Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-23

Since the war, this sort of enlistment has
been cunningly devised mode for obtain
ing a clerkship where it could not be OBJ
tanned by a Straightforward application
for it.
4 Some of these details, | know, have
been soldiers in the field, and are desery-
ing of such places as they are competent
to fill. Let such have clerkships in reg
ular way, in the spirit Of favor intimated
by Gen. Grant, and let the rest take their
chances.
1t is a subject of remark that Gen.
Grant and his wife called upon Mrs. Gen.
Butler, Wednesday. | hear, blythe way,
that Gen. and Mrs Grant are about to
issue cards of invitation to a large recer-
ton to take places short time before the
Inauguration as sort OF valedictory to
his friends in the grand military episode
Of his life. The next time he receives
his friends in similar manner he will
have passed from the most renowned and
popular general in the world to the high
est and most popular civil magistrate in
the world.
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.
The Senate has agreed to suffrage "a
mendment somewhat differing from that of
the House A spirited feeling exists in
both branches of Congress partaking Of
jealousy the one of the other, which may
have the effect Of obstructing the way to
harmony between them on this subject,
and throwing the measure over to the next
Congress.
This would be exceedingly unfortunate.
Now is the golden opportunity. All the
State Legislatures believe, are now in
session. The amendment could be easily
submitted to them all, and the matter at
once settled ). and thus more be accom-
plished towards the restoration CT the spi-
rit OF peace and unity throughout the
country, than by any other one instru-
mentality.
A. JOHNSON ANGLING.
Saturday President johnson sent to the
Senate the name of Louis Dent-a broth
er Of Mrs. Gen Grant to be Minister
Of Chill, vice Judson Fitzpatrick. There's
method in that madness. Unfortunately,
however, for this little piscatorial essay,
the fish he had baitcd for was not gud-
geon, and wouldn't bite. Judge Dent
on learning Of his nomination, sent to Mr..
Sumner, Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, that he was not an APP
plicant for that positions, and desired
that his name be Withdrawn.
THE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
The Department of Education is in
danger Of being abolished. The teachers
throughout the country have evinced lit
tie interest in the matter, so far as | am
aware, for or against the Department.
five give them credit for as much CON-
prehcnsiye Intelligence in the interests Of
their profession as they should possess in
order to be worthy of it, their silence and
apparent Indifference would argue q want
OF usefulness in the Department. And
yet that cannot be, in the nature of things,
the correct conclusion. An Educational
Department in nation Of popular cduca-
tion not Of sufficient usefulness to warrant
its continuance Impossible. 1t is not
meant by this that the Department has
been conducted in such manner as to
commend it to favor-as to be of any i'm
portant use even; but without expressing
any opinion of what the Department has
been insist that it is capable of imneas-
urablc usefulness. Congress would listen
with great respect to an expression Of the
views of the teachers of the country on
the subject II not disposed Of this sess-
ion, there will be an opportunity to ma
ture and concert some though and inior-
nation, and to construct some system of
correcstions between Central National
Bureau of Education and the educational
throughout the country to lay !
before the hext Congress.
THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE II
WAR. O
Some objection is being urged against c
Congress making the appropriation for r
the publication of the Medical and Sugi- c
cal History of the War, applied for by .
Surgeon General Barnes and, in the midst {
Of the present popular and proper desire t
for the utmost economy of expenditures, y
i may find favor. But it is really to be v
hoped that Congress will exercise some y
in its endeayor to carry out c
is laudable desire for economy. This is &
I, great National work. The materials 8
or it have been gathered and prepared II
or it by gentlemen in the Government G
M nd tIn, lie. L.. 4