New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-30
WASHINGTON.
CEN GRANTS REPORT.


yENTION-LOUIsIANA's VOTE TO BE THROWN
oUT-THE VIRGINIA STAY LAws-PERsoNAL.
WASHINGTON Nov. %, 1868
The following is Gen. Grants report in full;
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, }
WASHINGTON, ID. C., Nov "a, 1868 )
Gen j. NJ. sCHoFIELD. Secretary Of var.
SIR: have the honor to submit the reports OF
division district and department commanders LOT
the past year. These reports give full account Oh
the operations and services of the army for the year.
aud l refer to them for details. l would earnestly
renew my recommendation of last year that Inc con
fro of the Indians be transferred 20 the War Depart
ment | call special attention TO the reCOhiineHua
ton of Gen. Sherman on this subject III mas my
earnest approval. 1t is unnecessary mat tho ae1
ments i'm favor of the transfer should be repeated
The necessity for il becomes stronger ana more oNl
dent every day. While the indian war cohtjnuefs
do not deem any general legislation 1Or he
az fine army advisable The troops on the rams are
All needed Troops are still needed an me SoumaN
Sfytcs A further reduction can be made IN the way
already uSed and now in operation, where 1t Is SAFE
namely by allowing companies 10 GllhlhiSh 10y us
charges without being strengthened Oy recruits, anu
by stopping appointments of Second iAeutehan.S
If il should be deemed advisable, the eteIaP he
serve regiment might be discontinued by absorption
and retirement of officers and discharge OF men
without detTimeut to the service
u. 5. GRANT, General.
Late dispatches to some of the Northern journals
say that Senator Morton in an interview with Secre-
tary McCulloch last week, made the argument In
the course of long discussion, that the Government
is not bound to pay the ive-twenties in coin, and
that il should now begin to redeem the issue OF 1867
I'm rrcenbacks The dispatches added that Senator
Morton woud introduce a bill early in the session
embodyng his views. The only financial measure
which the Senator has under consideration is bill
TO redeem the greenbacks with coin, beginning the
redemption in 1S1l and to discontinue the sales OF
gold for that purpose. The conversation between
the Senator from Indiana and the Secretary of
the Treasury was chiefly in regard TO the
necessity of returning to specie payments.
Senator Morton held il be the first duty of the Gev
eminent TO to specie payments at the earliest
possible moment lie thought all other financial Ques
tons Of secondary importance compared with that
ut this time Nothing whatever was said about the
introduction Of bin for the payment of the Five
Twenty bonds OF 1862 with legal-tenderS The mode
of paying the bonds was alluded TO, and Senator
Morton said that under the law he understands IT,
the Government has the right 10 the existing
legal-teuder notes in payment of those bonds. lie
said however that this question will be settled and
become unimportant by return TO specie payments,
and that il become important only In case Of the
deprecated currency being continued and OF no steps
being taken TO relieve it. Senator Morton asked
Mr.. McCulloch what legislation he would recon-
mend TO bring about return TO specie
payments. and the Secretary answered that he knew
of none to recommend, except, perhaps an increase
OF the tariff and such legislation may develop the
general resources of the country and improve the
general credit of the Government. The Senator re-
piled that il would take a long time to arrive at
specie payments in that way. He further said, that
it is not now the time talk about trying to pay the
bonds in either gold greenbaeks; but that we
should without delay seek 10 make oar currency
good. The interview was prOtracted, and both gen
temen were very earnest in the discussion. Senator
kolt. fba of he
demption of the bonds of 1862 is to-day unmportant,
it will become a subject of vital interest if the pres
ent deprecated currency is continued five or ten
years He says it is believed by many people that
the objections TO returning to specie payments reveal
an interest in not coming TO specie payments, the
theory being that men with incomes in gold at 40 per
cent premium are not anxious 10 surrender such
profit
Mr. A. H. jackson Of NewYork City has com
piled from the Official record and will soon publish
an exhibit Of the cost and Of the several In
dian wars during the last thiryseyen years. begin
ming with the Black Hawk war of 1912, which
cost directly 100000 and indirectly, in the de-
structon Of property, employment Of militia, vOun-
teers pensions, etc, 100000 more. making az
eregate of s. 0OOO0 attended with loss Of 1900 Of
our people Officers of the army and Government,
Including the present Secretary of the Interior, who
served through this war unable even at this late
day. to tell what the real cause Of that conflict
They are confident that it was forced upon the
Indians in the interest of broken-down politicians
and SPECTATORS The Seminole OF Florida war lasted
nearly seven years employing the army and navy,
the militia of Florida and volunteers from some Of
the other States costing 1900 lives and $O00000OO
The number Of Indians engaged estimated by
che Indian Agent at 500 warriors; the army officers
estimated their number at 1000. Nearly 800 Of
the Indians still remain in the everglades
of Florida. The others moved west Of the Mis-
sissppi Those in Florida insist thatthey We're never
whipped. The first cause OF this outbreak was
depreciation gwen 10 three treaties; one requiring
removal of the Semnoles the whipping of an Indian,
and the imprisonment Of OsceOla. who escaped and
became the leader of the war party. At about the
same time difficulty occurred with the Creeks, Cher
okees and other indians costing in the aggregate
100000. In 1852 we had the Sioux on the
plains: the cause, Indian killed COW worth go,
the property of a Mormon. This war lasted nearly
four years and cost about 800 lives and nearly S40
100000 In 1864 came the Cheyenne which lasted
nearly year costing 900 lives and with the Sioux
war at about the time, $GO0OO0OO Cause Of the
outbreak with the Cheyennes, false charge made
against them of stealing horse worth $50; with the
Sioux the opening of road and the establishing
thereof in their country in violation OF treaty stpu
latioas The war with the Cheyennes ended with
treaty of peace in the Fall of 1865 but that with the
Sioux continued until the treaty which was recently
made by the Peace Commission. The Cheyenne
war was resumed and continued seven months IN
1867 in consequence of the burning OF their village by
Gen. Hancock 1t cost about 800 lives, and from
100000 to $5O000OO, and is not fully settled up
yet. On the Pacific SLOPE during the last 20 years.
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