Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-08
COLUMBUS OHIO TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1868

without exciting the market. l have done 81
bought about 80 900 bushels oats and ab0r
100, 900 bushels ooFD Oats are now, here, 90
In sacks, S5c at cash; corn S9s, For thes
reasons / telegraphed you to-day to buy .
much more corn % you have, on joint acooun!
and bold on u few days. You can easily see th
effect of such very heavy purchases, and all be
Wcen thi1 aud July tho first. OAts hold b,
parties here, 10 etero,ai Chicago yesterday ,wer
held at 62c aud 63y--.they will yet be wort
l5c, probably, but when you can get lOc mar
glD, cell; alse on the corn And If you can
do that, then II you will put 1t In good tsnds
/ will manage 1t go you can ge. is OF tho Govern
ment Corn was bought there at 49, ane'5O1
Saturday. IL will spring soon, @, D. l. Go
did not charge me any thing i0r that dgsii
Wf,te ROpp Yours, nURTT"
| 'GssIsrAHr QuIRTERa.srHR's OEgIof
| OIn0IENATi, Ono, March ~, go.
| "MY dean ScoTT: Yours of the 24th ia l
hand. { wrote to you the other dOy ahout for
age. The sndden and unprecedented fe,I !,
gold HiadC me nervous lately, bat ieaCn 10.
day that grain ia still high in Chicago If ira
Government can get transportation here md RI
Louisville, oil yOnr grain can be sold yCt "a
good prices, | can NOT ssy bo6 the Dsrkei
will rna in tbe EasI; sou can toll better q il
keeps down, then II rnust fall a' Chicago, hut
If the reaction, Whlch seems 10 baVo ccm
menced to-day, continues, Sou can 200 IT,, ef
feots here; IL not, would cell 4; yon can't
sell well, come cut here and JOu Goa fix IT.
About III 900 horses aud mules n'e ssntod
hsSe and az LouisVille, Immediately YUu
can do something here, certain This IA f5r
your information, General BltUsije's a~tipai
here has created little Auttering am ne the
Q Ms. We did not know his tarposee To-
| ward ue. ! felt anxious about ms project {
| have just written Cooke, and sent him pnma
| papers, and urge him 60 remove tho objection
he named to my getting d = place. H. can he
done by me being transferred tc sLe regular
army, or by me being hrevetled--DDt other
size, for IL ] wss placed there 40 nov stand,
she ranking officers here, Schmidt soi ,Dd
rioh, would demur, and this WOaId he Gonsd.
cred at W. aud here. The President an cop-
Ter the oGeyet any time he cho0aes rh;e 10
lhe place to work, certain, Look TO it. am
right. The will place me above all yopa
teer Quartermasters, and | can claim oond
iplacee, / hope you will come here eno9 /
am 10 good spirits sbont the cotton ofslc
"Yours, As ever, F.W H."
This at,OE near CiDoinna.j, Ohio. -he,veep
the pOnths of October, 1862, aud Jnly. lSG2
Specification 5th--Tp this; that CoptsirF ~
Hnrtt, A. @, M, U. s v made heavg pnr.
chasea for the Government Bervica from A n
Smith and NJ. A. Dalton, they, said Smith ana
DalsOp. being associated In interfst, in OF,
ssles. aud be, Captain tiurtt knowing ,ha,
they Were go associated in interest In anct
sales, and said Captain H., knowing thst a,ii
Smith and Dalton bid repeatedly fot eoniracfs
each knowing the rstes as which the other bid
and did, also, on one or more occasions, reesjve
the bids of one !. II. Hey. book Keeper Of ala
Smith and Dalton, Smith and Dalton baIna n =
real partiea 60 Furnish ihe forage, snd Uev
Smith and Dalton each knowing the yatea et
which the other bid; and when contract was
awarded to ono Of seid parties, another of seia
parties appearing ss surety for the fuhilnabt
o. the contract; and further, thAt az dIffa.cnt
times Captain Hurst bed tho forage to bs Gc
iivesed By said Smith, Dalton and Hey, bab,S5
BY Gogstbpcns tesms, and did fail 10 make epv
acconnt nf such hauling. paying seid perties hs
II ahey had fpl6litd their contracts; and Cu.tb.
