Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-23
Washington News.

pointment of MI. John NJ Daniel, Of the Rich
mOnd Fa.) Examiner, which was determined
on yesterday in Cabinet council after the Star
was "made up for the press, has not been
amiabiy received by the partizans of the
various ancient leaders of the Democracy now
in Washington. These gentlemen and their
friends elsewhere will make a great hubbub
over it doubtless. Mr.. D. in almost all things.
has been :" Young American after the
fashion Of Mr.. George Saunders of the late
Democratic Review. That is, pen in hand he
hos cut and slashed among the &" Old Foges"
of'the party opening gaping wounds semi
weekly in their self-love, and knocking into
"pi'' the hopes of obtaining minor Offices
through their elevation, entertained by their
respective devotees He is undo ubtedly a
man of fine literary attainmen..s ahd ar;obt
talents, though it strikes rs, united, frem the
want OF q oalance-wheel t. the machinery of
his mind, for TIE proper discharge of diplo-
matte duties. That is, if our relations with
Sardinia are to be such as require the exercise
of the qualities which must form the basis Of
evenness of temper and discretion. Yet.
for the life of Us, We cannot see how
the Administration, acting in good faith.
could have refused to provide for Mr.. D. His
friends formed wing Of 1.-The party in the
last Presidential election which did quite as
much to bring about the overwhelming tri.
umph OF Pierce, as any other They present.
cd many. candidates for many places of i'm
portance, and have been refused, perhaps in
ninety-fi Of their applications out of everv
hundred. Finally, it is said around Wash
inston, they concentrated their efforts in favor
OF Mr.. Daniels, who. in theirbehalf, had earn
ed anything but the love Of all tho rest of the
party. 10 refuse them his appointment, un-
der such circumstances, would have been to
have violated grossly the principle of treating
all the wings alike,-of knowing no distinc-
ton among them in the distribution of their
patronage, which the present administration
have SO often proclaimed to be th,ir policy
These arc plain views, which have suggested
themselves to us Oh scanning what seems t, be
going on here; yet We have every confidence
in their correctness
DEPARTURE OF THB FISHING Gro USDs
SQUADRON Letters from the Portsmouth N.
H.; Navy Yard designate to- morrow, the 24th
inst, as the day for the departure of Commo-
dore Shubrick's squadron, the Princeton
boilers having been sufficiently repaired to
permit her to sail on that day. Commodore
s., who has been quite an invalid since reach
ing Portsmouth, has recovered
LIEUT.. HAROLD, U. S. N has been detached
at his own request, from the receiving shin
Pennsylvania, at Norfolk.
The NAVY AGENTS OFFICE at this point
has been supplied with additional clerical
force by the Navy Department, to enable its
Chief to properly attend to the mass of Extra
Pay claims being showcred upon him, as we
have before explained.
IHE CONGRESS LIBRARY-That is, the rcfit-
ing and repairing of the great library hall
which has been going on for some months
since, is at length entirely completed, and the
books are being rapidly arranged in their
places. it is emrhatically the most gorgeous
and yet graceful chamber in the style of its
ornaments in the United States, we take it
An impression that it is not yet properly ven
tllated prevails. This arises from the fact tn at
tho heat is we'll nigh sufocating upon those
who go up into the highest range of its alcoycs.
We presume that the architect will speedily
remedy this temporary defect
The President, we have learned in quar-.
Ter in which we have confidence. does not at
present propose to leave Washington again
this season. Nor has he any idea of yacatipr
his quarters at the White House to soiourn
temporarily elsewhere in the jneighborhood
of Washington, until the repairs being put
on the Executive mansion shall be conpl eted
as repeated over and over again in distant
newspapers. Captain Lee, of the Engineer
corps. who is experimenting the work upon
the buildins,is pushing it with great spirit
and energy.
THE OVERFLOW OF THE TREAsURY.-There
is now surplus of within q fraction Of
S22,OOO,OOO in the Treasury, notwithstanding
the Secretary is reieeming United Estates
stocks and otherwise paying the public debt
as fast as the law to that end will allow him.
Thus, it appears that the Governments rev.
enuSs are inc reasing SO rapidly as that the
public debt is being fast extingu;shed without
materially decreasing the amount of cash on
hand
What will Congress do with this surplus T..
Will it not be very bane to the real interests
Of the States? The fear is that it will be re-
gardel merely as SO much plumber, to be
squabbled for by horle Of sharp men, each
OF whom will keep free dosgery here next
winter, to aid their operations on the members.
MESsRS ISAAC EowLER Pnstmaster and