The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-08-24

PIT THfs ANb THAT TOGETHER.
Philadelphia Worth .imericon, u leading
organ Of the Republican party, gives the
following apparently authentic informa.
ton:
cat the Quartermaster's Department an est.
mate has been made ot the comparative cost If
the Regulars and Volunteers, with the follow
ing result: The roiuntters, reckoning the pro
vision made by their respective States and mu.
inequalities, and the expense tn the General
Government. est MIR. Muh frs k,nes he
0n'1uht Ltat The SIM. Auuth,y ~ r,@ulJrS wouL
THIS seems incredible, but it grows out Of the
waStefulncss in these organzatl"Ds and the
lack OF system"
Another Republican paper, the Cincin.
natl Commercial, from which the Sacra-
,nento tNion quotes so freely. but never
to the detrmcnt Of the Republican party,
thus explains the "ack Of system:
There is an organized band Of thieves in
PENNSYLVANIA that nave stolen the clothes FROM
the backs and the fond from the mouths q! the
Pennsylvania volunteers until several regiment.
Of the troops Of that State are ragged and
starved"
AS the estimate Of the Quartermaster'
Department includes all the volu ntccrs, ii
is very clear that these organized bands
Of thieves are not confined to the State
Of Pennsylvania, but are distributed prett,
literally throughout all the States which
are furnishing men and means for the war.
1t is very evident that pets Of the Admin.
istration have good thing" and that
they intend to make the most out Of it as
long as the war lasts. They are ngninst
any compromised cessation Of hos.
tilities so long as they can get swndIing
contracts.
VINO ADVOCATES WAR?- The
loudcst advocates Of the existing dcplora.
bic war. says the New Hampshire Demo-
cratic StGndard, in which the country
has been involved by the Republican par.
tY, arc the political demagogues. the par.
, tiSan preachers, and the infamous spccu-
latu:-s w;:n are coming fortunes ont Of the
calamt,.S o. their country. The first
want office: the preachers are for eman-
cipating the neg, oos ard suhjugating the
shareholders; and the SPECTATORS are for
( the accumulation Of pclf. The Door IN
fortunate people, -the farmers, incc..~nics
and working men, ARE to be first taXeC
to death, and then cn>laved, as a conse-
quence Of all this cruel business. Party
papers and spectators try to keep up the
excitement and misreprcsent the feelings
of the masses, who are sick Of the war
and desire its speedy termination. Their
voice will be heard and their action felt in
a far different manner then that repre-
scented by the adhercnts and eXpectantS
OF the Administration.
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YouRE ASoTHER.-The two candidates
for State Treasurer on the Republican and
CONFESS tickets, are having n most digni-
fed contest through their respective par
tisan friends, as to which Of them gets
drunk the less often. We are unable from
the peadings to render a judgment in the
case. On the one hand, the reprimand
of the Grand Jury, TO Landrum, their own
presiding Judge, is quoted with terrific
effect against the Connessitc, while the
San Francisco Herald comes back this
way We suppose Ashley never gets
drunk oh, no Of course not We are
told by thos who cay they know him we'll,
that the Republican nominee for State
Treasurer drinks regularly and very often
gets drunk"
This is very pretty, very proper, and is
Legitimate and necessary warfare between
two such political parties as the CONFESS
and Republican organizations. One thing
is certain, Tom Findcy is better custo.
dian Of the keys Of the treasury than eli.
ther Of the two men whose advantages in
the matter Of DRINKS is debatablc ques-
tion.-Sicrra Citizen.
STANDING ARMY-Rcad the following, !
Democrats, written by Washington, Jan.
uary LIST, 1885,
Ovcrgrown military establishments, under
any form Of government, are inauspicious 10 /
liberty, aud are to be regarded MS particularly
hostile to Republican liberty.
An obSequous Congress has authorized
Lincoln to raise an overgrown military
establishment, which Washington dcpre.
Gated and warned his countrymen TO be. !
ware Of, as particularly hostile to Re I
publican liberty" The voice of the
Father of his country" is UNDECIDED by :
the dcnagogues and fanatics who rule at
Washington.
SEEING THE EvIL.--The Newark New ,
Jersey Etening Journal a temperate !
Republican organ, says:
Gradually the belief begins to gain currency |
throughout this community that the war for |
the subjugation Of the South. must result in II
total failure. Neither do sensible, unimpns-
stoned reasoners now harbor the slightest
hopes Of the preservation tho Union by n con.
tnuance oi hostities between the two bellig-
erent sections.
Sensible men everywhere are coming
to the same conclusion. Only hirelings
Of the Administration and swindling army
contractors howl for the continuance Of
the war.
DRAWING IT MILD.-The following mild
and humane resolution was introduced and
unanimously adopted at Fremont meet
ing at Syracuse, New York, in October,
1856. We are too charitable to believe
that it expresses the sentiments of the
liberal Republicans The meeting that
adopted the resolution disgraced the party
which it represented and the State in
which it assembled:
Rssolred, That they should rejoice in q sue.
cessful slave insurrection in the South, and that
10 killing q STAKEHOLDER to obtain freedom, the
slave sgulty Of no crime that the slAv ehOlder
shOuM be mdde 10 dredn. If deaM in his SLeep
and % 0Pprehend dsath IN his dish ard teap0t- ,
that FIRE sHorLD MEEr HIM IN HIS BED, AND POL |
son SHOULD MEET HIN AT HIS TABLE.
PUBLIC MEN and politicians affect to |
think lightly of journalism as a profession
and of journalists as a class. Yet these
are the persons who look to editors for
support in their troubles, aims, and am }
billions, and are often made and unmade
BY the pen. How many leading men in
this country and abroad have been wri.