Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-11-08
Letter from Washington.

mad its origin in Congress. 1t seems that |
there were two companies of Tennessee |
scouts, which, it is pretended, rendered great |
service during the war, but were never mus
tered in as United States troops Some
claim agents thought the men
should be paid. So did Mr. Stokes, then
Member of Congress; and accordingly bill
was framed between them, and by Mr.. Stokes
through the two Houses, giving
each member of the organization full pay
and bounty. This was in July, 1870 The
companies were both full and running over.
which shows of course that they are remark
ably healthy and not subject to such cpidem-
les as gun shot wounds 1t is not known
what engagements they were in, though IN
description Of their battles
would be ar thrilling as those Of Falstaff OF
Bobadil The officers furnished the Govern
ment with certified rolls, in ono Of which
thirty fictitious names had been inserted in
place of thirty correct ones stricken out, and
in both of which there was more or les
fraud. Mr.. Stokes and the benevolent claim
agents Immediately went TO work, corrupted
one or two clerks in the Second Auditors
Office, from whom they obtained much inior-
nation and important aid, and everything
being ready they rushed in the claims
claims bristling with falsehood, in which
soldiers ignorant Of their letters signed the
boldest of hands, in which fabulous wit
nesses testified 10 a life acqua ntance with
hul tua aoldiars Tho Of no aIs inn,
agents were adhesive, and very little OF all
this money succeeded in getting through
them TO the SCARED veterans OF Tennessee.
The result Of which was sundry complaints
and afidavits, which, coming to the know j.
edge Of that ubiquitous parsonage, the gov
eminent, brought the whole affair into the
light of day. Mr.. Stokes, on his arrest, as
sumed the lofty air Of insultci dignity and
outraged innocence, and expects to come out
Of the affair as spotless as did his colleague
Roderick Random Butler from the charge Of
forging a widows signature To "a pension
certificate. And by the way I should like
to tell you Of new performance Of Buffers
in Tennessee, but am afraid your space
would not allow.
The Board Of Public Works Is cutting and
filling, with an army Of colored lab5rers, on
all the principal streets Rows OF houses
from which it was formerly but one step 10
the street are now perchcd aloit on an emf
hence like feudal castles, while in other I0-
calities it would be no difficult matter to
alight on the street from the soconG-story
window. The company which is laying the
concrete pavement from the Treasury towards
Georgetown has procured an enormous steam
roller, made in England. which now goes
putting up and down in front Of the White
House, the wonder Of a crowd IF spectators
who may at any time be found watch
ing it, movements. 1t IL matter for much
dispute whether this engineering Is t. De 50
far advanced ~ December a. % make the
city hab.table again for Congressman, fr
everything here Is done with reference Z, Con-
Gres-.
Tie $4,000, 600 public-improvemen loan,
to be submitted to the people nj the next
election, is the political theme The coll
orci population have begun 70 feel their im-
portance in the matter. There Is no .acs ot
speakers wiling To spend night after uiEat
in attempting to drown out wells and misses.
and gain vote or two to their side On
the one hand certain and profitable employ
ment is held out as an induccmcnt - vote
for the loan, and on the other are predicted
outrageous taxes and. what is the sting of
the taxation, wastefuiness in the expenIl-
ture of the funds. The colored voters i'm
the Government employ are strong for the
loan.
Anna Dickinson has favored US with her
lecture on &c Demagogu,s and Workingmen, -
and Lincoln Hall was packed On Friday
night to hear it, There is force Ia Mis-
Dickiuson's words, and an elruestucss IN
her manner OF uttering them that never fail
t. enlist the hearty sympathy of ara auii-
ence and this was especially shown. when
some person hal interrupted the lecture
with what be doubtless considered poser.
by the generous applause that greeted the
trIump plant answer and increased the pro-
FOUNDER discontinue The conclusion
which the lecturer reached, most people vii.
accept as lut true one, anu LstaJ l~s tIdL N-it
prosperity Of the workingmcn depends not
on combinations or trades unions, or blind
" following the selt-appointcd mouth pieces
who would use them as stepping stones t.
political advancement, but upon their own
hands, upon their Jwn brains that no one
with a regard for truth can say that there is
in this country rich class which the poor
are doomed to bear upon their shoulders,
where man beginning as poor a. poverty
can make him, dies at sixty possessed ST
a fortune which a son and grandson spend
their energies in throwing away, wheo, tie
circle being complete, the next place Is for
another son of poverty; thai though there
be a d. monstrous inequality between rich
man ami poor, it is an inequality winch
trades unions can never change, nor Missa
ehusetts eloquence reverse, since the cause
Of it lies far back among the secrets OF our
human nature; that trades unions are in
herently pernicious, brutal tyrannies, the
legitimate fruits of which are seen, lor ex
ample, in the bloody reception which the
workingmen extended to the Cinnamon in
the streets of San Francisco, where every
crossing stone was Chinaman's grave stone
tie welcome of America to China, Of the
nineteenth century to the fourteenth, Of
skilled workmen to the victims of dcspotism.
of Christianity to heathenism-
Washington has it's boating e1citements,
it's IS Potomacs'' and " Analostans,o which
are the names of the crews. On the day
appointed for race last week the Potomac
was 50 rough that one crew refused to .
over the course. But the umpire was mex
orabie. ard said the race must come off The