Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-09
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Corps to duty assistants of General Baird Assistant
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State
OF Louisiana;
WAR DEPARTMENT.,
IT, ApJuTANT GENERALS OFFICE. Jan. 6, 1866.
The following officers will report in person without
delay to Brcvet Major Baird, U. S. V, Assistant
COMMISSIONER of the Bureau of Refugees Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands. New Orleans, La and thence
by letter to General Howard, for assignment to duty
in said Bureau, to replace officers therein serving
whose services may be needed with their proper reg
ments and companies, or whose commands have been
Maj; Jas Cromie, 18th Veteran Reserve Corps; Mai.
Id Hopswooi, 18th Veteran Reserve Corps; Captain
a. H. Nlckerson, 10Th Veteran Reserve Corps; Capt
T. johnson, ID Veteran Reserve Corps; Capt B. b.
Brown, 10th Veteran Reserve Corps; Captain A. G.
Tyler, 10Th Veteran Reserve Corps; Captain j. II.
Hastings. 18th Veteran Reserve Corps; Captain f. L.
HAZE GaTe. 9 3 Veteran keserye Corps Captain
18th Veteran Reserve Corps; Capt. S. W. Purchase
Vsaren heseTHe corps; lieut. Hyatt 9Th
Veteran Reserve Corps; Lieut.. J. Hough 18th Vet
eran Reserve Corps Lieut.. |; F. Cummings. I'd Vet
eran Reserve Corps Lieut.. W. Il. Webster 22d Vet
eran Reserve Corps; Lieut.: J. Lewis, 18th Veteran
Reserve Corps; Lieut.. G. ". Rollins l6tF Veteran
Reserye Corps; Lieut.. Y. II: Cornelius 23c Veteran
serve Corps Lieut.. c. P McTaggart, 5th Veteran Re
serve Corps Lieut.. W. K. Tiliofson Sd Veteran Re
serve Corps Lieut.. A. c. Ellis I'd Veteran Reserve
Corps; Lieut., j. A. Hudson, 9th Veteran Reserve
Corps
IMPORTANT To DIRcHARGED SOLDIERS.
The Soldiers and Sailors National Union League of
Mash,ngton haslsSqed an address, urging I'll honor
dDJ discharged sOders and sailors to preserve their
discharge papers, and not part with them specu
latorS for any sum. This advice is very important
and has the official Endorsement of the Hon ]
BrOadhead, Second Controller, who has addressed
communication to the PaymaSter General as follows
1t has been brought to my notice that certain
claim agents are advertising that they are engaged
in the collection of extra bounty from $500 to 500
for soldiers who enlisted in 1861 and 1862 and
all other times when only 500 was paid and
are thus traudulently obtaining possession of SOL
diers discharges In no case, except that of
veterans, has the extra bounty referred to been
authorized nor can 1t be paid without further legis-
latlon: and 1t IS very important that soldiers shonld
not part with their discharges through misrepresen-
taton OF their rights. would the efore respectfully
suggest the propriety of giving official notice thar in
prior to une %, 1868, entitled to more than 500
bounty" ~
- SOLDIERS CLAIMS AND BACK PAY
The United states Sanitary Commission having de-
cHned to continue, beyond January l. the collection
OF soldiers claims for back pay bounty and nensinn
the General Secretary of the AmericSn Freedmen'..
AID Commission will receive until further notice the
claims o1 90lored soldiers and their heirs Applica-
tlons should be addressed to Jacob R. Shepherd Cen
eral Secretary, Washington, d. c.
~ RECOEsTRUCTED VIRGINIA.
The civil courts IN Virginia are demonstrating the
ntnesS OF that ancient Commonwealth for re- admis-
sion to Congressional privileges. Several parties
have been tried Tor the occupancy of estates deserted
ny thelr reoel owners and leased to them by the
United States government, and judgments rendered
against them, Damages and costs have been ad-
judged against others proven to have acted during
the war as scouts and spies for the Union armies and
through whose supposed information rebel farmers
were despoiled of their cattle and forage.
THE CASE OF kETCHuM AND THE CHEF JUSTICE
There is not particle of foundation for the report
that Chief Justice Chase asked for the pardon Of
young Ketchum He has neither expressed directlv
or indirectly any wish in the premises,