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CHATS ABOUT BOOKS. Turning Over the Leaves of the Latest Novels. HOT WEATHER FICTION. —e— *A Nine Days’ Wonder,” “The Silent Witness, “Dead to the World,” “St, Simon's . Niece,” “Caring for No Man. “Within an Ace.” The novels that have been issued during the past few weeks aro just about suited to the warm season. One toes not have to put on fis thinking cap to understand | ‘hem; which is, doubtless, as it should be, for who wants to work outa problem in psychology with the | thermometer at ninety-five degrees in the shade? ter take a story that tells itself, and sit out under the trees—if “Old Probabutities”” permits, Whether you will read the book is a question; there is so much to dis- | Wwact one’s attention in the open air—the floating | ‘vlouds, the flying birds, the distant sails on the river, and a thousand and one things that are more entertain- {ng on a warm summer day than is literature. you do read out of doors, you want a book that you can Jay down in the middle of a sentence without losing the Summer weather is made for Sometimes, however, the | ightmare, then a little book of ro- ‘thread of the narrative. dreaming, not for reading. dream becomes mance comes in very well. “(4 NINE DAYS’ WONDER.”? The Book Club of Ourville has been reading a most tharming novelette, “A Nine Days’ Wonder,” by Hamilton Aidé (James R. Osgood & Co.) Jaid in a retired English village, mer, with a glance at the parson for encouragement, “where the train stops but once a day, and where bvory one’s business is the business of his neighbor. Mr. Vavasour and his daughter Kate, a girl of nincteen rears, occupy ‘Laurel Bank,’ the ‘show’ place of the village. Mr. Vavasour is a rich, easy-going man, who keeps open house, plenty of horses and good wines. The neighbors like him, with a reservation; he pays too Wttle attention to their gossip to wholly please them.” “Jt would be easier to forgive a murderer than such a disposition as that,” remarks Captain Hardtack, with a twitch of his waistcoat, “The villages are few and far between. There is an | old admiral, an old captain, a Mrs. Loveden, with a simpering son; Miss Tarragon, a prying, sour old maid and Mrs. Crowe, a widow, quite as prying, but not quite | as sour, One day Captain Boycott is at the station, as asual, when the train comes in. A stranger alights, stylish and beautiful woman. of a certain age. name is Mrs. Fitzroy, and she and her maid go straight to the inn where they lunch on duck and green peas a fact of which the village is informed before an hour | passes by. Mrs. Fitaroy, when she was Amabel Taylor, was engaged to Vavasour, of Laurel Bank, but circum- stances altered their arrangements, and the lovers were | separated. Later on he married a commonplace woman in India, and Amabel married unhappily in England, Time had dealt gently with the woman and she was handsomer now than twenty-five years ago. She sent for Vavasour and he came tothe inn and carried her to his house, though his daughter was away. Then the | village tongue began to wag. The terrible Tarragon played the spy and wove yards of cloth out of cobwebs. Mrs. Fitzroy and Mr. Vavasour had a great deal to talk ever, and turned a deaf ear to the town. “Kate came home after a few days, and seemed well pleased that her father had found so agreeable a com- panion. Kate ishappy herself, because she loves and | 4s loved by a brave young soldier, Christian Douglas, a Weutenant of ours, over whom hangs a thin cloud of | mystery. He comes down to Millwood one fatal day, and tells his history to his sweetheart’s father. this:—His father was a gambler— Mother beautiful—father brutal and beats her. Englishman appears, and loves the mother. cause; she yields. They elope, and leave the son bem hind. Enraged gambler follows fugitives to Paris. They fight. Gambier slain. {in the course of time her protector dies, and she is left penniless. The son, now a man, pitied and blamed her, | ‘and divided his money with her, but refuses to see hor. | Mr. Vavasour listened to the end, and then embraced and blessed the young man. “The ladies join the gentlemen to go down to dinner. | Douglas and Mrs. Fiizroy nearly faint as they see cach After dinner Kate takes her father out on the — lawn for a confidential talk. Douglas and Mra, Fitzroy | “The scene is announces Miss Skim- card sharper. The guilty pair flee again, “Ob, my son, my son!’—painfal tableau, The wretched woman tells the young man that after being ‘beaten about on the stormy seas she has at last sailed into a quiet harbor, until she is anchored securely. his engagement to Kate. She begs him to je: She knows nothing of | The poor fellow is in an agony; he cannot betray his mother, and he flies from the room to collect his thoughts. ‘Vavasour enters, While he is gone Mr, Now that his daughter's fate is sealed he asks his old love to return to his heart, Yongs to throw herself into his arms, but a stain is on After a struggle she confesses her sins. ‘It has hurt me here,’ | ernel; still I did not blame the Princess, Th The man is almost stunned he said, laying bis hand on his heart. at, Thad set you upon a pinnacle, from which you have But he takes her, stain and all.” “Easy going, indeed,’ grunts the Captain. “By chance he mentions Kate's engagement to Douglas. A blinding flood of light pours over the wretched woman. Who shall be sacrificed, mother or In a minute she decides, and while Vavasour is on the Jawn with a party of friends she flees from the house. Time rolls on and Kate and Douglas are | married, but Vavasour remains a widower and Mrs. Fitzroy a widow.” “Poor woman!”? mutters Almaviva, pressing back a | tear with a corner of her lace pocket handkerchief. echoes Augustus Charles, looking re- flectively out over the river. “CARING FOR XO MAN.” “My friends,” said Dr. Lancet. stepping ont upon the broad piazza of Lawyer Redtape’s mansion, where the Book Club is seated, “I have a treat for you.” “I know you too well, Doctor,” says Miss Skimmer eoquettishly, “it is nothing but an account of some hor- ible surgical operation." “It is a surgical operation in so far that it is a dissec- tion,” replies the Doctor; ‘but this time it is a book , and not a body that I am going to cut up for your ben fit. Of all the twaddle that was ever put in print by a respectable publishing house this takes the lead. called ‘Caring for No Man,’ and Wiiliam F. Gill & Co. are guilty of its publication. author, who, by the way, is one Linn Boyd Porter, eared for no man so little as himself that he should put I will not inflict the whole story upon you, but will give it in a nutshell, author takes a little girl to bring up. ahandsome woman; they love, bu her, because his theories are all against marriage, Porter has not the slightest regard for grammar, frequently says ‘him and me,’ and on page 45 the lit- rary gentleman says, ‘I had not onght to have left | On the first page Mr. Porter says | a few sentences further ‘I will hot deny | dashed yourself.’ She sees it all now. I should think that the forth such a book. She grows into he will not marry everything to him.’ is twenty-two, and ‘on he says that he is only twenty-one, who figures ali through the story as Harry Jobn- son is called Harry tor—but these are paragraphs—first this hero of twenty-two years has written books that the world’s great minds hav shipped. As the story op manuscript of his third work. the creature he loves beet to stu studied well. bowed down to a 18 he is engaged upon the | He is writing of ‘Isut if there is one creature on earth of whom he knows nothing, that creature is woman. © * * Avery handsome y there with his head resting on one h blaze that comes from figure, erect bearing, firm mouth, high forehead eyes, and, above all, the masses of dark brown bair | which are gathered away from his brows and hang about his neck are enough to distinguish him anywhore. He 18 dressed in a hunting frock, neckerchief, light ; pantaloons and slippers.’ Aveustes Canies—Pray go on, Doctor, this is be- soming delicious, “Listen to this,” continues the Doctor, “here is an- | sther picture of the hero out skating—‘ ung man he ix watebing the | wore a thick | sult witn woollen umderclothes feo he didn't mention any undergarments in the first description), boots which came above the knee, fur gloves and hat, | and a heavy flannel lined black vvercoat. Around bis neck was a bright colored Roman searf, fastened with a large solitaire diamond pin.’ Here the Doctor was interrupted by a chorus of laughter trom the club. “The name of this paragon of beauty and taste was James Albert Anderson and his ward's name Ella. They have a room in a tower, where they spend their time—he writing and she sitting on his knee (her age fifteen), Their meals are sent up by adumb waiter, and they are happy. They have their portraits pamted, and this is the description:—‘There is a handsome man of twenty-four and a lovely w n of sixteen; both of & clear blonde complexion; both with bright silken hair. Her eyes are of the bluest blue; his are hazel gra, He sits in a large ehair, upright, siniling, happy, seent- ing almost tosay, “Look at my treasure. She, looking ilke a treasure, indeed, sits on his knee, with one arin encireling his neck ‘and her head showering its gold over his own. Her beautiful dress sweeps over his feet, and one of his arms clasps her waist. Jewels shine forth from her fingers, bracelets of fine.gold are W her arms, a beaten chain is around her neck and hiding in her bosom; his broad collar tx covered by the long hair that twines around his shoulders, sweeping back from his high intellectual forehead. She looks a little shy, and much presuer for it, but ver# happy: ‘The Lawv#n—My dear Doctor, this story certainly 18 a burlesque. The Docror—Indeed it is not, The author ts tho oughly in earnest. The girl realizing her position begs | him to make her legally his, to which he replies:—“My darling, I could never jove you more than Ido now were you mace my wife w hundred times, There is not a husband in the world who is s0 bound up in his bride ax pleasant dream, Tam in you. Our life has been ove Ri be careful you do not hasten itsend * * * If you loved as I do you would not entertain such thoughts. In seeking for greater Joy Jet us see we do not Jose what we have.’’ About this ume a ‘dark genue- man” appears upon the scene, accompanied by italicised type, staring capitals and exclamation points, His wife’ gets the upperhand of Ella and persuades her to leave James Albert. She flies, J. A. is disconsoltea, His old housekeeper appears, and, although she has discovered that the ruined Ella is her daughter, she forgives Albert, and they sob in each other's arms.’ By the way, I should have said that every time the home of Albert is mentioned it is called “Veari street, 114." In the u®antime Ella’s child is born, and she is a wanderer on the face of the earth; Albert is accused of murder and sentenced to be hanged. He fails ill in prison, and a young lady, a stranger to him, loves him and nurses him back to life and the gallows. But he is reprieved after the noose is placed about his neck, He lives to marry Ella, which proves that the author does not altogether recommend tree love to young writers. | He admires his hero for sticking so long by his theories, and also tor giving them up at last. Altogether a re- markibe, book. The Lawyrr—Let us hope that Mr. Linn Boyd Porter is a very young man. Avevstvs Ciarius—Rather let us hope that his first Mterary effort will be his last. Cuokvs—So say we all of ns, “WITHIN AN ACE." Miss Gusmrxetoy (to Augustus Charles(—What do you think of “Within an Ace,” by Mrs. Jenkin? (Henry Holt & Co.) Aveestvs CHaxtys—Not as much now as before I finished 1, I thought at first that Catherine Leighton ‘was going to be a strong character, but she weakened unpardonably as the story grew. Miss Gesutserox—I am very much of your opinion; ‘still she is the best in the book, They are all pretty insipid. Her conduct after she became Mme. de Jeneay was altogether unnatural, Aveustus CHartys—Unnatural and unbearable, I don’t see how the Count could put up with it. If she had been my wife I would not have dealt so gently with her, He was young, rich, handsome, kind and clever. You need not tell me that any girl is going to treat her husband like a dog because she thinks that mops time before their marriage he loved some one else. Miss Goymixcron—You must remember that she thougpt he married her because he had overheard some one say that she was in love with him, Avevstts Cuartes—Well, suppose he had! He loved her when he proposed ‘and doubly so after mar- riage. What more could she ask in reason ? Miss Gusmxaros—But then, you know, she was not supposed to be reasonable, Avocstus CHARLES (With a sneer)—I should say not. I don’t think the game was worth the powder. The whole story strikes me as being commonplace and some of the characters could not have found their way into the position they occupied anywhere outside of a book. “THE SILENT WITNESS," “Edmund Yates’ ‘Silent Witness’? (Wilham F. Gill & Co.), said Miss Enphemia, the belle of Ourville, “is responsible for having caused me to spend a wretched night, In the first place, Isat up half the night read- ing the book, and, in the second place, after I got to bed I could not sleep for the cries of murder that rang in my ears and the bloody daggers that hung ore my eyes. The story gallops along at such a rate that one cannot lay itdown. There is not a dull page in the book."” Dr. Lancer—It is singular how you delicate ladies dote on borrors. I suppose you would have tossed the book away early in the evening if it had not made your hair stand on end ¥ Miss Evenxmia—That is quite likely. A dull book wuts one to sleep, very naturally And as for enjoying orrors, just confess if you didn’t read‘the ‘Mysteries: | of Paris” more eagerly than you did “The Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood?” Dr. Laxcet—More eagerly, perhaps, but not with any keener relish, 1 don’t blame you for devouring Sthe Silent Witness."’ I read the book with a great deal of pleasure, though I don’t think that it equals Mr. Yates’ “Black Sheep” irom « literary point of view. Its greatest attraction is the continual excitement it keeps the reader in. It begins with a murder and ends with a _NEW YORK HERAL That bids our doubting race accept and recognize! That kept him, b Th Light stepping-stones across a shallow Shrink from the deeps of Goethe's soundless song! Tha Turns, dazzted by his white, uncolored glow, And deems his sevenfold heat the wintry of snow! He let not go the imperishable treasure; He thought, and sport He stretched wide arms to clasp the joy of Earth, Of knowledge, conquering ali clear worth Of action, that ennobles through the sense Of wholly-used intelligence : From loftiest pinnacles, that shone revealed In pure poetic ether, he could bend And give each face of Life the greeting of a friend! He followed Science on her stormy ways; ‘To win the perished seeret of their grace,— With Freedom born of Beauty !