The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-06
WASHINGTON.
ConfrasliCteti.

ConiradIcted.
WA-HIyGTov, December 4 - The
President authorizes an emphatic con-
tradction of the statement te'egrgphed
from here aud published in the New
York papers yesterday in relation to
the President, Fish and Evarts, and
stating that Erarts was to succeed
Fish az Secretary. He says there is no
foundation in the story.
Affairs In Alabama.
Official dispatches from New Or
leans this morning report that all Gus
toms pployss who are members OF the
Legislature have resigned or been re-
moved.
Recruiting.
The work of recruiting for the army
is s.ealily going on, recruiting officers
being located in all the important cities
of the country, and thus the army will
be kept up to its full standard Of 1000
men, the number author zed by the late
Law OF Congress. The number OF com
stoned officers now on the rolls Of the
War Department is something over
2l00, the reduction having been entirely
completed. The army now consists o.
five batteries of artillery, ten regiments
Of cavalry, twenty five regiments OF in
fantry and one battalion OF engineers
These troops are stationed a. follows:
The Engineers battalion at Willett's
Point and West Point, New York
rhe First Artillery in Virginia, South
Carolina and Florida; Second in North
Carolina and Virginia; Third in New
York; Fourth in Wyoming ard Vir-
gipia, and Firth IN New York and the
New England States. The First Cav
airy is in Ar zona; Second in Montana
and Wyoming; Third in Nebraska and
Wyoming; Fourth in Texas Fifth 10
Ar zona; Sixth in Kansas and Califnr-
mia; Seventh in Tennessee, Kentucky
and Mississippi; Eighth 10 New Mexico;
Ninth in Texas, and Tenth in Indian
Territory. The First Regiment Of In
tautry is in New York and Michigan;
the Second in FLORIDA, Alabama. and
Tenn essee; the Third in Kansas, Colo
RADIO and the Indiana Territory, the
Fourth in Kentucky; the Fifth in
Kansas; the Sixth in Dakots; the
Seventh in New Mexico; the Eighth
and Ninth in Wyoming and Nebraska;
the Tenth and Eleventh in Texas; the
Twelfth in Arizona and California
the Thirteenth and Fourteenth in Wyo-
ming and Montar a; the fifteenth in
New Mexico; the s xteenth in Tennes-
see and Kentucky; the Seventeenth in
Dakots Territory; the Eighteenth in
South Carolina; the Nineteenth in
Louisiana and Arkansa. the Twenti-
eth in Dakota AMI Minnesota; the
Twenty first in Washington Territory
and Oregon the Twenty-second in Da'
kota; the Twenty. third in Arizona the
Twepty-fourth in Texas, and the
Twenty-fifth in Texas and the Iudian
Territory. Bnt few recruits are beng
sent to the west now and more to the
northwest, as the Missouri river is
closed by Ice. The regiments in the
Southern States are being charged
from one locality to snothe. in some
few instances, and when the spring
opens it is quite likely the troops in the
Wesern States and Territories will be
relieved. The army now Is 10 excellent
condition. In recruiting great care is
taken to secure the heslthiest men.
Order OF the Surgeon GenernI.
Some time since the Surgeon General
issued an order deprivirg tie famiIies
OF army officers and enlisted men in
Washington Of the grstuitou- meiicsl
atteudance and medicines heretofore
furnished by the Surgeon General sid
his sssistsnts, and coufining such at
tendance and medical supplies to off,
Gers and enlisted men personally The
officers, after considerable difficulty.
succeeded in getting their families re
lieved rom the operation OF the order
OF the Surgeon General, but the prohi-
bitioh still continues sith re.ereuce to
the families of enlisted men. AZ these
men comprise what Sre known as gen.
eral service clerks o, the War Depart-
ment, q body whose expenses are neees
ssrily greater, while their paw is very
much les thau that OF the civilian
clerks of the lowest grade, the injustice
or uutairness, to cav the least, "a ap-
parent The physicians employed by
the Surgeon General ss attending OF
contract surgeons, have full privilege OF
: private practice, and whether % in'