Cost Of Public Buildings

1' ow people Jiavo an idea oí tlio money expended thronghout the conntry for the ereotion of public buildings. An abstract pr&p&Ped for the use of the Oommi ttee on Appropriationa will show in part these vast oxpenditures. It must be remsmbered lluit the items folio wing ■ arebuta part of the aggrogate: for Boston postoMeo and sub-toeasmy, pnreh ise oí additional land and extensión of i buildings, $830,000; estímate for 1876, .$750,000; onstom-house, court-house and postoffice for Chicago, act of Deo. 21, 1871, limita the oost of building and site to $4,000,000, total amomit appïapriated, $3,550,030; custom-house, Charleston, S. C, total amount appropriated, $498,855.4(1; estímate for 1870, $151,833.91; etistom-house and postoffleo, Ckieinnati, total amount appropriated, $2,050,000; estímate for 1876, $750,000; court-liouse and postoffice, Ooluuibia, K. O., total amount appropriated, $381,899.75; courtliouse and postoffioe, Kiileigh, N. O., total appropriation, $'250,000; eustomhouac, Hartford, Ct., tobü amount approprited, $250,000; eourt-house and postoffloe, New Vork city, total aniount apprbpriatei], $8,140,6001 1; expended for site $500,000, for building $7,012,126.29, üéavyig baliince in the trea-sury of $628,563.86; custom house, New Orleans, total amount appropriatod, $811,00$; esfiinate for 1870, $20(1,000; courtliouse and postoflice, Omaha, total appropriatioc, $371,500; court-hotiao and postoffice, PhiladeJphia, total amoiuit ■ appropr&ted, 2,250,000; estímate for 1876, $750,000; custom liousr, Poitliind, Ore,, (ntul aiiroriatiou, $356,500; esti mate lor 187C, Sl(',(too; bfánfclí mint, San Pranoisoo, total appropriation, $1,835,842.82; new appraisers' stores, same eity, $232,091.72; hospital building, $50,000; custom-house, Bt. Louis, total amount appropriated, $2,550,000; estímate for 1876, $750,000; court-house and postoffice, Trenton, N. ,T., total