COAST SURVEY. Authorized by Acts of February 19, 1807, July 10, 1832, March 3, 1843, and 31st of August, 1852. SUPERINTENDENT, ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE, LL.D.; salary, $6000. Operations for the year 1863. THE services at Port Royal and at the mouths of the Mississippi, referred to in the last report, were followed up in 1863 in the military department of North Carolina; on the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, particularly near Charleston and at Tybee and Wassaw; in Louisiana, west of the Mississippi, and in the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, during the sieges of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. In the first-named department, besides the triangulation of the Neuse River by Assistant Fairfield, reconnoissance maps were Rade by Assistant West and Sub-Assistant Rock ll, while the enemy threatened Newbern and Little Washington. Charleston bar was surveyed by night and lighted and buoyed by Assistant Bontelle with the steamer Bibb, just previous to the naval attack of April, 1863. Port Royal bar was resurveyed by his party, and the buoys needed there and at other entrances on the coast of South Carolina and Georgia were set, and properly marked on the charts supplied from the office for the blockading squadron. A hydrographic reconnoissance was made by the Bibb, in December, 1862, of the channel into Winyah Bay, under the orders of Admiral Dupont. Assistant Edwards, in this section, sounded out two important branches of the island passage between St. Helena and Port Royal sounds; examined the channels into Tybee roads; and pushed the hydrography of Wassaw sound, for which shore-line was furnished by a party under SubAssistant Dennis. Six parties were actively and constantly engaged, during an average period of about six months of the surveying year, on the coast of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and their labors were warmly commended by MajorGeneral Foster and Admiral Dupont. Sub-Assistant Dorr supervised the erection of additional earthworks at Jacksonville, Florida. Under the protection afforded in the vicinity of Admiral Bailey's blockading vessels, the hydrography outside of the Florida keys was completed by a party under Acting Assistant Cordell, with the steamer Vixen. The same party sounded the main entrance and approach of Charlotte harbor. Three topographers served with the army of Major-Gen. Banks (Assistant Oltmanns, Sub-Assistant Hosmer, and Mr. Lyman), and two, Sub-Assistant Fendall and Mr. Strausz, under the direction of Assistant Gerdes, with the fleet of Admiral Porter, and subsequently with the army of Major-General Grant. A minute topographical survey of the West bank of the Mississippi opposite to New Orleans for defensive purposes; reconnoissance maps of the middle districts of Louisiana and of the Red River as far up as Alexandria; the topography of the approaches to Vicksburg while the Bie was in progress, and the survey of those of Purt Hudson after the surrender of that port, are part of the results of their labors. In the northern sections of the Atlantic coast the regular work of triangulation was carried on, reaching from Machias into Passamaquoddy Bay, on the coast of Maine, under Sub-Assistant Webber; from Blue Hill Bay towards Mt. Desert, by Assistant Fairfield; and above the mouth of Penobscot River, by Assistant McCorkle. For the connection of primary bases, it was continued by Mr. Bache's own party on the coast of Connecticut; additional work to connect with it was done by Assistant Blunt, east of the Hudson; and the verification work, on the coast of New Jersey, was extended to the vicinity of Manasquam Inlet, by Assistant Farley. The detailed topography of Eastport harbor was prosecuted by Sub-Assistant Dennis; that of the coast of Maine, from Winter harbor eastward, by Sub-Assistant Rockwell. The