master F. W. Gardner; Acting Assistant Surgeon J. E. Warner; Acting Third Assistant Engineer Zalmon T. Williams; Acting Ensign William F. Raynolds, Jr. Nov. 14.-Acting Third Assistant Engineer John H. Penn; Acting Assistant Paymaster J. Henry Sellman.

Nov. 15.-Acting Master Samuel B. Gregory.

Nov. 16.-Acting Third Assistant Engineer James B. German.
Nov. 17.-Acting Third Assistant Engineer R. H. Alexander.

Nov. 18.-Acting Assistant Paymaster E. H. Brink.

Nov. 21.-Acting Assistant Surgeon Thomas J. Reed; Acting Master Henry Oakley.

Nov. 23.-Acting Master Charles H. Corsen; Acting Ensign Colin C. Starr; Acting Third Assistant Engineers W. L. McKay and John Thompson, Jr.; Acting Assistant Surgeon Charles A. Manson.

Nov. 26.-Acting Ensign Joshua Simmonds.

Nov. 28.-Acting Assistant Surgeon Francis H. Atkins; Acting Assistant Paymaster Lynford Lardner; Acting Master's Mate G. W. Barnes.

Nov. 30.-Acting Ensign Harrison Banks; Acting Third Assistant Engineer Charles E. Black.

Nov. 4.-Acting Master's Mate Joseph R. Delan.

Nov. 8.-Acting Master's Mate James Cummins.
Nov. 9.-Acting Master's Mate Wallace W. Reed.

Nov. 16.-Acting Master's Mate Robert F. Gray; Acting Master's Mate H. B. Eddy.

Revoked,

Nov. 7.-Acting Master John A. Phillips.

Nov. 8.-Acting Ensign A. W. Starbuck; Acting Third Assistant Engineer Thomas G. Farrouts; Acting Third Assistant Enginecr E. H. Grover; Acting Third Assistant Engineer Daniel Gorman.

Nov. 11.-Acting Assistant Paymaster Henry Stuyvesant.

Nov. 16.-Acting Master Charles H. Saulisbury.

Nov. 17.-Acting Ensign Edward Balch.

Nov. 19.-Acting Master's Mate Albert R. Arey.

Nov. 21.-Acting Masters Courtland P. Williams and William Richardson (that they might be appointed Acting Masters and Pilots); Acting Master William H. Harrison; Acting Third Assistant Engineer F. C. Taylor.

Nov. 22.-Acting Master Oliver B. Warren.

Nov. 25.-Acting Third Assistant Engineer Charles J. Morgan.

Nov. 26.-Acting First Assistant Engineer Rodney Nichols; Acting First Assistant Engineer Jacob Tucker.

Nov. 30.-Acting Master W. B. Stoddard: Acting Gunner William Mortimer.

Nov. 7.-Acting Master's Mate John Rigg; Acting Master's Mate Charles W. Payne.

Nov. 8.-Acting Master's Mate Ezra C. Colvin.

Nov. 9.-Acting Master's Mate Warren S. Cammett.

Dismissed.

Nov. 5.-Acting Second Assistant Engineer George S. Hall (by sentence of CourtMartial). Acting Second Assistant Engineer J. W. Anderson.

Nov. 7.-Acting Ensign Andrew Stockholm.

Nov. 12.-Acting First Assistant Engineer Francis Henderson; Acting First Assistant Engineer Benjamin F. Morey; Acting Gunner William Lordan.

Nov. 15.-Acting Third Assistant Engineer George Street.

Nov. 16.-Acting First Assistant Engineer Dennison A. Lockwood.

Nov. 17.-Acting Master Newell Graham; Acting Third Assistant Engineer Edward Merritt.

Nov. 21.-Acting Ensign Charles Thomas; Acting Third Assistant Engineer John H. Hopkins.

Nov. 25.-Acting Master Franklin Hopkins, Jr.
Nov. 28.-Acting Ensign William Henderson.

Nov. 11.-Acting Master's Mate D. C. Harrington.
Nov. 18.-Acting Master's Mate, Henry Crosby.

Miscellaneous.

