Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-17

the-by, at the eagerness With which the guid
names OF the press watch for opinions in the
columns of the Star, to attribute them to the
President, or this or that distinguished man i n
public life. This arises from the fact til at
we labor very hard, always, to obtain correct
| information, and usually present common
sense views ofmatters occurring here, without
clothing them in " nigh falu!in.''
From present appearances, it requires the
labors of about two of the many editors
OF the Herald, to attend to the Star de-
partment of the administration sorganiza-
tlon; for they write down all we say on
pubic affairs, as being published /" by author
ny. NOW, the truth is, every Washington
editor and correspondent has at his command
the same facilities for obtaining correct infor-
nation concerning every thing going here, that
We have. Many of them, however, lack our
industry, patience and general knowledge of
every body and every thing in Washington
connected with public affairs. So, we out
strip them. That is, we are very apt to pub
lish correct news first If the hundred gen.
tlemen in Washington connected with the press
would, one and all, work rs hard as we do,
and follow our example in aiming only to give
correct accounts of every thing, without car
ing the value of penny which party or what
person or measure may bs benefited or in
jured by the PRONUNCIATION of the truth, the
Administration would probably have a hun
dred such organs as the Star. By-the-by
Democratic friend of ours insists that we are
the especial organ of Senator Truman Smith
A few weeks since, a Silver Grey subscriber
| stopped his paper, on the ground that we were
publishing the Star for the benefit of that long
| headed gentleman, Senator Seward; having
said in it that all the stories derogatory of the
personal standing of that individual in Wash
lngton, were atrocious calumnes. The hackmen
of Washington, the hucksters of Georgetown,
the laborers in the Navy Yard, and the news
boys around the hotels, are in the habit of des-
| ignlting the Star as "Our Paper" We blush
ingly admit that soft impeachment. We
acknowledge taeir sincere compliment; pre-
ferring, by long odds, to be the g organ''
favorite) Of our thousands of laboring read
ers in all callings in life, to Identification with
the fortunes or the likes and dislikes of any
President, party, Senator, or other public func-
| tionary.
Henry Ward Bsecher.-The New York Tri-
bune, Through Washington correspondent,
| threatens the settlement" of Henry Ward
Beecher over Washington city congregation.
We doubt not, Beecher is impudent enough
| tn eccay IN toblich birn-a baro ;f 30
to be made by it, Notwithstanding his long ca
| reer of villifcaticn and abuse of this, and all
other American slaveholdjng communities
We know not what pay his northern admirers
might give him, though we can assure him
that, if under pretence of preaching the Cos
| pei he undertakes to malign US after his old
fashion, in our very midst, the people of ash
| ington will pay him in tar and feathers or some
other similar currency. If he courts martyr
dom, let him try the experiment.
Bogus Washington News-the New York
Trtbune's despatch saying that Senator Gwin
is about leaving for California, having little
hope Of re-ele ,tion. Senator Gwin does not
entertain the l,ast idea of leaving Washington
| during the sion, and must be as blind as a
bat if he cannot understand from the newspa
pers by the last arrivals from California, that
his pseudo Democratic opponents there have
routed MeE,Selves, horse foot, and dragons
| The Tribnns'S Washington news, Of late, is
| evidently all made up rather to the end OF
| creating feeling at the North against the
Nebraska bill. than, as of yore, in order te
| give the Tridmne's readers the truth concern
| ing affairs here.
Sixty Days Duty Pay for Pursers when
Paying off Crew, &c.-Under authority Of
the Navy Department, sixty days duty pay Is
allowed to Pursers for the purpose of making
out and settling their accounts for the vessels
to which they may have been attached By a
recentdecisIon Of the Secretary of the Navy
it has been ruled that the sixty days com
mence from the date If paying off the cre1c,
| according to the construction heretofore given
to the allowance, which is now declared to be
right and not, as has been claimed recently
from the formal and official detachment of the
Purssr.
The Utah Territory Penitentiary-W un.
derstand that the agent (the Hon. A. W. Bah
bitp of the Treasury Department., to locate
the Penitentiary ordered by Congress, to be
fuilt in Utah Territory, has selected a site five
miles north Of Salt Lake city The whole
cost of the location expenses, including the cost
of the guard, to protect the locator from hos
tile Indians during his examinations of the
| country, was but about S4O0, as per account
rendered to the Department. This economy is
commendable indeed Congress appropriated
$50, 900 for this proposed building. If bigamy
be made punishable by United States law in
that section, twenty thousand dollsrs would
hardly lay the foundations for necessary Pen
itentiary accommodations
| Postage-Daguerreoty and other really
-mailable matter when forwarded in the
mails, are legally chargeable with letter post
| age, by weight. So also are circulars printed
on metallic sheets, of tin foil, &C. Such is the
ruling Of the Poss-office Department
A Clerical prominent in the Sixth Au.
| ditor's ofice.-W. W. Stevens, of Mississippi
| has been appointed to second class clerkshiI
| Isl, 200 per am um) in this office, vice Cald
WELL transferred to the Office of the Solicitor OF