Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-09-10
From the Baltimore American.
Paw md Allowances.

Pay and Allowances.
The occupant of Henry Clay's seat in the SEN
ate of the United States is the person who moved
a call for information as to the sums of money
received from the Treasury by Gen. Scott and
Gen. Pierce respectively during the periods of
their military service 9. Mr.. Merriwether," says
the Washington Union, cas- the representative of
sovereign State, had perfect right to make
such CALI No doubt of it. The honorable
Senator had perfect right to stand upon his
head if he chooses to do So But every body
knows that the call was moved for electioneering
purposes, and that the answer now furnished
from the Treasury Department will be garbled,
misrepresented, and paraded before the country
with every variety of exaggeration to show the
amount of dollars and cents the blood of hero
is worth
This game is worthy of the actors. Go on,
gentlemen, and make the most of it. Estimate
patriotism by the standard of value most familiar
to you, and find out its exact worth in COIN
Weigh glory and gold together, and see which
kicks the beam. Let honor and duty and the
noble qualities that make o soldier illustrious I;
let battles and victories and campaigns, distin-
guished by generalship and heroism, be made
subject to your process of discounts and then,
with what countenance you may, look your coun-
trymen in the face and tell them the per centage
at which the national renown and the glory of
our flag may be advanced in the estimation of
the world. Admirable occupation for Henry
Clay's successor in the Senate When was Ken
lucky so disgraced before?
We find in the Union newspaper nearly three
columns devoted to the subject of General Scotts
accounts with the Treasury We must do that
journal the justice to say that it goes bushingly
into the business, and seems to feel that it is
gagged in an unworthy task. In the long career
Of Gen. Scott, including some forty years of mill
tary service, there never was any question, SO far
as we have ever heard, concerning his pecuniary
relations with the Government. He has received
such compensation as the law allowed, and there
the matter ended. 1t was reserved for Ken
lucky Senator to move q special inquiry into
things which called for no investigation and thus
to attempt to throw suspicion upon high minded
man and faithful servant of the republic, for
the simple fault of being required by his friends
and countrymen to stand as candidate for the
Presidency. The maxim that all is fair in poll
tics must be o convenient saLUo to some who hold
the remnants Of a conscience, and who yet ven
ture upon doings which, in any other line Of life,
would be counted by themselves discreditable and
dishonest
If a man wants custom, let him advertise and
he will get it.
Counterfeit SIS on the Bank of America; at
Cape May, are said to be in circulation.
The Ravel Troupe is drawing crowded houses
in Philadelphia.
Any book that is worth reading once, is worth
reading twice.
The Webster men Of Massachusetts, are to hold
q convention in Boston on the 18th inst, to nom
mate an electoral ticket.
Congress appropriated $50, 743, 1865 for pub
lie works in California, while the receipts from
that State into the treasury were less than two
million.
Senator Gwn sailed for California on Monday.
He left in the Ohio for Aspiswall. The Ohio took
out 480 passengers.
Andrew Stuart, formerly printer in Pitts
burg, has been nominated for Congress by the
Democrats of the Columbiana district, in Ohio
Col w. p Porter, of Tennessee, has invented
q revolver and sef-loading rifle, which is capable
Of discharging fifty loads in q minute and half
He is having 10000 Of them manufactured at
Taunton.
! wretch was arrested, few days since, at
Harrington, Conn, on the line of the Naugatuc
railroad, for placing distractions on the track.
The penalty of this crime is confinement in the
State prison for ten years.
The late freshet was very destructive to the
crops on the Appomatox river, Va All the to-
bacco on the low grounds of branches, creeks,
and rivers, within the boundaries of the highest
water-marks, is completely destroyed, as we'll as
the greater part of the corn crop, within the same
limits.
Samuel Hall, esq.,, of East Boston, has been
appointed supervising inspector of steamboats,,
by the President, under the new act. Mr.. Hall
is an eminent and most successful shipbuilder.
THE FISHERY TRoUBLEs.-The settlement of
the fishery troubles, the terms announced,
seems to have given much offence to provincials.
A meeting has been held at Halifax, and an adj
dress to the governor and petition to the Queen,
have been agreed upon, asking for suspension
of negotiations.
A CONTROVERSIAL New York paper says the
late Robert G. Sands sued for damages in case
of breach of promise of marriage. He was Of
fered two hundred dollars to heal his broken
heart "Two hundred !" he exclaimed; Two
hundred dollars for ruined hopes, blasted lie !!
two hundred dollars for all this! NO, never,
make it three, and it's bargain"
A soldier, named Nicholas Steevoght, lately
swan across the lake Of Constance, in Europe, in
three hours and forty minutes, thus echpsing the
famous feat of swimming the Heespont.
eold mounted rosewood cane was presented
10 Gen. Cass. in New York, on Thursday, by
Mike Walsh, on behalf of Mr.. Ebenezer Dewey.
Gen. Cass has left the city for home