Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-01

Mr.. Wright of the firm of Palmer, Cook l.
Co., who made so heavy an assault on the Ad-
ministration for the post of Assistant Treasurer
in California-Here the principal parties en-
gagged in getting up the affsir
We take it that all these gentlemen, besides
owing the President grudges for failing to APP
point them to the Offices they especially sought
owe Senator Gwin grudges for failing to get
those places for them, and therefore seek to
hound him down while legitimately engaged
in the service of his State, afar Off Mr.
Wright will be recoilected as . representative
in the House from California in the Congress
before the last, wherein he was notable as be-
ing perhaps the most useless public man ever
in the councils of the nation. At least the
most useless one we have ever seen in the
course of our long experience with all the
useless men who have ever been in either
branch of the National Legislature. The Gov
eminent have always in the keeping of the
California Sub Treasurer perhaps million of
dollars, the use of which in their business, the
house of Palmer, Cook & Co., desired. Hence
Mr.. Wrights application for the place, and
his extraordinary efforts to obtain it, and hence,
also, we presume, the Presidents peremptory
refusal to accord it, arose We dwell upon the
case of his dissatisfaction sore headedness-
because it affords a glazing example Of the
tendency of politics among us to sOrdid con-
siderations, and to place gentlemen aspiring to
be public men in positions which force upon
public opinion, the belief that it is high time
that the downward tendency Of American
politics shsuld be checked. %, h0s
This California case, take it all in all, is a
very fair example of the tendency to which
we refer. We see there, men with little or no
personal character, without experience in
public affairs, and Of the lowest order of in
tellect and attainments, for prominent men
banding together like pack Of hungry
wolves or gang Of confederate pocket
book troopers, in his absence, to malign
out of his present position, gentleman
whose success in carrying legislative points for
| the interests committed to his keeping, has
hardly ever been equallcd in the American
| Congress.
Onthat system of tactics failing to cheat the
people of California into the belief that such
thimble,rigging pseudo statesmen as themselves
are better able to protect the interests Of the
State at Washington, than their long headed
interchangeable and never firing representative
in the Senate. Verify, we should like no better
sport, than to look at them for an hour if the
| stalwart Doctor could but find time to leave his
labors here, so as at this season to drop unex-
| pectedly in upon them.
| ANeeded Reform.-We apprehend that the
proposition now before the Senate's Committee
on Invalid Pensions, proposing hereafter to
require invalid pensioners of the Government
to produce certificate from two respectable
surgeons-the result on a new examination in
each case-immediately before each semi
annual payment to them. showing that theil
respective disabilities have in no way de-
creased since they we're last paid, originates
| with the Department of tho Interior. 1t will
be recollected that chronic diarrhpa left q
great many Of those serving in Mexico in a
condi ion at the end Of the war, to justify the
| act of placing them on the pension rolls We
are inclined to believe that the Department,
| have subsequently become satisfied that many
of them have wholly recovered their health
and are, therefore, not legally entitled to con.
tinue to receive such bounty from the national
treasury. Existing laws, however, furnish nc
means Of enabling the paying agents to ascer.
tain properly whose names should be dropped
| from the pension rolls, or whose pensions
should legally be decreased on account OF
such recovery in part By-the-by, quite
a number of invalid pensioners hold office
at salaries ranging from $4,000 per an
mum down, and it has been proposed, un-
successfully, SO far, we apprehend. to withhold
from such as receive sufioiency from the
treasury for their support in the way of sala.
ries, the pension bounty of the government
while they may continue to be so provided for
Mr. Breckinridgc's Election.-We appre-
bend from what we learn from New York, that
Mr.. Cutting was mistaken in attributing to
the "Hards,' lot or part in the contribution Of
any portion of the 81 800 furnished from New
York, to aid in paying the expenses of the
friends of Mr. Breckenridge in that gentle
mans last contest for the seat he holds in the
House of Representatives. 1t seem, from what
we can gather, that Mr.. B. was wholly una
ware that any money had been raised in New
York for any such purpose. personal friend
of his there received a letter from another
friend in kentucky, saying that the only fear
| of BIS defeat arose from the fact that those
electioneering against him had been supplied
with large sums of money, which they were
using with lavish hand against him, while
his managing friends were without the means
of spending anything at it were, on the ordi-
nary expenses Of the canvass. Whereupon
the subject being brought to the notice of a
handful of the personal friends and admirers
of Mr.. Breckenridge, those gentlemen raised
| amongst themselves the sum Of 81 800; which
| they transmitted to the writer of the letter
from Kentucky, without the request, or even
| the knowledge Of Mr.. 3. Wemake this state
ment as correct, only after having taken pains
to thoroughly satisfy ourselves that it simply
| embraced the truth concerning the affair and
nothing but the truth.
| Change Of Station in the U. S. Revenue
| Marine We learn that I'd Lieut. A. D. STAN
| ford, U. S. R. NJ, has been ordered to the