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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], The abuses of the impressment law. (search)
ach. In addition to this, information is constantly reaching us of delay in collecting or transporting Government supplies after they are purchased, and waste and destruction of the same at or near Government or railroad depots. On Friday last, at Bonneau's Station, on the Northeastern railroad, we saw Government corn in process of removal which had been purchased and stored, and been undergoing waste and damage there, ever since June or July last — both at the same depot, and at that near Monck's Corner, we are told, large quantities of Government fodder, purchased in the vicinity, were suffered to be wasted, cattle feeding on it ad libitum, and large portions of it rotting and diffusing offensive odors. In Upper St. John's a planter still has in his barn, put up in sacks, 1,200 bushels of corn, bought and paid for by the Government in May last — a prey to weasels and rats — because no one has yet come for it. We were informed not very long ago that at Charlotte, N. C., one had to<