The Portland daily press., 1865-04-28
Letter from the State Capital.
AUGUSTA. Abr. n. 1856

AUGUSTA, Apr. n, 1855.
TO the Editor er ths Press:
The following commissions, net heretofore
announced, have been issued from the office
of the Adjutant General, viz:
First Regiment Caualry-Frank Bodfish,
Waterville, Assistant SurgeoA; Charles A.
Stevens, Littleton, I'd Lieut. Co. K; Albert
R. johnson, Perry, I'd Lieut.. Co. D; George
W. Hussey, Houlton, Capt. Co. E; Benjamin
A. Osborne, Lincoln, LIST Lieut.. Co. e; Ed
ward P. Tobie, Jr., Lewiston, I'd Lieut.. Co. E.
First Regiment HeaUy artillery Hudson
Sawyer, Levant, Capt. Co. i; Cassius @. Rob-
erts, Stockton, LIST Lieut.. Co. b; Daniel o.
Brown, Morrill,, 1st Lieut.. Co. G.; Charles ].
House, Lee, 1st Lieut.. Co. G.; Frank ]. Sar-
gent, Ellsworth, I'd Lieut.. Co. C; Andrew G.
McCurdy, Lincoln, I'd Lieut.. Co. M; StiIlman
s. Woodcock, TopsAeld, I'd Lieut. Co, L.
Eleventh. Regiment Iydntry-Henry @.
Adams, Cherryneld, Major; Lewis 81. Holt,
Paris, Capt. Co. G; Thomas Clark. fremont,
Capt. Co. F.; Charles II. Scott, Portland, 1st
Lieut.. Co. F; Joseph o. Smith, Hodgdon. I'd
Lieut.. Co. +; Judson L. Young, Springfield,
LIST Lieut.. Co. A; Josiah F. Keene, Phipsburg,
I'd Lieut.. Co. d.
Fifteenth Regiment Infdntry-Arthur A.
Holmes, Skowhegan, Assistant Surgeon.
Thirtieth Regiment Infantry-Ho N
Howard, Abbot, Abbot, Surgeon.
Coast Guards-James L. Hunt, Bath, Capt.
Co. E.
Unassigned Infantry-Aaron Ring, West
brook, Capt. 10Th Co.; Frederick d. Lowell,
Portland, LIST Lieut.. 10th. Co.; T. Gilman
Webster. Portland, I'd Lieut.. 10Th Co.; Sam
uel L. Gilman, Hallowell, Capt. 10Th Co.;
Frank E. Frye, Lewiston, LIST Lieut.. SOth Co.;
Damon Roberts, Jr., Lyman, I'd Lieut.. Both
Co. ~ asso seits.
The remaining companies Of unassigned In
fantry in camp here are to be forwarded at
once to Washington, and with the four COM
panies already there raised by Lieut.. Col.
Murray for the 18th regiment, are to be form
en- into a battalion, and Lieut.. Col. Murray
will be transferred to its command by the
War Department with his present rank.
The Board of Trustees of the State Col
lsge of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
adjourned yesterday.
The State House is undergoing the usual
Spring repairs. $3.50
The Executive Council viii meet Monday,
May 1st, and win probably be in session
week. ao ha st.55..fss
Several boys and girls in Reckland, ten to
twelve years old, short time since, gave
concert in aid of our sick and wounded sol
diers, and sent Governor Cony seven dollars
as the proceeds. vaM
l notice an advertisement in some paper
within day or two, for men to go to Tennes-
see to work in the Quartermaster's Depart
ment. II the advertiser is the same person
who was in this State last winter, and took
away laborers, he had better keep out of the
way of those who went out with him. or he
will be sure to receive from them what he
deserves for his swindling and deceit. If he
is not the same person, our people had better
beware of him, for this same &C uartermaster's
Department in Tennessee" is humbug. Lib
hey Prison is better place. So is Purgatory.
Men who 60 TO Tennessee to work In the
"Quartermaster's Department" have to run
away if they ever get home. and II they stay
there they either get starved to death or kill
ed by guerrillas. They never stay there the
time for which they contract and conseouent-
ly get nopay. have known men who went.
out there put into the army, others who ran
away and have not yet earned money enough
to get to get home with, and others who
had to send home for money to bring
them. have never heard of man 60
ing there who ever got cent from his en-
ployers, enough to eat, or decent treatmeny.
Let me tell you about "the quartermaster's
department in Tennessee" For instance
the military operations require river bridg.
ed. The "quartermasters department. which
IL the government channel for accomplishing
this kind OF work, let's it out to some contract
or, who, it is safe to assume, is villain He
sends his agents about, who, with smooth talk
and promises of good wages, secure unsus-
pecting laborers to Ego to Tennessee They
sign contract to stay six months at stated
price, and transportation out and back. I'm
less the laborers remain the Elk months they
receive nothing, aud they are so treated they
cannot stay, 1t Is easy to see that the design
is to. get all the labor possible out OF them
without remuneration, and from the fact that
the laborers are mostly poor aud have no
money with them, they stay till human endur.
ance can hold out no longer, then leave, some.
times by stealth. almost invariably without
money. Let no more of our people be duped
~ such miserable stun. HELIos.