The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-01-29

of dollars have been already worn out, and
another three quarters of a million of dollars
upon shoes is now being manutactured.-
In that department of the government con-
tracts have been SO plenty that government
officials have gone about the streets with
their pockets filled with them, and of which
they made presents TO the clergymen of
their parishes, and with which were healed
old political sores and cured political feuds.
Even the telegraph has announced that high
public fnnciionaries have graced the love
feasts which were got up to celebrate these
political reconciliations. thus brought about
while the hatchet of political animosi,y was
buried in the grave of public confidence, and
the national credit cruciied amongst male
factors. We have reported 10 us the first
fruits of one of these contracts. regi-
ment OF cavalry lately reached Louisville,
one thousand strong, and the board OF army
officers there appointed for the purpose
have condemned four hundred and eighty
! 6ve out OF the thousand horses as utterly
worthless. The man who examined these
horses declared, upon his oath, that there
was not one of them that was worth twenty
dollars. They were blind, spawned, ring
! boned, afflicted with the heaves, with the
glanders, and with every disease that horse
flesh is heir 10. These four hundred and
eighty five horses cost the government, be-
fore they were mustered into the service,
fifty -eight thousand two hundred dollars, be-
sides more than 'an additional thousand dol
lars 10 transport them from Pennsylvania 10
louisville, where they were condemned and
cast off.
Mr.. Mallory (Union of KY, asked what
regiment these horses belonged TO, and who
furnished them!
Mr., Dawes They belonged TO Colonel
Williams regiment of cavalry and they
were purchased in Pennsylvania, from
which State they were forwarded to Louis
vile, where they were condemned. There
are eighty three regiments o. cavalry to-day
one thousand strong II takes two hundred
! and fifty thousand dollars to put one ofthese
regiments on foot before il moves. Twenty
million of dollars have thus been expended
| on these cavalry regiments before they lef
the encampmen,s where.they were muster
| ed into service, and. hundreds and hundreds
of these horses have been condemned and
| sent back TO Elmra and 10 Annapolis, and
TO this city,.to spend the winter Any day
| hundreds of'them can be seen round this
| city, chained 10 trees, where they were lef
to starve 10 death. Gangs of two hundred
/ horses, in various places, have been thus
| left TO die and.rot, till the committee on the
District of Columbia have called for a mea
sure OF Legislation to protect the city from
the danger 10 be apprehended from these
! horse Golgothas. An ex Governor OF one
State offered to an ex>Judge of another
State i've thousand dollars to get him per-
mission TO raise one of these regiments o
back the commission the ex Gorernor takes
it 10 his room at the hotel, while another
1 plunderer sits at The key-hole watching like
/ a mastiff while he inside counts mp iorty
thousand dollars profit on the horses, and
( calculates twenty thousand dollars more
upon he accoutremenis and The details o
/ furnishing these regiments. in addition tC
: the arms in the hands OF the six hundred
! thousand soldiers in the field, there are nu
/ merous outstanding contracts, made with
i private individuals-not made upon adver-
! lisement, not made with the knowledge O
the public, but made by ex-members o
/ Congress, who know no more of the differ
! ence between one class OF arms and anothe
than does a methodist minister. There are
outstanding contracts for the manufacture
of Springfield muskets, The first one o
! which cannot be delivered in six month:
/ from this day. There is a contract for the
supply of one million and ninety Thousand
mnskets at twenty eight dollars apiece
! when the same quality Of muskets is manu-
factured at Springfield for thirteen and
| half apiece and an ex member OF Congress
! is now in Massachusetts, trying to get ma
chinery made by which he will be able tc
manufacture in some six months hence, a
twenty one dollars apiece, these rified mus
kets manufactured to day in that armory fo
( thirteen dollars and a half. Providence
! before six months, will dispose OF this wa
or He will dispose of US. Not one OF those
muskets thus contracted for will be of the
slightest service in this emergency, or be.
fore the Providence of God, whether fol-
good or for evil, will dispose of it. ask
my friends from the North and Norlhwesl
how they expect to benefit by an armory al
Chicago, at Rock Island and at Quincy,
where million and ninety-two thousand
muskets will, according TO this contract, be
thrown upon the country, and that after wal
is over, and at such an enormous price, in
addition TO other outstanding contracts for
the manufacture, sometime hence, OF two
hundred and seventy two thousand Enfield
rifles. Besides there are seventy five thou
sand FIVE hundred and forty three setts oi
harness, to be delivered by and by, al the
cost of one million nine hundred and seven
~ eioht thousand fouF hundrad and forfv.six