The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-17
w.sh,ngton Gessap.
[coaaEspoNDEEcs OF The EEPusLrc.] 4E
May Is, 1858.

/ May is, 1859
The regulations recently promulged by the
| Third Auditor for the government OF those EN-
| ployed under him giving mortal offence out
of rather than in the bureau of that functionary.
At least the sensation has extended there deli
cacy discretion effectually prevents manifes-
taton OF feeling upon the subject. These regula-
ons prescribe what shall not be done by the clerks
during Office hours in the way of devoting them
selves even indirectly to any thing but the prose
cution of the Governments business. They further
prescribe the custom of giving orders clerks
pay IN advance of pay day. / own to very little
sympathy, indeed, with those who conceive the
enforcement OF such rules either unnecessary or
improper, not being able 10 comprehend why such
establishments should not be subjected to system
OF discipline (if chooses go to designate it)
which has been found necessary and beneficial in
all large business houses of every description,
conducted on private or corporation account = ALI
Washington are well aware that if the head of
Government bureau W i'll SO permit, there are al
ways those employed therein who will shrk work,
throwing upon their more industrious co-iaborers
an undue proportion of the labor necessary to keep
up the business of the office. AS the tendency of
such regulations is to equaize the work performed,
ma@Uog each clerk do his share, of course those
WIS sender the Government the best return for
their salaries, are more than satisfied with them
They know well that their positon of present
intense labor is to be rendered more comfortable
BY them. l have always found that gentlemen
inclined to growl about such infringernents upon
their dignity and independence, for the most
part those who conceive that they are doing the
Government favor by condescending to hold
Office, however tenacious they may be of their
places. 1t is not to be expected that they can
realize the justice of being brought under rules,
such as time out of mind have governed all other
Government workshops except clerical ones.
AS Tor the pay order regulation, its enforcement
In every bureau in Washington will be blessing
at least to those properly depending on Gov
eminent employees for their living 1t is well
known that very few others than those almost Grim
inally improvident give such orders. When they
are given, in nine cases out of ten it in return
for shave at the rate of from q to per cent. a
month. 1t is certainly true that no provident man
laboring at fair fixed salary, need pay any such
usury for no man, who may be implicitly relied
on 10 deal honestly with his creditor, fail to
get credit IN Washington for any reasonable pur-
pose. Even where the debt to be incurred is extra
ordinary in the purpose for which it is created if
the party desiring to create ia we'll known to be
punctual in his business engagements, persons
always stand ready to credit him without shave
and an order in advance upon his pay So this
regulation cannot bear on the provident; and no
sane mar VIII doubt the propriety Of bringing the
improvement within any regulation whatever the
operation OF which must serve TO force them to live
within their means. The reader will not under
sta nd me, trust, intimatng that the class of
Government employees in Washington recurring
to be thus regulated is large; on the contrary il
ia small, having for the last twelve years been
gradually decreasing in numbers. Yet all know
that there is still such class among u.s. and that
any such order from the head of bureau will most
surely ben eht materially the families and deserv-
ing creditors of its components.
little bird has whispered to me that Mr. De
Leon, late co-editor with Elwood Fisher, esq. of
the Southern Press, the gentleman to whom Gene
raj Pierce'z De Leon letter was addressed applied
foe the Australian consulate immediateIv after the
Inauguration, and that time was taken TO consider
the propriety OF bestowing it upon him. The little
bird says further that, after ue reflection hs was
informed that he could have it, whereupon he DO
litely declined ii; the bubble Of immense American
trade with Australia having recently burst, Cali
fornia proving gold field sufficiently large for
the enterprise of our feow-citizens This same
biped insists that Mr. De Leon now sets hie heart
on the post of Consul General in Egypt, and also
Intmaes that his chance for it is not as bright as
MIR. De Leon and his friends might wish
16neSeO,
has been much here since the 4th of March, is be-
leved to have refused some three handsome offers
from the Administration-the consulate at Labai
ia (Sandwich Islands) and at Panama, and also
the chargestp at Bogota. 1t is taken for granted,
from these declensions, that his visits at Washing
ton have little of self in them.
Nappears that there is cat in the meal bag of
Mr.. Parks, who has just been determined on for
postmaster al Harrisburg, Pennsy lvania. He voted
for Taylor, which being ascertained beyond dis
pute, causes hestancy relative TO the propriey of
carrying out the purpose of giving him the office,
which was agreed upon in Cabinet council on Fri
day last.
As instance of the remarkable sacrifices
which public men of the day willing at times
to make for the sake Of their country, / have TO
announce that the Hon. Eli Moore, now of New
Jersey, though firmly convinced that he enjoys
longer and broader national reputation than the
President himself, accepts the Usage River Indian
Agency rendered TO him in lieu of the Cabinet ap-
pointment first class mission, which he con-
ceived TO be his due some months ago.
have reason to believe that Colonel James Wall
of Burlington, New Jersey is to have the charge
ship to the Hague, in spite of the protests to the
contrary made by Senators Wright and Thompson
as we'll as by Commodore Stockton. The Hon.
Rodman M. Price will probably reach Washing
ton this evening, to ascertain if it is absolutely
true that the Administration dream of standing
out ag ainst the ukase of the onopoIy in the mat
ter of making an appointment from New jersey
The incredulous gentleman has but to wait until
about the end of the current week to see the fact
officially announced.
To-day the Cabinet council were engaged in
considering the Presidents notes upon the recon-
relative TO foreign appointments which
they made to him on Friday. On that day they
closed up the business, il were, and Indicated
n writing full programme of foreign ministers
and charges. This business is thus near its ter
nination, it being probable that in another session
hese appointments will all be agreed upon
This being the last of this series of letters
nave respectfully to take leave of the readers of
he Republic, to whom, and to all othe rest of
outside press who have so extern
lively recopied them-I tender my best wishes
ICHABOD.
lScIpESTs BY THE WAY-The New Haven
Palladium, of Saturday, says: GA plainly dressed
nan, with white hat and black Grape was killed
morning on the Middleton branch rail-
.oad. He was seated on bridge, about three miles