South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-06-13
Letter from Washington.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington. ID. c.. June g

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an ingiorious figure as tho defeated
chairman OF the Republican pow-wow
at Chicago, is the same Clayton who,
as Governor Of Arkansas Just after
the close Of the war, out Heroded He
rod III the infamy Of his carpet.bag
administration OF the political affairs
OF that State. II was a before break
last pastime with him to proclaim
martial law over the people of any
county threatened with Democratic
majority aud OF course it was not long
before lie had the whole State under
the military control of HE carpet bag
ging subalterns. After he had com.
pleted the dirty work laid out for him
US Governor, the grip-sack Legislature
sent Clayton TO the United States Sen
ate, where he nobly served his coun.
try by providing fat Federal positions
Tor his brother and other members of
the Clayton household. But the worst
feature in this Clayton business at Chi
cago, is the false pretense OF putting
him forward as one Of the empty.
sleeve brigade, which was made the
text OF several of the speeches made
IN his behalf, when every mothers
son OF the Republican committee, and
those who spoke OF him, too, knew
tnat Ciayton's empty sleeve came of
shooting at pigeons aud mallard ducks
six years atter the COnfederatcs had
expen Led all their ammunition! Yet,
with Clayton's ursavory record known
to every delegate in the Convention,
they dared not make it an issue a.
galnst him, simply because there were
SO many more Of them III the same
! boat.
The country will hail with unalloy-
Ell satisfaction the adoption of the
bill now pending in Congress that a.
bolishes the tee system In the United
States courts and which has been a
scandal upon the administration of
justice III these courts throughout the
country. Under this fee system the
marshal's Office has been turned
into an cngiue Of the most outrageous
oppression, tyranny and injustice, be-
cause there was no limit to the cxac-
tons that these officers might demand
under the present statutes. We all
remember what an infamous history
these officials made in the administra.
ton ofthe general bankrupt act few
years ago, and the same scamps who
then iiched fortunes out of the insol.
Vent estates, by collision with tho G.
qually rapacious assignees, have been
here this winter lobbying for another
bankrupt act just like the last, and n.
gainst The abolition of the vicious fee
system. So far they have been de.
teated by Congress, but no one knows
here what may yet transpire to enable
them to defeat Congress.
AT last u use has been found for
the Government Printing Office. 1t
has printed the biggest book that the
world has yet seen, it being volume
bound in Calf, OF course, weighing 40
pounds avoirdupcis, and containing
more than ten thousand pages. Whe-
tier the huge volume is catalogue
OF the employees of the Office, or a
speech Of some Congressman upon
the best means OF getting rid of the
Treasury surplus, the public is not in
formed.
Ben. Harrison nas in some way be-
come assured that the grand. son of
Old Tippecanoe has got the Chicago
fellows where the hair is short and las
turned his proxy over to his alternate
from Indiana. 1t was only Il dav or
Two ago that Ben caused himself to
be interviewed & TO say that If he were
candidate he wouldn't be in Chica-
go. Since then he has packed his
grip'sack ard left Chicago, and you
may gather your own conclusions.
Some idea of the intense love for
agriculture that thrills the bosom of the
gay red'man ofthe forest may be form
cd from one item gathered from the re-
port OF the Secretary of The Interior
this year. The great Sioux Reserva-
ton contains IS 1924 square miles, or
about six times as many as comprise
the State OF Massachusetts,. II has n
population OF twenty-four thousand,
or about one TO every two square
miles. Notwithstanding the fact that
epecial effort has been made 10 teach
these Indians something about hus-
bandry, there have been cultivated
just 3,4S4 acres, or about five and
three-quarter miles-scarcel more
than the size Of an ordinary Kansas
| cornfeldl But what is worse than all
the Secretary takes especial occasion
TO cay that even this small tract ia so
wretchedly cultivated that it can han d.
~ b. considered as cultivated land at
all. Yet, by the beatitudes of a Con
gieasional enactment, and policy
that Is pusillanimity itself, the white
man who proposes to work every acre
OF his farm is kindly allowed 100 n.
ores, to the Indians 1,32O-if he will
only pay for it. Is this white mars
Government, or is it an Indians?
P-oNo.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
A Ii persons are hereby notified not