Nov. 12.-Acting Second Assistant Engineer James H. Plunkett, sentence of Court-Martial reducing him one grade, not approved, and he is directed to await orders. Acting Third Assistant Engineer George C. Brown, sentence of CourtMartial dismissing him, not approved, and he is relieved from arrest with a reprimand from the Department.

Nov. 15.-Acting Third Assistant Engineer William Gaul, reduced to First Class Fireman for the term of two years, and to forfeit three months' pay as First Class Fireman, by sentence of Court-Martial.

Mississippi Squadron.

Nov. 21.-Acting Volunteer Lieutenant A. R. Langthorne, detached from the Mississippi Squadron, and ordered to the North Atlantic Squadron.

Nov. 22.-Acting Ensign F. W. Grafton, detached from the Mississippi Squadron, and ordered to the North Atlantic Squadron.

Nov. 7.-Thomas McElroy.

Appointed Acting Master.

Nov. 25.-Acting Masters W. E. H. Fentress and Thomas McElroy, ordered to the Mississippi Squadron. (Returned prisoners.) Acting Ensign Simon Strunk, ordered to Mississippi Squadron. (Returned prisoner.)

Appointed Acting Ensigns.

Nov. 4.-Persifer Frazer, Jr.

Nov. 7.-W. R. Cooper and Charles C. Cushing (for special duty on Acting RearAdmiral Lee's Staff); Zachariah T. Tibbatts,

Nov. 8-John B. Pratt, Charles L. McClung, C. B. Plattenburg.

Nov. 10.-J. J. Irwin.

Nov. 11.-Isaac Wiltse.

Appointed Acting Master's Mates.

Nov. 4.-David B. Balthis.

Nov. 5.-C. W. Botten.

Nov. 15.-Harlan P. Bosworth.

Nov. 23.-Henry Clifton.

Nov. 25.-A. H. Ahrens.

Nov 26.-Robert W. Rogers.
Nov. 28.-E. C. Eraley.

Nov. 29.-F. B. Chase.

Appointed Acting First Assistant Engineers.

Nov. 10.-Charles F. Yeager.

Nov. 26.-Josephus Blake.

Appointed Acting Second Assistant Engineers.

Nov. 21.-William H. Collins.

Nov. 23.-John W. Street; L. S. Everson.

Appointed Acting Third Assistant Engineer.

Nov. 8.-Acting Master Peter O'Kell, to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant.

Nov. 10.-Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William R. Hoel, to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant-Commander.

Resigned.

Nov. 7.-Acting Master's Mate J. L. Cilley.

Nov. 8.-Acting Master's Mate R. M. Hawkins; Acting Carpenter J. O. Baker. Nov. 15.-Acting First Assistant Engineer John C. Houston.

Nov. 17.-Acting Ensigns Joseph Beauchamp and J. W. Litherbury.

Nov. 23.-Acting Master's Mate Joseph B. Morton; Acting Second Assistant Engineer Michael Norton.

Nov. 25.-Acting Master's Mate J. K. Lull, Jr.

Nov. 29.-Acting Ensign Frank D. Campbell.

Revoked.

Nov. 8.-Acting Master's Mate J. W. Wickwire.

Nov. 9.-Acting Second Assistant Engineer W. L. Tolle.

Dismissed.

Nov. 10.-Acting Second Assistant Engineer Eugene Callagher, to date from the 29th September, 1864.

Nov. 12.-Acting Master E. C. Brennan.

Nov. 15.-Acting Ensign George W. Platt.

Nov. 16.-Acting Ensign Henry S. O'Grady.

Nov. 28.-Acting Master's Mate Edward T. Lincoln.

JUSTICE TO OUR OFFICERS.

[WE give special prominence to the following communication on a most vital subject. Strong as it is, we wish the disgrace which rests upon our Government in this matter were even more emphatically characterized, so that our loyal Congressmen should redeem us at once from its stigma, by neglecting all other business until they had made some show of compensating our gallant and self-sacrificing defenders. While they live, in God's name, supply their necessities-if nothing more; and when they die, let not their wives and families be sacrificed, like the Indian widow, on the same death-pile. We shall harp upon this topic until the tardy justice is done.-ED.]

WE sincerely trust the present Congress will not adjourn without passing at least two vitally important measures of bare justice to the brave officers of our Army and Navy. First and foremost, they must have an

INCREASE OF PAY.

