The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-10

OUn STATE C0MMysARIAr-TH ALBANY Mill
rARy Board AaAIN.-Ws are glad to be able to
correct, by authority, the statement In our arti-
Gle published recently, upon the commissariat
of the State, 90 far as it applies to tho provision
ing of the fifteen thousand volunteers quartsred
at and near this city. 1t appears that tho
soldiery are we'll fed, and that all are salts
fed with the rations furnished by the State au-
thorities. That there have been complaints Is
undeniable; but these have come only from
malcontents, who were drummed out Of the
regiments, or from those companies which draw
rstions not from the State, bat from the moneys
furnished by their friends or by the Union De-
fence Committee. At Sandy Hook and Quaran-
tine there was slight trouble at FIRST; but after
wards affairs went on admirably. We cannot
blame the State Commissariat, therefore, upon
the evidence only Of those who have nothing
to do with their rations, or of those who have
been turned out of the regiments for miscon-
duct.
General Arthur, the State Engineerin. Chief,
has charge of the Commissarist Department,
and is acting as Quartermaster General He
has given the contract for supplying provisions
to the troops CHARTERED here to Mr.. Wright, for
merly Of the Lafarge Hotel, and the contract
is on file at the Comptroller's Office. From
General Arthur the Quartermssters of the diff
ferent regiments obtain their orders for rations,
and theee rations, supplied by the contractor,
are inspected by competent men before being
used. If there is any Encouragement here 1t
must be the fault of the regimental quar-
termasters, and they must bear the blame
of the affair. For the energy and efficiency
with which General Arthur has performed
his duty he deserves every praise. For over
mi nth he has provided for about fifteen thou
sand men, receiving and quartering regiments
at an hours notice, and affording almost uni
versal satisfaction.
But all this merely shifts the blame for the
shortcomings of our State Commissariat to other
shoulders. We repeat that incomplete regi-
ments have been sworn into service, and
have been receiving rations for FIVE hundred
more men than they really have upon the roll.
Whether they receive these rations from the
State or from the Union Defence Committee is
subject Of very little moment. The
fault is at the doors of the Military
Board at Albany none the less, for if the State
officers had performed their duties there would
have been no occasion for this committee. And
we repeat, also, that however well provided
the troops may be with food, they are not we'll
provided with under clothing, socks. shoes,
&c and that this, also, is the fault of this in.
competent, political-intriguing Military Board.
The Board has made contracts for these arti-
cles with persons at Albany who cannot or
will not I'll them. The Board refuses to per.
NIT General Arthur to purchase these articles
here in New York city, where they can be
cheaply and abundantly obtained. The Board
will not give General Arthur power to pur-
chase tents or authority to construct
barracks, nor send him the five hun.
dred tents which ought to be at
Albany. What General Arthur has done
he has done almost in spite of the Military
Board-a name which is a sort of lNcns non
h,cendo-for most of the members know a.
much about military matters as they do about
the Chaldaic language. If the contracts made
at Albany are not fulfilled why are they not
annulled? If they are fulfilled, why are not
the articles sent down to General Arthur for
distribution? Are all the members of the
Board anxious for the high reputation which
General Sanford possesses for tact, enterprise
and energy? The hero of the Prince OF Wales
parade is locomotive when compared with
such slow coaches as they are.
While the Board is occupied with petty
squabbles about the officers of the regiments
and with petty intrigues to favor favorite con-
tractors, our volunteers suffer. The govern
ment has already administered stern rebukes to
these officials, by accepting regiments (the
Fourteenth, of Brooklyn, for instance) without
their knowledge, and by giving the Quitting OF
the fourteen regiments recently accepted exclu
sively to the Union Defence Committee The
Military Board should take these hints, and
may rest assured that the people, when they
have the opportunity, viii effectually prevent
any recurrence Of such shiftless, namby-pam-
by, selfish and injurious course of inaction aud
political intrigue. When we have settled the
war, we shall as decidedly settle the case of the
Military Board and it's abettors, the huckstering
State authorities.
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