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ade in their case which rankles. It is regarded, and properly so, as a stain, and they feel it as a wound. Again, we received last evening, from the War Department, copies of general orders, which announce that a bounty of $400 will be paid to veteran volunteers who enlist, or re-enlist under existing orders, and a bounty of $300 to raw recruits who enlist in any three years organizations authorized by the War Department, either in service, or in process of completion, until the first day of March, 1864. This, I understand, is the law of the land. Now, this Springfield company is an organization authorized to be recruited by the Secretary of War, and it is a three years organization. Why, then, I again ask, should the men not be paid what the law of Congress establishes, and the orders of the War Department promulgate? I wish it to be distinctly understood that I am a friend of Secretary Stanton. I have defended him on all occasions when I have heard him attacked. I have