Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-06-25
;jTR WASHINGTON LETTER.

The NGv. Cash Ho"nn of iisc Treasury De
pertment-Tile % irrepressib!e" Niger
Douglass the Printer; and hts Friends
Preparations S"r Taking Observ at1on
Of lhc Eclipse liza Augustine Esostor
Peace Jubilee The ssEntsscr to Para
quay
WAsHINGIoN CITN, d. c., June I6. 1869.
The north front of the Treasury De
apartment has been completed externally
for some time past, and yesterday the
superb and magnificent "Cash Room,
All apartment running nearly the full
breadth of the building. was finally finish
ed, ready for the accommodation of the
Cashier of the Treasury and his clerks, who
will move into it when General Spinner
returns home. The latter lett for New
York on Monday il obedience to a tele-
gram announcing the probable dying condi
ton of his wife, This room is said to be
the finest of its kind in the world.
| The irrepressible "nigger cannot be
repressed it seems. Like, the legendary
devil who attended the Dutchman he
''pops" up everywhere. Yesterday even
ing the employees Of the Government
Printing Office called meeting to take
into consideration the best means to de-
nounco the action of the Printers Congress
at Albany, in censuring the Superinten-
| dent of the Government Printing for en-
ploying negro. In obedience to the call
for said meeting, u large number Of the
compositoIs and prassmen in the Docu-
ment room at the hour appointed, promi-
nCnt among whom was the g observed Of all
observers" the cause and object of the
assemblage, the gallant Lewis Fl. Douglass.
smelling as sweet aS a rose with any
other name, especially when skunk
has been attacked near its bush.--
The meeting having been called to order,
the requisite officers were appointed, and
three committees. OF seven members each,
We're choseD-tlie first to prepare a report
and resolutions, the second t. make az
rangelnents for holding public meeting,
and the third 70 procnre speakers for that
occasion. In the course Of the terrific and
highfalutin addresses which Were 'venti-
lated y ere the meeting closed, some earn
est an thorough Radical doctrine was
promulgated Defiance was hidden not
only to the District Typographical Society,
but to all the world and Democrats beside.
The Printers Congress .! Albany was an
initiated. As o finishing touch, the orator
Of the day wound MP with the following,
which, say the morning Radical Journals
with exquisite fidelity to truth, Twas re-
ceived With strong and marked approval. :"
This question Of admitting coloredmen
the Unions; must he net. 1t will be orr
privilege to settle it Alright, and hope we
shall act with such Justice, dignity and
unanimity as 10 reflect credit upon the
printers of Washington and of the craft all
the world over" After this outburst, the
Chronicle says: The meeting then dis !
persei aud the printers proceeded quietly
to their work, while there fingered upon
the couotenances Of al the expression of
satisfaction arising from an inward con
seriousness Of having done their duty and
having done it WELL" After this outburst, |
We may pertinentlY say "the deluge r'-
The administration has, after all, found !
time in the midst of discharging Depart |
mental clerks and appointing negroes to |
office, to think of supra mundane affairs. /
Tho Navy Department has ordered
Simon Newcomb, William Hardness and !
John Il. Eastman, Professors at the OBJ |
servatory in this city, to proceed to Des !
Moines, Iowa, or within Il hundred miles |
OF that city, for the purpose OF taking OBJ !
seryatiop> of the eclipse OF the sun on the !
9TH Of August. I trust the result Of their
Investigations will prove OF interest to the I
scientific world.
The peace jubilee OF Boston is pro-
nounced a grand affair. There were over
ten thousand singers in attendance, who !
participated i'll the exercises 10 the extent !
and capacity Of their lungs. Now just !
imagine tho effect Of the opening choral
whom chanted through ten thousand YAM !
kGe noses IN the most approved nasal
fashion The dispatches state it was over
flowing, and / believe the dispatches are !
undoubtedly correct. | am sorry to say
that it is thought the affair will not pay
expenses. | do not think every Bostonian |!
viii! make fortune, but of one thing you
may rest assured, if the city docs not make |
it pay in any other way the Legislature |
will repeal the prohibition laws, and COM
pei every visitor to the jubilee to get drunk
three times day while he stays, and pay q
fine of one hundred dollars for each occa-
sion he INDUCES. | know Of one distin-
guished visitor from this city, who will not
require repeal of the prohibition laws to
do the first, but all New England cannot
make him do the latter
The State Department is getting uneasy
about Mr.. McMahon, our Minister to Para
quay. Nothing has been heard from him
directly since his landing at the headquar-
ters of Lopez, December Il, 1868. Lopez
will not receive flag of truce, and will
hold no communication with anybody. The
government has forfeited the
sympathies of the world, and Lopez has
become nothing but an outlaw chief I
trust he will soon meet with his deserts
from the allies, who, after all, have be-
haved with great deal of magnanimity
towards the government of Paraguay.
It is estimated that the total amount of {
sugar of all kinds produced in the world is {
2. 100000 tons annually. The United !
States consumes $50, 900 tons and Great
Britain $50, 900 tons. The consumption is