Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-10

day.
CHIEF OF BUREAU APPoINTED.-The Presi-
dent this morning appointed Captain VIM. N
Jeffers, L. s. N, TO be chief of the bureau of
ordnance, Navy department, vice Rear Admit
al Case, resigned. Admiral Case, as already
stated i'm The STAR. will be assigned to the
command of the European feet.
Col. r. j. HINTON, the well-k known newspa-
per correspondent, left the city last evening to
sail from New York on Saturday to enter upon
his duties as inspector of consulates at the ports
on the mediterranean. During his absence Mr..
Charles Z. Benjamin will act as correspondent
Tor the papers supplied by Col. Hinton.
MODEL REsIeNiTIoN-On the day that
Hon. VIM. A. Richardson, formerly of this city,
received his appointment as Secretary of the
Treasury, he forwarded his resignation as a
director in the Appleton National Bank, and
also gave instructions to have his bank stock
sold, thus showing delicscy in discerning the
ineompatibility of retaining his connection
WIN natiohal bank, after accepting govern
ment office, which is unusual to say the least
-L0TeH Courier, Aprit7H.
For VIENNA.-The commissioner of educa-
ton has received for transmission 70 the Vienna
exposition from the board of trustees of public
schools in this city large album containing
beautiful photographs of the Franklin Sumner
Nalach, SeatOn and Cranch school buildings
and diagrams Of the elevation and ground work
of the buildings; also, from the same source.
specimens OF the penmanship, neatly bound and
Tilted, OF the pupils of the public schools. Mr..
II. {. Spencer, president of the Washington
business College, has prepared, TO be forwarded
through the bureau of education to the EXPOSE
ton. chart showing at glance the educational
status of Washington. The commissioner re-
eelVed to-day from the government bindery over
500 volumes containing the reports of various
state and city school institutions catalogue of
Libraries, educational journals. &c. These arti-
les will be forwarded by the Bremen line from
Baltimore on the next steamer sailing, Shoe
maker x CO., Of that line, having kindly volun-
teered to transport them free.
\ CONSUL WANTED.-A dispatch received at
The Navy Department this morning from Com
mander Il. W. Shufeldt, da ed s.U S. Shin
plymouth, Porte Grande. Isle OF st. Vincent,
cape de Verde, March 10th, announces that he
arrived there from Tenerffe on the Sd instant
lie says 80 find this town growing in com
Inercial Importance, the harbor being the only
secure one in the Cape de Verde group and
lying directly In the route of the steamers from
he Pacific, Brazil, Cape Town and the coast
of Africa, has become a coalng station. at
which some 80 600 tons of coal are annually de-
liyered. 1t Is also understood that the tele-
graphic cable between Europe and South
America is to be landed here, thus making the
port point of call for sailing ships ira
yerSlng me ocean from all parts of the
world. Although American trade with the
coast OF Africa has been very much reduced
Il stu represents. in the aggregate the sum of
8 COO eco, and these traders stop here, both in
ward anu outward bound. Our whaling vessels
also make II rendezvous. Under these cicum-
stances, 1t seems strange that we have no CON
Suiar representative here. From the absence
Of n consul and the rare visits OF our men-of-
war, II can readily he imagined how little of
American iDfius nce is felt at Porto Granie IL
is perhaps true that neither consuls nor men of
war are needed where there is no commerce TO
protect, but 1t is eq ualy true that there can be
lie permanent American trade i'm these remote
parts of the world without the presence of both
Officers and men were all well. The Plymoutb
was to sail on the nth of March for Porte
Praya and thence to the coast of Africa