Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-17

The CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL DYER
HIS REMOVAL REQUEsTED.-Senator Howard
to-day sn omitted partial report of the inves-
ugauOn of the JOINT Committee on Ordnance
TIE report embodIes some more mporta Mt
points CT testimony. and a vast mass OF which
Is submitted and will be printed.
The report charges Gen. Dyer with being
corruptly Interested In contracts for supply
ing ordnance, and gives the evidence OF the
late ex Governor Ford, who was s.attornev
Tor certain KIND Of she'll called TIN Amste.--
Gam prolecLle, and who was one OF the owners
OF II, TO the effect that Dyer. upon having In
claim 10 u share Of the profits, about thirteen
per cent, recognized, awarded a contract TO
them Tor 2V'eUU OF these projectiles for army
Ford testified that though he and the other
parties claimed 10 own this shell, and General
Dyer set up a claim as its inventor, IL had never
been patented, was not different from projec-
tiles already in use, and there was nothing
winch could be subject 10 ownership or diyis.
Ion except The profits 10 b. received from a cor
rupt letting OF the contract. Mrs. A &. Dick
son, wife of one Of these contractors, who was
present al some OF the interviews with Over
testIfes 10 The same facts. L. also stated IN II
n company was organized in New York 10
raise s97,tU0 on the strength of this agreement
with General Dyer.
The committee charge General Dyer with
making numerous and costly experiments with
arms and proleetIies since the war, with a
view 70 his private emolumept; with neglect
ing and miSrepreSeEting useful inventions.
Of his department and different arsenaIs to
conceal his operations
They submit, In conclusion. the following
RssOtred 6y tie SeHats q the United States, (the
House of kepresentatiNe concurring) Tnat
the President be respectfully requested TO
remove brevet Major General a b. Dyer frsm
the position Of Chief OF Ordnance, War Depart-
meLt.
COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND
DUhB.-Mr. Morrill, of Maine from the Com
TItiee on Appropriations, reported to the
Senate to-day, with amendments, the House
Dill making appropriations for the service of
the Colombia Institution Tor the Instruction OF
OF the Deaf and Dumb. The amendment pro-
NIdes for an appropriation Of SCC,5U0 for the
support, clothing. medical and moral treat
ment Of the insane of the army. navy and reye-
nue-eutter service. and Of the INDECENT insane
OF the District OF Columbia in tbs Srovernmen mt
hospital of the DistrIet. For furnishing, light
Ing END heating The unfinished part of The east
wing OF The main hospital ediiiSs. S..OOG. For
the support of the institution. including AT gu
iSr BOOKS and liiustra,iye apparatus, sas,ooo
enlargement OF the grounds OF the
institution, in accordance with plans
heretofore submitted to Congress, 5000
For the support OF the asylum OF Columbia
Hospital for women and lying in asylum. over
and above The probable amount which will be
received from independent or pay patients,
SE,ttO. For the completion OF the Pro evidence
Hospital. in this city, S3O.Oc0. For the National
Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home, IN Wash.
Ington. $1,000. For earf, support and medi-
cal treatment of sixty transient paupers, medi-
cal and surgical patients IN some proper medi-
cal institution In Washington. under a con.
tract 10 be formed with such institution
>l2-tOU, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary.
TIE TREASURY BANKING RooN.-We find
the following paragraph in the last Floreace,
Italy, letter of the Boston Dcily Adrertiser:
1--WE also visited the studio OF Mr. L. G
Mead, Jr. II Is quite extensive, Consisting OF
tIeht OF ten rooms, and as he was Just finishing
the decorations for the new banking room Of
the Treasury Department at Washington, and
bad nearly an hundred men employed, IL pre-.
sebted quite brisk business appearance. The
sldes OF the banking room are 10 be Of poll he'd
yellow Siena marble, with pilasiers and Greek
eject Is very fns'
PkRsoNAL.-Senator Bayard, Of DE aware
sailed from New York on Wednesday in the
steamer China, for Europe. Mrs. Admiral
Dahlgren and family arrived al New York on
WEDNESDAY BY the steamer Rising Star, from
AsplnWan, en route TO this city. ....Miss
Cnarfo.f Cusnman left here last evening for
cape may. Hon. John Pool, N. G, is At
the Eooitt House Professor Gold vim
Smith, late OF Oxford University is coming 10
this country 10 accept the Professership of
English and General Constitutional History in
Cornell IN. ~ University.
ACTING FIRST ASSISTANT ESeISEKR John
T. MCKAY has been detached from duty in
the Bureau Of Steam Engineering at thu Navv
Department, and placed ON leave prior to dis.
charge.
INTERNAL REvrsrE--The receipts TODAY
from thI. source were s4se,ls7.ss.