Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-09-28
Our washington Correspondence.

get up sensation against the President
f making his return here, in order TO see
|, Sec'y Rawlins, one train later than he
actually did arrive; and that the Sec'y
lived determinedly till ample time had
elasped for the afternoon train to have
brought him, ard then died disappointed
; And | have heard Of one lady right here
who believes the story
Acting CONS Douglass has decided
that every person travelling ;.n With l4p eRafo9s
or fruit, not the product of his own farm
or garden, must pay the peddler's Inter-
nal Revenue special tax /; and that per-
son dealing in these commodities at his
store or stand is subject to produce
brokers' special tax, for any amount of
business less than $4,000 per snnum.
even though the articles are of his own
raising, unless he has paid the special tax
of commercial broker or cattle broker
or pcddler, or wholesale or retail dealer
lin liquor Or other goods.
These cXacti0Hs are new, and are said
to be elicting numerous rcmoustrances al
ready.
Mayor Bowen is charged by sore
headed fellow with overpaying city con-
tractors The Mayor is an honest man /;
but all rests the head that wears
crown"
The old National Intclligcncer has been
eXhumed and attached to the corpse Of
the recently deceased Evening Express,
and it is attempted to make one Demo.
cratic morning journal out Of the two
cadavcrs. The galvaniaees appeared
first on Monday. The Morning News
"a little, sprghtly, one cent, independent
daily, issued its first No. en- Saturday.
The Star remains the only evening paper,
to morning papers.
The recent circular letter Of questions,
issued by Acting Secretary Richardson
to the clcrks--men and womcn-of the
Treasury Department, and the time rule
just introduced, are felt by the clerks
generally to be, in matter and manner,
an ,ndignity
The Star gets after Richardson for it,
by bringing up the Probate Judgeshp he
continues to hold with his Assistant Sec
retaryship, and consequently negecting
the duties Of one position or the other for
both which he draws big pay; at the same
time that he is keeping track Of the hours
and minutes of the clerks, for the purpose
of docking their pay for the least absence.
Washington is the most cosmopolitan
town Of its sizc--anl, perhaps, absolutely
on this continent. Here the Catholic
religion, which, in a typicaly Yankee
town, is held to be species of heathcnism
and idclOtry, stands with other Christian
denominations on the very top round off
public esteem. Here the Greek church
is represented blythe Envoy of the Gar
Of all the Russias, and Mohammcdansm
at which the very bowels Of our social
SYSTEM no less than Of our religious sys-
TEN, revolt is looked upon, in the official
dignitary representing the Sublime Porte,
with courtly, and quite sincere, respect.
Them as to Jews, why, they may be re-
garded as at a premium, when even
renegade Israelite, or the son Of rene
gade parcntage, was for many years the
favorite candidate above all else in the |
town. for the mayoralty, and was repeat
ely elected, and bid fair to die in the
Office but for the mishap of the overthrow
Of slavery and the rebellion. Then we
have Of Inilels Spiritualsts, Sweden
borgians, Quakers, Transcenlcntalists,
Positiyists, and so forth. not few, in
Congress, and high. as well as less high,
in the Departments, in business and in
society. The commanding Positions in.
telligence and good characters of these
various people renders everything which
they respect, including their religion,
respectable, not to say tolerable. Even
Orthodox mouths are closed. For they
would be immediately told, "hy their
fruits yc shall know them The result
is that, while Christianity greatly pre-
ponderates, Sunday laws prevaI--though
dilatea--Sc., nobody of Intelligence is
surprised at, or quarrels WITH anything
else, any more than fhe met with it 10
Constantinoplc. Appropriate 10 this state
of things, are Sunday meetings regularly
held in the Council Chamber Of the CITY
Hall--on Sunday because the people are
at leisure called the ssPeople's Free
Conference" at which any person of any
race, tongue or faith, or no fifth, may
occupy tel minutes in FORMULATING bis
opinions aud his reasons for them. All Is
shades Of opinion and complexion congre- !
gate there. IL is ain excellent crucible I
IN which to test mans reasons for the ,