topography of the western side of the entrance and that of the western shore of Penobscot Bay, near Camden, by Sub-Assistants Ferguson and Dorr; that of the passages between the Sheepscot and Kennebec Rivers was completed by Sub-Assistant Iardella, and the detailed survey of the vicinity of Harpswell Neck, Maine, continued by Assistant Longfellow. The hydrography of the year in the northern sections embraced additional lines of deep-sea soundings, and the development of rocks and ledges near Portland entrance and off the coast of Maine, by Lieut. Commander Phelps, with the steamer Corwin; that of Rockland harbor, by Assistant Edwards; the in-shore hydrography, which includes the approaches to Muscongus Bay and Penobscot Bay (western approach), by Acting Assistant Cordell, with the steamer Vixen; that of the northern part of Casco Bay, by Assistant Gerdes; that of the Hudson River, completed by the party of Messrs. Harding and Strausz; a development of ledges off the eastern end of Long Island, and re-examination of part of New York harbor for the pilot commissioners, by Lieut.-Commander Phelps; one near the Delaware breakwater, for the engineer department, by Capt. Patterson, hydrographic inspector of the Coast Survey; and soundings off the coast of Maryland, and completion of the hydrography of the Potomac River, by Lieut.-Commander Phelps. On the Atlantic and Gulf coast, of nineteen assistants, fourteen sub-assistants, and twenty-two aids engaged in field-work or in hydrography, twelve assistants, seven sub-assistants, and ten aids rendered service in connection with military and naval operations; and most of those who so co-operated were also employed in duty on other parts of the coast. The number of hydrographic maps and charts issued from the office of the survey during the year ending October 31, 1863, was 29,300, of which 14,000 were delivered to the naval service, and 3000 to mariners employed in transportation for the Government. The remainder were either furnished to the military authorities, or distributed by Coast Survey officers in the squadron to which they were attached, or disposed of to the merchant marine. The number of maps of the war localities published, distributed, or sold, was 16,700. Expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1863, $304,400; appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1864, $306,000; estimates for the year ending June 30, 1865, $306,000. STATES. Maine....... New Hampshire.... Connecticut........... Six Eastern States...... New York New Jersey.. CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF THE Condensed statement of the condition of the Banks LIABILITIES. ៨៖ទី៩នg | Number of Banks. 52 69 Jan. 1863. $7,983,000 $6,488,478 $5,076,107 $128,578 66 40 Aug. 1862. 183 Oct. 1862. 88 Dec. 1862. 75 Jan. 1863. 507 308 Dec. 1862. 4,678,700 4,192,034 1,725,866 3,911,000 5,621,851 925,627 67,544,200 28,957,630 44,737,490 17,413,850 5,796,224 1,605,121 1,127,893 2,363,781 21,812,943| 13,842,758| 8,890,237 1,387,274 108,668,297 39,182,819 200,824,756 57,389,106 19,047,084 5,899,983 93,105 1,485,750 155,270,418 82,372,091 267,750,903 68,496,549 28,029,714 66 Jan. 1861. 16,486,210 19,817,148 817,905 North Carolina. 64 South Carolina. 31 66 7,863,466 5,218,598 2,034,391 105,631 291,466 14,952;486) 6,069,036 Georgia... 8,311,728 Florida Five Southern States.... 