The mountain Democrat., 1865-03-18
THE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT.
eeI.ovaIs Frauds in New York.

The New York correspondent of the
San Francisco Call writes under date of
February 10th, giving al account Of the
most Infamous frauds which have been
perpetrated by "lOyal" officials, which goes
TO further establish the fact that thieves
are placed In responsible positions for the
purpose of getting rich over the misfor.
tunes Of their country. The correspon-
deDt says:
Obi what u precious time we are hav-
ing here nov, in the arrest, by Government
order, of bounty jumpers, fraudulent sub
Aaitutes brokers, and rascally officials,
their consc3eEzies.. We.Afe ii 4 fever of
excitement about it. General consterna-
ton rules here, rather than Gen. Dix
Over CITY persons have been suddenly
brought 10 grief already. and perhaps as
many more are cOncealing themselves
from Colonel Baker, the War Department
Detective, because they anticipate the
strength Of his attachments" Nor are
the arrests confined to the obscure and
the lOwly, for some Of the alleged culprits
are distinguished and pious people, hold
exalted positions, and have always borne
exemplary characters. Great consterna.
ton Is the natural result. Itseems that
the recruiting agents have been making
immense fortunes by manufacturing forg-
ed enlistment papers. They filled up
"quotas" for inland town authorities Ton
paper" pocketing from 500 to $1,000
bounty money for each mythical recruit
thus provided. As the enlisted men are
all sent to the Navy Yard or else to- the
Government camp grounds here, the re-
ceipt certificates Of the officers at the yard
or at these camps were deemed sufficient.
BY bribing those officers with fifty dollars
for each enlistment, these agents would
get copies of every list Of real recruits,
and then duplicate, triplcate, yes, twenty
times over quadruplicate. the same lists,
and dispose Of them as so many patches
of new volunteers. Many an official in
the Navy Yard, at Governors Island etc,
is therefore among the prisoners of Col.
Baker, as we'll a. an army Of civilians. -
Even U. S. Marshal Murray and his sub
ordinateS are accused OF defrauding the
Government and taking brides to assist
our enemies, and Provost Marshal Manner
re, rumor has it. stands accused OF some.
thing Of the same kind. AS for bounty
Jumpers. it turns out that certain United
States officers have, for CONSIDERATION,
furloushed new recruits every day, in or.
der that they might be enlisted over and
over again. and divide the bounty money
with the brokers!
Such an expose Of wholesale and unliS-
guised corruption among men in Office
and out Of Office never was made before,
and it staggers the community. Country
towns that fancicd they had completed
their quotas and were out of the draft,
stand COMPOUNDED. Their money is gone,
and their recruits are nowhere! Instead
Of men ''in boots" they have supplied
only men "on paper" and must 90 to
these bogus lists and papers have been
arrested, and arc being arrested, with the
exception Of one or two, who having
changed their grCcnt aCk> into gold, have
escaped to Europe. Who is innocent
amid these wide sweeping charges Of
guilt? That lie the question. Every Off
cial is regarded with dlstrH>t. Every re-
cruiting Federal agent is viewed as
Government robber. Add to this that
New York must supply sixteen thousand
more men Immediately or else submit to
a draft about the first Of March, and you
may fancy what condition We are in
The Legislature having enacted State
Bounty Law. our Supervisors adopted it
yesterday. Our Common Council, dis
covering that the recruiting Offices they
had permitted to so up, despite public
opinion, in the City Hall Park. only en-
listed men for other districts giving high
er bountics. ordered them broken up,and
last night the Police suddenly leveled
them to the ground. But, between the
arrests, the frauds and the certainty Of a
draft, We are in glorious dilemma.