The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-01-30
Government Frauds.
Startling Revelations of the InvcStigAt
ing Committee.

Startling Revelations of the Investigate
ing COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Dawes, of Massachusetts, ll(cp.,) from
the Committee of Investigation ON Govern
mcnt Contracts, in rcsuning his remarks,
commenced on Friday last said Sir, !
have not failed to notice, and believe the
Committee of which ann u member have
not failed to notice. in common with the
whole country. that for some unaccountablc
reason, that charges upon the National
Treasury, at this time of war. have been
such rs To reach near the bottom of the
public chest. During the investigation,
startling facts have come before the notice
of the whole country, touching the mode
and manner of the expenditure of the public
money. Some of these items | propose tn
call public attention to, and then to ask
gentlemen the plain question, when they
propose to meet this question, if ut all, and
if So how, when and where? The very first
contract entered into Ivy this Government,
after the troops had left their homes to come
here, III April last to defend the Capital, 10y
which they were to he fed was a contract
entered into for cattle. Ii was not made
with man whose business il was to supply
cattle Ia markct-not with man who knew
try-but was entered into 10y the Govern
mcnt here with man we'll known III this
and in the other branches of Congress, Tor
the last ten years. as an old stircndiray--onc
of the class of men who, i'll times past made
their money 10y such operations as buying
the certificates of members for, books at II
discount, and then charging thefull amount.
The contract was made SO that the first
twenty-five hundred head OF cattle .htp pish-
ed was charged at the ralc which cmthleu
their original contractor to sul-lct it IN
twcntv-toltr hours after, to II man III New
York who did not know the price of beef,
SO that he put into his pockets. without
stirring from his chair, S32 900, and the men
who actually furnished the cattle in question
put into their pockets S20,0G0 more, SO that
the contract under which these twenty-five
hundred head of cattle where furnished to
the army WAS So made that the profit of S52,-
600 was realized over the fair market price
II takes II longer time for a thousand head
of cattle to reach this city from the states
where they are purchased than it takes the
army to consume them.
ask the House, at this rate, tc consider
how long the most ample PROVISIONS OF the
Treasury would be able to meet the simple
demands for the subsistence of the army
Sir, poorly as the army is shod to-day, n
million of shoes have been already worn
ont, and a million more are being manuiac-
turcd, and yet upon every one OF these
there has been vast of scvcnty-iivc cents.
Thrce-quarters of million of dollars have
been already worn out and another three
quarters Of "a million of dollars upon the
shoes is now being manufactured. In that
department of the government contracts
hn hIn ltut q
ficials have gone about the streets with their
pockets filled with them, and OF which they
made presents TO the Clergyman of their
parishes. and with which were healed old
political sores and cured political iucds
Even the telegraph has announced thathgl
public ilnctiOnaries have graced the love
icasts which were got up to celebrate these
political reconcillat,uns, thus brought about
while the hatchet of political animosty was
buried in the grave of political confidence
and the Natinal credit cruciiied amongst
malcfactors. We have reported 10 us the
first fruits of these contracts. \ regiment
of cavalry lately reached Louisville, 00O
strong, and the baord of army officers there
appointed for the purpose, have condemned
4S5 ont of the | 900 horses as utterly worth
less The man who examined these horses,
declared. upon his oath, that there was moi
one of them that was worth $50 They
were, blind. spawned, ringboncd, afflicted
with the heaVcs, with the CHAMBERS, and
with every disease that horscllcsh Is heir To.
These 4S5 horses coast the government
before they were mustered into service,
$5S,200, besides more than an additional
! thousand dollars to transport them from
! Pennsylvania To Louisville where they were
| condemned and cast off
! Mr.. Mallory, of Kentucky, (Union), asked
what regiment these horses belong to, and
who furnished them? ..,
/ Mr.. Dawcs-lhry belonged to Col. VIII
| Jams regiment of cavalry, and they were
purchased in Pennsylvania, from which
State they were forwarded to Louisville
where they were condemned, There are
/ So regiments ofcavalry tosday, 900 strong
! 1t takes S250,000 10 put one of these regi
mcnts on foot before it moves Twenty
millions of dollars have thus been eXpeud
/ ed on these cavalry regiments before they
wero mustered into service, and hundreds
and hundreds of these horses have beer
condemned and sent back to Elmira anc
| Annapolis. and to this city, to spend tbs
winter. Any day hundreds of them cah be
seen around this city, chained 10 trees
where they are left to starvc TO DEATH
Gangs of two hundred horses, in veriou'
places, have been thus left TO die and rot
till the Committee on the District of Colum
bia have called for measure Of Legislation
to protect the city from tho danger TO b.
apprehcnded from these horse Golgothas
An Ex-Governor Of one State offered TO al
Ex-Judge of another State, five thousan
dollars to get him permission 10 raise ON
of these regiments of cavalry, and whe
the Ex-Judge brought back the commission
the EX-Govenor takes it 10 his room at ia
J hotel while another plunderer sits at IN
) heyhole watching like "A mastifi, while h
, inside counts up forty thousand dollar
profit on the horses. and calculates twent
, thousand more upon the aecouucments an