The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-22
South Carolina Plantations.
DEATH OF GENERAL CANDY,
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The Secretary OF the treasury has sent to the
heads of the several Bureaus Of his Department
circular requiring the office hours, from O'Clock
In the morning to O'Clock in the afternoon, to be
strictly Observed the intervening time to DC de-
voted diligently TO labor. This action on the
] part of the Secretary is to coue,t the irrsga-
larities, which he has noticed with regret.
The Secretary says he has been much ammo cd
by applications appointments founded on state
meDts made BY cIerks and others, that there were
4 Vpcsncies to be filled, and designating those
i vacancies. He therefore gtves notice that 10 is
DO part Of the duty OF clerks or others in tue D.
paTtment TO give either informltion or advice
on such point.
\ All vacancies are reported to the Assistant
Il Secretary, and will be filled as the Secretary may
determine. He will regard any further in,erfer-
! ence Of this cha-aste- Gs sufficient cause for
dismissal.
& While sitting these grounds Of complaint, the
Secretary cheerfuy bears testimony to the
sprOmp:ness and faithfalness with which, as a
general rule, the business Of The Department has
\ been conducted
The Cnurt OrVIalms.
The United States Court Of Cl .ms was opened
yesterday, but adjourned over t. December. Oaly
i one Judge was prasen., Judge Loring. Jtdg,
! Peck is sick, and Judges Casey, Hughes, and
Wilmot are absent from the city.
Judge Carron, of the United States Supreme
! COurt, Writ hither from Nashville, stating that
he will nos be able to be in this city at the OPEN
l ing Of the Court in December.
LeHsinS Cotton Plantations
The South Carolina Tan Commissioners will
commence leasing cotton plantations at Hl:ou
T1Iead ON the An of December.
C"ntRsted EIrcitoal Cases.
4 Mr. Dodge, Of New York, who ran aginst
Brooks, Of the Express, tor Congress, is taking
evidence for contest There viii DO one con-
tested case fIom Pennsylvania
War Department.
Secretary Stanton is again az the Department
te-oay, attending to his official duties, Whlyeycr
may be the knowledge or desires OF others, rhe
irepreSsbe Secretary has himself had no Idea,
iutmauon, or expectation Of leaving the Cabinet.
she CtcinpI.
It's said that, in forming his new Cabinet, Mr..
Lincoln will pay espe,a regard 20 tho qua tie,
4 OF business energy, quick perception, prl Hcal
Judgment, and high executive and administrative
4 ability. In short his past four years experience
has taught him 70 prefer little stronger tiuctu,o
of the young America element. Tais dotermi-
nati viii bar all oftla age Of Robert J. Walker
General CHHhy.
The report Of the death Of General Candy,
while not officially verified, is, nevertheless.
feared to be true at The War Department. Gen.
Candy has been one OF the most faithful AMI
useful public servants the Government has had,
and since his advent at New Orleans has stood
like wall of fire between the Government and
the cotton traders su Gar dealers and pII SORTS f
YpeculatOrs and speculators and his loss at this
time is public calamity.
II has transpired that General Banks advent
here had for its special object the removal 0
General Candy. He has been backed by nearly
all the trading aud specuating interests of the
Southern Department. His stay here developed
the effort to have him made Secretary Of War, on
/ the part Of certain parties who became alarmed q
the possibility Of General Butler beiug appointed
+ to thar position.
Sbermnn's Movements
General Rawlings, Grants Chief Of STAFF, tele.
graphs that there is great panic in Richmond,
caused by the movements of Sherman.
General burnside.
General Burnside was at the Presidents and
War Office yesterday.
A Corps Abolished.
An order has been promulgated Gbolishiug the
10th Corps. General Emory is to report 10 the
Commander of the Military Division of the
Mississippi
Census of Civilians.
heJor-General Foster has ordered the Provost
haT'hal'General Of the Department of the South
10 take complete census of all the civilians
within the military lines of that Department.