Clayton herald. (Clayton, Del.) 1867-1870, 1869-06-19
Our WashingtonLetter.
WASHINGTON, D. G., June IA, 1869.
CHECK MATING rfYE RoGUEs.

CHECK NIATIN%Sf' TIE ROGUES.
A recent order of the Treasury Depart
ment pointedly intimatesf hat agents and
Department employees bre not always |
to be trusted togetheron official business. |
The former are forbidden to hold any Of |
fetal intercourse with any one employ |
ed in any bureau of the Treasury with
out IA permit in writing from the Secre- |
tary; and the latter are forbidden to COM
municate any official Information what
ever, in or out of the Department.
What the Secretary means by "em-
ployees," is not verv clear. Auditors,
Commissioners, Chief Clerks, &C., are
employees no more nor less than clerks,
messengers, and lahoters. If he includes
too many the BUSINESS canuot be done;
if he includes too few the rogues may be
among the privileged. Designate, Mr..
RECREATING.
The President, and Secretaries Bout
we'll, Rawlins and Cox, and Mayor Bow
en-, are all absent from Washington on
pleasure. All except Secretary Cox, are
bound for the Boston Peace Festival,
and perhaps the latter will "swing
round" to it from ohio, his present OBJ
iective point. Vice President Colfax is
also absent. But nobody cares where
Vice President is, when Congress is not
j
THE INDIAN QUESTION
Still continues to occupy Government
attention. Where the knot cannot be
united it will he cut. Asa result of an
J appeal in behalf of the protection of the
: Kansas frontiers &arsral sheridan has
been ordered 10 tTeat us hostile all In
dams found off their reservations; and
, Gen. Schofeld has been ordered to en-
f ploy volunteers in his department, if the
regulars are insufficient.
Meantime Commissioner Parker has
instructed the agents to use every eXer-
ton to induce the Indians to go upon
reservations, where every assistance tC
! the a, option OF civilized mode of life
will be rendered, that can he unler the
e law.
THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Between Washington and Baltimore
Wednesday night gave our city at large
: so far as it WAS known, that the Presi
: dent, his family, and his sister and hel
/ husband were ON the train, quite {
d fright, until it was ascertained that III,
d special car and all its contents were en-
tirely uninjured, the latter being almos
as unaware as the former that anythin,
e serious had happened. The President
If it is represented, was found smoking.
st A brother of your correspondence
e was one of the injured. He was in tn
l. smoking car, which. was smashed int
20 small pieces. He was elected, as if fire.
a from gun, and wonderfully escapes
is with only cuts, scratches, and a sever
wrenching of his chest. This is an ex
ample of the escapes generally.
lie ENGLAND'S DIPLOMACY.
es 1t is rumored here that England
n, about to replace Mr.. Thornton, her pres
i ent Ambassador to the United State:
SO with tirst-chop diplomat, for the pun
he pose of nscertaining our Senatorial min
Id on the Alabama quest on before re-opeI
ing negotiations, and securing herself,
possible, against another rebuff.
at A SQUIRREL HUNT IN THE
D. STREETS OF WASHINGTON
lls Aroused the denizens of the neigLboi
ne hood of the corners of 18th and Il stree
% by the Post Oflice-out of their cor
% Guiding SAUNDERS, about half past fou
: o'clock this morning. This is about {
- rural spot as any part OF Grand stree
New York. Know, reader, that II
n street does hundred times more bu
I'D mess than any other in Washington
,al Penn. Avenue alone excepted, and Il
re. hunt took place in the busiest part of
III, Why, the bare sight of the numberle
of brilliant signs of agents of all sorts, on
his single building in that immedia
IN. neighborhood, would scare the game
game to death or, if that by possibili
49,. failed, the thought of the deficiency
nis incomes compared with expenses won
~. eA b. enough to kill any four footed ere
~, ~ ture with excessive commiserati'
ero grief. And yet there was hunt. Son
~ newsboys and shoe-blacks at that ear
eae hour had discovered fine grey squi
vac rel in one of four full leafed trees uttil
~. out of the sidewalk. The noises th
.he the young scamps thereupon made a
'' unimaginable, and with more reas
indiscribable. How to catch him? o
,ds climbed the tree. The little fellc
If skipped to another. Another boy W
mic found able TO climb another tree ; al
4 If the little chap was doubly thanked
vas Meantime third imp was making {
hat best of his way up the tree between a
, ~ on which chirped and trembled I
was squirrel. When the last boy got hi
MIC enough, up rose the excited voices
& of the whole pack below-which had be
nico constantly increasing-"Shake SHAH
bv shakel shakeW with an intense en-
ms gy that rasped their threats. And
fellow did shake, and the little vict
-, tumbled through the branches TO
that ground, but so lightly as to be able
OF scamper away. But 1 fear he had
try; chance for escape on the ground.
eral eXecrable view-halloo, and the rattle
the the pack, papers, foot-boxes, and all,
rage wild pursuit., concluded tho scene
kerr your correspondent, The squirrel W
eat doubtless, runaway pet of Some nei
mere Dor.
o mrs THE NATIONAL DIVISION so
:, a. OF TEMPERANCE
will Held its 25th annual session here
enc. week. The Sons of temperance of
lther British Dominion vera represented !;
IS is that 1t was really Eorth Amerl
been convention. The hotef English al
the cafe OF temperance, ~. Lees, was
been present. The largest pail and chu