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instructed discriminating duties under section 22 of the new tariff law 'pending the decision of the Attorney General. These instructions were issued when it was ascertained that the collector at New York had been collecting these discriminating duties on goods from Canada. There is only one negro commissioned officer in the U. S. army. He is detailed for duty as teacher in a negro school in Ohio. As that detail has just expired, great anxiety was experienced in army circles lest he should be sent to the white regiment to which he be longs, but that anxiety was dispelled yesterday, when his detail for the same duty he is now on was extended for another year. As Collector Brady of the lower internal revenue district of Virginia has made his own rules in respect of his deputies, and deliberately set those of the Internal Revenue Bureau at open defiance, 8 call was made at the civil service bureau to-day to see what would be done there in the matter, but not a single member of the commission was in the city, so that nothing could be learned. As previously stated in this correspondence, it is understood that Mr. Proctor, chief of the civil service commission, and Mr. Wilson, deputy commissioner of the Internal Revenue Bureau, who issued the recent order limiting the power of collectors to appoint their own deputies, differ entirely in their views on this subject, but it is supposed that the latter knew what he was doing when he issued that order, and all acquainted with him know that when he issues & public order he intends that it shall be enforced. The Comptroller of the Currency was advised to-day of the failure of the First National Bank of Greensburg, Indiana. It has a capital stock of $100,000 and on July 25th the deposits were $84,000. This is not looked upon as a patent il lustration of the return of prosperity. Among the recent removals at the Treasury Department were those of Miss Annie McGill Fauntleroy and Mr. Albaugh, both of Staunton, Virginia, for no other reason than the fact that they are democrats. The excuse for the removal of General Clark, of Missouri, which occurred at thesame time, was the abolition of his office, which, however, as soon as he had left it, was re established. Civil Service is as much of a humbug as ever. The Virginia republicans here say the State convention of their party, that has been called in defiance of their State committee, will be one of the largest republican conventions ever held in Virginia, and that it will depose the present committee, elect another, and put a straightout republican ticket in the field for the coming State election. Japan, it is now said here, will supply the money required for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, and as she is able to do so without taxing her people, the hope is expressed that she will. A report was received this afternoon at the office of the superintendent of construction of the new city postoffice that Mr. John B. Baird, the chief clerk of that office, had been drowned in the Chesapeake and Ohio canal above Cabin John Rridge. When the Cuban insurrection shall be suppressed, and the accounts between this country and Spain come up for settlement, it is expected that the latter's claims for damages from filibusters will be immense, and the worst of it is, they will'have to be paid, under any construction of international law. John G. Woods, superintendent of mails at the Louisville, Kentucky, post office, to day brought suit against General Gary and the postoffice department authorities to prevent them from removing him from the service. The case probably will be a test the power to remove a government official embraced with the civil service rules. Woods was notified that his services would be dispensed with and refused to resign. He has now asked for an injunction to prevent his removal. The court has issued a tem porary restraining order to protect his rights. Ex-Congressman Maish, of Pennsylvania, talking yesterday morning about the recent action of the democratic committee of his State, said he thought that while two-thirds of the Pennsylvania democracy sustained the action of their committee in deposing Chairman Harrity, the remaining third did not. A democrat from Kentucky, a moment afterwards, said the action referred to was of no consequence in Pennsylvania, but that it would help the democrats in all the close States, as they are tired of shillyshallying, and want their party to show some of its old time boldness and independence. The work on the electric railroad from Arlington to the Theological Seminary, near Alexandria, that was suspended yesterday by order of the Quartermaster General, has not yet been resumed, in consequence, it is said, of the absence of certain other army officers from the city. Among the new law firms recently estab. lished here is one composed of ex-Solicitor General Holmes Conrad, Mr. Conway Robinson, ex-U. S. counsel for the court of claims, and the latter's brother, Mr. Leigh Robinson, all of Virginia. A DESERTED WIFE.-Mrs. Ruth Aiken, of Baltimore, a stylishly-dressed woman, of refined appearance, appeared at the Henrico County Courthouse,
