Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-03-05
GARFIELD, PA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1862.

the treasury were plaCcu III lhe minus ol
committee of highitoned honorable
men, to be paid out on the order or requi'
sition OF Mr., Cummings, without his pro-
duclng to them any vouchers. Strange as
it may appear, while this money was there
to respond to his requisition, he draws
Sl60, 600 and deposits it IL his name, with
his private account, in one of the city b'ks.
Stranger still, four months after his agen-
cy had ceased he leaves no vouchers with
the Waa Department. The War Depart
ment, in ITS generous confidence, seeks no
settlement with the Doctor, nor an IN
suection OF his vouchers.
Such were the prominent transactions
occurring at time when mans gener-
Gus instincts should freely have offered
everything to his country.
This was the cloud no larger than a
mans hand which increased and spread
until the whole sky has been wrapped in
gloom, and men 60 about the streets won
dering when this thing will end. The
mania for stealing seems to have run all
through the relations of Government
Almost from the General to the drummer
boy from those nearest the throne OF
power to the merest tide~waiter. Nearly
every man who deals with the Govern
ment seems to feel or desire that it would
not long survive, and each had common
right to plumber while it lived. Even IN
the matter OF the purchase Of two sailing
vessels, two men OF New York, to the
crime Of larceny, added the sin OF perjury,
that they might rob from the treasury
$4,000. In the case of the Stars aud
Stripes, the President of the New Haven
Propeller Company, after taking from the
Government $4,000 more than she cost,
took of that amount nearly $4,000 to line
his own pockets, and in excuse to his COM
pany pretended that he had to bribe an
eX-member of Congress to gain audience
to the head of the bureau; and from that
insinuation an honorable. high>.oned eX-
member of Congress, in Connecticut had
been subjected to calumny. Ihat FFesl>
dent before the Committee, testified mat
after taking $4,000 in profits from his
country he was anxious to serve her in
this, the hour of her extremity, that he
appropriated nearly $1,000 Of his col
leagues money 10 his private use, SO he
could devise some machine to take all the
Southern cities and no one get hurt.
Cnlorels, entrusted with the power OF
raising regiments, colluding with contracr
tors, bartering away and dividing con-
tracts for horses, and other supplies, to
enrich personal favorites purchasing ar
tlcles and compelling false invoices to be
given.
While it is no justification, the example
has been set in the very departments Of
Government. AS general thing, none
but favorites gain access there, and none
other can obtain contracts which boar ems
ormeus profits, They violate the plain
provisions of the law requiring bids and
proposals, on the false and shallow pre-,
text that the public exigency requires it,.
Should this last rs long as the Pelopones-
ian war the same excuse would be used.
Tho Department which has allowed CON
spiracies after the bidding had been clos
ed, to deiraud the Government Of the low
est bid, and ly allowing the guilty to reap
the fruits Of their crime, has itself become
partccpS crimincS.
| Who pretends any public exigeucy for
giving out by private contract, without
bids, over one million muskets, at fabu-
lous prices Who pretends dublic eXa
igency to make private contract for RI
! fling cannon, to the amount OF SSOOOUO !
PEgNsYLvANIA HORSES.
Kentucky is proyerbal for her splendid
horses, Her loyal citizens would have
been bonefttod fo7 sales 90 the Govern
mert. Who will pretend that the public
exigency required that when cavalry reg
iments we're to be forwarded from the
State Of Pennsylvania TO the land OF The
dark and bloody ground, it was necessary
To tranEport. at great expense, the remain
ing disabled, diseased horses left IN the
keystone State? Ny collei que on the
committee Mr. DAWES a few days since
smoke ofthe peace.ofierings to PennsyIva-
MIA politicians, and referred TO the horses
of Col. Williams regiment.
There is vet another case. A contract,
not made upon the responsibility of the
Bureau as the late Secretary said, but by
HI, eyprsss order, and refused to be made
luntil so ordered refer to the contract
! TO purchase one thousand horses, to be
/ delivered ut Huntingdon, Pa. such Il
horse market the world never saw. The
first inspector-an honest man-of the
frat hundred rejected three in i've. The
next day owners refused to present them>
selves. and by some legerdemain he was
removed and others substituted; then
horses of all ages, from two to thirty OF
all diseases and defects, secret and open,
were from day to day received. The
whole neighborhood were in arms. The
people demonstrated. Lawyers and cLer.
rymen we're present at the inspection, and
Sought TO deter tie buccaneerng crew Oy
omen condemnation the inspectors heed
ed not this clamor, hut ordered the horses
70 be ridden upon tn, crowd, to drive
them away, ifpussible Horses, with runs
ming sores, which were seen by the in
sneGtors, and branded; and |! one outra-
ced common decency he would be reject
ed, and an opportunity sought the same
day 10 pass and brand him. immediately
the horses we're subsisted by private con
tract to fayolites, at thirty nine cents per
day. ard they sub.let to farmers, from
! twenty four to twen.y-six. Over four
hundred Of these horses were sent with
Colonel Wypkoop's regiment, and the
napers at Pittsburg report some actually
50 y orthless they were left on the docks.
THE remaining FIVE hundred were left at