National Republican., 1883-04-30
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.


The Nipsic will bo ready for sea about
May IL.
The sloop of war Trenton willFgo into COM
mission about July 1.
Secretary Chandler has approved Che sup
Elemental report of the Jeanette court of
inquiry, and its conclusions will not be modi-
fed.
Capt. W. A. Kirkland has relieved Capt. d.
B. Harmony, in command of the receiving
ship Colorado, at Brooklyn. The latter goes
to Washington.
Leave of absence for five months, with per-
mission to go beyond sea, to take effect in
June, 1883, Is granted 1st Lieut.. ]. Estcourt
Sawyer, 9th artillery.
By direction of the President, during the
temporary absence of the Adjutant General
Gen. Chauncey McKeever, the senior officer
present for duty in his office, will perform the
duties Of adjutant general.
Commodores Walker of the bureau of nav
igation, and Wilson, of the bureau of con-
struction and repair, paid an official visit to
the Brooklyn navy yard Saturday. A salute
OF seven guns was fred in their honor.
The extension of leave of absence granted
First Lieut.. Heman Dowd, Sd artillery April
8, 1882, has been further extended to June /,
1858, and his resignation has been accepted
by the President to take effect from that date.
Maj. James NJ. Moore, quartermaster, u. 8.
army, will be relieved from his present duties
to report in person June l, 1883 to the COM
manding general, department of Dakota, for
assignment to duty as chief quartermaster Of
of that department.
Second Lieut.. Charles r. Tyler, 18th in
fantry, has been detailed as professor of mill
tary science and tactics at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Kentucky, Lex
ington, KY, to take effect July /, 1883, and
will report for duty accordingly.
Capt. Charles s. Smith, ordnance DEPART
ment, has been ordered to proceed from this
city to Pittsburg, Pa, and thence to Philadel-
phia, Pa, on public business connected with
the ordnance department, and on the compile
tion thereof will return to his station in this
city.
So much of general orders No. 10, Dec. %,
1861, department of the Ohio, as relates to
Capt. Robert @. Reid, 18th Indiana volunteers,
(having been issued under misapprehension
OF tho facts) is revoked, and to complete the
record Of that officer he is honorably dis
charged, to date Dec. 23, 1861.
First Lieut.. John w. Pullman, sth
cavalry, is detailed as professor of military
science and tactics at Allegheny college,
Meadville, Pa, to take effect July /, 1883, and
will report for duty accordingly relieving
lob lLlouV. uoOrBo ", WEBSTER, 4Jn infantry,
who, on being relieved, will proceed to join
his company.
First Lieut., Thomas L. Casey, ,jr., corps of
engineers, having completed the duty assigned
him under paragraph z, special orders No. 1877,
August IL, 1882, to Philadelphia Pa, and re-
sumo his duties under Lieut. Col Godfrey
Weitzel, corps of engineers, and as secretary
to the commission advisory to the board of
harbor commissioners of Philadelphia.
A board of officers, to consist of Lieut.. Col.
James NJ Whittemorc, ordnance department;
Lieut.. Col. Richard N. Batchelder, deputy
quartermaster general; Maj. Guido N. Leber,
judge advocate; Capt, jeremiah II. Gilman,
commissary of subsistence; Capt. John +.
Rodgers, military storekeeper, quartermas-
ters department, recorder, will assemble in
this city on the second day Of May, 1883, or
as soon thereafter as practicable, to consider
and report upon such notifications of general
orders No. 40, Of 1880, as may be doomed nee
essary, under the provisions of the act of con-
gress approved March B. 1883, entitled "an
act to amend chapter SO of volume 20 of the
United States Statutes at Large, relating to
contracts under tho War department"