Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-12-24

can now be invested without interfering with the prompt
payment OF pensions recommend that tho fund now on
hand BIO made permanent and that hereafter whenever
the amount shall reach hundred Thousand dolars. at
least one half shall be invested in registered Government
securities bearing ak per cent Interest
MARINE CORPS.
Difficulty has been experienced in keeping up full CON-
plement OF marines ia quence Of the high bOunties
paid for army recruits. Many whose time had expired
though preerrng to remain with their old corps, have
been induced by extraordinary bounes to the army
1t has been the policy OF this Department to resort to
the system OF bounes for either the marine naval SER
vice, but circumstances may render it necessary.
The colonel commandant recommends that the corps,
which when full, consists Of three thousand men should
be increased To three thousand five hundred This in
would not be undue proportion TO the naval in
but large portion OF the vessels now 10 commits
sion of description that do not require marine
guard. IT, therefore, the corps Were fui do present
number would probably be sufficient for present require
ments. On few important occasions battalion has been
detaeder army duty; but the want of equipments and
other causes render their employment in service to
winch they are not drilled aud 10 which they do not bs
long question Of doubtful expedency IL is question
indeed whether 1t would not be better every respect to
attach the corps permanently to the navy the army
and make it exclusively subject to the control of
tbe other pfaches 81 service instead of occupying an
The disepIDs u the corps { 8xceSst aod among its
officers who would d. credit to any service It
is earnestly recommended BY the colonel comm.ndant
that ustce to the that it's chief should hold
corresponding rank with other officers VINO ike
msnds have herdtofre respectfully submitted this sub
ject to tie ccnsderation Of Congress
COAST SURVEY.
1t is due the officers connected with the Coast Survey
that the assistance which they have given to squad
should be acknowledged The value of the informa-
tinn which they have furnished bockading forces
throughout The be estimated Not only
the coast but the great interior rivers they have
aided the service and promoted efficiency and its in
tegent action. Rear Admiral Porter expresses his great
obligation to small coast survey party that accompanied
the Mississippi squadron for the maps aud sketches which
used by him and consulted by the army icers in
guiding their operations They constantly employed
in deiueang the face of the ry gaining Topographic
cal and Photographed knowledge, compiling maps, and
skAtchng, when the maps found to be erroneous.
The squadron would have been sometimes embarrassed
without them War cannot be successfully carried
without good maps and the general admiral who has
to insure success.
EXPENSES AND ESTIMATES.
The appropriations made for The fiscal year
ending June 30, 1863, were $7l ,5S7 ,052 %
Expenses of the Department during same
time 632ll,l05 n
Leaving an uuexpendsd balance of $S,375 GAG 80
and armament of vessels under contract and the pay
ment of other liabilities incurred prior to the close of the
fiscal year.
The expenditures have embraced besides the ordinary
disbursements of the naval establishment the construction
in whole in part and the repair, of seventy IRON
clad vessels the Atlantic and Western waters the pur
chasing repairs and alterations of three hundred aud
sixty vessels well the charter money for the ord
nary service and for the search after praca vessels
the coast
The estimates submitted for the fiscal year ending June
80 1865, follows:
Pay of the navy $19,42324l 90
Construction and repair of steam
chinery 80 1862 900 90
Construction and repair of vessels 32575 900 90
Construction Of plated steamers 1906 900 90
Ordnance and magsz mes 8,603 GAG 90
Flu !, hemp, and equipment of vessels 7540 600 90
Provisions and clothing 6,9l5 COS 90
Contingent and miscellaneous 3 S69 $50 90
Navy yards and superintendents 2,55S,44S 90
Marine corps l44532I Sc
Surgeons necessares and hospitals 358 500 90
Tables of navigation nautical Instruments,
and Naval Academy $3.50 873 So