The Cecil Whig., 1859-08-27

TIE ADMINISTRATORS CoRRUPrIoNs AND
PEcULArloNs. In the Vally Tan" Of June
Doth, paper published in Great Salt Lake
City we find the following advertisement

Oy Thursday, ith July next, will 0G sold
at public auction. at Camp Floyd. L. T., to
| the highest bidder. for specie or Government
! Funds, 2OOO or more excellent draft and
saddle Mules, with several hundred Army
| Wagons. together with the Harness for the
same complete.
The Mules are all young sound, thoroughly
broken, and in good condition and the
| Wagons and Harness are in complete repair,
| with all equipments for immediate service.
| The sale of this valuable property will com
mcnce on the day above mentioned. in lots of
| one or more, and will continue from day to
day until all are sold. G. II. fROSSMAN.
Dcp'y q, NJ. Gcnl.
| Camp Floyd, u. T., June %, 1883.
\ private letter from 4 very highly ,espec-
table and thoroughly reliable gentleman in
Great Salt Lake City imparts TO us some
interesting facts in regard to tins remarkable
| transaction.
The mules were to he sold and no doubt
were sold, on the l4th day of last month. the
notice of sale not having been given until the
22d of June-iust tmenty dayS before the sale.
The order put forth by the Secretary of War,
and acted on by the Quartermaster General,
was that the sale should take place on twenty
days notice to be given immedldteiy on the
receipt of the order thus, for araat Of time, ut
and other places from being on the ground to
interfere with Messrs. Majors, Russell, 4 Co.,
whose agent for the purchase was actually
forwarded thousands of miles to Camp flold
by Government transportation furnished him
in accordance with on order Of the Sccrctary
Of Wor eicen to all Umted Stuies officers along
The route. This enabled the agent to reach
Camp Floyd before the publication of the
ordcr for the safe, so us to make all his ar
rangcmrnfs for a monopoly of the purchase
at merely nominal price, inasmurh as no
one on the spot except himself, had funds to
purchase to any extent. A more scandaous
transaction is scarcely recorded even in the
annals Of this most infamous Administration.
Of course we have not had time to hear
what the two thousand mules and the hun
drctlS Of army wagons. harness, &c, brought
at the auction Of the l4th ult., but we have
spoken of the price as a merely nominal one,
and it certainly can have been no more The
circumstances precludcd the possibility of
price worth mentioning. These mules cost
! the Government SlI5 per head, and there
was no reason under heaven for the indeccntly
hurried sale. The grazing in the Great Salt
Lake region is so very fine, that, even if it
wsS necessary or cX;edicnt to dispose of the
mules ut all, they could have been kept SLr
months Longer without any expense whatever
| to the Government. and then there would
have been time for the purchasers Of mules
to come i'll from other quarters, and there
| would have been inst compttiOn and the
stock would undoubtedly have brought a,
least six times as much as it did bring on
the l4th ult. The whole reason Of the inde-
cent haste to sell and of the peculiar facilities
| furnished by the Government to the agent of
an influential Locofoco house was OBVIOUSLY
and undeniahly to Swindlc the public treasury
for political or personal purposes or BOTH
The orginators of the transaction and the
partcipators in it, Administration and all,
are swindlGrs and thieves.
The same agent, who Travelled to utah by
Government Transportation for the purchase
| of the Government mules, produced, on his
arrival, a contract granted TO his house by the
Secretary Of Var for furnishing -four 10 the
troops in Utah at The enormous and almost
mcredib'e price Of aLom SOS per hmdred LbS.,
and that in diiiancc Of oGicimi knowldse, on
| the part of the Secretary Of War, that the
greatest abundance oftiour could he purchased
at 5G to 81 per hundred. And at the last
dates from Utah the contractors, through
their agent, were actually delivering their
| flour at "A cost to themselves of not over s.
per hundred and the fact was notorious.
that, as soon as the crops should be made,
| they would in all probability be able to buy
| it for two or three dollars. At the very time
| when the Secretary Of War awarded this
monStlous and infamous contract to furnish
flour at about SOS per hundred he Lad muIer
considerations, or at least under prctcnded con
sidcraton, responsible bid for the who.e
amount to be delivered at 50 or $40. He
| riv
have given $50 just as soon, perhaps sooner.
Another nelarious and striking feature Of
| this disgraccful and swindling flour contract
is that the Government had purchased and
was holding IN store, at Nebraska City and
st. Cloud, Il large amount Of the very best
flour, ready for transportation to Utah. -
Wei, the contractors, to wnom the Secretary
| o! ', ar awarded the contract, took that
identical flour of the hands Of the Government
at what it cost there, thus saving insurance
and getting into their possession large
amount of flour at point and at time when
the immense emigration to Pixies Peak cna-
blcd them TO dispose of it at a most trcmcn-
dous profit. Had it been sold by order ofthc
Government at public auction, its price
would have more than quadruplcd what was
paid for it by the favored pets Of the Admin
dalous peculatons on the part Of the highest
Government officials is unnecessary. The
power of a simple statement of the facts could
not be increased by all the arts of cloQuence.
The facts speak for themselves, and there
can bc no doubt that the transactions we have
referred to, and Others, reeking and sinking
with corruption, will be subjected to a
thorough, righteous, and mcrciless scrutiny
during the next session of Congress. And
there will be no Locoloco majority there to
stlflc and smother investigation.
1t is certainly one of the worst and most
alarming features of the times that the North
ern and Southern Democracy, however much
at valencc in regard to other matters, appear
to be fully agreed in cndeavoring to uphold
the Buchanan Administration in all its afro
cious corruptions. No matter how many
official frauds and peculalons and pecnniary
villanies in general may be brought to light.
| no matter how iniquitous and shameful and
startling their character may be, and no mat
ter how conclusive, how above and beyond all
dispute and all doubt, may be the evidence
| OF their Preparation, the Democracy, through
their conventions. their Legislatures, their
public meetings, their newspapers, and their
candidates for office, open their mouths only
to justify or excuse or deny the rascality and
to endorse the Administration that commits
it. Thus the mass of The party shows that
it is no better than the Administration, and
God knows that II could not well be worse
Louisville Jounai