Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-29

though all who know anything of the person.
nel of our representatives abroad in that ca
pacity, know that Marsh, United States consul
at Rio Janiero, has no exist ,nce! The truth
is, Mr.. March, United States consul at Ma
deira, happened to come to Washington by
the train on which the Prince travelled hither,
last week. Thus are such roorbacks, under
the pretense of their being news from this
city, propagated-nin e-tenths Of them spring
ing from the womb Of the Mother of Lies, the,
New York Herald.
If those at . distance desire to be kept
posted with reference to what statements, pur-
porting to be news from Warrington" have
no foundation in truth, We can confidently ad-
wise them never to fail to consult the Herald's
special Washington correspondence, by tele.
graph and otherwise, making note in their
memories of its facts, one and all. That will
be the shortest and most certain way of ac-
complishing the object, by long odds.
The Courier dss Etats Unis, too, while per
hitting no opportunity to pass in which it can
expose the fact that the Herald is the very
mother Of lies, in order to hold its mendacity
up to Europe as a fair type of the American
press, seems to vie with the Mirror in eager
ly quoting its roorbacks for the truth Thus,
it has been writhing in sgony over the Engineer
Thompson falsehood, throwing of column on
column Of silly and frothy abuse of 'shis Gov
eminent and Misrepresentation of its action.
Its diatribes amount to nothing but the ex-
posure of its own ignorance or mendacity. Its
ignorance-if its conductor did not know that
any single individual American has the right
under our laws, to expatriate himself and en-.
ter any foreign service, taking the risk of fall
ing into the hands of an enemy of that Gov
eminent on his way to enter its service and
that, too, with full knowledge that his act of
expatriating himself with such intent, cuts
him off positively from any and all protection
of the Government Of the United States.
Its mendacity-if not ignorant, as above
explained-as it is plain to all who know the
history of the present administrators efforts
to put down fllibustering, which it has pun.
sued to the bitter end wherever it has mani
tested itself since March 3, 1853, and with
even-handed justice to all foreign powers.
TheEngineer- Thompson Humbug. -Itturns
out that the New York Tri6une's story that
the Russian Government had rendered the po-
sition of its Naval Engineer in Chief, to Mr.
Thompson, of Albany, was manufactured of
whole cloth; the Russian Minister here,
through whom the offer would have been made,
las to employ him would have been no viola
ton Of our neutrality laws, whatever,) never
heard of the man until seeing the Heraid's
account of the transaction. So we learn from
gentlemen who have conversed with him on
the subject.
The truth is, the Herald was bent on grind.
ing an axe in some quarter for this Mr.. Thomp-
son, and concocted the story by way of puff
of him, that would be sure to travel in nearly
all the newspapers of the country. The dodge
was an ingenious one, if quite as dishonest as
Ingenious. 1t fairly illustrates the HsraId's
system.
Public Surveys.-Advices have been re-
ceived at the General Land Office, under date
Of the LIST ultimo, from the Surveyor General
Of Washington Territory of the progress of
public surveys (under 4s degrees north lati-
tude and 45 degrees west longitude, Washing
ton city, meridian,) in that distant district
The Surveyor General states that settlements
of comparatively numerous character, on
Whidley's Island, lin the neighborhood of the
Straits Of Juan de Tuca, and the boundary b.
tween the United States and British posses
siOn,) requiring public surveys of the Island,
in order to enable settlers thereof to prove up
their prescriptions, he has entered into a con-
tract for the extension of Willamette meridian
across large expanse of waters Of the Puget
Sound and Admiralty Inlet, and over the
Island; also for meandering and subdivision
Of the Island.
Promoted and Appo.nted.-Edward X.
Chase, second class clerk in the Pension
Office, has been promoted to a third class
clerkship in the Patent Office.
Walter Hartman, first class clerk in the
Pension Office has been promoted to a second
class clerksihp in place of Chase, transferred
as above.
Augustus E. LIE Merle, sem, appointed to
the first class clerkship vacated by the pre-
motion of Mr.. Hartman
George d. Hibbs, appointed messenger in
the Pension Office, in place of LIE Merle, pro-
NOTED as above.
Resigned and Appointed.-The resignation
of Dom Piatt, Esq, Of his position as Secre-
tary of the American Legation at Paris,
(Which we mentioned some days since as be-
ing about to be sent OverO duly arrived in
Washington by the last foreign mail, and we
understand that o. Jennings Wise, Esq, (son
of Hon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia,) now the
Secretary of the American Legation at Berlin,
has been transferred and appointed to fill the
vacancy at Paris thus created.
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