Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-06-21
yHE PRINTERS IMBROGLIO.
'>Au Qaiet'' at the Government Office.
Dismissal and Resignations.
''Jshnny'' Burns Says He Will Not Work
with the Nesre Any Longer.

After tie exciting meeting of the Columo oia
night, IL was natural TO suppose that some ex-
element would still prevail to-day; but the
sequel has shown that, while some changes
have been made ar the Government Once, We
there has been no interruption of work there
and the downtown" hands are also at their
posts In as large numbers as is usual on Mon
day mornings. Of course, the interval between
employment hours is filled up with the discus
SION of the subject, and the anti and pro- Dong
lassites bvth figure up ap eventual victory
when the issue is arrived at.
visit to the Government Office this p. m.
found Mr.. Lewis IL. Douglass, the colored
standing at his case" with several of the
white "jours' clustered around engaged In
quiet con versation; but as soon as the afternoon
whistle blew, the hands all repaired to their
" stands" and soon nothing was heard but the
busy little click of the printers type as they
slipped through the compostors' fingers into
the stick" and the impatient gestures and
exclamations Of some of the " select few en-.
gagged on the more intricate work Of rule and
figure, whose columns would not justify or
"tumbled into pi.''
who bad lost both legs, and is we'll known as a
"pi setter and distributor in the document
room, appeared, wheeled up in his small car
riage as usual, but not for work. He formally
presented his resignation as an empIoye there,
accompanying the same with the remark, "TU
work no longer with the negro" Afterwards
casting no very amiable glances to Douglass as
he passed his s.stand."
In the specification room Mr.. w. A. Ems.
minger. was discharged this morning by Capt
A. ID. Brock, assistant foreman, under instruc-
tlons OF Col Otis, head foreman of the general
printing department. Mr.. Ensmtnger on yot-
ing Saturday night at the society against laying
the minority report on the table, which was
adverse to the application of Mr.. Douglass,
was at the time appiauded by cheers and
clappIng Of hands.
Messrs Joseph e. Ratcliffe and M. 7. Mel.
ligan rendered their designations this morning
as employees IN the '.lob'' room.
No formal meeting Of the hands in this estab-
Ishment TOOK place to day, though 1t is expect
ed that some concert of future action will be
determined on at an early day.
SEIZURES BY INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICERS
Information has been received at the Internal
Revenue Office of the seizure of 10000 cigars
and about $1,000 worth OF machinery in New
Haven, Connecticut, belonging to the National
Tobacco and Cigar Manufacturing Company
Of that place.
THE PROPOSED REDUCTION OF FORCE IN
THE WAR DErARTMENT.-No further action
has been taken by Secretary Rawlins in refer
ence to the reduction OF force in the War De-
partment or bureaus thereof, and it is not prob
able that the matter will be definitely settled
before Wednesday or Thursday. As stated in
THE STAR OF Thursday last the reduction will
not be so great as it was at first thought, on
account Of the necessity of having as many as
possible in order to keep up the public busi-
ness. The recent order directing the resump.
tion of recruiting service has greatly augment
ed the business Of the Adjutant Generals
Office, and should the force be reduced much
the business In that Office will get behindhand
EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CLERKs.-The
fifty three female clerks who have been desig-
mated for appointments as copyists and readers
OF proof and copy in the Patent Office, assem-
bled to-day in the basement Of the west wing
OF that building for examination as to their
capacity for those duties. 1t is contemplated &c
place all the female clerks employed in the
Patent Office in six rooms which have been
fitted mp on the ground floor OF the west wing
where they will be in charge OF Miss Mary
Capan, of Massachusetts, who will have con-
troll OF that department. The examination has
been going on all day, the result in each case
beng transmitted to the Commissioner for his
action. One Of the applicants on presenting
herself for examination stated frankly that she
could not pass, as she never went to school a
day in her life, was married at the age of four.
teen and could not read or write.
APPoINTMBNTIN THE POST OPPICE DRPART-
MRNT.-Philip A. Tracy has qualified tor a
clerkship (drst.class) in the Appointment
Office, rice George X. Shaw, removed. Frank
A. Doud is appointed SI,2OO clerk in the Con-
tract ONCE, rics Hugo Rothe, resigned J. q.
Foster has been appointed first.class clerk in
the Appointment ONCE, to fill a vacancy. The
following route agents have been appointed
Paul Morell, Jr., J. Figuiere, T. v. ulian,W
j. Cowan, and Josiah H. Gibbs, between
Sacramento and Promontory Point: John w.
Barney, from Macon to Atlanta, Georgia;
Henry T. Dugau, from st. Louis to Pilot Knob,
Missouri; A. NJ. Kendall. from Springfield to
Bellows Falls, Mass; Gideon B. Summers