The New York herald., 1868-03-26

Promotions and Sketches of Volunteer OHlcers
Placed In the Regular Service.
In the executive session of the Senate on Tuesday
last the following promotions and appointments In
the navy were confrmed:-Captan A. Ludlow Case
to be commodore, Commander II. B. Caldwell to be
captain, Commander Henry X Davenport to be cap
tain Lieutenant Commander Oscar F. Stanton to be
commander, Lieutenant Commander Bushrod b.
Taylor to be commander, and N. Mayo Dyer,
Francis NJ. Greene, Edward Hooker, H. II. Gorringe,
A. W. Muldaur, Joseph S. Cony and Charles O'Neil,
tobe eutenants in the regular navy. The latter gen.
rtlemen are all volunteer officers, and have finally
been transferred to the regular service after passing
strict examination before board Of naval officers.
N. Mayo Dyer native Of Massachusetts,, entered
the service at the beginning of the war as acting
masters mate and served in the gunboat R. R. Guy
Ter, attached to the East Gulf bockading squadron.
On the 18th Of January 1864 he was appointed acting
master, and placed in command of the steamer
Rudolph, in the West Gulf squadron. He was pro-
NOTED to the rank OF acting volunteer lieutenant
April o. 1885, and commanded the steamer Glasgow,
still serving in the West Gulf squadron. At the ex-
4iraton of his cruise he ordered to the Bureau of
Navigation In Washington, where he has since been
stationed
Francis NJ Greene entered the service as acting
master June 49, 1881, and served in the sloop Vim
Gennes and subsequently in the sloop Oneida in the
west Gulf squadron. He was made an acting vol
unteer lieutenant April 2, 1894 and commanded the
Iouisiana which was used as torpedo boat at Fort
Fisher December %, 1864. In 1885 he was ordered
TO the steamer Florida and subsequently the Hy-
geographic ONCE at Washington. When the Guer-
Tlere was sent to the South Atlantic squadron last
year Lieutenant Greene was ordered to her. and is
now serving on her on the coast OF Brazil. He Is
native OF Massachusetts,.
:, EDWARD Hooker was appointed acting volunteer
lieutenant September 20. 1882 and first commanded
the gunL Victoria In the North Atlantic squadron.
H "a w nrO nd
an Acting volunteer lieutenant commander Janu-
ary 20 1855, and was appointed naval storekeeper at
the Brooklyn yard Last fall he was placed in CON-
nand OF the storeship Idaho, which is now in the
AsIatc squadron He is native of Rhode Island.
squadron as acting ensign on the iron-clad steamer
Baron DeKalb and other famous fighting vessels.
He was made an acting volunteer lieutenant April
27, 1884, and commanded the gunboat vindicator on
the Mississippi. He was promoted to be volunteer
lieutenant commander July TO- 1865, and placed in
command of the light draught steamer Waxsaw from
which he was transferred to the command Of the
steamer Memphis supply vessel OF the Atlantic
squadron. Upon the fitting out OF the storeship
Guard ne was ordered to command her, and he re-
Gently sailed for the European squadron to which
the ship belongs.
the service as acting master October 1s, 1851, and
was attached to the gunboat Santiago de Cuba, in
the West india squadron, until 1858, when he was
transferred to the gnboat Sassacus serving In the
sounds OF North Carolina. He was made acting
volunteer lieutenant May "a 1854. He served in the
Chicopee in 1865 and on November 19, 1866, he was
honorab'v discharged the service. He was reap
pointed acting master April 23, 1867, and ordered to
the Oneida of the Asatc squadron, where he is now
serving. f1
Charles O'Nei of England and citizen Of Massa-
chusets, was appointed acting master, May l. 1862,
and served faithfully in the gunboat TiOga, In the
Indies, and In the Rhode Island In the North At
lantic squadron. He was promoted to acting
volunteer lieutenancy May So 1856, and ordered to
the gunbOat Shamrock, now In the European
squadron, condemned. He Is now attached to the
stOreship Guard Of the EUROPEAN squadron
The name Of Joseph s. Cony we do not find In the
renister IL Ia doubtless n misDrjnt.
All OF the above officers have richly merited the
honor conferred upon them by being placed In the
regular navy. They have served faithfully and are
rightly rewarded. Other promotions OF worthy vol
unteer officers should promptly follow.