The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-10

making tue aggregate S9Ol 125,624 81. OF the
disbursements there were fer ha civil service
$23 253,922 IS for pensions and Indians S4,-
2l6,526 80 for interest on public debt $24 1873,
$40 81 for the War Department S599, 29S.
600 SO for the Navy Department sos, l |, l0j-
q for payment OF funded and temporary debt
$751;, 0S6,635 o. ) making the aggregate $685.,
796630 90, and leaving the balance of $5,329,-
044 81 But the payment of funded and
Temporary de.t hay.1g been made from moneys
borrowed during the year, must be regarded as
merely nomina, payments and the moneys bor-
roved % make them on merely nomina. receipts,
and their amou 81, ($lSl ,0S6 ,635 Oh shoGI there
fore be deducted both from receipts and G!sDurss-
men,S.
IaIs beng done, there remains on ac.ua. re
eipts S72O ,O39 039 70, and the aclual dis.
bursemento, $714 ,709,99j %, leaving the bal
ancs as already stated. The actua receipts and
disbursements for the first quarter, and the est
mated receipts ard disbursements for the remain
ing three quarters o. ne current fiscal wear,
. 1861, will be saoYa 10 detail by III report OF
the Secretary OF the Treasury, to which | invite
y0ur attention
l. IS sufficient to >ay mere tla, il IS not believed
that actual results VII. exhibit a state OF the f.
Dances less favorable 10 the country than The es.
Inmates of ina, officer heretofore submitted,
while j. is confidently expected that a, the close
OF the year, both disbursements anl debt viii be
! found very considerably less than has beea antic,-
pated.
The report of the Secretary Of War is doc
ument Of great interes. 1t consists Of First
/ the military operations OF the yeU, detailed IN
the report Of the Genora.-in.C hief. Second
| The organization OF colored persons Inlo the war
service. Thrd-Ehe exchange Of prisoners full.
] l., at
FOURTH Inc operations under the act for tn
rolling and calling out the national forces detailed
in tue report OF Inc Provost Marsha. Fifth
The organization Of the Invalid Corps. SIKH
The operation of the several departments of the
Quartermaster General, Commissary General
Chief 0. Engineers, Chief o! Ofdnan and sur.
geon Genera.
| Il has appeared impossible to make : valuable
summarl OF THIS report, excep, such wonid b.
too extended for TINS place, and hence tonien!
myself by asking your careful attention TO the re-
port itself.
! The duties deyolving on the naval branch Of
the service during the year, and throughout the
whole of this unhappy contest, have been dis
charged with fidelity and eminent success. The
extensive blockade has been constantly increasing
in efficiency.
| If the Navy has expanded, yet on SO long
line it has so far been impossible to entirely sup
press Illicit trade From the returns received at
! the Navy Department. it appears that more than
one thousand vessels have been captured since
the blockade was instituted, and that the value
of prizes already sent in for aducati0n amounts
| to over thirteen millions Of dollars.
The naval force of the United States consists
at this time OF 5S8 vessels completed and in the
course of completion and Of these IS are IRON
war give an increased interest and importance to
the navy, which will probably extend beyond the
war itself.
The armored vessels completed and in service
or which are under contract and approaching
completion are believed to exceed in number,
those of any other Power but while these may
be relied upon for harbor defence and coast
service, others Of greater strength and capacity
will be necessary tor cruising purposes and to
maintain our nghttul position on the ocean.
The change that has taken place in naval war
fare since the introduction of steam as a motive
power for ships Of war demand, either a cores
ponding change in some OF our existing navy
yards, or the establishment of new ones for the
construction and necessary repairs Of modern ma
val vessels. No inconsdera6le embarrassment,
delay and public injury have been experienced
from the want OF sGch Government establish
ments
The necessity Of such navy yard SO furnished,
at some suitable place upon the Atlantic sea-
board, has on repeated occasions, been brought
to the attention of Congress by the Navy Depart
ment. and is again presented in the report Of
the Secretary, which accompanies this communcs.
ton.
| think il my duty to invite your special atten-
ton to this subject, and also that OF establishing
yard and depot for nautical purposes upon one of
the Western rivers A naval force has been crea-
tee on those interisr waters, and under many dis
advantages, within little more than two years, ex
eeeding IN numbers the whole naval force OF the
country at the commencement Of the present ad-
mnstratlOn.
Satisfactory and important as have been the
performances of the heroic Of the navy at this
interesting period, they are scarcely more won
derfn than the success of our mechanics and ar
tisans in the production of war vessels which has
crea ed new form Of naval power.
Our country has advantages superior to any
other nation IN our resources of iron and timber
with inexhaUstible quantities Of fuel in the mme-
date vicinity Of boh and all available and in close
proximity to navgable waters. Without the adj
vantage of public WORKS, the resources OF the ma
ton have been developed and It's power displayed
in the construction OF navy of such magnitude,
which has, at the very period of its creation, Yen
dered signal service to the Union.
The increase of the number OF seamen in the
public service from seven thousand five hundred
men IN the spring of 1861 to about thru -our