Year: 1862

regiments negotiated with officers of railroads
and received bonuses to have their troops go
over certain lines. In the East, generals are
accused of patriotically taxing the suffers one
hundred dollars a month to pay for the gene
RAILS "wine, segars, and such things" Whether
at Chicago Indianapolis, Cincinnati, st. Louis
or in Pennsylvania. the government was pa
triotieally served in the purchase of horses.
Blind, swenied, stIff-shouldered, curvedlegged,
split-hoofed deformed-backed, stiffnecked,
stoven-shouldered, gandered, dstempered,
ringboned, wind-broken, big-kneed horses were
foisted upon the government at extravagant
and patriotic prices, while often the government
repurchased its own horses; and in Missouri
the government stock was scattered about the
country, patriotically used by everybody and
cared for by nobody.


Such are few of the instances Of patriotism
displayed by government contractors and re-
corded in single report of single committee.
Judge, then, how many patriots this country
would proudly claim If the whole truth in
regard to contracts were known. We beg
leave to respectfully suggest to the President
that these contract patriots should not be
allowed to remain rewarded only by their filthy
lucre, their approving consciences and the
applause of their fellow citizens, but that each
of them should be provided with lodgings in
one of our national castles, at the expense Of q
grateful government and that Secretary
Stanton, who now has plenty of time to write,
be duly authorized to furnish each one of them
with pass to the accommodations aforesaid.


INCREASE IN THE GOLD CRop-The re-
cords of the past establish the fact that
whenever any particular product of the
soil rises in value immediate attention is
paid to raising that particular article. Cot
ton is now selling for . high figure, and
there is great demand for it. We conse-
quently receive intelligence from different parts
Of the world that large amount is being raised,
and that the amount that will be produced this
year outside Of the Southern States, will be enor-
mously large, and thus in q measure supply the
demand. The same is true with all classes of
grain. Whenever wheat rises to high figure
the farmers turn their farms as far as possible
into wheatdelds, and soon bring about sur
plus and rapid decline in prices.


The same rule that applies to cotton and
breadstuffs is now being applied to gold. The
precious metal rose in the Atlantic cities to high
premium, and Immediately the telegraph which
now stretches across the continent to the gold
fields Of California bore the intelligence Of that
fact to that region, and at once efforts were
made to ship all the gold coin, bullion and dust
to the Atlantic, to take advantage Of this pre-
MUM. The result we have already seen in in
creased shipments Of gold. We now learn that
the government has sent a million or more of
United States Treasury notes to California for
circulation there. This will take the place Of
the metal In circulation, when it will seek the
market here, where it commands a premium
The rise in gold is likewise stimulating mining,
and the result will be that our California ship
ments will belarger than ever, and give us gold
in abundance; gold will rapidly decline, and
somebody will get his fingers badly burned
If it is those who have been instrumental in
getting up the panic, nobody will shed any
tears. That the bottom Of this gold speculation
is fast falling out is apparent to any observer
Of events.