—and for them Which blood and time Till the white The world saw shine once more, upon a Gothic stem! It is a sea that murmurs at our feet. A far shore glimmers—**Knowest thou the land ?”” Whence these gay flowers that breathe beside the It is no cloud that darkens thus the shore; | ‘The shape is a charm, the voice is aspell; Then billowy arms our limbs entwine, suicide, and has a sprinkling of tragedies throughout. Miss Evrukmia—The greatest tragedy was the heroine's marriage. I would not have done as she di to please the best father in the world, let alone the worst. Dr, Laxcet—You can’t tell what you would do, my dear, until you are tried. People bear and are doing | things every day which if they read of in novels they | would say were utter impossibilities, ‘DEAD TO THE WORLD"? “This Carl Detlet is no ordinary writer,” said Captain | Haratack, laying “Dead to the World’ on the bench | beside his tobacco pouch, “I went through the book like I would a farmhouse dinner after a week ou! 'f rations,”* | “Ladmire the book very much also,” replied Miss Gushington, toying with the leaves, “At first I felt hard toward the young wife who could answer her husband with such a cool head and sharp tongue, But she soon had all my sympathy. Prinee Ugarin was abrato! I do not know of a more hateful character in fiction—so polished, so high-toned before the world and so narrow and contemptible in his home life. 1 do not recom. mend wives to run away with men who are good and kind to them because their husbands are unkind and marriage was forced upon her by the Emperor of Russia, she had | no voice in the matter and she looked upon an elope. | ment with the man she loved from the husband she | hated as perfectly justifiable.” Captain Hanptack—I wonder that the thing is not even more common in those foreign countries where | royalty and nobility are married for political reasons | and from no feeling of love, Human nature ts the same | in royal purple or among the Margery Daws; and you will find that people who marry to suit others will jove to suit themselves. . SIMON'S NIECE." “Tam quite proud to call Mr. Frank Lee Benedict a fellow countryman,” said the lawyer, in a tone that | | showed how much of a compliment ‘he thought this must be to Mr. Benedict. He has shown great im- provement in this novel, ‘St. Simon’s Niece’ (Harper | & Brothers). | Doctor Laxcet—Yes, there is dramatic ability in the book that I had not given him credit for. I should think that this volume might go a great way toward | putting him in the front rank of young novelists, It certainly is more finished asa whole than anything I have read of his. He dently prefers to lay his scenes in Europe, where he lives, I believe, and is just as much at home there as in America, Miss Gusmivetox—What is the plot, Doctor? | | Dr. Laxert—I would rather have you read the book and find out. It will repay you. I will only say that the plot is quite intricate is very skilfully n aged, There is some melodrama, and at times the | literary symmetry of the book is marred for the dramatic effect. Fanny St. Simon is not an altogether consistent | character, but she is boldly drawn, Avevstes CHaRLEs—I have 1 the book, and I must y that it made me mad to seeagirlof Fanny St. Simon's spirit waste her affections on a debauched puppy like Talbot Castlemaine. Roland Spencer was worth a dozen of him. Dr, Laxcet—You don’t do Talbot jnstice. He is just the sort of man for whom women die or live a death, With all his imperfections I had a sort of affection for | the man. The climax is worked up admirably. I am glad that Fanny never married; that would have spoiled the story forme. Oh, I forgot, I wasn't going to tell | anything about the plot. Take it home with you and | teli me when you have read it if you do not think ita powerful story. THE GOETH CELEBRATIO! BAYARD TAYLOR'S POEM, The following beautiful poem by Bayard Taylor, the translator of Goethe, was rend at the anniversary cole. bration of the birthday of the great German poet on Saturday evening. As a brilliant characterization of the German Shakespeare it will be admitted to be a master. piece of poetic art, while the whole plan and mode of thought show how adeep study of his writings has so influenced Mr, Taylor as to make his original poem ap. | pear like a translation of one of Goethe's own:— Gorrits, [August 28, 1875.] I Whose voice shall so invade the spheres i That, ere it die, the Master hears ? Whose arm ix how so strong To fling the votive garland@f a song, That some fresh odor of a world he knew With largo enjoyment, and may yet Not utterly forget Shall reach his place and whisper when it grew? Dare we invoke him, that he pause On trails divine of uniinagined laws, And bend the luminous eyes Experience could not dim, nor Fate surprise, On these late honors, where we fondly 8 Him thus exaiting, like him to aspire, And r }, in our desire, The triumph of his toil, the beauty of hia dream? God montds no second poet from the clay library. Time once hath cut in marble; when, at last, The veil ix plucked away, We see no faces familiar to the Pash, New mixtures of the clements, The breaker throws pearls on the sand, And inlets pierce to the heart of the land, Where the shores are green and the waters still, | Mirrors the maiden and sports with the child! Spent from the sea, we gain its brink, Half are we drawn, and half we sink, | 0, meadows threaded by the silver Ma | ‘0, Saxon hills of pine, | Witeh-hannted Hartz, and thou, Deep vale of It | Ye knew your poe The purple Tyrrhene Sea Not murmurs Virgil leas, bat him the more; He dwells with Tasso on Sorrento’s shore! The dewy wild rose of his German But pags the hoai Beams on Schira; Know ye the turbaned brow, the Persian guise, The bearded lips, the deep yet laughing eyes? How charge with Rehold him, as ye jostle with the throng Through narrow ways, that do your beings wrongy— Behold in him, since our strong line began, Dear is the m But he who sets all aspiration free Still through our Still whispers cheer, or waves his warning sign} Heeded the parable from ips divine, of September, the United States, the edition will soon be exhausted. © of their Treasure Trove series, is the most «ide-splitting, | scientific work from the French. in the Atantio, is one of the most attractive features of that magazine and will make an imvaluable book when | finished, | ing. the first volumes of the popular ¢ the beet modern Fren | | simultaneously in Fi “Sermons Out of Church,”” And fresh of the sou! and sense, % At frst very ue iets ew tured Genius Tu cottnareed faith and self-encouraged power Win the despotic hour INDIAN FRAUDS. A Letter from Mr. Welsh on Indian M1, Ah, who shall say what cloud of disregard, Cast by the savage ancient fame Agents and the Cliurch. Of some forgotten name, Mantled the Chian bard ? He walked beside the arenes prophetic sea, Indifferent as itself, and nobly free; While roll of waves and rhythmic sound of oars Along Ionian shores, To Troy's high story chimed im undertone, And gave his song the accent of thier own! What classic ghost severe was sammoned up To threaten Dante, whe the bitter bread OF exile on his board was 4p The bitter wine of bounty filled his eap? We need not ask; the unpropitious years, The hate of Guelf, the lordly sneers Of Della Scala’s court, the Roman ban, Were but as eddying dust ‘To his firm-eentred trust; For through that air without a star Burned one unwavering beacon trom afar, nd Rp Med stern, immortal man! What courtier, stuffed with smooth, accepted lore OF Song's patrician line, But