The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-11


Wood to establish bureau for the protection
of emigrants and strangers.
WEST PoINr STUDIES AND THE ARr OF WAR;
Under the direction of the President the Sc
crctary of War has ordered board of scien-
tiHe and experienced officers to meet to morrow
ct West Point. for the purpose of revising the
programme of instruction at the National Mill
tsry Academy at that place.
This measure has been rendered necessary
by the changes which are constantly going on
in the military art, the progress Of science, and
the great and continued development of the
country we have to defend. Mr.. Buchanan ap-
preciates at lis right value the military spirit
of the age, and is determined that our youth
shall be trained at the Military Academy with
a complete knowledge of the means and appli-
ances which science and practice are introduce
ing in the art of offensive and defensive war.
He has appointed the board which is to revise
the plan Of study for the cadets from among
the best and most esteemed officers of the army
and in civil life.
Colonel Delafeld is now the Superintendent
of the Academy, and Major Mordecai is also
one of our most distinguished scientific officers.
Both of these were on the military commits
sion sent by the government to Europe dur
ing the war in the Crimea. Major Emory
is we'll known TO the country for his
services in the typographical examinations
and boundary surveys in the West. Captain
Cullnm has commanded the company of sap
pers and miners at West Point for several
years, and during portion of this time has
acted as Superintendent of the Academy.
Claudius Croset, ESQ, is a French gentleman
of high scientific attachments, who was for
several years, in times past, professor Of
civil and military engineering at the Academy,
and has since held the post of Chief Engineer
of the State of Louisiana for eight or ten
years, and subsequently the same in Virginia,
and from his long experience has been en-
trusted with the charge of many public works
in the country. CIV. Smith, Esq, commanded
the company of engineer soldiers in Mexico
during the war; serving also on the General
Staff, after which he was for five years princi-
pal assistant professor of the art and science of
war, and Of military and civil engineering at
the Academy, and is now Street Commissioner
Of this city.
The Board is called to meet at West Point on
the 18th, and has authority to adjourn to New
York for the prosecution of its labors, should it
deem proper to do so. Its duties are of a most
important character, involving, as they do, the
training IF SapaAe sbs Country or the
care of its honor and glory abroad, and the
President has exhibited his usual good judg-
ment in the selection of the men to compose it.
AFFAIRS IN UTAH.-Our special correspon-
dent has sent us some interesting intelligence
from Utah, including the annual message of
Governor Cumming to the Territorial Legis-
lature, document which does not possess any
very extraordinary interest outside the Terri
tory, beyond the reference to the frequency
of murders, deeds of violence and horse steal
ing, in Salt Lake City and the neighborhood
Of Camp Floyd, the location of General John
ston's army, the perpetrators of which crimes,
the Governor remarks, manage to elude justice
with great facility, thus endorsing the language
of the Secretary of War in his recent report,
when he says that the preservation of right and
justice through the means of any jurisprudence
known by the people of the United States is
impossible in Utah, which is governed by
system in total disregard of the constitution
or laws of the land.
The Mormon Territory is almost entirely free
from Indian outrages; yet, strange to say, de-
predictions upon property and assaults upon
human life are more common there than in any
other of our Territories, Notwithstanding the
presence of the federal army in the vicinity of
Salt Lake City.
Our Utah news comprises an account of the
organization of the Territorial Legislature,
showing that, contrary to the conceived idea,
the great majority of its members are Ameri-
cans by birth. The most satisfactory feature
in the late Utah news is the fact that the spirit
Of revolt against the laws and authority of the
federal government which compelled the march
of a hostile army to the Territory is no longer
manifested, that army standing now, as Secre-
tary Floyd says, in the attitude of menacing
force towards q conquered and sullen people
EScrlsu OPERA IN CAIHoRSA.-Thc New Orleans Eng.
sh opera troupe, Of which Miss Resale Durand is the
prma DONNA had on the 10th Of December, concluded
Of hundred and twenty nights in San Francis
CO and the interior cities The Mcssrs Lyster managers
of the company returned to the Eastern States by the
Atlantic, and will 60 70 Europe engage
The company, thus reinforced, will commence a new
season at San Francisco in the spring. The first season
was a very successful one.
FRENCH OPxRA AT AoSnEAL-Mr. Sage, late director of
the French theatre In this city, has organized French
opera company for the Provinces, with the pquan Mile
Darcy as the premiere chdntdn The first representations
Of this company will be given almost Immediately the
Theatre Royal, Montreal.
LOLA MosTXz At HoBoKEN.-Madame Lola Montez will
deliver Der celebrated lecture upon Fashion at Odd
Fellows Hall, Hoboken, this evening.