Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-19

| seems that Lieutenant Anderson. VINO was
sent to arrest him at Wacao (village,l was
himself arrested by mob, and actually thrown
into Jail after having Steiner in custody. The
pretence for this act was, that he (Steiner)
must first answer to the civil authorities A
more atrocieus and deliberate murder than
that committed by Steiner, is not of record.
He called A. out of his chamber and shot him
down in presence of his wife, after avoWing that
If ordered under arrest he would kill A. on sight.
1t is passing strange, indeed, that popular
opinion should seek to screen the perpetrator
OF such an act, as it does.in Texas, while it is
bowling after Matthew Ward, who has been
acquitted after long and most careful trial,
In which he was efficiently prosecuted by coun-
sci, who, in abilities and experience, are second
to no other criminal lawyers in the United
States. We make this comparison to show
how inconsistent and really unreliable, pop
ular opinion is, when made up without due in
vestigation, Information, and time for refec-
ton. If right in one of these cases. it must be
sipgularly wrong in the other. We can have
| little doubt that it is more or less wrong in
both cases, and that time, information, and re-
Election, will set it right in both. Public opin-
| ion, after due reflection and information, never
errs in the United States, or We are greatly
mistaken. The truth is, being hot blooded,
the American people jump to conclusions,
| which they promptly change on being satisfied
Of their incorrectness. Thus, we earn the rep
utation of tickle mindedness. We are, how
Int nd hot; N
pie, and ever prompt as a nation to think just
| ly in the end, on all thoroughly examined
questions.
a Clerical Appointment.-Mr John McNer-
haney, of the District of Columbia has been
| appointed to a first clerkship in the of
| flee of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury,
| Isl, 200 per annura)
Latest Particulars From Mexico learn
| by private letter from an American at Vera
| Cruz, dated May the, It'll instant, and coming
in the Dee's mails,) that Santa Anna is COM
| pletely surrounded by Alvarez's insurgents,
| having his communication and egress to the
city of Mexico, as we'll as his supplies from
any quarter completely cut off. His men are
certainly dying off very fast from want and
disease. At Vera Cruz, it was expected by
| those best informed, that they would very soon
hear of a revolution in the city of Mexico,
which would drive from their places instantly
all of Santa Annals officers and adherents in
the Government.
At the city, it was impossible to hear from
Santa Anna, all dispatches passing between
him and his men in this city of late, having
been intercepted by the insurgents.
The SloO Tehauntepec grantees have discov-
cred practical passage over the mountains,
reducing the total elevation to be overcome
4 some two hundred feet, and have commenced
the construction of their plank road with
| vigor.
1t is the opinion of the intelligent writer of
the letter, that the money to be paid under the
| treaty will not save Santa Anna as such il
his condition that he cannot get to the capital
| to avail himself of it,
A Congressional Mistake-In providing
for an increase Of the pay Of persons a. this
point in the civil employment of the Govern
some unaccountable oversight the guards and
other persons employed in the responsible po-
sitions of taking care Of the prisoners in the
Penitentiary of the District of Columbia were
wholly overlooked. They were, by long odds,
the worst paid and hardest worked employees
Of the Government. in this city, previous to
the enactment of the clerks bill, and still re-
main in that most unenviable condition, with
out having had their compensation increased
silver, to meet their so heavily increased ex-
penses for food, raiment house rent and other
necessary family expenses. They are few in
number, and are in all respects most deserving
Their case can easily be met by the House
Committee on the District of Columbia, who
have merely to report an amendment to the
Deficiency bill, when it shall again be taken
up in Committee of the Whole, to insure their
| instant relief. Neither branch of Congress
we feel certain, will hesitate for an instant to
place them on footing, as to compensation
with the others of their grade in the public
service, on hearing the explanation of thei
case which, we take it for granted any mem.
Der of the District Committee will be able to
make.
| The Delivery of Letters from Post Offices
1t is held at the Post Office Department thai
Postmasters cannot deliver letters from their
-L--~au ha addres sed
deliverable from other Offices
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Department.-On yesterday, the 18th of May
there were of Treasury Warrants entered OF
tho books of tho Department
For the redemption Of stoc ks..... SS3,376 81
For the Customs. ................ $50 OF
For the War Department. 14l .725 q
For tho Interior Department. 1885 OF
| PERSONAL.
| ....Colonel Edward Stiff, Sr, late editor o.
Stiff's Radical Reform,er, committed suicide
in prison. in Centre, Cherokee county, Ala