Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-15


else in Government employment to meet the
recent rapidly decreasing relative value of
gold
The United States ship-of-War Ind.pen-
dence Safe, and Heard From The Pacific
mail received in Washington this morning has
set at rest all the rumors of the probable loss
Of this ship. The Navy Department have
letter, written on the United States sloop-o Of
war st. Mary's, at Panama, Just as the mail
for the United States was being closed, where
in it is announced that she had arrived at
Valparaiso, on her return from her cruise to
the guano islands discovered by Mr.. Benson.
The next arrival from that quarter will, we
trust, bring important and interesting dis
patches from her commander concerning the
result of her cruise.
Iowa We learn that Speaker Banks re.
ceived dispatch last night from Burlington,
Iowa-from the ubiquitous Fitz, we presume
saying that all of the district of the Hon.
Augustus Hall, except four small counties,
had been heard from, and that without those
four Curtis leads him (HalD 1000 votes for
Congress.
We believe that Hall has been defeated, by
not SO large . majority however. Lane and
his army of rag mullins have been lingering in
Halls district for some time past, and we are
satisfied, were permitted to vote in abolition
counties in this election. They number four
or Eve hundred.
The Accounting Officers Of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Treasury has earnestly
recommended an increase of tho compens alton
of the Governments accounting officers, pro
rata with the increase of the pay Of other
Government employees, that has been found
necessary to meet the altered condition Of the
times SO far as the relative value of money is
concerned. To insure honesty and fidelity in
the management CT the financial affairs of the
Government, common sense dictates that such
functionaries should be fairly compensated for
their labOrs. If their present rates of COM
pensation were fair twenty .fve years ago,
surely they are insufficient now Offices such
as they fill require men of business abilities
and attachments equal to any persons entrust-
ed with the management of the affairs of the
most important and complicated joint stock
companies in the country; and they should be
quite as we'll paid as tho employees of such
companies of the same class are, which is by
no means the case at present
The Debate The debate Of yesterday, in
the Senate, on the proposition of Mr.. Ball
again to place the Government buildings in
course Of construction in charge Of the GLASS
Of persons whose populations, frauds, collu-
sions, &c, compelled Congress to consign the
management of the construction of the extern
sion of the Capitol building to an officer Of
United States Engineers, was one of the ablest
and most interesting marking the whole his
tory Ct the Senate legislation. The speeches
Of Senators Seward, Pearce, Hunter, and Eos.
ter, among others, in exposure of the grave
mistake committed by the House in confidins
in the unscrutinized representations Of the
disappointed bidders, displaced superintend.
ents, &c , who addressed them through Mr.
Ball on this subject, will inform the country
as to what mischief may be done unwittingly
to the public interest, under the pressure Of
the hurried legislation of the closing hours o.
| q session.
Central America The news from Nicara
qua, received yesterday, was not unexpected
by well informed persons here 1t very GER
tain that the Central American governments arr
rapidly preparing to move against W alker; and
that he has at length thrown off, there at east
all pretence of being backed by any portion
whatever of the native population. The Cen
trail American States have prudently delayed
their movement until the approach of the
season when it is next to certain death TO,
unacclimated persons to rema ain any length Of
time on the Nicaraguan isthmus exposed tc
the rays of the sun. They know that the eli.
| mate is now to be their most favorable weapon
that not one North American recruit in ter
landing on their shores in health, can make
his way to Walkers camp in condition to be
aught but burden to him, soon to Join the
thousands of his countrymen now eepine
under the sod in Nicaragua.
The Current Operations of:hs Treasury
Dep artment.-On yesterday, l4th of August
there were Of Treasury warrants entered OF
the books of the Department
For the Treasury Department. S9,578 "a
/ For Customs. ................... AIT Is
On account OF the Navy......... I,I2O Is
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
In the Senate, yesterday, after we went t.
press, message from the President was re-
| ceived, vetoing the bill for the improvemen,
II nf he Dato