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Col. B. has been completely under the control of a parcel of swindlers sots and toadies whose advice he has followed to the detriment of the objects of the Company. They have been steadily at work since we left San Francisco to annoy, obstruct and even oust all the honest hard workers in the service. On Scammon & the Sci. Corps they have centred a great deal of their venom, and it will shortly be decided at St. Michael where a grand fight ^[[is going to come off]]. I think Rob. would come down any how; but they intend to make him, whether or no. I have been fighting them all the summer and have had a bitter and hard time of it, for I have not had one friend in whom I could trust implicitly; I know Scammon looks out well for his own interest, and I'll be damned if any man shall be able to brag that the Sci. Corps is a fosterling of his own, and look to Washington for corresponding returns for his assistance. The plans in my own head so far were these. If Bob stays, of