Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-12-26
On THE WRONG TRACK,

We md the following in the Washington
coIrssposcenee Of he New YORK Tribune:
Through soEe N schance or design the
STARS OF the District OF Col nmbia particnIsrIy
when the eolOred people are In any way con-
cerueo. are always going wrong. The latest
Instance OF TINS turned mp to-day. The Dis
tTict has been indebted for some time 70 the
trustees OF colored schools in the sum OF
SJo,tOO- Tor q portion OF which. no viewer, an
appropration was made last night by the
Board or Alderm-n. The teachers In these
SCHOOLS have not been paid their salaries for the
last three months, and until last evening there
Was but slight prospect that they would
come. They had been assured for the last
three months that the only obstacle to their
payment was the refusal OF the city autnori-
ties 10 vote the necessary funds. There are
about ninety teachers OF these schools in the
city, and this morning a Target proportion of
them assembled At the Treasury Department
in ihe expectation OF receiving the arrears due
tnen; but Mr.. Boswell, Register OF the Citv
could not be found, though the police officers
and the telegraph wires were put In reQuisi-
siIion 70 md him The teachers are ysry bit
ter in their denunciations OF Mr.. Bosvsi,
who, they state, purposeiy sbsented hims SELF
that they may net be paid
The Washington correspondents are inya-
risbly accurate in dealing with national af.
1sirs, out somehow their proverbiaI saxacitv
seems to fail them in handling Washington
municipal matters The amount OF misinfor-
NATION e1hioited in the above paragraph is
the CITY Register, Mr. Boswell, is a Radical OF
the most advanced school. and has been no.
Iiceably jealous in behalf of the colored school
interests, II VIII De seen that the Tri6uu. corres
poe dent Is good deal of the track. The cor
respondent by his remark about the .eO teach.
ers,' seems TO have got the white schools and
colored schools good deal mixed Is eyerv-
body here knows that the eoiorsd teachers Are
paid through the Trustees OF the coIorso
schools, and do not make application either at
the Treasury Department or the City Hall
There Is no doubt that good many teachers
OF the city (white) schools, who are paid by
the Treasurer Of the Board (Mr. MorseID, were
ut the City Hall on Tuesday, quite aaxious
for their pay, but that they failed to get il
through q hitch at the Registers offics
Dir. Boswell declined to sign the req uisitions
on the ground that under the arrangement with
the Bank Of Washington no checks shall be
made upon the bank by the Corporation altar
fne2Oth OF the month, or during the ten DAYS
Of settling up time. The Mayor held that the
Bank under the circ would have
accepted the checks Of the Corporation, and
IT seems probable that an arrangement viii
be made yet for the payment OF the teach
ers before The LIST OF January. The Mayor has
announced his purpose to give the teachers
precedence In paying of the Corporation in
oeotedness. and as this class OF Corporation
employees are the m ost needy, the decision of
the Mayor will be generally accepted As ms,
and right, though of course every creditor o,
the Corporation wants bis money, and thinks
he oueht TO be first paid