The Baltimore County union., 1868-09-05
Lettel. from Washington.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. l. 1868.
The pressure for September session continues. The
Hon. S. F. Gore member of Congress from Georgia,
writes that the Legislature of that State not likely to
take any action which will fair election. Some
twenty twenty five members who disqualified by
the 14th amendment holding in the absence of
any direct legislation by Congress declaring the amend
ment be in operation and laboring to turn out
the colored members in which they likely to succeed
Hence Mr. Gore urges the reassemblng of Congress in
September.
An effort is being made to reduce the expenses of col
lectng the customs to that end special agents have
dispatched to different points to make investigation and
report, The Secretary of the Treasury thinks the
penses can be reduced by at least one million of dollars
per annum. The expenses of the New York Custom
House have just been reduced 500 600 annum and
a still further reduction is contemplated The reduc-
ons already made exceed $3.50 000 1t is also in con-
temptation to reduce expenses in the several Depart
ments of the Governments to the lowest possible point
1t is well known that in nearly every department there
often twice many clerks employed acquired
to do the work and indeed in some of the Divisions,
onefourth of the present employees could do all the
work.
Committee of the citizens of tho 9,e~ Territory of
Wyoming, called upon the President yesterday to urge
him to appoint ad interim oeers or that Territory
Notwithstanding the offer of the citizens to pay all
penses the President declined to act until after the
reassembling of Congress At the last session Cover
nor was nominated and confirmed but the Senate
subsequently reconsidered action because appro
priatons had been made to defay the expenses of Off
GERS
determined cooperate with the Republicans to secure
the election of Grant and Colfax. Hampton, Toombs,
BILE campaign documents the Republicans had, and just
as the of distributing their speeches through the
length and breadth of the land had been completed and
the Republican Committees casting about for
thing else to circulate 10 and behold the Democratic
Central Committee of Charleston s. Co. comes out in
address to the coored population which answers the
purpose better than anything Republican could pre-
pare This precious document will be circulated as ex
tensvely the speeches of Toombs, Hampton, Forrest
Co. have been and will largely increase the vote for
Grant and Colfax 1t is to be hoped that the unrecon
structed Southern Democrats will not faint in
wedoing but continue in the good work until about
the 1st of November next when they shall receive their
reward from loyal and grateful people.
The oldest employee of the Treasury Department is
confined to his by of sickness for the first
time than fifty years. Charles Vincent is par
ticuarly interesting of the connecting links be-
tween the past and the present He born in Mary
land entered business while young, in Georgetown
failed about the time the Government was moved from
Philadelphia to this city, and entering the Treasury
Department at that time clerk he has occupied the
position in the Department ever sincea period of
more than sixty-our years He has shaken hands with
every President from Washington down to Andrew
Johnson. His faculties remain unmpared, and he is
encyclopedia of all that pertains to this Government
from its earliest foundation
cannot close this letter without calling the attention
of Republican Committees, Leagues, Clubs and indivi-
duas to the important fact that they purchase at
the of paper and press work. the largest assortment
of pamphlets that has been printed for campaign
purposes, from the Union Republican Congressional
Committee whose headquarters are, of course in this
city. This Committee composed OF Republican Sena-
tor and Representative from each State has done more
been done by any similarly constituted body Of men, 1t
originally formed, believe, three years ago,
for the purpose the interests of the South
States by supplying the loyal whites and manumit
ted slaves with reading matter that would enlighten
them by sending lecturers among them and by instruct
ing them in the of organizing themselves for poiti
cal action Another useful labor performed by this
Committee has been that of keeping up extensive
correspondence with loyal men all the South By
this means the exact condition of affairs in the South
has always been known to Congress- through the agen
cy of the Committee To the Union Congressional Com
mttee than to all other combined, have
the people of the north also been indebted for the past
three years fer accurate knowledge of the condition of
things in the Southern States. Senators Conness and
Chandler and Representatives Schenck Kelley, Logan
Broomall and Ames constitute the Executive Committee
| of which General Schenck is Chairman and Hon.
Thomas L. Tulock formerly Secretary Of State of New
Hampshire is the Secretary Mr. Tulock is the active,
working manager of the whole affair He ''runs the
machine In the selection of the campaign documents
to which have referred, fifty in number. much
judgment has been displayed in the general manage
men of the business. Apart from their special value
at this uncure, they replete with valuable satti
be without them The prices of these documents
from S3 to $2 per thousand copies Clubs and ndivi
duas should send for descriptive circular from which
to make a selection Those who willing to trust to
the discretion of Mr. Tullock, and who have proper
appreciation of the value Of time between now and No
vember had better send cash order at to Hon.
T. L. Tullock, Secretary Union Congressional Com
mittee Washington D. c., who will fill it with refer
ence to prices to the locality for which the publi
cations ordered.
| A. 1. BOYLE.