Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-03
Information for the New York Tribune.


is a fact that the Presidents carriage is
attended by servants in livery? We an
swer that it is not true. His driver and
footman, or attendant, flor in these days
the latter is seated by the driver, rather
thar standing behind the coach, as of
yore,l are always as plainly and neatly
attired as persons performing like SER
vices, who are to be procured by any one,
at any moment, in any very we'll kept
letting-stable in New York city. So far
as display is concerned, there are, at this
moment, one hundred public stables there,
from. whence the editor of the Tribune
may, on the instant, hire a far more dash
ing coach, driver and footman, than the
President keeps, though his turnout is,
as ID should be, neat, comfortable and re-
spectacle.
We have further to assure the editor of
the Tribune, that this letter of his Dem
ocratic correspondent, las he styles
him, ECHO" was written by a person
TO whom the President, or some of his
constitutional advisers, have refused
place. Hence the recklessness with which
he ISLANDERS every one here having place
in their gift, Of whom he writes. From
beginning 10 end, this disappointed Office
hunters statements are gross falsehoods,
every one Of them; as all in Washington,
Wings and Democrats, will testify-al-
ways excepting the disappointed Office
seekers, who, under Wing or Democratic
rule, almost invariably prove to be apt at
slandering, and utterly incapable of Sec
ing men and things, official, in the light
in which they are viewed by others. AS
for the President himself, no man in
Washington is palmer in his attire, or
simpler in his manners in intercourse
with all, or more devotedly attentive to
the pubic duties with which he is charged.
Really, Echo's cock-and-bull stories to
the contrary, look as though they are de-
signed only by way of experimenting, to
see what sweeping falsehoods the Tribune
can be induced to publish, in carrying out
its well-known custom of permitting its
correspondents to write pretty much
what they please for that journal read
ers. Though, to q certain extent, We
think the habit good one, we trust that
tue editor of the Tribune will at last re-
alize from the "saw" Echo runs upon
him, that it may be carried to disgrace
lul extent.
Thus. his roorbacks concerning the
late classification of clerks arc of piece
with what he writes concerning the Pres
ident. Here, in Washington, but two
classes complain of it. They are, first,
the disappointed; and, next, those who
hold that such places under the Govern
ment should rigidly be given out as re-
wards for partizan services. The latter,
in these days, are, of course, all Demo-
Gratis, and it does us good to hear them
howl ; because their complaints embrace
convincing proof that the classifers rigid
ly discharged their trust without regard
to tie politics Of the persons being classi.
fed. That was their plain duty under
the law.
As for nepotism in appointments to
clerical places here, we may truthfully
write that it has disgraced the Admins
tration Of the Government of the United
States ever since its foundation, though
1t has marked the presen. Administra-
tons dispGnsation of the patronage much
less than usual, as they have acted in
making appointments much less upon the
advice of members of Congress. than was
heretofore customary. So long az the
people will continue to send to Congress
men intent on getting all they possibly
can for their own, just so long will nepot-
ism be practised in Washington. Ninety
HE in every hundred appointees ofevery
Administration are personally unknown
TO the appointing power, who very natur-
ally look for advice in the matter to the
person in the locality from which the ap-
pointment is to be made, who is most
conhded in by the people there, as evil
denced by the Congressional commission
he holds from them If such politicians
are unreliable in such matters, las they |
really are too Ofcn,) pray in whom can |