The New York herald., 1862-01-14

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win their pockets hled with them, and of which they
made presents TO the clergymen Of their parishes and
win which were healed old political and po
tcal Even the telegraph has announced that high
public have The which were
got up TO celebrate these political reconciatons, thus
brought about while the hatchet OF political animosty
was buried IN the grave Of public confidence and the na
tional credit cruced amongst malefactors We have re-
ported 10 us the first fruits Of Of these contracts
regiment OF cavalry lately reached thousand
strong and the board OF army officers there appointed
Tor the purpose have condemned four hundred and
eighty five out Of the thousand horses utterly worth
less. The man who examined these horses declared,
upon his OATH that there not OF them that
worth twenty dollars They were blind, spawned,
ringboned, att I'd with the heaves, with the
ganders and with every disease that horsefesh
Is her TO- These four hundred and eighty five horses
cost the government before they we're mustered into the
service, nifty eight thousand two hundred dollars
sides more than an additional thousand dollars trans
port them from Pennsylvania TO Louisville where they
were condemned and cast Off
Mr.. MALLORY (Union), of KY. asked what regiment
these horses belonged 70, ana who furnished themY
Mr. pAwEs[They belonged to Colonel Williams regi-
ment OF cavalry and they were purchased in Pennsy-
vania from which State they forwarded 10 Louis
yile, where they were condemned There are eighty
three regiments OF cavalry day thousand strong
1t takes two hundred and fty thousand dollars To nut
one Of these regimeRts foot before moves Twenty
million OF dollars have thus been expended these cava
ry regiments before they left the where they
were mustered into service and hundreds hundreds
of these horses have been condemned back to
Emira, and to Annapolis and to this city, spend tho
winter. Any day hundreds OF them can be round
this city chained to trees where they left starve
20 death Gangs OF two hundred horses various places
have been thus left to die and till the Committee
the District of Columbia have called for a measure OF
legislation TO protect the city from the danger ap
pretended from these horse Gogothas An Governor
Of State offered 10 exJudge of another state five
thousand dollars to get him permission to raise OF
these regiments of cavalry and when the cx-Judge
his at the hotel, while another punderer sits at
the keyhole watching like a mastif whle he
rs le counts up forty thousand dollars profit tho
horses, and calculates twenty thousand dollars upon
tho occoutrements and this other details Of furnishing
those regiments in addition to thu arms in the hands of
the ak hundred tho sand soldiers the field there are
numerous outstanding contracts, made with private in
divlduas--not made upon advertisement, made with
The knowledge Of the public but made by members
Of Congress who knew of the difference between
ono class u arms and another than does Methodist
minister There outstanding contracts for the manu-
iacare Of Springfield mnskets. the first Of which
cannot be delivered in six months from this day
There Is A contract for the supply OF million and
ninety thousand muskct ut twenty eight dollars apiece
when the same quality OF muskets is manufactured at
Springfield for thirteen aud half apiece and mem
bcr Of Congress Is in Massachusetts trying got
machinery made by which he win be able TO manuiae
ture in some six months hence, at twenty dollars
apiece, these ried muskets manufactured in that
armory for thirteen dollars and a half Providence be-
fore SIX months will dispose Of this war or He will dis
pose Of Not Of those muskets thus for
will he o the slightest service in this emergency or
before the providence OF God, whether for good
or for evil will dispose of it. ask my friends
from the North and Northwest how they expect TO be-
neh by armory mt Chicago, at Rock stand and at
Quincy when million and ninety two thousand muskes
viii, according to tins contract, be thrown upon the
country and that aftor thu is and such an
price in addition TO other outstanding con-
tacis for the manufacture, sonnet ime hence OF two
hundred and seventy two thousand Enfield ries Besides
these seventy five thousand five hundred and forty
three sets Of harnoss to be delivered by aud by at the
cost of one million nine hundred and seventy eight
thousand four hundred and forty six dollars. | have
not time tn cnumcratc NIL these contracts when we
appropriated, at the last session oil Congress- for
this purpose, twenty millions Of dollars thirty
seven millions and some thousand dollars had been
already pledged to contactorsnot for the purchase Of
