Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-04-05

warner m ba'eman, United States Attorney
Tor southern Distr CT OF Ono
Gerry w. Hazeltou, United States Attorney
for Wisconsin.
Il. +. Denn,son, Chier Justice Of the Terrific.
Eiiwood Evans, Associate Ju -tice of WASH
Aaron b. MAYNARD, U. S. Attorney, Eastern
District of Michigan.
1ohn II ) sndish, ". 5. District Attorney,
W.si"rn b. ,triot Of Michigan.
John A. Norris, Pension Agent at Columbus,
ONO.
frank wolcott, Receiver of the Land Once
al Wyoming Territory.
X. 5 Bennett, Collector OF Customs at Beau
fOTt, SO.
y.w. Dan iels, a gent for Sissston and War
p+lpon bands OF Indians.
Registers of the Land Ofice-Lewis Dngal,
denver, COL: l.. Il. lyman, Helena, Montana,
Henry Wetter, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Jacob
VIM. ]. Berry, Prescott Arizona Territory.
Assessors of Internal Revenue-Tnomas +.
Shaw, I'd Ohio; John q. Miller, l0th N. Y;
Hiram RuRgies, Attn Maine; Alton Eiston, lst
Collectors OF Internal Revenue-L. Waitzel,
lst Ohio; Richard b. Pullan, I'd Ono; Daniel
v. Priest. 9th Wis; Henry K. Bowlson, LIST
Mich; Chas. d Whitney, Sd Ala: Henry q.
Rogers, 18Th Pa; j. ). Pretty man, del.
surveyor Generals of Land Office-T. Rush
SpeD Ger, New Mexico; William II. Beadle, Da
Rueer, Wyoming: Z. p. Ferry, Warrington
Territory.
Poetmastt rs-E. ]. Castello, Natchez, Miss;
Edward H. Sears, StautOn, Va; William Mil
Frankfort, Pa; John V. Howe, Oil City, Pa.
The oRDEs OF SECRETARY BoRIs in rela.
tion TO the rank of line and staff ON GERS OF the
navy, hes created some excitement among
naval officers 1t reduces the rank of stan Of
fcers so that none rank higher than comman.
der The order is follows:
"The Attorney General having ad vised theDe.
partment that alone Congress can n the rela-
tive rank of line and staff officers in the navy,
and the only officers whoee relative rank has
been thus legally established being those below
mentioned. the order OF March ), 1863. and the
naval reg ulations, article ,. paragraph six to
twenty. eight, both inciusive,) are hereby re.
voked and ann ulled. Surgeons Of the fleet and
surgeons, paymasters, chief engineers OF more
than twelve years, rank As lieutenants. Pass ed
assistant surgeons and nrst assistant engineers
TO rank next after lieutenauts. Assistant sur
geons, second assistant engineers, and third as
sisfAnt eng ineers rank with mdshipmen. No
act OF Congress gives relative rank to construc-
makers"
The OPINION Of the Attorney General upon
which this order is based. sets forth In brief
that the regulations Of March I3, 1853, iu SO
far as they are alterations of the orders OF tn.
Secretary of the Navy, to which Congress gave
sb. sSsrer aSs ssc,oy ns na ac,s OF Augns gus
chapter 16, section 2, are not founded upon
valid authority Of law. In this opinion ne dis
sents from Attorney Generrl Bates, BY WHOSE
advice the reg ulatIOns were adopted. The IF.
feet of the Secretarys order will be to upset the
rank OF many naval staff officers as it has exist.
ed Tor many years and will therefore create u
good deal Of commotion among naval officers.
