Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-07-18

Ia trus and unbiased expression Of the views
Of oil whose names are appended thereto.
aThe undersi gned have the honor to request
that such a disposition may be made Of this
and the memorial as may be
deemed most proper"
We have taken the liberty thus to analyse
and criticise the communication on cur first
page, only because We believe that it will be
altogether, if Congress makes up its mind to
relieve it from the discharge of the duties it
was created to fulfil. Its officers have done
quite as much for the progress Of science and
the arts in the United States, quite as much as
any other such body of men ever did for their
country in that wsy anywhere 1t is very
easy to make sweeping charges against them;
but except that they insist on the strict OBJ
servance of strict rules by all employed by
them, nothing has been proved against them.
That the scientific portion of our army is I'M.
surpassed in its efficiency, is truth Of which
every sensible American must be proud, and
every true patriot should set his faoe against
anything deliberately designed to degrade il,
or render it inc fiicient.
The Last Muss-senatorial-t between
Messrs. Clayton and Wade, occurring yester-
day, was much commented upon around the
hotels last evening. Mr.. Wade said, that
something which Mr.. Clayton had put in one
of his published speeches on the Homestead
bill, which he (Mr. Wy alleged to embrace q
serious Misrepresentation of something said by
him in the course of the debate, was malicious.
ly and deliberately false. Whereupon, Mr..
Clayton, making his finger with great earnest
ness at Mr.. Wade, told him that he lied, re-
peating the soft impeachment three times, and
announcing in the course of his remarks that
he held himself responsible outside of the Sc
nate chamber, for the aspersion on the honor
of the Ohio Senator. We do not re.publi b
the words of this spirited little controversy,
because they are already in hundreds Of news
papers, though only uttered perhaps an hour
after We went to press yesterday.
This affair, to say the least of it, is sincerely
to be regretted by all we'll wishers of our coan-
try's future. Early in the course of the ees-
sion we took occasion more than once to sug.
gest, that whatever others might think, our
organ of veneration for the Senate was by no
means astonishingly large. As strange as 1t
may appear, we did and do look upon its men,
bers as human, and endowed with the failings
and the weaknesses of other men, and as being
not q whit less liable to abuse special priv.
| nd
some months past we had with great pleasure
indeed, witnessed what we conceived to be evi.
dent signs of improvement in their chamber
barring very undue amount of personalities
which have occurred there.
This last muss, how ever, af1icts US sorely-
inasmuch as it involves a refutation In ad.
vance of some Of the many clever things we
hoped to be able to write and publish of them
when they turned their backs on Washington
The Reciprocity Treaty.-We have to as.
sure the thousands of distant readers of the
Star, that the New York Herald's prognos:i
cations Of the eventual defeat of the Canadian
treaty, are unfounded. 1t is admitted by ali
well-informed persons in Washington, tina,
there is NO. the least doubt at this time, Of
It's final confirmation. A fortnight ago there
seemed to be prospect that it might not b.
| taken up ere tho end of the session, princi
pally owing to the ideas which some Senators
| were credited with entertaining, concerning
alleged nation etiquette, and all that sort o.
thing. Subsequently, however, the Senate
Foreign Affairs Committee are understood t.
have reported unanimously in favor of its con
frmation without amendment; "a recommen
| dation so strong as to insure due action upor
| it. The Herald alone, Of the press of the
United States, of any pretensions to standing
and influence, opposes it; but only as tha
journal systematically opposes every thing
supposed to be particularly acceptable to tn.
present National Administration. We neet
not rehearse the list, to recall to the memor,
Of the Stars readers the fact that the Herala
has bitterly opposed every thing which ha.
been considered in either branch of Congress
with the success of which the fortunes Of thu
| Pierce administration might be conceived t.
bound up. In all these efforts that journa
has been signal!y defeated. The action of thu
present Congress upon such subjects has be 81
series Of irrefragible testimony, showing tina
the Herald's influence in public affairs is bu
mountaineering no existence in fact
AS for the treaty In question, it is exceed
ingly popular with the members of Congress
because it proposes to certainly remove every
existing possible cause Of misunderstan dine
between this Government and Britain, and
thus to insure the much longer continuance
OF the state of peace under which we are leap
ing so rapidly to the first place among the
nations, in agriculture, the useful arts, and
foreign commerce.
1t involv es an approximation to our system
| OF Interstate commerce in our future CONNER.
cial relations with the Canadas, bidding fai,
greatly to increase tho markets for thousands
OF our staples, and to secure for US many
things which we may have ON better terms
than they are now obtainable by our people.
We are without space TO- day in which to enter
INFO into review of the details of this most
important convention. We may not, however,
fail to remark, that many of those of the
North who have been the most stringent pro.
tectionists, having ut length realized that the
true policy Of the United States is the exteu.