Show I THE QUEEN OF THE TURF i I Bonner Thinks Maud S Will Yet Lower Her Last Record I Mapleson and Ills Italian Yawpors to Again Devastate the West Tramps Tie a Railroad Mail to the Track and Leave Him In that Horrible Condition JUidnt Like the Black Uelrhnent NEW YORK August 1GThe Journal publishes pub-lishes a letter from AdjutantGeneral Drum to a Congressman suppressing the names in which the Congressmans request that a young lieutenant just out of West Point who had been assigned to command in a I colored regiment be relieved of that command i com-mand iin sent to a TyHi regiiB ir > s fd e nied The General says the War Department Depart-ment knows no difference between the status of white and colored soldiers that they are on a perfect equality before the law that they are equally interested with the keeping of the flag and with the honor of the country and it is important that the colored regiments should be as well officered and as well led on all occasions as other regiraeits While under the law they are mail tamed as a part of the armv of the United States the Secretary of War can know no inequality and it is his duty to assign officers to them upon the same principles prin-ciples which govern the assignments of all officers The good of the service the provisions pro-visions of law the discipline of the army and unhesitating obedience to orders demand de-mand that officers should acquiesce when assigned to such regiments |