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school on, FSs Myet LETT here sund " night for bis
nolne NJ roy a. T., for visit to his relatives be-
ioIe proceeding y his station at Fort Sully Dakota
has'er John u Cuwell, who was recently tried
| py general courl'matal and sentenced to be
| reprimnnded by the SccfUnrv of the Navy, has
nad MS sentence approved, hid the general order
announcing the reprimand winbe issued in few
Master Carlos q. Calkins, who Is Oh duty at the
photographic office, will take the furnished house
| OF Master Asher g. Baker, OF Columbia Heights,
npout the MIDDLE of june when the latter oihcer,
| VINO Is on duty with the Fish Commission, goes
| North on duty.
Lieutenant. Commander Harry s. Craven, civil
| engineer, son OF Rear Admiral Thomas T. Craven,
and brother Of Lieutenant. Commander Charles II.
| Sraven Is visiting bis sister, Mt No. fSO Iwenty-
| INST street lie is here on official business from
| the KiItory Navy-Yard.
General Rufus Ingalls,, Quartermnster General,
| has awarded the contracts for clothing, camp
and garrison cqupage, to be delivered ut the var;
| NJ the Philadelphia depot May2. The contracts
| aggregate about 100000.
Colonel James N Whelan, captain Second Cav
airy, will command detachment Of three troops
Of the Second Cavity that will be encamped dur
| ing the summer near Billings. Montana. The de-
| thchment Is sent from Fort Custer, ana was e1-
| peeled at Billings lust Monday.
Captain John o'Councll, lieutenant Eighth In-
fantry, was recently tried at San Francisco before
| general court. martial The record is now being
| reviewed by Judge Advocate; General swain,
uelOfe Delng transmitted lnrOngn lnN OcCIcluTg VI
War to the President for action.
Major. General John NJ. Schoheld arrived at the
| Ebbitt House Wednesday from New York, accom-
panied by his aide,-de.camp, General William NJ.
Wherry, captain sixth Infantry. and Lieutenant
charles Is. Schoheld, Second Infantry. The latter
named officer is the brother of General Sohofield.
The Secretary Of the Navy has issued the follow
ing general order: General order No. ISL, of
November is, 1872, authorizing an advance of three
months pay to officers ordered TO The Asiauc sta
GtN far M n nFs
stations"
Commander Charles d. sgsbee has removed
from Sixteenth street to No. 1919 U street (Road
streeD opposite tho Georgetown reservoir. The
grounds surrounding his house comprise about
half an acre. and the view of the surrounding
country is almost unsurpassed in this country Of
beautiful scenery.
Captain william II. Gill, military storekeeper.
Quartermastct's Department, is ordered to duty at
the Philadelphia clothing depot Captain Gill
held his present position during the rebellion but
resigned in 1869, and was recently reappointed to
his old place under authority granted by spe-
cial act of Congress.
The Secretary Of War has designated Colonel
Glover Pain, surgoon Major William c. Spencer,
surgeon, and Captain Philip f. Harvey, assistant
surgeon, as the officers TO represent the medical
corps of the Army at the annual meeting of the
| American Mc'iicul Association, 10 meet at st.
| Paul, Mimi, Juno6
Captain John McGownn, of the Revenue Marine
who is at the EbbIt House, is the father of Lieu
tenant Commander John MCGOWAN, jr., U. S. n.
who is now the executive officer OF the Marion
, Of Mrs. David Is. Harmony, wife of Captain Har-
mony, U. $. N; md of Mrs James Biddle, wife Of
General Biddle, maj Sixth Cavalry.
The order relieving Paymastcr Henry T. Skeld-
ing, U s. N, from duty inspector ofnour at New
York, and ordering him to duty on the receiving
: slip Colorado, Mt the New York Navy. Yard has
been revoked. The order transferring Paymastel
George r. Watkins from the Colorado Is also re
| yOked, and he Will remain on That vessel.
Mr.. Hal L. Costing, who was nominated Mon
day by President Arthur as United States marsha
, for the district OF Western Texas, was formerly
an officer In the Navy, having entered the Nava
Academy IN 1860 Ate resigning from the service
l tor of The Qual, ut Castroville, Medina County
Texas
5 Major Will A. Coulter formerly of Twelfth In.
! fantry, is located in Washington practicing law
and is located In the st. Cloud building. Will,
General Emory WINS In command here as mllitar,
governor, Major Coulter was his adJutant general
and part Of the history, yet uiwritten, of tn,
troublous times Of 1865 when President johnson
was impeached.
