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w the regulation standard. The adoption of this measure will decrease the number of officers, and proportionably diminish the expenses of the Army. It is said of Napoleon by Jomini that, in the campaign of 1815, that great General on the 1st of April had a regular army of 200,000 men. On the 1st of June he had increased this force to 414,000 men. The like proportion. adds Jomini, "had he thought proper to inaugurate a vast system of defence, would have raised it to 200,000 men by the 1st re line of miles, with an interring boundary line of 7,237 miles in length. This conspiracy stripped us of arms and munitions and our navy to the most distant quarters of the globe. The effort to the Union, which the Government entered on 1st April last, received upon the has, therefore, but pound the earn paign for a few months.--The other of the rebels, though dearly won, were more with no important or permanent advantages. The Western Virginia and the occupation of Hatteras and