Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-11-28
Vol. XIV. Whole No. 1926. No. 48.
Correspondence.
Letter from Washington.

Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 16, 1873.
The diplomatic skirmlsh no W In progress
between the State Department and the
British Foreign Office, promises to become
tedious before an agreement shall have
been reached. The stubbornness and de-
termination of the contestants to stick to
their respective premises until absolutely
forced to yield, are hardly concealed by
the very courteous wording of the notes
that have so far passed between them and
afterwards been made public. But the de-
| cision reached by MIR. Evarts to pay the
award on orsbefOre the time designated,
| leaves us to suppose that Lord Salisbury's
latest communication Is construed as re-
| linquishng the doctrine that local laws of
Newfoundland are superior to the author
ity conferred by the Treaty of Washing
ton. That assumption was substantially
the ground on which his protest was based,
and he is generally accorded credit for the
first blood, by those here who have con-
stituted themselves umpires in the game of
diplomatic skill and adroitness being con-
tested From present indications however.
the Newfoundland fisheries seem destined
to occupy prominent place in Washing.
ton circles during the coning session. as
they have done during not few preceding
ones.
The practice of the New York banks In
receiving gold on special deposit to be re-
paid in kind, must be acknowledged as a
discrimination in favor of that metal; and
as Mr.. Sherman's plan of resumption is
based on the absolute equality of gold, and
our paper money TO whose redemption the
faith of the Government Is pledged. that
practice, II continued after this year, would
inevitably operate to defeat the Secretary.
as it would offer an inducement to hoard
the preferred money. Hence the PROPOSE
ton TO discontinue 1t must be regarded n,
patriotic as far as 1t goes. But their re-
ported intention TO practically nullify the
reconciliation legislation OF last session.
by restricting the use of silver to that ofa
subsidiary coin, has provoked much severe
criticism. 10 is argued that it would only
De undertaken on the assumption that they
(the oankS) are in one sense above Con-
gress; that it would be 10 open defiance of
the large preponderance Of public senti-
ment shown last winter to be In favor of
undOing the decentralization work of 1s73.
that II adhered to 1t will furnish pretext
to the experimenters and demagogucs in
Congress 10 continue their financial tinker
Ing at the session about to convene, which
will in turn have the effect to again demor-
slize aud paralyze business; that it will be
certain to intensity the feeling of jealousy
already existing against the banks and in
dividual capitalists. and revitalize the al
most moribuni rag baby and endow il with
n.w Str.npth for frtnra rnisoh;af
Gen. Sherman's views as embodied in
his report just made, on TIE Army and In
dian questions are substantially in accord
with what Gen. Sheridan has said before
him. His implied position also with re-
gard to the strength of the Army Is iden-
tlcal with that of the Republican party and
ocracy. While many rejecting men will
tiud themselves unable to endorse all the
Generals views expressed ia discussing
the Indian problem, by far the larger por-
ton OF those who have made its solution a
study will agree with him in the main. IL
in the country who, from natural endow-
ment. experience and personal observation,
are better qualified TO render intelligent
judgment in the matter. His recaptula-
ton OF the strength and service required
of our army, during the past two years
especially, should vastly lessen the number
OF our home critics who take it on them
selves to plan Indian campaigns in the
West and Southwest; and if the spirit of
Bourbon Democracy was not incompatible
with any sense of shame, the faces of many
OF its adherents who have followed the
Bounding Banning IN his stupid and sense
less crusade against the Army, would red
den as they follow the General step by
step through his admirable report. In this
connection | may say that every indication
goes 10 show that the antagonism which
has so long existed between Army officers
aud the Indian Bureau, has rarely if ever
been more decided than now. They seem
to have drifted further apart year by year;
and the struggle over the proposed trans
ter of the care Of the Indians to the War
Dept. may likely be tolerably accurate
gauge OF It's depth aud bitterness.
The wide range and colossal character
of the interests which the Chicago Conven-
ton just adjourned, was called to consider.
rendered almost every person, rich or
poor, prominent or obscure, more or less
directly interested. Many OF them were
world wide. Countries Southof US and the
Orentias were especially concerned in the
propositions for the establishment of steam
ship lines aud competing transcontinental
railway lines which the Convention favored
by such Government aid as should be found
needfnl. Its recommendations have at
tracted no little attention in high circles
here. And those directed towards the
Central Pacific K. R. Company seem es-
pecially opportune, coming right on the
heels of Auditor, French's expose Of that
corporations defiant refusal to comply
with the law. KATAHDIN.
Gen. Sherman, talking the other day
ahnut a 10 in he