Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-12-19

deep. Screws are to be used in fastening the
plates to the plankng of the ship. They are
be put in from the inside of the vessel, and
are not to go through the plates. The vessel
Is to be covered with the plates four feet under
wafer and three feet above it, and they are to
extend eighty five feet fore and aft of the CEN
tire line. which will make one hundred and sew
enty feet Of planking The iron is to come up
to line with the spar deck, above which there
VIII be light rail. The sides of the ship, with
view to cause the shots to glance, will have
an angle OF thirty degrees from three feet above
the load lines. In order to carry this extra
weight the ship has to be large. The tonnage
OF the one under contract is to be three thou
sand five hundred
In her construction she will be different from
the French ship La Gloire, about which so much
has been written. The French ship is very
deep in the water, while the vessel to be built
here will be almost fiat bottomed, which, not
wihstandng the additional weight will make
her of light draft Her machinery will be much
the same as that of first-cass soop -of-war,
except that she will have four boilers and a
blower. The latter is 10 make the boilers steam,
even though the smoke stack should be shot a.
way.
Orders from the War Department.
Orders have been received at the adjutant
tary of war first, that no more regiments, bat
teries or Independent companies will be raised
by the governors of states, except upon the
special requisiton of the war department
Those now forming in the various states will
be completed under direction of the governors
thereof unless it be deemed more advantageous
to the service to assign the men already raised
to regiments batteries or Independent compa-
Lies now in the field, in order to fill up their or
ganizatiOn to the maximum standard prescribed
by law.
Second, The recruiting service in the vari-
GUS states for the volunteer forces already in
service, and for those that may hereafter be re-
ceived, is placed under the charge of general
superintendents, for their states respectively,
general depots for the collection and instruc-
tion of recruits, as follows, namely: Maine,
Major J. w. 7. Gardiner, U. S. A.. Augusta;
Vermont, Lieut.. Col Governeur Morris, Bur-
lngton; New Hampshire, Lieut.. Col Seth East
man, lst infantry, Concord Massachusetts,,
Lieut. Col. II. Day, I'd infantry, Cambridge
Rhode Island, Capt. William Silvey, 1st ort-
lery, Providence; Connecticut. Col. William
Gates, Sd artillery, Fort Trumbull New York,
Major 7. Sprague, lst infantry, Elmira and AL
bany; New Jersey, Col. J. l.. Gardiner, L. S.
A., Trenton Pennsylvania Capt. r. J. Dodge,
Sth infantry, Harrisburg Delaware, Major II.
b. Judd, U. S. A., Wilmington; Maryland,
Lieut.. Col. +. o. Wyse, 4th artillery, Annapo-
lis; Virginia. Maj w. J. Norton, U. S. A.,
Wheeling; Ohio, Maj. n. c. McRae, U. s. A.,
Camp Chase, Columbus; Kentucky, Major w.
ii. Slidell, 10Th infantry, Louisville; Indiana,
Col J. L. Simonson, U. s. A., Indianapolis
Illinois, Col. p. Morrison, Sth infantry, SPRING
field Michigan, Lieut. Col. f. Backus, Sd in
fantry Detroit; Wisconsin, Maj. R. S. Smith,
18th infantry, Madison; Minnesota, Capt A.
ID. Nelson, 10Th infantry, Fort Smelling; Iowa,
Capt III. b. Hendershart, I'd artillery, Daven-
port; Missouri, Col. b. L. f. Bonneville, U. S.
A., Jefferson Barracks Kansas, the command
ing officer of Fort Leavenworh. The superin-
tendents detailed will take charge of the recru-
iting service in the various states to which they
are assigned, on the 1st day of January of 1862.
They will take post at their general depots
which will be under their immediate command.
The superintendent for the state of New York,
will take post at Albany Upon the requistion
of the superintendents a suitable number of vol
unteer officers non-commissioned officers and
prvates, will be detailed for duty in the staff
department, and as drill masters at the respec-
tive depots. a disbursing officer of the fund
for collecting, drilling and organizing the vol
unteerS, will be assigned to each depot, and will
be under the direction OF the superintendent
Volunteer officers now on recruiting service,
will he relieved on the first of January next,
and sent to join their regiments, unless direct
ed to report to the superintendents of their re-
spective states. After that time, volunteers
will be mustered for pay upon the same form
of rolls as those used for the regular army.
Commanding officers of volunteer regiments
numbering less than the maximum organiza-
ton fixed by law, will Immediately report to the
adjutant generals office at Washington the pre-
| sent state of their commands, in order that the
| governors of the several states may be called
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standard prescribed.
| Army Officers.
The following list of some of the prominent
officers in the United States service, who are
graduates of West Point, is taken from the
"Regster of the United States Military Acade-