It is no longer a question whether they are to live like gentlemen, but whether they are to live at all. We have not now to consider how on earth the married ones shall support their families, but how the single ones are to support themselves. The public at large, ruffling their feathers pleasantly at the idea of "fat offices" and unctuous "pickings," and remembering a few quartermasters and others who have been "on the make" and "made a good thing out of it-"with what not other slang thoughts-forget that the Army is no custom-house. Neither is the Navy a postoffice. Congress knows better. Congress knows that the pay of officers of the Army and Navy is fixed by law, and that they cannot receive one cent more than their lawful allowances, in any event whatever, except, in the Navy, for prize-money,

the good fortune of a very, very few lucky ones. Setting aside this rare exception, the pay now actually received by officers in active service is as follows:

With the single exception of twenty dollars per month added to the pay of each, in 1857, the pay of the Army was, in 1860, substantially what it was made in 1808! And since 1860 it has been reduced. The forage allowance, amounting to from sixteen to fifty dollars a month, according to rank, has been cut off, and the rate of commutation for servants' pay has been reduced from thirteen to eleven dollars a month. The Navy pay has been changed since the war, to conform to that of the Army.

In the meanwhile, two things have happened:

1st. Prices of all necessaries of life have doubled, except those that have trebled. 2d. The pay of the private soldier has been increased from eight to sixteen dollars a month.

In thousands of cases privates have received bounties, varying from five hundred to twelve hundred dollars, for one year's service, thus making their compensation in money, with all expenses paid beside, equal or greater than that of a lieutenant, who has to find himself in every thing! No wonder that the enlisted men lay up money, while their officers must often go in debt to keep their backs covered.

The Government allows an officer of the Army thirty cents for each ration. He cannot draw his rations in kind. In nine cases out of ten he is obliged to buy them from the Government; and so he pays back to the Government over fifty cents for what the Government allows him thirty.

An officer is allowed for his servant the pay and allowances of a private soldieras it is? No; as it was in 1857! He gets eleven dollars a month to pay a servant, when he cannot hire a small boy for less than fifteen dollars with stealages, or a decent man for twenty dollars; is allowed thirty cents a day for feeding his servant, who would think himself starved on double that sum; and receives two dollars and fifty cents a month to clothe him. How many suits of clothes will thirty dollars a year buy?

From all these items, making up the exact totals we have stated, the paymaster deducts five per cent. on the excess over six hundred a year, and the collector of internal revenue calls for five per cent. on the amount paid last year. That means ten per cent. on this year's pay, for last year's was spent long ago. Civilians are allowed to deduct the house-rent of themselves and families from the amount liable to tax. Officers are denied even this privilege.

Our present worthy Chief Magistrate, in one of his apt little speeches, is said to have told a delegation of "neutral Kentuckians," some two years ago, that the time had come when, as the mackerel fisherman said to his passengers, they must do one of three things: Fish, cut bait, or go ashore.

Gentlemen of the Thirty-eighth Congress, let us in like manner assure you that the time has now come when we must do one of three things: 1st. Lose valuable officers;

2d. Put gold to par; 3d. Increase the pay of the officers of the Army, at the very least, fifty per cent. for the lower grades, and in graduated proportion for the higher.

We speak more in detail of the Army, because the pay of that service is minced up into small fractions. But the same arguments apply equally to the case of the Navy.

We urge this as simple justice to our brave defenders. While they risk their lives for us, let us at least enable them to live decently!

If every officer who has an influential friend will set him to work; if every influ ential citizen who has a friend in shoulder-straps will put his shoulder to the wheel in earnest; if every editor who cares for any thing beyond party will spare a few lines of type; if every member of Congress, who knows the facts, will use his knowledge and his influence in the direction of his judgment, it will be done. But whatever is to be done, must be done quickly.

ORGANIZATION OF THE STAFF.

We gave our views on this subject so fully in our last February number, and the views therein expressed were so generally adopted by the Military Committees of the two Houses-though nothing came of it—that we have nothing to add in this place, except that we do hope another session will not be allowed to pass without the adoption of the much-needed measures recommended not only by us and by most of the commanding generals, but by universal experience. R. B. I.