Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-06-29
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE

OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, d. O., June l6, 1869.
THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF WASHINGTON.
lfit may be judged of by the immedi-
ate past, will present an example of the
Improvement resulting from the suppressed
ing Of an old stagnant, corrupt govern
ment, by new, honest, intelligent and
enterprisiug one, absolutely wonderful. A
northern U. s. Senatqr several weeks ago
bought house for $40, 900 simply as an
investment, having no family to occupy
it. He counts on the rapid enhancement
in value paying him handsome profit,
though it stand idle meantime Mayor
Bowen bought President Grants private
residence, furnished, for $4,000, but
generously y relinquished the bargain for
night, or SO, later, that it might pass di-
rcctly from Grant to Sherman, and then
it brought $4,000. Charles Sumner
bought house about a year ago, for $30-
COO; and few weeks ago sold it for
$4,000. Street grading, laying down
water and gas pipes and sidewalks are to
be witness in all the new and hitherto
neglected portions and the government
is still planning and prosecuting. The i'm
provements yet to come will include busi-
ness facilities, such as the building of
railroads, the deepening of the water
front and channel, &c.
The whole city government, including
city officers aud Ii Aldermen and q
Councimen, is Republican, excepting 3,
possibly 4, Aldermen who have their I'd
year yet to serve; and the whole respon-
sibility is courageously anu hopefully ac-
cepted.
NEST BROKEN UP, PROBABLY.
The Secretary of War has ordered that
all enlisted men detailed as clerks in the
various bureaus of the War Department,
be discharged. Most of these men are
knowing ones who enlisted for the sole
purpose of getting or retaining the clerk
ships, and with the authorized under.
standing that they were to be called up
on for clerical duty only, and to receive
therefor, not soldiers pay of SIG y
month, but a clerks pay Of 500.
There are about $50 of these men in
the Surgeon Generals Office alone and,
at rough estinate, there are between
1000 in all branches of War Department.
For the most part they were in the SER
vice during some part of the war; but
generally they were hospital stewards and
clerks, and printers. &C.. part, if not all,
their term, even then; and their re-cn-
listment was nothing but a roundabout
cunning mode of getting places and pay,
which if called by their right names, and
sought in open-day manner, would have
attracted competition, and given Others
chance in. 1t is this iudirection and
unfairness that | object to. | know
nothing against one of them personally.
The order has proved too sweeping tc
Immediately operative. 1t was found
that all the enlisted men in the Depart.
lnennt took in large proportion of the
Whole force and to dispense with them
at once, would be to stop the wheels
This was telegraphcd to Secretary Raw
Inns, absent from the city, and he replied
suspcnding the order until his return. Il
will be substantially carried out in the
end, no doubt for the law, us under.
stand, does not admit of men being enlist
ed for any such purpose and pay. Some O
them may be given their old places again
as civilians, Notwithstanding
cHEcK-MATING TIE RoGUEs.
A recent order of the Treasury De
partment pointedly intimates that agents
and Department employees are not al
ways to be trusted together on oficia
business. The former are forbidden t.
hold any official intercourse with any ont
employed'in any bureau of the Treasury
without permit in writing from the Sec
retary and the latter are forbidden t
communicate any official information
whatever, in or out Of the Department.
What the Secretary means by "em
ployces," is not very clear. Auditors
Commissioner, Chief Clerks, &c. are en-
ployees no more nor less then clerks, mes
sengers, and laoorers. Ii he include
too many the business cannot be done j
he includes too few the rogues may b
mays be among the privileged. Designate
Mr.. Secretary.
/ RECREATING.
! The President, General Sherman, am
Secretaries Boutwell,, Rawlins and Cox
aud Mayor Bowen, all absent from Wash
ington on pleasure. Most Of them, if NO
all, were bound, directly and indirectly