Owasco Kanawha E. Haddam Jeremiah Simonson. Webb & Bells. C. & R. Poillon. Mystic River, Ct. Maxson, Fish & Co. Marblehead Newburyport E. G. & W. H. Goodspeed Gildersleeve & Son. Paul Curtis. Curtis & Tilden. The steam sloops are of about 1,200 and 1,400 tons burthen. The gunboats are of about 500 tons burthen, are of light draught, strongly built, and are calculated to carry one 150-pound rifled gun and four 32-pounders. THE STONE FLEET. We give below a full official list of the old vessels purchased by the Navy Department, and loaded with stone, for the purpose of blocking up the Southern ports: Rebecca Sims.......Ship........ Fairhaven. L. C. Richmond.....Ship... New Bedford.. Ship....New Bedford.. Ship....New Bedford. ..... 4000 4000 .... 3500 2600 .Ship....New Bedford. 4000 3370 2290 ............ 4000 5000 N. England... Emerald. .Bark....New Bedford.. 3050 Bark....New Bedford.. ..... 3600 4000 Ship...Newport 4300 .Bark....Salem.. 2250 ..Ship....New Bedford. 5500 ...Bark.. Sag Harbor..... 4300 ..Ship....New Bedford. 5000 ..Ship New London... 5000 .Bark....New London.. 2500 .Ship....Newport... Ship... Sag Harbor.. Majestic..... .............Bark......New Bedford. Stephen Young......Brig.....New Bedford...... .... 1600 'The total amount paid for old ships for blockading purposes is $160,205, including 21 schooners bought in Baltimore and sunk in the North Carolina Inlets. IRON-PLATED VESSELS OF WAR. Five iron-plated ships or batteries are now in process of construction-one in New York by J. Ericsson, another at Philadelphia by Merrick & Son, and a third at New Haven by Bushnell & Co. The cost of these vessesl will be $1,290,750. It is interesting to observe that while we now have five iron-clad vessels in progress, the Secretary of the Navy includes in his estimate the cost of building a fleet of twenty of these invincible monsters. The specifications are ready, and the contracts will soon be given out. On the 4th of March last, all the Government vessels available for service against the rebels were only four in number, carrying twenty-five guns. Our navy now consists of 264 vessels of all sizes, carrying 2557 guns, and having an aggregat› tonnage of 218,016 tons. The number of seamen now employed is 22,000. Of 136 vessels purchased, 79 are propelled by steam; all the 52 constructed or nearly finished are steam vessels. guns,. ..264 .2,557 .22.000 ...... ..164 ..1,055 .... £2 .837 246 .....1,892 The above statement of effective naval force does not include the store-ships and transports of the regular navy, or those chartered by government, for the emergencies of war. POPULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL Cities, Towns, and Villages, IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1860. |