The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-15
T HIRD EDITION
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.
important Naval Orders
Movements of Government Vessels
Naval Orders.
Despotch to the Associated Press.

have been Issued from the Navy Department, to
take effect on the 1st of October, excepting
where other dates are mentioned, and unless
otherwise stated the officers detached from duty
are all placed on waiting orders:-
Commodore f. G. Parrott to command the Mare
Island Navy Yard.
Commodore James w. Strong to duty as light
house inspector Fourth district.
Commander H. E. Leroy to special duty at New
London, Conn.
Captain Lewis c. Sartori to command the naval
rendezvous at San Francisco.
Captain Edmund Donaldson to command the
naval station at Sackett's Harbor
Captain r. T. Renshaw to duty as Lighthouse In
spector Sixth district.
Commander George Brown to command the MI
chigan.
Commander Edmund Bartlett to Navy Yard,
Norfolk.
Commander Charles A. Babcock to duty as Light
house Inspector OF the District.
Commander John T. Walker, to duty as Light
house Inspector of the District.
Commander A. Il. Y. Barlean, to duty as Light
house Inspector 1st district
Commander w. L. McCann, to duty as Lighthouse
Inspector Sth district.
Commander Joseph p Fyfe is ordered to dutyf
charge of Nitre Department at Maiden, Mass
Surgeon Marion Pinkney to- the Washington
Surgeon c. ]. Cleborne, to the Naval Station at
Paymaster j. George Harris, to the Navy Yard
at Portsmouth Carpenter Wm H. r. Largnton, to the
Boston Navy Yard; First Assistant Engineer
Cipriana Andrade, to the League Island station;
Second Assistant Engineer John L. Smith, to the
Trana.
The following detachments are ordered on oct. i:
-Rear-Admral l.. M. Goldsborough as port-admra
Washington Navy Yard; Rear-Admiral Thomas T.
Craven as port admiral at san Francisco, aud placed
on waiting orders Rear-Admral Hiram Paulding
port-admiral at Boston, and placed on waiting
orders.
Rear. Admiral II. X. Thatcher, Port-Admral at
Portsmouth, N. H., Rear-Admral j. r. Sands as
Port-Admra at Norfolk, Va, Rear Admiral s. S.
Breese as Port-Admiral at Philadelphia. Rear-Ad-
miral S. H. Stearnham as Port-Admiral at New
York, waiting orders, Charles II. Davis, from
special duty, and ordered to command the Navy
Ward at IA Wilkes
rary duty at Washington, Commodore John G.
Carter from the command of the Naval Rendezvous
Commander John De Camp from command of the
receiving ship Potomac; Commander John p Dlks
as lighthouse inspector of the 4th district: Commo-
dore j. p Hull as lighthouse inspector of 1st dis
trct; Commodore Thomas A. Dornn as lighthouse
lighthouse inspector 18th district; Commodore Geo.
S. Blake as lighthouse inspector I'd district; Com
modore ]. b. Marchand from command of the PHI
ladelpha navy yard; Commodore j. @, Goldsbo-
rough from command of the Mare Island (Califor-
nia) navy yard; Commodore F. B. Ellison from COM
mand of the naval stati on at Sacketts Harbor.
Commodore II. H. Kitty is detached from the COM
Commodore William G. Nicholson from duty con-
nected with the shipment OF coal at Philadelphia.
the naval station at Mound City.
Commodore Timothy A. Hunt from special duty at
New London, Connecticut.
Commodore Oscar Baas from the nitre depot at
Maiden, Massachusetts.
Commodore George F. Emots from duty in charge
of the photographic Office and ordered TO the COM
mand of the Philadelphia Navy Yard
Captain F. Shagferty as Lighthouse Inspector of
Captain William A. Parker as Lighthouse Inspec-
tor Of the Eighth district.
