National Republican., 1881-12-03
ARMY AND NAVY PERSONAL.

The allowance Tor construction and repairs at the
Norfolk Navy Yard for December is $4,000.
Passed Assistant Engineer Frederick q. Kean,
with his wife and children, is registered at the Eb
bitt House.
Captain Joseph Gales Ramsay, Second Artillery,
and Mrs. Ramsay, were here on Tuesday from
Fort Mellenry, Baltimore, the captain being
ordered here for court martial duty at the arsenal
the Army and Nary Register will occupy its new
Office quarters oil + street, just east OF the Eb-
bitt House next door 10 the alley, where 1t has
glorious quarters The front room is fitted up for
reading room for officers.
The numbers and types of vessels that will be
available for service In the navy ut the expiration
OF eight years II the programme devised by the
Naval Advisory Board is adopted, Will be as fol-
lows: Twenty one iron -clads, seventy unarmored
cruisers, five rams, five torpedo gunboats, and
twenty torpedo boats.
Troop q, Seventh Cavalry is en- route from Fort
Meade, Dakota, to Fort Leavenworth for duty at
!. the Cavalry aud Infantry School. Lieutenant
George ID. Wallace is in command, in the absence
OF General John e. TourtellOlte, as aide-dc- camp
on General Sherman's stati and Lieutenant VIII
lam J. Nicholson, son OF Commodore Nicholson,
Is the Junior in command.
General William Meade Graham, mnlor Fourb
Artillery, who, with his wife, Is visiting Geneni
James Nj. Ricketts, at No 1888 q street, is Il nepiew
of General Lawrence Pike Graham, and of tbe
late General George q. Meade and is brotler of
Commander James Duncan Graham, who 1, com
mnnding the monitor Passnc at the naNy- ward
here. Ills iather was colonel of engine,rs IN tho
army, and he married the daughter Il General
The new book Of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
colonel and aid. de.eamp TO Geneal Sherman,
chilled our Mlld lnUlnnS,' Is nOMhpinU nriufnI
at New Haven, andswlll be issied very soon.
Colonel Dodge entities his subject Wild Indiansj
In the use of the phrase common on the frontier,
to distinguish those who live H. the chnsn AMI
Others VINO cultivate land. TN REpuBIIcIS has
had no opportunity To read tie ADVANCE sheets
but is prepared to say that thework Will be read
able ana popular
Lieutenant Commander tharles H. Black is laid up
@ !. g; Baker, Of .he unIsd States Revenue Marine
Service Is ut the is6bIt louse.
Marine I'M fad
In command Of the mirlne barracks here
Tsasday on leave and Is sahs at a. FrYss m : srss nsTe
Lieutenant Chifies Belknap u. =. ~, has bought
four ois on the Stone farm, near the head Of Four
The case Of otCadet johnson O. Whitaker, of the
ySIns e ili1ary Academy Is slill ON General
:, caPEsin Stephen Baker, sixth Infantry, arrived
IN cllnrs' of an insane soldier.
for dsis GgsaXHs G. Han1s HI wo has n qst reported
WIZ X No. go Thirteenth street,
LisitenAntC CommanderO o. V. Grldley Is In the city
iorn few days, visiting his mother and brother at
tler residence, e3l French street.
Corps, viii be retained In command OF the marine
guard nt the nayy;yard, at least for The present,
ant Eigliecnih Infantry, ls now engaged IL pros
porous business at Flndlay, Hancock County, oliiO.
Ebbitl House ATe Commodore Feblger n. NJ Sbep-
herd, u 5. NJ and s. Baker and John Leonard, d.
Lieutenant John d. Keeler, U. s. NJ, has bought
hesF ihs residence Of Master Baker, and nleSds %
build In the spring
Captain Wiillan o. Douglas lieutenant retired, u
s. A., who Is at the Ebbltt House. came here TO sub
NIT proposals 10 build tile new bridge across the Polo
mac at Georgetown, which IL TO be built under the
dlIectlon OF the Chief of Engineers of the army.
Lieutenant Edward w. Sturdy, u. 5. ~, has pur-
chased q building lot ON Columbia Heights, and in-
rival that OF Master Asher Z. Baker, who has built
the handsome Queen Anne house which fronts on
Fourteenth street.
The resignation OF Lieutenant George O. Clay IT.
$. NJ, wnS accepted 10 take effect Thursday lie re-
turned lrOn the Asiatc leel year RgO and has
been on leave ever since. He Is AFFLICTED nerssientv
by seasickness, aud suffers Intensely from mai lis
1neT every time he goes TO sea "
COlOne John Leonard, lieutenant ret ired arriyed
ut the kbht House Thursday from New York en-
route for Georgia. where he Intends TO spend the
received Ut Fredericksburg aud Geitysburg or Which,
lie was retired In lsiO nom the Fir lniantry.
Lieutenant Mpucll Z. Goodrich, Marine CORPS who
Is now stationed AT The naNyyurd here, served nearly
three years and quarter during the war In the army
As an officer In the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry OF which
eN-Secreiary Of War BelkuAp was the colonel. This
was Que OF lie regiments that, In front OF Atlanta
fought 'front.' iank, aud rear, aud on both sides OK
the breastwUrks" as General sherman said, aud
yet carried the day.
The following naval orders have been issued
six months leave with permission To go ublOAdi
Pa .sel Assistant Engineer G., NJ, l.. Maccnrly aud
Md3hpmAn Albert a. Wlnlerhnlier ordered 10 OK
animation for promotion Gunner Patrick Lynch, 4
ordered 10 the Craney Island NnYnl Magazine Eliza
beth River Va. Gunner EllshAJ, BeRcham. detached
from the CTaney Island Magazine and ordered 10 tic
receiving ship Franklin. ~ the Norfolk NRvYlATd.