CENsUs.-When Delmar was director of the
Bureau Of Statistics he originated a plan 70,
taking the census through the asses sors of inter-
nal revenue. The census for 1868, under that
arrangement, Is completed as far as IL 10 likely
haH0 fhNr
sors the dphciencies have Deen supplied by es-
Inmates. The present deputy special commits.
sioner OF customs has stopped the work. not at
taching any importance To II, and Is in no way
respon sible for the results, which are not sup
po. ed 10 be very reliable. The recapitulatlon
of the population of the United States and Ter.
through the means shove stated, rs as follows
white population Of the States, 33, ,29i ,tS; col
ored, 46S9.e62-toal, 81 ,93O, ,9U3. The total witt
M the population Of the District Of Columbia AM
the Territories, is 81, ,i22 995 The reportco
population OF California includes Indians aud
Chinese; Maine incl udes 500 Indians: MichigsL
includes about 400 Indians; Minnesota in
clnoes S,WU Indians; Oregon includes 40 In
diaui and 2.i36 Chinese, and Rhode Island also
includes a few Indians The reported and esti
mated population includes 6,O0O Indians. and
Chinese.
NAVAL ORDRRs.-The orders Of Paymas ter
+. H. Swan are SO modified that be will relieve
Paymaster James Hoy, jr., on duty on board
the practice ship Macedonian, on the 3ist inst;
Pay master James Hoy, jr., is detached from
the Macedonian, to take effect on the 3Ist inst;
and ordered to report for duty at the Nayai
Academy on the LIST OF May next, as the relief OF
Pay master q T. Thornton: The following
named officers have been ordered to report at
the Navy Department for examination. pr.
limir ary to promotion: LIeutenants T. F.
Jewett, ID y. Woodrow; Masters Geo. W. ID.
ton, Benz Long Edes, George NJ Book, J. A
Vaughan, l.. A. kingsley, and John Hazlett
also, ensigns A. A. Blair, w. J. Moore, b. s.
Richards, A. b. Garter. q. b. Gill, and Wm.
Watts.
BREvRT COLONEL l.. A. EDWARDS, Surgeon,
has been relieved from duty, oy the Secretary
OF War as Chief of the Bureau OF Refueees
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, and will
report to the Commanding General Depart
ment OF Louisiana, to relieve Brevet Lieuten-
ant Colonel J. f. Randolph, Surgeon, In his
duties as medical director Department of
Louisiana. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. r
Randolph, Surgeon, when re lieved in his
present duties, will report to the Commanding
General Department of Louisiana for assign
ment to duty in that Depar tment
CHANGE IN THE MANNER OF PRINTING UNI
TED STATES MONEY.-DurIng the debate in the
House Saturday on the Miscellaneous Defici
ency bill, Mr.. Dawes said that the system of
hydrosiatic press printing which had been car
rItd on in the Treasury, and which had cost
'hs Government millions of dollars, was to be
abandoned, and that the work was hereafter 20
he done on roller presses, under control tn"
Treasury Department, bat not in the Treasury
building, which was to be devoted to its Iegiti.
mate uses.
GEN. LoNGsTRBBT TCONFIRMED.-rhe Senate
on Saturday, after an executive ses ion of over
tw 20 hours, in which the subject was fully dis
cussed, confirmed the domination Of Gen. Jas
LoDgstreet as sur veyor Of the port Of New Or
leans. The vote upon his connrmatio was
twenty .hve to ten, q number of Senators hay-
ing left be fore the vote was taken.
The long agony 10 over and the President
has signed the modified Tenure.of. Once bill.
Quite evidently the good old times-for tn.
quid uuncs-when we had Q veto every week,
are over.
EUROPEAN NHws By CABLR-Ths Spanish
Provisional Government finds itself OBLIGED To
call for contingent OF eighty thousand men
for the army during the present year. This
will not abate the discomfort already existing
In the country. In the Cortes on Friday, In re-
ply to an inteProgatoey the Munster Of
Finance, stated that he b ID no knoWledge that
Ar Hale, the American Minister, had ever in.
troduced articles contrAband Of war under his
diplomatic privileges, - bad been reported.
The Spanieh papers comment unlavorably
mon Mr.. Hale tn connection with the story
ThA pYoutaional (1ovoPn n ann0anG (lon