Weeding The Army

-General order 253, issued by Major General Thomas, disraisses i'rotn tbe service forty-five ofiicers for different oftanses. The lift embraces one Colonel, one Lieutenaut Colonel, one Major, one Surgeon, one Assistant Surgeon, fifteen Captains, fifteen First Lieutenants, and eleven Seoond Lieuts. The offecces charged are disobedience of orders, desertion, abandoning company in battle, cowardice, dishouestj', imrnorality, drunkenness, disloyalty, absence without loavc, aDd a ecore of others.