The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-22
FROM WASHING TON.

WAsHINeToN, Oct. 2i.--Mr. King, counsel for
Olmstead, the defaultng discussing clerk In the
Post-office Department, had an interview with the
Secretary of the Treasury to-day to arrange for the
release of his client bail The Secretary has fixed
the amount of bail at low figure, making It but
fraction of the sum for which heis defaulter and
1t Is expected that his friends will obtain this
amount and procure his release to day. An exam-
nation has been waived hitherto to give oppor-
tunity to get bail, and because Olmstead is in a
condition of nervous excitement bordering on in
sanity. 1t Is expected that the plea of insanity will
be set up by his counsel when the case comes up
Military Orders for Texas.
Breyet Major General Reynolds, commanding
directing an election to be held in the counties of
Falls Bell and McLennan, Texas, on the 9th 10th
and 18th of November next, for one delegate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF w. E. Oakes,
and TO represent said counties in the Constitutional
Convention called under act of March %, 1867.
Appointments.
George II. Benners, Twentieth Pennsylvania
District Gaugers-Beniamin F. Campbell and
Ira ID. Sankey, Twentyfourth Pennsylvania Dis
trict, and Joseph Allen, First Pennsylvania Dis
trIct.
Naval Orders.
Paymaster g. p. wallack has been ordered
TO the receiving ship Nandalia. Passed Assist
at New Orleans. Paymaster b. j. Cahoone is de-
tached from the yandaIia and ordered to settle ac-
New Orleans upon his own application.
Army Orders.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Barton Randall, sur
geon, being over CO years of age, has been, by
direction of the President, relieved from active
service,
st. Thomas.
The United States Consul at st. Thomas notifies
the Department of State that, in consequence of
the cattle disease in several parts of the United
States of North America, this government has
strictly prohibited the importation of horned cattle,
any portion of such animals, whether dried
or picked, until further notice.
Proposed Discharge of Clerks.
Lists are now being prepared at the Registers
Office of the Treasury Department of the female
clerks employed in that branch of the service with
a view of making considerable reduction of the
force at the end of the present month. There is
now SO little work for portions of them whose duty
consists in counting and sorting coupons that num-
bers have been furloughed 1t is thought that at
least 10 will be dismissed on the list of NovemberSB
Seymour and Blair.
special Dispatch to the New York Evening Post.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-The Democratic muddle,
involving the question whether Seymour and Blair
shall withdraw from the contest, grows more in
terestng. The official announcement from the
White House to-day-that the National Executive
Committee will issue address recommending that
the electors already nominated be voted for with
out reference to Seymour and Blair or without i'm
sructions to cast the electoral vote for any political
canddate-has set the political cauldron boiling
again. Leading Democrats here openly assert that
if the Executive Committee issue such an address,
they will withdraw from the canvass altogether,
give their support to Grant.
Southern Democratic papers received to-day vir-
tually give up the contest.
The Richmond Dispatch of yesterday says, in re-
gard to the proposition to change the candidates,
that it has already done all the harm it do and
has, by one fell blow destroyed all the Democrats
prospects of success.