, 1861-12-11
HIS ARMY IN BAD CONDITION.
Our Troops at Ottervil1e.
GOING INTO WINTER QUARTERS.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tsibune-1

WAsHsaTos, December 10, 1861.
Senator Wilson introduced q bill, to-day,
providing for an entire reorganization Of the
medical department Of the army. It author
ICES the President to select from all the army
doctors, without regard to present rank,
Doctor General, with the rank Of Brigadier
General Sanitary Inspector General, with
the rank Of Colonel aud six Sanitary In
spcct forty Surgeons Of the first class,
fifty Of the second class, and sixty Assistant
Surgeons, are to. be appointed and promoted
by seniority, as now; vacancies to be filed
from civil life or from among the Brigade Sur
geons Of volunteers, after due examination.
rs medical cadets are provided for. One Oh
ject Of these radical changes, which VIII cause
great futtering among doctors, is to do away
with the necessity Of a Sanitary Commission,
and also with Surgeon General Finley, whose
trial began to-day. He Finley) raised ques-
tiop as to the Jurisdiction Of the court, rnain-
tanning that he, as head Of Bureau, could not
be ordered to trial by the General-in- Chief,
but only by the President.
Senator Harlan's bill, authorizing tile Presi-
dent to procure By purchase ifpossible, acoun-
q 1oA Liz NIA0141~At40A VI GULL A0N Q3aCha Aa
want to go, appropriatcs d million dollars.
The House almost unanimously passed the
Senate resolution for Committee Of Inquiry
into the conduct Of the war.
There will be an effort to refer all slavery
resolves and bills to select committee.
Rcvcrdy johnson has been employed AZ Col
KcTrigan's counsel. New charges have been
presented against him, for dcserting his out
post, withdrawing pickets, holding cores
pondencc with the enemy; in sub
stance, treason. His application for
time to meet them was denied. The e7t
dcnce adduced to-day touches only his neglect
-offdatS :. :
The Republican caucus, Last night, closed
too late to enablc.me to send an account Of its
proceedings. The speeches were al, with the
exception Of Mr.. Diyen of New York, earnest.
ly for the prosecution Of the war, even 10 the
con6scatiop Of rebels property and the eman.
cipation Of their s1aves. There was much
less difference of opinion than was anticipated
by some among them. Jim Lane thought the
Executive policy really for freedom. Other
a strong statement Of disclosures in Iii
committee touching rebels in the employ o
| the Government. Thad. Stevens said Gen
! Mcclellan had threatened to resign unles
Cameron'6 Report was emasculated.
Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith has bcsough
the Secretary Of State for permission tt
| visit her SONS, Appleton Oakcs Smith and hi
brother, imprisoned for completely with th
slave trade, in Fort Lafayette.
| hFr Ca1-or1 IN f14n eorrasY,nndn wi {to
schurz, printed in the volume just published
says that whatever the former Administra
tions may have said this one will have nothin
to do with the Am1stead claim.
Opposite Mattawan creek the rebels wer
she1lcd out Of three storehouses last night
which were then burned, By a captain an
four sailors, in sight Of fifty rebels. Shell
were thrown at the first Massachusetts, reg
ment.
regiments to the maximum standard Of
thousand and forty-siz (l04G} men.
The Historian Bancroft arrived tonight.
The brother Of the Governor of Pennsylv:
t mia had his pocket picked Of over eleven thor
sand dollars, at the railroad station tonight.
Mr.. Diren Of New 7 fork, who is bclicy ed
represent Seward, admitted at the caucus, las
night, that the war would be the end {
slavery. "so," reloincd jim Lane, "saJ
"crerybody meet, North and soatl
eHow much more blood and treasu1
"bcforc the end. Why not end now?'' Til
statement Of Thad. Stevens, dt the caucu
that Mcclellan threatened to resign if Cam
! ron's original report Was sent in, has bec