Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-09

TIRE GO&r OF MILITARY Cothfs.
We copy the following just condemnation oil
Military Courts from the Cincinnati Commercial,
and coming from that source. the Republican
reader cannot OBJECT to It's loyalty:
eTHs cosr o. MILITARY coraTs "A Mill
tsry Commission. Nth Major General ABSEE
DorsLspsY FOR President. has been engaged one
hundred and forty days IN trying one CozzKSs, =
citizen Of Pennsylvania. on the charge Of not
having put good duck canvass 10 tents furnished
by contract The COS, OF the trial 10 the cour-
try VI. over so 900. aud CozzESs. being found
gully, ~as released on b.be.. corpns The New
York Tribune saw
The two great feats Of The Doubleday Court
Martial since the beginning Of the year Rave been
the trial Of Mr. Cozxens who WAS released BY
the habeas eorps. Of Judge Thompson-a Trial
that lasted from February let 10 Juns 18Th, q
period amounting 10 about lao days-and the
further trial Of . man named Neal, an Arsenal
Inspector. which began NAY 2-th. and is not
ended. As Neal will certainly be released by
the same Judge Thompson, on similar habeas
corpus, u makes little difference In the interest
OF military justice, whether the trial ever ends
| or not.
Why the costly stupidity Of military court. all
over the country should be continued Is is impos.
able TO say. unless II /. though, that We have a
great many Generals and other officers whose
pay mus, be continued al all hazards. whether
they have anything to do or not
The aashorite. at Washington ough. 10 know
that the whole country IL sick of the proaigacy
and inefncieney Of the military courts III,
high time they were wiped out
A dull affair has been dragging tsvsny length
for week. at Cambridge. Ohio. and 80 have
correspondent, up there Who hss been trying u
tell Us what il 10 eli about; but We have not bear
able to ascertain further than ths, the officer
engaged 10 II should be mustered GU, Of ser
vice. and the matter turned over to Justice o
the Peace.
In Kentucky there are several tedious trial
pending, at grea, expense aud no profit TO tn
country
Speaking OF DoUBLxDAr Court Martial. whic
Ia neither batter nor worse than at least one bun
dred others, except as il may differ from most il
having Major General presiding. tho 1ribun
says:
"The Government allows 10 these officer
twenty servants, whose wages ~ pays, and who's
persons IL clothes, as we'll as thirty four horses
each horse receiving fourteen pounds OF hay al,
twelve pounds OF oats per day. and one huudre
pounds of straw per month IA IL the officers
servants, phonogrA pher and horses, did not ge
enoug. money, the Government generously al
lows$l Is per dsv 10 each officer additional
with an extra 81 % TO the Judge Advocate. i
addition to this further allowance. the officer
are given quarters and "iuel " A Major Gene
raj has ak rooms. and a Major four. 40 that thi
Court eats. sleeps, smokes aud otherwise lives i
forty sooms-4l2 50 month beng allowed 70
the rent Of each room. Our readers must no
suppose that the horses of the Court get thei
oats, hay and straw. and the Generals nothing /
eat No. indeed. In q military point OF view
Major General receives nineteen rstions pc
dsy, u Colonel eight, Lieutenant C0lons
seven, aud Major six. Whether q Major Gene
raj on Csurt duty eats three times a. much ~
Major. We do not know. bu, the Government
paws thirty cents n da, for each ration in good
lawful money.
This IN axes one branch Of expenses. Thes
courts pay each witness 81 per diem while !
attendance--that IL to say, from the day he
summoned to the day he is dismissed-as we
as the actual cost of transportation. Ii pay
officers. ushers, detectives, and train OF sma
subordinates, as we'll IA the rent OF the room
} where the meetings are held. The reader ma
think that. this being good pay. the Government
must get "A vast deal OF work out of the nine of
GERS, twenty servants, one phonographer, thirty
four horses and train of subordnates called
'court'-that they work hard from mornin
I till night that the officers and horses ca
4 only keep life in them by duly eiting their "a
4 tons. hay. oats and straw. This is a misak
No beings in the world have easier times tina
I the men and horses composing this court
The hours of meeting says our Philadslphi
correspondent. are very irregular. The geI
ers hours are from l in the morning to 2
a the afternoon. Many days, however, they are
session but q few minutes--but rarely. IL eve
% alter = o'clock So that. taking IL at the hes
Q our court sits but three hours per day. Ar
9 thus it is all the country over. For easy wor
i, and good pay. commend us to the courts Of mil
: tary justice "