The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-10

ing mixed staff. The result has proved
in every way advantageous. The society
of the women is found to raise the tone OF
the men there is much more cordial co
Operation, and there is not found the slight
est need for exceptional supervision.
Whether Mr.. Scudamorc is Benedict or
bachelor we do not know, but his
reference to female employees concludes
with sly hit at one feminine popularity.
Females, he says, are found most suita-
BILE for checking the work of the operative
branch, and he adds, this work, which
consists chiefly of fault-fnding, is well
within the capacity of the female staff, and
has been performed in very satisfactory
manner" a.E Fair or
The concluding paragraph Of this notable
report, embodies a substantial and irresist-
ible argument for the adoption of the
Post Office Telegraph in this busy, enter
terprising, and far-stretching country.
'If the messages of the current financial
year were to be paid for at the old tariff,
they would cost the senders at least 81
900 900 more than they will cost under the
new system. The senders of messages
will have this gain. They have also an
enormous increase of accommodation, and
still there Is surplus which will more
than relieve the taxpayer from charge
for capital. This is what the Department
was set to do and has done."l HoA
DOUGLAS AMDROTYPING IRUMBULL.
Stephen A. Douglas, during the great
Douglas-Lincoln debate, in 1858, gave at
Ottawa, Ill.,, the following fine ambrotype
sketch of the Hon. Lyman Trumbull-one
of the three great I" strikers " in the Re-
publican party: at
"B But they say there is man by the
name of Trumbull. The Tammany ring
and the Wabash gang have sent the De.
mocracy into bankruptcy, and Lyman
Trumbull is its self-appointed assignee
He is the selfconsttuted collector o
its assets, and proposes to make
pro rata division of its estate. Or
dinarily, the creditors-in this cast
o we, the rank and file of the Democ
racy, the cestau que t,usts--have right tx
o select our own assignee, but that is denied
To- us. Who is Lyman ,Trumbull? l hav
got here a little book. 4 want to rea,
from it? Let me read what Douglas says
In book entitled The Political Debate
e of Hon. abraham Lincoln and Hon. Ste
d phcn A. Douglas, published by Follett
Foster & Co., at Columbus, Ohio, in 1850
sr at page 60. occurs the following: hlgst q
r. ''Trumbull, too, was one of our own &C
temporaries. He was born and raised
y old Connecticut, was bred a FedsraliSt, br
at removing to Georgia, turned Nulliier whe
notification was popular, and as soon .
er he disposed of his clocks and wound up h
Mt business. migrated to Illinois, turned pola
clan and la,cyer here, and made his appea
ance in 1871 as member of the Legisl
tire. He became noted as the author Of Il
IN scheme TO Yepudiate a large portion of 4
! State debt of Illinois, which, if successful
~ would have brought infdmy and di
ur oyuce upon the far esc,dcheon
at our glorious State. The odium q
ty tached to that measure consigned him
= oblivion fo, time. | Helped to do it.
ny walked into public meeting in the Hall
es Representatives, and replied to his reput
MS ating speeches, and resolutions were CARR
,at over his head denouncing reputation, a
81 asserting the moral and legal obligations
al Illinois to pay every dollar of the debt S
OF owed, and every bond that bore her Sc
he Tmabulps mahgnay has .foltowed me sih
TX thus defeated his infamous scheme.V G.
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TO "The bloody chasm' must not
RS, bridged nor filled in; there must be &C
de tinued distrust, continued malignities,