The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1872, Page 10

mi TIE IE ARMY. | A Glar \ce at Its History aud Organization. The Lee «islative Tinkering Which Has Ma le It a Military Anomaly. Logan’ 3; New General Supply Bill. TheCry for Reform and the Com- ing {Struggle in Congress, LINE| AND STAFF. Suggestic ns for the American Army of the Future, WASHINGTON, Jan, 10, 1871. The appoln kment of John Coburn, of Indiana, to the ckairma nship of the House Military Comnaittee, was in itself a matter of Uttle siguificance; but when it 4g bemoembered that the committee is com- posed of five Western and the three Southern Representat:tves, only one place veimg given to a ‘Northern msn, st assumes a new phase. Before the reassemblin g of Congress it was understood in the best informe oirotes that this course would be pur- Bued, and it Was even asserted that General Logan ‘wanted'to sticceed Wilson as.chairman of the Senate Committee. The. latser committee, as tt is at present <coristituted, includes, besides Wilson, its chairman, “ameron, of Peunsy!vania; Morton, of Indiana; Ames, of Mississippi; Logan, of Lilinois; West, of Louistana, and Blair, of Missourl. As a matter cf course Blair don’t count, and Ames and ‘West could not be made to count on any account, All the active Senators on the committee are very busy men. Morton has accepted the place which Sumner refused at the head of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Besides this, Uameron is Chairman ef the Committee on Foreign Re tattons, and Morion of Agriculture, and both these Senators serve on both these com- mit tees, a8 well a8 on the Committee on Mulltary Affa ire, Thus Wuson te deft to manage his commit- tee | wretty much as he pleases, and he nas managed itm wt sadly, for the interests ef the country, at least,, AS chairman of the Military Committee of whe | louse Lozan was able to get the ear of the peo- ple, b ut his pyrotechnics only made Wilson and the Senat € ail che more stolid. Now even his oratorical powei ‘may be dissipated, As Wilson's brother Senatc v and fellow member of the Senate Com- miltice on Miltary Affairs he will be chilled by the » @old eti juetle which pervades the horth wing of tue Cap Otol, and become as powerless and perhaps . @8 stupi C as a country schoot boy in the hands of an Old-fasn toned pedagogue. No one is betier aware of all thi than General Logan hunself, and hence theeffor\}of Western and Northwestern Senators for there orgavizauion of the Military Committee of both hous €s, which proved only partially successfal. The army, as it is at present organized, is a source Of great e)(travagance, and it 1s understood that thia move! pent for reorganization was intended to {be preljmpiary to General Logan's hopes of paving +) his wag to the Presidency in 1876 by becoming the CHAMPION OF MILITARY REFORM. To t&s end he will support in the Senate the ‘ygeneral-cupply bill, the main purpose of which will We to consolidate the Quartermaster’s, Subsistence wend Pay Departments into a single bureau, Quar- fermaster General Meigs has under him three assist- ot quemermaster generals, eight deputy quarter- ; Waster, generais, Mfteen quartermasters, thirty- s Wed asgistant quartermasiers and twelve military st @rekeepers. Brigadter General Eaton, Commis- vy General of Subsistence, has a department com- a ved of four assistant commissary generals of sut eistence and twenty-three commissaries of sub- sist. woce. Paymaster General Brice, wno has just gon >On theretired list, rejoiced in two assistant payn waster generals, two deputy paymaster gen- erais 604, not counting the lost Major Hodge, fifty- two, ‘aymasters. These three venerable officers, whose ‘ited terms of service count 155 yeara, have suMcient staf todo the work of ail the de- each a partme ‘Bis combined, and not fewer than ninety, and perhaps ‘4 lundred officers are retained in the army in these partments alone, who do ilttie or no work for thelr pay. The country will be surprised tolearnt; tlt requires Mity-cight oMcers to pay of forty re ‘iments, besides ninety-four others, to supply our VWtwe army. Not only has each of these department wexpensive offices in Washington, New York and ot ‘"r cities, but In the capital, at least, they have s; ‘@dily avoided going into the same , Though at great expense, they have wt irom each other as possible that be more independent. Many of these yht gut in General Logan’s famous ‘f, but In a way so rhetorical and at @o reckless that the Army bill, through the House, failed utterly T.a8 its important features were ‘nat could be saved from the » the evils which the law was in- ‘we expense of maintatning the \eed and openings have been wre no door existed before. mt of General Logan and his Yegislation, but Senator Wil- f.cven more to blame. AND THE ARMY, mate and the army are very peculiar. ‘These relation § Can onty be understood when it is known that tke leaders of the Senate and of our prictorian gu; WS are not only in full accord and alliance, but 1 i both are trammeiled by euquette and both are s%eking to make them- selves @ sortof American @¥istocracy. It is true Senator Wilson, who nas bee @ te Chairman of the Senate Committee on Milita ty Affairs for so many years, is not much of an ar \etocrat, vat neither ts he much of a soldter. No ot Ber man could have Deen so useful in promoting | Se selfishness of the army, espectally of the staff, a Pethe expense of the ne and of the country, because WO other man could Have held bis position sa jong mi yet learned so Iittle of the military neces ities OF the nation, Tt ts ‘a safe assertion, and oue ti at will he assented to bh, every general officer in the ariiy, tat Senator wile son has acquired just eno agi of wmilitary know~ Jedge to stand in the way of all sensible refo: m, He is not @ snpple tool, but he is a conventent instrument, nevertieless. W ihout éumicient come prehensiveness to.grasp a sub). cwhieh he ougnt @ understand perfectly, be 1s stt|l Suffieentiy alive to the mysterious relations wiuco exist between the Senators and the soktiers of the republic to be easily fnghtened I every emergency. & 4 ready to iuter- i $ inert committee agai 0 jor Fetregonmeut and reform. It Was thus that the retirement of Logan jroul the How se and the contest building, and Kept as far ap: they might bet facts were bron speech last wint the same time which was rashed in the Senate, so fa concerned, and all wreck only added t tended to cure, 1. army has been incre: made for abuses wi Thi¢ was partly the far haphazerd attempt at Bon and the Senate wer THE SENATE ‘The relations of the Sec he Intenus making in phe, Sevuate demanded a tho | : ees if anything rough reorganization ot hb comun tttees 1 of moment is to be accomplished. board bark mae be done and great knowledge of f ti " ject. s - quired from those who are to underta pH a be done in a way that will be a cceptat.