Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-29

theirs So there IS hope remaining for our
beloved country. s.Let us watch and pray"
as the Herald says Do, Mr.. Bennett, become
patriotic once again, and you may indulgei in as
many Bob Logic" demonstrations of the
craftsmanship you learned at Wiesbaden as
you fancy to favor the world with, if you will
only tell US something more of the 2sO, 900
forms plot.
A SUITABLE BUILDING FOR THE DEPART
MENr OF THE INTERIOR is already greatly
needed The heads of the Treasury and the
Departments are sadly in need for the accom-
mediation of their own bureaus, of the Offices
now occupied by the Land and Pension bu-
reaus. Within year or two, it will be utter
ly impossible to accommodate them longer
where they are. By that time, too, the bust
ness Of the Patent Office will force the Secre-
tsry Of the Interior to vacate, with his Clerks,
the magnificent apartments they new occupy.
Where are they to go? 1t strikes US that it
will be good economy in Congress to tear
down the present Jail, building one better
suited to the age and the wants Of the District
of Columbia on the outskirts of the CITY, and
constructing an Interior Department building
on the present Jail reservation. The business
10 be transacted by the various Departments
of the Government in Washington increases
the public buildings for its proper transac-
ton. Indeed. even with the use of the i'm
mense buildings of Messrs. Winder and Cor
coran, constructed for the purpose, they are
also forced to resort to mere private houses,
wherein the Government archives are by no
means safe from fire. The Treasury is over
flowing, and there can be, really, no better or
more truly economical way of using consid-
cradle portion Of it. than as we suggest above
BosH.-By way of showing our readers
the otherwise Undesirable Stiffness of what
is published by the New York Herald as
Washington news whenever its telegraphc
correspondents venture beyond the Star's
news columns for their staple, we extract from
that journal of Friday the following despatch,
for with there is not the slightest foundation
in truth, of course
Highly Important from IVdshingtou-Na-
h0nai Democratic Contention to be caIicd
to take into consideration the Policy OF the
Cabinet-Sperta Correspondence Of the
Near York HERALD
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 1853
The National Democratic Committee are to
call a National Convention Of the Democratic
party at Baltimore about the time of the
meeting of Congress. The object is to take
into consideration " the state of the Union"
rs illustrated in the conduct Of the present
Administration. They will determine the
question whether the Baltimore platform has
been properly understood by the Cabinet, and
whether their policy meets the appreciation of
the people The Southern States will be fully
represented, as will the anti-fressoil party Of
the North and West K.
This news bears the impress of some one
connected with the little cabal who not long
since attempted to establish themselves here
as a sort of kitchen cabinet. Finding their
services rejected in that capacity, they have
taken regularly to manufacturing Roorbacks
from Washington for the distant press These
are the gentlemen who got the parties
in New York into their present scrape by
persuading them that they had succeeded in
making q split between the President and his
Cabinet Poor fellows, they are in dingling
way just now, being evidently willing to in
clude the President himself in their anathe
ma g against the Cabinet Not long since, it
will be remembered, they were praising the
President to the skies. The removal of Col
lector Bronson, has taught them that they
can hardly I" make their jack by that game
So it will be seen that they have changed their
tactics.
A MUCH NEEDED INVESTIGATION We hear
that the Secretary of the Navy has for some
time been very deeply engaged in inves-
tigation into the causes which have produced
the failure of the steamers Princeton, San
cient professional board have been indus
triously bringing to light the whole Of the
history of their construction. We feel as
sUred from what is said concerning facts
already elected, that with the aid of this
board, the head Of the Department will not
be long in placing the responsibility of the
failure of these vessels on its authors, and
that sure measures will then at once be
taken, which will prevent the recurrence of
any such results Of the expenditure of public
money for United States naval purposes, in
future. The blow will be heavy upon unfaith-
full or Incompetent officers of the Government,
and upon the especial favors' lobby 60 long
hanging around the Department Yet fall it
will, and that speedily, or we are much mis-
taken. The steamers Mississippi, Saranac,
Powhatan and Susquehanna, are among the
finest naval steamers in the world, having
escaped the clutches of the special favors
men in the construction Of their machinery.
The defects in the others, we apprehend, will
turn out to be almost entirely in their ma
chinery not in THAR hnlls or rinninne