Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-23
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is, 187

the heads of the several bureaus are the
chief causes of this. The Congressional
Republican Executive Committee is in re-
ceipt daily of numerous letters from them
at their respective homes and nearly with
out exception these letters contain most
encouraging prospects of the election next
fall resulting even more favorable to the
republican party than its members three
weeks ago dared to expect. The sides tax
en- by the democratic party against Prus-
STA, in her now pending struggle with
France, is reported to be having a salutary
effect upon the German voters. in every
congressional district.
The committee is hard at work perfect
ing the programme laid out for most
thorough and vigilant canvass in those
States where Metropolitan majorities two
years ago were the smallest. The able
and patriotic address of Hon. Henry Will
son, together with a number of other cam
paign documents, are in the printers hands
and will be out during the week, when they
will be sown broadcast over the land.
The Washington delegation to the Labor
Congress to meet in Cincinnati, on the 18th
inst, have all left, and are expected to
make good show in their deliberations.
One ofthe delegates has prepared lengthy
address to be delivered there on the Chi
nese question, taking grounds against the
desirability of Interpretation to this coun-
try of Chinese labor, and prepared TO pre-
vent an over plus of this labor by taxing
| it, contending that in justice to the labor
ing classes in this country it should be
done in order to make up or balance the
capital stock of the laboring man here by
virtue of the advanced condition of this
country-made so by the industrious labor
of our own people-over China.
The prosecution against Representative
Butler of Tennessee has already begun,
and we may expect him to arrive in Wash
ington under arrest very soon. The Hon.
B. has but few sympathising friends here.
His history for the last ten years, has been
anything but favorable toward a confidence
in him as wise, still less an honest man.
We make him in brief history for the
past ten years, a member of the Confeder-
ate Tennessee legislature in 81, and one
of the most bitter against the Union cause
In '63 we find him in the Confederate army
as Lieut-Col in Tennessee regiment
After '65, seeing the necessity of a recon
struction Of himself, he was amply prepar-
: Ell to accept the reconstruction measure o.
Congress and become a republican candi'
date for Congress in 1867, and succeeded
in getting elected, and admission to hi
seat in the House by the most generou!
suffrage of that body.
During his congressional career he has
been a cadetshlp broker and a silent part
ner in a claim agency illegitimately con
Quoted; and it is said, that on investiga
ton it Will be found that on many occa
sions he has made use of his honorable po
sition to consumate his nefarious schemes
The Department of Education has com
menced the monthly issue OF a circula
pamphlet of 80 to As pages of such infor
, nation as has been most in demand, an,
has kept the clerical force of the office to-
/ much occupied in collating and copying
, to the detriment of its regular business
Their first number will be out this week
: and will contain valuable statistics iron
, the census of 1860, newly compiled)
5 register of the T. s school officers, pam
t phlet on school room discussions, &c.
As for seminaries in the South, if W
i take the " salt water school" of Prof Poin
dexter of Alabama, as he gives it in hi
e circular, which is just received at the Ed
4 vocational Bureau, as an illustration, on
t would judge that the school system of tn
: South needs a radical reconstruction. L
e the circulars, in which he publishes tn
- names of twenty-four eminent men as re-
: erence, beginning with Admiral Semmes
: and ending with the Right Reverend Bish
n op Greene of Tennessee, the first great ad
n vantage which he urges with all the fore
n of his eloquent style, the fact that it is tn
only salt water school of any pretension
: in the State. The first year it matricula
a ed 81 or 30, the next year AZ or 49. 1t
d very healthy, 100, he says, ''the salt in til
v atmosphere renders it vastly less hurtfr
: than fresh air" System of instruction
, not the common school system of Ne
d England, (which has never educated, ca
a never educate; for its pupils forget its lie:
d sons ere two moons have elapsed. TIL
IF system is wrong like all else of purita
If birth, &C." If any person is anxious
q learn what the System" of Prof. Poinde2
# ter is, he must send for one of the Prof
amusing circulars, and he will then kno
It as much, think l may venture to sa.
= about the wonderful salt water system
IS rs will do him any good to know.
,r The Patent Office is still very much b.
d hind in its business. The examiners a.
o taking their allotted vacations when the
d can be spared, so as not to entirely ste
Is business, and as most of them are benin
r. with their examinations it will take unit
m late in the fall for them to bring their wol
ID up. The present Commissioner is mo
r efficient than his predecessor, and has doI
1t a good deal toward having the examir
ID alton keep pace with the applications f
- patents. Inventors are generally vel
J. restless class of people, and as long as tn,
ne pay to have their work done, it should
n done promptly, and officers of the COVER
Ii ment should be censured for delinquencie
in purely the result of laziness. The Cor
is missioner is now away spending the SUI
nj mer, and the machine" like the other d
a. partmental machines, is running itself
$. To answer the numerous inquiries co
tv stantly pressing upon the attention of Il
= Commissioner of the General Land OffiC
"A the following information is furnished !
>, specting the act of July 10Th, 1870, graz
30 ing additional rights to soldiers desiril
- to enter homesteads on lands within ra
m road limits Under the original act, on
80 acres of 50 so land could be entered
n homestead. By the amendatory act a
honorably discharged soldier who has SCI
:. ed not less than 80 days in the milital
- naval marine or revenue marine servi
80 during the rebellion, is entitled to enter
homestead 100 acres of 50 so land up
n payment of the legal fee of $40 and t
ey usual commission on the cash value of [
he land, allowed as compensation to the RI
,s lister and Receiver, the only change bel
- the privilege of taking $50 instead of
To- acres of such land The requirements
re to personal residence upon. improyeme