Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-29
WAsH1HaroN NEWS AND GOSSIP,

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looking forward to the coming recess with As
much keenness Of anticipation as is usually
INDUCED In by school boys at the approach of
vacation. The weather is warm-the daily
sessions have often merged into nightly ses-
sions-the debates have been unusually per-
sonai, piquant and protracted-grave senators
and the hotter bloods of the lower house have
let their angry passions rise almost to
fighting point; and it is we'll, therefore, for
the ends of wholesome legislation, that holt
day should be taken. Many of them will
visit tn cir families and friends many will seek
the most noted points on the Potomac, to "cool
OFF, like horses after a we'll contested race
many will wander through the sufocatingly
hot streets of Baltimore, Philadelphia, or New
York, under the delusive idea that they are
enjoying themselves; and many of them, like
Christians, philosophers, sages and stoics, will
remain in their comfortless rooms, franking
documents to grumbling constituents or an
swering the letters of importunate Office hun.
ters-whose aspirations range from q one dol
lar per diem tidewaitership to foreign embassy
with nine thousand dollar outfit All have
complaints of tho chest, and nothing will
afford relief but allepathic doses of treasury
pap. T.l -.-a-
1t is not likely that any public business, of
an important character, will be transacted by
Congress until after the recess-say about the
week after next-when members will be in
their seats again, in renewed health and spi-
rits, no doubt, and ready to attack the Cuba
question, or the Tariff question, or the Neu-
trality question, or the Fishery question, or
any other question, with great strength of
lungs and determination of purpose. 1t is not
likely that Deficiency bill of any kind can
pass both houses before the recess This pro-
crastinstion, to some extent unavoidable, is not
only vexatious in the extreme, but it presses
peculiarly hard upon class of people whose
suferings for the want of their just dues from
GOvernment-small in amount though it may
be-are much greater than is conceived of by
the public in general. With national treas
ury overlooking, not with thousands, but with
millions, cannot these cases be promptly
reached by legislative interposition?
A Question arising under the "Clerks'
Bilp' Disposed of-A draughtsman was hired
at stipulated sum per day to perform certain
professional work in the Navy Yard, Washing
ton. He claimed an increase of compensation
| under the act of April %, 1854, commonly
| called the "Clerks' BILL on the ground that
his duties were similar to those of the draughts-
men in the Navy and War Departments, who
received the increase. 1t was decided that
there was no analogy between the cases-the
draughtsmen in the departments being ex-
pressly provided for and classified, at stated
yearly salaries, under the law of March 3,
1853, and the draughtsman at the yard being
hired by the day like any other employee.
whose wages can be raised, if justice should
require it. by the authority that employs him,
without the aid of the act Of 1854.
"Doing it up Brown."-Friday lasts New
| York Tribune is a remarkable paper in its
way, conveying as it does, in almost every
editorial, proof of the fact that the Abolition
| lists realize that the enactment of the Ne.
braska bill at once deprives them of all their
| thunder. Every member who was in any way
conspicuous in urging the enactment of the
bill, comes in for share of its abuse. most OF
which consists Of low and vulgar personalities
all verging on brutality Messrs. Badger
Pratt, Toombs. Stephens of Georgia, Richard
son, Olds, Westbrook, Walsh, and many others
being specially treated to extra buckets full ol
slush. Wehaye heard fish women BLACKBOARD
and we think that in our day we have heard
very coarse and dirty language from the
mouths Of quarrelling grog- shop Ioafers, YET
----- hove heard one Of either of those
classes equal in style and yolubility the vul
gar personal abuse in the Tribune of Friday
As matter Of course, the Tribune people
who are exceedingly shrewd withal, do no
aim to make converts to their views upon tn,
bill after that fashion, because they know
we'll that low vulgar and sweeping abuse b,
wholesale never yet made single convert 70
any cause. In INDUCING in it as they do il
their issue Of Friday, they are merely bitiD,
their own cause to death, like the serpent sur
rounded by fire who sees no chance of escape
Payment Of Pensions to Attorneys.-N,
payment can legally be made to the attorne,
OF pensioner under the acts of July 4, 1886
July 7, 1888, and subsequent laws continuin,
their provisions, unless the attorney shall frs
make oath not only that he himself has no in
terest in the money he is to receive by an,
pledge mortgage, sale, &C., but also that {; b
does not know, or believe, that the same ha
been so disposed to any person whatever
Last Card Of an Actress We notice in tn
New York Herald of Saturday, letter from
Miss Kimberly, the actress, (who has for year
past been travelling over the country unde
the protection Of the notorious George Rober
the reputed editor of the Boston Times.) il
reference to the silly speech she made at th
close Of her engagement at the 81 Variete," il
this city. Miss X. in her letter complains Q
an attack made on her by the Washingto
correspondent of the ennsytranian, whic
was simply piece of playfulness about he
sllusion to imagined prosecutions, & from a
individual high in the confidence of the Dec
pies representatives She saws that whe
she said :" I regret to be compelled to say tina
in this city have suffered this hidden perse
cution from an individual high in the conf
, dcnce Of the peoples representatives. Ssh
meant John W. Forney. How ridiculous
Every body here knows that j. W. Forney