Lieutenants, C. S. McDonough, A. C. Rhind, R. M. McArann, J. P. Foster, B. P. Loyall. Fleet Surgeon, T. L. Smith. Lieutenants, E. Donaldson, A. K. Hughes, John Madigan, P. C. Johnson. Surgeon, Ninian Pinkney. Assistant Surgeon, David Kindleberger. Purser, G. R. Barry. First Lieutenant Marines, J. R. F. Tattnall. Master, A. P. Cooke. Chief Engineer, John Faron. Boatswain, Charles Woodland. Gunner, J. D. Boorom. Carpenter, Jonas Dibble. Sailmaker, G. C. Boerum. Engineers: First Assistants, W. C. Wheeler, M. Kellogg; Second Assistant, J. B. Houston; Third Assistants, H. C. Victor, G. W. Hall, John Roop, B. Kavanagh. Boatswain, James C. Walton. Acting Carpenter, Wm. D. Toy. Sailmaker, Samuel Tatem. SLOOP VINCENNES, 20-(Ordered home.) Commander, B. J. Totten. Lieutenants, J. W. A. Nicholson, Wm. C. West, Wm. E Fitzhugh. Lieutenants, T. H. Patterson, J. Pembroke Jones, J. W. Dunnington. Passed Assistant Surgeon, C. F. Fahs. Purser, Chas. W. Abbott. Master, A. F. Crosman Midshipmen, F. B. Blake, H. D. Todd, H. W. Miller. Acting Gunner, Chas. Stuart. Carpenter, Wm. Hyde. Engineers: First Assistants, T. A. Shock, A. J. Kiersted; Third Assistants, R. H. Fitch, E. Farmer, Jas. Atkins, Geo. W. Rodgers. STORE SHIP SUPPLY, 4. Commander, Henry Walke. Lieutenants, John Downes, O. F. Stanton, Geo. Brown. Assistant Surgeon, A. M. Vedder. Master, W. N. Allen. STEAMER SUM TER, 5. Lieutenant Commanding, James F. Armstrong. Lieutenants, W. B. Fitzgerald, J. B. Stewart, J. A. Greer. Passed Assistant Surgeon, J. H. Otis. Master, G. H. Perkins. Engineers: First Assistant, T. J. Jones; Third Assistants, E. B. Latch, J. L. Plumley, J. H. Morrison. STEAMER MYSTIC, 5. Lieutenant Commanding, Wm. E. Le Roy. Lieutenants, D. Mc. N. Fairfax, Milton Haxtun, H. M. Garland. Passed Assistant Surgeon, W. D. Harrison. Master, Nathaniel Green. Engineers: First Assistant, Chas. H. Baker; Third Assistants, H. McMurtrie, Jas. Plunkett Isaac Finney. EAST INDIA SQUADRON. Flag Officer, C. K. Stribling, Commanding. STEAM SLOOP HARTFORD, 16.-FLAG SHIP. Captain, Charles Lowndes. Lieutenants, J. J. B. Walbach, J. C. Beaumont, Julian Myers, Richard L. Law, A. M De Bree. Fleet Surgeon, B. R. Tinslar. Passed Assistant Surgeon, Wm. G. Hay. Assistant Surgeon, E. F. Corson. Purser, Wm. Speiden. Chaplain, T. B. Bartow. Captain Marines, Addison Garland. Second Lieutenant Marines, L. L. Dawson. Chief Engineer, Andrew Lawton. Master, Edward Lea. Midshipmen, Geo. C. Remey, C. H. Swasey, A. S. Mackenzie, & D. Green. Boatswain, John Burrows. Gunner, A. F. Thompson. Carpenter, Chas. W. Babbitt. Sailmaker, John A. Birdsall. Engineers: First Assistants W. S. Stamm, F. C. Dade; Second Assistant, Alex'r Greer; Third Assistants, S. Albert, W. W. Hopper, F. Dobbs, F. A. R. George. Commander, Murray Mason. SLOOP JOHN ADAMS, 20. Lieutenants, E A. Barnet, J. P. Hall, E. E. Stone. Passed Assistant Surgeon, Philip Lansdale. Assistant Surgeon, B. F. Gibbs. Purser, H. R. Day. Second Lieutenant Marines, D. M. Cohen. Master, George M. Blodgett. Boatswain, Thomas Smith. Gunner, M. A. Lane. Acting Carpenter, D. A. Robinett. Acting Sailmaker, A. W. Cassell. STEAMER SAGINAW, 3. Commander, James Findlay Schenck. Lieutenants, B. N. Westcott, J. I. Waddell, M. C. Campbell. Passed Assistant Surgeon, S. F. Coues. Purser, James Fulton. Master, C. J. McDougal. Engineers: First Assistant, Geo. F. Kutz; Third Assistants, W. S. Thompson, H. W. Robie James Sheridan. STEAM FRIGATE POWHATAN, 11.-(Ordered home.) Flag Officer, Josiah Tattnall. Captain, George F. Pearson: Lieutenants, Jas. D. Johnston, S. D. Trenchard, W. W. Roberts, A. A. Semmes, A. W. Habersham, Robert Boyd, jr. Fleet Surgeon, W. A. W. Spotswood. Passed Assistant Surgeon, C. H. Williamson. Assistant Surgeon, J. W. Sandford, jr. Purser, B. F. Gallagher. Chaplain, Henry Wood. Captain Marines, A. S. Taylor. : Chief Engineer, Wm. H. Shock. Boatswain, Edward Kenney. Sailmaker, A. A. Warren. Engineers: First Assistants, W. H. Rutherford, R. C. Potts; Second Assistant, George W. City; Third Assistants, W. W. Dungan, E. R. Archer, G. S. Bright, W. H. King. STEAM FRIGATE MISSISSIPPI, 11.-(On her return home.) Captain, William C. Nicholson. Lieutenants, R. M. Stembel, T. Pattison, J. G. Sproston, Geo. Bacon. Surgeon, John L. Fox. Passed Assistant Surgeon, D. B. Phillips. Assistant Surgeon, P. S. Wales. Purser, T. B. Nalle. First Lieutenant Marines, Jacob Read. Chief Engineer, Robert Danby. Midshipmen, Byron Wilson, J. M. Pritchett, T. B. Mills, A. R. Yates, and J. W. Kelly. Boatswain, R. McDonald. Gunner, William Burneice. Carpenter, E. Thompson. Sailmaker, J. C. Bradford. Engineers First Assistants, T. A. Jackson, Virginius Freeman; Second Assistants, R. H. Bartleman, L. A. Williams; Third Assistants, B. C. Bampton, W. P. De Sanno, J. H. Warrington. SLOOP GERMANTOWN, 22.