The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-27

GRANTS POLICY FoREsHADowED-G
NERAL ORDERS TO BE SUBMITTED FOR TIE
ANT1oUATED, EXPENSIVE AND VExATIoUs
MACHINERY OF REPUBLICAN GOVERN
MENT.-A Thayer County correspondent
OF the Lincoln (Neb.) Statesman, thus
forcshadows Grants policy, if reelected
Gen. Grant has appointed only little
more than half OF his numerous relatives
to Office. He proposes to commence the
next term by appointing them all Se-
condiy, he has actually appointed some
to Office, who have not paid him aby-
thing for it. The next term he will re-
ceive pay for every Office, according to
its peculiar value. For the highest he
Will receive fertile farms and palatial resi-
dences, and for the lowest the considera-
tlon will range all the way from fancy
horses to bull pups. Thirdly, he went
through the farce of assembling q con-
ventlon of ofice-holders expressly to
nominate him; he proposes to dispense
with the convention next time by issuing
the following order: Il, Gen. Grant BY
virtue OF the powers in me vested over
the Constitution, as Commander-in-Ch Chief
OF the army and navy of the United
States. do nominate myself as the sole
candidate for President of the United
States for the ensuing term"
q Brigadier- General Dent, being chiof
of staff, will preside over the Senate and
administer the Government, while I
smoke and recreate at Long Branch.
3. Brigadier-Ge Porter will pre-
side over the House of Representatives.
thus saving the trouble and expense of
electing Speaker.
4. The preceding presiding officers Of
the two Houses respectively. are hereby
authorized to cast as many votes as shall
be necessary to carry any m easure favor
ed by the Executive.
8. Brigadier. General Badeau will take
charge Of the War Department, with full
authority to compile an administration
history and to scatter the Government
archives to the four corners OF the earth.
u. The offices of Admiral and Secretary
OF tue Navy are hereby dispensed with,
and Brigadier- General Babcock will
manage the foreign affairs of the Govern
ment. with the sole instruction to crawl
to the big governments and insult the
little ones, especially if they be of the
'cullnd persuasion, to the end that the
honor OF the Government may be pre-,
served. and that we may ''have peace"
Z. The various other Offices will be
filed in the same way. The measures
are adopted in the interest of retrench-
ment and reform. The money expended
IN holding conventions and elections.
and the pecuniary expense incurred in
controlling local elections through Tom
Murphy and tho custom house generally.
has already proved sufficient to have
made the Dent family comfortably we'll
OH. This order is to take effect imme.
diately.
Given under my hand this first day of
June. 1876, and Of the independence OF
the United States the one hundredth.
U. s. GRANT,
Com'd q. s. Army and NAVY.
Brigadier- Generals DENT, PoRTER,
BABcocK and BADEAU, Aids.de- Camp.
The Springfield Republican says:
MARY Hogan eloped from Connecti-
cut Shaker Community. and married
Brother Jackson on the sly. She quiet
Iy remarked to friend after the ceremo-
ny, You can make your apple sass and
warrant it to keep, but gals amt apples,
and you can't bile 'em down 30 they
riage."
a Kansas paper nos the following ad-
vsrtisement: ''Engsged--Miss Anna
Gould to John Oandall, City Marshal of
Leavenworth, Kansas. From this time
and iorever-until Miss Anna
Gould becomes widow-young men are
to withdraw their particular
Two men recently came from the Ken.
tucky woods and wanted to enlist in a
Union regiment, not having heard that
the war was over. A good many who
haven't lived in the woods do not seem
to realize the advent of peace any better.
Boston Post.
A sharper, named j. Nj. alias J. ".
Anderson, has been getting money under
false pretenses in Savannah, Ga. He
represents himself az an, English capital
ist. On presenting letter of credit to
one of the Savannah banks, the company
declined to advance.
Henry Haynes, of Old Lyme, Conn.,,
is the father OF twelve male children.
He. himself, is the youngest of twelve
his sister is the mother Of
twelve children, and also his amt, and
he is the happy uncle Of 26O nephews