The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-14

states that enough has been. hinted
around the navy yard to Indicate that
the report Of the Secretary of the Navy
VII! show that jealousy and intrigue pre-.
vailed on the Polaris from the day she
sailed. Captain Hall found that Bud.
dlngton opposed him, and when the Po-
lsris reached the farthest point North.
with everything favorable in prospect,
Buddington objected to going farther.
when Hall became discouraged; and
Buddington. after Halls death, was con.
stantiy drunk. Captain Halls widow
arrived at Washington, yesterday, sror:
Cincinnati, and was surprised to 6nd the
Grew gone, as she desired to talk with
them about her husbands death.
1t has leaked out that during the re-
cent e1cursion of the examining board of
the Treasury Department through the
South, Collector Of Custome was
found who could neither read nor write,
and who was previously convicted of an
infamo1e crime.
The Secretary of War, according to
special from Washington, has submitted
to the Department OF Justice statement
OF the condition of affairs found by the
War Department to exist in the division
OF the late Freedmen's Bureau, charged
"AshA VIZ cOsb4OuAVAt Va OOuutlSS W COlOTs
ed soldiers. The statement sets forth
that claimants for whom Treasury GER
tidcates had been issued and sent to the
Freedmen's Bureau for payment have
never received their money, although
they were marked on tho records OF the
bureau as paid, reported to the Treasury
by the disbursing officer OF the bureau as
paid, and 30 credited in the settlement
OF his account. For this fraud, the
Secretary of War wishes to know the de-
gree of responsibility and the relative re-
sponsibility, under the law, of General
~. q. Howard and his disbursing officer,
General Ballach. When the War De.
partment took possession OF the records
OF the bureau, unpaid claims were found
amounting to $3.50, 900, and $33, 900 were
found unpaid, although entered on the
records and reported to the Treasury,
and there credited as paid.
The steamer Frolic is aground twenty
miles above Piny Point, in the Potomac.
WHEELING, Juno 13.-On Wednesday
morning, a masked party broke into the
house OF John Jennings, the chief of a
gang of robbers in Wetsel County, in
this State. Mrs. Jennings seized an axe
to defend her husband, when the party
fred, killing Jennings and fatally wound
ing Mrs. Jennings. The Iynchers left
written notice to the other members of
the gang to leave the country.
NEW YORK, June 13.-At Q o'clock this
afternoon, all the municipal Offices were
closed as mark of respect to the memo
~ OF the late United States Minister
Orr. Among those who called at the
Governors room to-day to view tho re-
mains were Majo General Hancock and
stat, who also accepted invitations to
participate in the funeral ceremonies.
President Grant telegraphed from West
Point his regrets that his engagements
would not permit him to be present.
Wilmot DeSaussure, ex-Grand Master of
the Masonic fraternity of South Carolina,
telegraphed that he was on his way to
this CITY to attend the funeral Twenty
Masonlc lodges reported at the City Hall
this morning that they will join in the
funeral escort. and about forty more
lodges from this city, Brooklyn and Jer.
sey City will participate. As the City
Hall clock struck high noon to-day. the
band of the New York Oommandery.
stationed in the rotunda. played dirge
crowd of people were gathered in the
neighborhood.
The funeral services of the late Minis
ter Orr took place this afternoon, at 2. 80.
The City Hall Park was crowded to ex.
cess, SEQ of faces being turned toward
the main entrance, eagerly looking for
sight OF the splendid coffin which con-
tanned the body. The pail bearers we're
Hon. s. 81. Johnson, ". DeSaussure,
James Jenkinson, N. j. Waring, j. D.
Hans. j. Phillips. John W. Simons, Da-
MEL Sickles and Albert G. Mackey. The
band assembled in the rotunda of the
City Hall and played some solemn and
nonrnful dirges. The pail bearers, with
heads uncovered, took up the coffin and
carried it down to the hearse. The Sir
Knights formed on either side as the
coffin WAS borne past, and then filed into
marching order. Mayor Hayemeyer and
the Common Council, with Grape 70.
settes, occupied the carriages in rear of
the procession. The Knights made
most imposing spectacle, drawn mp in
the park, five deep, with their gorgeous
uniforms. the sun brilliantly rejecting
from their swords and other ornaments.
Henry Clay Presson, the Grand Marshal,
headed the procession, accompanied by
Major Edward II. Kent, Chief of staff.
The procession started up Broadway In