The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-29
From waaf,ingtos,..
Especial dispatch to the Baltimore SUM-


DEPUTY CONTROLLER JoNES---FURLoUGHs--
DELEGATES TO- THE MEDICAL CONGRESS-
EEGIsTERED-LETTER BUSINESS INCREASED
PERsoNAL-MISoR MATTERS.
WASHINGTON, August 81, 1s76.-William
Hemphitl Jones, Deputy First Controller OF
the Treasury, who has rendered his rcsigna-
ton at the request Of the President, has
been an officer Of the Treasury Department
for twenty-five years, and has occupied his
present position in the First Controller of
fee for eighteen years. No charges are made
against his personal or official integrity, his
removal being demanded, as Secretary Nor
rill informed him, ''because he was not in
accord with the Administration" The office
OF the First Controller is the most important
Of the accounting officers OF the Govern
ment, and for many years the burden OF the
duties OF the office have been upon Mr..
Jones. All the civil accounts Of the Gov
ernment, except customs, are settled in this
Office, and Mr.. Jones has been retained
through ali changes OF administration be-
cause OF his experience in and thorough
knowledge OF the important duties Of the
office and because Of his well-known integ-
rity. During the entire period Of the re-
bcllion Mr.. Jones was absent from his desk
caused by sickness, and for the past four
years he has not been absent from duty for
single day. He is the officer whom Gen.
cral Dix sent to New Orleans ut the out
break OF the rebellion, and to whom the
celebrated dispatch =" If any one attempts
to haul down the American flag shoot him
on the spot" was sent. He Is from the
State of Delaware, and during the war act
ed as military agent ut Washington for that
State, serving in tha. capacity without 4
dollar OF pay. lie ia all intimate friend OF
Hon. Samuel j. Randall, whom he has
known from infancy, having been law stu
dent with Josiah Randall, father of Samuel j.
Randall. The friendship existing between
Mr.. Randall and Mr.. Jones is one OF the
causes used to secure his removal. Secre-
tary Morrill, has given Mr.. Jones ten days
in which to settle some current business
and gather together the private papers
which have accumulated about his office
during the past eighteen years. He will
retire on September 4th, and will be succeed
ed by J. Tarbell, formerly Of New York,
but now Of Mississippi, whose appointment,
according to one Of the local papers, is an
encouragement to the downtrodden Re
publicans of Mississippi" The removal OF
this old and faithful officer, who was so lit
Il
politics, shows how hollow are the civil SER
vice reform pretensions of the Republicans.
For eighteen years Mr.. Jones has occupied
the same room in the Treasury building,
and the fact that he is now using the same
office furniture which he found in the office
when he assumed charge eighteen years
ago illustrates the SteadlneSS OF habit ana
frugalitv Of the man and officer.
The Superintendent OF the Bureau or En-
craving and Printing will commence this
week to furlough the employees Of his BIZ
reall, giving them in turn one week of III
each month The cause assigned is-Scarcity
of work. The furloughs will be given only
to the female employees, and they will be
confined to this class for the reason that they
cannot vote. The numerous male employees
and certain favored females will be kept
constantly employed. Employees Of this bu-
reau are paid only for the days they work,
no allowance being madr for sickness or
other cause Of absence. They work harder,
get less pay, and arc subjected to more harsh
treatment and petty tyranny than any other
employees, either Of public or private estab-
liShmcntS.
General Sherman's family have arrived
here and will remain during the winter with
the General at the Ebbitt House. The two
Youngest daughters will attend school at the
Georgetown Seminary.
Surgeons Joseph y. Smith and j. j.
Woodward, U. S. A., have been designated
by the Secretary OF War as delegates to
represent the medical corps of the army at
the international Medical Congress to
meet at Philadelphia on the 4th of Septem-
Der.
The postmaster at New York has notified
the Third Assistant Postmaster General that
the recent law providing for the transmits
sion Of internal revenue stamps through the
mails has greatly increased the registered
package business of his office, and he has
made reQuisition for more pouches for the
transmission of such packages. In the
seven days since the law took effect twenty
extra pouches have been sent from that
office. Fifty additional pouches were for
wardcd Saturday night to New York.
General ri. II. Sibley has declined to serve
on the Sioux commission on account OF ill
health. J. W. Daniels, eX-Indian agent and
inspector, has been appointed in his place.
LARGE FIRE AT THE CESTENNIAL-GREAT
EXCITEMENT AT THE ATLAS HoTEL.-A fire
of considerable magnitude and entailing
large loss occurred Saturday morning at an
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