Cut Down The Army

From the N. Y. Tribune. We see no reason wliy the War I)cpartmcnt nhüuld not continue mustoriug Generáis out of the service. Secrctary MuCulloch wants monoy - -the taxes are heavy - Congresa scarcely wishes to add au extra hundred milliou to the new loan, and so wo should cut duwn expenses all aruuud, and partioularly in the War Department. What is the use of having a railitury establishment as largo as that arranged in reeout general orders ? According to thoso orders, the wbolo country is first divided into military divisions, aud then iuto military departments, and fiually into military districts, so that ! every part of the liepublic is ! ed by threo separate Generala. Here in Now York we are commandod, first, by Gen. Meade, theii by Gen. Hooker, and finally by Gen. Parke ; theu wo haro : Gen. Barnum, but we scarcely know where he commands. General Meado's i command is called the Military División of the Atlautie States; Gen. Hooker's the Department of the East ; General Parke's the District of Southern New York. One hundred and ten Generáis are thus providod fur, every General, of courso, having Btaifs, and said ataffs having horses, rationa, quarters, and all the little oomfortaLle extras that Government so gcnorously allows and offioers so surely count. Add to tb is the officers wc have on special duty, olïieersin charge qf bureaus, officers in military commissions (there aro seven Generáis trying Wirz,) and we shall probably foot up two hundred Generáis and staffs in full array. Our readers will remembor the estímate we published recently, showing the oost of the Doubloday court-martial, aud from this they can easily ciphor up the expense of this vast establishment. - That court was aboot as largo as a Major Geuoral's ordinary staff, and three montka' service eost twenty thousand dollars - say eighty thousand dollars a year. Oalculating each General and staff to cost only fifty thousand dollars a year, which is a low estímate, our two hundred Generala alone will cost ten million dollars a year, or just one-fourteenth the intorest on the wholo national debt. Aud for what ? Why ehould General Ilooker, with seven othor Generáis, be sent to command the Now Bngland States, New York, and New Jersey? - Or what is going on in West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, that Major General Ilancock and seven additional Generáis should be placed in command ? ühio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan find Major General Ord and six Generáis necessary for their command. Five Western States and three Territories are under the chargj of John Popo and eleven other Generáis. What are thoy to do ? Shoot Indians, perhaps. Wo can see no other purpose unj der the sun. It is unnecessary to continuo this subject. It suggests its own argumenta. There is no possible use for more than twenty-five Generáis all told, and the rest should be mustered out of the service honorably. When we waut them thoy will surely come.