Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-10-14
SECOND EDITION.
THREE O'CLOCK r. ".
OUR MILITARY BUDGET
ALL QUIET.


o.. ALL QUIET.
All was quiet upon our front to p. m. TODAY;
the enemy's scattering Picfets only being visible
In the distance.
GENERAL M'cLHLLAN.
General Mcclellan returned Yesterday afternoon
from the other side of the river. We hear that
he will again proceed there today ere nightfsll.
GENERAL BARNEY.
Brigadier General Harvey 10 In thh city. He
was at the ONCE Of the Adjutant Generals to-day.
uNPouSDKD AsPERsIoNs.
A Washington correspondent In Fridays New
York Tunes ssssiIs Msjor Beckwith, c. .. U. 3.
A, most unjustly and shamelessly.
The writer's indictment 10 az follsws:
"THE REGULATING CoNntsskRYy-I have be-
fore alluded TO the alleged populations Of one OF
the Commissaries Of the Army To-day the TALK
10 quite plain that Cept Beckwith has been man
aging hi, business In way that must have ben
himself IL common report be true-and thinE
in this instance II does not exsggertte-the Gov
eminent has been defrsuded Of large amounts In
the weight Of the cattle received under the LAST
contract for beef cattle on the hoof AZ the est.
mated weights the Government has really paid
much more for an inferior quality OF beef than
was paid under the notorious Dyer contract.
There are other means OF fraud said 10 have been
successfully worked under Capt. BeckwttkS sur
veillsnce-frsuds 30 manifest and positive a. TO
II lie a sufficient answer TO these charges 10 sy
that Major Beckwith neither receives nor pays for
the cattle in question. They are delivered,
weighed and receipied for at Harrisburg BY
Capt. Du Barry, Assistant Commissary United
States Army one Of the FIRST officers In the service.
BY him they are then sent property Of the
United States to this city, and delivered over to
Major Beckwlth, whose duty Il 10, simply 70 sup
ply them-divide them out to the troops here.
Thus, IL there Is any peculation whatever In
connection with their purchase, Major 10 en-
tirely clear Of complcitysrith 10, because be hss
no more to do with their purchase or receipt than
the man In the moon.
But these allegations against the quality,
weight and condition Of the cattle In question are
wholly unfounded. In truth they are (ninety-
nine head I'm the hundred) az fine beef seers IN
were ever sold In any American market-remarks-
bly, fne-as all cattle in this city viii testify.
They are, Of course, somewhat better on being
delivered In Hansburg-before the drive 70 this
point.
rhe truth is, these charges are ISLANDERS whis-
pered into the Tugs Of newspaper men Ignorant Of
such matters, by some Of the horde Of speculsting
thieves disappointed in using Msjor Becfwith 10
rob the treasury, who hang around the Washing
ton hotel halls just now.
Major B. is an ofacer Of great energy, ssgacity
and efficiency, having discharged his dnties with
remarkable success in feeding the immense army
in this quarter.
THE EAST AND THE WEST.
Editor Of the Star: have lately noticed par
agraphs In the newspapers rejecting dispsrsging-
ly on the East not equal in patriotic spirit 70
the West in raising troops. And even In the Sssr
Of Saturday sllusion 10 made 10 the East II it
were far behind the West in the number OF
soldiers already sent into the fed.
Now few statistics" will show this 10 be q
mistake. or the half million men 20 be raised,
you state that not more than 100000 have yet
reached the field 20 per cent Of the whole. Then
suppose the "free" States were 10 raise the okois,
New England's share would be seveuty-fve
regiments, Of 1000 men each, divided thus:
Maine. Is; New Hampshire, 81 Vermont, g.;
massachusetts,, 30; Rhode Island, 4; Connect
cut, 10. These States have already in the field
Maine, 10; New Hampshire, a Vermont, q;
Massachusetts, - Rhode island, 3; Connecticut,
total SO regiments or two-thirds Of their quota.
This il only little less than the average; and
when the men raised in the border "slave" States
are deducted from the aggregate, 10 will be seen
that II Is little than their proportion among
the "free" States Besides, the recruits for the
regular army and for The navy have mostly come
from the East. And New Hampshire, know,
has her other four regiments, 70 eonplets ber
quota, nearly full, and will soon have them
equipped, and sent TO the field, and might send
them at once az well provided az the troops from
some other States. The same, presume, 10 true
of other Eastern states Add 10 this that the East
furnishes nearly all the money for Government
use, and you will hnd the East not wanting. b.