Show shavers this camp swarms with advertisements circulars and cards of different agencies established in california for the purpose of collecting soldiers cal claims against the government we take it for granted that camp douglas forms no exception and that the remaining posts and camps where there are california volunteers suffer under a like infliction we say infliction not but that there might arise circumstances where it would be necessary fora for a soldier to lave have recourse to one of these persons for this might at rare intervals become desirable but because somehow the whole business is looked upon as disreputable pu table and the world has taken into its bead that those who carry it on are arc of the harpy pers persuasion As a business this ot of collecting soldiers claims has haa come down in the esteem of the public to a par with the trade of the horse jockey the calling of the old clothes man mail or a more apt illustration it is esteemed little better as a business than was previous to this war the business busine is of the slave deiler of the south the opinion of the community thus formed may be wrong wrong I 1 but that it is the prevalent thought and sentiment is very evident and we w would rather take it as correct than attempt to prove its incorrectness why in many instances the form wording and inducements held out by the advertisers are proof sufficient of the indirect and clandestine nature of the business pursued by the way it seems strange to observe that men so fully acquainted with military matters as these men ought to be both by their present business and former position should with wit a sublimity of ignorance that is bewildering to those who think a man mail ought to know something about what he receives a salary for superintending super intending direct I 1 letters etters to the sergt major of each company in a regiment viz sergt major co A 3rd ard enry C C V 77 etc aud byway by way of a change ring in the ard 3rd Cor plas the most suitable person to w whom it am to dire direct C t business letters I 1 |