National Republican., 1882-08-23
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS

The Alarm was put out of commission at Nor
folk on Monday.
The practice-ship Dale, Comm ,nder Purnel +.
Harrington, passed Cape Henry Monday morning,
bound in.
Lieutenant Charles G. Bowman, U. s. N, who is
now at his home at Delphi, Ind, will report Oc
tober for duty at the Naval Observatory.
The Speedwell, Lieutenant David G. McRitchie,
left the navy yard her. Monday morning for tile
Norfolk navy yard, with load of freight.
Lieutenant Henry I. Monohan, U. S. NJ is de.
tached from the Enterprise and placed OH waiting
orders, and Master Alfred Reynolds is ordered 10
that vessel.
A Prescott (Arig) dispatch says the General
Carr court of inquiry convened yesterday at the
department headquarters. The court is sitting
with closed doors.
General c. G. Sawtele, chief quartcrmaster De-
partment of the East, has arrived at Fortress Mon
roe from New York on tour of inspection. He
leaves for Washington.
The United States steamer Dale, Commander
Harrington, with cadet midshipmen on board,
has arrived in Hampton Roads from cruiae, and
will proceed to Annapolis
The court of inquiry in the case of General
Eugene A. Carr, colonel Sixth Cavalry, convened
Saturday ut Uhipp,e Barracks, headquarters of
the Department of Arizona.
The practice steamer Mayhower, Lieutenant
Commander Joseph Z. Craig, sailed from Boston
on Tuesday for the Naval Academy, where she
will arrive about next Monday.
The resignation Of Lieutenant Alexander NJ.
Thackara, U. S. N, was rendered to the proper
officials before the naval appropriation bill be-
came law, but for some reason was not acted
upon.
The report of the special retiring board at the
Mare Island nayy-yard to examine Lieutenant
Chales W. Christopher, u S. N, has been received
at the Navy Department. but no action in the case
has yet been taken.
Passed Assistant Engineer Abraham v. Zane, U.
S. N, who recently returned from the disastrous
expedition of the Rodgers to the Arctic, will be
ordered 10 duty in the Bureau of Steam Engineer
ing the lst of September
Lieutenant Colonel George H. Elliot, Corps of
Engineers, United States Army, who was pro-
noted from major by the death of General War
rem, received his appointment on Friday, after
being major for fifteen years and five months.
Lieutenant John ]. Crittenden, Twenty second
Infantry, was married July 81 at Port Huron.
Michigan, where he was formerly stationed a.
Fort Gratiot, to Miss Rose Florence Mitchell,
daughter of Hon. william I. Mitchell, OF that city.
The transfer of Lieutenant Edward s. Chaplin
from the Fourth Artillery to the fifteenth lnfan.
try, in place of Lieutenant Walker, makes him
third for promotion to captain, while Lieutenant
Walker becomes number twenty-five In the list of
first lieutenants In the Fourth Artillery.
In the court martial at Newport barracks
Colonel Taylor pleaded not guilty to the charge
of conduct prejudieiul TO good order and military
discipline but to the specification under the
ehargc-lhat of writing letters to Senators Beck
and Williams and Representative Carlisle asking
them to usa their influence to secure revocation
of the order sending him to Omaha, he pleaded
guilty.
The Naval Retiring Board has acted on the case
of Boatswain George X. Willis, and found that he
is not suffering from actual insanity but that he
is so in the eye of the law, he being totally par
alyzed and unable to >speak; the trouble
being caused by disease of a portion of the brain,
produced from severe exposure in the line Of
duty in the service. The report has not yet been
acted upon.
The ships of the North Atlantic station will sail
from Portsmouth, n. H. for four days cruise
and for Portland at sunrise, except the Keasargc,
which win remain til Saturday for supplies.
There was farewell hop and II reception by the
officers OF the yard aud of the Vandalia to the Of
feers of the fleet yesterday afternoon. Tae reve-
nue. cutter Dallas arrived yesterday. The navy.
yard tug Leyden will sail for Boston to-day to ttw
the Jamestown to Newport
board of officers was dcailcl yesterday. to
designate what officers are necessary for employ
ment on shore duty ailer October l, as provided in
the naval appropriation act Of August o. The fol-
loving named c.,ieE of bureaus compose Il 9
b arl Rear Admiral Edward 7. Nichols, Iatds
aud Docks Commodore Earl English, Equipment
and Recruiting; Captain John G. Walker Navigl'
tim; Captain Montgomery sicarl, Ordnance; Sur
geon,Gane,al philips. Wales, Medicine and Sur
gerry; paymaser- General Joseph a. Smith, Pro-
visions aud Clolhlnsi Engineer-in- Chief William
Ii. Shock Steam Engineering, anl Colonel Will
lam i. Remey, Judge Advocate General.
Captain Henry c. Hasbeouos, Fourth Artillery,
has Leen detailed as commandant Of cadets AZ
West Point, to succeed Lieutenant Colonel la.
zale, Tweuty.third Infantry. This gives him tho
pay ana local rank of lieutenant colonel While
on lac de uil He is a New Yorker, anl entered
Wes, Point in, lS51i graduated and became first
lieu tenant Fourth Artillery May II, 1861 COM
mlnded light battery with great credit during
the rebellion, ana was romoled to captain July
&C. 1896, and is now eighth on the list for promo
ton To mnjor, He was breyetted captain October,
%, 1862, tor gal,antry in action near Suffolk, Va.
aud WAS Ofefed the bgeyet Of major April ., 1865,
for galanry dang the siege Of Pete s5urS bu!
declined the latter.