This city is literally packed with troops and very many are quartered in private dwellings, where the owners are simply given so many hours to clear out, irrespective of what, or who they are. Then, again, money is often made easily by coming to paste up the number of such a Company which is to occupy these premises, when really all that 1s wanted is a few dollars and the storm is all past. The poor in these cases suffer most, and they have no redress and no court of appeal. It must be said to their credit that the officers here keep the peace, and have their men well under control, if only these poor fellows could get their pay, they would be as happy as kings.
The use of different kinds of paper notes for paying the troops has caused not a little suffering
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