Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-27
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ly asserted. The Conrters editor says that
this particular contract is to cost the national
treasury in the course of this year alone, 81
400, 900, The truth is, it is to cost but $24O,-
900; or but one-tenth of this humping exagge-
ration.
He estimates the years profit on it at s., $780,
600! Assuming for an instant that his esti-
mate Of the value of the description of horses
required to pass the Army inspection is just
one-as It is Motive show above that he has
magni6ed the aggregate profit of the contract
tenfold,
But we have further to say, that the price, |
per head, paid under this contract instead of
being extravagantly high, happens to be 500 |
less than was paid for army horses contracted |
for and delivered at the same point last year;
Of course before the present Administration
came into existence And we have still further
to say, that the accepted bid of $l59 per head
is between 81 and S. less than the average of
the bids made for supplying the animals, now in
the Quartermaster's department. There hap
pens to be an authorized agent Of the parties
holding this contract now in Washington city,
and we find, on conversation with him, that his
principals are already nearly as sick of their
bargain, as Reed Armstrong of theirs. At
any rate, he empowers US to make Gen. James
Watson Webb the following proposition, the
acceptance or rejection of which will test the
sincerity of his representation that under the
terms Of this contract the profits are to be Sl0O
per head, for all the horses delivered. Viz: He
(the AGENT will give him a sub-contract for
| from three to Eve hundred horses, to be delv-
cred according to its terms, for IS per head-he
| webb to receive from the Government the
$3.50 each. Here's a speculation in which
he can clear from SIS, 500 to SAT 500, according
to his own showing. Will he accept this Offer
| The third tangible Islander of the Courier
and EnGnirer's budget is as follows:
| "Then again, the item of Indian corn for the
| purpose Of feeding the enormous number of ami
| mails require for conducting this war-yiz: oxen,
| mules, cavalry and draft horses. Ii Is said that
| contracts have been made with certain parties,
| not to furnish a certain quantity Of corn, but to
| fnrn sh all that the Government may require
at ninetysight cents per bustel, when ii Is note
| rious that half that sum per bushel, would al
ford an enormous profit. How many millions
| are to be made out Of this contract?r
Now, in reply to this falsehood, we have to
say that not bushel of corn for the supply of
the Utah expedition has been contracted for,
We regret to have to write, for it is high time
that it had been done. One offer only for the
supply of the description of corn required-of
| the crop of 1856-has been made-for supply
| ing $4,000 bushels. That offer was referred to
the Quartermastcr at st. Louis who declined
to make the contract on the terms offered
Thus, this roorback is summarily disposed of.
| Our limits forbid the task of next taking I'D
and exploding the various atrociously false
deductions which the Courier and Enquircr
pretends to draw from its own falsehoods we
have refuted above. OF them, We have only to
say that the premises on which they are based
being thus swept away-they tits deductions)
vanish into thin air; being no longer even good
enough Morgans to answer the desperate pur-
pose of boistering up, for a few brief hours,
the desperate fortunes Of Republican partyism
Will General Webb accommodate the agent
of the contractors for the horses, by taking the
sub-contract offered above?
LECONPToN IN CALIFORNIA.-The last mail
from the Pacific side brings the gratifying
intelligence of the action of the California
Legislature upon the Lecompton question.
On the 5th inst. the lower house adopted reso-
lutions earnestly sustaining the policy Of the
Administration and the Democratic party, and
i
of 40 to lS-all the opposition and few sore
heads In the negative. These resolutions en-
braced instructions to her Senators and a
request to her Representatives to vote for tie
admission of Kansas into the Union with the
Leconpton constitution. On the same evening
they also passed the Senate, at too late an
hour, however, to permit the particulars of the
vote to come by this mail.
So Mr.. Broderick turns ont to have been
barking up the wrong tree in discoursing so
grandiloquently, as Of late, about the anti
LecomptOnism of his constituents-who thus,
on the contrary, sustain the position Of his col
league, Mr.. Gwin.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PREsIDENr-By anu
ruth tie adrice and consent Of tic Senate
Joseph Holt, of kentucky, to be Commiss ioner
Of Patents, vice Chas. Mason, resigned. Com
missioned during the recess of the Senate.
| VIM. j. Mccullough, Of Louisiana, to be Sur
veyor General of the United States for the Dis.
trict of Louisiana, his previous term of Office
having expired.
Charles L. Emerson, of Minnesota, to be Sur
veyor General of the United States for the Dis
trict of Minnesota Commissioned during the
recess of the Senate.
CHANGE OF USIFoRN.-It is expected that
the War Department will shortly order a
change of the uniform of the Army generally,
and fix upon one in accordance with the recon-
mendation of Board of Examiners recently
appointed for that purpose. We have noticed
for several days past, at the Department build.
Ping, some of the hats, &C., pertaining to this
new style of dress. Not having enjoyed an
opportunity, however, of examining a COM
plete equipment we are unable to give either
description or opinion concerning it.
| Funeral OF Mr.. HARpIy.-Tbe CLERKS in
the Navy Department this morning, as far as