nds.

Secretary M'Cullough asserted that women performed their clerical
duties as creditably as men, and stated that he had three ladies
who performed as much labor, and did it as well as any three male
clerks receiving $1,800 a year. It is now a quarter of a century
that women have served the government in these responsible
positions, and still, with but few exceptions, they receive only
the allotted $900. Mrs. Fitzgerald, the expert in the redemption
bureau of the treasury, who has for fifteen years deciphered
defaced currency, in which no man has ever yet proved her equal,
receives $1,400. In 1886 she subjected herself to an examination
for an increase to $1,600, but, failing to answer some questions
foreign to her art, she was compelled to content herself with the
former salary.

II.--MARYLAND.

_The Revolution_ of February 26, 1868, shows an effort in the
direction of progress on this question in Maryland. A correspondent
says:

Notwithstanding the present ascendancy of conservatism in
Maryland, the progressive element is not wholly annihilated; in
proof of which, we send information of the working of this
leaven, as developed in an association lately organized in the
city of Baltimore, under the name of the "Maryland Equal Rights
Society." For nearly a year past it has been in contemplation to
form a society based upon the principle of equal chance to all
human kind, irrespective of sex or color, through the mediumship
of the elective franchise. The first public meeting of the
friends of the movement was held on the afternoon of November 12,
1867, at the Douglass Institute, at which twelve persons, white
and colored, were present. Some steps were taken towards
organization in the framing and adopting of a constitution based
upon the principle afore-mentioned; but further business was
deferred in hope of securing a larger attendance at a subsequent
meeting. Two weeks later a second meeting was called, when the
constitution was signed by fourteen persons, ten of whom were
white and four colored. Officers were chosen, consisting of a
president, a vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer,
together with eight other members to act as an executive
committee. The last meeting, held January 29, was attended by
Alfred H. Love and Rachel Love