Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-08

so doing has doubtless been more than
once considered in Cabinet council. The
public must not be surprised if such is
the result of their many long and earnest
efforts to determine upon precisely the
man'for the place. Sending Young Ameri-
ca to young France!-the idea is capital.
Douglas, with all his predisposition to
take the bit in his mouth, is as shrewd as
any other public man in the Union bav-
ing made but single mistake in the
course of his whole galloping career to
high position and fame. That is, when
he permitted the " fast men" of "the
party" to back him as their champion for
their late Presidential nomination.
Louis Napoleon, though he has already
proved himself to be one of the ablest
diplomatists of the day in Europe, cannot
out-wit him, or there is no truth in the
correct history of the events which have
marked his (Mr. Douglass race into his
position of wonderful popularity with all
parties in the Valley of the Mississippi,
where they go in for no gentleman unless
he is as sharp as steel trap.
Hon. JOSHUA R. G1DD1NGs.-A point of
some public interest is involved in a recent
correspondence between the Register of
the Treasury and the Hon. Joshua R.
Giddings, of Ohio. The latter wrote for
information concerning the names of the
persons who received payment under the
report of the commissioners appointed in
1871 or '22, under the treaty between the
United States and the Creeks, to settle
who were the rightful owners of the eighty
six Georgia negroes who had eloped to the
Indians above named. The Register is
said to have replied that he could not
furnish the information except upon Mr..
CTS declaration that he was interested in
the matter; meaning, Of course, except
he had pecuniary interest in it. The
member rejoined, saying that he was in
terested in the case, not meaning pecu-
niarily, we take it. The Register, no.
having the information on his file, has
turned Mr.. G. s letters over to the Second
Auditor. The question of Importance in
volved is, whether, in such case the rule
refusing information except on the appli-
cation of parties who have bona tide in
terest in making the inquiry, should be
applied to a member of Congress.
The New CHARGE TO NApLEs.-The
Hon. D. r. Owen, of Indiana, our new
Charge to Naples, who has been among
US for few days past, proceeds to Old
Point Comfort to morrow, in order to
confer with William Boulware, ESQ.,, of
Virginia, who some years since filled the
same mission. He will then return to his
western home, to make preparations
shortly to embark with his whole family.
CHIEF NAVAL ENGINEER Charles S.
Copeland, Esq, Engineer, of New York
| city, to whom, as we intimated some
days since, the position of Chief Engineer
in the Naval service of the United States
has lately been offered, will give the De-
partmcnt reply on his arrival here. He
| is looked for to arrive in Washington to-
day or tomorrow. He was offered the
! same place some time since.
The PREsIDENT's TRIP NoRTH.-The
President is yet undecided as to the hour
at which he will start on Monday next
for the North; nor has he yet determined,
we understand, how long the condition of
the public business will permit him to be
absent from Washington.
The FISHING SoUADRoN.-Th steam
ers Fulton and Princeton were to have
sailed yesterday from Norfolk.
The sloop of war Decater will sail from
Boston as soon as she can possibly obtain
the requisite crew.
THE BALTIMORE Sun, apparently stirred
up by the success of those interested in
urging the Metropolitan Railroad project
upon the citizens of this immediate re-
gion, takes up with spirit and ability, in
its issue of this morning, the question of
the necessity for the constant application
OF the energies and means of the Balti-
moreans, if they would succeed in mo-
nopolizing the entire trade of the country
they hold to be tributary to them, includ-
ing, of course, all Maryland, the District
of Columbia and Virginia. The Sun, iden-
titled as it is with the progress of Balti-