YENNE, W. T., Nov. 18, 1873.

To the Editor of the HERALD:

I fear I cannot do justice to the subject to follow in the space you are likely to allow me, but shall be as brief as possible, sincerely hoping that the suggestions may bear fruit at no distant period.

My suggestions in regard to turning over the whole Indian management to the army is founded upon two logical deductions arrived at by a long experience and much thought and observation, besides embracing rights, justice and humanity towards the plundered Indians, as well as a matter of economy to the government.

Why does the government keep up two distinct retinues (so to speak) when one will answer every purpose, if the government proposes to act honestly?

Why cannot the Secretary of War and those in authority under him, purchase Indian supplies at the same times and places that other army supplies are purchased, and under the same or similar contracts?

Why cannot the War Department then, ship those supplies by the same means and routes to the Indian country, instead of going to the stupendous expenditure of keeping up an army of Indian Agents, the Indian Bureau, and an army of clerks, contractors, and needy and greedy barnacles and friends of the above hordes?

Here is a large field for economy, if the government will avail itself of a very plain proposition. In this way an immense saving can be made, and the Indians will receive every pound and particle allowed them, if the officers of the regular army are the distributors.

Let the purchases and shipments be made the same as other army supplies, to be forwarded to posts in the Indian country where these officers, whose duty is to finally distribute them to the Indians, will have to make out the proper requisitions and returns where every particle must be accounted for, under the immediate supervision of the respective commanding officers at the respective posts of distribution. Then the Indians will get flour instead of sawdust, shorts and sweepings. They will get blankets free instead of impoverishing themselves by trading off all their valuable peltries for gew gaws. In short, they will get their allowances honestly and faithfully, besides being about and around those posts, and consequently under a mild surveillance of the troops at such posts. Out of this well established channel of strict discipline, honesty and honor, the Indian management is a huge outrage, a cheat, farce and humbug.

JUSTICE.