Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-07-07
Our Washington Correspondence.
wAsnrseroy CRY, July /, 96y.


With characteristic mendacity and ,nisrepresen-
tat1n The Radical press arc agan pervcrting The
truth in the interests of the Grant administration
The Philadelphia Press, of yesterday, in an ar;i-
Gle on the financial workings OF the Radical party
euloSizes Grant by saying that his unrivallcd
financial abilities have procured IN increase in
the revenues of the last quarter of the fiscal year
ending 3Oth of June. 1869, of $1,000, 600 over
the average Of the three preceding quarters.
This the Press citos Us an evidence of Grants
economy and ability. Nov as the incotne-toxes
arc returned in the last quarter of the fiscal yeas,
it will be seen, at once how deliberately false is
this statement of the Press, and how contcmpti-
bly, mean the spirit which prompted it to such
Misrepresentation. The object of course was to
dcludc the masses of the people into belief OF q
lie, for, to use the plain Saxon, such it is And
thus we find the Radical press of the country,
with few honorable exceptions, lending them
selves assiluously 10 the task of pros,itutng the
Intelligence of the people, and educating them IN
systematic course of duplicity and ialsehoed
The judgement Of on impartial and virtuous pos
tcrity will weigh heavily upon the conductors Of
the Radical newspapers Of this country.
The ceremonies at Gettysburg aro exciting great
interest in Washington, especially among ne
"carpet-bag" officials of this city. Mayor Bowen
and largo majority of the City Council, left here
OH yesterday afternoon for the purpose of attend
ing the dedication Of the monument at that pines
Mr.. Bowen loves to travel
or two ago returned from the jubilee at Boston Hs
announces his intention of returning to Washing
ton ON Saturday, but I question if the Grand
away so soon from the delights of such u mutua
admiration society as will be present nt the annua
festivities Mt Gettysburg. The members of TIN
City Council have generally nothing to do bu
receive their salaries, vote taxes to supportr-tht
negroes, and interfere with tho private business
of the white citizen, such as debating to gentle
men what employees they shall choose. Hcne'
their absen'l is not so materia,-i fact e they
were absentall the time it would be moro beneficial
than otherwise. BUTT does seem rather odd, t
an old-fashioned Democrat like myself, hat
large and 1Ourishing city of over one huhdrfs
and fifty thousand Inhabitants should be taxct
beyond endurance for the purpose Of furnishis
"carpot baggcrs" and negroes with the means
travelling around the country. q
Yesterday &c ladies and FIVE goITtca.S-: - y;3&
discharged from the Registers Office of the 7; -
TRY, making an, aggregate of over tas hume (
from that Bureau alone who have been dismisst
since Grants raid on the clerks commenced. /
he goes on at this ratio ho will kill moro men AM
women, proportionately, than he did at the vii
derness and Cold Harbor. For ecoromy's sasAs
is the ostcnsible reason of these discharges. ut
why is it that the Radical press zcalous!y intm |
the people OF every removal that is made, yen
they as zealsusly keep back how many ne'p-
pointmcnts instantly follow the removals ?fer
example, twenty clerks wcrs turned OF fcyays
since in the Second Auditors Office of the seas-
ury, and the very next day .fjfy new nppOilaen's
made. am Informed by persons who kn' that
the places of all those discharged, are, 'h few
exceptions, Immediately filled. Yet thc'uhtTy
is led to believe, BY incessant exertion on Tue
part of the administration journals, thadr9nt is
bent on rctrenchment." II you. douf THIS as
sertion you arr -''"r'nfnt proOt
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