Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-06
If the riot and the restoration Of the public

of the riot and the restoration Of the public
peace.
has been thoroughly Investigated. The court
m arshall has tried five soldiers, on the charge
of mutiny, and the court of inquiry has insti-
tuted rigid scrutiny into the affair, with
view to the discovery Of the source and orr
gin Of the outrage. 1t is thought that, from
the court of inquiry will originate court mar
tial, for the trial of one Of the officers connec-
ted with the disorderly company, should not
the President of the United States, in view of
the testimony elected before the court Of in
quiry, deem it his duty to exercise his author.
ity by more summary means. Such occurren-
ces ought to be discountenanced in the most
prompt and positive manner; and all persons
insolved therein, as agitators, abettors, or par
t.cipants in any way, whether officers, sci
diers, or private citizens, should be held TO the
strictest possible accountability. God forbid
that the peace of our community should be
disturbed, or our hearts filed with terror, in
like manner, again.
ON1ao DEL PA1s.
Amusing.-The Courier and Enquirer (of
New York; has evidently picked up one Of
those wandering English penny-a-liners, who
infest the newspaper establishments in the
American commercial metropolis especially,
and invested him with the duties Of editor in
chief, apparently! This is evident in tie
learned editorial dispositions of late appear
ing in its columns about "the Secretary of tie
Army phrase never perpetrated by any
one long enough in the United States to have
been naturalized-and of ''Mr John Dobbin"
Secretary of the Navy. As matter of course,
amid the abuse of the Government of the
United States and ultra Know Nothingism
with which the editorials of this writer are
marked, one perceives ludcrous proofs of his
deed, of the philosophy as we'll as of the de-
tails of our system Of government 1t strikes
us as rather odd that journal like the Cour-
aey and Enquirer cottons intensely to ultra
Know Nothingism, should surrender its editc-
rial columns to an unnaturalized foreigner,
and countenance him in the work of villifying
its Government with ignorant and senseless
twaddle senseless, because its structures are
founded wholly on an entire misapprehension
of American institutions as we'll as American
public men.
Receipts Given to Discussing 0ficers.-If
a creditor Of the Government, by his receipt to
discussing officer as the agent Of the Govern
ment, acknowledges to have received money of
the agent, by which the latter receives credit
or settlement with his principal, the receipt is
held to be conclusive, and claim of the credi-
fo, fbo 81 he To- L. u
the money for which he had receipted will not
be entertained.
This decision is also consistent with the gen.
eral rule Of law, that no man can maintain an
action for a wrong when he has consented OF
contributed to the act which has occasioned
his loss.
See also opinion of Attorney General, dated
November % 1855, on this subject
A Decision.-I esterday, on determining a
case under the land graduation law, it was
decided that person whose farm lies in one
State may enter under the 81 section of the
aforementioned law land lying in another
State adjoining his farm aforesaid
AppoInLeu anu hemo9ed.-Mr l.. ~. john
son has been appointed first class Isl 200 per
annum) clerk in General Land Office
VIM Chambers has been appointed to be the
assistant messenger to the Second Comptroller
VI the Treasury, vice VIM. Drane, removed.
The President is expected to return to Wash.
ington this evening or tomorrow.
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Departmental yesterday, the 9th of July,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered on
the books Of the Department.
For the Treasury Department. S64, 100 II
For the Interior Department. 7S,433 50
For the Customs. ............... ii ,4l 60
War Warrants received and en-
~ tered ..................... 175,7OO 90