Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-03
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
how They squeal The New York Expyss

papers are believing at great rate over the
removal of Know Nothings of ell degrees from
the service of the Government in this city, and
in order to pretend the justify their complaints,
they not only suppress the truth bearing on
this action of the Administration, but tell any
number of unblushing and unmitigated false
hoods to back their case. Thus, in their WIFI
nings they aver that the removals are made
because the removed are American born and
Protestants in religion. 1t strikes us that. with.
out contradiction, as there are VIGOROUSLY com.
paratiTely few foreign born and Catholic Der.
sons in the public employment here, the world
comprehends the hollowness of this Know
Nothing pretence to cheat it out of its sympa-
thy. But there are two things they fail to tell,
which they all know to be true, and which en-
tirely disprove all they publish on the subject.
First, that the removals are made because the
removed have sworn to prescribe, whenever
they can do so, every person, native or foreign
born, Protestant or Catholic, who fails to be
with them in politics. and next, that the
Know Nothings have rigidly observed this
repulsive and really anti-American oath
wherever they have temporarily obtained
power so to do, from Maine to California.
They have not spared single opponent any
where in the United Statesmen one. This
truth is undisputed. No Know Nothing news
paper in the United States has ever dared to
deny 1t; and up to the time that it was dis
covered that the present Administration were
in earnest in the purpose of physicking Know
Nothingsm with its own nostrum flor improy-
ing the health of the body politicl every Know
Nothing newspaper freely avowed that pur-
pose, as one of the chief of the ends and aims
OF their political organization. We are no
for political opinions sake, and
despisc the practice heartily. But, to our
mind, the removal of men from the public Gun.
ployment who deliberately swear that they
will secretly labor to bring about the removal
OF every man, woman and child, high func.
tonary, clerk, mechanic, messenger, laborer
and servant, Of whatever religion and where.
ever born, who holds no sympathy with the
Know Nothing political organic alton, is proper.
Office holders standing in such position ought
to be removed from the service of the Govern
ment of the United States Persons who take
such oatbs, or who, without taking them
labor to bring about the triumph of a party
sworn to and inAexibly carrying out the policy
such prescription wherever they obtain the
opportunity 50 to do, deserve none of the SYM
pathy OF honest and patriotic men when the re.
coil Of the weapon they are welding against
others knocks them over. 1t is not ouly extreme
ly unmanly for the Know Nothing journals to be
whining over the fate of their partizans who
have thus been forced to swallow medicine
they labor to force down the throats of others
but exceedingly hypocritical So
The Coast Survey.-A correspondent of the
Organ presented the readers of that paner
yesterday with statistics to prove the undue
of persons of foreign birth in the
service Of that branch of the business Of the
General Government. He omits, designedly of
course, to tell the whole truth; as to do so
would be to defeat his purpose of deceiyine
the public into the idea that SO large a pro-
portion of foreign-born persons are unnecessa-
rily employed on the coast survey, and that
the number so employed there may be taken
as criterion of the undue proportion of them
employed IN other branches of the public ser.
vice. Thus he refrains from saying that these
foreigners by birth are almost all employed in
the discharge of scientific and artistic duties.
absolutely necessary in the prosecution of the
survey OF our coasts, but to perform which.
unfortunately, and to our national shame be il
written, men are very rarely educated and
otherwise trained in our country. Many of
them are astronomical calculators, and thus
pursue business most intensely laborious
upon the brain and requiring attachments of
q high order, and scientific knowledge such a.
is possessed by perhaps not more than dozen
natives of the United States.
Our government is exceedingly fortunate in
obtaining the services of these gentlemen, who
render, every one Of then, a quid pro quo for
all they receive from the treasury Of the Uni
ted States for their services, without which,
rendered by persons born abroad, lunder the
imperfect system of scientific education that
up to this time has prevailed in this country,
our coasts must 60 unsurveyed for ever; more
especially if Knov NotAings should ever OBJ
tain the control of its public affairs
The Commander F. J de carvalho Moreria.
This distinguished gentleman, who took official
leave of the President, yesterday, with the
view of leaving his position as the Minister
Extraordinary of the Brazilian Government to
the United States to 90 to Europe, has been
selected to represent his majesty the Emperor
of the Brazils at the Court of Victoria. So his
absence from Washington is to be permanent,
n"t temporary, as we thought yesterday The
gentleman who succeeds him here, under an
appointment al Charge d'Affaires I'D interim,
the Chevalier Aguia- de Andrada, is his MO
reria's) brothcrin-law, and IS well known in
Washington society, where his fine manners,