Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-07
THE ARMY OF 1912.

the 9Th instant This falling on Sunday, the meet
ing will be organized the next day in Independence
Hail.
The object of the Convention is to take measures
to induce Congress to give the same amount of
bounty land to each and all who served in the War
of 1872 without regard to the length of service As
the laws at present stand only portions of the army
were provided for. For the information of the Con-
vention and of others interested we subjon list of
the acts of Congress relating to the army of the war
of 1S12-'15.
BY the act of Oath December, 1911, all soldiers
Of the regular army who enlisted for the term of five
years were allowed one hundred and sixty acres of
land, in addition to money bounty Of sixteen dol
lars at the time of enlistment and three months pay
when discharged
The act of 10th January, 1872, authorized the
raising of ten additional regiments of infantry, two
of artillery, and of light dragons, for FIVE years.
and the same bounty in land and money was allow
ed, with the addition that the heirs and representa-
tlves OF persons killed or dying in the service were
to receive the bounty.
The act of goth January, 1873, allowed twenty
four dollars to be advanced to each ablebodied man
enlisted after the lst of February, 1878, for five
years, or during the war, and the same bounty in
land as previously provided.
BY the acts of 9th February and 9th July, 1912,
q land bounty of one hundred and sixty acres was
allowed to- each volunteer who engaged to serve for
twelve months; and by the act of 24th February,
1914, the same bounty as allowed to regulars
to be given to volunteers who engaged to serve five
years or during the war.
The act of 10th December, 1914, allowed to able
bodied recruits, between the ages of eighteen and
fifty, to serve during the war, land bounty of three
hundred and tceaty acres Of land, and the same
pay and emoluments as heretofore provided. If
killed or dying in service, the widow and children,
or if there was no widow or child, the parents of
the deceased, were entitled to receive the land
The acts for enlstments of soldiers for twelve and
eighteen months did not provide land bounty, nor
was any provided for these, or for the five years
men enlisted before the war, until the act of 28th
September, 1850.
By the act of 18th February, 1s47, the non
commissioned officers, musicians, and privates
listed in the regular army or regularly mustered in
any volunteer company for period not less than
twelve months, in the war with Mexico, were au-
thorized to receive one hundred and sixty acres of
land, or one hundred dollars in scrip. Those who
served less than twelve months were to receive
warrant for forty acres of land scrip for twenty
five dollars. No provision in land was made for the
commissioned officers ..
| By the act of 9th March, 1916, citizens of the
United States anterior to the Of 1872, residing
in Canada at its commencement and having joined
the armies of the United States during it's continu-
ance, were entitled to bounty land as follows Each
colonel, nine hundred and sixty acres each major,
eight hundred acres each captain, six hundred and
forty acres each subalern four hundred and eighty
acres each non-commissoned officer, musician, or
private, three hundred and twenty acres, and to
three months additional pay. By subsequent act
no land was to be given except for six months
service =
The general bounty land acts of 2Sth September,
1850, and 22d March, 1852, authorized bounty land
for the regulars not heretofore provided for and for
the militia volunteers &c. but the bounty gadu-
ated according to service, thus: For not less than
one month, forty acres; not less than four months,
eighty acres and not less than nine months, one
hundred and sixty acres; and the commissioned Of
fcers of the Mexican and other wars were also en-
braced in this act.
| The object of the Convention is to induce Con-
gress to give to all volunteers and militia men one
hundred and sixty acres of land, sciout restriction
as to length Of seruice. This seems to be just and
equitable; for, although the ineficency Of the militia
man is often sneered atit must be remembered that
,oar IS science, which requires opportunity and
experience to give qualification. 1t should be borne
in mind, too, that when men are suddenly called
from their homes and business in time of war their
families often left destitute, and their affairs so
deranged to produce embarrassment and difficulty
for life Indeed numerous instances could be cited
in which citizens ruined in their pecuniary af
fairs by obeying their country's call.
And let the scoffers remember that it was in COM
mand of militia-men at Sacketts Harbor that Gen.
Brown first gained distinction that placed him
high in the regular army; and that, previous to the
unequalled victory at New Orleans, Gen. jackson
had gained distinction in Indian warfare with volun
teer and militia troops. While Congress is lavish
ing public land broadcast on every thing they will
doubtless respond favoraby to the call of the vete
rams Of 1872.
1t is proper to add that bills for the object men,
toned have already been reported in each House of
Congress.
| WORK FOR 1S54.-The New York Sum- speaking of the
questions awaiting solution the present year. closes them
az follows:
/ First. The Railroad to the Pacific.
| Second The Annexation of the Sandwich Islands.
! Third. The question of Cuban Independence.
| Fourth. new settlement with Mexico, including the
Mesilla Valley and Tehuantepec disputes and Santa
Annals Imperial pretensions.
Fifth. The practical assertion and vndcaon of the
Monroe Doctrine against British Colonization Schemes in
Central America.
Sixth. Opening the Valley Of the Amazon to American
trade and enterprise.
4 Saw Ad;uotp, of tha aba