The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-05-07
WARRINGTON LETTER.
Lcorresponadence Frgmont journal
WAsHIseToS, D. c., May l, 1869.

has just made decision relative TO Banker
and Brokers, which it is estimated, will in
crease the revenue in New York alone ter
millions Of dollars.
The first Of The season Open-air musica
sOirees is appointed for this LIST of May even
ing, at the Presidential grounds 3D.
Ex-senator Wades friends are Indignant
because he did not receive an appointment
as one Of the Pacific railroad commissioners
He was urged for the place, and his friends
declare that he had reasons to expect it.
Mr. Richardson, Asst Sec'y of the Treas.
ury, authorizes adenial of the statement that
he has declined the appointment of Justice o.
the Superior Court of Mass.
The Ways and Means Committee will
shortly visited Canada for the purpose o.
comforting with the authorities upon the
opening of negotiations for new reciprocity
treaty, free navigation Of the st. Lawrence
and protection 10 the fisheries.
INDIAN MATTERS.
Gov. ,McCorm ick, now Delegate in Con.
gress from Arizona, had an interview with
the Secretary of War, and presented a
memorial of the Legislature, requesting that
the citizens Of the Territory be loaned arms
and furnished rations whenever they can cf-
fectiyely cooperate with the troops against
the hostile Indians. The present Governor,
Goodwin, aud Gov. Mccormick both express
ed themselves, in a recent conversation with
your correspondent, favorable to the policy
Of the frontier States and Territories being
entrusted with all the sgency and all the
fighting necessary, with The Indians; and
their view is very plausible. The frontier
people are the most concerned.
It is reported that the President and the
Secretary Of Interior are considering the e1-
pediency of detailing retired army officers,
and those who are not assigned to any duty
since the consolidation of the troops, to act
as Indian agents. That looks well, too, pro-
vidod these officers must remain in the pay
Of Government. In that case it would be In
economy in salaries, and an economy in
more faithful accounting Of all moneys to be
entrusted to agents; the military service
having less liberty to indulge in cupidity
than the civil service
The new Commissioner, Parker, is about
to institute an investigation into the frauds
Pracliced upon the Cherokee soldiers, by
which they have been swindled out of their
bounties, estimated in the aggregate at
several hundred thousand dollars. Indian
agents are said to be implicated.
Yur have seen it reported, presume, that
it has been brought to light that an agent
has been, and is now, under pay for the
Delaware Indians, which as tribe, has been
extinct since April 10, 1867.
GOVERNMENT CLERKS At DISCOUNT.
A lady friend of mine, Government clerk,
buys her modicum of butter Of a rather
elderly market man with tall stove-pipe
hat, who was recommended to her for his
fair dealing and agreeable, fatherly character.
He might have been recommended for his
hat, too; for as my friend is near-sighted, it
is only by the the projection of that hard
lined black object above the may crowd and
the smoking lamps, that she knows exactly
where TO go. Last Saturday evening she
paid him her usual visit On seeing her
he kindly inquired if she still retained her
place.
sYes," she replied, "but it is very un-
certain. Every morning as soon as L get up
the first thing I do is to shake my head to
see ifit is there"
"Wel, the old gentlemen rejOined: 81
think it is about time that gailloRtine was
stopt. 1 had son-in-law discharged the
other day. and he doesn't know what on
earth to 60 to do. The worst of it is after 2
man has been clerk he doesn't know how
to help himself any other way. 1 have one
single daughter, and I tell her I'll disOwn
her if she looks at clerk
PRESIDENTIAL VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON.
The President, Mrs. Grant, son and
and company of official and other
friends, attended by the Marine Band and a
caterer, made an excursion to Mount YER
non, Thursday. The party went by a
steamer from the Navy Yard, and returned
that way; and the regulation salute was
fired, the regulation drum roll and present
sFps, and TO a simple civic republicau'ss
prehensiOn, other aped European tom-fool-
cries observed. The trip occupied the
greater portion Of the day, and appears to
have been very pleasant affair.
IT Is NOT TRUE.
Fhat the House Committee of Foreign |
Affairs have made arrangements 70 20, or are |
authorized TO go, officially, to st. Domingo
and other islands of the Gulf. They are in
vestigating the Parsguayan difficulties; and |
they say that the testimony, when published,
sill furnish q record which, for unprOvOked
and fagrant violation of the lmmunites of
ambassadors, and for ferOcity and cruelty, |
has had no PARALLEL for centuries.
AN INTERESTING WORK.
The Department of Education, under the
Of Commissioner Barnard. is
full and elaborate report on edu.
,stioD in tho District of Columbia. That
portion Of lbe report which relates to educa-
ion among the people of color is already in
be hands of the public printer, and will soon
be issued in a separate volume. J.E.
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Is that msrble2' inquired a gentleman,