shrugged his velvet shoulders all the more, And heard, with bland, indulgent face, ‘As who bestows @ grace, homely phrase that Shakespeare made divine? So, now, the dainty souls that crave. Agents Demoralized by Washington Influence. Delano Sheltering Behind Mission- ary Organizations. Priuapenrma, August 28, 1875, Professor 0, O. Mansn:— My Dear Sin—in writing on the theme indicated for the fourth letter I will begin by stating that when Presi- dent Grant commenced his first term he placed one Indian superintendency and its annexed agencies under the care of the Society of Friends termed Orthodox, These were located in the so-called Indian Territory and in Kansas. The superintendency and agencies in Nebraska were committed to the care of the other Seeiety of Friends, and in cach case the nominces of the society were appointed or removed from office as it indi- cated. The President distnissed nearly all other Indian agents and supplied their places with military officers who had been in the volunteer service. These acta, and especially the latter, wore distasteful to politicians, and drew down on the administration the indignation of how, the weak, imperfect fre ows but half of passion and desire Betrays itself to do the Master wrong; 1, Fate, ie a grudging ehtld, Herself onee recon To apes by loss, by suffering to fame; ‘s name Weighing the wie Olin, ion ane aims denied; Congress, and by its laws a hostility’ was ir let faint spirits perish in their pride; shown to the army, and military ‘Indian Or gave het 5 need : i ee et ee had died agents were discontinued. ‘The experiment renee nee eo? ll ; of placing certain Indians under the — are im with t yess of her tried ‘ Proud biaaty (o the boy sho gave: of religious bodies haying proved , eminently suc- cessful on the reservations watched over by the Socie- ties of Friends, the President and the Hon, J. D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior, determined, if possible, to in- duce the various missionary societies to nominate: and supervise other Indian agents, The policy of this, as a permanent principle, I will discuss in another letter, and only now refer toa difficulty in the way of its ae- complishment that seemed insurmountable, Indian agents were then the mere tools of the snperintendents, throngh whom all correspondence and business of every character must pass. The office of superintendent was very lucrative, and some hac paid the political party liberally to secure the appointment; therefore, they claimed. for themselves a large percentage on all Indian appropriations, In all the Territories the Governor was er officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, The follow- ing letter, written to me by the then Secretary of the Interior, alludes to the dilliculty just referred to and shows how I was drawn into this department of govern- mental work :— A lip that bubbled song, yet lured the bee; An eye of light, a forehead pure and free; Strength as of streams, and as of the wave! Round him the morning Of life she charmed, and made his pathway fair; * _ Lent Love her lightest That Inid ne bondage on the brain, And cheapened honors with a pew disdain; Kept, throngh the shoeks of Time, For him the haven of a peace sublime, And let his sight forernn The sown achievement to the harvest won! ‘ ¥. But Fortune's darling stood unspoiled: Caressing Love and Pleasure, ; carolled free, and tolled; But delved in every field DxvartMent or tre Ixteror, Wasmixaron, D, To win the lite store Of humplest Labor's lore, the snperintendents to the jes continue to give me very reat trouble, } hope before whiter that we shall have ‘reach factory solution of the ditficnlty. Senator alist of agents whom Governor jointed. and whom the § influence. My respon some sintis: as presented lesires to have ap. with all of his own, ax been that we are making serious efforts to get the various missionary associations to asst the ageney work, ax the Quakers are doing in Kansas Nebraska, and tliat no present answer cau be given. ing over the map it has me that if the Board of | Missions of the Episcopal Church will take the Yankton, the Sisseton and the Devil's Lake agencies, and the Episcopal American Missionary Si of which Dr. Ant Will take the Sigux 8 west of the Miss River. ulso ‘in Dakota Territory, excepting one, which the Catholic priest Father De Smet wants, we could dispose of the whole of Dakota Territory, except the agencies, up to Fort Berthold and Fort Union, where the Gros Ventres and other tribes are, and close up this business, so that we mny. not have any further question about appointments, As you selfand Bishop Whipple have such perfect. harmony. of pur- pose, will you not immediately answer whether such agents Will be inefuded by yon on the same terms us those which we have mado with the Quakers—viz., that the agents shall be ‘pointed on the nomination of tie societies and have the organization of the emp to me that you and Bishop Whipple could fix this up for as at onee, so that our appointments may he made before the Ist of September, Please regard this as sition to be acted upon promptly, as Tdesire to make detinite propositions at once to the other associations. Lconyratulate you on. the Progress you are making in restoring the beautiful buildings on the Santee reservation, which the tornado destroyed, and have the greatest hopes, with your help, 6 among the Dakotas in sitch shape that we may look for per mianent progress among them. Thanking you heartily for the zeal you have shown in this, [remain in haste, very tenly yours, J.D. COX, Wittias’ Wesn, Esq. Although T had an unconquerable aversion to any al- | Mance between Church aud State, yet having failed in securing for the Board of Indian Commissioners, of which Iwas not then a member, a joint control over appropriations for the Indians so as to eflectually check frauds, Twas led to favor 5 at least as a temporary expedient, if the difficulty heretoforo referred to could be removed. To that end 1 got the following words inserted. in the Indian A\ppro- priation bill:—'The President. is hereby authorized, at is discretion, to discontinue one superintendencies and to cause the agents to. report to Washington.” Lwent to President Grant, after I had with difliculty obtained the assent of the'two miss) ary organizations of our Church, and assured him that unless the superintendency of’ Dakota, which was ex | apieto under the Governor of the ‘Territory, was iscontinued, the Episcopal Church could noi be in- duced to nomina their work, as their nominees must not be direction or control of any politi strongly on tho mind of the President and told him that I must have an answer in New York by the 25th of October, as the Board of Missions was to assemble on that day for its annual session. The following tel and letier were received by me in New York: Wasutnero, Oct. 28, 1870, He taught, and governed—knew the thankless days Of service and dispraise ; He turned from princely state, to heed "The single nature’s need, And, through the chill of hostile years, Never unlearned the noble shame of tears! Faced by fulfilled Ideals, he aspired To dower the earnest children of a race Toil never tamed, nor acquisition tired His Titan soul combined ‘The passions of the mind, 0 long had held apart, lossom of the Grecian art vi. His measure would we mete? . Wait, first; upon the strand water? Ask thou the,Erl-King’s daughter! } Faust on his mantle passes o'er, The water roars, the water heaves, ' The trembling waves divide; A shape of beauty rising cleaves The green translucent tide. We yield, and dip in the gentle swell. And, chill as the hidden heat of wine, We meet the shock of the sturdy brine; And we feel, beneath the surface flow, ‘The tng of the powerful undertow, ‘That ceaselossly gathers and sweeps To broader surges and darker deeps; Till, faint and breathless, we can but fload Idly, and listen to many @ note From horns of the Tritons flung afar; And seo, on the watery rim, The circling Forides swim, pris, poised on her dove-dravwn cart Torn from the deepest caves, Sea-blooms brighten the waves; Winding by dorf and mill, nder the an 1 impressed this And the force, but now so wild, With sou! aroused and limbs aflame; But rise no more the same, vi To Witasam Wetsn— Instructions to discontinue er ofirio superintendent issued yesterday, by direction of the Mresident. 