the latter. He retu raed to his hotel at a late
hour. On the 19th, General ;Grant was to be entertained
by Mr. IL L. Stuart at his residence on Fifth-avenue. A
large number of cards had been issued for the entertain-
ment. The General was afterwards to return to Wash"

ington.
We learn from America that " Francis Jones is
announced as the wickedst man in London," and We can-
not contradict it, as we do not know who Francis Jones ls•
The offices of Supervisors of Revenue, lately
created by Congress, the appointing power to which has
so long been in dispute between Commissioner Rollins and
Secretary M'Culloch, are now being filled. Alexander
Fulton, of the Baltimore American, has been appointed 10c
Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Judge
Olney has the place for Illinois, but Charles Hudson for
Massachusetts and John Commons for Indiana, though
nominated by Commissioner Rollins, have been vetoed by
Secretary M'Culloch. The following supervisors were
appointed on Thursday, Nov. 19 :—Delos P. Sonthworth
for the Eastern Judicial District of Pennsylvania; S. 13'
Dutcher for the Southern and Eastern Judicial District (4
New York. James J. Green was rejected for Califorule:
Nevada, and Utah. Of those who have been appointea
the salaries have been fixed at 82,500, with the exception.
of James Morr at St. Louis, Noah at Nashville, Saffold scit
Montgomery, Barbour at Boston, Fulton at Baltimore, a°
Mr. Dutcher at New York, who received 63,000 each.
The appointee at San Francisco will also receive 83,0°0'
Governor Bullock had appointed Dr. Thayer, 0
West Newton, a veterinary surgeon, to represent Eauterti
Massachusetts at the Sprinfiell (Illinois) Convention, t°
be held Dec. 1, to consider the cattle diseases and !ilea
means of checking them and preventing their spreado3o

over the country.
Ex-Governor Royce, of Berkshire, Vermont,
died Nov. 18. Ile was a graduate of Middlebury College,
had been Chief Justice of the State, and was elected G°-
vernor in 1851, and again in 1855.
Rev. Mr. Hall of Guildford, has been disnu
'Bed
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rom his society for hanging out a politica..
election day. Mr. Hall is a native and former resident of
Blandford, Connecticut, and was later the American gi"

nister at Florence, Italy.
Miss Fanny S. Valentine, only daughter a iv
°i
er
J. Valentine, Esq., a well-known gentleman in the GUI ,6
London, was married on the 17th Nov. at St. Pet f
Church, Cambridge (Mass.), to Charles F. Marley./ °
Selma (Alabama.)
Mrs. Yelverton lately made an attempt to glut
some reaaings in Louisville, Kentucky, but only nb"Li,,
100 persons took seats in the public hall. Sho will maid
another attempt this time in an hotel. She has not Ila
the luck of Mrs. Scott-Sildons, to whom certain Bostolr
bins have given a service of silver plate.
The fortune that has come to ex-Congressrol,
Henry C. Denii,ig of Hartford, Connecticut, by the de,arol
of Elizur Goodrich, his uncle, will be at least one hu"%be
thousand dollars, and probably twice thit amount. 5110..
estate is principally iu land, lying in as many as nine "
rent States. th°
The sculptor Gagliardi has received fronl _ the
United States a commission for a colossal monument tit. of
memory of President Lincoln, which will cost upwar
five thousand dollars.
ea
Mr. Goldwin Smith writes to warn EngbS ell
who have been thinking of going out to the ell
who
University, in which Mr. Smith is a professor, t :bee-
buildings are not yet complete. Englishmen able
fore, do well to stay at home for the present. .'febsort
article on Sir Robert Peel, from the pen of the pr°,..
has appeared in Macmillan's Magazine for this mentu•wor
Madame Parepa Rosa, who is now on her OW
back from California, is expected to make a teurtboatre
Canadian cities during the coming winter. A Owic
t„ bi
is soon to be built in Boston, in the Highland distr
eminent New York capitalists.
At a recent meeting of editors and publisher:4!
Montpelier, Vermont, it was resolved to adopt thaablere
tem of payment in advance for newspars and t° %tiro 9'
to it strictly. Measures were also taken to Se,,f the
more just compensation for printing the 100 "
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keley-square, the Lady Mary Herbert, of a "I_,,tod 61'
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Marriages.
GODDARD—WILSON—On the sth nst., at All ail, wey4o4,
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Deaths. Oft 51Yrr
BITULIgns —On the 4th inst., at Oswald Souse,
park, Hampstead, John Burlison, Esq., aged 56. Georg°
EliwanDs -On the Gth inst., at Finbbury-
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From, Esq., aged 42. a Viorir
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squale, Islington, aged 68. , ghat,
SHOUT - On the sth last., at Brighton, Grace gililiple
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