Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-03


p n.y. there was well-nigh collision between |
Messrs. Stuart and Douglas, over personal |
misunderstanding with reference to the Ne
braska bill Both became greatly excited, and
very hard words passed between them for
some time Other Senators were drawn into
the muss, and the squabble babe fair to be-
come general. The Misunderstanding was,
however, finally explained, and harmony was
restored. No bones were broken.
A New Custom House for Alexandria Va
The people of the neighboring city Of Alexan-
dria, Va, have petitioned Congress for new
custom house We believe, from our own know
ledge Of the facts Of the case that the interests
of the Government require favorable action on
their request. Their present custom house
building was bought in 1920 for S600o-then
an old building-since which time 30 incon-
siderable sums have been expended in its re.
pair as that it is now mere rattletrap, liable to
tumble down Of its own weight, as it were.
There are but three rooms In it habitable for
business purposes, and those barely so; while
its whole lower story is too damp for storing
goods, unless the Government is willing to pay,
as it should, any damages that may arise from
placing goods in their custody, where they
must necessarily be thus injured The march
of the times has brought railroad track within
| twenty feet of the old Undertook, which rem
ders it exceedingly difficult for merchants to
get insurance at any rates of premium on their
| property so stored. Alexandria has very lately
taken new commercial departure, which has
superinduced her increase in enterprise, popu-
lation and wealth, during the last three or
four years quite in ratio with any other i'm
proving community east of the Allegheny
mountains so that what might possibly have
been fair custom house accommodations for her
business in 1880 or 1910, are by no means sufi-
cient in 1854. We ate firmly opposed to the
current disposition to throw away the public
money in making magnificent public buildings,
highly ornamented, &C., under the name of
custom houses. Tet we can realize the true
wants of such a community in this connection,
and endorse the eminent propriety of building
| there plain, commodious, convenient and sub
stantial custom house, in the construction of
which not a dollar shall be needlessly ex-
pended
Pay for Fractions or Parts Of Month and
Months Service.-It is held at the Treasury
Department, in the settlement of the accounts
OF all the Governments military and naval
employees, that in cases where periods Of SER
vice rendered by those employed in the army
or navy at a stipulated monthly rate of conf
pensation, extend to and embrace fractional
parts of any month, thirty days are assumed
and regarded as constituting the entire dura-
ton Of such a month, in lieu of the twenty
eight, twenty nine or thirty one calendar days
itmay contain, and the proportioned allowance
of compensation therefor will be computed ac-
cordingly. But for the full and entire month S
service, performed by persons SO employed,
they are allowed and paid according to such
stipulated monthly rates, without reference to
the number Of days the month may contain
Lord Raglan-As the Union, this morning,
seems not to know who Lord Raglan, just ap-
pointed to the command of the English troops
to cooperate with the French in the Russo
Turkish war, is, We may be permitted to en-
Tighten that journal. In the first place, the
Boston telegraphic correspondent is not in
error in announcing his Lordship as the COM
mander of the forces above mentioned. He
| (Raglan) is Peer of the Realm Master Gen.
eral of Ordnance, (the second military Office in
the kingdom,) and Lieut. General of the Army
He has seen much service in India, under the
name of Lord Fitzroy Somerset Under that
name, he also succeeded Sir Harry Smith as
commaD der n-chief in the Cape war. He is
of the Beaufort family, being the nephew of
the present Duke of Beaufort. lie derives his
present title from Raglan castle, one of the
most famous feudal fortresses of Wales.
Enlisted Men Of the Ordnance and Engineer
Corps.-A subscriber lin the seryice) writing
to US from Pikesville, Md, complains that the
bill recently reported to the House from their
Committee on Military Affairs, increasing the
pay Of the various grades and corps in the
Army, fails to provide for the ordnance corps
and the sappers and miners, saying the en-
listed men of the ordnance corps, and of the
| sappers and miners attached to the engineer
corps, are working men, and employed daily at
ten hours work, and therefore they have re-
ceived higher pay as the men in the line
| The situation of these men is, Mt the pre- sent
time, as it has been heretofore, anil wherefore
shall they be now the sufferers -
A Navy Officer Resigned.-Lieut. Charles
| H Baldwin has resigned Tientenant has
of late years been much on private steam
| ers on the California side. His resignation
adds another to the list of those officers per-
mitted to serve on steamers not in the regular
service, as - SCHOOL, to teach them the proper
management of steamers of war, who have re-
signed when called back to the discharge of
their legitimate duties.
Navy Officers Ordered, &c.-Lieut. Henry
II. Lewis has been detached from the Wash
ington Navy Nard and Lieut.. Donald Men
Fairfax has been ordered to duty in his stead.
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Department. yesterday, the I'd Of March,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered on
the books of the Department
For the redemption of stocks. ...$1G2, 500 Is
Fer the payment Of other Treasury
| deDtS Y,ZZI 59
| For the Customs. 64,6l7 Sc
| Covered into the Treasury from
miscellaneous sources. 1T 20
| For the War nena I07 so