| Avg dL ar try. The people are getting, 1mpancnt vee ae army and. army legisiasion, and vie pt Oe i sg ; to have beed so strong. as to unre roe ~; pt : y ‘itees in the i 4 zation of OC Stat es ee La ee Wilson necessity. chawrinan of the ate Military Ommittee Cd et event, ‘The same influences whic" defeated hy ira bilf last winter will defeat am,’ such asp tions at ‘any time, either now or here fier, Pe see suite the Senate aud he sulta the army oN wien these tings are admitted, the wikole Cass So far as General Logan's aspirations are co.ucerned, ‘as plain as it is possible to make it, GENERAL LOGAN. denn Despite some rude natural gilts of ratory, ae great deal of obstinate pluck and beilleren ty var. ity, Genetal Logan's career has been peculiar +4 ren of results, He wants higher honors 473 eno} has yet attained, and though he sees the Pres tnee dimly in the distance, he is well aware that ee “lf his muitary por his civic actevements are suMicie in themselves to bring him the coveted prize. Burning with resentment agaimst Wilson ane the army for she piucking his Army bill waa compel/ed fo undergo in che Senate last Maren, after he hud rushed i through the House with so much ¢elat, he Was almost willing \o turn against the administra tion, if not to forsake the republican party. A resi dence of some wonths at the Filth Avenue Hotei, and constant association With the ‘outs’ jore- beads’ of New York. very beurly copiimed hig every proposition | NEW. YORK ‘BERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, ‘1872.—TRIPLE SHEET; ; necessary reforms, dn the gtave, gilted and culti- vated body to which he now belongs atiord to take alower plact) than ne occupied in the House, and to tose any )part ef his dearly prized notoriety would be telose .Al chance of attaining to the’Presidency. General | ogan knows that he does not know everything; but le believes he has a great dear of Knowledge ODDS RENE STAY TRAGICTE, He lias been in the camp.and ibe Held, as well as in tae military councls of the prational Legislature. He gained great distinction as a soldier, aud he had the courage to decline unusual, honors accorded to other officers of the army @t the close of tue war, Aud he 1s nota dullard, -Wilscm cannot but regard his presence in the Senate Military Committee as es source of and though the Western may be ft asgentle as a sucking dove in his new REED, it i certain that he wil Soar very high shdeed,, uniess the Senate dis- oreeuy citps -his«wings. This it 1s intended.to do as the strategic counterpoint to ms ambitious aesigns and levelling propensities, The douvie- headed aristocracy may be successful; and yet, if General Logan 13 half as discreet ag ne 18 gallant, he will manage to.make soine ugly thrusts and be able vo carry. of much popular applause, The waning populareey of Wilson and some milita: legisiation desired ®y-the adminisiration, to whi he can consistently. put himself in opposition, will make his tusk all the more easy and inay bring him nearer to the realization of his ambitious hopes than even his most.sanguine iriends anucipate, THE HY¥DKA-HEADED MONSTER—WHAT 18 NEEDED. Anytuing like a full. conception of the immensity of the tusk General Logan has before him can only be formed after a complete survey of that hydra- headed monster, ‘the army, 1s history, numbers, organization, distribution, duties, uses and abuses. If General Logan had made himself sompel® mas- ter of ali these. points, aud had set them forth with half the fervor hedispiaved in his celebrated speech im contrasuing our forces with the forces of Euro. pean Powers, onty to have his comparisons picked to pieces, he woul have put himself im & much more impregnable position. This bas never peen doncin a manuer at once accurate, minute and Popular, and General Logan’s bill fell as far short of being a real panacea for the ula of which he complaiged as his speech was deficient as a full statement of the grounds of bis complaint. Pyro. technics in oratory will not counterbalance the eflect of misstatements of facts; aud the want of comprehensiveness iu reform, especially 10 army reform, is generally worse than the ills of an estab- lishment Walch has grown up with the Wants, or apparent wants, of the country. if General hogan iutends going no further than the passage of a bill to consolidate the three departments already re- ferred to 1n this letter, all criticisms as to une neces- sity and usefulness of which can be at least plausi- bly contraverted, he might a3 well not attempt any measure at all. What ls needed 1s a complete re- organization upon @ system so thorough and 80 practical that ali the Machiaatious and misgivings of the army may be overcome in the satistaction of the country. ‘Ihis may or may not be what General Logan intends, but it is scarcely to be expected that he nas yec matured @ plan so unanswerable, so comprehensive and so benelictal as to meet all the requirements of the case. Such a bill as the General Supply bill, which 1 is understood General Logan is to champion in the Senate this winter, or one like his Army Reform bil of last year, would only revive the ancient animosi- ties of the Ine against the staff, and while it might lop away a few ofticers itis doubttul if, under the existing organization, It can be made of any prac- tical value. A glance at the working of a singic section of the law passed last winter lilustrates the danger of tinkermg at army legisiation. General Logan’s pay schedule, or whatever else we may choose to call it, is an anomaiy which, instead of saving money to the government, has increased the expenses of the War Vepartment iu the matter of pay alone nearly two million dotlars, The table of pay subsistence, servants’ allowances, &c., allowed by law to the offleers of the army previous to the Passage of this act was.a somewhat complicated document and it is given here in @ form as much simplified as possible. It must be understood that all these igures apply to officers on duty, asin the cases of major and brigadier generals not com- manding divisions or departments the allowances were not quite as large. The following is the tabie under the old system of the PAY OF THE ARMY, Ome, 70° | For Servants Mies AEE =} pesat 2 | sutwist-| 2 Subsint- S | ence. |S | FE] ence Rank or ¢ Grud. a\tion month days. | day 1,298) 1,821 Ales] 1192 616) 66 ‘| 442 229 205 180 " 218 r 7a} 16) 6 9} as} Captain, mounted..| 70} 36] x 6 td Captain, not mounted. 60 86) 16) & 9} a7} ag Adjutant....] 63} 86) 16] 6 9} 10) Quarterm'er| 63} 36} 16) 6 9 10 133 Commissary| 63 26] 15] 6 et 13 Ist Lie monnted..| 83} | 16] 6 Cet) a 50) 26) 16) 6 9} ou} one 53 26) 16) 6 fe) ee 45) 36] 16) 6 | mais Chapiain..:*| 100] ws} —| — —| us} According to tne new law the following is the schedule of the PAY OF OFFICERS IN ACTIVE SERVICE:— Monthly Pay. Yearly | Pay. Se 231111 21 233 ., not mounted 10 Regimental Adj’t.. 20 Do, Quartermn’er 210 mounted 188, , net mounted| 175 mounted 1% 163 1%5 This systom was found anomalous in this respect, that the pay of a brigadier, who had been many | years in the service, might exceed that of a major | general whose services could not be estimated by the same length of years, and so down through every radation of rank, And this was provided against yy another anomaly—namety, that the whole yearly pay should not exceed certain fixed sums, and the ten, twenty, thirty or forty per cent was ouly ai- lowed to officers under the rank of prigadier. Bus this was not ai Generali Logan designea tots in- creased yearly pay in lieu of all commutations, and the law 80 declares; but it also contains a proviso that fuel, quarters and forage, in kind, may be fur- mished to officers by the Quartermaster’s Lepart- ment, as before ailowed by law and regulations. ‘thus, officers in Washtagton and other cities get not only the Increased pay, but hired houses, with a bounti{ul supply of coal and improved grates in which to purn | 1Uand many conventences they could not have ob- | tained under the old system, This 1s only a speci- men of the legislation which has oome from General Logan's etforts, and yet it is impossible to look at that Wonceriul msutuuon, the army, without seeing the necessity of wise enactments om every hand. A GLANCE _Afler the ¢ United ere for a Ume withont a military force. alinental army was disbanded