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Show The aggrepnte lllllnber of employ6s of a11 grades corlne(<tnd with the ejght s~~l,t.rintrutle~~o~il.nidesin o a~: i i r sis 24, whose a~lnonlr oruprnsa-rlon ia $25.2:30. Thev arc clistri\huted as follorrs: 3'ortll~rn. L' elerlis. 1 messenger,' total comiensation $2,630 ; Central, 2 clerks, total compen-sation $2,600; New Medco, 2 clerl.rlrs, 1 interpreter, 1 porter, 1 teamster, total oomnensation $-3.6,80 :. Washzaoton. 2 clerks. 1 internreter. 1m es- 8cnp.rr. toiwl cornpe~~s;ltio8n4 ,500; (5rc,q&1,2 clerks, totill 'curnp&sntiou $:3,oO0; C'nlifor~~in.c?l rrka, I porter, totill e omp e~~~;~?.r1,i7oAOn ; ;lvizu?ro, 1c lrrk. 1 internrrrcr. 1t r;lulsrt.r. rot;il eorn~~ensati5o"8l.~3,O O .al1d .Ilsnt~orn. 1 1c lerk, 1p or&r, toial eompen~ation$ 1,7i0. THE INDIAN SERVICE AND THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. For the year preceding the passage of the act of July 15,1870,.all superintendents of Indian aflairs and Indian agents, with the exception of those for the States of Kansas and Nebraska,mere officers of the Armv assi.n .n ed to dut r under the orders of the Indian Office. I n the two St:tt?a name~li, ~oivrrert,h e superi~~tendc~onrt's I I I ~ ~ : I I In rrairs :~nd Tnt l i :~;!~gr~u ts had been tin. s~~memh.liut ore th:tn :I jenr spl~oi~~rbeyr l tho Eree~lti\.cn von the recom~nendariolo~f the\ two Societies of Fu.iend3, the tlppoi~lteeab eing ill nll enizesrrcog~~izc~rl~ le~nheroanoef o r tlteothrr of t l~osr~ .rligiouIsh odics, at~dw, hile tll~ly~ 11l1or11iu;tat1c1 11r rspousihln ill all uflici:~l respects to the Illdiau Oflier. wai~~rai~~i~~gelosecorlr~with eu~~in~i t teofe st hvir n.a])c.etirr societies :~pl,oil~trdfo r t11;1t yllrpose. do forlunate wrre tile reil~ltosf t l~i sS J.S~ZoUf aI ppointnivnt i l l KHIISHaSll1 1 Y~br:~skciol naitl~!red.t l ~ :w~ th en. oncler the urovi&ion.so f tlls 18th section of the act of July 15, 15'70, it became necessary to relieve officers of the Army from this service, it was decided by the Executive that. all the agencies thus racated in the remaining States and the Territories should be filled by appointment upon the recon~lnendationo f some religious body.; and to this end the agencies mere, so to speak, apportioned among the prominent denominatioual associations of the eooutrv. ., or the missionarv societies reuresentinp such denominational ~ ~ "~ ~ . ? vit!$rs ; and t l ~ ~ ibie~ s o v i i ~ f oi tr ~~~o~~si e f i ePsIP tLel.6'11po11r eql~~.oret#ol 11lilcr tl~~.~nsclvineuco n~rn~~t~icwatiti1o1l I ~lh r I)+.nal.tment of' rlhz I ~~ter ior , make nomi~~ationtos the position of agent whenever araoancy should occur within the list of the agencies ass~gued them respectively, and in and through this extra-official relationship to assume charge of the in-tellectual axid moral edntation of the Indlans thus brou.e. ht within the r ( .~eho f their iuflurl~Pe. '1'110 reason formally annon~~ceiaolr this soale-wllnt at~orualo~or~dsr r of al,r>oi~~tluc\ur.t; ~stl lr dcsic~hlenesiost (.(!III.~II~ harmonv between aecnts-and missionaries. comnlaints havine be-come g&eral that, i: the frequent change 6f agents, no missionary effortscould long becarried on at any specified agency withoutencounter-ing, sooner or later, from some agknt of different religious views or of no religious views, a degree of opposition or persecution which would necessarily extingl~ish such missionary enterprise and even destroy the fruits of Dast labors. When it is remembered that efforts of this kind I I I I I ~ ;t~o, &hiere volnnbln results, br c o o t i~~~f~orc mc la ny ).ears, c8(,u-ficleucts tleiug a plant of slow growth in savaze brea~rs;, I I I ~ti le hope ol' the ntis.iiou:lr\, beine almost ~ ~ n i v e r s aIllllu~n dvd on the e~lut.ationo f the rising geieration, while, in fact, 11dian agents were under the old political rkgime changed every few months, or every two or three years at the loneest. it vill readilv be seen that the chances of missionarv en-terprises being cut off in the flower were far greater than the ohinces of continuance and success. Such indeed had been the general history |