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The Annual Estimates OF the State Do.
partment
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1875, have been
prepared, and show total OF $s2o,72o. Of this
amount $lO6, ,22O will be required for salaries.
$4,000 for publishing the laws $4,000 for postage
$32, 500 for contingent expenses and the balance
for miscellaneous items. The above estimates do
not include those for foreign intercourse, which
will amount to about $l,S74,0 600 additional. the
appropriation for the state Department for the
present fiscal year, exclusive OF foreign inter-
course, Is $3l2, 500.
Preliminary Report or the Coss Survey.
Professor Benjamin Pierce, Superintendent OF
the Coast Survey, has forwarded his preliminary
report to Secretary Richardson In advance OF the
final report from the field. He reviews the field OF
work on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, on
which surveying parties have been engaged during
.he year, and says that in the northern sections
work will be continued until the approach OF cold
weather, when the parties will resume the survey
OF the Southern coast Parties now on the coast OF
Maine are engaged in survey OF Mount Desert
Island and the adjacent photography on the
shores of Eggemoggin Reach, on the coast near
Castine, on the islands In that vicinity, including
that OF Isle in Hart Bay, and on the PenoDscot,
above Belfast. supplementary work has been
done in the upper parts OF Casco Bay and
In Portland Harbor. Points have been determined
by triangulation in New Hampshire. Special OBJ
servations are In progress near North Adams.
Mass for the determination OF terrestrial gravity,
and others at Cambridge, for finding the longitude
Of points III the interior Of the United States. on
shore photography is continued near Georges bank
inshore soundings near Nantucket and tidal OBJ
seryations have been constantly recorded at North
Haven, Penobscot Bay, and at the Navy Yard, Bos.
ton.
Tbo hor hatw nd nd
have been further examined Tor the preparation OF
final sailing directions. Field work is advancing
on the coast Of Rhode Island, west OF Point Judith.
Special observations in hydrography, Including
those relating to tides and currents are in
progress In New York Harbor. Field work
on the south side OF Long Island on the shores OF
the Rarltan River, New Jersey, on the shores OF
Lake Champlain, with adjacent soundings and sta.
tion marks OF trangulation in the vicinity OF New
York, have been examined with reference to their
preservation. Determinations have been made for
latitude longitude and the magnetic elements %
Port Jervis, N. Y. Barnegat Lighthouse has been
connected with the primary trianguation, which
passes from New York to the head OF the Chesa-
peake Bay. Coast topography has been prosecuted
between Barnegat and Absec0m; photography to
the northward of Little Egg Harbor and in tho
Delaware River at Newcastle Reconnaissance has
been continued westward from Harper's Ferry.
Va, for points in the geodetic connection
between the Atlantic and western coasts. The
harbors. of the Chesapeake have been especially
examined with reference to sailing directions.
The survey OF James River Virginia, has advanced
above Warwick River entrance; that or Elizabeth
River has been completed. Latitude has been de-
termined at station on Knott's Island, Virginia.
The survey has been continued in Currituck Pam
ilco and Core Sounds including Pungo and
s,k-
latitude OF a station near Ocracoke In
let, further southwark. The operations
of the year include Cape Fear River
to Wilmington, n Co. the coast or Sonth
Carolina, between Little River ana Wlnyah Bay.
parts OF Co0saw River and Of Port Royal Island,
latitude at St Simon's Island, Ga, the survey Of
HALIFAX River and the adjacent coast below Mata-
moras Inlet Florida, and the extension of hydro
graphy IN the vicinity OF the Florida reefs After
reviewing the work on the Gulf coast, he says
points in the geodetic connection between the At
lantic and western coast have been occupied in
Missouri, Wisconsin and Colorado and now each
State and Territory OF the Union along the belt
which includes the thrtyninth parallel has at least
one point accurately determined in latitude
and longitude The plan OF field and
photographic work the western coast
In the prosecution or which parties have been and
are now engaged, comprises photographic develop
ments In the vicinity oil San Diego, the coast OF
California. near Newport, and San Juan CapistranO,
Catalina Haroor, Point Hnereme San Buenaven-
tura, Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa Islands; the
coast north and south OF Point Conception, recon-
noissance between Santa Barbara and Monterey,
the coast between Point Sol and san LUIS Obispo
Bay, north of Piedras Blancas the entrance and
approaches to San Francisco Bay; latitude, longi-
tude, azimuth, magnetic elements, coeficient
~ ofroc nh- f;.yo
currents at stations north and south OF san Fran
cisco; deep sea soundings near Falmouth Shoal,
development OF the Cordel bank, field work on the
coast north OF Mendocino Bay, south OF Bear
River, soundings between Cape Mendocino and
Rocky Point anu OF shore from Crescent City
Reel, the coast north OF Mack's Arch, soundings on
the Oxford Reef extension OF the survey OF Column
ba River and OF Sweetwater Bay, Budd's Inlet.
Puget's Sound, and geographical reconnois-
OF the coast including special surveys of the
harb0rs Of Alaska. In the offices nineteen charts
have been engraved, twenty-three continued and
six new ones commenced, in addition to which six
preliminary charts have been published in the
drawing division, sixtythree charts have been
worked upon, being either completed or brought
up to the date OF survey. Fourteen thousand
copies OF copper plate charts ana $500 OF litno-
graphic charts have been printed, tide tables pre-
pared, &c.
Check 10 Indian Raiders.
The Acting Secretary OF the Interior has trans
mitted to the Secretary OF War copy OF tele-
gram, dated Wichita Texas, 18th inst from the
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs, in which he states
that IL is important that strong patrol be placed
the Red River to intercept parties returning
from raids into Texas and to fulfil his pledge to
Governor Davis. Orders will be issued by the War
Department TO post troops where violations of the
peace by Indians apprehendcd in this respect
as III all other cases.
The Pacific Deep Sen Soundings.
Commodore George +. Belknap, commanding the
United States steamer Tuscarora, now engaged In
taking soundings in the Pacific Ocean, telegraphs
the Secretary OF War from Victoria, Vancouver's
that ho n coal