as soou as bostiliues ceased, and the stern republi- cans o! that day were inveterate in their hatred of a military establishment, Bat the protection of the fronuers from bostile Indians and the necessity of | keeping intruders of the pubic lands tll they | ally opened Ana sold soon compelled the ut oj soldiers, Three y alter the ratt | Geation of peace Congress proceeded, with great | dehberation and caution, to take smalt bodies of State troops Jato the federal seryice, tue resolution for raising them carefully staung the purposes for | which they were to be employed. They were dis- | tribated and governed by the federal Secretary of War, aud the tederai Treasury made the necessary provision for their support. So few men were em- ployed, however, that when Congress, at its first | Session after the adoption of te new constitution, | Fecognigzed the then existing establigiment as the army of the United States, it consisted of only one small regiment of imiantry and a battalion of artdiety. This little army of 1,000 men, rank and file, accepted and contusued by our first Constitutional Congress In 1789, had grown in round numbers to 4,000 seven years later, The Cneute with France tu 1798 carried 1f forward to 25,000, but the sctilement of that dificuity was foliowed by its re- duction £0 1e88 than 3,000, This force being too small for the necessities of the republic it was again gradually increased till in 1808 the army once more Dumbered 10,000 men. Un the outbreak of the war of 1812 nearly 26,000 men were under arms, and an additional 20,000 were authorized during the first year of the war, In 1816 peace brought with ita ree duction of the force to the limit of the army in 1808, A further reduction to 4 standard of 6,000 meu was made in 1821, and even in the war with Mexico the regular army never exceeded 15,009 men, From the close of the Mexican War—uniformily successiul, on the authority of General Scott, through the skill of the West Point graduates—to the beginning of the rebellion au average force of 10,000 men was in the service, Jo 1861 ihe regular army was Increased to 36,000 men—a number which carried it through the war, but was insuMictent by 22,000 for the even- tualities of peace tn whe eyes of Senator Wilson and General Schenck, chairmen of the Miltary Commit. twes of Oongress, These men had botn played soldier, and fey could appeal to tne country, say. We know bow it is ourselves,” The actual j a8 jawial siygene yh of the aripy 19 BOW 90.009. z ‘were constantly exerct ‘But this hostility was not alwaye wall directed, and the leg! sometimes flowed in the directly opposite channel. Frou the Jirst.Congress to ue Forty-first there has been an uacea sing but irregular current of military Jaw-making upon the traditienal béte noire of free institutions; but while no single offi- cer or soldier has ever been commissioned or enlisted ‘without direct authority of law the enactments are too many ani too complex to adiuit of. a detatied review of the lustory of our Mmultary estabuisbment. Generally speaking it uaa been augmensed and favored whenever danger -fhreatened at home or abroad and reduced and neglected when the outlook was tranquil. Com- promisea have not been rare between the necessity of returmimg to a peace footing and a reluctance to strip officers of the rank conlerred or won i times ofapprehension and was, From first to last great delicacy.has veen shown in dealing with the army tenure of office, and the only severe strain Upon the principle.was General Logan’s recent reduction of the burdensome peace establisnment foisted on the country by Wilson and Schenck 1 1866, @ full Year. alter hostilities had ceased. This departure Trom one of the soundest maxims of army manage- ment would not pave happened if the compined wisdom of these military legislators had given us a provisional force lor Immediate duty in South- era States und otherwise refrained from touel ,the army with their unskiltul hands, But Schenel was ready to go even further, as 13 evident from his endeavor to enact into permanence the name and functions of the Provost Marshal General— An ofice as necessary in Its day and as odious as Was.that of tae public hangman in the olden time, The temper of Congress, goaded e press, would not brook the presence of this ghoul of war in ume.of peace, and it was remanded to the tomb on, uurty days’ notice. These Congressional gene- rals rode their hovuies with something like the skill ofvonn Gilpin when he took that Jamous nde, and the statutes at large for 1860 are full of the ridicu- losities, as Mr. Sumner would say, of these military bulls 1n the Congressional china shop, It is use- less, however, to bewail the condition in which the legislation of Congress nas lef: the army, aud #0 We imay as Weli contemplate it as We flad it, DISTRIBUTION OF THE ENLISTED MEN, The force of 30,000 enlisted men 18 made up of Small battalion of engineer troops, about twenty small ordnance detachinents, employed as artisans @ud laborers at arsenals; permanent parties at the weueral recruiting depots; cavalry and arullery detachments ‘at West Point; 150 clerks and mes- sengers at Jiepartment and division headquarters; about three: hundred clerks, messengers and order. lies in the bureaus ut Wasuington; twenty ordnance sergeants and 150 hospital stewards at multary posta; the band at the Military Academy; the signal service and weather report detatchment; an aver- age of 1,500 recruits in ransitu or awaiting instruc- tion, equipmeat or assigument at the recruitirg stations and avout twenty-seven thousand men dis- tributed mostly in the South and among the hostuie Indians, nis force is admitted to be too smali b, At least 5,000 men for the service expected trom 1t; but itis Odicered, apparently, far beyond the ree quirements of 80 small an army, and at least fully up to Its necessith GENERAL OF FICERS—THE LINE AND STAFF, As before remarked, the army of the United States comprises about two thousand two hundred and fiity commissioned ofncers. Of these there ure tuirteen general officers, eignt prolessors of the Miutary Academy, eigit chieis of sta’ departments who are also heads of bureaus of the War Depart- ment, eighteen assistant adjutant generals, nine inspectors and assistant Inspector generals, nine judge advocates, eighty-four" quartermasters, twenty-eight commissaries, 22) medicai ofticers, sixty-four paymasters, 112 engineers, seventy-six | ordnance oficers, one signal oOfiicer, tuirty post | chaplains, 482 cavalry ofticers, 280 artillery officers and 6877 infantry officers. Of the regimental ofticers Uurty-lour are permanently — servin as aides-ue.camp to generals, with increase: rank and pay; about twenty-five are con- stantly employed as instructors at the Military Academy; & sinail and varying number are usnaily on signal duty; aud probaly not more than twenty are oo temporary detached service of other kinds, inctuding, of course, Second Lieutenant ¥. D. Grant who Was recently ordered to Europe to take care o! the General of the Army, The commissioned officers exclusive of the generals are distinguished as line and staff officers. The proportion of the latter to the former is about two-fl{tus—a proportion which has led to much unfriendly criticism in Congress, tn the line and through the press. But before the force of these criticisms, which were the chiet bur- dev of General Logan’s rhetorical speech last win- ter, and which will ve revived again on thé intro- duction into Congress of hs General Supply bill, can be definitely determined tt will be necessary to take a ne view of the whole subject of