Show GEN CEN MERRITTS expedition monday or tuesday set as the day of departure philadelphia short ofin of third artillery artillery will go horses to be exercised on a tread mill on ship board san francisco june 24 according to the latest advices obtainable the next expedition to the philippines will eail not earlier than monday or tuesday next and ard gen merritt will follow a day or two later on the newport the entire battalion of the third artillery n now ow at the Presidio will go with thia this squadron of transports transport the after of the naval reserve to in man an the tugs purchased by the govern government men t baa been d arsi T ibe the crumber philadelphia is detill short of men ant efforts are being made to complete her complement so she may eoon sail eail for manila for the purpose of exercising the horses which will be taken to the philippines it is pro posed to construct a long tread mil mill on the ship to which they may be assigned an order app appointing inting seventy corporale corporals and three Beree serce ants anto has beert leaned by colonel loper of the fifty first iowa frank martin of company F who has been appointed appoint pd aide de camp on the staff of 0 brif aeo lincoln bas has left for mobile to report to his we new command ing officer col C of the thirteenth minnesota volunteers has been presented with a handsome sword by the officers of the regiment |