| Show army arminy litt intelligence ellig beime on saturday hon jefferson davis reported from the senate committee on military affairs a bill t to 0 fix the pay and regulate the allowances allow arces of officers of the army the first section provides idos that the rations allowed hy by the act of march 16 1802 1602 april 24 1816 and marth 2 1837 1827 shall be commuted at the price fixed by i the act of february 1857 and the amount of such commutation shall be added to the pay of each officer according to his grade and that hereafter no other commutation cori mutation for said rations shall be allowed the second section provides that the additional ration allowed allow cd each commissioned officer for every five years ears of his service service shill shall in in like manner bo be commuted and the amount of such c commutation 0 m m ta shall also be added to the i h 0 p pay ay of such officer according to the leng length th oi of his service the third section repeals that part of the law of august 23 1842 which allows add additional or double rations to the commandant of each permanent or fixed post garrisoned with troops the fourth section provides that cers hiding having brevet commissions commissions shall not be entitled to any increase increase of pay or emoluments because of the exercise of command according to their brevet rank tho the fifth section provides that officers of the army while absent from their duties either with or without leave shill shall not receive the allowances authorized by the existing laws for servants sen ants forage transportation of bagga baggage fuel and quarters either in in kind or in in commutation col sumner arrived armed at fort leavenworth on the alt whipple hippie of the 3rd ard infantry has been engaged in in preparing a map of the navajo country which will prove a valuable acquisition the loss of the nara navajo 0 indians has been during the war over besides lives h es and huts the latter reaching in at least 1000 the the dillas dallas herald has heard of major van dorns com company parly it is is miles north of red river and upwards of west of fort arbuckle biscom his command consists of 0 seven companies compi rues of cavalry and one of infantry tr ahey are constantly on the scout A party of government surveyors have been settling the lines of the indian territory and they find capt marcas Ala reys line forty miles too far east cast this will throw the surveys sun ays eys for the central road into the indian territory if the last survey suney is is confirmed the theace same paper says sas tint that at last accounts maj palmer U USA S A with two tn 0 companies of ca cavalry airy and two pieces of ordnance front from fort belknap was at the brazos agency to resist every incursion incursion on the indian reserves reserve washington states D C |
