New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-18

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MATTERS AT THE CAPITAL.-The Washington
Republics city correspondent says:
The Attorney General has played hob with
the calculations of those VINO hoped to get
nibble at the Treasury through an entire
change of the parties engaged in the construc-
ton of the extension of the Capital. On Satur-
day he rendered his opinion on the points sub
mitted to him in this connection from the War
| Department, which was such as to induce the
| Secretary of War to remove the ban hanging
over the further prosecution Of the work, which
was resumed this morning, to the great joy Of
Washington, by the three hundred hands whose
daily wages have been thus stopped
| The selection OF the larrodsburg Springs,
with two hundred acres attached, for the site Of
the proposed Western Military Asylum, in pre-
ference to the Blue Licks, gives eminent dissat-
isfaction to the friends of the latter locality
| now in Washington. Some Of them cannot re-
alize how it comes that General Scott didn t
cotton as much to the Blue Lieks on this occa-
sion as before the Presidential election. The
wags are insisting, i'll fact, that the. Generals
| mortal aversion to these same Blue Licks set
| tied the question in favor of Harrodsburg at
| 100000; though the Licks aforesaid, with four
| hundred acres attached, were offered for $780,
| 600. 1t seems to be estimated that the Har-
rodsburg site is worth in open market some
| $50, 600. If so, Uncle Sam has come off better
in this trade than in the purchase of a site for
| the Memphis Navy Yard, having only to pay
| twice as much as the property is really worth
However, fifty thousand, here or there is a mere
circumstance to the Government in the matter
of getting the very best possible location for
such an establishment
That terrible trio, Messrs Guthrie, Washing
ton, and Burt, have not only appointed Mr..
George Humes, of Maryland, (who was decapi-
tated by Mr. Forney, it will be remembered,
being found guilty under an indictment for
whiggery) to a clerkship in the Third Auditors
office, but they have just had the temerity to
violate the office hunters code by reinstating
in the same office Messrs. Scott, Winter, and
Beattie, wings, removed few days since
Messrs Boynton, of Ohio, Clark of Wiscon-
sin, and Green, of Maine, We're sworn in to-day
as clerks in the Pension Bureau.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun, writing under date of the 10th, says
A good many democrats have been dismissed
from the Third Auditors Office, and some four
or five wings have been appointed. Surprising
as the fact is, it excites no sensation. Many
moderate persons hail it as a good omen re-
garding it as the beginning of an era of politi-
cal liberation, in which we shall see enforced the
benevolent iniunction-let prescription be pro-
scribed There is some color for the anticipa-
ton. Father Whittlesey, the faithful whg
guardian of the Treasury, is respectfully re-
quested by the President to remain in the Office
of First Comptroller, while, to show that no
personal favoritism is intended, his son is turned
out OF Sl40O clerkship in the Post-office De-
partment.
To promote efficiency many superanuated
clerks have been dismissed, the most Of whom
are democrats. Judge Clayton, of Georgia,
SAond Auditor, a Fillmore whig, is retained !;
John Wilson, the able and efficient Chief Of the
Land Office, Cass-anti Taylor wing, is re-
tanned. If Gen. z. means to restore the Mon
roe era of good feeling; he has only to appoint
some decided Union compromise wing to a full
mission. Then the fusion of the elements will
be complete.
No Cabinet meeting was held to-day, but in
stead thereof Gen. Pierce held confidential
conference with the sovereigns in the general
reception rooms, from Il A, NJ. to p. VI.
On Saturday last, Gen Gushing decided that
Col Davis's points against the capitol extension