Evening star., 1869-08-10

| RESIGNATION AoCIP rID The President ha
accepted the resignation Of Second Lisu:enap
WIN. Z. Rogers, Engineer Corps.
SENATOR FOWLER, Of Tennessee, who is now
mere, gives IL as his opinion that ex. Presiden
| andrew johnson Will not be elected to succeed
MIN in the United States Senate.
| The EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES before
| the Navy Court Martial in the trial OF Surgeon
Green was concluded yesterday. The argu.
ments were in progress to-day.
| THH STHAMRR AsCUTHRY which has beer
lyirg At the Navy Yard for some months na,
been sold to Mr.. Richey. OF Boston, at private
sale, and she left to-day for Alexandra to coal
preparatory to her departure from these
| waters.
A COMMITTEE Of the Pennsylvania Republi.
can State Central Committee on Saturday yisi.
ted Secretaries Robeson and Rawlins, to re-
quest the discharge from ofice Of q num,er O,
Dsmocratic politicians in the Phi, ,adelphfa
Navy Yard, the Arsenal and other Govern.
nent establishments
The LAST or FORT CeRCoRAN.-The wood
WORK and debris of this fort, SO we'll known
during the late war. and located on the Vir.
ginia heights, north Of Arlington have been
purchased from the Government by w. W
DUNCAN, Esq, who will have the fort lie yehas
at once, preparatory to laying oat the site in
building lots.
Army OFFICERS RELIEVED FROM Duty AS
INDIAN AGKNTs.-Special Order, No. 1911 inst
issued from the War Department, directs thar
the following named officers be relieved from
duty as Indian Superintendents and Agent.
Major Henry Douglass, Brevet NJ a,or T. Ten
Eyck, Brevet Lieut.. Colonel c. H. Carlton.
Brevet Major c. 1. Wilson, Brevet Lieut.. Col
Edmund Rice, First Lieutenants GEORGE n
Zeigler, j. X. Byers, w. w. FIem ming, and
VIM. K Maize, and Second Lieutenant C. T.
Speer.
ORDERED TO DUTY AT WRer PoINr.-Tbe
following named officers have been ordered tn
report for duty to the Superintendent of the
military Academy at West Point Can't. Gar.
rett j. Lydecker, Engineer Corps; First
Lleutenants X. y. Churchill, ith ARTILLERY;
WIN. Starring. 9TH Infantry; J. NJ. Marshall
I'D InfGntry; ID. w. Payne Engineer Corps
Second Lieutenants Henry Metcalfe, Ordnance
Department; Robert Fletcher, Ist ARTILLERY.
Albert II. Payson and f. w Bass, Engineer
Corps.
APPolNTNRNTs.-The President to-6av
made the following appointments
y. M. Felix Petard U. S. Consul at Stras.
burg.
Robert Hawley Postmaster at Williamport,
Pa; Charles Z. Bristol, Postmaster at Anson,a.
N. Y; Michael ]. Griffith, Postmaster at
Fredericksburg, Va, vice Chas Williams sus.
pended
Nathan Blakely to be Receiver of Public
Mo0eys for the district OF lands subject 10 sale
al Beatrice, Nebraska.
the duties OF Chief Of the Bureau OF Nayiga-
ton during the absence of Commodore James
Alden.
Commodore NJ. Smith, to perform the duties
OF Secretary OF the Navy during the absence
OF Secretary Robesen.
william Emmerson, to be Collector of Cus-
TOMS for the district OF Genesee NJ Y, vice
Thomas Parsons, suspended
the Seconu - ~
direction of the Secretary of War, the atten-
tion CT officers of the army is called by Gene
raj Order No. 81, just issued from the head
quarters OF the army, to the statement of the
former, that the practice OF drawing pay
twice for the same time and refunding at some
subsequent period has lately been of such
frequent recurrence, and is perpetrated under
such circumstances, as to preclude the suppo-
sitior Of inadyertence or mistake, but rather
account contains the certificate that the oaicsr
has not already received pay for the same pc.
rod. If, therefore, an officer signs two sets
OF pay accounts for the same month, one set
must be false and II the name and facts reach
the headquarters OF the army, as they surely
will through the Paymaster General, (see
paragraph 1879, General Regulations,) the
officer will be tried by a general court martial,
under the 18th Article Of War.
tn WORK OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE
BuRBAU.-The article in the STAR of yester.
day, headed mo Temporary Clerks" in which
1t is stated that Com missioner Delano recently
applied for more clerical assistance for his
office, adding that he must have it, and that the
only way to obtain it was to appoint tempor-
ary clerks and present a deficiency bill at the
next session Of Congress for their payment,
was based upon erroneous information.
The facts are these: The Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue, finding the clerical force
employed in his office insufficient 10 bring up
work, and finding also that a considerable
number of the clerRships authorized by law
for his bureau were filled by clerks employed
in another office, applied TO the Acting Secre-
tary OF The Treasury for the restoration to the
Office of Internal Revenue Of the clerkships
which had been divested from it as above
stated, which application was approved by
the acting Secretary. The Commissioner has
net asked the employment of temporary clerks,
neither does he wish such appointments,
believing the force already authorized by law
sufficient for the wants Of his ONCE.