Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

The government of Canada costs Cana
dams Sl0,750,000 year. This. too, is
exclusive of the moneys spent on immi-
grafton, police, penitentiaries, debt man.
agement and interest, public works main
tenance, etc. This sum is enormous and
it amounts to $3.50 per head on the popu-
lation.
George q. Cannon, the Mormon dele
gate in congress, wants that body to pass
a relief act that will give amnesty to
Mormons for past offences under the re.
cent decision Of the supreme court (Which
subjects all who have lived in polygamy
since July, 1862, to fine and imprison-
ment. and renders all the children illegiti-
mate), with the provisions that in future
all shall be held strictly to account by the
government under the criminal sections of
the law. This, he thinks, will gradually
but effectively break up polygamy.
Congressman Robinson, Of Indiana,
gives this e-Raphaelile sketch of Senator
Voorhees,: "llc is one of the most super
fetal men in American politics. He does
more talking and less thinking than any
clan he is INSCRIPTIONS and unreliable.
He always waits to see which the popular
side is going to be- and then he joins in
the hosannahs. He has but one great
virtue in a political sense, and that is
sticking to his party, whether it be right
OF wrong"
OYsTERs-THE EFFECT OF THE COLD
Al
any one trade which suffers severely from
the cold state of the weather it is the oyster
business. On account of their being found
in the bays and rivers which are in the
winter generally covered with ice, the
work OF gathering them is quite perilous,
and at times almost impossible. This
season the oyster trade has met with the
greatest disaster since 1857. The bays
are reported rs mostly frozen up. and the
rivers are almost solid. Vessels are fast
in the ice and the raking up of oysters
under these circumstances is Il work by no
means pleasant. and in many placss im.
possible. Those who undertake this peril
Gus work are meeting with so little success
that the demand for oysters cannot be
fully supplied. and the prices have neces-
sarily gone up-for how long, remains to
be seen.
FEMALE CLERKS AT WASHINGToN.--
The female clerks in the national treasury
were appointed in 1862 by Secretary
Chase, who placed them in the Office of
the controller of currency ut 5000 year.
They cut and trimmed the United States
notes issued in sheets, and did their work
very well. AS soon rs they had been
appointed there were many other appl-
cants, and their number steadily increased,
many of them securing places through the
peculiar energy and perseverance which
will refuse to take no for an answer
There are now more than 1900 women in
the departments ut Washington, the ma.
jority employed in the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing Office. They excel as
counters. their slender, sensitive fingers
turning notes with great rapdity and
exactnes3. They detect counterfeits, it is
sad, quicker than men, though they do
not succeed so well in accounts, as the
average feminine mind has little love of
figures. Counters and copyists receive
5000 year; other women 81 200 to ST. 400,
several of them $1,000. and one in the
internal revenue $1,000. Most of the
clerks are well educated and refined, and
many have seen more prosperous days. |
A number are widows and daughters of |
army and navy officers who lost their lives
in the civil war. Very few of the young
or widows marry or resign, and
tho hundreds who are con.
stantly seeking places in Washington have
slender prospects of success. The most
lntiring, obstinate place-seekers at the
Federal capital are women. !