320 



ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



BOUNTY BY STATES. 



Maine paid . . 

 New Hampshire . 

 Vermont . 

 Massachusetts . 

 Rhode Island . . 

 Connecticut 

 New York 

 New Jersey 

 Pennsylvania . 

 Delaware . 



Maryland 



District of Columbia 

 West Virginia . . 

 Kentucky . . 



$7,837,643 

 . 9,636,313 

 . 4,528,744 

 . 22,965,550 

 . 820,768 

 . 6,887,554 

 .86,629,227 

 . 23,868,966 

 .43,155,986 

 . 1,136,599 

 . 6,271,992 

 134,011 

 . 861,737 

 . 692,577 



Ohio 



Indiana . 

 Illinois 

 Michigan . 

 Wisconsin 

 Iowa 



Minnesota 

 Missouri . 

 Kansas 



. 23,557,337 

 . 9,182,354 

 . 17,296,205 

 . 9,664,855 

 . 5,855,356 

 . 1,615,171 

 . 2,000,464 

 . 1,282,148 

 57,407 



Total. . . . 285,939,000 

 Paid by United States, 300,223,500 



Total bounty money, 585,162,500 



AMERICAN WAR ENGINEERING. 



In an abstract of the report of Brig. Gen. D. C. McCalluin, 

 Military Director and Superintendent of Railroads in the United 

 States, by appointment of the War Department, are the following 

 specifications of services rendered by his construction corps : 



" Some of the achievements of Gen. McCallum's department 

 deserve to rank with the most remarkable engineering feats of 

 modern times. The wonderful bridge over the Chattahoochee, 

 780 feet long and 92 feet high, was built by the construction corps 

 in 4 days ; the bridge over the Potomac Creek, at Aquia, 414 feet 

 long and 82 feet high, was built ready for trains to pass in 40 

 working hours. In their leisure time this corps rebuilt the Chat- 

 tanooga rolling mills, which turned out in a few months nearly 

 4,000 tons of railroad iron for the government, and were sold at 

 the end of the war for a 175,000 dollars. With justifiable pride 

 Gen. McCallum classes the attempt to supply Sherman's army of 

 100,000 men and 60,000 horses and mules, from a base 360 miles 

 distant, over a line of a single track, as one of the boldest ideas 

 of the war. Whole corps, and even armies, were frequently 

 transported hundreds of miles on the mere verbal orders of their 

 commanders. In 1865 the Fourth Army Corps were transported 

 from East Tennessee to Nashville, a distance of 360 miles, with- 

 out delay or difficulty, this herculean task requiring nearly 1,500 

 cars. In the first six months of 1865 one wrecking train picked 

 up and brought into Nashville 16 wrecked locomotives and nearly 

 300 car-loads of wheels and bridge iron, the destructive handiwork 

 of rebel raiders. In October, 1864, Hood, passing round Sher- 

 man's army, tore up 35 miles of track, and burned 450 feet of 

 bridges between Chattanooga and Atlanta. The damage was 

 made good and the line put in working order again in 13 days. 

 Between Tunnel Hill and Resaca 25 miles of track and 230 feet 

 of bridging were reconstructed in 7 days. 



THE ATTRITION OF COINS. 



The people in the United Kingdom have to pay through the 

 public treasury somewhere about 20,000 pounds sterling per an- 



