The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-20

convened 10 tha. ci'y By order of the President In
sccoroance with the act of Congress passed at lie
session, and approved the 2sIh of February
CAPTAINS RETIRED ON LEAVE PAy-sa 300
Tna'ies Ties Stewart, Stephen Cassin, George G Read.
4 snomss Ap Catesby Jones, David Conner. John d
pp,oai, p, Charles w Skinner, David Geisiueer, John
rercival, William Taylor, Charles Boarman
Page. s' Ausn
CAPTAINS RETIRED ON FURLoueH PAYS $50
V'esse Wilkinson, Foxhail A Parker, Philip
voorhees, William d SsIter, Thomas III Newell
3,1s, unomas Paine, Joseph Smoot, Benjamin Page,
,s,i, nnam Latiner, Henry Henry, Johu II Graham
lIam inman Stephen Chsmpiin Lewis Sim.
"Cns, Harrison II Cooke, Horace Sawyer
SAPTAtNs DROPPED FROM The SERvIcE-John p
1Ge.zinser, Uriah r. Levy. William RAMSAY.
Jobn IbomMASDsRs \ RETIRED ON LEAVE PAY, ST. 300
John s,ons nsues, Ed Carpentef. Jno l.. ssundsrs
Hhsha s Peck, Timothy g Benham, Oscar Ruilus C.
Hob.1; b1ask'0a' Gsdwallsasr Rnesold r Dsrrah shaw
r rsloe John Manning, John Calhoun
IioMMAsDE9s RETIaED ON FuRLoueH PAY, $3.50
Armstrong, William F. Shields, Joseph MveTs Tho.
Gedney Hehry Bruce John 9 Nicholas Thoms.
Adams, Isaac g. sterrel. F.aoai, e. EIiisou uoo
. . newell Fred'k Neville, Henry Hof, Mu..
~ Commanders Dropped from the Seypice.-Frederict
garaum, Samuel w Lacompts, Thomas Pettieru
Ogden. ''iiiain .
Lieutenants Retired on Leave Pau s,2oo-Jon..
than w Swift ,hathan D Fsrri., James & Palmer.
george hurst James Miller Hsnry Darcantei'
Wake. George M White, Gsorse L seiden, steshsnn n
Decatur, Charles Thomas, RicdsId l. s,ovs Iama.
Riel o'''oS' hoOef'
Litutenants on Furlough Pay. S6OO-Frank El,ery
ysmss t q ~ MAT ,WwatIsn Junius Boyle William Hunt,
WI GS.asson, onry Steele, Kitty, aobt Handy,
Wm ChsGdleI, Alexander Gibson, James GiiIi.s'
snntsom s1snroG Hunter. George Gray John Parker
S1moi % Cnsres hunter. Henry Flsgg, Peter Turner
Wm Porter, aabriel G williamson. hsatthsw P
Methtt; Domnick Lynch, Augustus s saIdwin, Alex.
an der Murray, Fabius stsnly, Francis Lowry. Mat.
InsT psvss mity mrsftty VsnRsnsselasr aorsan. James
Abbott, John Decatur, VIM Fitzgerald Msurics
Simons, James Higgins.
Lieutenants Dropped from Service WIN Far
Tsgut, Hillary khodss Lawrence Pennipeton.
Wm ", Noland Jas Noble, McDoaough, Rich'd
hs.s w aseads' T. Jno Ring. Daniel Dulsny Wal
6aiteet Davis Harrel Chass Barney Thomas
3 RRo,dus Stevens. Israel Wait. Abner Read, Alex
Masters Retired on Leare Pay-Robt Knox. Fran.
els Mailady, Joha Robinson
Master Dyoppfd from Service Julius A Bohrsr.
VIM w Low. -1''' "'' ~''O-
M,dshipmen retired on Furlough Pay, ssOO-ssm.
Mtdshipmen dropped from Service John Madig.p,
~, aeo5se Stevens Peter Wager, Jr, John Hall,
C Cssia ofhlItres. Augustus Mclaughlin, FranCis G
thanisi th West, Allen Byrens Edmond hspherd,
Wm Mercer Charles Gray, George King, JOS
A seWeli Charles Smith, Edwin + Gray.
