Middletown transcript., 1868-05-02
Personal md Political.


The constitutions of five of the Southern
States will be before Congress for appro-
val in ten days. 1t is thought that all
will be promptly approved and Senators
and Representatives admitted.
The bill introduced in the House OF
Representatives on Monday, by Mr.. Paine,
admitting Arkansas to representation in
Congress, is similar to that reported IN
March last by Mr.. Farnsworth. 1t is de-
clared that Arkansas, having formed and
adopted State government which is re-
publican in form, shall be entitled to
representation when the Legislature of the
State shall have duly ratified the four
teenth article proposed as an amendment
to the constitution of the United States,
and on the condition that the State con-
stitution shall never be amended or chan
ged so as to deprive any citizen or class
of citizens of the right to vote who are
entitled to vote by the constitution herein
recognized, nor so amended or changed as
to allow any person to vote who is cx-
cluded from office by the third section OF
the fourteenth article of the amendment
to the constitution, until the disabilities
proposed by the said section shall have
been removed in the manner therein pro-
vided. '. ...
On Tuesday bills were introduced in the
House providing for the admission OF
South Carolina, North Carolina and Lou
isiana to representation in Congress. They
were referred to the committee on recon-
struction.
PoLITIcAL ADvENTURERs.-The impu-
dence of the political adventures from
the North and West who are roaming
through the Southern States, running for
all the offices, from the highest to the
lowest, is inconceivable. What would be
thought in Massachusetts, or Pennsylva-
MIA if some of the freedmen or radical
whites of the South were to go there and
insist on being made Coneressmen, Leg
islators, or Governors Yet this is just
, what these loafng political lazraoni of the
States north of Mason and Dixon's line
are doing in the Southern States, through
the instrumentality of the untutored freed
t men, who are made to believe that in cleo
D ting these interlopers to office they arc
exercising the prnudest prerogative OF
freemen. -Bdltinlore Sun.
WHAT IT CosTs.-Senator Hendricks
of Indiana, stated in Congress, the othe,
day. that at the present the expenses an
y nually of each soldier in the army was
c S., 1000, and nearly $500, 900 for cacl
+ regiment; the total cost being abou
+; 800, 600, 900 year for an army o
IS 80, 900 men. The Senator urged, tha
j. with proper management, the army ex
n penses could be cut down forty millions
l. year, and in this matter the taxpayer
lc are deeply interested, and should urg'
lie rigid economy. The policy of non-recon
sruction, however requires that this bur
lie den should be kept up in order to perpet
uate party power.
When Radical politicians tell laborin,
10 men that they pay no taxes, the latte
u should ask in return, how much more the
pay now for everything they eat, drin
aS and wear, than they did in good old Dem
u ocratic times. If it cost you twelve do
lars week to support and clothe you
IL family now, where it formerly cost onl
e. six, do you not pay tax of three hui'
dred and tcclce dollars gear?
It. Thurlow Weed says, in his Commerce.
n Adcertiser, that if Ben Wade gets into tn
Is 1feSluenIlal Oince, nc VIII rclnONc all I'll
It. Cabinet officers, except perhaps Stanton
IS. But he will not be impeached for it, thong
ds President johnson is impcached for a
it tempting to remove one of them
or General Meade has notified the Sayar
he nah Daily Advertiser to . cease publish
ne ing incendary and inhamatory articles, {
a it will be suppressed" The tyrant Lou
ire Napoleon could do no more than that
lis manarchical France.
10 1t has been definitely decided to ha,
.et the Chicago Opera House Capable of ho
u ding $500 pcrsons) fitted up for the +,
publican presidential nominating conyer
in ton.
in Senator Yates, of Illinois, has publishe
ty a letter admitting the charges of drunl
he enness and misconduct made against hin
er lie refuses to resign, but promises refo
no nation.
te. Congress, at present, has among
we members thirteen Major Generals, fiftet
nd Brigadiers, six Coloncls, and eleven of
GERS of lower grades.
70 The North Carolina election closed {
of the 23d inst. The vote is close, and Sc
On eral days must elapse before the result
tes known.
lit No less than three lives of General Gra
ont are being published in Hartford, Conn
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