The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-18

AANLA VI hAAAlAlkA AgAEI4s
Sec. 10. The Subsistence Department
shall exist as now provided by Law.
Sec. II. Line officers detailed as quarter
masters OF cOmmissaries 10 have ten dollars
per month extra while responsible for pub
lie property.
See. Is. In the Medical Department l
Surgeon General Of brigade, 1 Assistant
Colonel, IS Surgeon Majors and $50 Assist
ant Surgeons, to be Lieutenants for the hrst
three years service and Captains after three
years service. CD Medical stOrekeepersI
vacancies of surgeons and assistant surgeons
to be filled by selections from volunteers
assistant surgeons Of volunteers Of three
years service 70 be eligible Ior promotion TO
Captains.
Sec. ls. Authorizes the Surgeon General
10 detail surgeons as puryeyors who, while
so acting, TO be COl0nels Of cavalry, aud i've
surgeons as assistant medical puTTeyors, 10
be, while 81 acting, Lleutsnant Colonel OF
cavalry.
See. 20. Authorizes the Surgeon General
10 detail five Surgeons and Medical inspect
ors, 10 be while 50 acting, colonies oil cav
airy.
Sec. p. OF Pay Department authorizes
one Psymaster General, to rank as a
Brgadier General; two assistants, as Colo
nels; two deputies, as Lieutenant C~ol0nels,
and 20 Psynhsters as Majors. Vacancies
in the grade Of Maior are 90 be filed from
the additional paymasters who have served
two years.
Section % The Corps Of Engineers Is 10
be the same as nov provided By law
Section % provides for the appointment
Of 4 Inspectors Of Fortlheations, 10 De So
lecled from the Corps OF Engineers, and TO
be Colonies Of Engineers. This is not to in
crease the number Of officers III that corps
Section "a. Fire companies Of engineers 10
be in batialions Adjutants and Q0aFtetnas-
tiers to nave cavalry pay while so acting
Section %. Ordinance Department 10 b
the same g. now provided by law, with ]
Brigadier General, 3 Colonies, ; Lieutenant
Colonies, 8 Majors, s Captains, Is First
Lieutenants, 3 Second Lieutenants, and Is
military sterekeepers.
Sec. y. One chief signal officer and Col
onei; the Secretary Of Mar TO detail officers
aud men as required for efficient signal ser
vice officers while detailed 10 be paid as
cavalry, and eniistmen men as engineers.
Sec. %. No officer Of the regular army
below field officers to be promoted without
examination any officer failing 10 pass a
satisfactory examination to be suspended
from promotion for one year, and on second
failure, - be dropped officers falling by
reason Of moral disqualihcations Iot 10 be
re-eNsmined.
2AAH - AAINaAN " ANf1A ~ ~ - -
lected from the corps TO which they belong.
Sec. 80. No person TO be appointed in the
pay, medical, or .quartermaster depart
mepts till examined as now provided BY
lazy.
Sec. 81. No persons TO be commissioned
in any regiment until examined by Boards
convened by the Secretary of War--examl-
nations to be in reference 10 military posi-
lion, services during the war, and qualih-
catiRns-the Appointments to be made
without regard 10 seniority, hut with sole
regard to qualifications and services.
See. 80. Persons applying for commits
sions not 10 ave any compensation for eX-
penses incurred in reporting for exsmina-
tiOn.
Ser. So. Repeats all laws inconsistent
herewith.
Nrw YORK, Jan. l6.=Thp Tribune's dis
patch, from Richmond, says q warrant is
] out tonight for Pollard, issued on an All
dayit from MIR. Brooks, given to day at the
i~nstigstiQn 81 prominent officials and cin-
Gems, who desire e mest the question in re
| gard 10 the security 81 life,
NV 0sLEANs, Jan. 16.-The Ranchero,
| of the 9TH, contains the following Hester-
day several officers aud msn crossed from
| c arksville, Texas, and took up qusrters
apparently for the night. Shortly after
midnight the guard al the ferry aud along
the river were surprised and disarmed by
this party.
suth lighters as were At hand were imme-
diately EsiEed, md With them The entire
military force al ClarksVille, 40u strong,
mostly negroes, crossed over. The garri-
son OF Bagdad, Of about us men, were
completely surprised and captured.
] On the 81 inst, a citizen from San Anto-
| bio arrived lhsIs ip ten days from Mon
I te.ey, aud reported that the Liberals lad
recsptured Monterey and Saltiilo. The
French troops had fallea back to San Louis
10 Potosi.
The commander Of the pest and captain
Of the pest were taken HFssonqrs Hhhs IA
bed. Il is reported that the former was l-
led aud the latter escaped.
Upon taking the Town pillaging and plum
deripg was immediatriY~ iEaggHraied. The
warehouses were Quilted and the contents
eros ed 10 the American side.
The gGnb0at Autouio, being called on 70
surrender, she apsWered with q braadside, /
scattering the flhhusteTs, The SECOND de
maud made was answered ia a 5 milar man
ner. The Antonio was en- route mp the
river. An Austrian sergeant on her was
killed.
Az daylight the French men-or-war m
the harbor opened Gre, compelling the hlli-
busters 70 take refuge in tie nppef part Of
the town,
AZ last accounts the 6~llibusters stiil held
the town. The deaths are reported to be
thirty Oh sach side.
IL is stated that hlibusters, commanded
by Col. Reed and Gen. Crawford, started
IRON Brownsville for some action. Later
accounts say that somo twelve hundred lm-
perislists lei MatsmoFas to attack the 6li
busters.
INV RoRg, Jan. is.-The guerrilla Col.
Moshy, arrested n Leeshurg 8 few dsys ago,
is held subjsct 10 the order Of Gen. Ayre.
military commander st Washington. Cause
Of arrest has not transplred,
A letter from Paris says that Louis Nspo-
leon IS not only anxious, bat is even now
preparing 10 withdraw his troops from Mexl-
can territory.
The Paris journal des Dsbats, in an ar
uele published On the 25th ult.. reasoned
that The danger Of a collision between the
Am hfcap troops NJ Texas and the Imperial
ist, on The opposite bank ~ the dividing
stream, was Imminent, and thought is would
be much better ior France 30 Withdraw a %
gether than 40 risk war with the United
States.
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