0, E, BABCOCK, DerantMent or THe *INtENI0: } a ; and not only ye; My Dear Sin—I have to-day President to the order discontinuing certain. superintende cies, Dakota among the rest, so that yon may ward With assurance. I believe everything cise is progressing aa fast as could he expected, and T shall most earnestly hope that matters will continue to go on well, In haste, very trul J.D. COX. The Lar of haughty Rome Gave the high guest a home; Fs, j Whturas Wiens, Esa Beside the classic Bishop Whipple not being within reach the responsi- In many a Sabine glen, | bility of persuading our missionary societies to nominate Sweetens the calm Italian days. and supervise Ingian agents devolved mainly upon y ridge of Lebanon, me. Our missions to Indians had been struggling on ed sun under fearful disadvantages, arising from the apaily of ; and lo! before the gates, the Church, the dishonesty litical agents and the Goethe, the heir of Hafiz, waits. profanity aud licentiousness of some of the military agents. I was obliged to study the subject pretty thor- oughly, especially as to the operations of the Society of To where the A cadence strange and strong Friends and the personal oversight of thvir agents by Fills each voluptnons song, | members of that devoted Lody of Christians. Then And kindles energy from’old repose; took the agents appointed under the nomination of the Even as tirst, amid the throes Episcopal Church to the reservations on the Missouri Of the unquiet West, River. We soon made frands in cattle rather difficult | He breathed repose to heal the old unrest! aud daugerous; but these fraudulent contractors vi only shifted their ground to other fields less Dear is the minstrel, yet the man is more; vigilantly garded and concentrated on the Red But should 1 turn the pages of his brain, Cloud Agency, and subsequently on the Whetstone or The lighter muscle of my verse would strain Spotted Tail Agency, when it was removed to the sume neighborhovd from the banks of the Missouri River, I saw letters in the hands of agents written in the Interior Department, asking them to favor certain contractors, in direct violationof the terms of the contract and to the injury of the Indians. Our agreement with the ernment was that we were to hay ne and control of agents that had been given to the Soci. eties of Friends. This threw a great responsibility on | the Church, which I was compelled to assume on its | behalf until its Indian missionary organi more complete, By corresponding with agent I found that they were tampered with a pled to wrong-doing by the Interior Department, or, with its sanction, by the contractors, Remonstrance at Washing- ton prodaced no permancnt effects, and some of the } agents were evidently becomin noralized. Nearly two Years since, When our missionary organization be- came more complete, it sent out at my instance the fol- lowing circular, similar in many respects Ww that issued by the Society of Friends :— New You, Dvan Sin—The Board of Indian C amining vouchers for Indian suppl | come satistie is W sy nd break beneath his lore. nusic powers so vast and free, Save one be great as he? Self-chosen lanes, wherein ye press In louder storm and stress, Passing the lesser bounty by, Because the greater seems too high, And that sublimest joy forego, To seek, aspire, and know! 40 The first full-statured man! rol, even to hearts of prose 5 Is dearer to humanity. the shadowy Leader goes; The man who, most of men, And made one talent ten! BAYARD TAYLOR nd freight, have be- tie effort on the part of LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, certain © and sub-coutraetors to defraud the gov: | ernment ihe by obtals rs for a greater | amount th is ju we to them, cu Mr. Lawrence Hutton’s book on “ Plays and Players’? | mmitee of the Indian Missionary Boar, thus te charged will be issued by Hurd & Houghton about the middle | te nomination and supervision of certain agents, fools dd to urge you tO Uniess the closest pr reventing. vision is given erm: An edition of only five hundred was baba adobe: ; ployes will be tampered with, and the Church that has the printed before the type was distributed. As there are | Ryency under its cure will be Wisrnced. As Jong ws, the | said to be six hundred collectors of theatrical books in | agent continues to have the x of Inia own enmployes be will be held st ly responsible for their faithfulness. ‘The nittee hax been notified that at certain agencies cattle have been received in far larger quantities than are red by the contract, and also that weights have been aged. We be notified when any order is re- lowing « contractor more William F. Gill & Co. have issued the first volume | It a8 entitled “Bur. | a ceived from a gor ficer rninent lesque,’* and is filled with an amusing selection, among | fayorable terme than ate ted by the that we which “Mrs, Brown at the Play,” by Arthur Sketehley, | may know where the responsibitity rests, Aseach agent and | of any other kind on the reservatic Mins Clara Louise Kellogg is ongaged tn translating ® | Cit nm sercon wny one who deporte trom this roles This et ) cular is sent to each agent for his use sole has arisen for it, therefore itis hoped that noone will be | gaged in busin Mra, Frances Anne Kemblo's “Old Woman's Gossip,’ er their care, Th at the instane ir removal fo s immediately oifence ‘on the reservation wn ment of agents 1s m0 ecutive Committee, end th ypoint= when ar est is made, without any . .@ therefor; hence the. sreat responsibility that rests upott Ws, William F, Gill & Co. have recently published in hook | nd that we have resolved to diechurg ws. the best 0 | form Arsene Houssaye's clever letters to ‘ anility ; it, Chairman a de ver letters tp the Tribune | “Koders 0, Ro Secretary. Th firm have issned volume one of a satchel se- | POSTACHIPT ADDED BY THE sHCRETARY, ries, containing stories selected for the travetlor's read-, | . Having been appointed: Secretary aud General Agent of Favellor’a read-.