Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-18

requisite letter of permission to 60 before this
Board Heretofore the custom has been to call
into the service as third assistant engineers such
of them as passed favorable examinations, as
their services might be required, in rotation,
according to the relative merit with which each
passed. As more third assistant engineers are
now actually required than there are appli-
cants for such positions under the stringent or
deal of examination to which they are SUBJ
jected, of course all who pass on this occasion
will at once enter the service s
The NAVAL COURTS OF Recommendations
Court No. l, the case of exit. Washington A.
Bartlett is still under consideration. Captain
Misroom was to-day recalled and examined on
the part of the Government, and the Judge Adj
vocate read and submitted sundry documents,
on the same side.
Before Court No. 2, the defence of It. Thorn
ton was read to-day and submitted by his coun-
sci. Afterwards the Court made up its judy
ment upon that case, and transmitted it to the
Secretary of the Navy. The case of 1t Sart9ri
taken up. VIM. E. Lehman, Esq, is his coun-
sci. NO WITNESSES In the case naU Deen exam
ined before the Star went to press
Court No. (before which the case of Captain
Inman is still pending) was not in session, to-
day, owing to the sickness of the Judge Advo-
cate.
ApPorNrMENrs.-Byt the President-Edw' d
S. Hough, Collector &c, Alexandria, Va; re-
appointed.
Walter N. Haldeman, Surveyor, &c, Louis
vile, Ky, vice Samuel S. English, removed
DIR. G. Parmenter, Inspector of Drugs and
Medicines at Boston, in place of DR.. Smith, re-
moved.
By tie Secretary Of tile Treasury.-J. N.
Oliver to second-class clerkshipin the Office of
the Solicitor of the Treasury, in place of c. C.
Anderson, resigned.
J. II. Crawford to frst-class clerkship in
! the Sixth Auditors Office, in place of John N
! Oliver, promoted.
SEEDS.-We hear that the Hon. Mr. Gallo
way, of Ohio, and other Republican members
OF the last Congress went even more heavily
into the seed-distributing business than the law
provided. That is, they each purchased many
bushels of garden seed, &c, for distribution
among their constituents, which have been put
up here at the cost of the Treasury of the Uni
ted States, and forwarded to them. This is
! sowing (electioneering) seed broadcast, indeed
The SLOOP-OF-WAR CUMBERLAND.-The fol-
lowing is correct list of the officers who are
! ordered to this ship, now about to sail for the
west coast of Africa, where she is to relieve the
present g-ship of the squadron:
Commander, John S. Missroon Lieutenants.
Thomas ). Crossan, Charles III. Greene Albert
| Almond surgeon. George Blacknall Purser
! William g. Marcy; Chaplain, Chester Newell ;
| Master, Richard Mead, Jr.; Gunner. William
| Burdett; Boatswain, Henry Brooks; Sailmaker
| Richard Berry; Carpenter, Lewis Holmes.
A NAVY CHAPLAIN APPOINrED.-We have
| every reason to believe that the Rev Charles
A. Davis, of the Southern Methodist Church, so
we'll known and so universally beloved here,
has been appointed to chaplaincy in the Navy
Of the United States.
RESIGNATION OF AN ARMY OFFIcER-The
resignation Of Fist Lieut.. Benjamin Allston
LIST Dragons, has been accepted by the Presi-
| dent, to take effect June 20, 1857
NEW YORK CRIMINAL RECoRp-An idea of
the safety of human life in New York city is af-
forded by glance at the catalogue of murdered