sigit service. TRE GROWTH OF THE STAFF. ‘The career ot the stai! has been @ tortuous one. lis germ, which was transplanted from Europe dur- ing the Revolution, took root in the qua@si war with France and sprouted vigorously in the actual war with Kugland. The present adjutant general, inspector ‘general, quartermaster general, pay- master general and surgeon general go back tor their originals to 1798, and the judge advocate wo 1799. ‘The cniei of engineers dates from 1802 and been required by his chief, and-he has found various empioyments either as @ Judge Advocate or upon suc duties as any military oMicer of moderate legal acqiirements cau awerally pertorm. Four titular for the Commissary sary ~ the army, only employment consistent with nis oficial designatuon, One assistant general 18 named in the Statutes at @ and on the Army Register, and soe apo. Se usiness with the Medical Bureau, im onthe precise kind of duty that ‘his title implies. There is a large numver of asslst- ant surgeons described as such, wno, with lower military rank and less pay, are as much aoe in eflect as their who bear that full ae tion, Of assistant paymaster generals there are four, according to law, but the Paymaster General, no doubt, keeps them all away from bureau duty,at Washington, and uses them as simple paymasters for the troops. The corps of En- gineers and the Ordnance corps are governed by Chiets, offictally known and described as such, Who draw such professional assistance as they need In their bureaus from oficers. of the corps, irre- 8) of rank, titie or date of commis- ion, ‘The Assistant Quartermaster General was once, in act, the . assistant of nis chief, but he is now tbree, of whom but one fils up the measure of his tit the other two being 4 division and a pot quarter- master respectively, ‘the Deputy Quartermaster General was the occasional substitute of the head of his department before tne assistant proper came into , but he, too, has grown into -eigut, of whom not one 1s availabie for nis nominal dub ay bappily, being absent from Was! mo an ter employed as depot and department quarter. masters. There are quartermasters assistant quartermasters; but one of the former 1s the quar- termaster of a two-company post, while one of the jatter is In ch of one of the four great depots of the ar.ny. ‘Ihe others of both grades are as variously employed as their seniors, and usefully In the mam, as the littie world of. the army goes. ‘This want of analogy between descriptive title and actual duty extends through all the staff, except the Bagncr and Ordnance departments, and its general mystification and meonventence ts unde- niable; while to some extent it is unnecessarily costly, eapecnally, in the item of printing, Any sug- gestion of improvement arg to be inseparable from ideas of deeper-seated reform; but a brief Proposition may be Advanced that none but the chief of @ department should receive any perma- neat prefix or addenda to the substantial ttle; and that the subordinates of all grades should be distinguished tn the army list by the rank obtained througn regular promotion or length of service, aided in actual duty by changeable designations in- dicative of their successive employments. Thus in the Quartermaster’s Department there would be colonels and depot quartermasters, leurenant colonels and division quartermasters, Majors and district quartermasters, captains and post quarter- masters, and so on, ‘Those on bureau or other spectai duty could be Known as quarterimasters, With thelr army rank prefixed, Tnis would be a long step towards the goal Simplicity, and none would sulfer in dignity or purse from its being taken, Another and a longer step Would be tne abolition of the useless and too often ridiculous army rank of what 1s known as the non-combataut staff—that 1s to say, the lawyers, the commissaries, the doctors, the paymasters, the parsons and the storekeepers, ‘The apparition at a military post of a brevet briga- dier general’s uniform, epaulettes and sash, with a case Of surgical mstrumenis under its arm, a tiny staff sword by its side, a pair of spectacles on its nose and 4 blue cotton umbrella over its head, 1s not at ail uncommon, The equity of assimilated pay, allowances and tenure of ofice, with personal pre- cedence by length of service, 18 not denied) but the impropriety and inconvealeuce of com- batant rank 16 tucitly admitted by the War Department itself in its 1requent official omtssion of the honorary in favor of the actual title of these use- ful but unmartial public servants, The proposition 1s believed to be incontrovertible that a commissary could, a8 such, purchase 1n the marts of rade the alloted modica 01 soap, rice, beans, coffee, beef, pickled pork, sewing silk and canned oysters, and issue or geil the same to the troops, officers’ fami- lies and laundresses, and receive a fitting compen- sation for his lapor and length of service as eim- ciently and respectably as if he were a major by rank and a brigadier general by brevet—ttles sug. gestive more Of marching orders and bulletins of war than of prices current and ration returns. And if the argument needs further support, it 1s found in this Lustance, i the act of Congress abolishing the army suuer and imposing nis whole business, minus the extortions and profits, upon tne commis- sary. ‘hus it will be seen that in the mere designations of the staff there 1s the same incongruity that exists all through the service, and these varying tities applied to identity of service are lesser and partial evidences of the evils of that patchwork legislation that has built up the staf from nothingness to mag- nitude, while leaving 1t destitute of even the out Ward semblance of uniformity of design. Our legislators have borrowed or accepted the cum. brous nomenclature of foreign establishments, but the conditions of our service have ivorced function from navne in the transfer, and burdened us with a the chief of ordnance 1s tem years his junior, but has found life to go harder with him. The commus- sary general of subsistence in lis modern form came to the surface in the general reorganization of 1821, but the present aged and respectable incumbent of that office, General Eaton, to all appearances, nad ceased to be madern before that time, His duties, ag weil ag Lose of the chief of ordnance im part, were previously discharged first by an officer of the Treas- ury Known as the purveyor general of supplies, and afterward by an army ofticial called the cominissary general of purchases. All of these places are now filled by brigudier geuerals, who are fippanily called writing yenerais and generals of pork and beans by the irreverent officers oi the line, ‘The medical and hospital stat! was established in 1799, the corps of engineers in 1802, the quartermas- ter’s department in 1312 and the pay department, to replace the regimental paymasters, iu 1821. Tne ordnance department, lirst established in 1812, was merged into the ardilery in 1821, but was re- established ten years ‘afterward. ‘The artil- lery are now moving for another consoli- dation aud the ordnance men are in arms against it, both the attack and tne defence being very spirited. What ts chiefly wanted, if we may judge trom the experience of the late war, 18 a con- Solidation of the ordnauce corps of the army and navy, though the great experience of Senator Wil- son in the field and of Secretary Robeson on the water hag as yet failed to si vit ‘this consult dation would promote sun y and uniformity, and would prevent the ordnance service of the gov- ernment from competing with itseif for the