Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-05-25

me that Ex-Gov. Curtin, President Of Tho
East Indian Telegraph Company, and A
X. Mcclure, its Solicitor, had interviews
with the Secretaries of State and Navy
relative to the introduction Of the tcle
graph into China, under the authority Of
grant from the Chinese Goverement
when Burlingame was our Minister there
to lay cable between Canton and Shang'
hal, connecting the commercial cities oi
the Asiatic coast by telegraph. The
Company have SEQ miles of fcable ready
Of the LOCO miles required; and the resi-
is promised during the summer. The
protection of cur Navy is requested, and
such countenance by the Consuls, &C.,
along the line, as may be consistent This
cable will, [ believe, complete telegraph
communication pretty much, if not quite.
around the world.
A MASTER sEhOhE.
You have seen that army cfficers who
have lately been crowded out Of service
by the consolidation of regiments, have
been appointed Indian agents,
At first this looks inconsistent with the
simultaneous employment Of Quakers, sci
ectcd especially for their peculiar extreme
peace principles, in, nominally, the same
Office. But President Grant is right. In
one Of the most difficult problems of his
administration, his 'hard sense" Gin negro
phrasc), has stood him in right good stead
Of other mems craftsmanship and philoso-
ply, to which, if you please, he is pretty
much a stranger. Without ever having
read Comte, or Buckle, or Mil, or Spcn-
Ger, probab y conceded to be tie phi
losophers, par excellence. Of modern times
he has, 30 far as these new Indian
agencies are concerned, practised exactly
in the line of their preaching. In these
two classes OF agents, backed by the mili-
tary power Of the nation, the Presidtn'
has supplied all the elements practically
applicable to the case, in such a manner
as to be admirably self-adjusting to the
requirement Of the circumstances.
The Quakers difuse their peace princi-
pies, and exert their humani4;ng inlu-
ences to the utmost, in their ofiicial and
personal intercourse with the Indians, and
with the scarcely less savage frontiers
meH--to whom, by the way, an Indians
life is no more sacred than Tat OF Il bu-
G4lu or bear, and to whose aggressi0ns
many Of the Indian outbreaks and afro
cities are only natural sequences. The
oficcrs, under their military accountable
ty, discharge their trust to the letter :
and, at the same time, while carefully
avoiding, on their own part, AMI prevent
ing, on the part Of. others, all cause of
hostlIities, see to it, as practised dis
ciplinarians, that all the stipulations and
regulations are observed.
II, now, the Indians and lrontiersmen
shall prove penetrablc by the principles
of peace and good will, the Quaker elc-
mcnt is the one that will prevail, and mag
be the only one of which they need have
any practical knowledge. Ii in any de-
grtc otherwise, the military oficers are
on the ground to take note, with the pre-
cision Of their profession, exactly what
degree Of the element Of force is demand
ed in the premises, and to despatch to
Government, intelligently and technically,
the necessary information and requlsi-
tions.
AN INCIDENT IN CONNECTION
Herewith is worth mentioning. Gen
cral Maxwell, of Michigan, recently APP
pointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs
for New Mexico, returned here to-day
from trip to his old home, whittier he
had gone to arrange for his bonds. lie
found that during his absence an army
officer had been detailed to Gil his place.
AS General Maxwell was regularly nom.
mated, confirmed, and commissioned, and
no. complaints are alleged, the suspension
excites considerable comment.
EXCHANGE or BUREAU LOCATIONS.
The Treasury Printing Bureau and the
Third Auditors Bureau are TO change
places in the Treasury building. The
former is now partly on the first or base
ment floor, and partly three floors above.
The latter is on the Sd floor and its files,
to which constant reference must be made,
cannot be removed. The change is made
on the score Of greater convenience and,
perhaps, security, TO the Printing Bureau,
in being able to have its rooms nearer
together and also Of economy, by dispen.
sing. with some messengers. But il is
doubtful il more will be gained in ccono'
my there, than will bc lost in time by the
81 Auditors clerks. The latter dom