The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1862-01-15
Pertinent Questions.


'hurt somebody" when it puts the annexed queries
We are sorry to perceive from the papers throughout
the Confederacy, the many peeulaons upon the poor
soldiers They even complain that they do not receive
onehalf of the clothing and money collected and for
warded TO them Gov Moore, long since, pointed out
to our citizens the mode to be pursued in forwarding
any thing to our absent soldiers and certainly thiuk
his advice should be needed. The Examiner puts the
following queries:
rs is true that physicians, authorised by the govern
ment to certify the disability Of soldiers applying
for discharges have charged the soldiers fee tor
animation in each case OF five dollars per MANI"
is it true that while it is notorious that our army
at Manassas have for months been scarcely hatra-
tons the commssary accounts have been settled for
the regular number Of ratons allowed by the govern
meut?n
1T is true that comrnissary agent, who under
the melancholy impression that he owed the govern
ment seven thousand dollars succeeded by the aid OF
clumsy chulr who overhaaed his accounts in bring
ing the government into his own debt Sl000?'
The Examiner further gives sad account of the
treatment Of discharged and disabled soldiers in that
city growing out Of the difficulty of obtaining settle
ments of the just ptanee due them for service rem
dered their country in the tented field. 1t says:
cone has only to 90 to the paEmasters office of the
government in Bank street. to witness scenes of suffer
ing there and of official crcumlocution and delay to
which the sick soldiers subjected, calculated not
| only to move their pity, bat TO excite, on the
other hand, the strongest Indignation. The office Is
daily crowded with poor sick, wounded and disabled
soldiers waiting anxously for their pay Many OF these
wret9hed diseased mea will tell you that they have
been in the Office at Q O'Clock every morning for
\ than week, and are apparently no nearer gettr
I pay than when they first came. They will beg o
buy their claims at fifty cents the dol al.d Will
tell YOU with all sorts of entrcaty Of then anxiety
get home"
The Examiner then states the case Of lex soldier
who was met by officer when on his way, by di-
rection of a government clerk, to the b. er's Office,
with the intention Of selling his pay order at any price
he could get The olcerreturned with him to the pay
masters Office asked for settlement of the account
received some insoence and reply to the effect that
no money was on hand After threatening this under
ling official that he would report him at headquarters
a promise of payment in half an hour was very po-
litelv given. And sure enough, the poor fellow who
had been vanly waiting from day to day for his little
pittance was within that time paid off All this while
remarks the Examiner, the government had funds and
was fully prepared to pay its discharged soldiers the
delay being solely attributable to the neglect Of its an
dcrlings
/ The PAssIos FOR sgEcrLAg4oE.-The Richmond Dis
patch is equally the corrupdons Of the times
and says:
$50 much has been written and said about the spec
ulators and extortioucrs since the American Union
was dissolved that it would be indeed difficult write
or say anything new, or anything that would touch
heart that has no emotion save that excited by the rat
tie OF iUcfe Yet we hud OCCASIONALLY some passage
IN the history OF bySone umes tlat appheS so Qrecty
TO class Of vampires now sucking out the blood of the
nation that We cannot resist tile temptation to copy it,
though it proves that mankind at every stage OF
the world progress mas been prone 10 IN? wee mne
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fishes the following summary
"The emancipation question-Whcre the eontraband
can be seut-Promnent members Of congress are con
siderng new proposition for the solution OF the con
traband' question: in order to avoid the expense OF
supporting crowds Of slaves in dcncs and furnish
the American mills with cotton. They take the ground
that the Indian territory Of Louisiana and Arkan
sas ceded to the United States by treaty and Ger
tain conditions Without provocations they have VIC
lated the treaties, and levied war on the United States,
thus rendering the treaties null and void.
1T is proposed to apply the principle Of Bonton's
armed occupation act and send ill contabands this
territory and apprentice them the settlers upon these
cotton lands leaving the question of their final dispo-
.ition to be settled BY congress tue close Of the
all contrabands as fast they come into camp to be