VI the thity-four captains disposed of by the
Board. but seven performing duty, namely
Stewart. commanding at the Phiadelp NAVY
fard; skinner, Inspector of Ordnance; Boarmab
commanding at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Smoot
at the kittery Navy Yard; Smith, Chief of the Bu-
reau OF Yards and ocks; Sawyer, commander Of
the steam frigate San Jacinto refttibg at Brookyp
and Salter, commanding the Brazil squadron. In
order fill the vacancies In active IN
the number authorized by law, thirty-fye com
msnders will be promoted to be captains seventys
four lieutenan.s will be promoted to be command
ers, and one hundred and sixty masters 10 the line
OF promotion and passed mdshipmen will be made
lleutenants Among the commanders who will
get captains commissions by this change are In
grah am, who defended Koszta at Smyrna and
Hollins, who bombarded Greytown. Lieutenant
NJ Msury, OF the national observatory gets bis
commanders commission. The aggregate reduce
ton OF pay amounts to Sl97, 900
The following commanders will be promoted to
Captains In the U. S. Navy by the recent action OF
the Naval Board:
Pendergrast, w Nicholson, Jos Hull.
John Kelly, VIM FL Garduer, David G Farrugutt,
Stephen Wilson, Dornin Ro Cunning asm,
v NJ Randolph, Fredk Eugle, John Rudd. VIM w
Mexican. Franklin Buchanan, Samuel Mercer,
Chas Lowndes, l. NJ Galdsborough. HoIlins, d
Ming ingranam, John Marston, 4 A Adams, w S
Wake, &c George &C. Pearson, s F DUPONT, W Hud-
Charles Wilkes. J o Selfudge, II Eagle, Van
Brunt, VIM Nj Glendy, George Blake.
A MAGNIFICENT scHEME.-Captain Allen of the
British Navy, proposes to make something useful
out of the Arsbian Desert, now a waste of sand
II argues that it has been once an Ocean. il now
thirteen hundred feet below the level of the Med-
tsrraneen. and that If a canal we're cut from the
head of the Gulf of Akaba to the Dead S.s. and
another from the Mediterranean, across the plain
Esdraelon, 10 the fssure in the mountain range o.
Lebanon, the Mediterranean would rush in, with
fall of thirteen hundred feet fill up the val
ley and substitute an ocean of two thousand square
miles in extent fer barren, useless desert; thus
making the nsvigati to India short the over
land route, spreading fertility a arid coun-
try and opening up the fertile gions of Palestine
to settlement and cultivation. This il certainly a
magnificent idea. If, in the course of time, it
found that the ocean scheme did not pay, the cans
could be stopped up. the water pumped out, as the
HoandeIs recently did with of th sir lakes, and
fine fertile plain would be found ready for cultivs
ton.
from the city of Mexico to the lst inst Santa Ar
had been remaining with his lady and suite at
Puerto Principe, expecting, the steamer to st.
Thomas to call there and take him away; but the
English Consul at Havana declined to authorize the
alteration of the route for the accommodation of
his Excellency. He had, therefore, returned to
Neuvtas the port where he had bee n lefs oy the
steamer Guerro, and 1t was said that Spanish wa
ste amer you'd be placed at his disposal there by
wearing settled aspect In Mexico. The Tevoiu-
tonary chiefs had not yet recognized the temporary
dating him had been started. He, however, had
summoned all the principal officers OF the revolution
to meet the 10Th inst, in the town Of Dolores, and
adopt measures for establishing the government, in.
ouding the summoning of Congress, and the pub.
fishing thereby of constitutional organic laws.
BosToN BABY SHows.-Both baby shows In Boa.
ton-the white and blackhsve closed The Post
says that "the mother of the prize colored baby is
only l6 years old, and was married al IA. She he's
had two children, the first of which died. She is
the daughter Of the late Julien st Pierre, fssh
ionable barber, formerly of this city. His widow
Is white woman, and now resides at the west
end. The daughter resides with her mother"
TIE GOVERNMENT OF HOLLAND has repealed its
tonnage duties which places the pors of that conn-
Try on the mont favored footing towards the Amet-
esn produce tlade.
John Hale is to deliver the opening lecture be-
fore the Nswburyport Lyceum, and Joshua X
G'ddings the second.
EsoRMoUs RAILROAD TRAIN On Friday, train
consisting of 81 passenger cars and baggage cars.
arrived at Albany, N T., over the Central Road.
1t Is expected that the Manassas Gap road will
os completed 10 Woodstock, Va, by the lst of
January next
1t is stated In Boston paper that there are a.
present three thousand seven hundred Americans
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