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o had frequent interviews with Major Clarke for the same object; and he has done what he could to correct errors growing out of the vicious system of recruiting through irresponsible and corrupt brokers. To show how easy it is to cheat, I will relate a circumstance that happened only the day before yesterday. Two men, belonging to Topsfield, enlisted for that town in Lieutenant Holmes's office, who is himself a citizen of Topsfield; they were mustered in, one for Uxbridge, and one for Tewksbury; the men themselves knew nothing of the change. Lieutenant Holmes investigated the matter; and it was discovered that the clerk in his office, for one hundred dollars paid him, made out fraudulent enlistment papers. I reported the case to Major Clarke; and, as the rolls had not been forwarded to Washington, the men were credited to Topsfield, where they belonged. When the call was made in July, 1863, for three hundred thousand three years men to be raised by draft, certain towns claim