ORDERS TO ARMY OFFICERSParagraph 4, epeclal orders, No. 284, December 8, 1804, War Department, relating to First Lieut. William A. Covington, Signal CorpH, has been revoked.CapL Ira L. Fredendall. quartermaster, baa been ordered Co make not to exceed three visits per month from Boston to MJllla, Hub., cn official business of the Quartermaster's Department pertaining to contracts Cor shoesFirst Lieut. William A- Covington, Signal Corps, baa beeu ordered to proceed to Wilmington, Del.; the forts In the art 1 llerr district of the Delaware, and Fort Monroe, Va„ on official business pertaining to tho electrical installations of the Signal Corps.Capt. Loren bo P. Davison, Fifth Infantry, haying been examined for promotion by boards of office™ and found phyBlcally disqualified lor the duties Of major of Infantry by reason of disability inciden4; to the service, bis retirement from active service as a major has been ordered, to date from December 16.MaJ. Frank Baker, Ordnance Department, has been ordered to make not to exceed ten visits prior to July 1, 1805, from Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Mass., to tho works of the Archibald Wheel Company, Lawrence, Maes , on official business pertaining to tho Inspection of ordnance material in process of construction.The following transfers have been made to Lake i effect December 16, at the request of the Office™ concerned. First Lieut. William H. Patterson, from Ihe Twenty-eighth Infantry to the Twenty-fourthInfantry, First Lieut. Alexander M. Hull, from thoTwenty fourth Infantry to the Twenty-eighth Infantry. Lieut. Hall will Jo la the regiment to which he Is transferred.iFirst Lieut, Walter G. Penfleld, Ordnance Department, has been ordored to make not to exceed five visile per month during the months of January, February, and March, 1805, from Watertown Arsenal* Watertown, Mass , to the worka of the Build-ere* Iron Foundry, Providence, R. I., on offiolal business pertaining to the Inspection of ordnancematerial In process of construction.The following-named officers wlU report la person to MaJ. William C Borden, surgeon, president of the examining board appointed November _18, I8O4, at the Army Medloal Museum Building, Washington. at 10 o'clock a. m., on Wednosday, January 4, for examination to determine their fitness for ! advancement: First Lieut- George W. Mathews,j assistant surgeon, acid Flret Lieut. Wilfrid Turn-1 klt;iU au*i1utoT\t