Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-05-05
How Organs are timed, and where
the Money Goes.


Our readers aware that the Washington
Union is no more; that the establishment changed
hands, and name, being now called the ConSiitu-
tion. The States, democratic paper published
in Washington, is responsible for the following
account Of the change, which it stands ready to
prove if controverted- -
| 'sThe sale Of the organ was an odd enough ar
rangement. Wendell has suffered for months I'M
I der the load Of debt which the publication of the
/ Uni3n entailed upon him, the President. who s,Is-
pected him of worshippng after false gods, and of
being opposed 10 his denomination at Charleston,
having refused to allow him the usual printing pa
tronage heretofore enjoyed by that paper. This
patronage consists, am told and believe, of up
wards of $780, 900 per annum, including the post
office blanks and the binding Of executive docu
ments. The profit on this work is from twenty
five TO thiTty-five per cent, or some forty or ff
~ thousand dollars year. The sale, as under
stand from person who obtained 1t from the
fountain head, was simply this: Wendell allows
Bowman TO assume possession OF the Union es
Establishment without paying any purchase money,
and, Ia consideration thereof, the President Stipu-
lates TO ire the contract for The Post Office blanks
and the Ezecutiue printing 10 Wendell, or some he
may designate. Wendell agrees in turn 10 pay
$4,000 Of the profits Of these Jobs, in monthly
installments Of S1,6S6. The residue of these
profits, amounting to $4,000 or Sc, 900 per an
num- be is 10 retain as the purchase money of the
Union, and is also 10 discharge some political
debts IT, however, the contracts should ever be
taken from Wendell, by Mr.. Buchanan, then the
sale of the Union becomes void, and of no effect,
Bowman dissolying from the public view as editor
and proprietor, and Wendell again taking posses
sion of the newspaper properly as the real owner.
You Will see therefore, that there is really sale
of the property Of the URioR, but that it il only
rented to Mr.. Buchanan, through Gen. Bowman,
by Mr.. Buchanan having stipulated TO pay the
rent (twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars
year, out OF the public treasury, in the way of
contracts. ....
'sThere is private arrangement between Mr..
Buchanan and Gen. Bowman, that ont Of the
$1,000 received by the latter from the contracts
given 10 Mr.. Wendell, Sl2 900 is 10 be paid TO
sundry pensioned papers of Mr.. Buchanan's IN
Pennsylvania, the balance, $4,000 being reserved
to conduct the Union. Bowman's chief reliance
upon making fortune, under these circumstan-
ces, is by being elected Senate printer next win
ter; as the head Of the official Government organ,
in which case Wendell and he will have another
contract for a division Of the spohs, as Wendell
will necessarily have 10 do the work. 800.
"Judge or Attorney General Black drew up the
papers in this fragrant bargain. The rest OF the
Cabinet were ignorant of the whole transaction.
When il was discovered, their feelings, il is said,
were awful, but only found vent through Hughes,
the outgoing editor, who, Sampson tried TO
null down the house which jamie is building, by
taking tug al James Gordon Bennett, his pillar
and chief story"