Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-28


of Judge Campbell's administration Of his
trust, and the notorious habit Of Postmaster
General Hall in bartering the interests COM
mitted to his charge (as Postmaster GeneraD
Tor temporary favor for Silver Greyism. During
nearly all the time Hall held the Office it was
notorious among the members of Congress that
he was buying and selling in the discharge of
his duty; the purchased commodity being
promises of affection for Silver Greyisn,, 1.-THE
quintessence of corruption In American public
affairs the price paid being Office under the
Post Office Department here and everywhere
else, special contracts, extra allowances, &c.
Filibusteriug Journals. New York
San is very capital sort of a paper, though
it has habit of defending and clarifying ev-
cry conceivable scheme Of piracy on land. We
are expecting daily to find in its columns warm
arguments in favor of the entire propriety of
the slave trade, notwithstanding its late free
soil proclivities. The truth is, it is 50 bitten
with the Cuba fllibustering mania, as that it
cannot distinguish wrong from right in connec-
ton with anything in the shape of an effort on
the part Of North Americans to appropriate
lands, the property of others, without as much
as saying by your leave, sirs. This tendency
on its part is exceedingly unfortunate, as it.
conductors will realize if they live to grow
much older
The Ere1iRg Post, too. that, not long since,
was dcnouncing Walker-of expedition fame
's To-. Der and pirate, is now the chief de-
fender and glorifer of the Kinney expedition
Wherein do they differ For the life and soul
Of us, if they differ in single element or partic-
ular, we cannot discover in what. Walkers
exploits in Central America are now well
known to be precisely like those which rem
dered his name famous (or rather infamous) in
Mexico. He robbed, plundered, and murder
ed both sexes, all ages, and burned some
houses, and under cover of the smoke of the
tiro OF them, he stole schooner and escaped
ran away If the pet Of the Euentng Post,
the kinney expedition, numbering some nine
teen similar customers, all told, succeed in
getting to Central America, the probability is
that they will be hung before they can get an
opportunity to play Walkers game; as we
know that ample preparations have been made
at San Juan del Norte, and, indeed, all along
the coast in that quarter, to give them just the
reception which it would have been we'll for
the canse Of humanity if it had been accorded
to Walker and his companions the instant they
set foot on the west coast of Nicaragua. We
fancy that no right-principled man in this
" a is IF tnffh nsa
pirates there, does not regret that they were
not strung up within half an hour after
they landed.
Very Curious Disclosures-Ther is much
conversation in diplomatic circles here, in re-
spect to certain recent semi-oficial publica-
tions in the French Non,tsur, disclosing the
views and plans Of the Count dc Vergennes
1t seems that, so long ago at the period of
our Revolutionary war, there was entertained
In France great Jealousy Of the progress Of
Russia on the side Of the Back Sea. That was
before the Russians had driven the Turks on,
Of the Crimea, and re-annexed that peninsula
| to the Muscovite Empire. AT that time Eng
land held back, and France was unwilling or
unable to act alone against Russia We have
come across an item of old American diplomatic
history, which is calculated to breed reflection.
While Mr.. Jay was at Paris with DR. Frank.
lin and Mr. Adams, regulating the treaty by
which Great Britain acknowledged the indie.
pendence of the United States, he wrote to
Gouverneur Morris, under date of September
"a, 1883, from which We extract the following
very remarkable expressions
"You have heard that the Ottoman and
Russian empires are on the point of unsheath-
| ing the sword. The objects of the contest are
| more easy to discern than the issue but il
Russia should extend her navigation TO Con-
stantinople, we may be the better for IT, That
circumstance is an additional motive to our
I forming n treaty of commerce with her 4
But, whatever we have to do abroad, il is of
little consequence when compared to what we
| have TO do at heme. L am perfectly convinced
| that no time is to be lost i'm raising and main
tanning national spirit in America
| Some people may think that what Mr. jaw
considered good doctrine in 1853, may not be
bad in 1855, whether as applied to the foreign
or domestic interests of the United States.
| Way Letters.-Persons who are in the habit
OF sending their letters to dcpots rather til an
to post Offices, to be mailed, run the risk Of a
delay OF at least trip in their arrival at
their destination. Tho route agents duty is
to assert and mail, while the train is in motion.
the letters reaching the post office after the
regular mail bags arc closed. These, on I'M.
portant routes not unfrequently number SO
many as to leave him little time to mail those
that may be dropped in the pouch at the cars
He is then obliged to deliver such letters al
| the post Office at the end of his route where.
the chance is, they are not received in time to
| send them forward by the mails by which they
are designed to be sent. The Post Office De-.
partment is abused roundly for the detention
OF thousands Of letters growing out of the in.
crease Of the habit Of unnecessarily emitting
to post them in regular post Offices, and then
rushing them in haste to the cars as they are
| about to start