products of tie mines and the foundrics, as was the case during the war for the Union, ‘The adjutant, inspector, quartermaster and com- missary generals originally got their assistants by temporary detail trom the line, the detacned ofticers receiving @ slight Increase of pay. ‘Tits had @ spur- ring effect on the young infantry or foot artillery Meutenant anxious to get on horseback and to stay there as long as he could; but the civilian and the ner now enter the staf? through the common door of mfuence, and both regard the possibility of fu- ture service in the line with disgust, if not wito 1n- difference. Up to 1862 the assistants in the Adjutant General’s Department were Heutenants taken = from company __ service aad invested with tue brevet rank ot captain whue on staitduty. In September of that year Congress, | Without affording a chance for a new deal, turned all these youngsters into full biown majors, so that When their jormer cuptams on the frontier came into Washington, asiley were soon compelled 10 do bythe exigencies of the service, they found the boys had outstripped them 1m rank, and they, noc their late ‘subs,’ were compelled to do the salut- ing. ‘That they did it without exterual flinching is noble tribute to the supremacy of Congress aud true soidierly aiscipline. Pné jurther histovy of the Stadl is more or less of & pieee with this incident in Ihe record of the sv called writing generals; for not only are their chiefs brigadiers of pen and iox, or pork and beans, but they, too, Nave since been brevetted wo the rank of generals. It must not be forgotten, however, that tue staff did excelleut ser- vice during the war, and that the line ofcers get exciusive credit in palile reports and war corre- spondence, though it 13 to be feared the staif people will never give over bewatling tueir missing the op- portunity of being killed in actior STAFF AND ARMY NOMENCLATURE. The nomenclature of the stat is one of those minor suvjects not whoily unworthy the genius rof General Logun. The adjutant general is oue and the quartermaster general is one, but the inspector neral tg Jour; so that the superior rank and au- thority of the title in the first two instances cannot apply to the last named oilicers. It 18 equaily aim. cuit Lo devermuue the rank and authority of the ule Ol! assistant in all these departments, as will be ap- parent from the following tavie, the Ogures indie cating the date of the respective commmnssious bang the ouly guide:— Name, rank and date) Name, rank ani dite] Name, rank and date ay oommierions Of vomaniswicnte Of CaInMisstone TSP, GENERALS. Cntonels Marcy, Randoiph B., Aug, 9, "0. log By) A Sucker, vet. |, #6 Schriver, kdmand, March 13, " Hardie, James A.,. diarca 44, "th Ausitant Inepedtor Generale. 1 Kiewensat Colonel Caley Drum, Richard C.,| Feb, 22, "by. os + ag , James B., Dec. "Bt, * John Cu, h 23, "66, jon, acl Wiliams, ' Robert, Feb, 22," 2, 6, he i legacy of high-sounding but empty titles. ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST THE STAFF—THE PROPER UNIT OF ORGANIZATION, The opponents of this undeniably large staff frame all their exhibits of its extravagance on the number of enlisted men and imental organizations; the defenders ignore such @ basis and point to the num ber of divisions, departments and military posts and extent of territory covered as the true factors of the calculation, Both disputants are partly right and vartly wrong. Regimental organization has uo relation to the duties of our army in times of peace, and under no circumstances probable in our day 1s. @ single regiment likeiy to possess the opportunity of making its own acquaintance. Here and tere, ata post tke Fors Russell, in Wyoming Territory, aforce equal to the strength of a regent Is some- tmes cylled in to winter, but it is a mongrel horde, representing all arms and many designating num- bers. The company 1s the proper unit of organiza. tion for us, with a major, say, for every four com- panies; @ heutenant colonel for every eight compantes, and a colonel for every sixteen, or from that to twenty companies. This would give the proper number of officers of suitable rank for the command ot of the larger posts and the inferior Territorial divisions, aud would bring the troops, weir stations, their administrative sys- tem and their duties into harmony, and no decep- tive tabulations of facts and figures could then im- ay upon the heedless and the ignorant who have fo deal with military questions, Senator Logan may Ess in this suggestion something worthy of his at- ntion. On tne other hand, the necessity of employing the Major and brigadier generals, eleven in number, at something, undoubtedly prolongs tne existence of superfluous military divisions and departments, as, for instance, thé military division of the Atlantic, commanded by, General Meade, with headquarters at Philadelphia, and the Department of the Lakes, commandea by General Cooke, witn nead- quarters at Detroit, and comprising tn tts limits but four military posts, garrisoned habitually by some regiment recuperating {rom a three years’ tour of duty in the Souto. The general tenor of the retrenchive orders from Washington of ve past two years cleariy fastens upon these, if not other departmehts, the character “necessary evils,’ but executive retrenchment cannot matertally curtail the retinue of aldes, adyu- tants, quartermasters, commissaries and other gen- tlemen of the staff corps, and these, however lite they may have to do, besides keeping their comman- der company, require offices, clerks, messengers, fur- niture, stauonery, fael, &c., and must be provided with suitable hired quarters in the cittes where head- quarters are located, with heating and cooking ap- paratus, coal, wood and kindling material, with medical attendance, stables, forage and commissary establishments. Nor 18 this all; Jor as all papors and correspondence that might otherwise go direct to thett proper destination must now go out of their Way to pass under these fifth wheels of the govern- ment ambulance, the pubic business is delayed and those revolving curses of the American Army, red tape, routine and ‘ritin’, are given wnoridled license, ‘This latter evil the War Department, less than @ year ago, attempted to check by a reguia- tion, conservative, yet effectual as far as it went; but the pilots of the aucient “intermediate chan- neis,’”’ suspecting this regulation to be but the pre- cursor of unother to come revoking their licenses altogether, took courage from despair and disre- garded 1 altogether, ARMY OFFICERS ON DUTY IN WASHINGTON, There are some {ilty-five army oficers on duiy in the city of Washington, of whom eight, at an aver- age coat of about $3,009 per annum each, including salary and all allowances, are eagaged upon duties that, ‘without injustice to either class, may be assim. flated to those of the heads of bureaus in the Treasury and other departments who receive a total salary of trom $3,000 to $4,009 each, with no allow- ances whatever. The rest receive or enjoy salaries and allowances ranging from $6,500 to $2,800—the average being, perhaps, #4,500 each—with duties assimilative in’ most cases to chiels of divisions in the civil executive departments at $2,200 and $2,000 each, some, however, falling below that standard of important usetuiness, and others, again, performing service that les above the reach of the computation tables, For some portion of anv extravagance ap- parent in these figures Generat Logan 13 himself responsibie, as that part of bis economical reform bill that passed both houses of Congress and became law largely increased the total emoluments of the lower grades and reduced none but those of the present General and Lieutenant General, whose past value tothe country being beyond its future ability to recompense and reward in filthy lucre, were, on some principle of 1ogic by inversion, subjected to a Teauction of a few thousands apiece. THE STAFF ON A DESCENDING SCALE, ‘The staif, iu all its branches, is DOW on a descends ing scale, The sixth section of the act of March 3, 1569, provides that, until otherwise directed by law, inere shail be no promotions and no new appoint meuts in any staff corps of tne army. ‘This act wise in that it provided for a reduction of the staff at the same time that It reduced the line of the army to but ttle more than haif its existing size; it was liberal in that it deprived no staf oMcer of his iy Holaiid, | Samuel , "68. 