New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-12
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Army and Navy.

In Major General Terry Is Department of Virginia
district commanders are ordered not to issue arms
to police or militia organizations raised under the
State authorities. If any arms have been SO is
nance property will be forwarded to tue arsenal at
Fortress Monroe with the least possible delay.
The Army and Navy Journal has the following
In General Sickles' Department of South Caro-
lima, General Howard, it is said, during his late
visit informed Governor Aiken there would be no
difficulty in the restoration OF his plantation, out
that contracts must be made with the freedmen
then upon it; that the Bureau would not under
take to reject them.
The Governor urged that the government should
remove them, most of the negroes being strangers,
who had settled there since the war. Since that
time Brevet Brgadier General JAS. C.. Beecher,
commanding Edisto and the adjacent islands, has
issued an order regulating the visiting OF Edisto
Island for the purpose of making contracts with
the freedmen, and accordingly some of the own
ers of plantations on these islands have recently
visited their lands, to effect, if posspe some ar
engagements with the freedmen for the cultivation
and raising of d crop for the present year. But
the negroes have refused to make contracts, de-
elaring that the lands had been given to them by
the government, and time allowed them Tor pay
ment. They said that the officers had told them
So and that they had peen preparing to live there,
10 cultivate the lands for their own benefit, unless,
indeed, other homes should be given them in
exchange.
General DeYens, commanding the District of
Charleston, also assumes temporary command OF
the post and first snb-district, while General Ben
nett is absent on leave The Sixth Infantry has
arrived at Charleston, and takes the place of the
Forty-seventh regiment Pennsylvania Veteran
Volunteers.
IN General Fosters Department of Florida, the
sub-district of Key West and West Florida are
abolished, and all the garrisons and posts com
prising them are added to the District of Middle
Florida which will be named and known as the
District Of Middle, Western and Southern
"a In uale tha
mand of Brigadier-General John Newton. The
District Of East Florida commanded by Colonel
John 7. Sprague, Seventh United States Infantry,
ceases to be a separate brigade, and Post COM
nanders will attend to the duties to be performed
by Provost Marshals.
In General Steedmans Department of Georgia,
the Twelfth Maine and Sixteth and One Hundred
and Seventy-sxth New York have been mustuged
out, in General Brannans District.
In Major General Hallecks Military District of
the Pacific, the headquarters of the Fourteenth
Infantry have been established at Fort Vancouver.
The Second battalion Fourteenth infantry, went
to the Department of the Columbia, and is distr-
5buted as follows: Major L.. III, Marshall, COM
manding battalion and post Of Fort Vancouver !;
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel O'Briene's
company at Fort Vancouver; Captain and Breyet
Colonel Ross company at Fort Steelaeoom; Cap
tain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Goppinger's
and Brevet Major Perry's company at
Camp Curry, Indian Springs, near Harvey
Lake: Lieut.. Porter's company at Fort Cape Dis
appointment, at the mouth of the Columbia river:
Capt. Wharton's company at Fort Golyille; Capts
Walker and Collins companies at Fort Boise.
The portion of The First battalion, first arriving
in San Francisco, was ordered month since to
Arizona the remainder, which arrived later, will
go to the same place.
Orders have been issued that all the Volunteer
troops in the Division shall be mustered out as
soon as they can be replaced by Regulars. Col.
Lowell, 18th United States Infantry, is ordered to
relieve Col. Curry, in the command of the District
Of Columbia temporarily, that is, until General
Steele's arrival. There is general quiet in bust
ness and military affairs.
Brevet Major Riley, Fourth q S. Artillery, enc
of the participants in the Rush Barracks riots last
suraner has been eashiered.
Quartermaster General Meigs has taken mea-
sures to collect the remains of all deceased sol
diers for deposit in permanent cemeteries, includ
ing those buried at Camp Douglas, Chicago.
Captain George P. Webster, of Newport, KY,
has been breveted a Lieutenant Colonel, and
appointed to the position of Quartermaster of the
post of St. Louis.
BrevetMajor General H. A. Barnum has resigned
his military commission, for the purpose of accept
ing the Office of State Prison Inspector of New
York, to which he was chosen at the recent
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