Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-14

FPOSfmASTEkS 10 TAE FRONT.
The revenue collectors have been making
a good deal of scandal ofla.e by their pecu-
lations, and now the postmssters are COM
ing to the front. Sharp on the heels of q.
heavy defalcation ty the collector Of inter
nal revenue at Springfield, Illinois, comes
the statement that the postmaster at st.
Louis has made an assessment of five per
cent. on the salaries of all clerks in the Of
fee, for five months past, for al.egel politi-
cal purposes, and for office expenses and for
repairs of the building. The matter ap-
pears to have been formally laid before the
Postmaster General by portion Of thoss
who have been feeced. The Washington
correspondent of the New York Tribune
writes, Sept. 0: @
@The case of Postmaster Filley of st.
Louis wss hot forwarded to the President
yesterday, and in the sbsenca of Postmas.
ter General Creswell the complains against
him will now be retained until the next
| Cabinet neeting. The Department has
not heard from Mr.. Filley, and has taken
no action whatever in the matter, though
when the charges against him first became
public there were pointed intimstions of
| prompt investigation end speedy dsown-
| ing of Filey's assessments. Information
| row comes from st. Louis that portion of
| the money collected from the clerks by
forced deductions on pay day was used in
| the entertainments given the President on
| the occasion of bis last visit TO St Louis.
II any action Is taken In the case it will be
| by sending special agent to look into 1t and
report thereon. This course was found effec-
| tive some months since in dsposing of the
serious irregularities in the Cincinnati post
| office, where the postmaster was reported to
the President for, and afterward fully shown
to have been guilty OF, habituslly using pub
lie funds for his own private purposes, de-
posting his personal note for the return of
The money, and having these notes or mem
orandum checks carried on the books as
cash. Payments for pew rent and house
hold goods were also found to figure among
these checks, and the sums collected for un-
derpaid hostages wee allowed to run four
years before they were entered upon the
quarterly returns. A special agent, how
ever, was able to arrange all this 80 as 10
retain he Cincinnati postmaster"
UNPRECEDESTED SALE OF CATTLE.
We published few days since brief
Geographic account Of public sale of short
horn stock in Oneida county, N. Y, the
property of Mr.. Samuel Campbell. Our
exchanges bring US additional facts, from
which We Gull the following. The first ami
NAL offered was three year old bull, the
Second Duke of Oneida, for which Lord
Skelmersdale, of England, offered ten thou
sand dollars. He was purchased by Mr..
Thomas j. Meglbben, of Cyntniana, Ky,
for 1000. The next was the First Duchess
of Oneida. She was started at SIS, 200,
and sold to go to Englsnd at $4,000. The
Seventh Duchess of Oneida was a yearling
heifer, and vas purchased by Mr.. A. j.
Alexander, of Kentucky, for $4,000. After
her the Tenth Duchess of Geneva came into
the ring, and was sold at $35, 600 to Lord
Beehive, of Erg'and. The Eighth Duchess
of Geneva was sold to P. Davis, of Glouces-
ter, England, for the remarkable price of
$4,000. Eleven cows of the Duchess
family sold for S23S 8OO-an average of
$21,7O0 head. Six of these went to En-
gland, at cost of Sl47, 100; and five remain
in this country, at cost OF S91, 700. Mr.
Campbell received for his short horns, in all
Ill animals, S980,s9O. Blood tells in favor
of some farmers.