1 rt Oy July 17, '2. ‘ Chee, Breck, Samuel, a say 2 "68, poe, 11, "62, Ekiv, James Ay eloure, Louie H., Sly 20, 168 ot, arch 24, "64, Myers, ‘Frederick, Wood, Henry ©.,| 3 . get, Boa March 4, '6/. Taylor, Joeph H., March 30, ‘66. Martin, Jat April 10, 169. This table is rich im anomaiies. Thirteen oMcers bear (he Wyg Of asbistauls to the Adiutagt geperal, oflice, nor reduced him in grade, bus It was partial in that it sheltered the staff oficer from that honor. able, but unmerited discharge, Which It bad but just ordered tor the regimental oMcer whose rege ment of company had been broken up by Consoiida- tion, But one wrong does not jnatity another, and section 6 might well pass uncriticised If there were any reasonavle hope that its liberality would be recogmze’ and the justice and propriety of its in- uigaoence. Ter 18 Jenyoy bad cheerful pea tually overworked, Congress, therefore, will have to face the necessity of repealing ita reatricuve law SO far a8 1t concerns the Corps of engineers, or over- haul its system Of internal improvement, and con- sider whether it will not defer the embetlishment of some of tne rivers and har! that recorded history bat that gPpropri until the commerce that is supposed to be mittance shall give as (we oft its presence. But scarcely expect that so valuaple an electioneering agency will be abandoned, let us trust that posterity, for which we are in so many Ways laboring and spending with true paternal solicitude and sell-denial, may reap a harvest from belore him, would pro} popular branch of Congress an increase of the more Ornamental part of the army. It would be believed, if the assertion was made, that if the ‘ident should assign the second lieutenants now in the service to duty in the same regimenv ac to their brevet rank, there Would be officers enough to fill all the places, with the exception of colonel, to which place a brigadier general of volunteers by et could be appointed, and some brevet ma d_ captains even then would be compelled coutent themselves with lower grades, And yet here is a forcible roster of A REGIMENT OF SECOND LIBUTENANTS. Colonel— M, Love, Second Lieutenant Six- teenth infantry, Lieutenant Colonel by brevet, Brigadier General volunteers. Lieutenant Colonel—Edward L, Batley, Second pierce Fourth infantry, Lieutenant Colonel by ‘evet, Major—Allen H. Jackson, Second Lieutenant Sev- enth infantry, Major by brevet aud Colonel of volun. teers. Captains, Cyrus A. Earnest, Second Lieutenant Eighth in- fantry, Major by. brevet aud Lieutenant Colonel volunteers by brevet, Edwin B, Atwood, Second Lieutenant Sixtn in- fantrv, Major by brevet and Major volunicers by brevet, March 2, 1867. M. F, Gallagher, Second Lieutenant Second in- fantry, May 11, 1866, and Colonel volunteers by brevet, March 2, 1867. Sidney EB. Clark, Second Lieutenant Second in- rahi July 28, 1866, and Major volunteers, March 2, 1867. M. OC. Wilkinson, Second Lieutenant Third in- ents July 28, 1863, and Captain volunteers, March Andtew ©. Bayne, Second Lieutenant Sixth in- era July 28, 1866, and Captain volunteers, March ‘Thomas H. Canton, Second Lieutenant Fighteenth intantry, July 28, 1866, and Captain volunteers, March 2 1867, Charles E, Hi us, Second Lieutenant Fifth in-° and First Lieutenant volun. faatry, July 2 teers, March 2, 1867. Giibert 8. Jennings, Second Lieutenant First in- fantry, January 22, 1567, and Colonel volunteers by brevet, March 2, 1867. James H. Rice, Second Lieutenant Seventeenth infantry, January 22, 1867, Lieutenant Colonel volunteers by brevet. First Lieutenants, J, W. Summerhayes, Second Lieutenant kyghth infantry, January 22, 1867, Major volunteers by brevet and Captain by brevet March 2, 1867. M. C, Sanbourne, Second Lieutenant Seventn in- aut, Conan volunteers by brevet and Captain y bre’ vel John W. Bean, Second Lieutenant Fifteenth in- fantry, January 22, 1867, Captain volunteers and Captain by brevet, G. Rutherford, Second Lieutenant Twelfth in- fantry, March 7, 1867, Lieutenant Colonel volun- teers by brevet and Captain by brevet March 7, 1867. Forrest H, Hathaway, Second Lieutenant Fifth infantry, March 7, 1867, ‘Major volunteers by brevet and vaptain by brevet. Josepn Hurst, Second Lieutenant Twelfth in- fantry, March 7, 1867, Captain volunteers and Cap- tain by brevet. Gustave Magricisky, Second Lieutenant Four- teenth infantry, March 7, 1867, Captain volunteers and Captain vy brevet. Levi F, Burnett, Second Lieutenant Seventh in- fantry, March 7, 1367, Captain Volunteers and Cap. tain by brevet, Ben). D. Boswell, Second Lieutenant Eleventh infantry, June 18, 1867, Major voiunteers and Cap- tam by brevet, Heury F. Leggett, Second Lieutenant Twenty- fourth infantry, July 17, 1867, Captain volunteers ana Captain by brevet, Second Lieutenants. James F. Simpson, Second Lieutenant Twenty- filth 1afantry, August 17, 1867, Captain volunteers aud Captuin vy brevet. David L, Craft, Second Lieutenant Sixth infantry, August 4, 1867, Second Lieutenant volunteers and Captain by brevet. Henry H. Pierce, Second Lieutenant Twenty-first infantry, October 16, 1867, Major volunteers and Cap- tain by brevet. Henry W. Howgate, Second Lieutenant Twentieth infantry, Octover 22, 1367, Major volunteers brevet ana Captain by brevet, Thomas P. O'Reilly, Second Lieutenant Twenty- second infantry, March 7, 1867, Cotonel volunteers by brevet. John M. Hyde, Secona Lieutenant Eighth infantry, September 3, 1867, Colonel voluuteers by breve:. ‘red Rosencrantz, Second Lieutenant Sixteenth infantry, July 20, 1866, Lieutenant Colonel volunteers by brevet, Charles A. Bootn, second Lieutenant First in- fantry, March 7, 1867, Lieuteaant Colonel voluntecrs by brevet. And now, a8 an amusing acomaly that could not occur in any service except our own, let us goa step further and show that among the captoms and first and second lieutenants in the Army of the United States there are names suficient to make possible the realization of an old joke, nameiy:— A REGIMENT OF BRIGADIER GENERALS. Colonel Henry G. Thomas, Captain Twentieth tn- Jantry, Major Generat volunteers aud Brigadier Gen- eral by brevet. . Lieutenant Colonel William H. Penrose, Captain Third infantry, Brigadier General volunteers and radier General by brevet. jajor Edwiu ©. Mason, Twentieth infantry, Briga- Si General volunteers by brevet and Volouel by revet, Captains, Robert Nugent, Capiain Thirteenth infantry, Brgadiee General volunteers by brevet and Colonel y brevet, William M. Wherry, Captain Sixth infantry, Briga- Cuer General volanteers by brevet and Colonel vy revel Joseph S. Conrad, Captain Eleventh infantry = =e General volunteers by brevet and Colonel y breve! Wilitam G. Mitchell, Captain Fifth infantry, Briga- sel General volunteers by brevet aad Colonel by revel Charles