Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Custom Receipts Denies Being
Radical
Clerks Discharged Secretary Stan
ton Sued-He Will be Over
whelmed with Suits.

Whelmed with Sults.
Special Dispatch 10 the Republican va
WAsHIs0rnS, August "a The receipts
from customs ior the ports of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Balti
more. for the month ending the 18th inst
were 81. 500, 900 The receipts at New
Orleans ior the week, ending the lott
inst. were nearly $500, 900, making {
total of receipts at the five ports for on'
week, over Si,000i00O in gold The
aggregate receipts in these ports FOL
the month are expected to reach nearly
ST ,0OO0 00 Atl
Mr.. j j Combs, member of the Ma
tionaI Union Executive Committee
whose name appears at the head of lis
of callers OF meeting Of said commit
lee 70 be held at the Continental Hote
q Philadelphia, on Monday next, denies
that he ever signed or authorized any
other person to sign his name to said
call, and wholly disapproyes it
Twenty clerks were to-day discharged
from the Ordnance Bureau, it being in
tended to permanently reduce the cler-
zeal force of the Bureau. A reduction
Of the clerical force of the Commissary
Bureau is also about to be made
The Freedmen's Bureau are in the re-
ceipt Of highly favorable reports from the
Assistant Commissioner Of Charles
county, Mary land, and Prince Williams
county, Virginia. They report an i'm.
proved feeling between the whites and
blacks Many complaints are made
against the negroes for violating their
contracts, which in many cases is true,
as most of the contracts are merely YER
bal instead Of being made in legal
form Where they have been fairly dealt
with and receive fair equivalent for
thrir labor, their employers report them
to be industrious and faithful to their
agreement No complaints of serious
nature and few Of frivial nature have
been made either to the Bureau or TO the
civil authorities. $40
The publication Of the fact that a suit
has been commenced by Smithson, the
banker, resident Of the District, against
Secretary Stanton, for damages arising
from his arrest, confinement, imprison-
ment and conviction before a military
commission at Baltimore, is apparently
making more trouble for Mr. Stanton
1t is understood that since the publica-
ton Of the legal documents in the case,
another suit has been brought on similar
ground, and there is a prospect that the
Secretary viii be overwhelmed with suits
of this nature. It was intended to have
kept the matter quiet until the case was
brought on for trial. but a correspondent
getting hold Of copies of the papers,
thought them Of public interest and pub
lished them.
Mr.. Spinner, Treasurer Of the United
States, will tomorrow issue a circular TO
Assistant Treasurers, Designated Depos-
tories, and officers OF National Banks,
designated as such, calling attention to
the circular Of November ~, 1864, which
enjoins that in cancellation of coupons
care be taken not TO punch from the
same either numbers or dates Much
trouble has arisen from disregard Of this
injunction. II has undetermined that
hereafter all coupons from which either
the date or number has in any way been
removed. win be returned 10 the parties
renting them, and payment thereon
withheld until the date or numbers shall
be established BY afidavits or other sat
isfactory proof W tff