The Arkansas banner., 1844-12-25
No. I5.
FouRcHE, August 18th, IS44.

fOURCHE, August loll, 1oi4. GOVERNOR JAMES s. CONWAY:
 SR-At your request, of yesterday, fur nish you with an extract of account current; also extracts from abstracts of Quarter Mas ter's stores, Commissaries' stores, incidental expenses, and tationary-showing the whole amount of monies disbursed by me as Quarter Master of the Regiment of Arkansas volun- teers raised at the instance of General Gaines ln 1856, to be twelve thousand nine hundred and thirty-fve dollars and seventy-two cents; ] | (Sl2,935 72)--the names of the various per sons to whom paid the moncy-the amount paid to each, and date of each payment. commenced furnishing forage, provision, | and every thing else necessary for feeding men and horses, and transportation, Sc. Sc about the 9th August, 1856, and ceased to furnish 1 for them the 18th Sept, 1836--at lsast any expenses that paid that accrued subsequent- ", were very small at all events, my coll nection with the Regiment of Volunteers ceased the 18th Sept, 1886. And furnish ed, as above stated, for only seven compa- nies, while they marched to It. Towson.
 By statement that have seen in the hands of yourself, made by Major Field, there were four other companies, with which had no thing to do. knew there were several oth- CT companies, but did not know the number. Now, if the furnishing of seven companies. a little more than month, and transporting them to Fort Towson, cost nearly thirteen thousond dolors, these other four compa- nies must have cost the Government, say seven thousand dollars to reach Fort Gibson, by or about the last of September, and that they did cost that, or about that sum, to reach Fort Gibson, do confidently believe for in making purchases, and hiring services when
 was engaged in the business, used every endeavor 10 economise which lay in my pow CT, and the route travelled by the four com panles, was at least as expensive as that tra- yelled by the seven companies.
 The subsistence of men and forage for horses after arriving at their destinations, (Fort Towson and Fort Gibson1, and the subsequent removal of the seven companies from Fort Towson to Fort Gibson, which removal have always understood was at tended with very heavy expense, from the various facts that such removal was made Tn the dead of winter, when the waters were high and the roads bad, through very moun- talnous broken country, and that sparsely settled Indian country, where provisions, to- rage, teams, and assistance, and every thing that had to be purchased, came al the most exorbltant prices: say, the expense incurred for subsistence and forage, and the removal last before recied, must have been very hea- ". l learn that thirty-6ye thousand dol lars was the amount furnished by the Gov ernment for that ser zee, (ten thousand to Gov Fulton and twenty-five thousand to yourself): and considering that paid out nearly thirteen thousand during the short pc riod was in the service--aking into ac- count the other four companies that had nothing to do with, the expenses incurred Tn marching them to Fort Gibson, the expenses while lying at Forts Towson and Gibson, and removal of the seven companies from Fort Towson to Fort Gibson--l may say that am surprised if the money furnished by the Government (S35,0001 paid the ex- ? penses.
 It was fact, that about the years 1886 { and 1897, Capt. R. D. C. Collins was pro- Q verbally popular in Arkansas, so that every body reposed the most unlimited confidence in him. The Government reposed such con fdence in him, that he was intrusted with
 the disbursement q am told) of many hun dred thousand dollars. That you should
 entrust him with the paying out of some ili- :, teen or twenty thousand dollars, was perfect " ly in keeping with the feelings of every bo :. dy. And the above conclusions go to show most evidently, that he did apply the money = you entrusted with him, ill whole, or yer, . nearly so, to the purpose for which 1t Wal - designed.
 . . From subsequent disclosures touching tn v negligent habits of Capt Collins, it is req sonable to suppose that lie may have pal' = out great portion of that money, withou A taking any evidence of such payments; or = if he did take receipts from time to time, tha T they were from time to time lost, or so mis = placed, that they could not be found. ', am your very humble serv't,
 It ALLEN MARTIN, Laie 3. fluarter Muster, .4rtaasas Ailitta. ,s PETITION OF GOV. JAMES S. CONWAY