| ste ecutive Committee of the Indinn Commission 4 shall be glad to have you reely with me ti dathon ‘om at Scribner, Welford & Armstrong torent your ageney OF Inorest fo our committee, Ur, If You. j & Armstrong will soon bring out | \ ‘Meuse communicate with Mr. Williain Welsh, of © Library, anew series of 1 The stories are selected from among h writers and are beautifully ie iindelphia, RK. U. KOGERS, secretary Taleo sent to each agent a serics of questions, that I might eompure their reports of the number of Tndians, rations furnished, &., With he vouchers submitted to ies, Instrated by Emil Bayard. The same firm will issue | the foard of Indian Commission The fraudulent about the Ist of September “Nero: A Historical contractors, on tinding that their occupation was well | Poem,” by W. W. Story. Th " ’ nigh g to z of virealar Por ¥. The work will bo publiated | ho Rtury Dei ed by thy gland, .022 volumes in the Boston public | learning of frauds aud irregularities through my por- sonal intercourse and correspondence With the i | This Thad a perfect right to do under my orignal pact with Seeretary Cox. The Secretary of the Interior then signed and sent to the Missionary Association the } following jetter, the original of,which. in the hand There are 27 Harper & Bros. have just issued Mrs. Mulock Craik’s | | Rin, | when the Board of indian Commission | with all the ey | in the Intersor Departinent and th | respor \ the car vies. &c., at the agency ? Itseems | | am settling matters | | charge of all the busin clury Cox’s suggestion, | or more Indian | je any Indian agent or to supervise | | plex or dual duties. | # Dusiness ebara gram | | and managen | the nature ¢ | istration of the govern | for which the agent is primarily r | power solely, | re | ment touching the conduct of + | duties when they de | orga | understood in the light in whieh it. presents itself to | ceived the following reply | To Carman, &e. sove | pervision | ion became | | Church tor frauds or irregularities | Although this employe Is to be satisfied with his salary, and not to been: | heenuse veeasion | | offended by it, but that all will strive to avoid any oevasion of | | | D, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. writing of General BR. Cowan, is now before me, Peruse it carefully, for it would be creditable to a Tal. Jeyrand, ws it carries with it the mind of the ordinary reader, although tt is one tissue of fallacies, and is a | _ CHARGES BY MR. SAMUEL WALKER. Violation of the fundamental principle on which alone the Board of Missions agreed to nominate and super. vise Indian agents, If such a letter should be written, to either of the Society of Friends 1 do not think they Would continue to render their valuable help:— Darartaext ov THe LYTEROR, Wasnixuton, Deo. 8, 1873. To mx Cuatman, de, s— My Dy ik—F have the honor to inyite your attention ng paragraph in the circular which, Your eu. y id and which bears date September 12, 1873 remade ‘We desire to be’ notified when any order is received from @ government officer allowing a contractor more favorable terms than are indigated by the contract, that we witere the responsibility reats.”? T have communicated to Bishop Hare my views in refer: cuee to this cirewlur, and have expressed to hin as well as to Mr. William Welsh the expectation that J cause the error to be curreeted. Bishop Hare admitted. to mein cote versation the impropriety of issuing such a paracraph. You will see in a moment, when attent invited to it, that the circular implies doubts in regard t rity of the Seeretary of the Interior and the Indian Affairs in reference to contract and that it mands your axents to report anything which they may regard ay huproper vn the part of these or other oflicers to ciety. Tleayeit to your own judgment. to dicta ougint to be done to remedy the error aud its eftects. [have Iuforination that this eireulne thus led to vommunications to Your svciely in regard to the serview,. whieh 0 been Inid befifre the — Exoentive Committee of the Board — of Indian Commissioners for _ their consideration while acting upon accounts from the Tn Office. From this it appears that the espiowage thus estab- lished leaves the Exeentive Committee, when. considering whether they will appro ur dixsallow Accounts, to aet upon information net i sion of the Indian Office wher the ACCONNES are hrst examined there, and not before the Secre- tary of the Interior when he Won bo ApDEOVE OF rile the action of the unites, Neod £ yree th or the injustice of the dopartinent Lam to proprict As head of th hts, T honor to fil aperty 0 thisdepartnen anizations whic! thus acts withheld tron ald stale eonxnre of fallin, department wi cd whieh is he welfare of orview, cirentar th nysrap wt they hold their aftices nt the ety However this clanse may have tended, Teamnot Failte be Imonition to th agents that they are respotisible tn ue invited ty make th rmers upon the officers of the srovernment, Having sald this, I desire to put on reeord what E have said to Bishop Hare, namely, that tis depariment and the Indian Office always have bern aud always will bo, while Lam Secretary of the In- terior, open te inspection and examination, fully and | without resery, one whom you may direct to mak nd thitt all. its reeords, docn- ments w when tieeossary for ancl nation, will he at mand, and any information at any time whieh you may desire ‘shall be communicated, Thi course will give you opportuni in reward to sending to yor w! the department from ‘any of your agente, times. [hope the candor of the expressions y iM be appreel- ated, and I trust their justice and propriety will be recog- nized, 1 am sure they are written only in the spirit, which Pronriety authorizes, and under a venve a official a if have the honor to transmit to you herewith a copy of w I addresved to Mr. William Welsh, on the 10th ultimo, to which [ have no reply in wricing, and none satisfactory. Very truly yours, rbally that is DELANO, Secretary of the Interior. Secretary Delano knew perfectly well that an agent would not dare to address a communication to the Secretary of the Interior on any subject, and certainly not when complaining of the mode in which contracts made through his son’ wore fulfilled, or even if report- ing that A. H. Wilder's agent had asked for blank youchers. The Secretary knew fuli well that it would require a braver agent than could be hired at fifteen hundred dollurs a year to beard the Commissioner of Jndian Affairs in his den by telli him that his orders: to receive inferior cattle, and in larger numbers at one time than was required, and to give peculiar facilities to the contractors, were im violation of the compact, and | | such as would not be give i The Secretary of the Interior further knew that rs refused their | | capable of permitting breaches of law and of his high to any contractor out of th sent to any Voucher they invariably furnished him dence that’ moved them thereto, He know, or ought to have known, that certain favored contractors tried to make agents aware of their power liberality of the In- dian Ring, It will further appear in the following Iet- ter that Seeretary Delano has relieved the Chareh of all ibility of a business character connected with + and management of their agencie Wasurxcron, Jan, 22, 1874, Crarmmax, & Dean Sit—I have your letter of the 17th inst. The case | therein referred to stands thas:—In the administration of | Indian affairs the government requires These agents formerly were appointed as other officers of the, nt are—on the recommendation of members of who saw fit to advise the appointin powe introduce religions missionary. worl ng the Indians, and thas aid in i certain agents, nominations that they nominate these agents. Thus it was expe in the qualifications of agents business capacity and integrity and missionary labor, including also eduentional 1 and all other duties connected with the promotion of Christian civilization, These agents are not Joss responsible to the government for the. taithfal dis- lutivs ¢ ted with thei nt of orga permitted pecaure, | by the u Th responsible y than hereto: control over then to rohis i aa 1 position roposes that the agents w n re report to the gov simltanconsly with its transmission t lieve this isn fair statement of the ease: