Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-03

by her daughter and Miss Simpson, daughter of
| Bishop Simpson, was particularly elegant though
simple-no liquors being Offered The receptions ut
| Secretary McCulloch and Postmaster General Den.
| ison were also admirably conducted. The Judges
of the Supreme Court gave receptions except Judge
| Davis. who was called to Baltimore by the death
of his cousin Henry Winter Davis.
WASHINGTON, December 81
THE RADICALS AND THE PRESIDENT.
Some of the leading Radical Congressman have
| already returned Among the well-credted on dts
TODAY is one that the Radicals are preparing some
u!In uI compromise to prevent split in their party
| ON the question of reconstruction. They seem %
! irr mat the Presidents position VIII force wide
Issue up,A them unless they Weld ~ certain Poni-
| Same nl the Radicals are fynrng the Admission al
thr Tennessee delegation believing that II w"nd b.
satisfactory. Eut 50 far Is ihe} can learn the Pres
u'ru manro M exception III then case, but desires
ihc admission OF all properly qualified Southern rep
| ',.~rrt;LiNsS eject.
IN THE CITY.
Trc Congressional holiday recess is drawing to a
clo,-. and already some of the members are comm.
back, while quite number have remained here
ihnrghuut General Banks again in the city, aud
with General Clay Smith. of Kentucky; Mr.. Blow,
~ Missouri, and Others, may be seen almost every
/ evening At the opera. Mr.. Brandegee of Connect
,u,. Mr. Mct'nrg, of Missouri: Mr. Schociield, OF
PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Hooper, of Massachusetts; Gen.
pairr aud col. Cobb OF Wisconsin; Senator DOOlit.
. ilr senator Nyc and many other Western members
haze remained through the vacation. some al the
committees have had sessions, hut rs yet little bust
ness has boon prepared. The Committee on ApprO-
priatiOns will present several important reports on
| the reassomblmg, while quite budget OF business
for the Committee on Banks and Currency has been
prepared by Bank Comptroller Clarke. Among the
measures of the latter will he the proposed increase
of one hundred millions in the capital Of the Nation
al Banks to he effected recommended in Mr..
Clafkes annual report viz, by an issue OF one hun
dr,d millions of bonds to be purchased by equal
I amount of grccnbacks which are to lie cancelled,
aud IN their place ninety millions OF national cur
rnrl Ia issue. An actual reduction OF ten millions
ul the currency IS one OF the results oil the increase
"i the bank capital.
Tnr MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CARE OF THE ARMIES OF
THE UNITED STATES
The Surgeon. General has just published Circular
No. for the information of the medical officers OF
the army. The circular comprises reports from Brc-
vet Lieut. Col George \. Otis, United States olnn'
teers having charge of the surgical, and Brevet
Major j. !. Woodward, United States Army, having
charge of the medical history OF the rebellion.
From the surgical report II appears That complete
registers 0f the number Of wounded III course OF
preparation, in WHICH over 81 OOO eases oil wounds
and II 900 surgical operations have been recorded
M To September 1850, the work of registration being
still very far from complete.
The material collected is enormous aud embraces
IA mass of facts which, on many subjects, exceeds III
number and value all previous observations in this
field The returns OF rs huge proportions AS the
armies that have been engaged in active operations
for the past four years.
The number of wounds received cannot practically
be now determined with accuracy, though data Tor
IA new approximate estimate are accessible. In the
British army in the Crimea during the entire war
there were 1904 wounded and Too killed. or To-
tai of II $40 In the French army in the Crimea, OF
a total effective force of 3O926S, according To the
repo, re, emily made by NJ Chem, there were ~ SbS
wounded ana $3.50 killed ora total of 10 Is, al
though in his report of injuries of different regions
NJ Chem records but 26 6Sl cases
I'm our late war the monthly reports from little
than half the regiments in the Held give Tor the
wear ending June 80, 1862, an aggregate OF 1895
gunshot wounds. The reports from rather more
than three-fourths Of the regiments for the year
ending June 80, 1863 give total OF 55,gI4 gunslot
wounds. The battle. field lists of wounded for the
wears lSil-'6j include over lllOOO names. But
these ,et,rrs alc to he completed by collgtng with
them the reports Of general hospitals where many
wounded werc received, whose names the recorders
or field hospitals Iegimena medical officers failed
to obtain, and by adding the names Of those Killed
in battle
I'm comparing the number of cases Of some i'm
nortant injury, As, for example gunshnt fractures oil
the cmur, 1t IS found that IN TIC FrGpch CnWcan
army there were 4j9 such injuries, and ~ the Eng
lish army 1874 while over 5OOO such cases have been
reported to this office CIR, if of the major ope-
rtQns is selected for Comparison as eNclson OF the
head of tho humcnis, tho CrmGan returns give To oil
these excisQns in the british and ~ in tho French
army but the registers of this Office contain the de-
tailed histories of 575 such operations.
