Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-12-31
The Public Printing.

re has no control over the orders made for printing
Init he can exercise much economy in the purchase OF
naper which is heavy ITEM The following statement
shows the total cost Of printing including paper ond
ing &c. for the Thirty-fourh Congress and tne niS'
session of the Thirty-ftth
NAL C.
fourth coDoross first session (estmated) ss42578 Il
Thirty fourth Congress- second session
Thirty -fth Congress, first session, ~ T1I,vc
Thrtyourth Congress, first session I0G91 -
Tirty fifth Congress session.. 1885, 862 So
It appears from the above, that the cost of both
houses for the first session of the ThiryfOurth Congress
was S932299 &c. while for the first session OF the pres
ont Congress it was only $494,6l0 %, difference OF
S437689 81 This is an immense saving, and shows
that Congress getting to be more cautious IN regard
TO giving orders for printing.
The report of Mr. Bowman abOunds in many sugges-
tions of most practical character and also refers 10
some past deinquences in his Office which seem TO de-
mand investigation 1t appears that the paper purchased
by government for the public printers ana deVered 10
them has not been yearly settled for as required by law
Mr. Bowman saws he caused an investigation to be
made and of this remarks:
This investigation has not resulted satisfactorily the
fact being developed that for great length of time the
paper purchased for the printing OF Congress- amounting
in value to hundreds of thousands of dollars had been
received from the contractors and delivered to the pub
lie printers by persons not employed by and wholly If
responsible to this Office for the proper performance OF
this important duty whose very crude memorandums IN
which entries have been made in the books of this office
and which have proved to be unreliable. Under these
difficulties, have caused series of statements to be
prepared showing the quantity of each description OF
paper purchased and the disposition which appears to
have been made of it. In these several statements all
the paper purchased by the government is correctly
given but the disposition of it is in many cases merely
COneCtural."
This certainly very singular state of affairs and
the public would seem to have right to know more a
bout it. We trust Mr. Bowman will continue his in
vesgaOns until he enabled to give something more
than conjecture to what disposition has been
made Of the paper purchased by government. Mr. Bow
man recommends hereafter that but grade of paper
be used for the printing of the public documents, and
that this be superintendent and weigh torty2lght lbs
to the 1t seems from table presented that the
government has been paying for forytwo pound paper
high as S8 81 per ream and for Ortyhve pound pa
per- Sc 49, AS the paper furnished by contract of
all have chance to compete, but 1t strikes us
that these prices are considerably above the market pr
The closing suggestions of Mr. Bowman are full Of
sound sense and will if followed out great saw
ing to Congress- Instead of ordering books to be print
ed long before the manuscripts ready and before
reliable estimate be made of their size and coast Mr.
Bowman recommends that the matter proposed to be
printed shall all be written and arranged before its prin
ting be endorsed Another leak is pointed out by the
present Superintendent who to be determined to
mark his administration by rigid economy. 1t seems
that the printers of the two houses of Congress nice
little arrangement pOcketed about $4,000 per year OF
the peoples money The arrangement was of this kind
Each house would order the document printed,
and as both printers had the work done at the same
office, each would charge cost of " composition or type
settlng though the types actually set but once
Sometimes it is sad the Government has been charged
for type setting four times, when in fact they set
but once. Mr. Bowman urgently recommends the pass
age Of law to save this charge to the government
We have rarely met with report from public officer
which has such healthy tone and which abounds IN
0IaaI
Mr. Bowman deserves the thanks of the country for his
rigid adhearance to the interests of the people and his
bOdness in pointing out important retrenchment in our
national expendture.-NeO York Day Book.
A London Divorce Case
recent divorce trial in London is thus summed up
in the Times:
Mrs. Marchmont was formerly Mrs. Lockett. Mr.
LOckett, tavern keeper in the of nature died
leaving behind him this widow, who, as it appears be-
entitled after his decease to the very comfortable
sum of $4,000. This widow at the time MIR. March
mont paid his addresses to her so years of age and
partial to sherry. Mr.. Marchmont was widower, as
the lady widow but he had children by his former
marriage she had none. He was the minister OF
dissenting chapel at Islngton and according to his
account what between the stipend of his office and his
gains from literary sources he made up an income Oh
something like $1,000 year. He appears to have
considered that union between himself and Mrs Lock
EFT would be excellent arrangement, although the
lady was IA years older than himself.
He was successful in his suit it agreed between
them that he was to give up his chapethat he shoulc
be at the charge of his personal eXpensesthat ht
ShOud educate and clohe his children, and pay all costs
of a carriage and pair of horses. Mrs. MarchmOntG
property, the other hand, to be entirely settled
herself, but she engaged, condition that her sulto
would give up his chapel, that she would build tor hin
Protestant church, which she would attend with nj
family. The document, dated July 10TH 1857, in whic
Henry Marchmon devotes himself to eternal perdition
if he should ever during her cOverture in any wa.
attempt to NEEDLE with his wife's fortune is probab
unprecedented sample of eager basphemy. 1t is
entirely diScredtabe to the that could write 1t a
to the woman who could receive such paper and after
wards marry the author OF it.
Married they were, and they proceeded to Tonbridg
for their honeymoon. But alas No sooner was tn
gOrdan knot tied than the disturbances began whicl
have formed the sub Of the recent suit In the
OF this miserable couple there brief pause ndee
between the marriage altar and the divorce court.
That fool have been to marry hate marrie
life nearly the earliest expression used by the dc
voted wife to her affectonate husband Mr. Marchmon
however, appears to have had good cause repen
the precpitanCy with which he had risen to the gOde
fly his married life one scene of perpetual strife
but of swearing, cursng, struggling, chasing his Wit
about and of behavior scandalous both sides tina
1t is difficult to say whether husband wife shold
more loudly condemned. Mrs. Marchmont's matin an
evening song that her husband had married her TO
her money alone; which was true enough
Money, however, she would not let him have; if hi
wife sent him to take a railway ticket for her, he wa
obliged to bring back the change and was rated sound
and publicly If she judged the tale incorrect Sometime
One sometimes the other would 90 out ostensibly wit
suicidal intentions. There was a about dog
There was row because his pen made noise while
was writing. There was a row about the wine TIL
wife IN maudlin sherry sort of a way would tax
the ServantS-anVbOdV. in fact Int her husband int