Middletown transcript., 1868-06-27
Political Items.


Political Items.
TIE FREEDMEN's BuREAu.-Radicall lea
ders have promised that the needless Freed
mems Bureau should be abolished. Mil
lions upon millions are squandered upon
useless office holders, and idle, vagrant
blacks, which the poor white men of the
North have to pay And yet in the face
of this great outrage upon the labor of the
country, Radical Congress has voted to
continue this institution for another year.
This has been done for party purposes, -
to hold the South still longer at the point
of the bayonet 1t is done solely with
view of affecting the Presidential election.
The Democratic minority under the lead
of Mr.. Hendricks made vigorous fight
against this continuance Of an annual bur-
den of from ten to fifteen millions of dol
lars upon the industrious labor of the
North, but it was of no use.
The people, therefore, are called upon
to contemplate the fact that Congress,
purely as measure to prop up the party
of the majority of that body, saddles upon
them tax of from ten to fifteen millions
of dollars for the year ending June Both,
1869. General Howard's estimate for his
bureau in 1867 was $40, $50, ,265. .55, and
here are some of the items of expenses as
presented in the appropriation bill:
Salaries of Assistant Commissioners,
sub-assstlnt and agents........Sl4?, 500 90
Salaries of Clerks....................... $4,000 90
Stationery and Printing ................ $4,000 90
Quarters and Fuei""....'.'.........'. ZoO oVo W
Subsistence Stores 900 900 90
Medical Department .................. 800 900 90
Transportation OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 800 600 90
School Observation-Disclosures. $4,000 90
Buildings for Schools and Asylum.... 500, 900 90
TeIegraphing and Postag g.......:......" $4,000 90
These are only few of the objects for
which the public money is expended in
keeping up the Negro Bureau and other
purposes.
There is no evidence to show that this
bureau is needed No one will doubt for
moment that if the Democratic party was
in power, the Negro Bureau would be
smashed to pieces, and the lazy negroes and
the army of carpet-bag officers would be
left to earn an honest living g.-Me Bolti-
more Leader.
| GRANTS PERSONAL APPEARANCE. -" j
B. S." the Worlds correspondent, saw
Grant at West Poiat this week, and thus
describes him &c He appeared as on the
previous evening, in suit of plain black !;
his shirt-front and vest q sagging" from
the slight stoop in his shoulders; his man.
ner as quiet, his eye as watchful, and his
gait as lazy as they usually are. The
General has an undeniably "hard'' look
ing face, to which, in respect to whatever
of an intellectual cast there is about it.,
the worst of his portraits do more than
justice His bad complexion and the yell
lowish brown tint of his grizzled beard,
mix, so to speak, with one another, produ-
cling an effect quite wretched. Nor is his
expression, at its best, calculated to reas-
sure the beholder. His much talked of
reticence appears by no means to be the
reserve of a calm, digni6ed, modest gen.
tleman. 1t resembles, rather, the tacitur-
nifty, pent with the awkward self-consci-
business, of one fearful of exposing some
intellectual frailty. For great man,
General Grant is not at all fascinating.
The Tuscaloosa Ala. Monitor has been
suppressed under an order of General Shep-
ard, for an alleged violation ofGeneral Or.
der No 81. Mr. Randolph, its editor, has
avoided arrest, and will proceed at once tC
J Washington, and lay the facts before Gen.
eral Grant and the President.
) In Philadelphia the Democratic Conyen,
ton has nominated Daniel NJ. Fox for NAV
= or. He has been an unsuccessful candi
4 date twice before. The other candidates
: withdrew their names, and the nomination
2 was unanimously made.
The following Democratic Congressiona
Z nominations were made in Philadelphi
! ON Tuesday: First district, Samuel Ran
dali; Second district, Thos B. Florence
Third district, John Moffatt; Fourth di s
trict, James B. Nicholson.
Q Alexander H. Stephens and Herschc
! V. johnson are urged to be present at TIA
j meeting Of the National Democratic Con
2 vention in New York.
8 The National lntel5igencer wants SecrC
8 tary Mccullough removed, and charges hil
with corrupt speculations in gold with Fl
n vorites and kinsmen.
:. 1t is estimated that already over 20, ,0O
$ persons have applied for tickets of admi
le sion to the Democratic National Conyer
ton.
Senator Sprague of Rhode Island is sal
.. to be in favor of the nomination of Jud.
|, Chase for the Presidency.
le The Union League of Philadelphia h
y declared against Col. Mann, and in fay
es of Mr.. Hazlehurst rs District Attorney
q q, Isn't Grants public admission that
ra m has " no policy" an acknowledgement th
~ his election is not insured?
IN Jessie Fremont has one of the fnC
yn residences on the Hudson, at Tarrytow