Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

ECONOMY.
The mounted volunteers of Ohio and Kentucky are paid at the rate of fifty cents per day for their horses; or fifteen Dollars per month-Pretty good wages, for a four footed warrior ! The volunteer has his horse appraised before he enters the service, and if he is taken prisoner, or dies, by famine or by the hands of the enemy, the owner is remunerated by the Government at the appraised value. As the United States pay a little, it is not probable that the neighbours and friends, of these patriotic volunteers, would appraise them much below their real value; it is rather more likely that they are estimated pretty high
Suppose then a volunteer has a horse worth sixty Dollars. But he is appraised at one hundred Dollars.
The mounted gentleman is out on a campaign of six months. He receives Ninety Dollars for the use of his horse, and if he happens to die within a few miles of his home, on his return, he gets one hundred Dollars more, making in the whole one hundred and ninety Dollars for a horse worth only sixty.
A very pretty little speculation !
A respectable gentleman lately from the City of Washington states that he there saw an officer of the Western army, who told him that he came from the army in the trail of the returning mounted volunteers. and saw on the road, five hundred dead horses-But it is of no consequence, say they, the United States pay all and the greater part, of the whole, is paid by the Northern and Middle States-We will dance, but you must pay the Fiddler