Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-22

sional outbursts against the claim agents, they
and they only are berated.
The evil of ex-member boring is becoming 50
scandalous to the morals of the National LIE
gislature, and SO intolerable an incentive 10
extravagance, recklessness and unconstitu-
tional expenditure Of the public funds, as very
nearly to have arrived at the point at which it
must correct itself, unless majority of Con-
gress have made up their minds hereafter to
regard the public treasure as neither more nor
less than common plumber, open to all corners
and goers s-~
During the FIRST month of the present session,
the signs of disposition strictly to s,rutiniae
every application for money or lands of the
Government were much more promising than
at present, we are sorry to have to write. Thus,
the good resolves of members, as exsmpliGed
in their greater caution in considering schemes,
seem, in too many cases, to be oozing out at
their fingers ends We trust that the press
at distance will chronicle the fact, so that the
country in response may signify that it designs
holding all in public life to strict account
ability for the share of each in improper use of
the money or property of the United States, if
any such be made.
The Spirit Rappers Coming.-we under
stand that quite a number of $50 calleD ''me-
diums' are now arriving at W ashington, direct
ed hither, as they aver. by ''the spirits.' They
say that they know not for what they have
been directed to assemble at this point, but
await the development of the purpose of their
masters in the other world The truth, proba-
bly,, is, that the Abolitionists, who command
the anti Nebraska bill army, have summoned
them to their aid. Our readers will recollect
what we published, few days since, concern
ing the didocS cut by couple of these crazy
fellows in the House post-ofice committee
room, where they made the spirits fall down
and worship Mr. Joshua r. Giddings, as by
long odds, greater benefactor to 10 country
than General Washington himself, as it were
1t will be seen in the end, we take it, that they
come to prophecy damnation Gin shocking bad
English) to the friends of the Nebraska bill.
1t strikes US that the honorable members, not
of the abolition party who have joined hands
with the enemies of the bill, have got unwit-
tingly into very bad (politicaD company. Had
they waited until this time, they would hardly
have been induced to blow heralds horn for
the anti-N ebraska- bill army, one wing of which
is manifestly Under the supreme command of
John P. Hale, while Miss Fox is the High
Priestess of the other.
The Delegate from New Mexico.-We learn
that the House Committee on Elections have
unanimously decided to report in favor of the
right of Mr.. Gallego to represent New Mexico,
as that territory delegate in Congress. They
find his legal majority to have been 7OS votes.
Resignation J. Atkinson has resigned
his position of second class clerkship in the De-
partment Of the Interior.
A Navy Officer Ordered. Commander John
S. Nicholas has been ordered to command the
steamer Michigan, on the Lakes
A Navy Officer Resigned.-First Assistant
Engineer Edward A. Whipple has resigned
Clerical Appointments in the Interior De-
partment. William L. Cleaver of New
Jersey, clerk in the Pension Office, pro-
noted to a 81, 200 desk, in place of NJ j
Atkinson, resigned.
c. deli. Carr, of South Carolina, has been
appointed to a temporary Isl 900 per annum, J
clerkship in the same bureau.
Pension Agent Appolnted.-Chas. F. Stain.
ford has been appointed Pension Agent al
Burlington, Vermont, vice VIM. j. Odell, re-
moved.
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Experimentation yesterday, the 21st of Feb.
ruary, there were of Treasury Warrants en-
| tered on the books Of the Department