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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Life in the Camps. (search)
or service. Many of them have been condemned as unfit for cavalry use. And we saw, also, a number of horses purchased in Granville, under direction of Col. Spruill, at an average of about $140, which are really well put up and fine-looking animals, capable of effective service in the field. On Monday last, in this place, some ten or twelve cavalry horses — ordinary concerns even for the plow or wagon — were sold to the highest bidder, having been properly condemned as unfit for service. They cost the State from $140 to $150, and brought from $40 to $50. These, we learn, were purchased by a Mr. Myers. The Standard further says, it will never do to continue to appoint favorites, and pets, and other partisans to office. Merit, qualifications, and nothing else, should be looked to in making appointments. A man who will give $125 to $140 for a horse, which is first condemned and then sold for $49 or $50, is incompetent, to say the least. Let all such agents be discharged