Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-02-08

time hcnce, OF two hundred aud ~ 900
Enfield rifles Besides there are sew.
enty five thousand five hundred and forty
three sets of ha rness, to be delivered by
and by, at the cost Of one million nine
hundred and sevonty-cight thousand four
hundred and forty six dollars. ] have
not time to orumera.e all these contracts.
When we appropriated, at the last session
OF Congress, for this purpose, twenty mill
ions of dcllars, thirty-seyen millions and
some thousand dollars have becn already
Pledged to contractors-not for the pur-
chase OF arms for the men in the field pot
to protect them in fighting their couu,rv's
battles in this great emergency and peril,
but tor some future OCCASION, or to meet
some present need Of the contractors, !
don t know which at this moment. And
not only the appropriation Of last session
has been exhausted, but seventeen millions
put upon it. The riot Of the 18th Of April
III Baltimore opened this bal and on the
2lst Of April, in tie city Of Ney York,
there was organized corps Of plgndorgys
OF the Treasury. Two millions Of dollars
were entrusted to poor, unfortunate,
honest, but entirely incompetent editor of
a paper in New York 10 dispense it in
the best manner he could. Straightwav
this gentleman began to purchase linen
pantaloons, straw hats, London porter, =,
dried herrin2s, and such like provisions
for the army, till he expended in this way
three hundred aud ninety thousand dollars
of the money, ard then he got scared and
quit. (Laughter) here is an appro
priation, also, for tho supply Of wood to
the army. This contractor is pledged the
payment of seven dollars cord for all the
wood delivered to the different commands:
wcod collected after the labor of the sol.
dicrs themselves had cut down the trees to
clear the ground for their batteries; and
then this contractor employs the army
wagons to draw il to the several camps,
and he has no flrther troohl, tbo, r.,
draw his seven dollars cord, leaving the
goyernmcnt - draw tic wood. (t.aegutcr.} }
It, costs two millions Of dollars every
da y 10 sulport the army in the field a
hundred lnu.iou, Of dollars have thus been
expended since we ne! on the 44d day Of
December, aud ali that time the army has
been ia r,pose, W hat the expenditures
VIII lncroaso TO when tAat great day shall
arrive Wnun our eyeo shall be alaudened
VITA a 81 6 at .. the army in motion, i do
not Nuoa, Another hundred millions will
90 Nltu ,Dc hundreds more | have enune.
rated. Another hundred millions may ho
added to those before the 4,b Of 1J.roI
What NAV cost to nat down tba rcbo,,;o,,
| care yery little. proyided oIwars tb.+ !.
be put down oiIectuallv, Bnt sir f,;,b
without work is dead, and | am fro, T.,
comics, that NV faith sometimes foiIs ma
mean NV faith in men. nor nv firth IN
the cause. When the history of ,boso
times shall Ne written # will bo = ,po.tior
upon whom the guilt will rest most heovy
-npon him who has copspired 70 de,troy
or upon him who has proved incomrctont
to preserve. tho INSTITUTIONS bco,oatbod
to us by our fathers. Ii i. no wonder that
the public treasury trembles and stogocrs
like strong man with too rreat = burtbar
enon him. 4 strono man in an mir ov
hon.ted receiver is not more boInIass 70.
5ov than is the troasarv Of tbis ooyorn
pcnt beneath the cxhaustinr proce.s TO
vbi,b # is snhieotcd
The mighty monarch Of the forest him.
self may hod at bay the forcast mishticst
Of his foes, while the vile cur coming up