Captain d. Lynch is detached from the Naval Asy-
um, Philadelphia; Captain William b. Whiting
from the Naval Observatory, Washington; Captain
John b. Reyghton is detached from special duty at
New York; Captain Pierce Crosby is detached from
the Norfolk Navy Yard and ordered to the Phiadel-
phia Navy Yard Captain Alexander Murray is de-
tached from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and or
dered as Lighthouse Inspector of the Eleventh dis
| tIict; Commander B. N. West Roth IS detached
n Q nSDpcfOr
trict; Commander William Gibson is detached from
the Pensacola Navy Yard Commando W; M; West
George A. Stevens from the Pensacola Navy Yard; /;
Commander f. w. Harvey, from the Naval Station,
| special duty at Philadelphia; Commander A. f.
Crosman,s from the Portsmouth IN. H. Navy Yard,
| Young, from the Naval Observatory, and ordered
to ordnance duty at Portsmouth N. H.; Comman-
gan, and ordered as Lighthouse Inspector OF the
| Fifth district; acknowledgements John N.
League Island; Lieutenant. Commander Charles
| e. Iiawley, from the receiving ship Potomac;
duty at Portsmouth, N H., and ordered to the same
| yard; Master William b. Arnauts, from the tug
Rose; Ensign II. H. Parker, from the naval station,
| Mound City, Illinois; Ensign b. s. Richards. from
the receiving ship at Norfolk; Surgeon d. Egbert,
from fro the nayal station, League ISLAND; Surgeon
Surgeon p. j. Horwitz, from the Naval Asylum,
Philadelphia Surgeon William Johnson, from the
from special duty at New YORK; Surgeon A,
| Henderson, from the Navy Yard, Boston, ordered
Surgeon B. F. Bacne from duty in charge of the
Laboratory, New York, on the 27th Instant and Or
dered to the Naval Hospital at Naval Asylum, Phia-
| delphia; First Acting Paymaster Charles Murray,
| from special duty at New York Paymaster Mexican
| Buchanan, from special duty at Boston; Paymaster
RSraS Bridge aay o3 Waaon ro@ 6a
| Portsmouth Navy Yard; Chaplain Moses 3. Chase,
| from the Boston Navy Yard; Chaplain John Lee
Watson, from the receiving ship Ohio; Professor NJ.
N: BeecheriS from the, the Naval Observatory;
Academy; Naval Constructor John W. Ras-
| by from the Washington Navy Yard
on 2Sth instant, and ordered to Portsmouth Navy
Yard; Naval Constructor Samuel Poor, from the
Boston Navy Yard; Assistant Naval Constructor
George R. Brush from the Norfolk Navy Yard ON
| 8Oth instant, and ordered to the Washington Navy
| Yard;, First Assistant Engineer II. b. Platz from
the naval station at League Island, Pa: First
Assistant Engineer d. A. Hardie, from League
Island; Second Assistant j. w. Patterson, from
League Island; Second Assistant Engineer Edward
Second Assistant Engineer A. Kirby
from the riana; -, Second Assistant
YaEds Phiadelphia; 6oatswaln Charles Johnson
! from the New York Navy Yard; boatswain g.
Smith, from the receiving ship Potomac; gunner
Thomas Robinson, from Mare Island Navy Yard ;
carpenter Charles BOardman, from the receiving
ship Ohio: carpenter Amos Chick from the receiving
ship Vandaia; carpenter John Southwck, from the
! Naval Academy; sailmaker Theodore c.. Herbert
from the receiving ship Vermont, ordered to the
ceving ship Potomac sailmaker Jacob Stevens,
from the receiving ship Potomac.
The European Fleet.
Rear-Admiral Ellison, commanding the Eu-
ropean fleet, reports to the Department from
Portsmouth, England, on the 1st inst, that the
Franklin, flagship. left Flushing, Holland, and
arrived at Portsmouth August 80.
1he s'Richmond'
arrived at Villa Franche, France, 10Th August
% days from Trieste, and would sail thence to
| Barcelona, Malaga, and CadiZ, Spain; thence to