Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-04-30
How tsUncle SAINT Is swindled all Round
the Board--Greeley In Despair.
rHR rxlMpLr OF NAroLEoN /.

has Q very readable "Chapter on rents ne
begins by referring to the economy OF NApo'
LEON In conducting his great wars and to the
severity with which he punished sWindlers.--
GREELEY mentions, among other instancee, how
at the siege of Vienna, when NAPoLEoN found
that the wines he had ordered for his troops, had
been embezzled by two scoundrel commissarles,
he ordered them both to be incontinently hang
cd. "Nothing," says GREELEY, $50 reused the
wrath Of His Imperial Majesty as On attempt
on the part of his underlings to make money
out OF the war.
GREELEY eu!ogizes NAPoLEoR's strict econo-
my. " He knew the price Of everything, from
butchers meat 10 batteries" It was therefore
next to impossible to cheat him. The result
was, that "he never, or hardly ever, wanted
money, whatever else he might want" ~
GREELEY ON TENT MAKING.
GRErLEY says that " here is lesson for our
authorities" True, the soldiers of NAPOLEON
did not use tents to any great extent, generally
stretching themselves upon the ground In the
biyouac th their feet to the camp ffes. But,
In regard to our troops and those who furnish
them tents, GREELEY remarks:
Our soldiers are not so case.hardened, and
must have canvas shelter; but it does not iol-
lloW that the most delicate Of them require new
tent once In elk weeks. Given a good original
material, honestly sewed and no tabernacle coaiu
within that period blow away, however nign tue
breezes, or rot away, however heavy the dewe'
And vet, an homes, Yankee, writing from rior-
| ida Island to Boston newspaper, hnds his eco.
Domical bile immensely stirred. our oio
tents" :" he saws, Just thrown aside, have only
| heen In nae about ak weeks" Only six weeks
| and here we have bran new once, white ano
exnensive. This beats he old pen knife ana
seallpp-vsx business in Congress all hollow
When we we're In College, we had afriend VINO
wrote all his themes utoa splendid letter-papei'
vbich had been furnished by our aonored uocie
TO kis Honorable Uucle some twenty years Do
fore. He informed rs that his dear father ano
all his brothers and ssters had al equally iioe'
raj supply. We shouldn't wonder II certain lam
lilies had tents, at no expense whatever Tor 'nelr
rural fettlyals, for ftty years to come we
shouldn't wonder if some Yankee specnia'oi
made his lucky, by sending OF u cargo OF
disused tents TO the Betoain AraDs; we
shoudn't wonder II hereafter some iankee
Dives put q tabernacular device, neraiai'anJ
disposed, upon the panels OF bis gilded cnariot'
and upon the blnkers of his Thoroughbred span,
lin grateful ackno edgmeot OF the original
source Of bis wealth.
/ PORTRAIT OF A swINDLlEo CONTRACTOR
GaEELrY's fancy sketch, df trae portrait
rather, of sWindling Government contractor,
lie fine piece Of humOr, and if 1t we're not too
sorrowfully true, might we'll excite "unextin-
gushsble laughter"
II we had the artists hand and eye necessa-
lry for the purpose end equal 10 IL, We should
like to model Contractor OF the cormerint
lsnecies: and to lecture upon this lay-fgure
throuuh the tax-paying cities and hamlets Of
ltbe Ntrh. The face should be Of brass
nodded from guns long since burst; the heart
of iron made from bits of unserviceable NOR
tara. the paunch should be stuffed with rusty
pork and mouldy bread; but the feet should be
Of pure Treasury gold; around the shoulders we
would drape piece Of canvas cut from dis
carded tent; upon the legs we would put pair
of shoddy IL ireIpressibles; In the band we would
MACE piatol dangerous only to tie user; while
shoe, with paper soles should guard the golden
| feet.-the whole TO be placed for the admiration
of a taI-ridden community, upon chair con-
structed from the timber OF some condemned
transport, bought for great price and not
| worth little one. We appeal to P. T. Bsrnum,
Eco, the great Patriarch of Sbowmen, if that
figure would not draw at twenty-five cents, with
reserved tea!s az fifty.
WONDERFUL PATIENCE OF THE PEOPLE.
GREELEY says that "nobody likes to growl at
these peculations and pilferings, because II
doesn't seem patriotic to do So" and then goei
on In the follosing strain:
In the atdor of our eouls--and 1t is an ex-
ceedipQly creditable ardor-we are pleased Il
Ina bumbupped, and swindled, and cheated, ant
lrobbed-to be taxed upon all we eat and drinl
and vear-to submit to q rise In gold, in dry
goods and groceries-to be paid 10 shinplasterl
and to nav with the same-to write even oul
lloye.letters upon brown psper-to bear one
lpenny advance upon our newspaper subscribe
liberaIly to the Ladies' Society for Furnishing
lWaoden Legs to Wounded Soldiers, aud Brotl
land Jelly to the Convalesoent, while we live
Iupon Porridge, to the great disgust Of the
Iyounger branches Of the family, who baw
/" Beef" as loudly az John Hook did In the
EAmercan camp, and as II 1t were to be had oi
benevolent butchers without shinplasters and
without price! The nation 10 enduring, and ia
willing to endure, materially and mentally, to
the end-but is n't IL shame to swindle such q
good natured peoplef Is ne 1t % shame that q
pack of men, numerically not equal 10 the pop.
ulatIon of village, which, perhaps, has sent
off q charitable box to the POOR soldiers every
month eince the war broke out--that o corps Of
contractors should, all this time, be smassine
colossal fortunes, and buying big brown-stont
houses, and setting up dashing equipages, and
presenting their danes with India shawls and
their daughters with diamond necklsces2
Ii EcoNoMY NEEDED
Il On the subject OF economy, GRxRLEY speak,
wisely and we'll:
l. No nation has more need than ours of wis,
and liberal economy. We have been very pros
D rous; but we have an urgent need now {,
hutb band all our savings, that We may be yer,
prosperous again.
II THE GHOST CT BEN. FRANKLIN WANTED.
He longs for the men and women of '76, anl
4 especially for the ghost Of the author Of "Pool
Rchard," TO scare and detect fraudulent army
pontrAotors:
,Ab! II wehad but power to bring back from
the dead the men and women Of the Revolution
how they would open In full CRY upon the Who'll,
, body of speculatofs upon the necessities of th
Government! Nobody could palm bad beef Of
even upon the ghost Of Benjamin franklin. l
he we're buying tents for the army ,nob0dy coul
, sell him one single individual tent more tha