The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-23
THE NAVY.

Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety
one Officers OF All Ranks and Condi-
tions-FOreigners on Board and Where
They Hail From.
WASHINGTON, March %, 1874.
The oflcial Navy Register, published, as usual
two months after date, but containing the changes
that have been made in the stations and duties OF
officers up to the end OF January, shows that there
are 1921 officers OF all ranks and conditions on the
books OF the Navy Department, who are divided
into the following elasses:-
Line officers, 900, consisting of IS admrals, Is
comm0dores, SO captains, 80 commanders, 1872 lieu
tenant commanders, 236 lieutenants, 100 masters,
SO ensigns, l03 mldshlpmen, % boatswalns and "a
gunners.
STAFF oflicers, e42 VIZ. Medical corps, 100; pay
isl engineer corps 2s 2 pro-
structors l6; civil engineers Z; carpenters, 46 Sail
makers, 10.
sis ants librarians &c. 236 cadet mtdsnipmen and
81 cadet engineers. I'm addition TO these 81 pro-
lessons, &C., whose duties confined exclusively
to the Academy, there are "a officers detailed from
the line ana atar OF the navy, making the total
number OF officers and cadets 347I.
Volunteer navy, IS, viz. IL acting master, ] act
ing ensign, passed assistant surgeons % acting
assistant surgeons and So mates.
star officers, colonel, lieutenant coonels, ma
jors, 20 captains and SO eutenants.
Re tired and reserved list 27O, consisting OF 36 adj
mirals, 40 commodores, II captains, 10 command
ers, lieutenant commanders heutenants, IL
masters, ensgns m a. 80 medical o
professors, naval constructors, 10 boatswalns, 8
eunners, II carpenters, sallmakers aud 10 off,
Compared with the Register for July, 1868. there
Is a net
INCREASE OF FORTY NINE OFFICERS
which is accounted for as follows:--rhe death Of
WinslOw and the actual retirement OF Goidsb0rough
decreased the NUMBER OF admiras from Is to II.
The ist Of lieutenant commanders was reduced
grade dismissal and death The u iieutenants
nsdl and IN otfY o hu nPinnS fIn
the midsnipmen lost rs by promotions and casual
ties The star corps lost doctors, paymasters,
Chaplain me number OF warrant oficers was
increased by II, the cadet midshpmen by SO, the
There are comparavey few ocers Of oresn
birth in our navy, especially In the line, as Will be
seen by the subloined statement OF where they
In the line there are 3 Irishmen. Englishmen, s
Germans, Qncluding2 frussians and Saxons), 2
In addition to these l officer was born In south
America, 2 IN the West Indtes l at sea, / in the
sandwich Islands and In Italy. the last two beng
In the stan England has II, Ireland 8, Scotland s.
Canada s, Nova Scotia 2, Germany, Spain, Austria,
East lndla Mexico, New brunswick and the Isle
Of Man EACH
or the 2os warrant officers 80 were porn out Of
the United States-ylZ., IN Ireland, in England,
each in Scotland and France, each IN Canada,
New brunswick. Germany Norway, Sweden, Hol-
land, Denmark and Greece and at sea.
OF the IS volunteers, are natives OF Germany,
each OF Ireland, England and Norway, and each
OF Canada, Denmark, Italy and the Azores.
From the carefully prepared summary given
below, showing the number appointed from each
State and lie ritory, 1t appears that New YORK and
Pennsylvania have FURNISHED more than One-thlrd
OF the wnoe number OF officers on the active list
OF The regular navy. Or the 81 appointed by the
President ''at large" SO are still at the Academy
imbibfng naval tactics, &c. The others were APP
pointed as iollows:-l IN 1862, IN 1858, each In
1854, 1855 and 1866; 5 in 1867, and each IN
1865 and 1862 The twenty-five put down as sons OF
Officers do not exhaust the list OF that class OF ap-
pointees, as many OF those designated as having
been appointed at large owe their existence to
prominent army and navy officers. For example,
among Thorn are sons OF Fox, Case, EmmOns, Col
iins Winsl0w and others OF the navy, and Fremont,
Robinson, Hunt Dent, Cove. Maynadler and many
Others OF the army. as well as john Potts. late chief
clerk OF the War Department. Ii the theory Of IN
herited tendencies Is worth anything, the sons OF
good Offices should be the best material from
which to select cadets. Eleven officers entered
the service as naval apprentices, two as enlisted
boys and one was appoint ted from the army The
latter is Professor 4. II. Holden, o graduate OF
West Point class oil 1870, in which he stood No. Q,
who resigned his commission in the Engineer
corps TO accept prOiessorship Of mathematics in
the navy-ditierenc IN his favor, 5000 per annum.