The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-08-15

The New York Commercial says that I" In 4
declared that the Ffeedmcn's Bureau cost the he
country annually $50, 900 900. and that there
was a standing army In the South numbering
hity thousand men, costing annually El0O, OOO,-
900. On the same subject, the Hon. Thomas d.
Eliot, OF New Bedford in recent speech, de-
livercd in Massachusetts, declared that tho
cost OF the Freedmen's Bureau from March 3,
1868, to January j. 1865, was only ~ 3yI, SD 80,
and that OF that amount $500, 900 was distributed
to whites and others who were destitute, while
$4,000 more was expended In seeds for those
desiring to SOW and plant, among the white
and colOred Notwithstanding the amount
actually expended by the burCau,in bureau
work, %, sl7,s5 only. With regard to the mum.
Der OF troops employed in the South, an Official
statement from the headquarters Of the army
at Washington shows that on the LIST Of Jan.
uaFy, 1905, there were IS ,73l soldiers on duty IN
all the Southern States"
THE Providence Press has this; "What
would this country have been without Garnet
baggersl Since 1900 the citizens of the earlier
settled states have been migrating westward,
till state after state has been planted. The
essence Of the epithet is proscrlptiye, and its
GRimH5 more ylrulent than Known oth ingism
in its palmiest days. Let our fOfeign.born
citizens note, that when Democrats are de.
nounc.ng carpet'baggersl shot 10 aimed at
every man who comes from a foreign land
such proceeding may be according to rebel
Democracy, but 1t Is not according to Jeffer-
goRiGn."
THREE State elections occur In the next five
Weeks. vermont votes on lHG HFht, 'hlltOFlla
on the eighth, and Maine on the fourteenth of
September, Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Penn
sylyania, Iowa, and West Virginia vote In DC.
tober. On the third Of November, New York,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri,
Kansas, Nevada, and chusetts h Did their
elections. In the next twelve weeks, there
fore, we shall have not less than twenty three
State elections.
The Commercial makes a point on the Herald
az follows "rhe threats made by the World
to hang the Herald, have brought that paper
down on its knees, and II 10 now AS subser-
times past, we remember that the editor of
the Herald had a terrible aversion to the lash,
ana we are not surprised to find him now in
his old days fearing the rope"
Mr.. WILLIAMSON, in \ Democratic speech
10 New Orleans the other day, arFaigned the
Republican party as follows; I'VE arraign
them In the name OF our dearly beloved con-
iederate dead, whose bones are etrown all over
the Northwest, killed In battle by the afro
ciOus cruelty of the Radical government
AT the recent Democratic Convention at Tai.
lahassec, Fla, the sentiment most loudly
cheered was that of Ool. Davidson: we APP
peal to Heaven for dellyerenee, and II Heaven
won't help up we must help OuFsclyes; dis
like war, but, II 1t must come, let 1t come"
Tmg Welsh cltizens Of Utica met on Monday
| evening and formed = large and vigorous GRAM
and Colfax club. The Welsh are, as general
thing, with US.
The boston Transcript says: "The response
OF the war Department to the appeal of the
Governor OF Louisiana for troops, knocks one
plank Of the Democratic platform sky high
GBH. GIBSON opened the Ohio campaign Oh
Friday evening, the 9lst ut, in Thin. lie
Addressed a crowd OF 900 persons. On Wcdnes
day week he addressed y large meeting at Nor
walk.
A MATTAwAE (WisoonBin) correspondent
writes The Democrats are dying fast In Van
Buren, county" Seymour isn't near strong
enough stimilant to keep the old topers mp.