Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-28

should think extensively believed, though 1
cannot personally v0uch for its truth. But
some Of the clerks have told me that they did
attend to this kind Of business have also
been informed that those clerks enjoyed facil-
tiles for the transaction Of agency business,
which are denied 10 ordinary or outside agents.
Ii Is further asserted that the Commissioners
OF Pensions allows clerks not belonging to his
Office to take his official franked envelopes, in
which to enclose their agency or other papers.
| do not however believe these things are
known to the heads Of departments or would
DO sanctioned by them if known.
CsEsz JUSTICE.
We again declare there 10 not word Of
truth IN this ssory-not . single word Of truth
in it. 1t grows wholly out of the fact that Q
pension agent in this city took, without leave,
a package Of the envelopes of the Pension
Bureau, bearing its stamp bat not the Com
missioner's frank. This agent essaysd to use
them, and they wore sent to the bureau by
the postmaster Of Washington under the i'm.
preston that there had been mistake on the
Commissioners part in failing to frank them
Thus the discovery that they had been pur.
Joined was made, and the Commissioner in.
stantly struck the individuals name of the
list of agents with whom the bureau CORE
spends.
Bounty Land Warrant Forgsr
the session of the u S. Circuit Court recently
holden at st Louis, Mo-, the grand jury found
indictments against the following persons, fol-
presenting at the Pension Office fraudulen,
claims for bounty land warrants, viz: Dio.
genes Wetmore, Thaddeus K Wetmore, Mar.
Gus A. Wolff, John H. Stile and George G
Presbury. The aforesaid parties have given
bonds in the sum of $1,000 each for their ap.
|pearance at the next term of the court, to be
held in st. Louis in October next.
The New Kinney Exp ,dition.-The Attor-
ney General is said to have received this morn.
ing Intelligence of the indictment, In New
York, Of the parties concerned in getting up
the second Kinney expedition to Ni,sragus,
Col Kinney and Mr.. Commercial Agent Fa-
bens; 90 we have every confidence in the &C.
count Of the attachment, yesterday afternoon
Of the steamer United States, in which these
aimed colonists were soon to have sailed.
John Parham, who was under Indictment
for forging land warrant papers, at Knoxville
Tenn has absconded His bail (which i:
good) will be forfeited at the next session o!
the United States Court there.
A Superintendent Of Marble Wo-k.-Ws
10 I'm that Mr. Dougherty, late superintend.
ent Of the construction Of the Washington
Monument, has been rendered the post O.
superintendent Of tho marble work in the Goa.
struction CT the extension of the Post Office
building. A better selection could not have
been made.
Virginia Rev dictionary Bounty Land Scrip
If located on land graduated in price below
81 Is per acre, the ordinary minimum by act
of Congress, can only b: 70 taken up, acre for
acre. This is the substance of recent ruling
of the Interior Department.
DISMISSED First Lieut. GEORGE 4. S,;cer
and Third Lieut.. Robert G.. Auchincloss, U.
S. r. NJ, were dismissed from the service thi
morning.
Governor German -Washington IS, to. day,
full Of rumor that Gov. Willis A. German, of
Minnesota, has been removed We wero no.
able to verify this rumor this morning.
The Current Operations OF the Treasury
DepartmeDt.-0n yesterday, the 9th April,
there Ne;s OF Treasury Warrants entered on
the books Of the Department.
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