The Republican journal., 1873-07-17
The Treasury Girls.

| FroH one OF our exchanges we clip tn,
following flattering notice of the girl
that are in, and have graduated from, tn,
Treasury department at Washington:
mo one who has ever lived in Wash
ington but knows that a majority of the
female clerks come from the best families
OF the country 1t was in the treasury thai
| Gov. Fairchild of Wisconsin found his
| wife, and she was the beautiful daughter
OF distinguished public man. The pres
ent United states district attorney fol
South Carolina wooed and won the beau.
tiful Alice Ingersoll (whose father once
occupied the high position of attorney
general of Maine,) from the Office of the
controller of currency, and might 90 on
| Tor pages telling who is and who has been
there. Robert j Walker, once governor
OF Mississippi, secretary of the treasury
and retained as an able lawyer in all
| prominent cases, now has Il fair young
daughter, who has recently become an
orphan, and is earning her own support in
the internal revenue. Mrs Mary John
son, daughter of Col. Albert, who for a
long series of years was head of the topo-
graphical bureau, has for ten years been
clerk in the treasury. Her husband
was consul to Florence, and died there a
short time before the war Not long af-
ter her father died, and as she had two
sons to rear and educate. she laid aside
all pride and became a government clerk
or, to be precise, a female employee, tor
the civil service masters say, inasmuch as
women are not clerks, they cannot com
pete for the $1,000, $14OO, or any but
$500 ositions. There is chivalry, Justice
and all the high-fown sentiments of man
to woman expressed! Mrs. Johnson's
boys are growing up to be worthy Young
men, and the Oldest is about entering the
naval school at Annapolis"
The College Regatta, to be rowed at
Springfield, and participated in by the
students OF halt dozen colleges, is ex-
citing a great deal of attention among
oarsmen and the public. The crews are
on the spot engaged in daily practice.
The New York Herald has the following
notice of the Bowdoin crew, who, by the
way, are not exactly lumbermen-
Last, but not least of all the college
crews to put in an appearance are the
BowdOins, the stalwart lumbermen from
the backwoods Of Maine Their appear
ance in the boat is very similar to that of
the crew last year, and their style reminds
one strongly of the st. Johns men as they
appeared when pulling against the Eng
lish crew led by the lamented Renforth.
There is the same quick recover. high
feather, short reach forward and sudden
finish before the body has reached the
perpendicular, giving the appearance of
very short, quick stroke, but with con
siderable loss of power at each end of it.
They put the muscle on to the oars while
the latter are in the water, however, and
the boat certainly glides over the surface
with rapidly that must make the hearts
OF not few of their rivals quake with
fear. The general confidence in their
ability to put themselves among the lead
ers has increased rather than diminished
since their arrival, and though not named
as the winners, yet are about the only
crew that find mention every time in the
first four" 1t is noticeable that the
shrewd ones, while talking up some inle-
rior crew, don't forget to invest fair
amount of stamps on this same Bowdoin
crew.