Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-13

Inoio AZ tAdt capacity, Is tactlClan, not
debeter. The President entertains ar
dent personal friendship for Mr.. Wise
doubtless, but it is very questionable
whether any member of the Administra-
ton would be willing to see him under
take their organship in the House of Rep
resentatives.
l. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR is not
expected to return to Washington until
perhaps the Both inst. In the mean time,
Postmaster General Campbell acts in his
stead. That is, he sigA papers ofall sorts
as Secretary of the Interior, the verita BILE
business of the position being transacted
by Mr.. Whiting, the Chief Clerk. 1t
strikes us that it would be we'll during
the absence of the head of department
always to invest the gentleman who rests
under the responsibility of discharging
the duties of the Office temporarily, with
whatever honor there may be in wearing
the ad interim title, as at present in the
case of Col. Peter G. Washington, who
has been regularly installed Chief of the
Treasury Department during Secretary
Guthrie's absence.
The STATIONERY CONTRACT for the
Treasury Department has been awarded
to Collins, Bovine & Co., of New York
city. In all it will not amount to over
$4,000 we learn though the sum ap-
pears small indeed for the quantity of
stationery which must be used there in
the course of the next year. The new
contractors propose to open business
house here. Each bureau furnished it's
own samples upon which bids were msde,
and is to have its own inspector to re-
ceive and pass the goods, as required and
delivered. This inspector is also tc be
responsible for the proper disposition of
the stationery, of which of course he Is to
be the custodian.
THE Discussing AGENTS of the Trea
sury Departments contingent fund, ar
Messrs. Kane, of the Secretary's Office
Dobbin, fthe Solicitors office, and Otfutt
of the Sixth Auditors Office, all Fourth
Class Clerks. Their extra pay as dis
bursting agents run up their total cmolu-
ments from the Government to So 900
each, per annum. These gentlemen are
thus clothed with great responsibility {;
nothing being more difficult a,,<l trouble
some than satisfactorily keepinr The &C.
counts of the thousands of dis rments
of small sums required in Conducting a
daily business.
MAJOR j. R. BENNETT, of Missouri, a
vehement anti-Bentonian, has been ap-
pointed Consul to Bahia, Brazil, a post
supposed to pay $4,000 per annum. This
will disgruntle the Colonel, we apprehend,
who is already very bitter against some
of the Missouri appointments of the Ad-
As in the case of all active
politicians, we apprehend that the Colonel
forgets altogether what has been done to
crafty him, combining his recollection OF
the acts of his party in power, only to
what they have done displeasing to him.
THE VACANT DISTRICT JUDGEsH1P for Ma
ryland is already hotly commended for.
VIM. F. Giles, Esq, is, at least in Wash
ington, regarded as the man who is to win
the prize. Though Jarvis Spencer, Esq,
has many friends in Washington, not a
few coming over from Baltimore to drum
for him. Judges LeGrand and Constable
would probable have been first thought Of
by the Administration, but fol, the anus.
ing time the hackers of each of them af
forded all Washington not long since, when
the solicitorship of the Treasury was Of
fered first to l.. u. and then to C.. The
friends of those gentlemen, it will be re.
membered, were bitten with the idea that
Chief Justice fancy was was about to die
and therefore ceased looking after the bird
in the hand, to spread lime to catch the
bird in the bush which soon flew away
Some twenty or thirty Marylanders were
here managing in order to direct the dis.
position of the chief justiceship not yet
vacant. Their pulling and hauling was
done so openly, and some of their candi.
dates were so ridiculously unfit for the
position as to create great disgust here
generating Discrimination even towards