Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-20


ton. Not single additional bushel Of wheat.
or bale Of cotton goods, or box Of friction
matches. is exported, and not single ad.
ditional sail-bost of ten tons Is built anywhere
in the United States. withou. imperceptibly in.
creasing the amount of labor to be performed
in the government departments at Washinrtop
Congress has, of late been exceedinglyunwill-
ing to allow an increase of clerical forcsfn anv
bureau; which has, in turn, compelled those
responsible for their management to studv
closely how thsir methods of transacting bust.
ness, Gan be improved, until matters have
come to 20 on like clock-w2rk here. There
never before was n time when all the en-
ployes of the Government in Washington
were Kept so steadily employed, and when it was
SO utterly impossible for any to shirk work
Registers are kept In avery Office of the amount
of business or work done by eachiaf Its en-
ployes, and when one Is found To lag he.
hind in the discharge Of the duties for which
he receives pay from the Government, be he
whom he may, he is promptly notified that his
derelictian has come under the cegnisanSc of
his chief, and that its sepstition will surely
cause him the Toss of his Office This warning
is now invariably followed by his removal in
case 1t ptoves insufficient to spur him up to
the proper discharge of his duties. --
An Interesting set Of Tables.-We under
stand that tho Secretary of the Treasury is
causing to be prepared comparative state
ment Of the working of the tariff Of 1915, of
the operation of the rates under the bill as
prepared and reported by the Committee of
Ways and Means, and under the provisions
changes of the existing law which he recon-
nendsd in lieu Of tho; reported as above
mentioned. The importations of each article
for the fiscal year ending June go, 1853, and,
again, the average annual importations for
the six years ending on that date, are taken
as the basis of these inter esting calculations.
This is doing the work thoroughly, and will
afford Congress, at the next session. an oppor-
tunity to act upon the proposition to alter the
rates of duties With better light before their
eyes than ever before The task, however,
turns out to be an herculean labor.
The Columbus Bank Defalcation.-Iti ia I'm.
derstood at the Treas ary Department that the
Governments suit against the City Bank of
Coluno US, Ohio, is now undergoing final
trial at Columbus, Ohio, before the. United
States District Court. The claim is for
100000 deposited with that bank, under one
of Mr.. Secretary Corwin's transfer drafts,
which are held by the present authorities of
the Treasury Department to have been illegal.
A Resignation from the Marine Corps.-We
learn on the Avenxe, that Brevet Major
Archibald I'll. Gillespie, of the Marine corps,
has resigned. His resignation is said to have
grown out of his difficulty with the ward room
(mess) officers of the Independence, which re-
Gently got into the New York newspapers,
over the signature Of the latter.
a Mistake The United States have not
directed prosecution under the Sub Treasury
law to be commenced against Mr. Jacob Al.
rioks late Collector of the Customs at Will
mington, Del, as alleged by many persons in
Washington. The balance claimed as due
from him is but some 81 500. The suit to be
entered against him is a civil suit He entered
office in 184I.
The Current Operations Of this Treasury
Experimentation yesterday, the 18th of Oct,
.hotc 8sro Of Treasury Warrants entered on
tho books of the Department