Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-06-22

capture the bridges in tho swamp. but il
failed; One battery OF twelve guns is re.
ported in the Richmond Journals TO be
among the defenses. Gen. Grant since
i,uesday, has done nothing, except it be to
dig towards Coal Harbor. The enemy ore
IN front of him, disputipg every pas-
sage. Our latest intelligence is to Thurs.
Gay evening at nine O'clock. up 10 which
time nothing had occurred, not even the
night attacks formerly so frequent.
increased Expenses of the Government.
Owing to the largely increased expenses
ol tne Government, officially announced
o.y MT Chase in his proposals for the new
loan, II IS estimated that $4,000, 900 day
VIII hardly be sufficient TO meet the ac-
cumuIaling acquisitions upon the Treas.
ury. The total member Of men called out
ior the army under the various proclama-
lions up to this time is 2, l39, 900. Added
10 ms is the navy, including 5S8 vessels
and $4,000 seamen. The loans and liabjl-
lties authorized by acts of Congress, which
are now nearly all exhausted, amount TO
S,T4,9l2,SlS. During 1862 and 1863
the expenses did not exceed 50 900 900
per day, but they have now been run up
to 1000 900 daily by the increase of pri-
ces, as wei as of the army and navy and
interest of the public debt. Ii is thus
found that the receipts from revenue, in
ternal tax and subscription 10 the ten.for.
ty bonds are inadequate to the daily re.
quirements OF the Treasury"
The above cheerful paragraph we cut
from that excessively loyal" journal, the
Herald and as it is now one of the most
devoted worshippers of the war, we pre-
sumo 1t speaks by royal authority" The
daily expenditures of the government are
now, We doubt not, IS ,O0O,0 900 fully, for
not only must the soldiers be fed and
clothed, but myriad of big and little mig
gers. Tho white trash" must foot the
bill; and II loans give out-if even the stu
pendous liberality of Congress fails to
grasp the length and breadth of the phil.
anthropic needs of this era of "colored"
benevolence, Mr.. Chase's steam presses,
and his white paper and green ink, must
come to the rescue and save the nation
Douglas Jerrold tells Of man in one OF
his stories who, every time he puts his
hand into his bosom, could take out ten
or twenty pound note. 1t was very con-
venlent and happy way Of getting money,
but soon, alas the man discovered that
he was growing thin and emaciated, and
that every additional note drawn forth
extracted just 80 much life blood from his
heart. Aud SO it is with Mr. Chases le-
gal tenders. Each one of them draws just
so much from the vital energies of the
American people, and will if continued,
reduce them TO gaunt poverty and des-
pair
Mr.. Chase now proposes to issue inter
est-bearing Treasury notes, just as fthat
would not initiate the currency lie knows
very well that it will, though he tells his
paid organs to say ii will not. Wall street,
however, knows that it is only "a new pa
per lie," and hence gold went up four per
cent on the announcement being made.
1t appears also, from the above state.
ment, that there have been over two mill
Ions,of men called out to suppress this lit
tie sixty day rebellion" and the end is
notyet. The lackeys of the despot are
around again enrolling the people for an
other draft for the gunboat shambles and
the marshes of the Chickahominy. How
long can human nature bear the torments
of Lincoln? The meanest brute will "e-
sist when driven into a corner. Are the
men of this generation lower than the
brutes? Under any fair commission dc
Imatico inqlirenio, the madmon in Wash
ington could be convicted of insanity and
placed out Of the possibility of doing in
jury to society. Il is solely by the use
OF paper money, an undoubted invention
Of the devil, that they are enabled 10 pur-
chase The bodies and souls Of men to carry
out their work of devastation and slaugh-
ter. The decentralization which has been
caused by the greenback currency, will
fasten itself upon this country for genera
tions yet to come. No person can e:ti-
mate Its dreful effects. II has corrupted
the innocent; 1t has purchased the yenal
il has destroyed female virtue and manly
honesty; it has sapped the fountain of
patriotism in the youth Of our land, and
brought even old age in disgrace to the
grave. And yet the Administration has
no other resource to enable il to carry on
its warfare upon American civilization
and American Democracy. More legal
tender are TO be issued. More men are
to be conscripted, contrary to law and JUS
tice. But no matter. Governors Seymour
and Parker respond with an affirmative
answer, and the people must yield up
their bodies and their property to Lincoln
because no Democratic Governor dare be
true to his oath of office, and yindicate
the sovereignty of his State within his own
borders, as old Caleb Strong, Of Masschus-
ett., did in 1872. Verify, the race Of men
has died out. The era of pigmies is upon
us ~ Y. Day Book.
R5~Some gentlemen, in conversation
with the President few days ago, ex-
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