The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-19
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The contracts for supplies for the subsistence de-
partment of the United States army in New Mexico
were made on the 4th of March. The following
named gentlemen were the successful bidders for
the articles and posts designated:
Flour: Joseph Hersch, Santa Fe; Ceran st.
!rain, Fort Union; Joseph Hersch, Albuquerque;
A. j. Otero, Fort Defiance. Beans: Ceran St.
Erain, Fort Union, Fort Massachusetts, and Can,
Torment Burgwin; F. White, Fort Fillmore and
Fort Bliss; F. Il c. Huning, Albuquerque. VINE
gar: Dens & May, Fort Fillmore; Kesler Zecken-
dorf Albuquerque; TIL. Logan, Fort Thorn; Joseph
Nangle, Fort Bliss. Salt: James Cumming.
general court martial is ordered to convene at
San Antonio Texas, on the Goth day of May next
for the trial of Capt. Seth NJ. Barton, of the first
regiment of infantry.
Company C, third artillery, commanded by Capt.
and Brevet Major John f. Reynolds, is announced
one of the light companies of that regiment. 1t
is ordered to proceed Immediately to Fort Leaven-
worth, where it will be fully equipped light
battery after which twill join the reinforcements
destined for Utah.
THE NAVAL ACADEMY AT ANNAPoIIs.-The board
of naval officers which has been it session at An
napolis since the first of the month, adjourned on
Wednesday, having concluded the examination of
eleven midshipmen, graduates of the Naval Acad-
envy in 1855. The following is list of those who
We're examined for promoton:-George E. Law, OF
Indiana, Philip Porcher, South Carolina Edward
+. Lull, Vermont, Alfred Hopkins, New York, E.
D. Matthews, Missouri, 7. Mex. Buchanan, Penn
ssyivanIa Montgomery Sicard, New York, Edward
Lea, tennessee, Z. >. Norton, eW DIRK, ii. I'll
Dalton, Mississippi, and A. +. Crossman, Pennsyl
yana.
Letters from the Gulf of Darien state that Lieut.
N Michler, the Typographical officer of the Aratt
expedition, has returned to the United States
schooner Varina, having completed the entire sur
yey of the country between the Gulf of Darien ant
the Pacific coast, the object of which was to ascer
tam the practicabiity OF building an interoccan
ship canal The work has been an arduous but in
teresting one, and much information has been gaineC
OF the nature of the country. The weather has hee1
extremely favorable. and no sickness has nterfere
with the progress Of the survey. Lieut. Michler'
party are waiting for the completion of the hydro
graphy of the route.
The officers and men attached to the expeditio,
were to sail for the United States about the first O
April and soon after their arrival the result of thei
Iaoors IN New Granada for the past six months will
be laid before the public.
, Mr.. VIM. Knight, of Portsmouth, a carpenter i,
the United States navy, has recently discovered
new and improved plan for altering the pitch O
screw-propelers, and for steering ships in case O
accident to the rudder. He has applied for letter
patent. What he claims is the regulation of tn
pitch OF the several blades of the propeller separate
ly and the adaptation of the same for steering pur
poses. The United States storeshp Supply Com
mander Graham, arrived at Rio Janeiro Februar,
IL, from New York via Cape de Verde and sailet
again the next day for the river Plate Washing
ton Union.