if it is not, Ishail be glad to have you correct me, and 1 be you to consider whether it would be proper for me, whil discharging the duties of Secretary of the. Interior, thus to subordinate the ‘ernment in this matter. I went so far in my last letter, 1 believe, as to consont that ris might be made to your ‘society, pro cot were sent sinultancoitsly to the depart think, was a mistake. I believ all reports to be sen cers, allowing your s0 iy duty p rough these offi # furnished with copies, ¢ith partinent, as you ce to these reperts, how ire to present t your co with what might be ties are—tirst, 0 rily with the tis: eral enre duties jn ety | by the agents or through the Dest, There is in refer distinetion, which 1 di ‘These agents are charge of their luties are nt, and the Inst issionary organiza nts. Analyzing me that the first class nore particularly ss who stygest sin this nm, that all business duties onsible to the appointing and all reports reference to these duties, and ‘all matters connected therewith, invariably be made to the government appointing th agents and responsible for thy duet. OF sveiety naming them would by e sy, df not otherw ive all the information in the p of the govern: agents in regard to these In reference to th nduected and di heir names, there under the care of the mes of these ay it seems to me, after rel work, which is espe: ations suxiestin fitness that the nating them, These suggestions, 1 tr what my vi will compre! care this work is performed, i, will be ste subject. J sincerely ly the spirit in wh ) written. If you tain that, whether you co or not in the opin re expressed, you will not iniscon- strue the motive which prompts them. ‘f have felt that this subject has not been fully appreciated by yourself and the other m bers of the committee; at least it has not been t to inform you ye Yon mind, and therefore 1 have attempted atesome length explain myself. Assuring ye honor to b Notwithsta sponsibility, the Mis ports uniavorable to 3 communication to the Seer of my high regard and esteem, I have the i 1, DELANO, Secretary, this letter freed them trom re. ‘y Bourd, having heard re- ‘ and Howard, made a of the Interior and re- dling th sin—l bh Depart either Dr. Savill made ¥ e no frets in om the omticinl Howard. So the depur to stato nothing It will thus be s2en that the Secretary of the Interior mm ho longer Lurow any responsibility upon the Indi missionary organization of the Protestant Episcopal committed or is it nowinated, The Secretary od hy the public to have said, tioned by the w the Interior is une first, that to the best of his Knowledge and belief no | frands in exe have ever been perpetrated at the R Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies; second, if any such have been commined, then th rests upon the Church that nomi a fallacy, yet in th Joi the public bility still rests apon the nominators of {nd however carefully t | Unless there i a radi the Interior Department, moral change in its officers, [certainly will remonstrate pretty loudly against the pre munaing longer than the annual mvcting of tl of Srissions in October i I will close pt illustration agencies, or rather what they are like Secretary Delano's views are carried ont, Hdnotors of our elty railroads find it very difth present status cult to resist the temptations peculiar to their offic This may be in some measure owing to the suspicion tached to the oftice of conductor, to the ti of hours they work and the jading charact employment, with a compensation that seems to then out of proportion to the jength of their day's labor, jit is sad that men who have been elsewhere too ofien become pilferers whe ing as conductors—tirat to a small extent and to greater—so that itis now deemed best to hang a bell round ther necks. What proportion of them, think you, gvould remain honest if the officers of the railroal company and some of its directors colluded with the elors im deirauding the stockholders or conniy it their irauds ep next letter will Red Cloud servation. There will, therefore, be an opportunity tor the discussion of subjects that woult have been considered in this letter bat for the Jongth of the documents that tt was requisite to pub to show secrctuiry Delwno's present views of the ive responsibilities of the Uhurel and of the gov. ment in the eupervision of Indian agents. Lt must winfally apparent toevery very close observer and - | student of human natare Unt Seeretary Delano ix cautiously laying his plans for manipulating Christian agencies Without the risk of exposure, and that he ox. Decks to be screened and upheld their civilizn- | | tion, the government proposed to the different relissious de- should report to the organization nomi- | whiond y the Christian peo- | ple to whom he gives pat . not on evidence, but on his lot if vigilance and bonesty. | Yours truly, nid professions of ata WELSH. ROBBERIES AND IRREGULARITIES IN THE INDIAN SERVIOE—A CABINET OFFICER DEGRADING HIMSELF BY PEYTY PECULATIONS—DESTROY- ING DOCUMENTS AND DOCTORING THE COPIES, To rne Eprror or Tne HERaLp:— I have already endeavored to show that Messrs. Delano and Cowan had a guilty knowledge of fraudulent transactions, and instanced the report of expenditures of the contingent fund of the Department of the I terior, made to Congress by direction of the House as per resolution of December 22, 1874 And it 1s remark, able the number of resolutions of inquiry into the management of Mr. Delano’s offices which have beon offered and passed in House and Senate, Since m publication, however, additional facts have been placed in my possession on the carriage busi- ness, and it ix, probably, well that your readers should. know the whole truth, The Secrefiry’s office has, at the government expense, four carriages and fi horses. These are attended to by one pase) stable, at $840 per annum; one watchman, at $729 per annum; two stable hands, at $600 per annum each, and the drivers at $720 per annum each, The cost of harness and repairs, repairs of carriages, &e,e for six months was reported to haye been $2,100, At tho same rate for the balance of the year the Secretary's ofiice alone would cost for carriages and horses about $9,000 per annum, The Secretary, doubtless, does not use all the horses and carriages himself exclusively; bat it makes no difference to the taxpayer, who pays for them. Iam credibly informed that one of the car- riages, a driver and two horses have been at Mount Ver- non, Ohio, for the past four months, and that the driver’s wife, who is employed_in the Patent OMce, draws his pay during his absence. None of these things cqgila take place without the absolute knowledge and concurrence of the Secretary and his assistant, who thus concur in and profit by the misappropriation of public moneys, while crippled soldiers starve that they may haye able-bodied stable hands, In addition to this landaulet accommodation for the | Secretary's office and friends in and out of the depart ment, the Land, Patent, Pension and Indian offices have horses and carriages, costing enormously for their support. Besides this, there is another expense incurred un- | der the supervision of Mr, Bond, one of Mr, Delano’s confidential assistants, which is only for the benefit of the Secretaries, their wives and friends, Thatis a gera- nium and bouquet nursery. To attend to this an as sistant engineer is acting foreman gardener, two gar- doners 1) each, ond the services of nearly ten, ia ors are nevded, In’addition to the flower garden, the grass plots around the department are