The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-11-13

considerably past half a million, yet
! this was less than the sum paid for five
r preceding years, the cost of the paper
being in 1865 more than million and
j a quarter of dollars, and averaging for
t i've years about $500 Atthe end
. of this economical year about 1928, 600
q worth of paper remained in storage.
t Government never insures its property,
: and this immense amount of infiam-
: msble matter is stored in sheds adjacent
g to the printing office and guarded by
S watcbmen. Little do the workers at
2 the paper mills on the running waters
5 of the Wissshickon and the Croton
a know of the processes through which
! theirpulp willg and ofthe intelligences
it will carry to far frontiers, to the
cabinets of foxy foreign diplomats, to
the libraries of the world.
! The printing for the Executive De-
partment of the government costs near
!, ly as much money as the total work
done for Congress. The Executive De-
; partmentS, with the courts, required in
1857 about 1851, 900 worth of printing,
: while the House of Representatives ran
i up bill of $454, 900 aud the Senate
: S1s6,O0O. In addition to this acts of
Congress warranted about 1898, 600
additional of work done for miseella-
neous objects. Mr.. Seward is a dainty
hand with the types, and will have no
: bindings but the best His bill was
i about $32,0O last year. The Supreme
Court and its satellite courts take less
than half as much, or nearly $4,000.
The Congressional printer himself has
a little bill of $500, but the Attorney
General is most modest of all, not
Ireaching the figure of 5000, nor does
the new Department of Education con
sume more The Agricultural Depart
ment with its huge reports passes $32,-
700. The monstrous appetite of the
Treasury leads everything, with nearly
ES300,0O0, and the War Department.
follows it with $I48,O0O. Next come
the Post Office, Navy and Interior De-
|partments, ranging from $4,000 to
1852, 900.
GoyERNMEET LITERATURE.
| Now let us see what kind Of docu-
Iments the government is printing.
Last year one hundred aud fifty-six
separate books and documents we're
turned out of this office, variety of
work which was not probably equaled
by the Harpers, Appletons, Lippi1eotts,
Fields aud Scribners together. The
entire number Of copies printed was
not far from 100000
Mr.. Seward, with his usual luxuri-
business. had an Appendix to his diplo-
matte correspondence prepared at a
cost Of S29,O 900. The book made 754
pages, and of p. 600 odd copies printed
the Secretary took 10000 himself
The diplomatic correspondence iu two
volumes, attached to Iohnsons messages
for 1857, made also about 2, 200 pages
costing SS5, 900, and Mr.. Seward pr
Vately 'bagged" $500 copies Also,
to continue with Mr.. Seward, his annual
international commercial report made
$3.50 pages and cost $4,000, and Mr..
Seward took 95C copies.
The largest documents wese those
of Mr.. Stewards difuseness, and also
the following: t,i,s ID
Report on southern railroads, 1860
pages, Report on Delano and Morgan,
1904 pages. (This Delano is an sxpen-
siVe dog-how much is Ben. Bggleston
to cost when he eoptestsl9Y Report of
Hogan contestiDg Piles seat $50
pages. Hogan is a literary chap,
EVIDENTLY Report Of the Commisl
sioner of Patents, 21so pages. Lam
mans Dictionary of Congress, s1OI
pages. (This is more copies thau all
Congress uuitedly owns of any die
tionary Of the English lsngusge.l J al
select committee report their views on
the Indians to the tune Of 544 pages.
Smithsonian annual reportJ472 pages Q
This report is made up of interesting !
magazine articles, where all subjects :
are considered from cheese to asteroids. ! t
Confidential communications from the s
President s72 pages. "a penny for '
this thought, and posterity will dis 9
pute the bill as excessive , Three 2
Army Registers, l4O4 pages. (Beu (
Wade's celebrated report on the CON 6
iuct of the war-supplemeut to it
1869 pages. Laws Of the United 1
States, TsS pages. Report of the y
of. the land office in
English, French, German, and Swesd, =
SD, Sl6 pages. (This is the most
practical and valuable report issued. a
report, 6I2 pp. CThis is a "
'ery expensive book, printed to the |
imount of 10000 copies at a cost, OF E
$4,000. Something too much of
his The biggest bills beside the "a
'bove are for binding the Congression- Of
I Globe $50, 900. Ditto, (bound morel b
2T00o Patent office report S24, 0O0. q
he message of Andrew johnson,
agd abridged, $4,000. I'd pt
Besides these books = and many 81
thers, there is another little batch Of
iooks ordered for Mr.. Seward, of his TO
ayorite diplomatic. correspondence, of "
0,O50 copies. Also the agricultural
apartment is candidate for 10000 1k
lore copies of its big report. Iqhe co
atent Office people want TO be ia print Z
1000 copies extra and, there is ieE
emendous book on the death of Mr.. IN
lincoln. which is the most costly book,
robably ever issued in the United a
tates.-9 This most expensive book an
Ier issued BY a government consid- SO
ing its cubic contents and the extror- ~
mary nature of its-subjsct matter, is lor
e appendix to Mr., Stewards diplomat .
correspondence, containing express
ons of sympathy and coincidence wa
ith the nstioncou the fate 2 ofAbral fee
lm Lincoln. The cost price of pro b-
icing the book will be $4,000, or tou
ore than six dollars a copy, while the hlg
ndings on some special copies, order ne'
for the crowned heads, etc, abroad nv
IL probably bring them up to twenty p.
twenty-five dollars a copy. SewarPs .'gI
iited works, correspondence and al hal
ii make about twenty volumes, valu- the
lie indeed, but the extra gilt might tor.
delegated to the crowned heads to not
It to their library books. 90 ss dw
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