Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1869 — Affairs at the White House. [ARTICLE]

Affairs at the White House.

No living man is more successful, while in company, in getting rid of a subject be doesnot choose to converse upon, than General Many a Galenfaii. whfi cafteH bii him .daring his throe month’s stay here, while the Presidential canvass was in progress, can attest this fact While sitting in the parlor, of an evening, with lite family around him, -little Nellie perhapaslttin4 on his knete.and a few neighbors passing the evening’Wftfrtircm. sotnc’ politictan, just arrived on the evening train, would drop in'. ' These hours General Grant devoted to his family and personal friends. They were hours Of relaxation from care and anxiety, and were not to be disturbed "by political debates, or tWnjcPttires as (O‘the Tcsult ol the great contest. Our politician would open out on the prospects jbr the election. No response team General Graft. If tjiq’ poli-ticte-n happehHtfo bjM mtes of katuie, a few more ■frords’rrdm him closed the conversation on that topic. If, on the other hpnd, he was a persistent bore, ha continued till an answer was giYeh, The meaning of which he could pot mistake. Generallv, how’evet, the ’ General’s silence was sufficient evidence to the talker that the was not agreeable. This same course the General is pursuing at the White, IJouse, and it saves him a wotld of annoyance flriun 'polilieiahs. The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Hines says: .. There hevirwas ap administration so completely independent of control by “persons of influence” as the present. There was never time, probably, when the executive mansion was so tree from hangers-on] ana kitchen-cabinet arrangements generally. After 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the building assumes all the appearance of a private residence. The President refuses to see callersoh business in the evening. The-psople who da call pay their respects or spend the evening in the private parlor with the President and Mrs. Grant, and the intercourse on such occasions is never allawed to approach business, save when some public necessity brings a proper pf the De-

partinents or of Congress with a mission the importance of which the President himself Hilly recognize*. A pure atmosphere, inspiring a conviction of honesty and truth, prevails at the White House, and only those who knoW what contamination prevailed under the previous occu. nanl can fully appreciate the change. Never was a Prcsicient more free to do what is best for the country and for the people at large, and never was a president apparently more determined to perform that duty.— Galhut, fU , Gantte.