Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-04-07

The Presidents newspaper organ Is still
troublesome as ever The transfer ofthe Union
establishment is not eonsummaicd, Mr. Wen
dell requiring certain guarantees which Presi.
dent Buchanan hesitates about giving
Moss,s Hughes and Johnson have Withdrawn
az editors, and Mr.. Bowman is at the helm
Dudley Mann has been suggested for the chief
editor, aud Mr. Eames, late Minister to Vone-
zuela, as assistant
The Washington correspondent of PhiIadel-
phia Press makes some singular Developments
touching the struck and dickcn' in the sale Of
the Union newspaper. He states that Wen
dell has been suffering for some time under the
load of debt which the publication of the
| Union enailed upon him, and the President for
some cause withheld the usual printing patron
age belonging to executive dispensation amount
ing to some $l5O,0JO per annum, including the
Post Office blanks and the binding of executive
documents The profit on the work is stated
at about fifty thousand dollars. The terms oi
sale, the writer says obtained from fountain
head were these:
Wendell allows Bowman to assume posses.
sion of the Union establishment without pay
ing any purchase money, and in consideration
thereof, the President stipulates to give the con
tract the of Post Office blanks and the executive
printing to Wendell, or some one he may de
| signate Wendell agrees in turn to pay S2O,-
| QUO of the profits of these Jobs, in monthly
instalments of Sl,666 The residue of these
profits, amounting to $50, 900 or S25 900 pei
annum, he is to retain as the purchase money
| Of the Union, and is also TO discharge some
| political debts incurred by James /, chiefly IN
| Pennsy lvania, in forcing Lecompton through
the House of Representatives and in the cleo
| ton of October last If, however, the con
! tracts should ever be taken from Wendell by
Mr.. Buchanan, then the sale OF the Union
becomes void, and Of no effect, Bowman
dissolving from the public view as proprietor
and editor, and Wendell again taking possession
of the newspaper property as the real owner
You will see therefore, that there is really nc
sale of the property Of the Union, but that it has
only been rented to Mr. Buchanan, through
General Bowman by Mr. Wendell, Mr.. Buchan
an having stipulated to p'y the rent (twenty OF
twenty-five thousand dollars yeer) out OF the
| public treasury, in the way OF contracts
| Their is a private arrangement between Mr
| Buchanan and Gen. Bowman, that out OF the
$4,000 received by the latter from the profits
Of the contracts given to Mr. Wendell, Sl2,OOI
is 10 be paid to sundry pensioned papers OF Mr.
Buchanan's in Pennsylvania, the balance, SS,-
900, being reserved to conduct the Union. Bow
mans chief reliance upon making fortune un
der these circumstances, is by being elected Sen
ate printer next winter as tie head of the otf
cial government organ, in which case Wendell
and he will have another contract for division
Of the spoils, as Wendell will necessarily have
to do the work.
Judge or Attorney General Black drew up thu
papers in this fagraut bargain The rest OF tn,
Cabinet were ignorant of the whole transaction