G. Bartlett, Captain Fourth tnfantry, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet and Lica- tenant Colonel by brevet. Aaron S. Daggett, Captain Second infantry, Briga- dier General Voluateers by brevet and Lieutenant Colonel by brevet. Frederick E. Trotter, Captain Fourteenth in- fantry, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet and Lieutenant Colonel vy brevet. Henry (. Corbin, Captain Twenty-fourth infantry, Brigadier General volunveers by brevet and Licu- tenant Colonel by brevet. Frederick M. Crandall, Captain Twenty-fourth in- fantry, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet aud Lieutenant Colonel by brevet. George M. Crat, Captam twenty-second infantry, Brigadier General voluuteers by brevot and Lieu- tenant Colonel by brevet, Firat Lieutenants, Lewis Johnson, Captain Twenty-fourth infantry, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet aad Lieuten- ant Colonel by brevet. Samuel McUonine, First Lieutenant Fourteenth infantry, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet and Lieutenant Colonel by vrevet. Wallace W. Barrett, First Lieutenant Sixteenth infantry, Brigadier General volunteess by brevet and Ltcutenant Colonel by brevet, George M. Love, Second Lieutenant Sixteeenth infantry, Brigadier Genera! volunteers by brevet and Lieutenant Colonel by brevet. Charles H. Whittelsey, Captain Thirteenth infan- try, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet and Major by brevet, Horace Neiue, First Lieytenant Fourth infantry, Brigadier General Voluntéers by brevet and Major by brevet, Josiah A. Sneetz, First Lieutenant Fourth infantry, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet and Major y brevet. George B, Hoge, Captain Twelfth infantry, Briga- drier General volunteers by brevet. Thomas FP. Wright, Firat Lieutenant Twelfeh in- fantry, Brigadier General volunteers by brevet, Carroll E. Potter, First Lieutenant Eighteenth in- fantry, Brigadier General volunteers by vrevet. Second Lieutenants, William Hawley, First Lieutenant Twentleth ia- fantry, Brigadier General volunteers oy breve. Francis Ek. Pierce, First Lieutenant First iniantry, brigadier General volunteers by brevet. THE BRAINS OF THE ARMY, ‘Thus far we have followed the defects, the Incon- sistencies and other vagarics of the army, and if Wwe burden of our jeremiade nas fallen on the stad, it is because the burden of iegisiation and regulation lies In the same direction; for the staff is incontestibly the brains of the army, and when, In the ae umes Of peace, Its activities Lave been withdrawn from the service of that public to which, to do it jusuce, {thas ever rendered true and useful atd in time of feed, and turned inward upon itself, the tides ol legis- Jative favor have risen swiitly on the heels of war or danger, and a8 constantly ebped as the clouds of either passed away. But to point out & detect with. eas Bruce ney erat aa, ong the voluntar, ere! us {omn. the secure. foothold of tact to the carr, shifting sands of be fe? can must goon. THE A We have already su; ted abolishment of the unsubstantial fabric of regiment orgeals ttt 4 oa ater Company ao the unit oF adimlassira- Orps, Wi tive organization, and a li ion of field beral Pp! ne } oiicers of ihe hagpe arAdes of wen afioers Lor the Dusit te on a scale the three | but all of them except two or three find their only | such — proapect, _ however, for already the }. suitable rank for arms of. the service ‘counting, forty regiments, of | usefulness tn acting as exeeutive officers for the | campaign of ast Winter gives ing tne Toad to promotion, ‘which thero are ten of cavairy, five of artillery aud | generals commanding the military divisions and de- | of sy-aneemmant. and every “in” twenty-ftve of infantry. The staff and line sre com- | partments and ‘be better designated as di- | hopes for higher rank and pay, and every “ouv’ | tem. wi posea of onea officers of all grades, | Vision and de; ment adjutants, or even as chiefs | that hopes to become an “in” if the Sowa nn law of graduai juction should contin and there ts brid quanticy of lumbering machinery | of In tl Inspector General’s Department | be reopened, ig under arms ana prepared ad force till the whole number of officers in service, as the result of legis'ative tinkering. one of four so-called inspector generals 18 the nomi- | vance on the Capitol. The cniefs of the staif co: ine and staff, is equal to that of the requirements THE CUF;RENT OF ARMY LEGISLATION. nal head of the corps, the other “generals” are, as a | too, are doing their part earnestly by represe! Of @ good and complete staff organization for from Hostility to @ standing army has actuated Ameri- | matter of fact, division inspectors, and the ‘assist. | of the injury bic service 18 enduring | five to seven thousand men, assembled 1n cious, | Senate tae ate ry | teenth HRs eke Nios | Wey te cea tw deapais ome Wee esr | Kaganate Sn neta ae mmediat 1 i en! 1e 7 jovements and operations tha’ mG Kel exercised pon ane ey wae |G ni hay one ussistant whose help has never yet | however—the this cry 1a no shallow the pi of sctence and the development of tis rogress Nortn American Coattuent will have brougut us by the time we can need them; for as we can. in human probability, have No ag. nts, We need Lo 100k LO further into the future than here propose. ‘Te number ascer ‘by investigation, let it be fixed by law, and so retain untauipered with, except upon better cause Laan & desire to get ri! Of a lew men one year to let them, or an equal number, ta the year afterwards. ‘The two principles of appoint- Ment from an eiemeatary schoul jike that at West Point and from the ranss of the companies shoud be held fast to, for thei” foundations are Inid deep in wisdom and democracy. No system can more effectually distribute the army ofices turougnout the country thau the present system of Sppuintment to the Military Academy on the noruimation of the chosen representatives of the people, and, raning to political Inducnee all that 1s cuarged Wo Itw-ac- count in these nominations, it never can be arisco- cratic without radical changes im our governmeat itself, It never was aristocratic outside of te slave States beiore the war, The newly appointed officer, come Whence ho may, should, at reguiar incervals, be wWitudrawn from fleid or garrisoa service and placed succes- sively under courses 01 lustruction of equal lens 1m the three arms, As an incentive to exertion, aud for the further benefit of the service, provision should be muge to send @ certain number abroad every year to study unu observe their profession, and these shouid always be the highest graduates of tne proposed schools of apphcation. By a systeny more or e883 analagous, every oiicer stould hava his tour oi duty in every branch of the stat! nok designated 1n au earlier part of this article asmon- combatant, ‘the number of troops in service wilk undoubtedly decrease nereatter, and we shall bave au army of officers, it 1s true; but it is an oificers that we want and shall have in somet more than name. ‘They will be ever re: cailed upon, and the country can think of its army in some other connection than the yearly appro-| priations for its support and the yearly wrang! over it in Congress. As adjuncts to this system o reform should ve menuoned promotion by a certat length of service in any one grade when casuai! lags, and the compulsory retirement, on generou: terms, of every officer upon reaching @ certain ag or comp leting a certain term of service, . OHIEF JUSTICE JACOB BRINKERHOFF, OF! OHIO, FAVOR; THE MI:SOUBI LIBERAT| REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT, : Chief