Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-19

ought, the kind expressions it contains toward
me, let me assure you that shall carry with
me the remembrance of the able and efficient
cooperation l have experienced at your hands
IN the fuhllment of the general duties Of the
ard connected with your several departments,
Tor which service, gentlemen, be pleased to
accept my thanks AMI Acknowledgements.
had hoped to have remained in command
here until the Improvements recommended by
me could be completed, not the least import
ant of which was the purchase Of some ada
cent land for the enlargement of the Yard
But my official duties call me hence I am
soon to be engaged on foreign service, and let
me be where may it will ever be a source OF
pleasure to me to revert to the harmonious
and kind feeling which has been so uninter-
rupted between US. t.ss
Accept, gentlemen, assurances Of my high
regard and esteem, with best wishes for your
To Messrs. PooK, SANGER, MCNKRHANY,
and other civil officers Of the Navy Yard.
1t has been long indeed since more popu-
lar commander graced that station. Born and
reared in this immediate vicinity, Commodore
Forrest is more nearly identified with the
civilians who were under him in the Wash
ington Navy Yard than any other officer of
his grade in the United States naval service
1t is not remarkable, therefore, that being a
gentleman of great urbanity and infinite tact,
the employees there part with him with great
regret, rigid disciplinarian though he is.
The Speaker Revolutionizing. Hundreds
in the House Hall yesterday were struck with
the esgerness displayed by Speaker Banks to
carry out the purpose Of the Republican par
ty leaders of bringing the session to an end
without the enactment of the Army Appropri-
alton bill, with or without their Republican
party proviso. His assumption of authority
to declare tho session at an end was gross
and palpable usurpation. That was the func-
ton of the House only, who alone had au-
thority to declare that tho time for it had
| arrived. It was bis business only to an
| nounce that IL m. had arrived by the clock
| of tho House, and it was the business of the
| House to determine whether they would then
| adjourn, or continue in session to any hour of
| the day.
1t has repeatedly been decided that the
| adoption of q resolution fixing a particular
hour Of day for the termination Of a session
involves no legal obligation to adjourn at that
hour of the particular day, and that the House
| considering the subjecD alone has the power
to determine at what precise moment of the
particular day they will adjourn. The eabo-
rate speech of John Quincy Adams upon this
particular point is regarded as standard au-
thority upon it by all parliamentariaus, and
i ia ir I'D plo ~ L.
usurpatiOn Of Speaker Banks to which we re-
fer above.
| In the Senate, Mr.. Vice-President Bright,
who was not administering the functions of
his position for political ends, usurped DO such
authority. He awaited vote Of the Senate
that they were ready to adjourn some time
after the hands of the clock in their chamber
signifed that IL m. had arrived and then he
adjourned the Senate only after the announce
ment that the House had dispersed under the
revolutionary order to that end Illuminated
| by Speaker Banks.
The United States War Brig cambridge.
Some of the newspapers having intimated fears
of the loss of this ship, we have great pleasure
| in announcing her return to Montevideo on the
18th of June last, from her cruise to the Straits
of Magellan, on which she set out in March
last. Her errand was to relieve the crew of
the American ship Manchester, wrecked in
those Straits. On arriving at the scene of her
disaster it was found that the only two survi-
vOrs Of the Manchester's crew had been res
cued by another ship. The cambridge, how
ever, was so fortunate as to rescue the crew Of
the ship Western Bride, of Liverpool, Eng
land, from the Chincha Islands, bound for
Queenstown, Ireland, with a cargo of guano,
also wrecked in the same Straits, and carried
them thirty -One souls in ALTO Montevidec.
All were well OF the cambridge.
Terribly Dissppointed.-The Republican
party members were furious last night over
the Presidents proclamation calling Congress
to meet on the day after Tomorrow The
law had been over-ridden to compass their
ends of defeating the army appropriation
bill in order to keep up the excitement about
Kansas until after the first Monday in No.
vember. They t-embled in their shoes least
the country might comprehend their purpose
of setting constitution, law, and every thing
else at defiance that should be regarded in
| order to effect a political object. On hearing
of the proclamation they comprehended at
once that they had caught themselves only in
their trap, and were shereupon very indignant
indeed. Ere midnight many others were curs-
ing the folly Of the counsels under which they
have been trying of late to revolutionizs.
| Appointments Confirmed by the Senate.
John +. Miller, agent for the Indians in
| Oregon.
Robert B. Metcalf, agent for the Indians in
| Oregon.
John j. Gage, receiver of public moneys at
Grenada, Miss.
William N. Whitehurst, receiver Of public
moneys at Washington, Miss
James Ray, receiver of public moneys al