Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-24
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Voluntary Contlibutions-Royv the Departments Worked by Hubbelps Agents-Cats for the PostoHfces-Other Items of Interest.
 agents of the Hubbell committee visited to-
 day the Army and Navy departments. All the departments are systematically worked" The na0dls o0eaa7adi is follows: The com
 mittee assigns one more agents to each de- partment They visit the chef clerks of different bureaus and ask permission to call on the clerks This is granted, whereupon the agents, who have complete lists of the clerks showing their salaries and what clerks have 1 and have not subscribed, go to those who have ignored the Hubbell circular and ask for subscription equal to two per cent of their salaries. The demand IS generally conla
 piled with in cash or promise to pay on the l next pay day. The name is then checked off ! and the agent proceeds on his route.
 A naval retiring board has declared Boat swain George R. Willis legally insane, as he is paraly zed and unable to speak owing to disease of a part of the brain. Perhaps no sailor in our navy is more widely known than Willis He is nephew of N. P. Willis and possesses much of his unele's poetical talent. l He might be called the laureate of the fore- castle. He is famous as an oarsman, having conducted some of the most notable races of the ships boats which are held from time to time in foreign ports. For his personal and seamanIike qualities he was promoted few years ago from the forecastle to hold the office of boatswain, dignity to which aspir- 1 ing seamen look with eyes of desire.
 Cadet Livingston, of Georgia, the latest accession to the army from the colored race, ! is here on his way to West Point.
 Commissioner West ia still absent from the District, and the trouble in the commission er's office remains in statu quo. The Post 1 Dem this morning announces Con positive authority that the President sides with Commissioner Morgan and Leydecker against Mir Vest In the absence of both the Presi- 1 dent and Mir Vest the latter's friends say that such news is premature
 l Secretary Lincoln, on his return to this l city last night, denied the report that there was any foundation for the report that he and Quartermaster General Ingalls, had fallen out over the ever vexatious matter of clerical patronage. He said that so far as Ingalls, l had suggested clerical appointments they had been made and that his relations with Gen 1 eral Ingalls, were pleasant and satisfactory. l The reported disagreement which the depart ment gossips had set aloat surprised those l who knew of the friendly feeling which has | existed between the two gentlemen.
 l An international daily exchange of mail be- I tween the St. Paul and Breckenridge railway postoffices and the Canada postoffices of Elm erson and Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been I abolished by order of First Assistant Post master General Hatton.
 Merchandise in small packages is now | transported in the mails to large extent and 1 is destroyed by rats and mice Some time since the Postoffce department resorted to
 the employment of maltese cats in all the | large offices to protect the mails. The cats
 are BOW part of the force in the New York,
 Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and other l large offices throughout the country and are
 being rapidly supplied to other offices the l surest preventive against the destruction of ! meYchandise in the mails, Upon the vouch-