Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-06-19

DIsNIssALs AT THE TREAsURY-T hree
female and two male clerks were dismi issed
from he First Comptroller's Office, rrea sary
Department, this morning. One OF them vas,
Prof. Donald Mcleod.
COMMISSIONER DELAHO this morning re-
ceived letter from ST. Louis, Mo, enclos ng
$50. which the writer said belonged to l he
Government under a recent decision of I he
Revenue department.
MORE WORK PoR THE MsssRNGRRs.-Iu
consequence of the heavy reduction made in
the appropriation bills, at the last session OF
Congress, for pay Of laborers in the Treasury
Departmental has become necessary to have the
work Of cleaning and sweeping the rooms in
the Department performed by the messengers,
and they will be required to perform that duty
after the lst Of July next.
BIDS WERE OPENED at the Interior Depart
msnt to-day, for furnishing the Department
and various bureaus thereof with stationery
for the next fiscal year. The bidders were as
follows:-Dempsey Il O'Toole, Blanchard &
MOhup, Coyle & Towers, ana Philip & Solo,
mons, OF Washington, ID. c. Cobb, Andrews &
Co., Of Cleveland, Ohio; p. H. Durham and
Woolworth X Graham, Of Eew York; Dewitt
Bogardus and John u. Parks, OF Philadelphia.
The contract will be awarded In the course of
a few days.
GEN. ST. JOHN B. l.. SKINNER, late First
Assistant Postmaster General, has met with q
serious accident in Plattsburg, New York, ct
Tocquet's Hotel, where he madc misstep ali
fell the length OF flight of stairs, turning a
complete summersault in the tall. HIS inlu-
ries consist Of a broken ligamert in the wrist
and dislocated Joint, with bruises over his en-.
tire body. The General went to PIattsburg.
his former home, to -ecuperate and prepare
himself for the business of claim agent in this
city, intending TO return here In September.
SENATOR RAMSEY will leave sEor Europe
with his family. by the steamship Cambria, of
the New York and Hamburg line, On Tuesday,
23d inst. He is Chairman OF the United States
Senate Committee on Postal Affirs, and has
been appointed ny Postmaster General Cres-
well Special Commissioner on the part of the
United States to negotiate with the Post Office
DeI artment Of France the basis Of new postal
convention between the two countries. senator
Ramsey is emineEtly qualified for the dis.
charge Of the trust reposed in him.
SEIZURES OF ILLtcIT STILLs.-Reports re-
ceived at the Internal Revenue ONCE from
officers In Virginia, East Tennessee, and North
Carolina state that sixty illicit stills have been
seIzed IN the mountains OF those sections. As
the work OF the officers in these localities is
very dangerous, Commissioner Delano will
ask the aid OF an armed force to enforce the
law. The business Of Illicit dIstilling is car
ried on very extensively, the stills being port.
able and frequently moved to different points
IN the mountains.
CUBA AND THE CABISBT.-Upon the return
of the President 1t is understood that a meeting
~
affairs; matters on that Island having taken q
turn lately making 1t necessary for the Gov.
ernment to determine upon q definite policy
which will govern all United States officials in
different sections Of the Union. There is no
truth in the statements that Secretary Fish was
instrumental in the recent Cuban arrests in
New York city, as that official had nothing to
do with the arrests, either directly or lndi.
rectly.
ASSAULTS ON REVENUE OFFICERS IN PHIL.
ADBLPHIA-MoRB FORCE WANTED TO EN-.
FORCE THE LAws.-lnformation has been
received at the Internal Revenue Department
from Supervisor Southworth and Detective
Heilman, of Philadelphia, Of an attack upon
the Revenue officers in the notorious Old
Richmond District, by parties engaged in run.
ming Illicit stills and defrauding the Revenue
Department; over five hundred men, women,
and children having attached the officers with
stones while they were engaged in breaking up
Illicit stills. Commissioner Delano will ad.
dress a letter to the Secretary Of the Navy
asking the aid Of an armed force Of marines
and to the Attorney General, asking for U. S.
Marshal's posse TO aid the officers in breaking
mp these Illicit stills, and bringing the often.
ders TO justice.
THI CASE OF WILLIAM T. SMrrHsoN
AG EN
court reports it will be seen that the case of ".
T. Smithson agt. ex-Secretary Stanton was
before the Circuit Court to-day On the motion
Of plaintiffs counsel Judge Hughes) for the
production of the original papers and letters
set forth in the defendants pleas. The motion
was argued at considerable length and Judge
Wylie reserved his decision. The plainud
sues defendant for $4,000 damages and sets
forth that Stanton, in 1868, while Secretary
OF War, caused him to be imprisoned
in Fort Lafayette, where he remained four
months. and was then released, there being
no grounds for holding him. That after.
wards Stanton caused his arrest as q spy, had
him tried before court-martial, and he was
sentenced to five years. imprisonment
and sent to Albany penltentiary, where he re.
NAMED one year, and ives released BY Presi.
dent Lincoln. That in the meantime his pro.
perty was seized and his family turned out of
house and dispossessed OF furniture. Plaintiff
alleges that there WASH ground the Tor the pro-
ceedipgs and that letters used on the trial were
forgeries and got mp expressly to make the case
against him, and his counsel moves that original
be brought into court for inspection. The de.
fense, in answer. alleges tia: plaintiff. At the
time Of his arrest, acted as spy and anancia,
agent of the Confederates; that he( Stanton )caus
ed the arrest, and, by advice Of the Judge Advo
cate, had plaintiff tried. a. alleged; tha, eject
ne from property was under act OF Congress-
July IL, 1867; that defendant 10 protected from
this prosecution BY the fourth section Of act of
Congress, March J, 1863.
~The club system OF boarding adopted by
come of the students in the Missouri State
University at Colombia is an enIlre success.