The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-14

natural but not very complimentary deductions
in regard to the French military, and partiou-
larry the commissariat system.
1t seems these truths have not sat
very well upon the French stomach. and
occasion has been sought to throw them baok
at the United States. This the organ of Louis
Napole0n-k Constitution1d thinks il has
found in the condition of the small force sent
to Utah last summer. Taking the flying re-
ports brought back from the Plains by few
travellers and disappointed contractors, whs
always think they could have done any and
everything better than Uncle Sans officers do
it, and who perhaps had failed in obtaining
some desired contract, the C6nstitutonnel points
triumphantly to the burning of few wagons
belonging to one of the contractors, and to the
intervals of space that were reported to lie b.
tween several of the corps composing the expo
dition in its march over the Plains, and ex-
claims that the expedition sent against Utah il
that of q caravan on the road, where every one
goes when he chooses 1t thinks that affer this
Gen. Jesup- and the HERALD should net ash
Europe 10 admire the American system q mill
tary organization. se
IAis is al very 6ne on the part Of the FrenOh
gentleman; but besides the fact that his pre-
misses are proved to be all wrong by the Official
reports from the expedition, he forgets another
and the chief of the attendant circumstances.
The march of the expedition across the Plains
bears the same relation to its military operations
that the voyage of the French army through
the Mediterranean to its point of concentration
in the East did to the siege of SebastopoL The
several corps in their voyage from Marseillesor
Toulon to Turkey were never together or I'M
der convoy, because there was no enemy to at
tack them. So with the march across the
Plains, where there was not only no enemy to
attack, but no grass to feed the animals, unless
they went in small and separate parties. The
official reports show that the expedition has
turned up at the appointed place of union NOS
only in good order and with abundant supplies,
but even with materials for building huts and
with stoves and fuel to warm them In q
march of thousand miles not a single mis-
chance has occurred for want of provision in
the commissariat, and only one private con-
tractor has lost his train because he wished to
be too smart and get to the appointed place
long before the time. We commend to the
French journal perusal of the official reports
from the Utah expedition, and not to go OF at
half cock in his military criticisms.
But we have no wish to pursue this sore sub
ject for the Constitutional any farther. We have
no desire to pick quarrel with the French.
From Greasy and Poitiers down to Waterloo
and the occupation of Paris, the British have
always whipped them, as also have the British
filibusters whipped the French flibusters out Of
Canada, the West India Islands and the East
Indies. Now we have had two trials with the
Birthstone in 1776 and the other in lSl2-in
both of which we whipped them. With these
facts before us, and remembering that they
took hand toward the close of our first fight
with Great Britain, in order to get some Of the
glery, it would not be magnanimous on our
part to do 80.