the in the field protect them in fight
ing their country battles in this great emergency and
peril but for future for future occason
to present need Of the contractors don't
know which at this moment. And not only the appro-
praton OF last session has been exhausted but seven
tecn millions put upon it, The riot OF the 10Th Of April
Baltimore opened this ball. and the 21st Of Apri in
the city OF New York. there organized a corps OF
punderers Of tho Treasury. Two millions OF dollars
were entrusted to poor unfortunate, honest,
but entirely incompetent editor of q paper in
New York, to dispense il in the best manner
he could. Strashtway this gentleman began to pur-
herrngs ana such like provisions for the army till he
expended in this way three hundred and ninety thousand
dollars Of the money and then he got scared and quit
Qarghor There is an appropriation, aso for tho
ply Of wool the army This contractor is pledged tho
payment OF dollars cord for Nil the delivered
10 the different commands; wood COLLECTED after tho
labor Of soldiers themselves mad down the trees
to clear the groin for thor bfteries and then this
tractor employs the army wagons 10 draw il to the
raj cemp aud he has further trouble than draw his
seven dollars for cord leaving the governmental draw
the wood. uaughtor) II costs two millions Of dollars
every day to supper! tho army 10 tho field. hundred
millions OF dollars have thus been expended since We mel
the 22d day of ccembcr and all that time tho army
has boen roposc What tho expenditure will increase 10
when that great day shalt arrive when eyes shall bc
gladdened with sight OF the army In motion, do not
know. Another hundred mllioos will 60 with tho hun.
drcds have enumerated. Another hundred mil
lions may DO added to these before the ath Of March,
What IL may cost 10 put down ths rebellion care.
voy lit,io, provided, always, that u bc put
down cuectaslly Int. .,r, iaith without works
dead and am free 10 confrrs that faith ncs
tails mo, nv faith ia men. not my iai in the
cause when the history Of these times shall he written
will be question upon whom, the guilt viii rest most
hcavy-upon him who has conspred destroy or upon
hm who has proved Incompetent To preserve the ins
tutions bcquea ed 10 MS by fathers II Is wonder
that the public treasury trcmhicr and staggers ike
strong with too great burr hen upon HIM Astrcng
man m an air exhausted receiver IL hclprss TO.
day than the treasury Of this governm ntbcncah the
cxhaislng proc 10 wch t Is subjected. ihr mighty
mona the forest himself hold bay tier.
mighticst ~ h,s Toes, while the vile coming up
behind him and opening has fangs gives him "a iata
wound ami al hough he may struggle boldly and va
lianty the lie blood silently tracking from his heart
aud he last forced "a loosen his grasp and he grows
faint and facrs and dies. The Treasury notes issued in
the face OF these immense out ays without a revenue
from custom houses from land sales, from any
whato yer, beginning 10 pail IN the market Already
they began u sell at six per cent discount
tables OF the money changers at the very time too that
here exhibit the singular spectacle of fraud aud of
struggle with the COMMITTEES OF Ways and Means itself in
an endeavor lift up and sustain the government tho
country. Already the sutlerhat OF the CAMPS
following the paymastsr, as the shark follows
Ave dollars of the wages at Ito soldiers
paid to them in Treasury notes have no desire 10
hasten tho movements OF the army criiicsc the
conduct Of its leaders. but in view nf tho stup,nde
drafts upon the Treasury must say that long for the
day Of striking the blow which viii bring this rebellion
ond. sixty days longer OF this state Of things will
bring about result way another IL unJoss.-
bic that the treasury of tho United States and
continue this state az things sixty days longer
aud ignomniOus peace must be submitted to unless
we see to that the credit OF the country sustained
and sustained, too, by tho conviction going forth from
this hail to the people Of the country that will
as traitors, not only those who are bold
and manly enough TO meet face
face in the field Of strife, but all
those also who clandcstinely and steahy suck the life.
blood from in this mighty struggle. Whatever mca-
sures may emanate from the Committee OF Ways and
Means and retrieve this state Of things, they will
fall like dead pail upon the public unless they give
this assurance that these extraordinary extreme
measures to rcsuscitae easury
not ll farther and long, the already gogcd
pockets of the public plundcrcrs How then are we t.
contribute in this matter TO revive public confidence
public here, IL II be not when these appropra-
tions come up that probe them, that we ascertain
whether here be anything in them that at this moment