The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-21
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON.
Our Washington Correspondence.

WASHINGTON, d. c., August lS, 1854.
Remoral Of a Kno,e Nothing from the Post
Office Observation-Disclosures Of the
Party-.Nfic Clauses IN The .qrmy Bill
The Hon. Charles James Faulkncr-.Nocc-
ments Of Politicians, &c.
There is Just now much Indignation and ex-
element among the Know Nothings Of this
city, owing to the election of one Of their num-
Der from 81, 400 clerkship in the City Post
Office, simply because he avowed his attachment
to that order There can be little doubt that
this removal was made at the instance of. or
with design to please Judge James Campbell.
the Postmaster. General, who is Catholic, and
If so, 1t is an infamous outrage upon American
citizenship and liberty Of speech, which is not
at all pallated by the Objectionable Course of
the Know Nothings themselves. Col. Ber-
rett, the City Postmaster. takes the RESPONSE
bility," and heavy one he will find it,
imagine, before the act itself is forgotten. Mr..
J. w. Davis, the party removed, has since been
appointed to another Office under the municipal
government.
Congress, at Its recent session, Inserted
clause in the Army Bill, increasing the pay Of
providing for promotion from tue ranks, and
still another clause substituting civil for mill
tary superintendent, in the u. s. armories. In
some parts Of the country the two last-namcd
measures have been hailed as quite a triumph
over what is termed the overbeariDg and a,is-
tocratic demeanor of the West Point graduates
Congratulatory meetings were gotten up, reso-
lutions passed complimenting the authors OF
these provi>os in Congress, and cannon fired
under the very windows of the Military Su-
perintendent at Springfield, designed, no doubt,
to add insult, If possible, to the injury just
then inflicted by this buncombc legislation Of
Congress. For oil this miserable bucksterng
Tor votes and popular applause, Mr.. Charles
james Faulkner Of Virginia deserves the most
notoriety, and he shall have IL If my feeble pen
can give ii TO him. My expectation that Tn
piece Of legislation would turn out in the end
to be the most rascaliy that was ever devised,
has led me 10 keep silence until some higher
authority should expose the motives of those
who urged so vehcsnently and necessarily the
change In the superintendcucies. The following
letter explains ITSELF
WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 1854. I
Sfs:-t have the honor TO submit the ,nclosei
paptIs in reply ~ the reso ution of the House of
Representatives OF tho 3lst ultwo, requiring infor
the Commissioners who visited Springfield srmory
under tho act OF marcn 3, 1853, for the Office of
superintendent Of either of the national armorlos or
Any IecoDme ndation by either OF said Commission
tIs for the appointment OF any other person 10 that
tn 81 also, III relation TO any up ,licston By or In
thalf Of spv Of the witnesses from Harper's Fer
or Springfield. who testified Def no the select com
mitiee oftbe House 70 whom ives referred tho qaes-
ton OF the ex edw ncy Of cmpl yipg military on ers
n suptrv sion Of said works, for aay offices 10
either OF witnesses for any such oh e: also In
relation any appli alton by either OF TIE members
g saic sstci committee, 10 bir own b.hslf &c in
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