Engines and boilers, 600 horse-power, at £50 per horse-power. 210,000 English ship...... 471,830 American ship of 3,000 tons: 1,195 pounds iron to ton, at $54 40 per ton. $87,040 Labor if built on slips, $33 75 per ton, is, for 3,000 tons, $101,250; less if built 85,063 71,250 4,825 Sails 6,075 Painting. 8,480 For hull, spars, and rigging complete Engines and boilers can be produced here at same rate, allowing for superior iron as in England 263,733 210,000 American ship 473,733 The cost of the American ship, built of superior iron, made properly, and built in dock, exceeds the English by... $2,103 If built on launching-slips, it would exceed the cost by. 17,290 If built of common American iron, but equal to English iron, it would exceed the English cost by... This shows that, with building-docks and the facilities duly arranged as named in the proposals of the International Steamship Company, we can produce iron steamships of quality superior by 17 per cent. in strength to those of Great Britain, and capable of carrying one-third more of dead weight in cargo than can the English of the same tonnage. No fact can speak stronger than this as to our ability to regain the lost American commerce, or that, by firmly establishing such facilities, the United States will become the possessor of the carrying trade upon the ocean. Nor can there be a stronger evidence of the ability of its Government to place in service the most efficient navy of the world at a less cost of construction, and to maintain it at a lower rate of repair than any other maritime nation. The advantages, the profits, the permanent prosperity which can be secured by the demonstration, the actual production of such a building-yard, cannot well be estimated in positive or even approximate value; but the saving to the Navy Department can be very clearly shown in the single item of repairs. Taking the last two years, it is shown by the annual reports of the Navy Department that for 1869, the repairs of naval vessels cost 1870, the repairs cost Making in the two years... Tools and steam machinery to effect these repairs have been for 1869 the sum of $1,405,200; and for 1870, $1,715,000... Making in all for repairs in two years 14, 020, 200 With the building-yard subject to the control of the Navy, the whole of these repairs could be made more expeditiously at one-half the expenditure, and without any expenditure whatever for tools and steam machinery; but to be entirely safe in such an estimate, and allowing for contingencies, say that the average shall be but onethird on repairs and on machinery. This alone would give an annual average saving to the Navy Department of $2,336,667. Under the following conditions named in the proposal, the Navy Department will have as much actual and more effective control over repairs than if they were being done in the navy yards: "The said yard and docks shall at all times give preference to the work of the Navy Department, and when necessity requires the same to be completed in less time than S. Ex. 10-2 has been agreed for by contract or otherwise, such facilities and numbers of men shall be forthwith provided therefrom as said yard can supply and as the Secretary of the Navy shall deem adequate, and at no additional cost, except for the excess in numbers of men and of material employed and used; and whenever the United States shall be involved in war, the Government thereof shall have absolute right of control to the exclusion of all other than its own work for naval and military purposes." AMBROSE W. THOMPSON, President of the International Steamship Company. In compliance with resolution of the Senate dated April 13, 1871, statement of the representative and total population of the United States, as shown by the ninth census. APRIL 17, 1871.—Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a resolution adopted on the 13th instant, by the Senate of the United States, in the following words: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to furnish the Senate a statement of the population of the United States, giving the representative and total population of each State, separately, as ascertained by the ninth census. The resolution was referred to the Superintendent of Census for report, and I now have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a letter from that officer, with accompanying schedule, in answer to said resolution. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX, C. DELANO, Secretary. Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, CENSUS Office, SIR: I have the honor to be in receipt of a resolution from the honorable Senate of the United States, in session on the 13th day of April, 1871, requiring a statement of the total and the representative population of each State of the Union, as ascertained by the ninth census, the same having been referred by the Department to this office, under date of the 14th instant, "for immedate report." I have the honor to represent that compliance with the requirements of the resolution is impracticable at the present time, from the incompleteness of the enumeration in certain States. Advices from the marshals of the several districts which are incomplete at the date of this report justify the expectation that full returns from the entire country will be received on or before the 1st proximo. A schedule is inclosed, which exhibits the counties and townships from which full or final returns have not, at this date, been received. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, FRANCIS A. WALKER, Hon. C. DELANO, Secretary of the Interior. Superintendent. Schedule to accompany letter of the Superintendent of the Census, April 15, 1871. ARKANSAS.-Townships of Jefferson, Osage, and Van Buren, in Newton County: county once reported by the United States marshal as complete; omission of the townships named discovered at the Census Office, and marshal advised March 28; census now being taken. INDIANA. City of Indianapolis; reënumeration. MISSISSIPPI.-Counties of Wilkinson and Yazoo, half of Adams County, and one-third of Copiah County. OHIO.-Townships of Benton, Clay, Carroll, and Henry, in Ottawa County; reënu meration. TEXAS.-Military subdivision No. 4, comprising counties of Callahan, Comanche, Erath, Eastland, Jones, Shackelford, and Taylor, Lieutenant W. C. Miller acting assistant marshal; enumeration reported by Lieutenant Miller to be complete March 21; schedules not received April 15. Falls County; reënumeration. OTH |