The New York herald., 1864-09-07
Recruiting.
THE PARK AND THE BOOTHS.

TDk PARK AND THE BOOTHS.
Arc the members Of Common Council aware that
they are-unwitingly, doubt-doing great wrong TO
their constituents the people Of this ctyo the poor
man az well as the rchs The little booths and tents
erected the Park for recruiting purposes the cause OF
this wrong. We the members OF the Common
Council that every OF these places is used for the
purpose OF securing men, not for our own quota Tor
which We are struggling so hard and paying 50 much to
ll but for other cities and all this and other
States wherever the bounties exceed our own
The occupants OF these places daily robbing
the city OF New York Of its war matsrte!.
They are rdbbng. too our citizens taking the
very bread from the mouths OF the poor;
for they actually prevent Us from filing our quota,
ana are doing what they 10 enforce draft upon US,
all the hardshps OF which all upon the abarng classes
Go to The SUPERVISORS Volunteering Committee Rooms.
and you will be informed thai tho agents and brokers
occupying thoso Park and bo hs bring
man To those headquarters, but on the contrary are
Constantly working against the committee, and s5me-
times taking men from their very doors and hurryng
them out OF the city And this great wrong upon
citizens ia encouraged BY our Common Council by allow
ing these facilities to the agents engaged In the business
This the members probably not Of but Is
fact notw iths,anaing We trust these abuses viii be
remedled ~ the very next meeting OF the Boards.
The Naval Enllstmcnts.
We have had enough to complain OF the IN
generous and illiberal acts Of the War Department to-
wards this city, the patriotism OF which has boen shown
by furnishing for the hundred thousand
families oil soldiers, &c J or fifteen millions Of dol
ars the unfair and ungenerous act In reference to
the credits OF the naval enlsments as just reported Is
In chargeabe, as has been asserted, TO that
department. The authors OF Ibis last wrong and
piece OF gross injustice are the Commissioners
Coopols Townsend and Stonehouse. who were ap
pointed by the Secretary OF War to examine
the elaborate report made the enrolment OF sailors
into the navy from this port since 1861 by the Chairman
Of the super erng Orson Blunt.
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few Of the TACT at The time, has been Tor
MANY weeks iaboriously aged IN compiling an authcn
tlcaed list OF enlistments into the navy from this
port The task was hercuean in its vasness but to pre-
this city from draft, and TO save to II also some
eight millions OF dollars, which II would have re-
quired 70 fiji the quota by volunteering, were the ncen
tives. Their work well dOne resulting in most form
dabe list OF twenty FIVE thousand four hundred aud hfy
namesa certified TO as having enlsted at the port
OF New Yorkand of course, should be credited 70 our
thousand five bandred huge twelve by twenty two inch
sheets, flied with these names giving age place OF en-.
at Albany. The Chairman the supervisors Committee
accompanied It and his own testimony In reference
the correctness OF the enrolment and which fully con
nrmed the certificates OF the naval officers.
The Commissioners no less amazed at the magni-
being able to find the name OF single man oat OF place.
and acknowledging that the Whole NUMBER as
they stood belonged 10 tne quota oi ,.nrs New iorS
Committee and OF the good people OF this city
by the HERALD that tho Commissioners had after
all dashed oil at single blow. without any GAIN tnat
could have been easily rsbutted over SIX thousand OF
the twenty fve thousand four hundred and hfty one
names credit Of the City OF Brookyn-Riving her.
by this sct her quota OF thousand or
more mcn and creating deficiency in ours OF M re than
hundred which must now DO made up oy drat or
Otherwise rhesex wenty tive thousand tour hundred and
lftyoue all belonged to the quota Of this city, so
conceded the War department. yet these state Com
mssoners have actually robbed the city OF this number,
and left IN deot for more men, when we should have
had actual surplus OF six or seven thousand.
II Buffalo or Brooklyn any othor place give un
questionable proof that any certain number OF mon ac
tuay enlisted in tho navy from those places 1t is perfect
ly proo
ing six thousand from and spreading them about
here and there, too papaby wrong and unjust TO re-
auire a word OF comment. That the Secretary Of Wlr
should this Is likely enought was the act u
his Commissioners but that they could have assent.
ed nct injury upon this city passes compre
hepsion. We trust they viii be induced to review their
decision, and correction to be made and justice
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