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OHcors er Regiments AIsns t. Riane ir Ehsir
Commands Are Not Properly Supplisa.

ODosrs er ReEinents Alsns e Blame ~ ThsiF
Commands Are Not Properly supplisa.
CANT AL0ER. Va. June 15.-The reports that
the men have not received healthful and sum-
cient food has led to an investigation by Col.
Allison. the Chief Commissary OF the corps His
investig alton led to tho issuing Of the following
circular to the CommissAries Of the several reEi-
ments:
ut having been reported to headquarters
that certain regiments Of this command have
received no fresh beof or no fresh bread. tho at
tenuon of tho officers on duty as Commissaries
of tho various regiments 10 called to the fact
that there is to be found absolutely no ex-
cuse for this condition Of affAirs. Fresh
beef and fresh vegetables are ana have
been issued regularly by tho departments
of the commissary at Dunn Loring station
to every regiment making proper Feousition
therefor and II any regiment has not received
them the fault and the remedy are to be found
in its own officers Commissares are reminded
that 1t is their duty not merely to receive such
supplies as may be furnished them, but to see
that the men Of their organizations receive to
the full extent all to which they are entitled,
and the fact that any regiment In this command,
with the ample supplies and facilities for dis
tributlon now at hand. should day after day be
deprived of proper food, implies clear neglect
that regiment
Gov. Daniel A. Hastings of Pennsylvania ar
rived in camp this morning from Newport News.
Va. He was escorted into camp by Col. @. Y.
Coryell OF the Twelfth Pennsylvania. He re-
viewed the four regiments of PennSylvania
troops this afternoon at o'clock.
Three hundred recruits have arrived for the
Third Now York. Tho men are being drilled.
and will be uniformed and equipped Rs soon as
possible. Ninety recruits for tho Sixty fifth
New York reached camp late last night and
fifty came in this morning. Tho regiment OK
poets to havo its full complement OF mon by
Sunday.
Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania and Major
Gen. Graham. commanding this army corps. re-
viewed the four regiments OF Pennsylvania
infantry this evening. The soldiers made finc
appearance and were repeatedly cheered by tho
vast throng of soldiers from other States who
were there to see the review. Gov. Hastings,
Just before the review. rendered an informal
reception to the boys. Private Stevens, Com
pany G, Eighth Pennsylvania, who fell in the
drill Monday evening and has since been Ill., has
developed symptoms of insanity, and will be dis
charged from the service.
Troop G OF tho New York cavalry will
start on practice march tomorrow morning at
Q o'clock. They will be gone three days and on
troop will march in the direction of Bull Run
battlefield, but the exact road to he taken and
tho place of encampment will be decided upon
on the march.
The First Rhode Island will 60 on o practice
march to o.morrow for two days. They will also
go In the direction of Bull Run.
| party of soldiers of the Twenty-second Kan
sns actinl: under instructions from Lieut.. Col.
Graham. arrested twenty-five of the Washing.
ton gambling fraternity. who had opened up
crap piuochle games in the woods. They will
| be kept in the guardhouse for several days, fed
on hardtack and water and then drummed out
| OF camp.
Private Rydcr, Company A. Sixty-ffth New
York, is seriously i'll from ptomaine poisoning.
He had q can Of peaches, opened them. ate sorre q
and set tho rest aside. Later In the day he I'm.
ished the can with tho above mentioned result.
| The hospital trouble Is practically over and
Col. Girard has como out on top. Surgeon-Gon.
eral Sternberg uphoids his action.