National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-18

eipline" Of the army. Possibly; but, at the same
time ~ Is an advertisement OF army discipline
highly creditable to the army. Nothing coulu be
more dangerous to the prosperity and safety OF
the people, or more bnueful In ITS influence upon
the army itself, than lax discipline-Bo boston
The following Is the FULL detail OF the naval gem
eral court.martial which convened last wednes-
day Mt the Norfolk Navy Yard Commanders
John r. McGlensey and Charles j. Huntington;
Lieutenant Commander George Talcott Lieuten;
ants John G. Irvine and John A. II. Nickels, U, ).
NJ. Captain Louis y. FdRau and First Lieutenant
Henry II. Coston, Marine Corps, members; with
Lieutenant Theodore r. Wood. U. $. N" as judge
advocate.
Colonel Richard N. Batchelder, deputy quarter
master-general, who is now general depot quar-
termaster at San Francisco, will arrive here soon
for duty in the Quarlcimaster. Generals onice.
When General Ingalls, was chief quarterfnaster of
the Army OF the Potomac Colonel Batchelder was
his rght.hand mat, and for his faithful and meri.
torious service wus brevetted brigadier general of
volunteers, transferred to the regular army as cap.
tain and assistant quartcrmaster, and also received
three brevets In the regular army.
The following naval orders were issued Wednes-
day Passed Assistant Paymaster Otis c. Tiffany
ordered to the receiving ship Passaic at the Wash
ington Navy.Ynrd Passed Assistant Engineer
Alexander b. Bates. ordered TO duty with the ex.
perimontal board Ensign Horace W. Harrison, to
the Photographic Oalce; Assistant Engineer John
ID. Sloan, detached from the Portsmouth Navy
Yard, aud ordered TO the Tallapoosa, and Cadet
Midshipmnn Hugh Rodman, detached from the
Eantic ana placed on waiting orders.
Governor Bgelow of Connecticut appointed n
committee Of prominent citizens last Wednesday
to come 10 Washington for the purpose of urging
upon Congress the importance of an appropriation
for the naval station at New London, and to set
forth its superiority as station or navy.yard. IL
is now commanded by Commodore William Il.
Hopkins The committee is composed of ex.Gov-
ernors English and Hubbard, eX-Representativo
Augustus Brandege, and Hon. T. VI. Waller, OF
New London, and Mayor II. II. Osgood, Of Nor
wich.
The following naval orders were issued Tues
day: Lieutenant Zera L. Tanner, ordered to SUI
pervise the construction ofthe new Fish Commits
sion steamer Albatros; Lieutenant Albert Ross,
detached from the training-shtp Portsmouth ana
placed on waiting orders; Ensign Charles Laird
has reported his return home, having been de-
tached February from the Palos Asiatic heet,
and is ordered for his examination for promotion
TO master; Lieutenant Charles Seymour has re-
ported his return home, having been detached
from the Ashueot Asiatlo fleet flagship, and has
been placed on waiting orders.
The House Military Committee Wednesday d.
recled Chairman Henderson to favoraby report
back TO the House the bill providing that all OFF,
GERS who shall have served thrty-1ve years,
either as officers or soldiers, in the regular or vol
unteer service, may be retired upon their own APP
plcation, and that all officers of forty years
vice. either as officers or soldiers. in the regular
service II wo rS q Fe9 Tho Hi 9S o.
yides however, that the General, Lieutenant
General, and present mjor-genernls of the army
shall be excepted from its operation.
Nicholas Remey, native of France and a vet
eran of three wars, died a few days ago at Kirk
vile, Iowa He was fifteen years age when he
entered the French army and he served under
Napoleon In the battle of Waterloo. Subsequently
he was made prisoner at Salamanca, Spain, es-
capped to the United States, reared large family
here, and fought with the Thirty-seventh Iowa
Regiment in the civil war. The dead veteran was
no way related to the wellknown officers, Colonel
William b. Remey, Marine Corps, Judge Advo-
cate General of the Navy, Commander George G.
