The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-06-09

l hundred OF us mere, We cApcctou " &c
mustered ont, (as the Medical Director,
DR.. Dougherty, also thought), in two
weeks at most. Our reasons for this
supposition were founded on the fact
that the chief clerk in the mastering of
fee at Cumberland told us some weeks
ago that they usually mustered out about
| ifty men per day and we had seen one
of onr own clerks, from the hospital,
make out the rolls for at least three men
in. one day We also remembered that
besides all this, the Honorable Secretary
| Of War had ordere | the work done "imme-
didtely," and the most vague and fancifnl
mind among us never dreamed that
"immediatelg" meant all Summer" But
we counted without our host" as we
| have since learned to u sorrow and
vexation, and if we must add, to q dis
gust.
(By the way Mr.. Editor, can you in
form us where we can get a copy of the
Military revision of Webster ~dictionary?)
| The mastering out process bears about
as mnch resemblance to the quick and
spirited work of mastering In; as the
payment of a debt usually does to the
promise to pay. We find nc fault with the
| Government for this. We can give no
higher pledge to you of our confidence in
| the Government than we have already
| given all; and no one can give any more.
/ But we do find fault with the mastering
| officers. The month of May has passed
| and it is nov June, and the orders of the
| highest authority known or acknowledg
| ed in the armies of the United States
| have been treated with a contempt that
| one of us dare not exhibit toward those
of an eighth corporal without receiving
prompt and merited punishment. Less
| than fifty of us have been mustered out
in over a month! The work still goes
slowly on, Git has about come to a halt)
but hardly in proportion to the salaries
of those who have charge of it.
IF it were done 'twere well 'twere
done quickly" SO says the Government,
the soldiers say Amen.
At this poor dying rate" three months
will pass by before we are out, when it
is our strong desire to go nome to our
friends and our business, and it is as
much the desire of the Government to
relieve itself of this useless if not crimi-
nal increase of our already mammoth
debt. 1t costs the people four thousand
dollars per month to pay and feed u.s.
How much it costs the people to pay and
feed those Gho get more than sirteen dollars
per month we cannot say. Already half
that amount has been wasted by what
Governor Morton OF Inaiana and his aide,
Col. Hornbrook, and many officers and
gentlemen within the department, in
Guiding Col. Dougherty the Medical Di-
rector and all the surgeons OF the hospi-
tai have already officially pronounced a
useless delay in the mastering depart
ment. On a memorial being sent to
Governor Morton he Immediately tele-
graDhed to Col. Hornbrook to see that
the Indiana boys were mustered out
and at once.
This excellent friend of the soldier has
done his duty, and will compel immedi-
ate compliance on the part of the mus
tering officer. We dOnot know how 500
Governor Brough, Curtin and others,
and even the Secretary of War may give
us the same kindly help. They have
been written to on the same subject. and
one communication, at least, bears the
signature of the highest officer in this
State. 1t is gratifying to know that
those great men do not deem private SOL
disrs dogs or cattle or consider it an of.
Tense worthy of punishment for them to
think, speak or act for themselves as do
some of their shoulder strapped interiors,
but promptly respond to our memorials
and treat us as men and American citi
e who have a right, a blood bought
right, to claim redress for our grievances,
and some of them, at least, have deter
mined that justice shall be done, and
that we shall not be kept waiting forerer
for the private ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of a few
officers. We do not wish to be kept
"three years unless war is sooner de-
clared" The wal is over aud we want
to 90 home to once more resume our rank
again as citizens, to again return to IL
respective and respectable positions in SO
ciety, to our work shops, Il farms, our
stores, t. our teachers and professors
chairs, to our legal bars and ministerial
desks, to all our pursuits, trades and pro-
| LESSONS, to the enjOyments of social and
civil life, to the endearments of home
We wish to again take our proper sta
| tons among oar fellow men in our for
| mer circles, where goodness of heart, in
telltCU duu ulCliti iCai Soh"i'o WV"
(not shoulder straps are marks of ,ank.-
Shall that desire be gratiied The
Government" says, yes Immediately"
without delay" Yet a few officers, not
| near as frank" as the Government"
keep US 10 opposition to the orders, wish
| es and interest of all concerned. What
| are the motives2 Surely not of patriot
| ism, for they would prompt an opposite
| course, to curtailrather than incur eXpen-
ses. We fear that other isms are at work
| perhaps despotism, it may be avarice or
ipdo,ence. But we could COM nearer
| proving the combination of all three
| All we'll they have bled for the country
| and endangered their lives, and now it
| is but fair that they should strike at its
| vitality and make it bleed for them
| Perhaps they have imbibed the ideas of a
| certain officer who, upon being informed
| by another that he wished the hospital
broken up, answered, "you may go fur
| Their and fare worse" (This might have
| happened somewhere near the mouth of
| the Ohio river, but it didn't.) No doubt
the much and frequent weeping of such
men over the bleeding country" has
been the cause of the frequent rapid rises
of the river; it has unquestionably has
much to do with the rise of gold Some
men might save barrels of tears for our
bleeding country" if they would quit
bleeding 1t. 1--WE were thinking of some
body in Canada when we said that.)
Shall it cost the government from ten