Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-02-01

tukco longer iimo IOF n luOnS1h0 neau
Of cattle to reach this city from the States
where they are purchased than IL takes the
army TO consume them. ASK the House
this rate, 10 consider how long the most
ample provisions Of the Treasury would be
able 70 meet the simple demands for the
subsistence Of the aFmyl Sir, poorly as the
army Is shod to-day, a million Of shoes
have already been worn out, and million
more are being manufactured, and yet up
on every one Of the shoes has been q waste
Of IS cents. Three quarters Of a million OF
dollars have been already worn out, end
another three quarters Of a million Of dol
lars upon shoes is now being manufactured.
In that department OF the Government con.
tracts have been SO plcniy that Govern
MT officials have gone about the streets with
their pockets hhed with them, and Of which
they made presents TO the cieTgymen Of
their parishes and with which were healed
old political sores and cured political feBds
Even the telegraph has announced that
high public fuBetionaries have graced the
loyefeasts which were goa up 10 celebrate
these political reeonriliaiions, thus brought
about while the haichei, OF political anim0si-
ties was buried in the grave of political
confidence, and the national credit was cru
cited among malefactors. We have re.
ported 10 Us the FIRST fruits of these con.
tracts. A regiment ofcaEalFy lately reach.
ed Louisville, I 900 strong, and the Board
OF Army Officers there sppointed for the
purpose, have condemned 485 out Of the
1000 horses rs utterly worthless. The man
who examined those horses declared, upon
bis oath, that there was not one of them
that was worth 500 They we're blind.
spawned ringboned afflicted With the heaves,
with the glanders aud With every disease
that horseflesh is heir to. These 4e5 hor.
ses cost The Government, before they mus
tered into the service, SIS. 200, beside more
than an additional $1,000 10 transport
them from Pennsylvania to Louisville,
where they were condemned and cast ofT
Mr.. MALLORY (Un., Ky.,) asked what
regiment those horses belonged TO, and " ho
furnished them.
Mr. DAwEs--They belonged to Col. WI.
liam's regiment Of cavalry, aud they were
purchased 10 Pennsylvania, from which
State they were forwarded to Louisville.
where they were condemned. There are
e3 regiments Of cavalry to-day, / 900 strong.
1t takes $3.50, 900 to put one of these reei.
ments on foot before it moves. Tweniy.
millions Of dollars had thus been expended
on these cavalry regiments before they left
the encrmpmeHt where they were mustered
into service, and hundreds Of these horses
have been condemned and sent back to
Elmira, and Annapolis, and 10 this city, to
spend the winter. Any day hundreds Of
them can be seen round this city, chained
to trees, where they were le5t to starve to
death. Gangs Of two hundred horses. in
various places, have been thus left to die
and rot, sill the Committee on the District
of Columbia have called for q measure Of
legislation to protect the city from the dan
ger to be apprehended from these horss
Golgothas. An ex.Goyeruor of one State
offered TO an exJudge of another State
50, 600 to get him permission to raise ont
Of these regiments of cavalry, and when the
ex Judge brought back the commission. the
ex Governor takes it TO his room at tht
hotel. while another plnnderer sits at the
key hole watching like q masiiff while he TO-
side counts up $40, 900 profits on the hor.
ses, and calculates $4,000 more upon the
aecoutrements, and on the other details ol
furnishing these regiments. In addition to
the arms in The hands OF the 600, 600 sold.
iers in the field, there are numerous out.
standing contracts, made With private indi.
viduals-not made upon advertisement
not made with the knowledge of the public
but made by ex.members of Congress who
know no more of the difference between one
class OF arms and another than does Meth.
odist minister. There Is contract for the
supply OF one million and ninety.thousand
muskets, at $2S apiece, when the same quail.
ity OF muSkets are manufactured at Spring.
Geld for thirteen and half apice an ey.
member Of Congress is now In Massachu
setts, trying to get machinery made by
which he will be able to manufacture in
some months hence, at $22 apiece, those
rifed mnskets manufactured to-day in that
aFmory for $lSs PrOrideacc, before sir
months, sOiH dispose Of this scar, or He riA
dispose of US. Not one of those muskets.
thas contracted for, win be of the slightest
service in this emergency, or before the
Providence Of God, whether for good or
for evil, viii dispose of it, ask my friends
from the North aRd North West how they
expect to benefit by an armory at Chicago
or Rock Island, and al Quincy, when /,
000, 600 muskets will, according to this
contract, be thrown upon the country, and
that after the war is over, and at such an
enormous price, in addition to other out
standing contracts for the manufacture,
some time hence. Of 272. 900 Enleld rifles
Besides, there are IS, 543 sets of harness
to be delivered by and by, at the cost of
81, l,97s,446. i have not time TO enumer.
ate ell these contracts. When we appro
priated, at the last session Of Congress, for
this purpose, $50. 600 GOO, thirty seven nil
lions and some thousand dollars have been
already pledged to contractors for tho
purchase Of arms for the men in the field,
not TO protect them in lighting their conB.
try's battles in this great emergency aud
peril, bat for some future use, for somo fnt.
are occasion. or TO meet some present need
Of the contractors, dOn't know which at
this moment. Aud not only the appropria.
tion Of last session has been exhausted, but
SIT ,000, 900 put npon il. The riot Of the
l9th OF April, in Baltimore, opeued this
A a. 4