The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-07-01
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
BY LAST RvENING's MAILS.
Warrington.
Correspondence Of the HERALD


WASHINGTON, Saturday, June q, 1916.
The A,raed of the Spoas-Mr. aiken among tie Outs
Cherokee COMMANDMENT. H. Haytly-Ase
Choctaso Consracts-Vinainous Treatment Of the
Indians Committees Wanted, &c.
Hurrah on Monday next there are to be twenty
two removals from the General Land office-thirteen
under the law Of Congress, limiting the whole num-
Der of clerks in this bureau to sixty and nine under
the law Of rotation, which exacs that every grace
less varlct of wing in place shall be compelled 10
sympathise with Mr.. Clay in his late decisive and
appalling defeat To fill these nine vacancies bv ro-
taon, there are of course, nine good and well endor
sed locofocos on hand, some of whom have unoues-
tonably dipped pretty largely into their prospective
salaries: But greater haul upon the wing subordi-
mates all over the country, and out Of the country
will be made. from the expiration of their commits
sions at the close Of this unfortunate month Of June
And from the smooth, deliberate, and cool mode of
operation governing the distribution of the spoilsw
question whether there will be solitary Coon over
$2,OOO year by Christmas, standing under the adj
mlnlstration as a monument Of its clemency -Four
years hence we may have another official holocaust.
II would, therefore, be amiss for democratic
prethren, now suppng the cream OF the Treasury to
anticipate the day OF wrath, for Gen. Scott will
tainly be the next President ii he takes the field, I'M
less confronted by Commodore Stewart
Mr. Aiken, chief clerk in the Auditors Office for
the War Department, has taken up his bed and walk
ed, but as it single bed he can tote il comfora-
! bly,. He has been in Office for thiry-one years-is
said to be across-grained, Grabbed crusty bachelor
ia bachelor. God forgive him )-and is said fur
Their to be worth least 200 in cash. stocks and
property and that the reason of his never marrying
is that he has dreaded the expense Of late he has
been reading Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures and is
Mr. Buchanan is right, and that all old bachelors are
right. No, SIR, you are not right; you are right
wrong: Had you married personable woman, sir,
her Influence might have saved you. combined, with
that old Mr. Lewis, Of your late Clerks is to be
reinstated again, though he is a wing? And why!
Simply because the Dowager influence was irresist-
able.
Il is charged that Mr. Aiken wished the CUSTODY Of
the private letters to the Auditor during his late abb
sence, which he had assigned to the care of his son,
Thomas. Mr.. A. claimed, notwithstanding, the en-
tire supervision of the Auditors correspondence and
upon this issue he has fallen through the sitter The
old gentleman will now have leisure to look up a
wife to soothc him for the irreparabe loss of his
seventeen hundred a year
We learn that Messrs. Mason and Washington,
late Cherokee Commissioners, have been removed
and that as yet their places remain vacant. There
are ma ny unsettled claims IN favor of the treaty par
~ Of the Cherokees, yet to be examined audited
and lqudated; and the ends of justice to this unfor
tunate and prosecuted people demand new Commits
sloners and prompt action And here, 1T would SEEM
that /. Hartley Crawford and the Choctaw contracts
and the graceless, mean, wholesale swindng Of the
Choctaws, by some person or persons, doubtless
known to MIR. Crawford, are laid upon the table till
the meeting of Congress, when we are assured that
a Committee OF the Senate will be appointed, with
power TO send for persons and papers. And then,
of all the swindling practices ever perpetrated upon
the Government and the defenceless Indians, we
predic; that you will discover the flagitious villany
OF the u. s. Agents IN this Choctaw business, to be
the meanest, and the lowest, ard the broadcast, and
she basest. Indeed il seems that Indian treaties
and relations with the red men generally, are MAIN
y the instruments OF enriching the most heartless
swndlers. With the Seminoles, with the Cherokees,
| man her
the ends OF the Government have been frus-
| trated, and Its magnanmity turned to curse,
through the rascality of brawling grogshop poit-
cans promoted to the responsible trusts Of Indian
Agents and Commissioners. Mere swell-head loaf
ere, who, for denourcng and slanaering most reck-
lessy the opposite party, are thus to be rewarded
We call the serious attention OF the President to
Indian relations, and our Indian agencies. They
are trusts which demand the appointment of honor
able trustworthy men-men of whom We know
their love OF Justice transcends their love OF the In
dams lands, his bOuntles, and gratulies
We forgot, IN our last, to mention that among the
| rghthand men OF General Jackson in his southern
campaigns, who walked in the funeral procession
a. Rodgers, Capt. Eli Davis, all of Tennessee; and
John Looney, of the Cherokee Nation. Among
other soldiers of the last war, the line were Capt
Nicholas Burke, Of Md, Michael Hill DIVA, Corpo-
raj IL Lynch, ofN. T., and George F. De La Roche.
| The President is mere shadow. They are boring
him to death, and its shame. II a stranger were
shown into his official room at the State Depart
ment, with twenty men present, the President would
be easily distinguished from his beingthe most plain
" dressed, (almost stability and the most unhappy
looking man In the company 1t takes stout heart
strong will, cool head, and an iron constitution
tor the Presidential chair just In these respects
the.quallhcaons of the Executive have been tested
TO the uttermost, and bravely he has borne him.
self, he is absolutely beginning to in his pur-
pose. IN his WILL in his GOODNESS, and decisveness.
Stand fast TO the Wheel sir, or you are stranded
| The Post Office Department is sending of to the
various offices throughout the Union the several
forms Of blanks required under the postage law
is unnecessary to apprse the readers of the Herald
that the hive and ten cent hostages commence on
next Tuesday; but II may not be amiss to encour-
age them to cooperate with all the friends OF cheap
postage IN giving the law good start. 1t won d be
beautiful idea too that every one who could afford
the time and the dime, would address compliment
tary letter on that day to Senator w. d MerIick Of
Maryland congraulating him on his success in push
ing the bill through Congress. With fair play the
law will work TO admiration.
AZ the Library OF Congress to-day, we encounter
ed that old business man OF the House, Hon Elisha
Whitesey, Of Ohio. He, and the Belgian Minister,
were the exclusive visitors of Mr.. Meehan to-day
Weather thick and muggy. The few strangers in
town are loafing at the hotels, smoking segars, and
discussing h small t gossip and captrap rumors After
dull business to stay in Washington. We are ex-
pectng every mail that Mr.. Shannon will come for.
ward and report upon those Mexican instruments
The claimants are very curious to know of the dis
position Of those S275,000.
WARRINGTON June -, 1915.
e Proceeding Of The Fifth Day Of the New Court Mar
tidi continued.-Neio Intention.
Not being able to forward you the full proceedings Of
Saturday by that evenings mail avail ofthe oppoltun
ty offered of bringing up the eeway by giving the
mainder Of the evidence Of Lieutenant Jenkins the
part of the prosecution The Judge Advocate proposed
the following question to witness, What prac
tice Of the officers under that order was it upon
by the officers Of the Congress duty enoincd by
other orders therein contained p For proper under
standing of this question must state that the order
red to- does not authorize the officers to nhic corpo
real punishment unless they should consider the iner-
neaton to be of the order The nterlneaon spoken
of by Lieutenant Jenkins is written in the margin
book Of orders produced in court which is a cop,
one Lieutenant jenkins saw hanging at the cabin
for the Of officers and crew of the Congress