Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-19
WASHINGTON NEws AND GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON NLws AND GOSSIP.
A sensation.-The reply of Captain VIM
" Moore, the foreman of the Intelligence
Office, to the publication of Mr. Rives, proprie
tor Of the Congressional Globe, dated Apri
oath, ultimo, which (the first mentioned) wa
published this morning in an extra sheet ha.
created much excitement on the Avenue and
among the members. The history of the con
l troversy Is as follows: The proprietor Of the
Coneressiona! Globe, who receives for his
Congressional weekly and daily, from the
Government, $114, 346 so per Congress, applied
to the Senate for relief, in the way of increased
subscripions-5,Oo0 copies-to the Congress
s,onai Globe, on the ground that he was losing
money by his publications, or his alleged con-
tract with the Government. The Senate Print
ing Committee asked the proprietors of the
intelltgeneer to examine the statement on
which this application was based, as to the
correctness Of the calculations of the Globes
publisher. They declined doing so themselves,
but referred the communication to their fore
man, who, analyzing the figures, made show
ing by which the result footed up a profit
OF $4,000 81, instead of a heavy loss, as
had been alleged. This showing substan-
tiated one made by Mr.. William Towers, a
clerk in the Congressional Printing Bureau
To these papers Mr.. Rives replied ON the oath
Of April, with a denial of the correctness of
the results of these gentlemen, and an argu-
ment to show that they were incorrect, and also
pretty sweeping personal attack upon them
The paper to which We first refer above, is
Captain Moore's rejoinder, which, in its cal
acknowledgements its reply to the views
Of his antagonist, is of such q character as
very justly to have created the excitement in
the minds of the members after yesterday s
action Of the Senate, to which it has given
rise. We shall, if possible, commence to spread
it before our readers TO- morrow, as matter of
very general interest, not only to the Wash
ington public, but to all everywhere, who take
interest in the disbursements from the nation.
al treasury; and more especially because the
other side # the question only, has had the
advantage of publication in a newspaper; and
that, too, at the cost of the Treasury of the
United States, if we are not mistaken.
More Treaties made with Indian Tribes
The results Of the labors of the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, during the current month,
have been the formation of treaties with the
Shawnees and Delawares, the Kickapoos, and
the Saes and Foxes. By the. first, with the
Shawnees and Delawares, the country known
as the Kansas valley will be opened shortly to
settlement. The Kickapoos have ceded terri
tory lying Immediately north of that valley,
and around Fort Leavenworth. The territory
obtained under the Sac and Fox treaty is stu.
ated just north Of the Kickapoo cession above
referred to. Under these three treaties, the
country west of Missouri, and within the limits
Of the proposed United States territories Of
Nebraska and Kansas, for five hundred miles
to be open hereafter to the axe and plough Of
the white man. All accounts represent this &C.
QUESTION az presenting great agricultural al
vantages. much of it being of the best descrip-
ton Of soil, and easily of access by water
communication. The negotiation of these sew.
eral treaties has occupied the Commissioner Of
Indian Affairs very closely, indeed, through.
| out the current month; keeping him in consul
| tation in his Office with one or another delega-
| ton Of the tribes mentioned above for perhaps
nine hours per diem.
If we are not greatly mistaken, when these
cow entions see the light, it will be found tina
| the Commissioner has, in them, contaminated
| the purpose of the Interior Department here
| after to provide the means of the ultimate civ
ilization Of the tribes on our frontier in all In
dian treaties obligating the U. States to make
annual payments to them. We have before beer
called on to explain how and why under oul
g Indian SYSTEM" the monies paid nominally
to the savages did them no permanent service
but went quickly into the hands Of the traders
in payment for whisky and gew gaws, for the
most part.
The leading features Of these recent con.
tracts, is the fact that they reserve to the Blu
reau OF Department the discretion of making
! the payments or such portions of them as they
| may think best for the interests of the tribes
| in money, kind or instruction.
Their destruction, by wholesale, has here
| tOfore been the interest of almost all private
parties dealing directly with them; hence
arising very many of the obstacles to theil
improvement and preservation on tie face O.
the earth. Hereafter, it is to be hoped that i
4 will not be permitted to be the interest of the
'i- - r--r-A--A~ The atafA of thinps on III.
| frontier which, up to this time, has banned
! nearly every effort of the Government for theil
real good and Improvement.
A Post Office Department Decision In
answer to inquiries, the proper officer in the
Post Office Department decides that there il
notbingin the laws or Post Office regulation.
forbidding Justices of the Peace from being
Postmasters.
A Fine Debut Mr.. Banks, of Massachu
sstts, made his maiden set speech yesterday
which having placed him instantly, as it were
in the front rank of congressional orators, wa
such as to attract universal attention here
Mr.. B. is q small and ight-made man, O
perhaps tbirty-four or FIVE years of age Will
iron-gray hair, an expansive forehead, ant
| one of the most intelligent and agreeable
| eountenances worn by q member of the presen
Congress His complexion is saIlow and hi