Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-01-30

1bey were DINO, spawned, ring-bened, a
flicted with the heaves, with the glander.
and with every disease that horse flesh
heir to. These four hundred and eight,
five horses cost the government, before the
,cere mustered into the service ftiy-eiql
thousand tsro hundred dollars, beside
more than an additional thousand dollar
to transport them from Pennsylvania t
Louivills, where they were condemned ant
cast off,
Mr.. Mallory (Ky.) asked what regimen
these horses belonged to, and who furnish
ed them.
| Mr.. Daws-They belonged to Col. Wi
liams regiment of cavalry and they wer
purchased IN Pennsylvania, from whicI
State they were forwarded to Louisville
where they were condemned. There ar
eighty-three regiments of cavalry to-day
one thousand strong. 1t takes two-hun
dred and fifty thou sand dollars 10 put on,
of these regiments on footbefore it moves
Twenty millions of dollars have thus beer
expended on these cavalry regiments be-
fore they left the encampments where they
were mustered into service, and hundreds
and hundreds of these horsas have been
condemned and sent back to Elmiria, and
to Annapolis, and to this city, to spend
the winter. Any day hundreds of them
can be seen round this city, chained to
trees, sOherS they were left to starve to
death. Gangs of ta0o hundred horses, in
various places, haze thus been left to die
and rot, ill the committee on the District
of Columbia have called for a measure of
legislation to protect the city from the
danger TO be apprehended from those horse
Golgothians. An ex-governor of one
State offered TO an ex;judge of another
State five thousand dollars to get him
permission, to raise one of these regiments
of cavalry and when the ex judge brought
back the commission the ex-governor takes
it to his room at the hotel, while another
plunderer sits at the keyho watching like
a mastif while the inside counts up forty
thousand dollars profit on the horses, and
calculates ta0enty thousand dollars more
upon the accoutrements and the other de-
tails of furnishing these regiments In
addition to the arms in the hands OF the
six hundred thousand soldiers in the field,
there are numerous outstanding contracts,
made with private Individuals made
upon advertisement not made with the
knowledge of the public-but made by
ex-members of Congress, who knew no
more OF the difference between one class
of arms and another than Methodist
minister. There are outstanding contracts
for the manufacture of Springfield mus
kets, the first of which cannot be delivered
in six months from this day. There is a
contract for the supply Of one million and
ninety thousand nauskets at tweaty eight
dollars apiece, when the same quality of
muskets are manufactured at Springfield
for thirteen and half piece; and an ex.
of Congress is now in Massachu-
sets, trying to get machinery made by
which he will be able to manufacture in
some six months hence, at twenty-one
dollars apiece, those rifed muskets manu-
factured to-day in that armory for thirteen
dollars and half. Providence, before
sir months, wiu dispose Of this Dar or He
oiW dispose of us, not one of those mus
kets thus contracted for will be of the
slightest service in this emergency, or be-
'ore the providence of God, whether for
good or for evil, will dispose Of it. L ask
ny friends from the North and Northwest
low they expect to benefit by an armory
1t Chicago, at Rock Island and at Quincy,
when million and niuety-two thousand
nuskets will according to this contract, be
brown upon the country, and that after
he war IS over, and at such an enormous
,rice, in addition to other outstanding con-
racts for the manufacture, sometime hence
# two hundred and seventy-two thousand
Enfield rifles. Cesides there are seventy.
i've thousand five hundred and forty-three
cts of harness, to be delivered BY and BY,
It the cost of million nine hundred and
eventy-eight thousand four hundred and
orty six dollars. l have not time TO emu
nerate all these contracts, when we ap-
at the last session of Congress,
Or this purpose, twenty million of dollars,
oHsy oo'ou uinIiobo duu SOtuo tuouSduu =
ollars had been already pledged to con- :
for the purchase for arms :
,r The men in the field, not to protect
hem in fighting their country's battles in /.
bis great emergency and peril, but for
ome future use, for some future occasion,
r to meet some present need of contrac-
ors, don't know which at this moment.
md not only the appropriation of last ses-
ion has been exhausted, but seventeen
,ilions put upon it. The riot of the 19th /.
April in Baltimore, opened this ball,
nd on the 5lst Of April, in the City of !,
0ew York, there was organized corpse
f plnnderers fthe Treasury. Two mil :
ons or dollars were entrusted to poor, /
honest, but entirely incompe-
mt editor in New York, to dispense il in
,e best manner he could. Straigbtway
lis gentleman began to purchase linen
straw hats, London porter, !,
ried herrings, and such like provisions for !.
he army, till he expended in this way I
,ree hundred and ninety thousand dollars /.
f the money, and then be got scared and :
nit. Laughter.] There is an appropri-
lion, also, for the supply of wood to the =
rmy. This contractor is pledged the pay
tent of seven dollars cord for all the /,
ood delivered to the different commands !
wood collected after the labor of the SOL
iers themselves had cut down the trees
, clear the ground for their batteries, and '
len the contractor employs the army :