The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-19

| rolina; Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Gile, Jack
sonvil!e, Florida; Colonel j. R. Lewis, Atlanta,
Georgia; Colonel Edwin Beecher, Montgomery,
Alabama; H. R. Pease, Jackson, Mississippi;
| y. w. Mason, New Orleans, Louisiana; Joseph
Welch, Austin, Texas; w. w. Colby, Little Rock,
AArkansas; Ar; Lieutenant Colonel 9. E. ompton,
louisville. Kentucky. ana John Kmoall,
Washington, for the District of Colum-
bla, Maryland, Delaware, and West Vir-
! glnia. Such of these gentlons as are in the
ans are paid out OF the bureau funds; the COM
Pensation ranges from $1,000 to $2l0O yearly.
NO superintendent can employ more than one
clerk; and each Official is expected 10 give b1s
whole time to the educational work.
The bureau can aid schools In only one way
Dy putting up, or assisting to put up and re-
par, school buildings; it has no funds where
with to pay teachers. It. is entering on q new
policy; heretofore it hasSmostly aided schools
and academies in towns and cities; hereafter IT
Will endeavor to do moro work IN the country
ana small villages. The new instructions,
issued day or two ago, specially enjoin super
ntendents to labor in this directlon
Each superintendent is to report briefly
ever every n month " to the general. superintendent
July there must be full semi-annual reports to
the commissioners. The spring reports show
an improved feeling, everywhere in most
Grant Is now in the White House, and that the
ballot cannot be taken away from the black
man. The appointment of some colored per-
sons to office is mentioned as one Of the agen-
cles working toward the enlightenment of the
whites. ~
The bounty division of the bureau is in
CHARGE OF MIR. Drew, under whom are fourteen
clerks. There is deal moro labor here than
persons commonly suppose. The bureau must
keep up constant fight with thieves and
sharpers. and at the leas it is probable that
the rascals manage to cheat many Of the ne
groes out OF cOnsidera BILE portion OF their
4ues. Ihe situation in this regard is worse in
kentucky and Tennessee than in any other
States.
An average Of about $3.50 600 per month is
paid over to claimants. complete history of
every claim is kept. and the books seemed to
me models of neatness and orderly arrange
ment. SO far as ls practicable, the money goes
to claimants through the F1eedmen's Savings
Banks OF the South-the officers of which in
situations are presumed to be generally ac-
qualnted with the negroes in their respective
LOCALITIES. Two or three bounty agents are,
however, kept on duty in each Slate-all these
are detail ed army officers. The number of this
possible. 40
1T The bureau is selling off it's property wher-
ever 1t can find purchasers. It has control Of
the Arlington estate on the opposite side Of
the river from Washington; it was bought in
Dy the government OF q tax SALE and that por-
ton not occupied by the soldiers cemetery is
Ieated out to colored persons, some of whom
nave nice little farms. Most Of the buildings
IN THIS clty at one time held by the bureau
have been transferred to the quartermaster's
department.. There is considerable property
at Ma con and Augusta, as we'll as some in
1exas and South Carolina, Of which the COM
missioner is ostensibly in charge-it cannot
yet be sold because of disputes about the gov
ernment title. Many thousand acres of aban-
doned land wore once on the books of the bu-
feau, but this is given up as fast as it's owners
come forward and establish their titles.