Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-07-19

The currency bill has at last pass
ed both Houses. This is the first
financial bill passed this Session. 1t
provides for an increase of ffty-four
millions of bank note currency, re-
tires forty-fve millions Of 3 per cent
certificate, redistributes twenty-five
million from the excess held by the
north and east, to the south and west,
and provides for a free banking on
the four per cent gold bond. The
Western members were dissatisfied
with the bill, but accepted it in lieu
of nothing better. This bill does not
initiate, but simply aims to equalize
the volume Of currency among the
different States. The Western States
generally will gain while the North
ern and Eastern States will lose by
the redistribution, though the change
will be gradual.
The Indian delegation headed by
Little Swan, Running Bull, and Red
Feather, have been to Washington,
made the usual Indians speeches, max.
ing complaints, assuring their great
Father that the Indians desire to
live in peace with the whites, asking
innumerable favorS Of Uncle Sam !;
such as granting them wagons, oxen,
cows, their usual rationS of presents
&c. Red Feather remarked that he
was poor and wanted clothes that he
might go home to his people we'll
dressed.
The War Department continue to
receive reports from the Indian coun-
try, not at all in harmony with the re
ports from the Friends agents there
that the Indians are full of peace and
! good will towards the whites. II
seems that there still remain two con
ficting elements among our Indian
agents and the military there. Re
ports from the same place at the
same time by the opposing parties
are contradictory Of each other. The
one all war and the other all peace
which leaves the War Department il
a quandary to know exactly what t.
conclude or what course to pursue. /
is quite evident, however, from tn
reports of unofficial letters from set
tiers from different points of India
depredations constantly being com
mitted, that a general Indian War i
iminent; and it is expected that tn
Department will at once put its Hous
+ in order for repeIling their attack
/ upon the whites at every point.
I Gen. Capron, the Commissioner {
E Agriculture, received from the Au.
c trian Government yesterday, a fin
K assortment of grass. grain and vegeti
q bic seeds for trial and ultimate di
$ tribution. Many of the seeds are new
J and promises beneficial results t
: American Agriculture. The Con
g missioner's proposal to adopt the;
E. international Agricultural exchange
e have been met in a most liberal spi
!; it by foreign Governments and soci
q ties, who have sent to this Depar
re ment several donations of seeds an
G. plants through the past season.
r Mr.. Mclean, Chief Clerk of tt
rs Agricultural Department, just retur,
II ing from tour through the Yves
AZ brings the most favorable reports
IL good crops generally. The Depar
D. ment has just received a lot of choi
: wheat from Europe, which will be gi
y en- in quantities Of 16 quarts to ca,
u Congressman for distribution amor
IS, their constituents. "a hint to yo
ST farmer readers to write their mel
Der for a sample Of this choice lot
es The report Of this Department f
n 1869, now in the printers hands, W
by contain matter of more than ordina
so interest, and will be out in two
lie three months.
r. General Walker, Superintendent
lie the Census, is in receipt of partial !
a turns from the Census takers in N
IS York, North Carolina, Illinois, a.
at Ohio, and expresses himself well pie;
OF ed with the manner the work is
at ing performed. The Superintende
lis will be able, should the new pendi
We bill in Congress requiring it, pass,
at make up preliminary report in til
ly for redistribution of Congressior
ep districts for the election next fall.
Ill Strange to report copies of the !
re ports of 1870, 1900, 1910 and IS
n are so scarce that the Census Bure
or have not copies Of all of them. 1t
an sincerely hoped that the bureau "
lc- be provided with them, as they &
ne necessary in order to carry out
7s- intention of the Superintendent
It's making the report for 1870 contain
&c tabular form the population, produ
ed and ratio of increase by counties
n.y. each decade from 1870 to the pr
as ent. The report, as contemplat
lot would be very interesting and vas
zee important to the country. The
he port Of 1860 goes no farther ba
tai than 1850, with which the ratio of
ers crease is compared.
re- The following which | have just
on ceived from the Commissioner of
tents will show the immense busin
WIS that is being done in that Office:
me the last half of the fiscal year j
EDS closed, there have been 10,031 ap
ty' cations for patents, I'LL of VIII
'eS- have been granted. Reissues, q