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It is the universal practice to supply laborers with "rations as part of their wages" It is not here alleged that Captain Rosecrans furnished Government rations, but the public are left to infer that such is the fact and this inference seems to have been intended by the Commissioners, for they proceeded to speak in immediate Conviction of.

MISSION RATIONS.
In one of our interviews with the freedmen at Newbern some of them, who were employed in the Commissary Department of the Bureau, stated that rations in bulk had been frequently taken from the supply warehouse at unusual hours, before the doors were opened for the transaction of business, and hauled off in carts and wagons, and that on one occasion, they had followed a cart containing four barrels of port, to see if it went to the freedmen's ration house. They ascertained that it did not. We investigated this particular case. Captain Rosekranz stated that he knew nothing about it His brother, a citizen, whom he has employed to act as a commissary sergeant, stated that the four barrels of pork alluded to were ordered by himself to be taken from the storehouse to the building from which rations were issued to the freedmen, but that the driver of the cart had made a mistake and took the pork to the wrong place, a provision store kept by Mr. P. Merwin, and that immediately on discovering the mistake he had it rectified and the pork returned to the storehouse. Afterwards we called upon Mr. Merwin, who stated that about the time Mr. Rosekranz said the pork had been sent by mistake to his store he borrowed four barrels of pork from Capt. Rosekranz, which he had not yet returned. He also stated that Capt. Rosekranz on that day, and after his examination before us, called at his store and requested him to return the four barrels of pork immediately. Mr. Merwin further stated that he had exchanged with Captain Rosekranz two barrels of brown sugar for two barrels of white sugar, and paid Captain Rosekranz five cents per pound for making the exchange.

Capt Rosecrans discharges the duty of Post Comr'y as well as that of Assistant Superintendent in the Freedmens Bureau. In the former capacity he is directly under the orders of the Dept Commander, who had more than a month since ordered an investigation of the business of the commissary Dept at New Berne. The result of their investigation has been forwarded to Maj Genl Ruger for his action and I am permitted by him to make the following extracts from the papers. The first is a letter from Capt Rosecran's who had at the time a leave of absence from the Dept Comdr. This letter is dated
Clifton Park N Y
April 19/1866