National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-04-15
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
MovEMnNrs OF rnE oFFIoERs.
Latest from the Camp, Garrison, and Fiold-News
from the Navy.Yards and Quarterback
Gossip Among the Men who
Wear Epaulottes.

Major George +. Bamtow, captain Third Artillery
has been granted six months leave from May 10
next.
Lieutenant Frederick S. Calhoun, First Infantry
has been granted one month further extension Of
leave.
Captain Byron Dawson, Ninth Cavalry, has been
granted four months further extension of his
leave
Captain Samuel p. Hamilton, Second Cavalry,
has been granted three months extension Of sick
loave from May j.
Captain James Alexander Findley, assistant sur
geon U. g. A., arrived at San Antonio April un-
der orders to duty In Texas
Company d, Twenty second Infantry, Captain
william Conway, which has been ct Fort Duncan,
is soon 10 be ordered to lei Dorado, Texas.
General George p. Buell., colonel Fifteenth In
fantry, has been granted 6yc months extension Of
the sick leave for one month granted him March
II by General Pope
Captain Clinton h. Sears, Corps Of Engineers
has been temporarily detached from duty al New
port X. l., aud ordered in charge OF the MlSsis-
sippi River Improvement,
Dr. Thomas Owens, formerly acting passed u.s.
sstant surgeon. u s. N, aud recently clerk in the
War Department, haslbeen appointed assistant sur
geon United states navy.
Chaplain John Il. Van Meter, U. S. N, has re-
signed TO take effect July /, 1882. His last duty
was on the training ship Portsmouth IN leou since
which time he has been living In Baltimore
| Master Augustus l.. Case, IT,, a son OF Rear-Ad-
miral Case has resigned from the service, and his
| resignation was accepted April 10, He has been
in Europe on furlough for the most OF the past
| year.
The naval board of which Commodore Alex
ander A. Semmes was president, to examine GER
| tain models and plans for man Of war ships, has
been dissolved, and the members ordered 10 their
| homes.
| Major william Boerum wetmorel formerly lieu
tenant Sixth Cavalry and aide-de-cnmp on the
staff of General Pope, was married last Tue.day in
| Grace Church, New York city, to Miss Annette
Butler Wetmore of that city
Captain william II. King, assistant surgeon, U.
s. A., is ordered to be relieved from duty at Fort
McHenry, Baltimore, and has been granted sick
leave until further orders. He is ordered to pro-
coed 10 his home in Pennsylvania.
1.-THE newly circulated rumors of the loss of
| the flagship Richmond in Asatc waters
are unfounded, and came from miscon;,
structon of the anxiety felt recently on account OF
her long passage from Panama to Yokohama.
The training.ship Portsmouth, Commander
william Bainbridge Hof which sailed from
Hampton Roads the morning of April 5, arrived at
| Newport safely April IL, the long passage having
| been caused by heavy weather and head winds.
Lieutenant Hobart K Bailey, Fifth Infantry,
will shortly be ordered to st. Paul for duty as as
sistant to General Michael II. Morgan, chief com;
missary of the Department of Dakota, and will
have charge of the depot commissarys once at
| that city.
Captain William X. Mayo and Naval Constructor
Thomas E. Webb, U. s. N, left the Norfolk Navy
Yard Monday last by, rail for City Point vay to
be badly in need of repairs: The foreman OF
shipwrights, ship joiners, and iron'platers nc
companied the board
Captain Frederick NJ. H. Kendrick, lieutenant
Seventh Infantry. and Mrs. Kendrick arrived at
ST. Paul, Mimi, April from the East, en- route TO
Fort Buford, Dakota, and visited there for a few
days with their daughter, Mrs, $. 9, Cook. Cap
tain Kendrick Is returning TO his station, after an
absence for year in the East on sick leave.
Queen Victoria Is said to be very much more
than a figure head al suppose" said gentle
man to former judge advocate general "it is a
mere form your submitting to the Queen the pro,
Well, can tell you, then, that she understands
the whole business as we'll as do myself"
Colonel Charles Bird, captain and assistant
quartermaster, who was recently promoted from
the Twenty third Infantry, will soon be assigned
to duty at headquarters OF the Department of
Dakota as assistant to General william Myers.
chief quRrtermaster He will have charge of the
property and attend 10 the minor affairs at Fort
Smelling, which are not considered part OF the
duty Of the chief quartermaster
| Lieutenant George II. Roach, Seventeenth In
fantiy, and family, arrived at St. Paul April
from Fort ssseton, Dakota. Regarding the recent
fire at Fort sisseton, Lieutenant Roach said to a
reporter that II is hard to tell exactly the loss on
the Indian warehouse lately burned at Sisseton
agency, but IL is total, rs the Government never
, insures. The building was two stories high aud
of brick and had some supplies stored in II, al
, of which were lost.
1t is stated that General John s. Mason, lieuten
ant colonel Fourth Infantry has been rendered
the detail on the recruiting detail to command the
depot at Columbus Ohio, made vacant by the pro
motion of General william =. Carlin TO be Colonel
Fourth Infantry General Mason is now deputy
governor Of the Soldiers Home, where he reported
July l. 1881, and where his detail will last yea
longer. 1t IS not known as yet whether he will
accept the detail or not.
Colonel franklin f. Flint, Fourth Infantry, has
, been placed the retired list. His retire.
, ment promotes General william p. Carin, leuten-
, | ant Seventeenth Infantry IN he colonel
Fourth Infantry; Colonel Orlando II, Moore, major
Sixth Infantry to lieutenant colonel Seventeenth
Infantry Major Edward G. Bush, captain Tenth
Joel T. Krkman, Tenth Infantry, to captain, and
Second Lieutenant William Paulding, Tenth In.
fantry, TO first lieutenant.
The bill authorizing the President to reappon
Captain Mark walker, late first lieutenant Nine
tenth Infantry. with view to placing him on the
retired list passed the Senate last Wednesday by
vote of 80 to TO-. Captain Walker was tried by
court martial in May, 1878, at Fort Lyon, Col fol
drunkenness duty and pleaded guilty His
ofiense consisted In n slight excess OF "grog" on
Christmas eve of1SI1 ana the duly was In APP
receive the report of his first sergeant at retreat
roll. call, there being no dress parade that day
His plea Of guilty left the court, nc
the Articles of War, although the offenst
was trivial that the entire court united ~ rec
ommendatiOn for remission or at least mitigation
of the sentence of dismissal. Unfortunately fol
, Captain Walker the proceedings in his case hap
pensd to be iaid before ME- Hayes soon aeF tnt
officers who got tight should not stay in the ser
vice. and Just after he had mitigated or remltted
tho sentences of two or three Offenders who hap
pened te be backed by influence" and the cap
tain was sacrificed rs a victim TO the Hayes water
policy, while, old FOUNDERS ESCAPED Captain
| Walker served in the volunteers during the war
from private TO major. and was desperately
wounded at the battle Of Murireesboro' It is safe
, to say that no one In the service who knows Cap
: tain Walker will regret his deserved restoration
especially he was never tried for any ofiense be-