The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-06-24

avs OF Onc D1r. Auam--CptCeHS.
The following, in addition to the
correspondence which has already TIA
ken place between Commissioner Rol-
Inns and the Secretary of the Treasury
concerning the recent letter of resigna-
ton of the former, was on Saturday
sent to Mr. Rollins, Endorsed upon the
communication, which was again re-
turned:
This communication is partial, be-
cause it attributes the present deranged
condition of the Internal Revenue SER
vice to the removals and appointments
made by the President, while it must
be clear to the mind of the commission
err that this demorolization is attributa-
BE in part to the anlagonism between
the Executive and Legislative branches
of the Government which has prevent
ed harmony of action between them
in regard to appointments and to the
Tenure of Office act, but mainly to the
high cuties upon Distilled spirits, to-
bacco, &C., which have created an ir-
resistib:e temptation to fraud on the
part Of manufacturers dealers and 9th
ers.- 1t is incorrect in that when it
| alleges that the numerous recommend
ations of the Commissioner for the re-
movals of Assessors and Collectors, ven
for the grossest~ misconduct, had been
always disregarded, while the truth is
that in all cases in which recommend
atoms for removals were accompanied
| by evidence of incomplete ,cy or mis-
demeanor on the part oc the officers, the
recommendations were promptly re-
spoDded to by the President it is un-
just and disrespectful to the President.
because the records Of the Bureau show
that me faffing or OF The ~re7enues in
the districts in which renewals were
made by the President in 1866 were
not comparatively greater ttan in the
districts il which 20 change took place !,
that in fact the revenue of the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1867, during
which the removals were entirely
satisfactory, coming up very closely to
the liberal estimate of the Department;
whilc the Generalization of the service
and the decline of the have
chiefly occurred during the present
fiscal year, long after the officers re-
moved by the President had been re-
instated or others whose nominations
had been approved by the Serate had
taken the places of The appointees of
the President. 1t was for these reasons
and no others, that the communication
could not be received, and it was return
ed to the Commissioner. The return
of it is also justified by the fact that
copies Of it were sent to the Press be-
fore it was handed to the Secretary
1t must therefore have been intended
for the files of the Department.
HUGH MCCULLocH.
Secretary Of the Treasury.
Treasury Department, june ID, 1868.
During the prevalence of the storm
on Friday last. says the Lima Gazette,
the wife and three chilrcn of George.
May, of Jackson township, who had
been out visiting at a neighbours and
were on their return home, took refuge
under a tree. The fury Of the wind
alarmed them, and the mother deeming
it unssfe to remain, started the two old
er children ahead, and taking up the
babe, about eighteen months old, foll-
owed them. just as she had started.
the tree unber which they had taken
refuge, blew over, catching her and the
child in her arms in its branches, kill
ing them almost instantly. One of the
other children was also struck by some
of the branches, and slightlHa hurt.
The funeral of Mrs. May and child was
laIgerly attended on Sunday last
Shell.
Mr.. Bergh writes a letter to Mayor
Hoffman, of New York, which contains
the following remarks on hydrophobia.
In compliance with your polite re-
quest, I condense a few statistics, which
| have translated from the reports of
societies, in relation to hydop-
hobia in dogs. The distinguished
Psychologists, Dupuytren, Buchet Ma
gendia and others affirm that they have
put dogs and cats in an enclosure to-
.ether, and there kept them without
food or water until they devoured one
another without hyropphobia ever de-
veloping itself. Moreover that they
have subjected them to a contin-
nous annoyance, with a view to pro-
them to madness. without eff
feet and have furnished them foul
water apd flesh of the most unhealthy
md corrupt qrality, with like result.
The foregoing naturalists, along with
he great Italian physician CapsIlo,
1cluding the entire College of Veter-
mary Surgeons of Abort, declare that
spontaneous hydrophobia has its origin
n the unsatisfied sexual desires of the
male. The continued use OF bones as a
iiet. owing to the PHOSPHORUS which
hey contain, augments this desire.
Froissart and others maintain that it is
he males only which are subject to
pontaneous rabies, and recommend
hat this sex only be killed
The VETERINARY School OF Lyons assert
hat dogs are more liable to madness {
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