Justice Brinkerhom, of Ohio, has written @ letter, in which he endorses the call for the Cincin4 nati Liberal Republican Convention on the Ist of May, and says:— It seems to be @ foregone conclusion that General! Grant 1s to be the nomunee of tne Republican Cou-| vention, to be held in Philadelphia in June next Considering the vast oficial patronage pertainin to We office of President, and the manuer in whic that patronage has been employed, tbls foregon conclusion 18 not a matter of wonder, although It to me, and { doubt not to thousands of overs, hitherto members of the republican partys} @ matter of deep regret and dissatisfaction. as for me, Whatever else mayt have been, I nave not been, nor do I in. tend to become, the siave of any poitticad Ee pte ap cer Born, 80 to speak, @ member of thi oid democratic party, 1 contaued to act with Ll until 1 thougbt, and suil think, ft had degenerate into mere. subserviency to slavehoiding interes! and aspirations. For this reason, aud tulsa only, and failing vo find any inuications of reformation Ii this respect, Ileft tne party—thereby, as to mysel: abandoning every prospect and hope of politi prefermeni in the future; and thencelorward 1 co+ operated with the tree-soil party, unul it wast merged, On the basis of its own principles, in the republican party, and with thav 1 zealously acto until after the inauguration of General Grant an up to the developments of his personal and politi administration, which are the foundation of objection to both. hg * 2 i As lo the personal administration of Grant, I di not like his acceptance, prior to his inauguration, of munificent presents from men distinguished for; nothing but thelr Wealth, aud. then appoimtn: those same men to office. Ido not like his shame less nepotism, his upparently inumate and con- tinuous associations with stockobbers; his pro; ect tor the purchase: of St. Domingo; hi ostracism. of such men as Sumner, and Cox, and the substitution, sas his com: fidential advisers, of men tn whose ability and pol cal purity a discriminating public nas far tess con: dence, Ido not Itke ais ollicial professions in fav of civil service relorm when contrasted with fact that he made the places of the only members his Cabinet who seemed to be heartily and cally in favor of such reform too hot for thein; do I like the revelations recently made th medium of a reluctant committee as to the charac! of the admunistration of the New York House, nor his fulsome endorsement of its late. A NEWARK PHYSICIAN IN TROUBLE, Grave Charge Against Him by a Tadyy Patient. € Miss Mulford, a lady twenty-seven years of age, sister of Mr. Mulford, a respectable workingman Newark, residing at No, 360 Plane street, that city, makes @ statement which p @ certain well knowa physician the same street, a few blocks farth up town, in a very serious predicament. . From he! statementit appears that the doctor had been at tenuing her and her brother’s wife during iliness./ One day about last New Year’s he called at theis house ana found Miss Mulford alone. She hi neariy recovered from her illness, ‘Ine doctor, she asserts, undertook to take improper libertie: with her, and forced her into @ back room./ Her threats to alarm the neighborhood in-’ quced nim to desist. He left mer to dra down the window blinds, She took advantage her release and fled the house, taking reiuge tn neighbor's until he deparied. Mr, Muliord declai that when he and nis wile returned they found th young lady in so exhausted a condition another Erste had to be called in, and it w: some time before she was restored. The reason ne action was taken to have tne assailant panisned, 7 aivanced by Mr. Malford, 1s that he supposed f required funds to further the prosecution, and h and his sister, being poor, thought they could ove tain no reuress, Parucularly as the doctor 1s quit wealtay and influential in the community, Re: cently, however, their landlord, a Mr. Baldwin, toox the matter in hand, and it 1s probable that criminal prosecution wiil be commenced, ‘Ihe d tor meanwhile dentes the whole story. He is a mai of about forty-five years of age and has a wife and] _ famuy. His friends refuse to believe Miss Muiford’@, story, and dare her to prove tt. SNEAK THIEF, James Julian was charged yesterday at thet ‘Twenty-eighth precinct station house with sneaking\ into the house at No. 26 Washington street an stealing silverware and clothing to the amount Pd dollars. Julian will be taken to Jeifersom Market this morutog. HAVANA MARKETS. : HAVANA, Feb. 10, 172, Sugar firm, The rains continue to interfere with grind Noa. 10to 12 Dutch standard in fair demand at 10% a1 reais; Nos. 151020 Dutch standard quiet, but tirm, at 12 @ ‘reals, Special classes ot No. 1Y Dutch standard ai 4 113) a 11% reais, Molasses sugar buoyant at 8934 reals for Now, Bto i. Muscovado sugar—Iniertor to common active, at 83g reals; rood refining bemer. at 94 a 10 reals; grades buoyant, at IL 9 12 reals. Stock of sugar in warehouse, at Havabe and Matanzas 14,150 boxes and 10,500 hhds, Re~ cetpts of the past week at fiavana and Matanzas, 47,000! foxes and 4,000. i Exported during the week {ro Havana and’ Matanzas, 11,000 boxes and 2,00 hhde., o ‘which 8,600 boxes ana ail the hogsheads were to the United States, Molasses irregular; merchants refuse to. purchase, ) owing tothe high demands of holders. Bacon in fair de mand at #13 50 a $14 50 per cwt, Butter duil at #254 8 per guintal for superior American. Flour quiet and stead; Pit ice rae #1500 per bb for” Americans, dalt at 5 19 er aint oe rican sted sit oo a bir] so" my for me sa'ted; quintal for American sugar cured, Lard—In kegs, active at 16 873g a $1d 5714 per quintal; fo ting, firmer and mai ‘ dare, quoted at $1750 a $18 50 per quiatal. Loratoes guiek! fand Weak at 83 a 80 3716 per bbl, Onlons drmer at 4 & $4 per bol. for American. fallow firmer at $14 per quintal. Wa nominal; yellow, 8a $9 5)- pervarroba lt plz 00 fair to per arrobe. Honey in fair demand at @ 8 per gain. Cont ol hemer tio tins, 4 46 reals per gallon. Fapgeniing active = at i Tar in fi ir Lumber eM. jc. ver Rosin in fair demand at $5 8 86 per bbl. white pine, #40 per M. Core ine, su6 shooks, 936 © 9% reals; hogehead snooks easier, rotab! (ages tore at 23 reals; sunpty hope 5 Ana Hoops full; loug-shaved, $50 » 895 per gh’ 4 Ke owing to the rains preventing the arrival of sugar (Pym tho plantations. ‘vox. of sugar to Northern and So: ata ports in the United States, Bl a BL 25: per hogehead fo” Northera and Southern ’ ports in tha ‘United States, $5 a $6 25; hogshead of molasses to North- id Southern porte in tue Uuited, St $3.0 $4 95; to ath and orders, 32s, 6d a de. Exchange buoyant. On taton lfdays, currency, 1¥4 83 premium Big vataruime 6 sya, KO Ths 2 pret sight, uae ‘18% premium; on London, 23% a 24 on Paris, 8 premium. MISCR pineal | DIVORCE! OBTAINED IN DIFFERENT APoer legai very emer inartie ee ; Sho charge until divorce granted; advice. fen. Holy Be HOUSE, Attoruey, 160 Broadway. = SOLUTE DIVORGUS LEGAULY OBTAINED FROG ttn of unierent Staten. No puoiicity, fos) ate. ». "Notary Publis and vommniesioaer for evar ee Fowlwave 1, KING Counselior-ab Law, 333 YORNS CURED FOR 50C. EACH; BUNIOUNS, NAILS, Joints, Warts, &c., cured without pain.—RICE’S Aunl- hMtator cures corns, bunions, nails, cbilblaing, &c. By mail BO. Dr. RICE, 210 Broadway, corner of Fulton sireet, ire. D. SIIEA, the Clothier, Broome street, neat Dike COATS FOR BALLS, ah ee SALE AND TO way. J, OPN ADIN: AND MEROANTIL Bt, On, ©. rl ’ 7 OP ety TORE MANUFACTURER, TCE PURNG 6B AnD Ang 143 Wisiamatrows, New Yorks