Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-06-14
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON. June 4, 1870.

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Washington. Though the rains have pre-
vented, to some extent, farmers from coE-:
ing to town with their produce, the market
has nevertheless been well stocked with
cheap early vegetables, such as potatoes,
onions, peas, cabbages and strawberries,
the last named selling as low as twenty
five cents for four quarts.
The Indians here, Red Cloud, Spotted
Tail, ct id omne genus, are rare specimens
of physical perfection, if not Of facial beau
ty. Just now the government is doing the
agreeable in feeding and showing them ar
ound, by way of impressing them with the
greatness and hospitality of their great
father. Meantime they are the observed
by all observers; men, women and chill
dren, black, yellow and pale, flock around
to get sight of the great CHIEF (and one of
his squaws) who is exciting the attention
of the world by his warlike attitude. On
Monday Red Cloud and his braves are to
meet the President and have talk. We
are credibly informed that he intends to
talk "Vattell' and natural justice, and to
insist that the government shall adjust its
troubles with all the Indians, and fix
boundary line where it intends to stop press
ing on them, and to tell the President that
if he will make treaty and keep it, that
he can take all his braves away and set
them to raising corn. The Indian terri
torial bill for the civilized Indians ismeet-
ing with strong opposition in and out of
Congress.
The ordinary quiet routine of the Indian
department is now being agitated by the
persistent determination of North Caro-
lima Cherokee Indian woman, Martha A.
Hall, who was compelled to come from
distant part of Kentucky, to receipt for q
sum less than hundred dollars. But when
she arrived, under the impression that her
money was ready, payment was refused on
the ground that the agent (of the govern
ment) had embezzled the funds belonging
to the North Carolina Cherokees, and it
could not be paid until collected from him.
Having undertaken her own work, she re-
fused to be comforted in this way, urging
that the money was now due, that she was
not responsible for the agent, and she must
be paid. Finally she was paid $50, in or.
, der to get rid of her, saying that it was a
donation, and she must get out of the city
by the first train. Having the law on hel
side, which is very specific and clear, she
refused 10 leave the city. On quotation:
from the law, she made her way to the
. White House. Here to his establishment
the following morning, armed with writ
ten statement of her case, with ample proof
= the official who had directed her to leave
found her ready to appeal to the President
She was asked if she had not been directed
to leave, to which she replied affirmatively
notifying said official, that she did not in
:. tend to leave until she got her rights. AT
y ter considerable fillibustering on the par
of the officials, she got her paper fairly be
- fore the President. The upshot of whic
was, that the President ordered the pay
!. ment of her money according to law.
From this woman the federal army too
y her only horse, and three cows, for whic
- she has no receipt and will get no pay
- while her husband was in the Union army
=. in which he served 3! years and was kille,
u. This widow of a soldier, an Indian-asp e,
Va ial ward of the nation-through the rasca
~ ity of an agent, and the incompetency
" officials, is compelled to come here at a
expense equal almost to the whole amour
y of her claims, and gets justice only
~ pressing it with indomitable zeal. I'll
back pay and bounty of her husband
'n still unpaid, though she will get this al.
% by coming. Cannot some more widow
~ who have claims against the government
I'll and have been lily treated by our officia
M appeal to Gen. Grant for justice?
" Treasury Spinner is sound to the last {
financial question. In his last letter on tt
the national banks and funding of the del
'o Mr.. Spinner briefly shows that the ON
~ question for Congress to decide is wheth
g %" the government shall issue its own notes
''S' the amount of three hundred millions al
- save 70 the people the interest, which at
VIC per cent. would amount to twelve millio
W of dollars, or allow the banks to have the
ave own circulating notes secured by U. S.
posts, on which the government (the pc
" ple) is paying six per cent. From reliat
VI authority we learn that this governme
~" can place four per cent bonds in Euro
0'0 for all the money she wants, and there
reduce our present taxation at least eig
ess teen millions of dollare per annum.
GU A review of the work performed in I
ou' Bureau of Education last month shows tt
sn' its duties are neither light nor unimporta
IT, Until recently no record of correspondent
.se has been kept. The files of the month j.
'eN past, show that twenty letters per day
'o' an average, have been written to differt
.nu parts of States, aggregating about six hi
Ing bred pages. Educational documents a
:, information has been received from eve
VIC State in the Union except Oregon. TIL,
'ass has been 1,343 educational documents d
siA tributed through the several Southt
orn States, and the demand for them is still
VIC creasing. All this indicates that the nor
'uo' ern school "marms," as of yore, will not
lese .,,h,od 1o+ Cd
5 ~ South.
Jus This Bureau has just received from
Consul at Basic, Switzerland, some cl
IS of pings from Berne paper giving the Sw
'son view of the much vexed question, whet
ont ladies should be admitted to Universal
orth in common with gentlemen, and especia
gs whether they should be allowed to ate
that lectures on medicine and anatomy.
nor shows that for the past six years lac
n to have been in the habit of studying me
hem cine at the University of Zurich that
eed- 81 a young Russian lady took the deg
ing, of DR.. of medicine, surgery and obstetri
one that last winter the attendance of ladie
the anatomical and clinical lectures
hro' experiments had never given rise to
nsas least objections or disturbance.
t re- The Commissioner of the General L.
saw, Office, has Just received returns of sury
ould of townships 13, IA, Is, and 16, range.
49, and "a west of the P. NJ, Nebraska
eins north and south Platte rivers flow thro
anc- these lands, as well as numerous o,
. the streams, along which are rich level
ence toms, affording fine facilities for cultiva
. DC and Astounding with luxuriant growtl
- 90 grass. Three of these townships are t
On as ersed by the Union Pacific railroad,
best the rest are contiguous to it, and are I
they brought into easy communication with
s+oj markets and transportation from cas-,
,'0u west, rendering them desirable locat
hogs for settlement. LIE