The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-01-29

18TH OF April IN Baltimore, opened IRIS Dali
and on the 21st of april, in the city of New
York, there was organized corps of plum
derers of the Treasury. Two millions Of
dollars were entrusted TO poor, unfortu-
nate, honest but entirely incompetent edi-
tor of paper in New York, TO dispense it
in the best manner he could. Straigh,wav
this gentleman began TO purchase linen
pantaloons straw hats London, porter, dried
herrings, and such like provisions Tor the
army, till he expended il. this way three
hundred and ninety thousand dollars of the
money, and then he got scared and quit
(Laughter.) There is an appropriaiou,
also, for the supply of wood 10 the army
This contractor is pledged the payment of
seven dollats a cord for all the wood deliv-
cred to the different commands, wood col
Iected after the labor of the soldiers them
selves had cut down the trees TO clear the
ground for their batteries, and then this
contractor employs the army wagons 10
draw it TO the several camps, and he has
no further trouble than 10 draw his seven
dollars for cord, leaving the government
TO draw the wood. ILaughler.l 1t costs
two millions of dollars every day to support
the army in the field A hundred mil
lions of dollars have thus been expended
since we met on the 221 day of December,
and all tha, time the army has been in re-
pose. What the expenditures will increase
10 when that great day shall arrive when
our eyes shall be gladdened with a sight of
the army in motion i donot know. Another
hundred millions may be added to those be-
fore The 4;h OF March. What ii may cost
10 put down The rehellionl care very little,
provided, always, that il be put down eff
fectualy. Bni, sir, faith without work is
dead, and am free to confess tha; my faith
sometimes fails me. | mean my faith in
men, not my faith in the cause. When the
history of these times shall be written. it
will be question upon whom the guilt will
rest most heavy-upon him who has con-
spired to destroy, or upon him who has
proved incompetent TO preserve, the institu-
lions bequeathed TO US by our fathers. II is
no wonder that the public treasury trembes
and staggers like a strong man with too
great burthen upon him. strong man
in an air exhausted receiver is not more
helpless to-day than is the treasury of this
government beneath the exhansting pro-
cess TO which it is subjected. The mighty
monarch of the forest himself may hold at
the vile cur coming up behind and opening
| his fangs gives him fatal wound, and al
| though he may struggle on boldly and VAL
| iently, the life blood is silently trickling
from his heart and he is at last forced TO
loosen his grasp, and he grows faint and
falters and dies. The Treasury notes issued
in the face of these immense ouilays, with
ont a revenue from custom houses, from
| land sales, from any source whatever, are
beginning 10 fall in the market. Already
have they began to sell al six per cent dis.
count at the tables of the money changers,
at the very time, too, that we here exhibit
the singular spectacle Of fraud, and OF a
struggle with the committee of wavs and
means itself, in an endeavor to lift up and
sustain TO government of the country Al.
/ ready the sutler-that curse of the camp-is
I following the psymaster, as the shark iol-
1 lows the ship: buying mp for four dollars
every five dollars of the wages of the SOL
! d:ers paid TO them in Treasury notes.
have no desire to hasten the movements OF
| the army, or criticise the conduct of it's
I leaders, but in view of the siupenduous
+ drafts upon the Treasury, mus; say that ]
! long for the day of siriki ing the blow which
will bring this rebellion TO an end Sixty
/ days longer ofthis state of things will bring
/ about a result one way or another. Ii is
/ impossible that the treasury of the United
i States can meet and continue 10 meet, this
/ nominious peace must be submitted 10 un-
! less we see to it that the credit OF the coun
/ try is sustained, and that, 100, by the con-
viction going forth from this hall TO the
/ people of the country that we will treat as
4 traitors not only those who are bold and
manly enough TO meet us face TO face in the
field o! strife, but all those also who clan
destinely and stealthily suck the lifeblood
from US in the mighty struggle. Whatever
measures may emsnaie from the Commit
lee Of Ways and Means to meet and re-
! trieve this STATE of things, they will but fall
like a dead pail upon the public unless
they give this assurance, that these extraor-
binary and extreme measures 10 recusciate,
revive and replenish the treasury, are not
made TO fill farther and longer the already
gorged pockets of the public plunderers.-
How then are we TO contribute in this mat
ter 10 revive bubiic confidence in our pub
lie men here, if-it be not when these appro-
priatons come up that We probe Them thai
we ascertain whether there be anything in
them that at this moment can be spared
Our pressing duty now is TO protect and
save the treasury from further wholesale Or
other system of plundering. In conclusion
he argued against paying for printing the
Treasury notes, on the ground that the con-