The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-18
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TO THE REGIsTER.--
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
IBy Telegraph to the Rogistor.l
WASHINGTON, May II


TroubIe nj the White House.
Senator Sumner called at the Whit
House to see the President last week
lint the chief usher having carried u
his card returned with the remark tina
he would have to wait fifteen minutes
Mr.. Sumner would not wait fifteen min
utes for Napoleon, Victoria or any on
else, and that when Mr.. Grant wante,
to see him he could send for him. Wit
that he withdrew and told a friend tina
the White House was nothing but
military camp.
Congressman Shanks called on Secre
tary Fish en- Saturday and was waiting
for an hour and half and then left il
disgust, declaring that in the future TIT
Secretary might keep his ID old pisca
torial department to himself.
Trouble Among the Printers.
The Columbia Typographical Unior
of this city, at meeting on Saturday
night, received the application of Lewis
II. Douglass, O son of Fred. Douglass
the colored orator, for membership in
the Union. 1t was referred to the Com
mittee on Nominations. A member OF
the Union presented preamble and
resolutions setting forth that as the ap-
plicant had been rejected at Denver,
Col, by a subordinate Union, on the
ground that he was an improper person
to be admitted, it would therefore be
uubecoming in this society to receive
him to membership. The resolutions
censure the Financial Secretary for
granting card to Douglass, permitting
him to work until the society shall take
action in the premises, and directs the
chairman of the Office in which he is
employed to cause him to cease work.
They also call upon members to sustain
the action of the Union. These resolu-
tions were ruled out of order, and after
considerable discussion the meeting ad-
iourned until the 18th of June, when
the committee is expected to report.
Over five hundred members of the So
ciety were present, and much feeling
and interest manifested in the matter,
which it is believed will be eventually
referred to the National Typographical
Unisn.
The Western Mnils.
Under the new city postmaster, Judge
Edmunds, the Office is 10 be thoroughly
reorgau:zed in the matter of receiving
and dlspatchiag the Western mails.
The arrangements will probably be
made in a few days, by which the
pouches for the West can be made on
the last regular passenger train, which
leaves at nine P. NJ, and by which the
mail can be received at the train up to
the time of starting. At present letters
must be dropped in the postoffice by six
thirty P. NJ. The Postmaster General
promises to give all the aid possible to
get the mail service from the capital
to the West in the best shape,
Sprngue's Letters.
One hundred and twenty thousand
copies of the Globe, with the private let
tiers printed by Sprague, have just been
put in wrappers at the Senate folding
room and sent to Sprague in New York,
where he is said to have opened some
sort of bureau. The letters cover
thirty pages in the Globe in the finest
type of that work A lot just sent of
free in the mails filled thirty-nine of the
largest sized mail bags.
The Methodist Church.
The Methodist Churches of this dis
trict have had reunion. From the
statistics presented, it appears that the
denomination has in Washington and
Georgetown eighteen churches, fully
organized and earnestly at work, with
property valued at S55O,OOO, and en-
bracing membership of 1861, with
thirty-ono local preachers.
The Ever Present Once seekers.
Commissioner Delano is expected in a
day or two. Information from his home
in Mount Vernon, Ohio, is to the effect
that a crowd Of Office seekers has con
stantly beset him there, and that he ha
virtually been driven back ON Washing
ton. He will fnd goodly numbe
awaiting him here.
Cuba.
Important intelligence is expected
from Cuba during the coming zen days
There is no doubt that expeditions ar
still being fitted ont aud that arms ant
munitions of war are still being trans
ported from the United States to tn,
Cubans, and the Spaniards too.
General Badenu
General Badeau, Second Secretary o
the Legation at London, left here Sunday
night for New York, and will sail fol-
his destination on Saturday. The i'm
preston prevails that General Badeau''
mission abroad means more than is Gov
cred by his present appointment.
sunday school Visit.
The President received 1900 pupils Of
the South Washington Sabbath Schoo
in the East Room to day.
miscellaneous
A large crowd of visitors thronge,
the outer room of the Executive mau
sion this morning. Among those VIII
paid theft respects to the Presiden
were the Captain and officers of tn
French school ship Jean Bart. A del'
cation from . Baltimore associatiO
with reference to aiding and advisin
friends in North Carolina in referenC
to the establishment of schools.
The commission of Daniel +. Sickles
Minister to Spain, which was prepare
at the State Department, Saturday, wa
signed by President Grant to-day.
Nm Wheeler. of Minnesota. has bee