Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-11-09
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.


INTERNAL RKvsNUE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were s3I0.1S1 ST.
NEWSPAPER sUsrkNsIoN-At a me ting of
the stockholders of the Patriot newspaper COM
pany, held this morning, it was decided to sus-
pend publication on Monday next.
APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF CLERK-Lswis
Watkins, principal clerk of the inspection divi-
sion of the contract office, was yesterday APP
pointed chief clerk Of the Post Oflce depart
ment, vice Eben l.. Childs, deceased.
TIE PRESIDENT received a number of visi-
tors this morning, among them Senator Spencer
and several Representatives. He leaves here
Tomorrow evening for PHILADELPHIA to attend
the funeral of Gen. Meade, and will return on
Tuesday. He will not GO to Covington. KY,
next week, but will visit that city as soon as he
gets an opportunity to see his father, whose
health is feeble.
THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION yester-
day heard the claims of Annie X. Cathcart,
"a ,463; Thomas b. Dawson, SO, 800; Mrs. Treca
A. Simmons, $685.: John W. Veitch, 1876, and
from Alexandria county, Virginia, and the
claims are for lumber, brick, fencing, cordwood.
forage, corn and potatoes taken by soldiers
while camped in that locality.
SATANTA AND BIG TREs.-Major Alvord,
special Indian commissioner, has written to the
Secretary of the Interior that Satanic and Bip
Tree, who were taken from the prison at Hunts
vile, Texas, and escorted to st. Louis in com
pany with the delegation OF Arrapahoes, Co.
manches and kiowas, are etill detained by the
United States Marshal in st. Louis, and that
Governor Davis, OF Texas, complains OF the
action OF the government in not returning them
to the custody Of the Texas State officials.
A BRILLIANT WEDDrNs.-The New York
Star of yesterday says-"Major General Q. A.
Gilmore. of the United States Army, who dis
tinguished himself during the war by his mas
terry engineering before Charleston, was mar
ried In Brooklyn on Wednesday to Miss Laura
Bragg, a we'll known and ACCOMPLISHED resident
o. Brooklyn, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher con-
Quoted the ceremony, which was witnessed by
only the immediate relatives and friends Ofboth
parties. The bride was magnifcently attlred,
and the gifts from relatives elegant and
tasteful. After the breakfast, at the residence
Of the bride, in Remsen street, which was
superb In Its appoin tments, the bridal pair left
for Washington CITY,"
Presentation. w. E. Chandler has re-
turned to the city, with his family, after three
II onths campaign of very Iaborious and eff cient
service as Secretary of the National Republican
Committee. He has taken for the season the
tine house on / street, between IIth aud 18th
formerly occupied by Mrs. Buel a. Young la
dies school. .....Gen Sherman and Gen Por-
ter will attend the funeral of Gen. Meade in
Philadelphia next Monday. mfr. w f.
Pedrick, secretary to Hon. VIM. NJ. Evarts be-
lure the UeneVh Tribunal OIL arbitration, has
returned to Washington. .....Gen. and Mrs
Dunn and daughter have returned home after
five months visit i'm Europe ....Mr. Ler p.
Luckey, assistant private secretary to the Pres
ident, returned here this morning from his
home in Illinois.
BRKvKT RANK IN THE ARNY-The Su-
preme Court Of the United States has before 1t
case raising for its decision the question of the
rank and relative position OF brigader general
and breyet brigadier general. The act of
March, 1865, gave to all officers not above the
rank of brevet brigadier general an increased
Communication of ratiOns. Brigadier General
Henry j. Hunt, claiming that there was no dis
tinctOn between the two officers, applied to the
pay department for the increase but was refused.
that department DECIDING that briga gem
eral was In rank above brevet brigadier. The
Court Of Claims, however, took different view,
holding that, in rank, there is no difference be-
tween brigadier general by brevet and a brig
adler general without brevet, and gave the
claimant judgment for the Increased communal
ton. The government claims an appeal that
when the dignity of the two positions is con-
sidered, and when il is the everyday practice to
promote persons from a brevet rank to full
rank, the answer to be given by the court can
hardly admit of doubt; and that If Congress had
not recognized the difference in rank the words
'brigadier general only would have been used
in the act instead of "brevet brigadier general
the language employed.