Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-25
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

e~ SsSSos' -Ano return Oh tals YES.
rel to New York, from her station on the coast
OF Brazil, We presume to have been at this
time wholly unexpected by the Government
here. Rumors not long since reached US of a
disagreement between the Commodore Of the
Brasil coast squadron and the gallant COM
manjer of the Bainbridge, Lieut. Charles G.
(Alvarado) Hunter, owing to the refusal Of the
former to order the cambridge to Paraguay.
where American citizens and their interests
ws-e represented to be in great trouble, owing
to political difficulties occurring there. We
are inclined to think that when the whole
matter comes out, it will be found that the
Bainbridges commander tsok the responsible.
ity of cutting his cruize short and returning To
report himself directly to the Department,
without awaiting orders from the Commodore
OF the squadron to that effect. We are not as
yet in possession of all the information on the
subject, which we desire to obtain before com.
msnting at length on it. 49,.
spolistion We shall await the action of
the House upon the sp oiiation bill with no
little curiosity. The Democrats party. it
will be remembered, are intsrminable preach
ers, before the people, Of retrenchment, re-
form, economy. &C., never failing to make the
charge that their opponents are the party of
extravaganza, looseness, and want Of due care
in aPpropriating the money of the Taxpayers
The present Congress, so largely Democratic,
came into being on their professions of de-
termination to reform the many existing
abuses in The use Of the public money. Yet,
30 far, the majority seem to be bent on getting
rid OF tho surplus in the Treasury, by hook or
By crook, as it were Money seems to burn
their pockets notwithstanding the vehemence
OF their original pTotesta, lens to the contrary.
It can hardly be that there is a member so
ignorant Is not to know that the whole tribe
OF ieecbss, against whom they are so much in
the habit ct inveighing in the Hall, are rest.
ing all their prospects of turning the tax col.
iecting power Of the Government into q rove
nue. producing machine for their benefit, upop
the precedent which it is desired tina. Congress
should set by the enactment of this first of the
series of siOliations of the treasury, now be-
ing so vebemently Urged. In all quarters of
Washington, those who are notorious for get.
ting up and being otherwise connected with
getting through appropriations of questiona able
propriety, are specializing already, in the
Chances for various schemes to the tune Of
hundreds of millions of dollars. the en- lctment
of all which is to hang on the presidents the
House is expected to set perhaps this after.
noon.
The Smithsonian Institution.-We made
statements, on the day before yesterday, with
reterenc; to the management of the Smith
sonian Institution which we have since he
come satisfied are wrong, and therefore hasten
to correct them. In the first place, TIC said
that the advertisements of their lectures had
been Withdrawn from the St ~, on the strength
Of isiling TO see them az heretofore in our col
umns On inquiry of the proper psrscn in
our ofiiee, We find that they were left ont of
the Star owing to mistake of ono of our en-
ployees, and not to an order from the mana
gers OF the institution We ara also assured
by the party in the Institution who has charge
OF the periodicals taken there that our iuIor-
nation tia. the publications received by them
which had opposed the present management
had been discontinued, is grievously wrong, no
such event having TRANSFERRED; and, further, the
number of the Christian Ez4miusy. cut Of
which the article of thirty pages against the
present conduct Of the Institution was cut got
upsn their periodical table by mistake; it being
an extra copy, which was cut to enable him to
ME the article 10 question in q scrap book. in
which all articles on the subject a, preserved
the regular number Of the periodical in oues
tioR being in its proper plac g, uLmutilated
In the matter Of the lecture of Mrs. Willard.
we are told that she delivered an address in
the Institutions hall at the request of the Fe
male Teachers Society of Washington. and
no' ct that Of the Regents or their secretary,
who had merely granted to that association
the privilege Of using the Institutions hall.
All these facts put very different face, in.
deed, upon the things of which we wrote
day or two since Cur object being but TO Sc
cure Justice in the solution Of the pending
about the management of the In
sntution, We very cheerfully thus correct the
errors into which we were betrayed.
The Renewal Of Patents The petition of
the Legislature Of New York against the re-
newai OF the Mccormick i Husssy reaping
machine patents and all others, has not, we
think, damaged the prospect for favorable nc
ton by Congress on the prayers of all patentee..
We know nothing OF the merits of their claims
to the favorable consideration of the n alton al
Legislature, and, therefore, have nothing to
'ay with reference to these particular cases.
Bat we do knew that huge gang of specu.
a'ors in patent rights have their head and |
'front.' in Washington during the sessions of |
Congress, and arc at the bottom of all the |
State legislation against the extension of |
patents which Is laid before Congress, as
ho1gh embracing views Of parties entitled to |
respect, because they are expressed only after |