Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-05
Washington News.

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LrvERr.-The New York Tribune is not
satisfied with dressing up the Presidents
coachman in imaginary livery, but one of its
veracious correspondents in this city is so far
encouraged by his success in that first per-
formance, that he is now trying it on the
President himself. EIempfi gratia, from
Saturdays Tribune:
"Your correspondent, who spoke of the SER
wants in livery, has called forth the billings
gate of the venerable editor Of the Union,
who probably learned it when he was Consul
at Liverpool Now have seen the coach and
horses and harness, land they are worth look
ing att but l never looked at the driver or
footman I looked at the President, and /
have seen him in livery, but as public ser
want he has a right to his livery. He is not q
Foreign Minister or Consul, and, therefore,
don't come under Secretary Marcy's orders.
reckon your correspondent must have been
mistaken, and seen the President in livery,
instead of the driver and footman."
This is decidedly cool, for this warm wealth
err This writer has probably seen some
Foreign Minister driving to or from the Pres
ident's house, in his diplomatic toggery, such
as the present Administration has very sensi-
bly, abolished for our own representatives
abroad and he has taken the inmate of the
carriage for the President. Why does such a
genius hide his light under a bushel? Why
does he conceal the fair PROJECTIONS of his
name under the mere unknown initial of
''Mr R. :"
And, talking of livcries, Henry said a pretty
good thing when he heard of the Tribune s
first indignant livery article. Henry, by the
way, is the Presidents coaehman, and was not
little 'riled' at being charged with being
capable of wearing a ''livery.'' Henry would
not do it for fifty Presidents, and President
Pierce is the last one of fifty to want him to
do So Henry brought on the horses, which
were presented to General Pierce, and was re-
tanned, at first as hostler to them, having been
brought up under the far-famed Hiram Wood
ruff, and, therefore, being rather up to horse
flesh Having transferred his former driver
to another duty, General Pierce gave the reins
up to Henry; generously, by the way, doubling
the wages which Henry had fixed for himself
in his former capacity. There was nothing
very unhandsome on the Presidents part SO
far Henry knows that he bought his own
clothes to please himself; that General Pierce
never saw, heard, or thought of them and that
plain blue body-ceat, with ordinary fat
brass buttons, with nothing to mark it as diff
ferent from any other mans coat, and such
pantaloons as he might happen to have on, no
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| Greeley's historic old white overcoat, though
a little more decent and sensible, perhaps
than the latter. Henry thinks, moreover
that he is the only man in Washington or in
the United States, by whom General Pierce
| will submit to be Ariren But we have not
| yet told what Henry said, on hearing that he
| wore "livery," and that a correspondent OF
| the Tribune said so. dang him." 1--WE are
sorry he said this, but Uncle Toby once did 9
little more than the same thing, and the
| provocaton was CONSIDERABLY "I'd be sorry
| if was not more independent man than lie
| is. One thing is certain, L could mt be bought
to lie for my employer, and he would mt wan
me to, if L could
zmacks of Henry's early schooling under Hi
rams care.
| A MAIL Agent APPOINTED. - jeremiah
| McKibbon, of Philadelphia, has been ap
| pointed United States mail agent for the sin
| gle trip out from New York on the Goth O
| October next, to California and back in regu
lar course.
| LATER PROM observation-disclosures TAT
NAL DEAD.-We regret to have to write that
| Geographic despatch was received at New
| York on Saturday from Pensacola, saying tina
Commodore Tatnall, (the commander of tn
yard there whose alarming illness we an
! nounced on Thursday last, was dead, and tina
| the vrulence of the fever was such as to hav,
| compelled the remaining authorities to clos
the Pensacola Navy Yard, and move all hand
| some distance up the river
| The RIDER MUss. The papers of the North
| which have for some time past been making
mares nest Of the refusal of the Secretary o
| the Treasury to confirm some Mr.. Rider, nomi
mated to him by Collector Bronson, for a sub
| ordinate place in the New York Custom House
are barking up the wrong tree. We hay,
made inquiries which satisfy US that it grew
out of the fact that the Secretary, on exami
nation, concluded to abolish the office, whicl
was practically sinecWre. 1t was, accord
ingly, abolished So Mr.. Rider was not con
frmed to the Office to which he had been nom
| Mated that office benp no lon Ger in q Vi stapoo
EDITORIAL PROPER AND DECLIEATIoN.-
We understand that Ferdinand Jefferson, Esq