Arizona weekly miner., 1874-12-24
MILITARY NEVIS.

Loup river, Nebraska, has been made an in- dependent post by direction of General Ord. Commanding department of the Platte. ? The leave of absence granted Major David Taylor was, Dec. II, extended one month
 At Headquarters Military Division of the
 Pacific, December 1, Lieutenant James A.
 Haughey, 2lst Infantry, formerly for long
 time on duty at Camp Date Creek) was granted one months leave of absence from
 the Adiutant Generals office.
 Lieut. Henry R. Lemly, 3d Cavalry, was
 married on He 1st instant, in St. Mathews
 Church, Laramie City, Wyoming, to Miss
 Kate E. Palmer, daughter of Breyet Major
 General J. M Palmer, U. s. Army. The marriage of Lieut. George NJ. Wheeler,
 Corps of Engineers, U. s. Army, and Miss
 Jennie Blair, was to be celebrated in St.
 Johns Church, Washington, D. C., Decem- Der 1G.
 The sentence of dismissal from service in the case of Captain William H. Nash, Com missary of Subsistence, (found guilty of con- duct unbecoming m officer and gentleman), has been commuted by the President to sus- pension from rank and command, with for feiture of all pay, except SlOO per month, for the period of one year.
 Alban' pvn.tentiary has been designated by the President as the place of confinement, for ten years, of Major Virgil $. Eggleston, Paymaster [. S. Army, convicted by gen cral court-martial of embezzlement of Gov ernment moneys to the amount of $l2, ,3l9 10 The sentence reads as follows:
 And the Court does therefore sentence him, Major Virgil S. Egglcston, PaymasteI, United States Army, To be cashicred to forfeit 10 the United States all pay and allowances that may be due him at the date of the promulgation of this sentence; 10 be imprisoned at hard labor for the term of five @ years in such peniteniiary or prison as the proper authority may direct, and thereafter to be further confined in such pentcn- tiary or prison until hc shall refund 10 the United States the amount of his embcZZement, twelve thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and forty ccnts (Si2, ,3l9 40), and that the crime name and place of abode, and punishment of the ac- cuscd be published in the newspapers in the City of Portland, Oregon, and in the city of Elmira, State of New York"
 The Quartermlstcr-Gen has directed that all new style brass screwed boots issued to soldiers and found defective in make shall be returned and new ones issued without extra expense to the enlisted men, the contractors standing ready to re- place all that prove defective with others, until good ones shall be issued.
 The Surgeon General of the Army and Secretary of War have directed. all Medical officers, serving with troops in garrison or in the field, to submit by January lst proximo, exhaustive reports upon the quality, quaD- tity and mode of culinary preparation of the food supplied enlisted men; drainage and sanitary condition of military posts and, in
 brief, complete hygienic history of mli- tary administration, with suggestions and comments tendin. towards improvement in the same.
 We see by the San Francisco papers that Assistant Surgeon George M. Cronkhite, L. s. A., recently ordered to Arizona, arrived by the overland train, December 1lth.
 The following orders have been published from military headquarters since our last number:
 General Orders, No. q approves the pro cccdings. findings and sentences of general courts martial lately convened at La Paz and Whipple, in the cases of certain enlisted men. Of these, Commissary- Sergeant Thos. Mckay and Hospital Steward Moses Good man, have been sentenced to dishonorable discharge from the military service and con fncment at hard labor, at such military prison as the Department Commander may desg- nate, for the periods of twelve and six months, respectively. Acatraz Island, San Francisco harbor, has been designated as tine place of their confinement.
 Leave of absence for one U) month, on sur .rcon's certificate of disability, is granted First Lieutenant Bernard Reilly, Jr., 9th Cavalry, with permission 90 apply 10 the proper authority for an extension ot four months. Station, Camp Apache, X. I. Major A. ". Evans, Sd Cavalry, Acting Assist ant Inspector- General of the Department, will proceed without delay to inspect thc troops and post of Camp Verde, \. T., and, on completion of ihiS duty, he will return 10 these Headquarters. Paragraph :, of Special Orders No. l06, current scrcs from these Headquarters, which re-aSsignS First Lieutenant C. \. Earnest. Sth Infantry, 10 duty as Depot Comm!ssary at Yuma Depot, \. T., is revoked. Upon the recommendation ot the Medical Di- rector ot the Department, the following changes in ;hc stations of the medical officers serving in this department, are made:
 Acting Assistant Surgeon l.. Sauderson, HOW on du,y field surgeon ai Camp Apache, 4. T., will relieve Assistant Surgeon l.. !. Loring, Of lis duties as Tos; surgeon ai tha; post. Assistant Surgeon l.. Y. Lorin,, on being re- lieved by Doctor SaudcrsOn, will proceed To Fort ; Yuma Cal, and relieve Assistant Surgeon George <. Kosc of Lis duties as post surgeon and Acting Assistant Medca! Purvcyor, q; that post. Assistant Surgeon George :. Rose, on being re- Nevcd by Doctor Loring, will comply with Special Orders No 23S, War Department, Adju- tant Generals Office, dated October 2., 1874.
 Acting Assistant Surgeon R. F.. Lishto lrnc, on his arrival in the Department, will proceed io Camp Apache, 4. T, reporting upon lis arrival