Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-28
Washington News.

After AL, MI Cnarles W. Copeland the civil
engineer upon whom the Chief Engineership of
the Navy has been so pressed of late is COM
PEELED by the requirements of his private pro-
fcssional engagements to decline the office
The apparent anxiety of the Navy Depart
ment to secure his services. argues that it is
the determination of its head to place no gem
ucman in that position on political grounds
making the selection wholly to the end of in
Sailing at the head of the Naval Engineer
Bureau the very best qualified man to be found.
who can be induced thus to enter the Govern
mcnt service. As, under such circumstances,
to fill the Office will be a troublesome task, we
venture to predict that this branch of the
Navy will be for some time without an official
head; the Department consulting with eminent
engineers in civil life; whenever. Questions
arise which require for their proper solution
the advice Of steam engineers Of great ex-
pericnce and Judgment.
IHE Hon. HOWELL COBB, of Georgia, is OK
pcctcd here in a few days. He is at present
soiourning at Sharon Springs, n Y. As it
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newspaper people that he is in the duds' re
lativc to the distribution of the present Adj
miniSiration's patronage, we may not map
propriately mention that we are told by Il gen
tlcman who has been much with him of late
that he is very ardent Pierce man; sustain
ing the powers m cSse in all things He en-
tcrtains no idea of taking Federal Government
Office, we learn. The truth is, he is probably
looking to the United States Senate: an clec-
ton for a Senator from Georgia coming off next
winter llerchell Y. Johnson owes his recent
nomination as the Democratic candidate for
Governor Of Georgia, it is said, mainly to the
support he received from the friends of Gov
crnor Cobb. who have all again fallen into
i!nc with the Southern Rights wing of the
party. Governor C7s. forte is cool Judgment
-, We take it for granted that by earnestly
supporting the Pierce administration. and do
ing his best to aid in the election of johnson
and others date Southern Rights mem who
arc now Democratic nominees for Office in
Georgia, he will oblitcratc the bad feelings
against him (Which not long since ragged in
the breasts Of the dominant wing. # the Demo
cracy IN Gcorsia) at least sufficiently to insure
his return next winter to the United States
Senate, Wncrc his experience, excellent sense
Industry, and high personal character. will
render him we take it, more useful to his
country than any other Georgia Democrat we
wot Of
HE CHhECEsHIP To PoRTUGAL.-It strikes
Us that the many gentlemen who are spcndin.
breath, time, and money in efforts to clutch
this prize, are laboring in vain, it being very
likely that Professor Haddock date of Dart
mouth College, will be permitted to remain
there. The truth il, he is one of the most ac-
comrlished gentlemen in the country. and
wlthal, perhaps as popular, with both parties
though Wing, as any man in New England
He was sent abroad by Mr.. Fillmore on ac-
count Of his talents. attainments, and charac-
ter; never having taken part in politics fur
ihcr than III exercising his right Of suffrage
During the late Presidential canvass. it will
be rctollcctel that some Of the Abolitionist
poiiticians-not the Whigs-cssayed
to dclamc the character of General Pierce. and
- ''""".'" necessary for p-"fesa"r III tn :totc
what he knew Of Pierce, personally He ac-
cordingly wrote from Lisbon to the editor of
the New Hampshire Congregational orean.
also a leading Wing Of the State, exposing the
character Of these attac,.s, and warning his
fellow Wings against being entrapped into
repeating the unloUndcd allegations of Par
son Fo5s ana company. 1t will be recoIlccted
that the great mass Of the Wing party of all
New LhSiand took the lead Of the Democrats
is l. were (undcr this advice from Ill y in mt
ting the seal Of their disapprobation upon the
eiah'tcrs; thus cvincing Il sense OF honor and
duty rising far above anything Of the sort
which had marked fierce party contests in
this country for many years before Under
such circumstances. we have come to the con-
ciuSioh that the Administration, diSregardinr
the prayers Of their hungry ones will be very
apt to treat Professor IIaddock. Wing though
he Is. with ma.nanimity at least equal to that
manifested by him towards Pierce in the lat
tcrs hour of trial
PENNSILvANlANs IN WASHINGTON. During
the torcpart Of the current week there were
many Pennsylvania Democratic politicians in
Washington. nearly all Of whom had been
elected delegates TO their States Convention in
session at Harrisburg to-day In all perhaps
twenty-five of these gentlemen were here We
learn that there was Il tacit understanding
among them not to open the subject of Office
to any member of the Administration, and
ere taking their departure, some of them
boosted that it had been carried out to the
letter, Wonderful politicians these, truly
The President should have sent them to Bar
mum, By n! means; for they were certainly
the first batch Of Democrats coming to Wash
im:s;nn To sec him. who { lied to Guy nut-niuo,