Army pensions

Telegraph for military purposes...
Maintenance of gunboat fleet proper..
Keeping, transportating and supplying prisoners
of war..

Permanent forts and fortifications; surveys for
military defences; contingencies of fortifica-
tions; platform for cannon of large caliber, &c.,
from 1862 to 1868.

Construction and maintenance of steam-rams.....]
Signal service...

Gunboats on the Western rivers.

Supplying, transportating and delivering arms and munitions of war to loyal citizens in States in rebellion against the Government of the United States....

Collecting, organizing, and drilling volunteers....
Bridge-trains and equipage.

Tool and siege trains.....

1,649,597 29,091,667

1,413,702

702,250

Purchase of Ford's Theatre...

Temporary relief to destitute in District of
Columbia..

Headstones, erection of headstones, pay of super-
intendents, and removing the remains of offi-
cers to national cemeteries....

State of Tennessee for keeping and maintaining
United States military prisoners..
Capture of Jeff. Davis...

Removing wreck of gunboat Oregon..........
Support of Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen...
Claims for quartermaster's stores and commis-
sary supplies.

912,283

320,637

4,162,848

88,000

57,000

1,080,186

22,749

97,032

5,500

11,454,237

850,221

Miscellaneous claims audited by Third Auditor...
Claims of loyal citizens for supplies furnished]

Only the appropriations from which war expenditures were made are included e. A statement of the total receipts and expenditures of the United States, o 1880 inclusive, classified under appropriate heads, will be found on pages

VITAL STATISTICS OF FOREIGN CITIES. [From the Reports of the Board of Health of the City of New York.]

tion. No. of rate per

[Estimat- deaths.

1,000

ed for

inhabi

ed for

inhabi

ing 1090°, per bbl..... Beer, Mum or spruce, specific grav

ity not exceeding 1215°, per bbl... 1 6 0 Spirits, rum, rum shrub, Beer, Mum, spruce, or black, exor cordials, from British ceeding 1215°, per bbl... gallon... Cards, playing, per doz. packs... Chicory, (raw or kiln dried,) cwt.....

Spirits, perfumed, and

water, gallon...

1 10 6

0 39

0 13 3

Chicory, (roasted or ground,) lb....
Chloral hydrate, pound.....

0 0 2

013

Spirits, unenumerated, s or mixed.

Cocoa, pound..

Tobacco, unmanufactured ing 10 per cent. or moisture, pound. Containing less than 10 of moisture, pound.... Cavendish or Negro-hea Cigars, pound....

Other manufactured tob Snuff, containing more per cent. of moisture, Snuff, less than 13 per moisture, pound..... Varnish, containing alcoho Vinegar, gallon.... Wine, containing less than spirit, gallon.

Wine, containing more

and less than 42° spirit, Wine, for each additiona of strength beyond 42°,

0 01

0 20

002

0 14 0

0 02

1

40

.'78, 8; Jan. 31, 2; Mar. 27, 3; May 30, 2; June 27, 3; July 4, 3%; Aug. 1, 4; Aug. 1 et. 14,6; Nov. 21, 5.

. 16, 1879. 4; Jan. 30, 3; March 13, 21; April 10, 2; Nov. 6, S

e 17. 1880, 2; Dec. 9, 3.

. 13, 1881, 3%; Feb. 17, 3; April 28, 2; Aug. 18, 3; Aug. 25, 4; Oct. 6, 5.

June. 10. 11. ( TU. 140.7196.0 140.1. 190.1 110.3|116.4 110.3 110.5 11

July.. 115.5 130.6 258.1 142.1 151.6 139.4 142.7 136.1 116.8 112.4 114.3 115.7 11
Aug
114.5 125.8 254.1 143.5 148.7 140.3 145.5 134.2 117.9 112.4 114.4 115.4 10
Sept.. 118.5 134.2 222.5 143 9 145.5 143.4 143.6 136.8 114.8 114.5 113.5 112.7 10
Oct... 128.5 147.7 207.2 145.5 148.3 143.5 137.1 130.2 112.8 113.2 113.2 108.9 11
Nov.. 131.1 148.0 233.5 147 143.8 139.6 134.4 126.2 111.4 111.2 112.9 108.6 11
Dec... 132.3 151.1 227.5 146.2 136.7 134.8 135.2 121.5 110.7 109.3 112.2 110 11

Aver'ge

of year 113.3 145.2 203.3 157.3 140.9 138.2 139.7 133 114.9 111.7 112.4 113.8 11

NOTE. According to the officially-published quotations of the gold market in reacy price of $100 gold reached its maximum on the 11th day of July, 1864, the qu ranging from $276 to $285. The average price of $100 gold for the month of July,

For the year 1378 the average currency value of gold was $101.43.

GOLD VALUE OF UNITED STATES CURRE

Giving the Gold Price in Dollars of One Hundred Dollars in Currency Market, averaged by Months and Years, from Jan. 1, 1862, to Ja

PERI-
ODS.

1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. 1867. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 187

Jan... 97.6 68.9 64.3 46.3 71.4 74.3 72.2 73.7 82.4 90.3 91.7 88.7 89
Feb.. 96.6 62.3 63.1 48.7 72.3 72.8 70.7 74.4 83.7 89.7 90.7 87.6 8
Mar. 98.2 64.7 61.4 57.5 76.6 74.1 71.7 76.2 88.8 90.1 90.8 86.6 89
Apr 98.5 66 57.9 67.3 78.6 73.7 72.1 75.2 88.4 90.4 90
May.. 96.8 67.2 56.7 73.7 75.9 73 71.6 71.8 87.2 89.7 88
June. 93.9 69.2 47.5 71.4 67.2 72.7 71.4 72.4 88.6 89
July 86.6 76.6 38.7 70.4 66 71.7

84.9 88 85 89

87.8

85.8 90

70.1 73.5 85.6 89

87.5

86.4 91

87.4 86.7 91

Aug.. 87.3 79.5 39.4 69.7 67.2 71 68.7 74.5 84.8 89
Sept.. 81.4 74.5 44.9 69.5 68.7 69.7 69.6 73.1 87.1 87.3 88.1 88.7 91
Oct.. 77.8 67.7 48.3 68.7 67.4 69.7 72.9 76.8 88.7 88.3 88.3 91.8 91
Nov. 76.3 67.6 42.8 68 69.5 71.6 74.4 79.2 89.8 89.9 88.6 92.1 90
Dec. 75.6 66.2 44 68.4 73.2 74.2 74 82.3 90.3 91.5 89.1 90.9, 89

Aver'ge

of year 88.3 68.9 49.2 63.6 71 72.4 71.6 75.2 87 89.5 89

87.9 89

For the year 1978 the average gold value of currency was $98 56,