National Republican., 1882-07-01
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.

Passed Assistant Engineer Robert w. Gait, U. g.
N. is visiting his parents in Norfolk.
Captain William W. Rogers, Ninth Infantry, is
granted three months extension of leave.
Lieutenant Heber NJ. Creel, Seve nth Cavalry
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Lieutenant William B. Gordon, Ordnance Corp :,
Is granted four months leave from FrankfOrd
arsenal, Pa,
Lieutenant Commander II. H. Gorringe has been
granted one year further extension of furlough
from August l, 1882.
The exact time made by the sailing sloop- of war
jamestown in her trip from San Francisco to New
port was 112 days II hours.
Captain William A. Jones, Corps of Engineers,
U. S. A. is ordered from San Francisco to st. Louis
for examination for promotion to major.
Major Caleb Il. Layton, Fifth Infantry, is
granted three months extension of the leave for
two months granted him By Lieutenant General
Sheridan.
An Army retiring board having found Major
Azor II. Nickerson, assistant adjutant general, in
capacitated for active service on account of dis
ability incident to the SERVICE he is, by direction
of the President retired from active service, and
will proceed to his home.
The frigate Constellation, Commander Henry b.
Robson, and sloop- p-of-war Dale, Commander
Purnell F. Harrington having on board the cadet
midshipmen from the Academy, passed out of the
Chesapeake capes Thursday at $40 a. m. for the
| summer practice cruise along tho New England
coast
Captain Robert Catlin, retired United States
Army, has severed his connection with the Michi.
gan State Military Academy at Orchard Lake, of
which he was for q brief time superintendent
Colonel ]. Sumner Rogers formerly lieutenant
Thirteenth Infantry, has resumed control of the
institution.
Captain Aaron w. Weaver, commanding the
flagship Brooklyn, and senior officer present the
South Atlantic station, reports from Rio de Janiero
May 81 that his ship arrived at that port on that
date from Montevideo, where the Marion, Com
mander Silas W: Terry, and the Essex, Commander
Alexander Ii. Mccormick (the latter en- route Tor
the Pacific station), were on May "a Rear. Ad.
| miral Pierce Crosby was expected June 6 from
| Europe to assume command of the station.
Commander Allan d. Brown, commanding the
sailing sloop of war Jamestown in his official re-
port to the Secretary of the Navy, states that the
actual sailing time of that vessel during her
cruise from San Francisco narbor, around South
| America, to Newport, X. l., was 105 days and IL
hours, and without accident of any kind. This
rather takes the broom from the time made by the
| Portsmouth from San Francisco to Hampton
| sailing qualities of these two vessels.
The Secretary of the Navy has just published the
following Circular No. 22:' The danger flag
as represented on plate III of the United States
naval signal book, shall hereafter consist of q
white ground with but one blue band, which shall
extend from the "hoit" diagonally across the
| ground TO the outer upper extremity of the "ay.'
| This flag shall be supplied to each ship and shall
| correspond in dimensions with dispatch flag No. 2
| The "position pennant" as represented on the
| same plate in the signal book, shall in future be
designated the "posiion flag"
| The following changes of stations and duties O.
Army engineer officers have been ordered: GEN.
eral Godfrey Wetzel from duty at Detroit to Phila
delphia; Colonel Francis U. Farquhar, from Wash
| ington to Detroit Captain Charles e. L. b. Davis
from Buffalo to Detroit, as engineer Of the eleventh
| light house district; Colonel William Ludlow
from Philadelphia to Washington, as engineer
| secretary of the Lighthouse Board; Captain
James b. Quinn, to duty with Major Charles r
fnr a IiapfanOnt Dixh,
to Willetvs Point, N. Y. and Lieutenant Thoma!
Lincoln Casey, jr., to relieve Lieutenant Black a.
delphia.
Lieutenant Commander Charles f. Schultz, U
8. N, who is commanding the monitors laying a
City Point, James River, met with serious acci
dentther on Wednesday, June 81. While ascend
ing to the hurricane deck of the monitor Man
| haitian, his foot slipped upon the smooth step o
the ladder, causing such jar that his right knee
pan was fractured. He was Immediately conveyed
| to tho Ajax, where the wound was dressed and
| bandaged by Passed Assistant Surgeon Charles
| Siegfriel, U. s. N. What makes this accident ,
particularly unfortunate one is that Lieutenant
| Commander Schmitz was just recovering from 0
| similar accident TO his left knee-pan which hat
| been twice fractured.
| The following midshipmen have been detached
from the Naval Academy and ordered to return
| home and wait orders p. r. A!ger H. G. Dresel
Harry Phelps, John b. Bernadon, A. A. Acker-
man, Ernest Wilkinson, 2. d. Haskell, William
Ir1Stann, StoSey y e Morgan M George D. West Thoma:
| Buchanan, A. U. Mayo, +. R. Brainard, W. E. Saf
ford, Il. X. Vale, W. j. Maxwell, @. W. Brown, c
bney @ Eash and bro%n ospt hdyhp hdYae
| men +. J. Haeseler Edward Simpson, L. F. Leeper
| and NJ. G. Gorgas detached from the Naval Acad-
Midshipmen II. C. Poundstonc Louis Duncan, w
| II. Emerson, and j. X. Rohrtacker,. from the
academy to the Mayower
| to the receiving ship Colorado.