General Robert c. schenck, ex Minister to Eng
land, is visiting his brother, Rear-Admral Jane,
+. Schenck retired, at Dayton. Ohio, where he
. was rendered n grand reception last Tuesday
evening by the veteran soldiers Of that community
General Schenck Is the uncle of Pay Director Cas-
per Schenck, L. s. N, and of Captain Woodruff s
Schenck, Marine Corps.
Commanders Henry B. Robson, Purnell +
Harrington, and Francis A. Cook; Lieutenant
Commander Edwin White and Lieutenant William
4 | j. Moore U. s. N, and Lieutenant James NJ 4
Young, Marine Corps, are members, and Leuten
ant William Y. Burwell, US. N, Is judge advocate
of naval general court martial, which convened
yesterday at the Naval Academy
. Colonel Joseph Jnnvier Woodward, surgeon, U
Q s. A., the eminent microscopic and authority oil
diseases of the eye, is now In Switzerland, wher
; he went several months ago on account of TIN
| serious condition of his health. A letter lust re
! ceived states that he is somewhat improved IL
he alth, but is not yet considered ont Of danger.
b Major Tullius O. Tupper, captain Sixth Cavalry
c has been officially congratulated by Breyet MaIo
: General Orlando b. Wilcox, commanding the De
partment of Arizona, for his recent brilliant an,
: successful campaign against the hostile ApAches
This action was by direction of General Sherman
= Major Upper was promoted from the ranks ii
1862, and was three times brevetted during tn
A rebellion for gallnntry.
n A couple OF Mssourans made their appearance
:. at Fort Leavenworth last week, looking for a rae
with the fast horse of Lieutenant William ]. Mich
Is olson, Seventh Cavalry, against which they ofere
b%cG what the LesTsnw 0G T me s calls
and comes of to-day, The Times says Of th
+. Missouri mae that III she gets away with Lieu
L tenant Nicholsnus horse, however, she will hay
a TO get up and dust"
General George Crook, commanding the Depart
= ment of the Platte, at Omaha, issued orders Ma
J. 10 directing the abandonment of Fort Sanders aut
v Fort Fetterman, Wyoming, and the removal of tn
garrisions to Fort David A. Russell, near Cheyenne
n The garrison Mt Fort Sanders was under comman,
IT of General Edwin G. Mason, lieutenant colonc
Il | Fourth Infantry, and comprised the rcgimenta
| headquarters of that regiment lLientenant Butte
N d. Price, adjutant Major John Scott, quarter. mas
ter, and the non commissioned staff and band)
:, | Company Il, Colonel Charles j. Won Hermann an,
II Company Is, Captain Thomas Quinn, with Captain
Theodore E. True, Colonel Edward l.. Bailey aut
o Iieutenants Carver Rowland and James A. Ley
den, Fourth Infantry, and Captain Daniel G.. Cald
}. well, assistant surgeon. The garrison at Fort San
ders consists of Company g, Fourth Infantry, com
| manded by Major William II. Powell, with Lieu
a tenants Charles W. Mason and Frank b. Andrus
: Lieutenant Thomas W. symons, Corps of En-
l. glneers, u s. A., has proved how well he ha
utilized the time he has been on duty as chief en-
o gineer officer of the Department Of the Columbi
y by magnificent typographical map, which ha
!. Just been published by the Engineer Bureau, O
the State of Oregon and Idaho and Washington
II Territories. The map was prepared by Licuten
y ant Symons during his three years service in tn
u extreme Northwest, from such mate ial as h,
a could collect. and nom data furnished by officers
10 to whom he gives due credit, and from an i'm
mense amount Of field work done by himself
o Much Of the cOuH try accurately mapped out her
,s has heretofore been, except to the scouts, pros
- pcciors, hunters, and other frCntiersmRn, few II
y number comparatively, almost wholly unknown
- OF much less mapped. Lieutenant SymOns credit
the sources fOm which Ec gathered material Il
Is his huge work rs follows; Engineer map of Unite
st States wesi OF the Mi sissppi. and the Land Onic
n map of 1876 Land once surveys of iS70-'s0 ma
n OF the Department OF Columbia, by Leu,enai
Robert H. Fletcher Twenty-hIst Infantry, 1877
- surveys OF Captain George NJ. Wheeler CORPS q
y Engineers 1889; field surveys Of Lieutenau
u Symous In 1878, 1879 and 1885, The Official record
q aud maps az department headquarters; infOrma