The number of passages and the length of time of each trip to and from Brazil made by the steamers of the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company.

The Havana on her second trip out and back was delayed by stormy weather.
The Morning Star outward was detained about three days at Para and Bahia.

The detention of the Guiding Star out and back was uncontrollable; the breaking of the machinery, which obliged her lying four days at St. Thomas each way to repair it, besides being obliged to run slow from Rio de Janeiro, as there were no facilities along the coast of Brazil to make the repair.

A resolution of the House of the 19th ultimo, relative to amounts charged to the State Department for services of naval vessels.

JANUARY 9, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.

To the House of Representatives:

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 19th ultimo, requesting a statement of the amounts charged to the State Department since May first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for services rendered by naval vessels.

WASHINGTON, January 9, 1867.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

NAVY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, January 2, 1867.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the following resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the 19th ultimo:

"Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be requested to communicate to this house a statement of the amounts charged to the State Department since May first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for services rendered by naval vessels."

No charge that I am aware of has been made to the State Department for services rendered by naval vessels since the first of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or at any other time during my connection with this department. Very respectfully,

Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GIDEON WELLES,

Secretary of the Navy.

2d Session.

No. 35.

STEAMER SCOTLAND.

LETTER

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF WAR,

IN ANSWER TO

A resolution of the House of the 9th instant, transmitting a report of the Quartermaster General relative to the wreck of the steamer Scotland.

JANUARY 14, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, January 12, 1867.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of the Quartermaster General of January 10, 1867, containing all the information in possession of the department respecting the wreck of the steamer Scotland, which is the subject of a resolution of the House of Representatives of January 9, 1867. Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S Office,

Washington, D. C., January 10, 1867. .

SIR: I have the honor to return herewith resolution of the House of Representatives dated January 9, 1867, requesting to be informed what steps have been taken for the removing of the wreck of the steamer Scotland, sunk in the entrance of the channel to the harbor of New York.

In reply, I would respectfully state that no action has been taken by this office in the matter further than to obtain from prominent parties in New York, engaged in the wrecking business, estimates of the probable expense of raising the wreck.

Enclosed herewith is a copy of communication of the Quartermaster General, dated December 27, 1866, on this subject, together with a report of General Stewart Van Vliet, deputy quartermaster general United States army, who is of the opinion that it will cost $150,000 to remove this obstruction. The papers in the case are herewith returned.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

STEWART VAN VLIET,

Acting Q. M. G., Brevet Major General U. S. A.

Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.