attended to by this costly force, with the aid of still another supervisor, who ix paid as engineer; the whole foree costing more than $10,090 per annum. The report of expenditures show that purchases of flower pots, &c., are made at public expense, Here, then, we have payments made for services not | contemplated by Congress and clear violations of law, | without the slightest shadow of an excuse as to the stence of any public exigency requiring it, and I all attention to them beeause they indicate the gen- eral method practised in the Interior Department, under | the administration of Mr. Delano, and to show that he ia trust to his own benefit, This profligate expenditure pervades every branch of the serviee under his control; bat the Indian service comes up more prominently before the public, because the robbery of the Indians nearly always entails blood- shed and the costly movements of bodies of troops on | the remote frontier. | It isa singular fact connected with the Indian service | that no report adverse to the interests of Ring agents or | contractors has ever been acted on except to appoint | commission, whieh inv riably reported in favor of the Ring and ag rable report, and all untavor- able reports have been suppressed. No better example can be furnished than MeCann's transportation contract for 1873-4-5-, In 1873-4 it was found that McCann « ithe government for carrying goods 132 miles, the actual distance travelled being ninety. Subse- quently, under a new contract, made’ necessary by the removal of the Red Cloud Agency, he was allowed pay for a distance of 212 miles, while the department had the evidence eCann’s Wagon master, sub-contractors and a Red Cloud employs, showing the distance to be much less, ‘The loss by that single operation was over $44,000, And Mr, Delano knew the lacts personally, for he got them directly from me through the Chiet Clerk of th Indian Ollice a8 well as officially from the Board Indian Commissione ‘The same distance wus paid for the succeeding year ‘esponding loss to the public puree. McCann's c¢ for the current fiseal t against the contracting officers of the Interior Department, The contract was let to him from Omaba, thus throwing out the lowest bidders for w transportation from hich was the kind of y jaw the Union Pacifie to carry government goods with- my “ation being indebted to the d States, ynomy and the pubhe interest de- L that this law should be carried ernment freight carried for the possible on that real By making Mr, McCann con- tractor the government is cheated out of the cash paid for transportation from Omaha to Cheyenne, and the law was violated in not giving the contract to the lowest bidde Ifany one supposes that such violations of law were permitied or aided in by t licers of the Interior De- partment, thus risking reputation and position from mere motives of frendship, then be will have read the history of the Interior Department for four years with atria year should be just canse of impeachme out ¢ Uni mand | little profit, ‘The history of the $750,000 appropriated for Teton Sioux, who appeared and’ disappeared in two short years, is still fresh in the minds of the people. The more recent appropriation of $300,000 for Chey- enne prisoner: Leavenworth without any intention of bringing them ‘© the people. The diseovery of Northern Sioux vo take the place of ‘Tetons, who existed ouly while the appropriation held out, and the urgent representation of Mr. Delano te Congress on their behalt dre well known, ‘The payment of $50,000 of Osage Indian funds to lobby- ists in Washington has been told of, The appropriation of $60,000 to. pay claims for whieh pts were in the Treasury, as the Interior Depart nt was olli¢ially informed, is also a matter of history, ‘These are a few of the irregularities, to call them by name, Which bave brought the administra- Aifuirs into well-doserved disrepute. And * which a little Honesty would have ption, And we have the degrad- no harde strangled in U ing spectacle of a ding to petty pecuiations in using public servants and apphances to say penuitares and having his high office traile ud to serve a Jow greed of gain, ‘The 4 is followed by those around him. © fitted up by mechanics paid by gov and carpets supplied ‘ontingent lund, Large ‘ been made to a dis- tant point, and, rt, Wholesale robbery has been committed. Messengers have 1 taken away from the department on long trips as body servants, and | some are now performing private service in Washing. ton, Other persons of both sexes have travelled af public expense on thes sions, Even this 1s not the Worst that may be said of some of Mr. Delano's assist ants, ‘This letter has become so long that I cannot pay such attention as 1 desire to a new assailant of mine whe turns up in the Interior Department, He Cone-sides “inuirely” with his masters, and rushes into the fray with all the eagerness of Ins small natute, anxious to distingtish himeseli in his new cailing under the eye of his benefactor, So he mantully shouldered the mud which the /nter-Ocean man began.to find toe y, and commenced operations last wi He first his predecessor, and then trotted out some o ats. 1 want to find that * prominent army who is relied on to back up the shaky “karak ther” of the emanations of the Interior Departinent When found ire wont cost his country anything for mple he 5 vate house, ernment, which are charged ipaents of public Furniture is procure to the “commutation of quarters” for a little space of ume If he don’t step up too promptly, Pilfind him company, I have betore me a list of six patriots who have only one ¢ leit touccotplish in this life, and that is the vindication of M . Delano and Cowan, When they Jinish that noble work they want to die and be burted with a Mackinac blanket round each dead defender, They evidently wisi themsely nd plenty o} it, " But, seriously speaking, # abination 1 talent, land, appointment, document, toast funu ane Lneiat yn ot the retary’s ollice chit to by something better in the way of defence than a repetition of retuted sanders, Th only helping to bury d the dead and yone innocent wh ‘out and dumped the mud heap which they and their chiels helped to scrape up. Aequiescat om PT propose for theit consideration that they all themscives extra per diem for the valuable time and brain power wh: hey now expend, night and day, in preparing a de Si and I suggest that alld ed aS RUUN aS the “Hoc: tored’ are eompleted, Or, let them bring up their mothers-in-law and call it copying, or something ot that kind, and get paid that way At all events, the operators to them see to it ris secure. ‘When the cherry ssof Mount Vernon—not the residence of the late yrge— resound to the falling blows of the hatchet in hands of the Olio statesman, datly lor evermore, thereafter will come, and these patriots will tind pation Then wil they retire, slowly and sorrowlully, is and where the more, | Wasi | the land where no contingent fund sbarsing el will Know them ne SAMUEL WALKER August 28, 18 OF PRIS Two prisoners, Frank Judson and Henry Healey, eseaped from the “Black Maria Saturday in an unac countable manner, The vehicle was driven by William Miles, who took in Judson at Tremont, for the purpose of conveying him to the Tombs, At the Fifty-sevonth street Court the door was opened to admit Healey for the sume destination, and it was here that the prisoners inade their escape, but in what manner is not exphuned, The case was reported to Superintendent W wo who | sent out a general alarm, The pri f he prisoners, the driver