Remey, and Lieutenant Edward W. Remey, U. S. N,
The officers of the Twenty-frst and Twenty
third Regiments of Infantry have petitioned Con-
gress for the increase Of each OF the infantry regi
ments now in service into twelve companies, with
| one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and three
majors SO as TO make three batalions OF four COM
| panies each The intention Is TO give the same
chance fol-. promotion as is now enjoyed by the
| cavalry and artillery branches Of the service by
| adding fifty majors to the present twenty-five
| fifty captains, and fifty each of first and second
| lieutenants. One effect of such an increase would
be to enlarge the possibility OF promotions from
| the ranks.
| Senator Edmunds' BILL introduced Wednesday.
to promote the efficiency of the army by their
tirement, voluntarily or otherwise is u scheme
| which will hardly be met with favor In the SER
vice. except by the fewwho retire after forty years
of service. The rates of retired pay are fixed on
scale of length of service from one years full pay
when ten years of service has been completed, to
| full pay for life when forty more years of SER
| vice is completed Volunteer service, whetherias
enlisted men or officers, snail count Tor pay III re-
tirement, and retirement is made compulsory al
| sXty-two. The bill invariably dcsgnates all pay
ment to officers, retired ofhcers as pensions,
even In the case Of those who would receive full
pay.
The Iroquois, which has been completely rebuilt
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, is SC
nearly completed that her entire complement o
officers was announced Wednesday as ordered Il
| report for duty on board April 10. The Iroquoi
viii probably be sent on the transit of Venus ex.
pedition, and after the completion of that duty
Join the Aslatic fleet. The following Is the compile
ment of officers ordered those now on other duty
will be detached from such duty March 81: Com
| mander, James ii. Sands lieutenant commander
Charles II. Stockton; lieutenAnts, Frederick W
Crocker, Charles W. Christopher. and Nathan i
Miles; masters James G. Gilmore, Julius c. Freeman
aud william +. Halsey; enslgns, Herbert o. Dunn
George w. Denled, Albert w. Grant, and SimOl
Cook midshipman, Perclval l.. Drayton; surgeon
| J. W. Ross; passed assistant paymastor, James L
Cam; chief engineer, G. NJ; L Maccarty passed
engineers, Frank II. Bailey and Charles c. Kleck
ner
portion of the survivors OF Admiral Farm
CUTS feet at New Orleans have formed an associa
ton at Philadelphia, which has sent committed
ofthree members to Washington to urge the pas.
sage by Congress of the bill now pending TO pay
the survivors Sl43,6A47, which is the balance Of
the bounty due for the destruction of the rebel
vessels at Forts Jackson and st. Philip, April p
1862 The officers and men have been paid por.
ton of tho bounty and the District Supreme
Gourt several Year, t ago EayS IN iav0r q
aud the Judgment was affirmed by the United
States Supreme Court. Congress has, however
failed TO make an appropriation to pay the judg-
ment and 1t is TO urge this action that the com
mittee of survivors is now here. The House Nava
Committee has reported fayorably on the matter
aud the Senate has referred n similar bill TO tn,
Appropriations Committee, where II is under con
sideration by Senators Logan Hale, and Cockrel
as u subcommittee, who heard the case presented
Wednesday by the committee of survivors. Man!
OF the claimants has become disabled during the
twenty years since the famous victory. and are II
extreme need of the dues which have been 81
long kept from them.
The confirmation OF General Rufus Ingalls, t
be Quartermaster- General Of the Army, was fol
lowed by the nominations for promotion
thereby following, and by the nomination Of Col
onel Charles Bird, lieutenant Twenty-thrd In
fautry for promotion to the vacancy create
in the grade of captain and assistant guar
termaster., Colonel Bird, whom the Presi
dent has honored the service by promoting en-
tered the service In May, 1861, as a lieutenant q
the First Delaware, and served three months. i
April, 1862, he was commissioned In the secon
Delaware, became captain March 10, 1868 AM
was mustered ont December %, 1854 In the fol
lowing month he was made lieutenant colonel q
the First United States Veteran Infantry, the corp
specially raised by General HancOcK, and becam
colonel of the regiment the succeeding May, an
was honorably mustered out with his comman
, January 10, 1866. He was made second lieutenan
Fourteenth Infantry, May II. 1866, and promote
to first lieutenant May 49, 1867, in the Twenty
third Infantry (the second battalion Of the oil
Fourteenth). From August !, 1873, TO October
1876 he was adjut0ut OF Twenty third Infantr!
Amer entering the regulurarmy he was given fou
, breVets as follows: First Lieutenant and capital
7 for Fredericksburg, December, 1862; major f.
Spottsyvana, and lieutenant-co for the bat
tie OF June go 1864, ut Petersburg, He Is now o
special duty at General Hancocks headquarter
, Governors Island, New York.
Mr.. NJ. GooDN, Belmont Park, Pa, recent
! wrote to n correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA
Times as follows: 81 have given ST. Jacobs Oil
;; trial on sores and fresh wounds. of horses, AN
find IL 70 relieve the soreness In few hours. IL
invaluable to all owners OF horses, especially