, 1872-11-09
which will probably be filed by the promotion
OF General Terry or General Candy.


THE FIFTH AUDITOR.
The Fifth Auditor Of the Treasury has made
his annual REPORT to the Secretary. he makes
no recommendations, but reviews the work done
in his Office showing that It, ,406 ACCOUNTS were
ITS.
THE CABINET MEETING.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was attended bY
all the members excepting Secretaries Belknap
and Delano:: The Interior Department was
coNaRAIUI.AroRY-
The President continues to receive large
number Of congratulatory kilograms. One from
Colonel John s. Mosby says: "Virginia has
gone for the Grant ticket"
THE NAVAL ENGINEERS REPORT
The animal report Of J, IT. King, Engineer-in-
Chief Of the Navy, has been submitted to the
Secretary. It embraces several subjects Of i'm
portance to the Navy and to the Marine Engi-
neers.
PROMOTED.
Lewis Watkins, Of the Contract Office, has
Department, in 4he place Of Childs, deceased.
THE REPORT OF TIE WAR DEPARTMENT..
NEW YORK., Nov. 8.-The annual report Of the
Secretary Of War, this year, is quite brief He
compliments Congress- for such completeness in
the last years legislation that there is little
room left for legialation. BE recommends the
establishment Of military prisons in place Of
sending army conVicts to the State Peniten-
tiaries, and the enactment OF q code Of specific
punishment for army offenses. Desertions are
reported as greatly fallen off during the past
year.
he renews bis recommendation that the extras
to each regiment be dispensed with as vacancies
occur, thus saving $3.50, 90 per annum. He ad-
vses raising the intellectual standard for admis-
sion at West Point, and also the sale Of large
and elsewhere, the establishment Of general ar
sena1s one to be constructed on the Atlantic
elope and another one on the Pacific. These
arsenals, with that already at Rock Island, in
the Mississippi Valley, would efficiently meet the
wants Of the service in time OF need.
The progress in experiments with improved
navy ordnance and with breech-loading small
arms is allow. He considers channel obstruc-
tions and torpedoes protected by heavy batteries
as valuable forharbor defences, and experiments
with torpedoeB have been successful in deter
mining the kind to be used. The Secretary rec
ommends the storage OF torpedoeB for defence
in New York and other harborB.
The new system Of inspecting disbursing Off
GERS accounts is in full operation. He concludes
by 1egretting that one-aixth OF the army is still
detained in the Southern States, east OF the Mis-
slssiPpi River, and hopes that the improving So
cial condition will soon relieve that force for
frontier services; and Bays that the military ex-
pendtures are On decreasing scale.
GIANT ON Ills REFLECTION.
New York, Nov. "a Washington special re-
PoA W tAo 1VAoH1HE ab 1TesluouE d1antH FlBHB
on his reelection: His first election, he conHd-
ezs, was IN honor paid for his military services,
and his second the nations approval Of his polt-
ical administration, and popular vindication OF
bis personal character: Long before the Phil
adelphia Convention, he foresaw his success.
Greeley's nomination by the Coa1itioniste
gratihed him, inasmuch as it narrowed the
contest to two candidates. Besides, the
character Of the opposition gave complete az
surance Of the result. He was surprised at the
fright received BY some OF the Republicans at
the Baltimore nomination, and he was thereafter
urged BY political giants to make various changes
in his Cabinet. Many OF his friends had won
Of that indifference, which was known to but
few, WAS his knowledge OF the fact that during
the campaign the Republican National Commit
tee bad picket in eVery Greeley camp Of any
the other, and he kndw, day by day, every phase
of the coalition situation as well IS the coxli-
tion managers did themselves.