Daily national Republican., 1866-01-15


ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
- BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
PUNT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND.
hBApeRs g. DEPARTMENT OF wAsuIsaroN,
ofrics OF CHIEH ouARrERNAsrER,
x,,,, WhsHINaroE, d. c., Dec, %, 1855.
L, mlll WIN he eold At public auction to the highest
THTp,m n ~ roiNr LOOKOUT ND, commencing
rhohsoAY, January Is, 1866, at 10 o'clock a.
n,i,s M; Inc tcilowing Frame Buildings and other
5poVnN Nm P;operty at that place, viz:
TED STATES GENERAL HOSPITAL.
1Epe Er Headquarters Building, l75 by % feet.
Fifteen Hospital Wards, each l76 BY Is feet.
One Mess. house, $50 by 2s feet.
One Guards Quarters, 1877 by "a feet.
One Contrabsnd Quarters, 90 by Il feet.
One Kitchen, 90 by IS feet.
One Chapel, II by q feet.
One Laundry, 90 by ~ feet, with stationary
Engine, Locomotive Boiler, and all the necessary
apparatus for steam laundry and drying.
One Cow Stable. ol by IA feet.
One Horse Stable, 90 by q feet.
One Wagon house, small.
One Baggage house, IS by Is feet.
One Warehouse, IS by IS feet.
water.tank Building, II by II feet, 50 feet
high, with circular water tank 10 feet diameter
| Two Coal houses.
| One Saw house.
| Ono Forage house.
| One Dead house, and
One Wash house, Of various dimensions.
Also, Covered Plank Pootwalks connecting the
above buildings; aggregate length 500 feet, and
8 feet wide.
The above mentioned Headquarters Building
10 two stories high, lathsd and plastered, and
the fifteen Hospital Wards, the Mess house, and
few other structures are also lathed and plas-
tered.
PRISON CAMP.
Ten Hospital Wards, each lao by Is feet.
| seven Cook houses. each las by q feet.
| One Cook house, l2O by % feet
/ 0na Coak .hausa hv faa xwith txVa vipg
| each 80 by % feet
One sadquartsrs Building, 70 by q feet, with
two wings, each 40 by % feet.
One G. 8. storehoute, 90 by "a feet
0ne Dispensary, 40 by IS feet.
One Chapel, 100 by u feet.
One Express Once, 80 by 10 feet.
One Guard House, (block,) 90 by Is feet.
One Quarters, one Once, and one store-room
Also, o,ls8 lineal feet Of Fencing, IL feet high
$40 lineal feet Of Board Pence, 0 feet high 70t
lineal feet Of covered Plank Footwalks, l2 fee
wide and 0, ,lss lineal feet Of Plank Footwalks,
oUARTERMAsTER's DEPARTMENT.
One Quarters, 100 by 2S feet
One Quarters, 100 by IA feet.
| One Quarters, 70 by % feet.
| One Quarters, SO by rs feet.
Three Stables, averaging lss by 81 feet each
One Storehouse, 81 by 81 feet.
Ono smith shop, 69 by "a feet.
One Wheelwright Shop, OF by IA feet.
And four 0fices, three quarters, two Store.
houses, one oil house, one saddlers' shop, aud
one Mess -house. Of various Dimensions.
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS AND oTHEE
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital, 20 by Is feet.
| One Commissary storehouse, 300 by IS feet.
One Commissary Salesroom and Ofice, 81 BY
81 feet.
one ONCE, 27 by ls feet.
One Guard House, qOg) 80 by 80 feet
One Guard House, Qog,) 80 by 20 feet
Two frame Guard Houses, small sire.
One BarrAck at Fort Lincoln, so by % feet
One Ordnance storshouse, 81 by IL feet.
One Slaughter House, 40 by "a feet, with Shet
"a by IS feet, and Out- building 0 by 0 feet.
One Stable, 80 BY 22 feet; and,
Ten Kitchens, Quarters, &c, Of various dimen
Ono wharf Of Timber and Lumber, 47s feet Ion &
and varying In width from % to lo2 feet
As lineal feet Of stockade, II feet high on Po
platforms, each l6 by IL feet, and 100 nneal fee
Of plank footwalk, 8 feet wide.
l67 llneAl feet Of Stockade on Bay side, will
block -house G by 20 feet, and three platforms 0
One Hose Carriage.
Twenty eight Fire Ladders.
Twenty-four Axes.
One hundred and sixteen Fire Buckets, and
Six Lengths OF Hose, each 81 feet long.
Three Cooking Ranges.
One Perpetual Oven.
A quantity Of Old Lumber and a number o
Pumps.
Point Lookout, situated at the junction Of tn,
Potomac river with Chesapeake Bay, was, be.
fore the war, fayorite watering place, and Il
we'll adapted for the purpose now, having ex
cellent facilities for salt water bathing, AnC
abundance Of hsh aud game.
The buildings above enumerated under th'
head Of ''United States General Hospital'' are
located directly on the Point, the principal stTuo
tures being arranged In q circle,) radiating from
. common centre, and connected bV covered foot
walks, and could with moderate expense be ntteC
up properly for the accommodation OF visitors, Al
a steam laundry, Ice house, coal house, wRte
tanks and many other structures for the purpos,
are ready for immediate use. An excellent Op
portunity Is also afforded to land owners in the
vicinity, and elsewhere, to secure Valuabl,
fencing and building material.
A steamer will leave the Government wharves
south side Of the basin, near FRrdy's ship yard
Baltimore, Md, at 10 o'olock, on the morning o
Wednesday, January II, 1865, for the transport
alton Of bidders to Point Lookout, and will b,
retained until the close OF the sale to return tn
passengers to Baltimore. Meals will be fur
nished on the boat at the usual (steamboat) rates
The buildings will be sold singly, and othe
property In lots to suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain In charge O
the buildings, Sc, for hfteen days after the sale
II desired, and purchasers will be allowed twent
days In which to remove their property.
Terms: Cash, in Government funds.
III. LUDINGT0N,
| Colonel and Chief QuartermAster
de29-lH Department Of Washington.
lDUBLIO SALE OF GOVERNMEN,
l. PROPERTY.