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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1.

Tits reasons by which General GRLITT has re-
commended an increase of the number of the
regular troops of the United States army point
to two of the most striking features in
the present aspect of the national life—
the enormous development of the country be-
tween the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean,
simultaneously with the prolonged disorganization
of the States lately in revolt. The flow of
population towards the great mining regions
beyond the western plains began during the civil
war, and has steadily increased. The movement
has often been described, but full justice has not yet
been done either to its magnitude or to the effect
which it is likely to have upon the wealth of the
world, or upon the constitution and complexion of
American society. The great mining districts
which lie near the Rocky Mountains are being
peopled chiefly by emigrants from the eastern
and north-western States ; but together with them
are mingled numbers of the more energetic youth
of the better classes in the South, impelled partly
by the spirit of enterprise and partly by dissatis-
faction with the position of their families at home,
reduced, as these have been, to poverty by the war,
and now left without the artificial prop to their
social consideration which slavery formerly sup-
plied. It will be an interesting study to watch
the growth and formation of the character of these
new communities, made up of elements so dis-
cordant, under the influences which attend free
industry. _ _ _

General GRAN assigns the duty of protecting
these new settlements as his first reason for re-
questing that the army may be reconstituted.
But he also grounds his appeal on the wants of i
the Southern States. A small national military
force is required in all the States lately in revolt,
and is likely, in his opinion, to be so fur some
time to come. This necessity does not arise from
danger of a renewal of the Secession war,
for nothing has hitherto happened to throw
doubt upon the wisdom of the policy which led
Mr. LINCOLN to disband a large portion of the
army immediately upon the surrender of General
LEE, and which has been followed by the present
Government. But Union troops are wanted as a
guarantee of social order. Our New York Corre-
spondent states that the most intelligent observers
of Southern society at the present moment have
no hesitation in asserting that the withdrawal of i
the Federal garrisons would, in a large number of
districts, be the signal for something very like an
internecine war. "In portions of Georgia, for
" instance, there exist between neighbours hates,
" bred by the opposition or lukewarmness of some
" during the war, which if allowed to find vent
" would drench every hamlet in blood." We
cannot wonder at such a state of things ; but we
may be permitted to wonder that the better por-
tion of Southern society does not exert itself
more strenuously to uphold the law, and impress
its own character upon its administration. If this
were done, what is called the problem of recon-
struction would be in a fair way to solve itself.
The victorious North has done what it can to re-
place the States of the South in the position of
self-governing communities, but it cannot do all
that it would in that direction until the people of
those States frankly acknowledge all the civil con-
sequences which rationally follow from the down-
fall of slavery. As long as those States cling to
laws and institutions which are animated by the
spirit of that institution, they will not only get no
representation in Congress, but they will enjoy
no peace at home. They will see the Free States
increasing in number in the North-West and West,
and hi population, wealth, and power everywhere,
while their own development is arrested by obstinate

adherence to outworn prejudices. There is
patriotism and common sense enough in the
Southern States to see and feel the folly of per-
sisting in this purblind policy, but it seems to be
wasted because not adequately associated with
civil courage. It is the presence of anti-social ideas
in the State laws which perpetuates disorder in
the South, and leads to outrages such as those
lately reported from Memphis and elsewhere. The
upright people of the South ought to make their
influence felt, and let the rowdy part of the popu-
lation see that the days of " Committees of lead-
" ing citizens" and executive mobs are over,
and that the reign of order and legality has begun.
But they will never gain the praise of being a law-
abiding people, long since given to the North,
until they have laws by which the most enlightened
reasons and the most faithful consciences can de-
liberately take their stand. We trust that some
improvement is taking place in this direction, andif
it is not greater than we see it is because influences
are at work elsewhere than in the South to prevent
its more rapid progress. Just now the chief
obstacle to the advance of the South in wise and
equitable legislation is President Jonsson. It
seems to he that gentleman's chief business at the
present time to strengthen the influence of the
worst elements in Southern society, and to confirm
its most pernicious habits and passions. That he
is a sincere enemy of Secession we believe, but
that cause being defeated, and slavery as an insti-
tution overthrown, there seems to be no vice in
the jurisprudence and legislation of the South
which he is not anxious to protect, no injustice