56,282,622 39,558,760 16,480,480| 4,117,369 4,135,271 126,819,972 65,516,155 66,731,741 20,534,823 11,455,789 155,270,418 82,372.091 267,750,903 68,496,549 28,029,714 56,282,622 39,558,760 16,480,480 4,117,369 4,135,271 50,971,577 31,545,648 21,482,136 6,071,248 5,594,891 15,701,240 19,684,564 21,240,966 1,306,538 4,598,480 405,045,829 238,677,218 393,686,226 100,526,527 53,814,145 419,761,812 183,938,945 297,127,226 61,080.853 51,708,341 429,592,713 202,005,767 257,229,562 61,275,256 65,756,717 421,880,095 207,102,477 253,802,129 55,932,918 61,141,688 401,976,242 193,306,818 259,568,278 68,215,651 60,368,713 394,622,799 155,208,344 185,932,049 51,169,875 61,662,686 370,834,686 214,778,822 230,351,352 57,674,333 79,539,573 343,874,272 195,747,950 212,705,662 52,719,956 75,039,585 332,177,288 186,952,223|190,400,342 45,156,697 62,042,168 301,376,071 204,689,207 188,188,744 50,322,162 50,293,914 227,807,553 155,065,251|128,957,712 46,416,928 38,879,692 For other, and in many instances later, returns of the condition of the banks, see subdivision † Partial returns only from these States. t Including West Virginia. 4,598,480 LIST OF NATIONAL BANKS, ESTABLISHED UNDER ACT OF CONGRESS OF FEBRUARY 25, 1863. [CORRECTED TO DECEMBER 11, 1863.] Name and Place. No. 12345678 30 1st Nat. Bank of Bath,** Me......... Bangor, Me.......... 66 Fishkill Landing, N.Y. Moravia, N.Y.. South Worcester, N.Y. Syracuse, N.Y. 66 Watertown, N.Y.. Philadelphia, Pa...... Conneautville, Pa... West Chester, Pa.. Oliver Moses George Stetson....... Thomas Chase.... Wm. H. Y. Hackett Luther R. Graves.... Henry Bernard....... Edward Denny........ James Kirkham...... Parley Hammond... Amasa Sprague...... Edwin D. Tiffany.... Henry M. Welch..... Albert H. Almy.. H. M. Humphrey..... Sam. C. Thompson.. Henry A. Hurlbut... Charles V. Culver... Solon D.Hungerford James Faulkner...... James H. Graham... Gilbert DuBois....... Sam. R.Van Campen H. M. Partridge.. Walter Brett....... Austin B. Hale...... S. T. Knapp.... Thomas Cornell..... Erastus Partridge... Abraham Becker.... E. B. Judson.. Samuel A. Hetfield. Benj. N. Huntington Loveland Paddock... James L. Dickerson C. H. Clark Charles Luckenbach Samuel Hepburn. John E. Patton John C. Spencer.... Henry McConnell... William Jack. James M. Bell. Daniel J. Morrell.... John B. Finley....... John Hellinger...... John Johnson..... Charles A.Derickson Robert Rogers...... Joseph P. Hursh..... James Laughlin..... Levi Bull Smith...... Joseph H. Scranton Theodore F. Hunt... John F. Herr......... George F. Mason..... James McLean..... Thomas F. Atherton George Brinton ...... Henry D. Cooke John Van Nortwick John W. Trover...... Edmund Aiken ...... George M. Daniels... James S. Tryon...... William Moulthrop William H. Tingley Charles W. Brown... James Curphey...... Allen J. Ormsbee... John Roby Penn.... Rich.H.Huntingdon Barnabas S. Chapin George E. Marvin.... John T. Dewitt...... Henry R. Kendall... Wm. F. Corry........ Charles N. Jordan... Benj. F. Everson..... John T. White.... Charles Bray. Delancey E.Partridge Volney D. Becker... George B. Leonard.. William W. Teall.... Mathew L. Everett. There were no banking institutions in 1862-63, at these places. ** Special depositories of the United States. 100,000 50,000 500 000 50,000 50.000 250,000 LIST OF NATIONAL BANKS.-Continued. Name and Place. President. John Brown...... Joseph G. English... George A. Butler.... Philem. L. Mitchell W. C. McCullough... John Studabaker.... John Callaway....... Owen T. Jones........ S. T. Hadley...... Horatio Q. Wheeler John B. Nuttman... Willis S. Webb...... George W. Branham Sam'I H. Purviance M. Mercer. William H. English William Mitchell.... M. L. Pierce..... Dewitt C. Fitch...... Ely Whitney... J. E. Reeves..... George K. Steele..... Thomas G. Stanfield Joseph H. Williams Lewis A. Cass, Jr.... Robert Cissna....... Samuel H. Chapman A. Corbin.... William B. Daniels. William S. McGavic James P. Gage........ Joseph Wentzer...... John White George Gillaspey George N. Lewis..... Philo Parsons...... Henry P. Baldwin... Victor Chapin. .... D. 8. Latourette...... Francis S. Williams M. L. McClelland.... John L. Knight..... William C. Graves... Ira M. Gifford..... Wm. H. Hubbard... Henry K. Love...... Charles E. Bernard.. 100,000 300,000 125,000 65,000 150,000 100,000 600,000 100,000 There were no banking institutions in 1862-63, at these places. Special depositories of the United States. |