National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-02-11

left Barbadoes with tho Northampton. Dido, Fan
tome, and Griflu for Grenada. and intended to 90
TO Aspinwall with his squadron. Captain Meade
ported good he Intended 10 exercise great caution
in communicating With the Shore and intended
! leaving for la Guayra In four or five days.
cadet Midshipman Charles Cabaniss was acct
dentally shot ond killed recently at Kobe. japan.
while at drill" That all that late dispatches
received from Japan by steamer says Of this young
| oihcer lie entered the Naval Academy In 1876
rom Virginia, graduated IN 1850, and was ordered
TO the swatara. Asiatic fleet, August II, 1880, on
| winch snip he was serving when Killed.
The Providence Press says: Lieutenant Hay
don, U. S. N, whose invention for heating cars by
steam has been noted at length in the Press is en-
/ joylng brief leave Of absence. This valuable
Hampshire at this place" Now, will the Press
\ explain who Lieutenant Hayden" ISL The
Navy Register fails to give the Information wanted
Lieutenant A. r. Condor has been ordered to
duty in the Bureau Of Ordnance, Washington, D.
Ci T. n. Fisher, to duty in the Coast Survey; As
sistant Paymaster John Corwine, 70 the Ranger, at
/ hcapuloo, Mexico per steamer which leaves san
\ Francisco on the 18th instant; Passed Assistant
Engineer q. ". l.. Maccarty has has been detached
| rom the Wyoming and placed ON waiting orders;
/ Assistant PaymHster ii. II. sullivan, nom the
| Ranger and orderedhtO return home aud settle
! accounts.
Congressman Robinson, of Brooklyn wants the
/ House Of Representatives TO send over fleet Of
our naval vessels to "loy London in ashes" and
deliver Irish Americans from "Brtish bastiles."
Mr.. Robinson forRets that the American navy Is In
crippled condition. In collision with n coast
Ing schooner lately the navy was badly shattered,
and is now laid up for repairs. Besides. this Is mn
inclement season of the year. and II would not be
az all safe for our navy TO attempt the passage o.
the tempestnous Atlantic Very dierepecJW Edi-
! tor IN PrOrideacc Sunday star.
! Passed Assistant Surgeon Ernest Nornoet, Passed
Assistant Engineer William II, Nouman, Master
| John NJ. Bower and wife, Master John o. Nichol.
| son, Ensign Frederick b. Vinton, Ensign Ridgely
Hunt lson Of Secretary Hunt, Ensign Albert q.
| Mlnterhhter Midshipmcn Harry s. Knapp, John
/ A. Dougherty, and John II. Gibbons. Cadet Mid
| shipmnn Maurice l.. Read, and Assistant Engineer
! John w. AMMAN and wife were all registered IN
san Francisco February ], as was Passed Assistant
Surgeon Richard A. Urquhart. who was visiting
\ from the Mare Island Navy Yard.
| The Philadelphia Press says that Major william
d. Rochester the new paymasier- general, was u
paymaster of volunteers all through the war, and
was appointed in the regular army In 1867 He
will be the youngest man wearing Il brgadier
generals star In any Of the staff departments of the
army" How about General David g. Swain,
| Judge Advocate General Of the Army, and Gem
eral William b. HaZen, Chief Signal Officer of the
Army? General Rochester's father was lost in
1883 and he must now be over fifty, while neither
ofthe officers named above have reached hfy.
General Walter Gwynn, who was chief engineer
Of the confederate army, aud who directed the at
! tack on Fort Sumter in 1861, died mt the Carrolton
Hotel, Baltimore last Monday, in the cightleth
| year of his nge. General Gwynn was born In JEFF
ferson County, Virginia, in 1902; graduated ut West
Point In 1922, and was for ten years lieutenant
| OF engineers I'm the United States army. lie re-
signed In 1892 and was subsequently chief EN-.
gineeron the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad aud the
james River and Kanawha Canal, He was stricken
with paralysis on WednSsday OF last week. He
| leaves wife and four children.
Lieutenant Lorenzo Wesley Cooke Third Infantry,
with party recently visited locality in western
Montana which abounds in Rocky Mountain goals
and captured thirteen. The Bismarck Tftbui,
says !" They found the larger number IN Bitter
| Root Mountains. Lieutenant Cooke intends "a
present his trophies TO the smithsonian Institute
The party eorrnlled one large, handsome specimen
| of male goat IN q crevice in the nucks and had
they been provided with rope could easily have
lassoed their game. None Of the party was willing
| TO tackle him single-handed however and after
| watching his movements for n while he was shot. y
Speaking of the retiring Of General MegS, the
Philadelphia Times says truly: The old soldier
who now retires to we'll earned rest may well
look back with pride 10 such achievements That
all this vast business was carried on without waste
or fraud he does not claim but 1t ought TO be said
him, what he would not say OF himself, and what
can be said of very few In any such responsible
position that IN all the years of his service not the
shade of suspicion ever was cast upon his honor
no breath of calumny ever was uttered against his
| name. He was soldier of the old school, will
| q soldiers uprightness and soldiers devotion tC
duty"
Lieutenant Giles B. HARDER, U. S. N. who wal
detailed to command the expedition TO search fol-
the Jeanette survivors, was born in Youngstown
Ohio, is thirty two years of age, of medium height
and stout build. General Garfield gave him his
appointment to the Naval Academy ~ 1865, and ht
was graduated from it in 1869. His first cruise wa,
in the Sabine In 1870 and the same year he wa,
made ensign. The next year he was detailed u
the Franklin on the European station, and 1872 tC
1875 he was detailed to the lroquos and Monocacy
OH the Asiatic station, and was given his commits
sious master and lieutenant. He Joined tn,
Omaha In 1870, and was attached TO the Ordnanc,
Department at the Washington Navy Yard in 1871
and 1879, when he was ordered TO the Topped,
School ut Newport. In December OF the same yea
he was detailed to the Tennessee at Brooklyn
May TO- 1881, he was made executive officer of thu
torpedo vessel Alarm, and in August he succeeded
Lieutenant r. NJ. Il. Brown as its commander. IL
is q well built medium. sized man. with light hal
aud blonde mus!aehe quick, nervous, full of de
termination, and of ripe judgment.
The Tucson (Arlzona) Citizen claims 10 know
something about the causes that led to the arres
of General Carr, colonel Sixth Cavalry, and says
"a Washington dispatch briefly announces tn,
arrest of General Cnrr, upon charges growing on
of the testimony elected at the recent Indial
court martial The Ctisen some time since init
mated that this was possible part of the pro
gramme of General Wilcox and his top heavy anC
ambitious staff This would seem to be realiza
ton of our suspicious. 1t seems shame that al
officer who is so much the superior in military
skill and frontier experience Of the department
commander should be made victim of bast
conspiracy brought about by the envy which i'm
becility and incompetency always feel TOWARD
merit. II General Carr Is tried by court martha
trivial the charge, conviction is sure If he has
fair trial, however, We have no doubt his detracor
will be put to shame. General Carr has com
mitted the unreasonable crime of accomplishing
this respect his career contrasts unfavorably will
the utter and ignominious failure of the depart
ment commander. The Cat:en will try and get a
Commander Allan d. Brown arrived In SaI
Francisco January 30 under orders TO command
the sloop Of war jamestown.
Colonel Ebenezer W. stone. captain Twenty
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