ef, that whiio he, Captain Hurst, A o nj
was dealing for the Governments zitb aIa
Smith aud DaltoD. he did borrow from s,il
Dalton, OF private account, several thousn,,sc
OF dollars, such loan from said Dalton heiny
for part, II not all the time without inte-cs {
and Inrther, that while he was dealing ri,b
said smith Tor she Government, he, enid So,i h
at Captain HurtCe TGguast, did arrange si
0aa Doctor Richardson, for the sale OF said
Richardson to Captain Hnrsi, OF tho penoe,,y
situatod on the northeast cnrnef Of B,ym;lIer
and Dayton Btreets, Cincinnati, Ohio, for eIah
thousand toIlars. aud Tor which prohersy Cto,
Hurtt gave t.o notes. aud soon after paid the
rest In cash, and one OF which noses, for ahDu,lI
two thousand and uinety dollars eaid Smith b,ln
chased; and further, that OF the tlmo, or iWp,e,
diGtely before, Capt HURT awarded the .fi,et
forage contract for government forage 10 caid
Dalton, he, the eaid Dalton, was 10 the Goycsn |
mont employ under Captain Hurst, acting az a |
purchasing agent, end receiving from Govern |
menb through Captain Hurlt, four dollars DER |
day; and further, that he, Captain Hutu, A |
z did ALLOW certain forage delivered by |
said Smith and Dalton, and Ia excess of t;e |
amount called for 10 their contracts already |
awarded to remain over and to be included io |
the amounts to be subsequently delivered up-
der conerscts TO be atterward awarded, thereby
virtually awarding to said parties iu.u e con-
tracts without waiting to learn the rates al
which other parties might bid for the same
and further, shat he, said Dalton,
lid give receipts which we're used by Csp,ainl
liurts 10 bis public accounts, which re.eip,a
we're Tor payment Tor forage which said Dai,op
lever furnished, but was forage bought from
ihGtheE party, whose vouchers wero Destroy
cd, and the forage at advanced rates Of pur
,haso included " fabricated vouchers in the
name 0f said Dalton; sud further, shat Captain
Hurtt bought forage from said Smith and Dali
.0n, which eaid parties would bay frcm other
;s'ties lD Cincinnati, thereby neglecting 10 save
he Government the profits nccruing to eaij
smith and Dalton. This at Cincinnati, Ohio.
rom on or about tho Ist day of Sepsemb,
1852, to on or ebous the 25ih dag of Iuly,
1889. +-
Specification 6Ih--In shis; that Csttstp r.
W. Hurtt, A, q, M ~. S, w., did. on or about
Ihe SD day of Jauusly, A. D, 1863, al Ciucn
peH. Ohio, write aud send 10 one II. d.
Cooke, OF the fem of Jay Cooke & Co, W ash.
inRton, D. c., letter. in which no expressed
distrues 10 the stability Of the Governinen of 4
the United StAtes. and calculated 10 excite and
create q want of confidence 10 the pecuniery
ability Of Z said Government, saying among
other thiDgs, "Ohsse's war has jpss hsgun.--
What great mistske Il Was not carried
through laet winter. NoE Teasopa for uA. on /
tering upon II with great zsel viii arise, espeo-
Tally IN the Wess, which would then have
made the author Of then, shuddery !. Whet vas
tre leonSbie then is becoming nos, 10 An I'M.
dercurgent of feeling, uuoOnsoions as least, un-
expressed concieiion, The people dare not as
vet acknowledge to themselves she undercur
rent Of unbelief OF the stability Of che Gov
ernmeDt. .il What 10 there yet in store for us III
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