BEAUTIFUL RETRENcHMENT AND


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The Globe boasts that the Treasury De-
partment has reduced and dismissed from the
number of Clerks heretofore employed by it.
""aefeen, within some months past


Ihls sounds well-it reads well-it looks
weil--it would seem to deserve well. But
'ehaf IS Me fact? Why no more and no less
than this: by the negligence Of the Depart
ment' IN relation TO the land office, much Of
It's business heretofore ran behind, and super
humerary clerks were employed TO bring il up
on The record books This business having
oeen accomplished, Of course the Office is, to
'h's extent, brought back to its old number of
clerks.


hen, again, by crushing all enterprise,
ana annihatlng the currency making the rich
rlcher' and the poor poorer, the sales Of pub
nc lands have been reduced very much more
tian IN the ratio of the number of reduced
cierks-say from millions to thousands per
annum. And this is the sort Of retrenchment
ana economy Of which the administration
boasts 1t cuts off the profitable resources
Oh the Government, 50 as to render the en-
pioyment Of clerks unnecessary, and then
shouts to the country, behold our system of
'etrenchmeni and economy! "Nineteen" clerks
rendered unnecessary in single department
OF the Government, which has hitherto en-
plnyed them Great is Leri, the fnancier.