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The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Naval intelligence. (search)
iderable additional cost for fuel and oil on the steam vessels, when they are employed in duty on foreign stations. the cost of provisions required for maintaining in commission vessels of the different classes has rapidly increased during the last seventeen years, and was, in 1860, as follows: steam frigate$52,488 81 Sailing frigate44,531 75 steam sloop, first class33,180 42 Sailing sloop, first class18,746 00 steam sloop, second class14,996 80 Sailing sloop, second class16,871 40 Steamer, third class7,873 32 sloop, third class12,122 20 the comparative cost of mechanical labor at the several navy-yards, for 1840 and 1860, are thus given: 1840.1860.Increase per cent.Decrease per cent Portsmouth$1 46$1 9432.9 Boston1 821 946.6 New York1 781 938.4 Philadelphia1 702 0319.4 Washington1 481 8223.0 Norfolk1 801 968.9 Pensacola2 582 493.5 Mare Island4 39 99.23.5 Average increase in the several yards, (Mare Island excepted,) 13,7 per cent.
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Naval intelligence. (search)
More Southern troops. --Yesterday morning thirty-six recruits for the army of the Southern Confederacy reached Portsmouth, Va., in the Baltimore boat, and took the cars on the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad for Weldon. Quite a number of persons in that city joined the party, and as the train passed up High street they were cheered at various points.