Richmond Enquirer

We understand that among the official visitors now in this city, are the members of the Army Medical Board of Examination. The Board, after a tour of inspection along the Northwestern, Western, and Southwestern stations of nine thousand miles travel, and after sitting as a Board of Examination at New Orleans, St. Louis, and New York have been ordered to the seat of Government, to confer with the Secretary of War and the Surgeon General, on the important duties which have occupied them for the last eight months. The Board consists of Surgeon Lawson and Mower, and Assistant Surgeon Smith. While the operations of this Board have had an influence on the Medicinal Department of the Army, primarily conducive to the safety, health, and comfort of the brave soldier and the gallant officer. it is but an act of justice to their humanity and professional skill to state that in a long course of their journey they travelled with the pestilence in the West, and most assiduously devoted their able services to their fellow-citizens. We consider the establishment of the Army Board of Medical Examination as highly creditable to the judgment and energy of Secretary Cass as its perpetuation is certainly to conduce to the health and safety of the army, and to elevate the character of our Military Medical Department.—Nat. Int.