Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-13
DAILY EVENING STAR.
WAsHIN TON CITY:
MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH -.
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING pRxss,

viz AASS III auoPtiHS the resolution not
long since reported by Mr.. Stanton. Of
Tenn, from the Judiciary Committee
authorizing them to make thorough in
vestigation into any and all payments I'm.
der awards of the Mexican Claims Board
of Commissioners, with the view to ascer.
tain whether others, besides the Gardine,
claim, were not fraudulently obtained
The editor says that such action is due &c
the Board and also to the honest claim
ants and their attorneys. The SAINT
poper contains an interesting memorial
from II. d. johnson, mot long since
elected territorial delegate to Congress
from Nebraska, it will be reoollected, J
presented to the Senate on the 10Th OF
February last, wherein that gentleman
urges the establishment of the proposed
territorial governments. Mr.. johnson.
who has long been a missionary in that
quarter, presents sensible and telling
synopsis of the condition of the region
proposed to be thus legislated for, and
shows with great force its pressing gov.
ernmental necessities.
The Sentinel contains an elaborat.
article upon our public buildings and
public grounds, urging the importance Of
liberal and prompt expenditures upon
them. The article is capital one, Indeed,
and should be needed by Congress.
rr The same journal has a communication
on Ocean penny postage, over the sigma
ture of Elihu Burritt. We regret to find
conductors of the Sentinel following the
Unions example, IN throwing open its
columns to the scribblings of this indi-
vidual. Inasmuch, as, by so doing, they
minister to his cronic cravings for motto
riety, without shedding useful informa-
ton on the subject of which he pretends
to treat. This Mr.. Burritt, is an aboli
zionist of the Garrison school, whose
reputation as public man, such as it is,
IS altogether of foreign manufacture. At
home, in Massachusetts,, as given as that
State is to deifying ultraists of all sorts,
his extreme views On the slavery ques.
ton and the utter imprachcability of his
notions on every other subject have
classed him about with VIM. Lloyd Gar
TlSon in public estimation. So he could
not be elected a justice of the peace, hog
reeve, or member Of the Legislature there.
He vibrates between Massachusetts, and
England, where Exeter Hall has set him
up for a great man, after her fashion of
trying to make such personages out of the
smallest possible materials, as all the
world knows. This individual knows
about as little of the philosophy of our
laws and institutions as any other man
IN the country who can read and write,
to judge from the nonsense he is eterna,ly
publishing ever his own signature, in
both hemispheres-and of nothing does
he know less than of the practical opera
ton of postage systems and of postage
laws. We trust that both the Washing.
ton Union and the Sentinel, will give
over loaning their columns to him, by way
Of enabling him to keep himself before
the public, which is all, maniestly, he is
aiming at.
The Intslligenesr is graced this morning
with interesting letters from London and
Paris, treating of the political condition
of Europe. We commend them to those
desiring to understand precisely what
the sober minded republicans (not reds)
and the real business classes of Western
Europe think of the existing state of
affairs between Russia and Turkey, and
their probable consequences to the rest
of Europe. We also find in to-day's
Iatelligenfer Washington letter from
the New York Express, in vindication of
Mr. Thomas Corwin, from the charge
which the writer of the said letter con-
celves to have been implied-of wilfull
cooperation in the Gardiner fraud. In
brief, the writer rests Mr.. c.. defence on
the facs that he sold out his interest in
one-fourtb Ahe claim, and in his contin-
gent fee before the fraudulent proof was
made; that he was employed by Waddy
Thompson, and not by Gardiner; that
his purchase of fourth interest was
from an assignee of Gardiner; not from
Gardner in person. His business con-
nection with the claim consisted in pre-
pairing an argument before the proof on
which the award was made, was adduced:
that when Secretary of the Treasury, he
aided the investigation las the Hon. Henry
May testihed) with all his powers of mind
and position; and that he entered MIR.
fillmore's Cabinet only after be had
Invested himself of all interest direct or
indirect, in that and all the rest of the
thirty claims under the Mexican boards
prospective awards, in which he was
originally employed as counsel.
Such are the points in the defence made
for MIR. COrwin. We have to remark,
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