The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-08
From Washington.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.

INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
WASHINGTON, June Z.
The tenor of several letters from revenue
agents who have been operating in Georgia,
North Carolina and other parts of the
south is favorable to the complete suppress
sion of Illicit distillation in the regions
where government agents have been vigor-
ously at work. The aggregate internal
revenue receipts for the fiscal year to date
have exceeded the total receipts for the
same period during the last fiscal year.
The returns already foot up in excess of
hundred and eleven million dollars and the
impression at the department is that the
full receipts of the year will fall little if any
below the estitate of 100, 600, 900.
BEGGING FOR HELP.
Much of the presidents time has been
occupied lately in listening to petitions
of persons, principally ladies', who have
been discharged from the public service In
accordance with the system of reduction
that has been adopted according to law by
the heads of departments, and the ante
rooms to the executive chamber are almost
daily crowded with persons appealing for
executive interference to relieve misfor-
tunes that have fallen upon them. Not in
one case out of hundred can the execu-
tive interfere and this he is forced to say
to the distressed applicants for favor.
There are on file at the executive mansion
applicants from various quarters for the
appointment of colored men to prominent
POSITIONS
APPOINTMENTS.
The president to-day siged commissions
fe- James Gilfillan 10 be lrn,.aa s,otos
treasurer, and A. U. Wyman to be assist
ant treasurer. The appointments to take
effect with first proximo. The president
to-day appointed A. d. Hazen of Pennsyl-
vania, to be third assistant postmaster gen.
eral, vice Barber resigned, to take effect
June 80. General Barbers resignation was
wholly voluntary, being caused only by a
desire to attend to his personal interests in
Michigan. Hazen has been in the postofiice
department since 1864. His new appoint
ment is made by the president as ga civil
service promotion" on the recommendation
Of General Barber, General Tyner aud
General Key.
FRAUD PUNISHED.
The postoffice department has been ad-
vised of the conviction and sentence TO
the penitentiary of John X. Francis, alias
James B. Cane, who in April last appeared
near Abingdon, Va, representing himself
as federal officer empowered to privately
employ secret agents to detect Illicit distil-
lers, and for the purpose of detecting frauds
on the postal service. He sent out circu-
lars inviting applications for positions and
charged twenty dollars for commissions
which he issued to any one was conading
enough to pay therefor.
INDIAN AGENCY INVESTIGATION.
Secretary Schurz, to-day, iseued an order
creating board to consist of DR.. Richard
Joseph, disbursing clerk of the interior de-
partment, ]. D. Terrill chief of division in
the second comptroliers office of the treas
ury department, and Amos Hardley of the
interior department to exsmine into the
method now in force in the finance and ac-
counting division of the Indian bureau, es-
pecially as to the analysis of money and
property accounts of Indian agents, and
whether the accounts of agents are render
ed In accordance with law, and whether
any expenditures are made without proper
authority. The last quarterly reports Of
agents are to be carefully scrutinized for
the purpose above stated, and particular
examination will be made as to the number
and compensation of employees at each
agency.
George William Curtis has declined the
mission to England, and James Russell
| Lowell the mission to Austria.