Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-03-25
Spirit Of Washinsten Letters.
The New York Posts letter saws:

The New York Posts letter says:
WASHINGTON, March 18, 1853.
1t seems to be generally conceded that
Lecompton is dead. There are one hun
dred and twenty-one votes in the House
against it. Any statement that Stewart,
Owen, Jones and Chapman, of Pa, will
support Lecompton, is false. They are
true.
At large assembly of Administration
Democrats in this city last evening, there
was not one present who did not consider the
game Up, but it was generally determined
to fight out the battle.
The President is almost worn down with
anxiety, and said to a man yesterday that
ne felt as though he should not live six
months. He looks very much jaded.
Inc New-York Courier's letter says:
WAsH1SeroN, March 10.
The Republican call for caucus tonight
has been reconsidered. 1t is the present
design Of the Democrats to pass the Le-
compton fraud under the previous question:
The Republican plan is to refer it to the
Special Committee and investigate it
keep it in the sun until its elements of cor
ruption turn to loathsome rottenness.-
Horace F. Clarke, and two hitherto sup
posed dyed-in-the-wool Lecomptonites have
anti-Lecompton speeches prepared:
The N. Y. Evening Posts letter says:
WASHINGTON, March l6.
A very extraordinary affair has recently
come to light, which, with other transac-
tions lately developed, and still others soon
to be unveiled, go to show conclusively
that business in the War Department has
been conducted by the present Secretary
without the slightest regard to economy in
the disbursement of the public funds.
1t was ascertained short time since
that three thousand head of beef cattle
were wanted by the Commissary's Depart
ment for consumption by the army in Utah.
Upon inquiry at the Quartermasteris De-
partment by various parties who desired to-
secure portion or the whole of the con-
tract, they were told that the Secretary of
War had transferred the power to- contract
to Fort Leavenworth. This naturally
created stampede on the part of those
who wished to engage to furnish the cattle
to Fort Leavenworth. After they were
thus shrewdly disposed Of, the order trans
ferring the contract If 1t ever had been is-
sued, was countermanded, and the contract
was let to the distinguished General Reed,
of. Platte City, Missouri, and to General
Armstrong, Of Va, at the following rates:
cts p h. frall cattle delivered at Fort Leavsnworsh
Il DO DO do do do do do do do do s. ss.sS e,
The cattle are to be taken at their gross
weight, are to be delivered at these different
points at the risk of the government and
the latter engages 10 furnish the contrac-
tors with an escort Of troops! So exor-
bitantly extravagant is this contract consid-
cred, that parties now in Washington assert
that they would be willing to give fifty
thousand dollars bonus and take the con-
tract off the hands of Messrs. Reed and
Arstrong.
This General Reed is no other than the
commander-in-chiefo of the Missouri forces
Stated at two thousand seven hundred,)
which invaded the territory of Kansas in
1856, during Gov. Geary's administration,
with the avowed intention of destroying
Lawrence and subduing the citizens. This
is one of the persons to whom the govern
ment has given this contract, and thus he
is rewarded for his aggressions in Kansas.
The other contractor is said TO be an old
personal friend of Mr.. Floyd, the Secretary
of War.