-(Ordered home.) Commander, Richard L. Page. Lieutenants, J. C. Febiger, L. A. Kimberly, J. P. Fyffe, L. A. Beardslee. Assistant Surgeon, A. C. Gorgas. Purser, H. M. Hieskell. First Lieutenant Marines, George Holmes. Midshipmen, J. W. Alexander, F. M. Bunce, E. Terry, C. Merchant. Boatswain, Michael Hall. Gunner, Charles B. Oliver. Carpenter, Robert M. Bain. SPECIAL SERVICE. Exploration of the Parana and the tributaries of the Paraguay. Commander, Thos. J. Page. Lieutenants, C. P. McGary, R. R. Carter, R. Chandler, O. F. Johnston. Third Assistant Engineer, J. W. Tynan. LAWS. AN ACT FOR THE BETTER GOVERNMENT OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of June next, the following rules and regulations be adopted and put in force, for the government of the navy of the United States: Article 1. The commanders of all ships and vessels-of-war belonging to the navy are strictly enjoined and required to show in themselves a good example of virtue, honor, patriotism, and subordination, and be vigilant in inspecting the conduct of all such as are placed under their command, and to guard against and suppress all dissolute and immoral practices, and to correct all such as are guilty of them, according to the usage of the seaservice. Art. 2. The commanders of all ships and vessels in the navy, having chaplains on board, shall take care that divine service be performed in a solemn, orderly, and reverent manner, twice a day, and a sermon preached on Sunday, unless bad weather or other extraordinary accidents prevent it; and that they cause all, or as many of the ship's company as can be spared from duty, to attend at every performance of the worship of Almighty God. Art. 3. Any officer or other person in the navy who shall be guilty of oppression, cruelty, fraud, profane swearing, drunkenness, or any other scandalous conduct, tending to the destruction of good morals, shall, if an officer, be cashiered, or suffer such other punishment as a court-martial shall adjudge; if a private, shall be put in irons or flogged, at the discretion of the captain, not exceeding twelve lashes; but if the offence require severer punishment, he shall be tried by a court-martial, and suffer such punishment as said court shall inflict. Art. 4. Every commander or other officer who shall, upon signal for battle, or on the probability of an engagement, neglect to clear his ship for action, or shall not use his utmost exertions to bring his ship to battle, or shall fail to encourage, in his own person, his inferior officers and men to fight courageously, such offender shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court-martial shall adjudge; or any officer neglecting, on sight of any vessel or vessels of an enemy, to clear his ship for action, shall suffer such punishment as a court-martial shall adjudge; and if any person in the navy shall treacherously yield, or pusillanimously cry for quarters, he shall suffer death, on conviction thereof by a general court-martial. Art. 5. Every officer or private who shall not properly observe the orders of his commanding officer, or shall not use his utmost exertions to carry them into execution, when ordered to prepare for, join in, or when actually engaged in battle; or shall at such time basely desert his duty or station, either then or while in sight of an enemy, or shall induce others to do so, every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof by a general courtmartial, suffer death, or such other punishment as the said court shall adjudge. Art. 6. Every officer or private who shall, through cowardice, negligence, or disaffection, in time of action, withdraw from or keep out of battle, or shall not do his utmost to take or destroy every vessel which it is his duty to encounter, or shall not do his utmost endeavor to afford relief to ships belonging to the United States, every such offender shall, on conviction thereof by a general court-martial, suffer death, or such other punishment as the said court shall adjudge. Art. 7. The commanding officer of every ship or vessel in the navy, who shall capture or seize upon any vessel as a prize, shall carefully preserve all the papers and writing found on board, and transmit the whole of the originals, unmutilated, to the judge of the district to which such prize is ordered to proceed, and shall transmit to the Navy Department, and the agent appointed to pay the prize money, complete lists of the officers and men entitled to a share of the capture, inserting therein the quality of every person rating, on pain of forfeiting his whole share of the prize money resulting from such capture, and suffering such further punishment as a court-martial shall adjudge. Art. 8. No person in the navy shall take out of a prize, or vessel seized as a prize, any money, plate, goods, or any part of her rigging, unless it be for the better preservation thereof, or absolutely necessary for the use of any of the vessels of the United States, before the same shall be adjudged lawful prize by a competent court; but the whole, |