Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-15
Government Reports.
ORDNANCE n1tnrAr

claims were 81 t,6l4, ,050. The only ap-
propriations in the Treasury now available
Tor The, purposes of this bureau arc the
,ssum of $S03, ,534 for arning and eauipping
1.-the militia, leaving unavailable nearly
q twenty-five millions of appropriations
ae previously made. During the fiscal year.
~ about $40, 900 900 worth of small arms and
ordnance stores have been sold under the
'N order or Congress and the proceeds re-
turned into the Treasury. The operations
otthe arscnas have been confined to the
manufacture ofsuppcs required by the
troops, and the care and protection of
those on hand The work on the arsenal
% at Mock Island, ILL.,, which is designed to
be the great arsenal for deposit and con
struction for the Mississippi Valley, is be-
nIg economically and thoroughly done.
Two OF the great workshops are nearly
Ioompleted The operations of the Spring
held armory have been limited to the con
version OF u small number of rifled mus
Nkets into breech-loaders for issue to
troops, States and colleges, and to the
manufacture of %, 600 Remington rifles
4efor, the navy, and three or four STYLES of ex-
perimental rifles and carbines recommend
h cd by the st. Louis Board for competitive
& trial in the field The armament of the
State troops should be the same as that
OF the regular army, and the above num-
Gber is not half sufficient to supply the
quotas Of the States now due. Breech-
loading revolvers have been manufac-
tured and issued to the troops. Bencia
arsenal should be made capable of per-
forming all the repairs of ordnance stores
1or the Pacific coast. st. Louis and
- Baton Rouge arsenals have been turned
over to the Quarternaster's Department.
INC enlisted force of the Department has
peen reduced to 40 men, the number of
commissioned officers to 90 and number
..,ef Of storekeepers to 10. This number is
considered insufficient. Heavy cannon
Tor sea-coast defense are much needed
9. cCast-iron is not believed suitable for
81. heavy ritled guns; othermaterials should
be eXperimented with. A large sum is
required for the alteration of the ten-inch
and fifteeninch iron gun carriages in
kseNice, to adapt them to the largely in
Ecreased changes which have been estab-
slsped for these heavy guns.
PAYMASTER GENERAL
The Paymaster General states that the
total disbursements to the army during the
past year were StS,514O7:. of which
$26o3, 172 were paid in the shape of back
Y pay and bounty to volunteers There
were also paid for the expenses of recon-
struction to June 30, 1871, $155, 800, and
as internal revenue tax, 50, 100 The army
has been fully paid The number of paw
st masters allowed by law (sixty) has been
sreduced to fifty-one by casualty.
FREEDNIES's BUREAU
4 The operations of the Frecdmens Brl-
reau for the past year have been confined
of Columbia, the collection and payment
OF pounties and other moneys due colored
solders, and such supervision of the edu-
callonal work as could be given. The
school funds having been all expended
prior TO July, 1910, and no appropriations
So having been made, there are no statistics
h.ot educational work to be given The
b. number of officers, agents and clerks now
s,alqn duty is 81, II reduction of So since the
u-s date of the last report
a' h.r sURGEoN-GENERAL OF TIE ARMY
" . SufgeOn-General Barnes reports that
80 he has expended during the past wear
'" 1852 9S5, of which 500, sos were required
Tor the settlement of claims and contracts
81 prior to July I, 1870. The balance on
81 hand at the end of the year was 81, $685.
Rn lo3,, Inc number of persons who have
en- aValed themselves of the provision of
"'s the acts OF Congress to receive artificial
-3a. limbs in kind or stated Communication in
money, up to June 30, 1871, was 1913.
the number furnished with limbs previous.
.-: ly having been 1857. Communication
g. seems to be very generally preferred to
the artificial limbs, the proportion being
.- as follows
-a4 , In Kind 'fo15a' tati9a
Eogs LII IL sGfI slfi
Apparatus for rcsccton 553 g
The health of the army has not been
equal to that of the previous year The
total number of deaths reported was 519,
or II per 1,000 of mean strength
Part l. of the medical and surgical his
tory of the war is nearly completed, and
will be laid before Congress the coming
Y. session The Surgeon General urges an
g. appropriation by Congress for the compile
4. tion of the remaining parts.
saH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES REPORT.
i.f The QuartermasterGeneral has drawn
rom the Treasury, during the year end
ing June 30, 1871, $12, ,45O, ops, the whole
-a amount available, of which S467 720 has
= been RENTED to the Military Division of
the Atlantic, S2,S38,93 TO that of the
South, S4,S37, GG1 to that of Missouri, So. =
4oo,OgJ to that of the Pacific, and the re-
mllnder distributed among depots of sun
plies, or paid on authorized settlements.
- SlN thousand four hundred and one ac-
70 o counts covering $34, j32, 70j, only S612.-
ie.a 94O of it pertaining to the service of
D.! loO-7l, have been settled during the
year.
THE SIGNAL SERVICE
General Myer, chief signal officer of
the army reports that since the first svn-
chronous weather observations, on The
morning of November 1, 1870 1G, 600 600
.r" copies OF the synopsis and probabilities
nave Deen laid before the public 1000
detailed charts prepared and filed in his
Office, and 900 areas of high and low ba.
& rometer traced. A new cipher is now
preparing for, the transmission of tele-
graphic reports from each of the sixty
+ stations. Measures are being taken to
s'~' tnrnish the Western cities information of
- the rise and fall Of rivers, and to give the
agricultural population greater direct ben
eht from the service. Stations will be
established at Pcnbina, Stka, in the
- - Sandwich and West India islands, and
e ship captains will be furnished insru-
ments with which to make observations
is from which they will prepare re-
f- ports. SiXty-nine per cent of
the published probabilities have
s,, been verified, and the records of the of
nee already made exceed i'm value the an
preparations. General Myer commends
the hdelity and attention to duty of his
r...H subordinates, and recommends the organ
lzatlon OF permanent corps of obsery-
-r crs, with proper promotion for merito-
sl rious service, and until this is done the
observer who most distinguishes himself
during each year be rewarded with com
mission. The chief signal officer also
T. expresses the opinion that, with the ex-
tension Of the telegraph system, the
81 weather reports and observations might
be made available throughout the entire
globe as well as single continent.
CoMMIssARY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.
p lof7 CommissaTy General Eaton reports that
a.. the army has been well fed during the
past year at an average cost of 10 So per
q rat a Il q 1 nry