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UNITED STATES. 



After considerable parley with messengers 

 from the Indians, all the chiefs surrendered. 

 They desired to make peace, and to be placed on 

 the San Carlos Reservation. Efforts to bring in 

 the scattered warriors were but partly success- 

 ful, and when Gen. Crook felt compelled to be- 

 gin his return march on account of his scanty 

 supplies, he had with him 384 Cliiricahua In- 

 dians and six Mexican captives who had been 

 found in their possession. Other Indians were 

 to be sent in afterward according to agreement 

 with Hieronymo. The force reached the sup- 

 ply-camp at Silver Springs, Arizona, on June 

 10th, and 52 warriors and 273 women and 

 children were sent to the San Carlos Reserva- 

 tion. Gen. Crook strongly urged the retention 

 of the surrendered Indians and such others as 

 should come in at the San Carlos Reservation. 

 This was objected to by Secretary Teller, of the 

 Interior Department, and the general was sum- 

 moned to Washington for consultation, which 

 resulted in an arrangement for retaining the 

 Indians on the reservation as prisoners of war 

 under the direct charge of that officer. 



The expenditures of the War Department, for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30th, were $49,- 

 791,055, and $1,663,151 was credited to the 

 subsidized Pacific Railroads, for transportation 

 services rendered the War Department during 

 the fiscal year 1883 and prior years. 



The cost of maintaining the Soldiers' Home 

 was $139,557.63. The number of national 

 cemeteries under the care of the Quartermas- 

 ter's Department was 83, in which there were 

 321,369 interments. The total number of 

 deaths reported from the army for the year 

 was 242, of which 162 were from disease, "and 

 80 from wounds, injuries, and accidents. From 

 the casualties of actual warfare there was but 

 one death and nine injuries. The cost of med- 

 ical and hospital supplies was $180,139.73. 

 There were nearly 3,600 desertions from the 

 army during the year. At the national armo- 

 ry, Springfield, Mass., 33.621 small-arms were 

 manufactured. Contracts were entered into 

 for making, converting, and testing rifled can- 

 non, but it was impossible to secure those for 

 the larger steel f orgings in the United States, and 

 resort was had to the works of Great Britain. 



Gen. William T. Sherman retired from the 

 head of the army on November 1st, and was 

 succeeded by Lieut.-Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, 

 Maj.-Gen. J. M. Schofield being transferred to 

 the Division of the Missouri, with headquarters 

 at Chicago. 



The Navy. The naval vessels in commission 

 at the beginning of 1884 were as follow : 



North Atlantic Station, Bear- Admiral George. H. 

 Cooper. The Tennessee, first rate, 22 guns, Capt. Jo- 

 seph N. Miller ; Vandalia, second rate, 8 guns, Capt. 

 Rush R. Wallace ; Alliance, third rate, 6 guns, Com- 

 mander Allan V. Reed ; Galena, third rate, 8 guns, 

 Commander Oliver A. Batchellor ; Swatara, third rate, 

 8 guns, Commander Philip H. Cooper. South Atlan- 

 tic Station, Commodore Thomas S. Phelps. Brook- 

 lyn, second rate, 14 guns, Capt. Aaron W. Weaver ; 

 Nipsic, third rate, 6 guns, Commander Henry B. See- 

 ly. European Station, Rear- Admiral Charles H. Bald- 



win. Lancaster, second rate, 10 guns, Capt. Edward 

 E. Potter ; Quinnebaug, third rate. 8 guns, Com- 

 mander Nicoll Ludlow ; Kearsarge, third rate, 7 guns, 

 Commander William R. Bridgman. Pacific Station, 

 Rear- Admiral Aaron K. Hughes. Pensacola, second 

 rate, 22 guns, Capt. Henry Erben ; Hartford, second 

 rate, 16 guns. Capt. Charles C. Carpenter ; Lacka- 

 wanna, second rate, 9 guns, Capt. Augustus P. Cooke ; 

 Shenandoah, second rate, 9 guns, Capt. Charles S. 

