The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-26

From Our o,Cn Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 1862

nOrk tOr the president ana Cabinet.
Inc President, 1t is said, will pay us flying
visit next week, hold a Cabinet meeting, and be
off again to enjoy his summer recreation. Ex-
eept he proposes to neglect important public
business, he may not get away so soon as 1t is
expected. There is at least one gentleman here
who is awaiting his arrival anxiously, and who
has some business with him and his Cabinet
which is regarded as important This is Colonel
W. b. Stokes, of Tennessee the defeated candi-
date for. Governor of that State. 1t is hardly
probab that the President will adopt the sug-
gestions of Colonel Stokes and yet it seems as
If something should be done for the Union men of
Tennessee. THERE'S no Disgusting the fact thatthe
administration and the Republican party are
losing ground in the Southern States. The
loss of party prestige, however, is nothing to
the deplorable consequences that are sure to
follow to Union men. have had two or three
conversations with Colonel Stokes and if the
picture he paints of the condition of affairs in
Tennessee, present and prospective, has any
fidelity in it, there is really cause for alarm. If
anything can be done by the administration to
retrieve the disaster to the Union cause in that
State, it should be done at once 1t is great
mistake to suppose that the ex-Rebels are dis
posed to be the quiet, submissive lambs that
some people have pictured them. Put them into
power, and they will give youAndersonyille and
Libby Prison over again, if they get chance.
They have scarcely got warmed in their seat of
power in Tennessee, and yet Union men are
already beginning to leave the State. Colonel
Stokes estimates that Tennessee has been Sc
back ten years by the success of the so-called
conservative Republicans.
A Political Blunder.
There can be no doubt in the minds of shrewd
politicians or even of casual observers that the
defeat in Tennessee was indirectly owing to the
want of tact displayed by the administration
The anomalous position so long maintained by
the President towards Virginia did the business
for Tennessee. / have the authority of some of
the best Union politicians of that State for this
assertion. For long time it was difficult to tell
whether the President regretted or rejoiced at
the result of the election in Virginia His reti-
cence, so mach praised generally had disas-
trous effect Politicians, always anxious to go
with the strong side, hestated, not knowing
whether Grant was about to head the new con-
servative movement, or whether he intended to
stand by the regular nominees of the party that
elected him. The proof of this fact is found in
the fact that the Federal oflice-holders in Ten
nessee were all for Senter, the conservative can
didate "They didn't exactly know, said Stokes,
s'where Grant was; that was the trouble" Daniels
of Virginia had sent his impudent despatch to
the President, congratulating him on the sue
cess of the Walker party. Walker himself had
visited the White house, and the report went to
Tennessee in the midst of the canvass, as it
went elsewhere, that Grant was satisfied with
Walkers election, as well satisfied in fact, as if
Wells had been elected. This report never
was officially contradicted. 1t is easy to imagine
the effect of such an announcement on the
wayering men in Tennessee. The Democrats
and Rebels of Tennessee understood the Walker
4 NOT nd ms de ba
most of his reticence. Boutwell, and Creswell
to be sure sounded the trumpet, but it did not
have the force that word from the President
would have had. The conversation with Colonel
Tarbell, of Mississippi, came too late. The
word should have been spoken when the Daniels
telegram was received at the White House.
Not Consistent.
Some time ago the Acting Secretary of the
Treasury issued an order, setting forth that the
clerks of the department must be promptly at
their desks at Q o'clock in the morning, and thai
they must remain there until in the afternoon.
ANY infractiOn of this rule was to be punished
with deduction of the salary of the Delinquent
at the end of the month. This was, no doubt
riUht in itself The time of the clerks unques
tionably belongs to the Government but was i
Just the time to issue such al
order when the President, th
members of the Cabinet, and nearly all tn
heads of bureaus, were away seeking pleasure
and recreation? If the clerks absented them
selves from their desks and their duties they
merely initiated the example set them by thei
superiors You could not go into any of tn
departments for the last two months WithOu
finding half OF the heads of bureaus away
.'out of town" AS for the heads of departments
they were not expected to be here, it seems
Those who have taken the trouble to make tn
H. iG n
law for high official absenting himself frOr
his duties than for miserable clerk.
Does the President support Dente
Ii is difficult to ascertain the real truth wit
regard to Judge Dents status with the Pres
dent. As Republican President of cours
Grant could not publicly countenance the cours
of his brother-in-law. And yet Dent in priyat
conversation persistently maintains that th
Presidents sympathies are all with him. Fu
thermore he asserts that while the PresideI
cannot very well do anything to aid his election
he will do nothing to help the regulG
Republican ticket in Mississippi. l hay
no means of ascertaining whether tines
statements are correct. give them on the al
thoritv of Judge Dent. He has made them n
Deatedlv TO various gentlemen. Dent says thi
the President in conversation with him, sal
that if he thought the Southern men were
earnest and would keep faith, he (the Pres
dent) would give the conservative movemel
his earnest support. His sympathies were a
thot wov but he was afraid to trust the SOutl
In erners. This same Judge boasts, with KNOWN
mink of his eXpressionless eye, that Boutwell,
reion i'm the Cabinet will be brief. He also hin
tbaf a majority of the Cabinet are conservative
but when asked why they don't make the az