The surgical specimens of the Army Medical Mu-
scum number $50; and not only IN specimens Ol
recent INJURIES but in illustrations OF recuperatVe
processes after injury of morbid processes oil tue
results of operations and OF surgical apparatus anu
uppliances this institution is richer, numerically NJ
least, than the medicO military museums oil France
or Great Britain.
The medical staff that served in the late war was
composed of a SurgeOn-Genera, one Assistant sur
geoIl- Gru6a and Medical lRaleGlGf-ir.hcEai' 10
Medical inspectors l16 Surgeons and Assistant Slr'
icons of the regular army, 362 Volunteer Star Sur.
reons and Assistant Surgeons, 5000 Reglmehtal
surgeons and Assistant surgeons oil Volunteers
, 500 Acting Assistant Surgeons and PHYSICIANS
serving under contract, aud Medical NtoreheeptI''
The second report 10y Major Woodward, contains
an outline of the material collected for the medical
branch of the history 1t embraces all the Informal
tIon possible y nh regard 10 The srhneSS anu noFil
ity of the army dutng tFr Wal, aGH especially
whatever related 10 the nature ana CAUSES OF th"N
affections which were the ruri occasion 81 death
aud disability
The, mortality from disease alone vas lorYri"hl
and -rycnIqnlhs per ole lh"uand a. m@'H -'tr4l'n
or N, fs, year Of the wal ANA 7'il-nHo n!"l I've
,..,ri. lu, the second Total number al deaths "m
disease reported for first year, fourteen thousand "'"
b,fr.rI and eighty three, and tOrty-twO thnU-"ud
and ten lnr the second. These figures do not ihri'''
ho-,. vino died while absent as prisoners oil wan, "'
after having been discharged the service Tor hNa''
! ny. The number constantly SIGN was ""o"' u" =
| cent oil the strength.
The total number of cases treated lay the Medical
prnlr.!n,ut including wounds and EJEIl'e, VS.
| SIS MS 1urugt the list ytai. ana l.fltSu' uHI"I
the Sec0ud The most fatal disease was camp '''''
Of which there were 2l3 3tN cases, and l9iaJ uta,H'
during the iva wears: next Cnues dIarrbGa anu ul>'
.ut,r, 7!jG1I cases aud ii jbO deaths then imam
nation of The respiratory organs oo4-o7 S"Ses an"
! go deaths. Ycuera diseases were lnuch les II -,
| iueut than the experience oil other armies WON"
| / a.
sand suffered during the first year and DO during
| the >ecOnd-the total number of cases beng over
! $4,000
Twenty eight thousand six hund.e1 ANA I" eniy
i discharges Tor disability We're reported during tHt
first year, or about nine per cent. oil tile NtcuS'h Vi
| the army. The medical and mcrosc"pcal sections
of the museum are briefly described. and Tie report
concludes with sketch of the hospital system. IL
Hrcar, that at the maximum there were wv General
hospitals with 1856 S9i beds for patients. during Tue
war over a million patients were treated III THESE ol
| whom but one in twelve died. 80
! br. Woodward says never in the history "i lhe
world has the mortality in military Hospitals been ~
small and never have such establishments 80 cor.
petely escaped Tram diseases generated within lhtH
| walls Incomplete reports for The hTst year Os tue
war from troops in the field and in garrison repre-
sent an average strength constantly present during
! the year of 2sl,llI men: in hospital constantly
present. 3 759men; total 300 $50, among whom were
| IL 1873 deaths from disease The number OF deaths
recorded is much les than the real number ana does
| not include prisoners uf war and Other absentees-
For the second wear. in field and garrison, 5'S S2l
| in hospitals 10 hoI total, 6li,5OS of whom there
were 1000 deaths from disease
These mortality rates from disease are much
smaller than Is usual with armies in time ol war
and are propCrtonatey much less than those Ct the
| allied armies in the Crmea or of our own army IN
the Mexican war. The proportion Of deaths from
disease for the third and fourth year rather d.
minished.
OPPOSITION TO ARMY AND NAVY PROMOTIONS.
| large number of circumstances have been sent
| to the Senate Military Committee against the con-
frmation OF the brevets which have been so inds-
criminately conferred upon officers by the head of
| the War Department Many of these officers have,
no doubt, performed meritOrious clerical service