 Norton ; Iroquois, third rate, 7 guns, Commander 

 James II. Sands ; Adams, third rate, 6 guns, Com- 

 mander Joseph B. Coghlan; Wachusett, third rate, 

 7 guns, Commander Alfred T. Mahan; Onward, fourth 

 rate, 3 guns, Lieut. -Commander Francis W. Dickins. 

 Asiatic Station, Acting Rear- Admiral John L. Davis. 

 Richmond, second rate, 14 guns, Capt. Joseph S. Sker- 

 rett ; Trenton, second rate, 10 guns, Capt. Robert L. 

 Phythian ; Ossipee, third rate, 8 guns, Commander 

 John F. McGlensay ; Juniata, third rate, 8 guns, Com- 

 mander Parnell F. Harrington ; Essex, third rate, 6 

 guns, Commander Alexander H. McCormick ; Enter- 

 prise, third rate, 6 guns, Commander Alberts. Barker; 

 Mpnocacy, third rate, 6 guns, Commander Francis J. 

 Higginson ; Alert, third rate, 4 guns, Commander 

 Charles J. Barclay ; Palos, fourth rate, 6 howitzers, 

 Lieut. -Commander George D. B. Glidden. Training 

 Squadron, Commodore Stephen B. Luce. Minnesota, 

 first rate, 24 guns, Capt. James H. Gillis, at New York ; 

 New Hampshire, first rate, 16 guns, sails, Capt. Ed- 

 mund O. Matthews, at Newport, R. I. ; Jamestown, 

 third rate, sails, 12 guns, Commander Charles V. Grid- 

 ley, at New York Sataroga, third rate, 12 guns, Com- 

 mander William H. Whiting, training-ship, at New 

 York ; Portsmouth, third rate, sails, 12 guns, Com- 

 mander William C. Wise, at Norfolk for repairs. 

 There were also on special service, the Alarm, fourth 

 rate, torpedo-ram, and the Dispatch, fourth rate, at 

 Washington ; the Michigan, fourth rate, at Erie, Pa. ; 

 the Pinta, fourth rate, on the way to San Francisco ; 

 Powhatan, second rate, 14 guns, Capt. Andrew W. 



Tallapoosa, dispatch- vessel, at Norfolk ; Yantic, third 

 rate. 4 guns. Commander Frank Wildes, at New 

 York Navy-Yard. The Colorado, first rate, 30 guns, 

 Capt. William A. Kirkland, was a receiving-ship at 

 New York ; Franklin, first rate. 26 guns. Capt. Lester 

 A. Beardslee, like service at Norfolk; Wabash, first 

 rate, 26 guns, Captain Fr. M. Bunce,.same at Bos- 

 ton Independence, third rate, at Mare island ; St. 

 Louis, third rate, at League island ; Wvandotte, fourth 

 rate, at Washington Navy- Yard. The Speedwell, 

 fourth rate, arrived at Norfolk in January. The iron- 

 clads Ajax, Catskill, Lehigh, Mahopac, and Manhat- 

 tan were laid up at City Point, Va., in command of 

 Commander D. W. Mullen. 



Authority was given by an act of Congress, 

 approved Aug. 5, 1882, to strike from the reg- 

 ister of the navy such vessels as should be 

 deemed of no further service to the Govern- 

 ment. Under this authority 47 vessels were 

 so stricken from the register. An act approved 

 March 3, 1883, authorized the Secretary of the 

 Navy to dispose of such of these vessels as 

 might be deemed expedient, by sale in accord- 

 ance with sealed proposals. A circular was 

 issued June 21st, inviting such proposals for 

 the purchase of 24 of these vessels, their names, 

 location, and appraised value being as follow : 



The Congress, $25,400; Guard, $2,800; Kansas, 

 $6,100 ; and Sabine, $10,400, at Portsmouth, N. H. 

 Iowa, $44,600 ; Niagara, $29,000 ; and Ohio, $15,700, 

 at Boston. Blue Light, $500 ; and Florida, $64,400, 

 at New London, Conn. New Orleans, $200 (on the 

 stocks), at Sackett's Harbor. N. Y. Susquehanna, 

 $9,000, at New York. Burlington, $3,000 ; Glance, 



