Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-18

IHE RECEIPTS TO DAY were, from internal
revenue, S2GI ,93S Sc; from customs, Sioo, 27j Is,
THE AMOUNT OF national bank note cur
rency received at the Treasury today FOR re
| demption aggregated s5l0,5l7.
MAJOR s. c. LYFoRD, ordnance DEPART
| ment. has been designated TO act as CHIEF of
! ordnance during the temporary absence OF
! Gen. Benet, who is on tour OF inspectioa.
As THERE Is CRIBBING SOMEWHERE in
The case, we hasten to say that THE STAR
| of yesterday did not steal from the Ba!ti
| more Anlcl1co1i of this morning the various
| Items OF Washington news that appear yer
batlm In the two papers.
EN-ATToRNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS and
| eN-Commissioner Douglas have taken rooms
| together on street for the practice of the
| law. Mr. Williams saws that he has ALREADY,
been retained in several imrorya3t cases 10
| come before the supreme court.
SURGEON ]. =. HAMMOND. I. S.A.. has
been ordered to report to the com handing
general military division of the Atlantic for
| duty as attending S1rgeoa, relieving Surgeon
y: ~: Beil' surgeon Hammond has also been
detailed as member OF the retiring board i'm
New YORK city, in place OF Surgeon Bell.
THE Denver Tribune compliments the re-
firing Commissioner Douglass. and says.
There has never been called ia the public
service more competent. faithful. and zeal
Gus omcer, and Secretary BrlStOw in the dis
coVery OF the late revenue frauds has oeeD
assisted very materially by him"
THERE is a little feeling amongst some of
the correspond who held the news of the
proposed raid uTon the whisky ring con
fdentially. and who were beat through
the tuSSy Solicitude of Mr.. BIufOrd Wilson
To glOrify himself by publishing the matter
III Inc New York SiGi, with his name proinl-
nently to the fore.
Col. GEORGE \. BATCHELDTR who served
with distinction. during the war. in the 2Al
Massachusetts regiment, died this morning,
81 O'Clock. at LeiSSring'S hotel, 49, street
Ihe deceased officer was a SOn-iH-law of Som
ator Hamlin, of Maine, aud has been for
long hopeleSSly cOnsumptiye. He has no
near relatives in Washington, ard his eff
IectS nave been taken charge OF by Captain
L"lsSrng. The interment viii be deferred
10 give his friends time 10 make their wishes
known.
THE CALL for the redemption OF 5000 600
coupon bonds issued from the Treasury on
Saturday indicates an additional subScrip-
ton of that amount by the syndicate. making
i'm all thirty-five millions called in on that
account, the rirSt call under the new contract
being for $4,000 600 the second for SO Goa 900
and the other two calls, of very recent da te
for S5.O00,0U each. The contract with the
Rothschilds lasts until the 3lst of August
next, and until that time every call for bonds
by the Treasury indicates additional sub
ScriptiOn by the contractors for the amount
named in the call.
COMMISSIONER PRATT has formed new
division IN the Revenue bureau, 20 be known
as the division of revenue agents. IL will be
under the charge OF Revenue Agent H. T.
GOryan, who has been connected with the
bureau for several years. Revenue agents
now under assignment in the several super
TiSOry districts Will be relieved and ordered
20 report by letter to this Office. The effect OF
| this new division viii be To- make the head
| quarters FOR instruction and assignment OF
agents and others intruStel with the secret
OF The bureau at the department here iuSteai
OF leaving such officers 10 receive their rules
ana instructions from the supervisors, a
heretofore.
NAVAL oRDERs.-Capt. Edward Simpson.
| detached from the command OF the Torpedo
station at Newport, Il. l.. on the 9Th of June
next, and ordered to hold himself in reali-
ness 10 command the Omaha, South Pacific
station. Captain X. Randolph Rreese. de-
tached rom duty as photographic inspector
IN the Coast Survey, and ordered 10 com
mand the Torpedo station at Newport Com
mander J.. Z. LUZ, detached from duty at the
IO.pedo station, and ordered to report f0r
duty as photographic inspector of the Coast
| survey. commander Henry Dell. Marley.
detached from duty i'm the bureau OF equip
nent and repair, and ordered 10 The Torpedo
station.
GIN. JOHN c. BRECKINRIDGE, former
Vice President of the United states under
Buchanan, who died at Lexington, KY. yes
teriay. was born near that town January d
1871 lie came OF distinguished family. his
"randfather being a United States Senator
and SubstG uIntly Attorney General under
PRESIDENT Jefferson. He was educated at
center College. D3nvIile. Ky. and studied
law at the Pennsylvania Institute. i'm that
Stale. lie settled at Lexington. XIV, where
he became one of the Leading members of the
bar. lie served IN the Mexican war as major
oI Tie thlrd regiment OF Kentucky volunteers.
On ms return from Mexico he was elected TO
Inc House Of Representatives of Kentucky.
IN -. ile was ~ta"ted 10 ING m4tIonal House
Of Representatives over Gen Tesii,. Combs,
anu IN l'"3 reelected over Gov Robert u =
Letcher. Upon the accession of PrcSideat
iIeIce ne WAS offered the ministry to Spain.
but declined IL. In 1856 he was nominated
and elected Vice President Of the United
states, III conjunction with Buchanan as
freSldenl, amt entered upon the office March
l. 1851. He was the youngest officer who had
ever held mat position; and presided with
dignity and inibartalltv. The seceders' con
NeLton. which seeded from the democratic
national convention of 1850 and which held
lis final meeting in Baltimore on the 1ltn OF
June in that year. unanimously nominated
Gen. Breckenridge fOT the presidency and
Gen. joseph Lane. oi Oregon, FOR the vice
presidency IEe candidates Of the regular
convention. 1t will be remembered. were
stephen y Douglas. Of Illinois, for President,
and HerSchel '. Johnson, OF Georgia, for
Vice President. At the session of The Senate
after Mr.. I.incoln's election Mr.. Breckenridge
was prominent in pushing the inquiry, Are
we 10 have coercion and civil war. or cOnceS-
sion and peace and finally offered the fol-
lowing resolution, action on which was pre-
Guided by the adjournment OF the Senate:
"RcsOired. That the Senate recommend aud
advise the removal of theTnited States troops
from the limits of the Confederate States"
After the federal arrests of distinguished citi-
Zens in Kentucky in September. 1861. Mr..
Breckenridge entered the confederate lines
and gave in his adhesion 10 that government.
which made him 4 brigadier general. He
participated in the battles at Baton Rouge,
Stone river, Chickamauga, MOrristown.
Tenn. and Newmarket, in the valley of Vir-
ginia. General Breckenridge also commanded
division in the second battle OF Coli Har-
Dor, near Richmond, Va. After this he was
made Secretary OF War of the confederacy.
He remained in Richmond until its evacua-
ton, and travelled with President Davis up
TO within few hours of the capture OF the
latter, when he made his way to the Florida
coast, from whence he succeeded in reaching
Cuba. He afterwards went TO Canada, where
he remained for several years. in the mean
time making visit to Europe. Upon his re-
turn TO the United States he took up his resi-
dencc on the old homestead, near Lexington,
XIV, where he has since resided. Being under