Wilmington journal., 1869-09-03
DIR WASHINGTON LETTER.

~scrctary RawIfns-TOnry. the Chemist,
and Judge lolt-The Revenue Marine
Seryice-Arrangesnent with Indians AoT
Fractional Currency-The Strike
of Plate Printers.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. %, 1869.
Secretary Rawlins arrived here day be-
fore yesterday in a very feeble state OF
health. suffering from recent hemorrhage.
He was at the War Department for short
time yesterday, and expressed himself as
feeling better. trust he will take this
opportunity of resigning position I know
he does not care to occupy. thereby re-
lieving the Administration of the only
Conservative man in it, SO it may the
more readily and sooner "go to the
dogs
The Washington correspondent of the
New York " Herald" says: Tonry, the
vounp chemist, who married Miss Annie
Surratt here few months ago, and who
WAS dismissed from the Surgeon Generals
Office therefor, has accepted q lucrative
n0siti6n in Kansas. 1t said that prior to-
his departure Tonry was offered IA position
fused to accept" The truth of the matter
IS tins. Some Radicals. in prominent
POSITIONS, thoroughly disgnsted with the
unntterahle meanness and petty spite of
Holt, who is haunted daily and nightly hy
the avenging phantom of the innocent
woman he so cruelty, wantouly and bar
farousIy murdered. approached MIR
ronry amt inquired if he would
accept his old position MIR. Tunry
Indignantly declined. They then asked
hlm If he would take IL place III
i government Department if offered him.
Mr. Tonry refused very promptly. Judge
Advocate Holt would, if he had the power,
hang Mr.. Tonry for marrying Miss Sur
r.tt, llateud of offering him 1t clerkship.
trust that Holt will live II few years
'onger, until the country gets settled and
reason once more returns to the minds of
our people | want to soc him tried by u
Tlry Of his cOuntrymen for murder. aud
,xecutcd therefor. / am opposed to capi
tai punishment, but | think the interests
If humanity would be suDservod by the
hanging of Il monster, who, by this lnfa-
nous and brutal murder, has Justly put
himself out Of the pale of humanity, and
IS O. social outlaw whom it would not be
4 greatcrime i'll any one to Kill on sight
The regulations governing the revenue
marine service, now undergoing Careful
revision, will be presented to Congress at
IT'S next session, III the form OF IL bill. Up
10 the present time these regulations We're
dependent upon the Secretary Of the
Treasury, whose will was law Ill such cases,
aud hence tue Inconsistencies IN them. 1t
- said that au effort will be made to revise
the revenue service III OTtteF TO dtSchd1,ge all
Ire Democratic O0icers nOtC employed Merein.
Partisan malice and partisan zeal cannot
20 much further.
At last We have received Intelligence
that the first practical effort to secure
peacc with the Indians IS likely to succeed.
commissioner Parker, of the Indian
Bureau, has intelligence to tho effect that
Mcssrs, Brunot and Dodge, of the lnde-
uendent Indian Commission, have sue.
reoied in making arrangements with the
Chief of the Arrapahoes, and Cheyennes to
nave all the nothern Cheyennes brought
IN and located upon their reservations. 1t
is thought this, when fully accomplished,
will FREQ Southern Kansas entirely from In
dian troubles. The independent Indian
Commission Will be entitled to the thanks of
the tax payers of the country, if Of no other
persons, provided this plan works WE'LL
But | am afraid the inexorable logic of
The Inherent antagonism of race will frus-
trate all such schemes, and that we shall
not have peace until the redskins are ami
hilated. The Cheyennes and other In
dians of the plains, are essentially differ
ent from the Atlantic coast aborigines and
cannot live in harmony by the side of the
whites.
The great trouble in regard to the frac
tional currency seems to have been settled
at last Yesterday the American Bank
NOte Companies sent sixty thousand dol
lars in fractional currency to the Printing
l;ureau of the Treasury. Nineteen thous-
and dollars were in twenty-five cent notes,
which, with the substitution of fine Wig
nette of Washington in place of the por-
trait of female clerk in the Treasury, is
Identical III appearance with the fifteen cent
notes. The fifty cent currency will be ready
for circulation on Thursday next. Next
week the bank note companies promise to
supply the Secrctary's demand for two
hundred thousand dollars daily. The strike
between the plate printers and the compa-
nies has not yet terminated. The Presi-
dent of the plato printers union in New
lork sent the following dispatch yesterday
afternoon to this city Negotiations 60
ing on. We will stand if the company
don't comply with our original demand" Z"
Shortly after another despatch was re-
ceyed to the effect 1.-The company Will
not treat with us unless we return to our
presses. We refuse to a man. We stand
firm" The end OF the business will be
that the treasury will buy moro presses and
print its own money again. But par pa
r~ntte>e, was itinct rumored several months
ago, as | mentioned in my letters, that the
bank note companies had certain hold
upon the Secretary of the Treasury, and III
compliance with their demand, gave them
the contract of printing the government
money. Is the hold relaxed The " Ma
tional Republican of this morning the
organ of Secretary Boutwell-says in
semi whining, semi-defiant tone, "The
Bank Note Printing Companies dictate
terms to the Secretary of the Treasury -
What will MIR. Boutwell, do q?