Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-12


incur condign punishment; and that any en-
eeayor TO intervene by organized force will be
invoke all good citizens to promote order
Dy rendering obedience to the law; to seek
remedy for temporary evils by peaceful means;
10 discountenance and repulse the counsels
and the instigations of agitators and of disor-
ganizers and to testify their attachment to
their country, their pride in its greatness,
their appreciation of the blessings they enjoy,
and their determination that republican in
situations shall not fail in their hands, by Co
operating to uphold the majesty Of the laws
and to vindicate the sanctity Of the constitu-
ton.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed to these presents.
Done at the city of w ashingtOn, the eleventh
day of February, in the year of our
fora. Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, and of the indie pendence of
the United States the eightieth.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President:
W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.
The House Committees The failure of the
Speaker to announce the Standing Commit
tees of the House yesterday, according to the
usual custom, caused much speculation among
the members and the outside politicians around
Congress, and certainly gave rise to the belief
that DR.. Greeley is tinkering them up to his
own notions. The Republican party proper,
whose impress it is taken for granted they are
to bear, are, at this moment, on any ques-
ton wherein their peculiar views are repre-.
sented without being clipped and pared down,
not more than seventy votes strong yet all
seem to expect that the business of the House,
and more especially those branches of its
business connected directly or Indirectly with
politics, will be placed, practically, altogether
in Republican hands. That is, that all the
committees to be charged with the care of such
business will not only have ultra Republican
party chairmen, but majority of whole hog
Republicans-"Culled Bredren," as they are
now termed here. A high time of it, indeed
will the House have with such arrangements,
as Mr.. Colfax at the head of the Public
Lands, Mr. Giddings at that of the District of
Columbia, Mr.. Cumback at that of Military
Affairs, Mr.. Elihu Washburn at that of Elec-
lions or Territories, &c, &c, which, be it re.
membered, is the New York Heraid'S slate
not ours
BY the by, few days since friend of ours,
who has in his employment a smart little
mulatto free fellow, found his boots un-
blackened at an unreasonable hour. On in.
quiry, he was duly notified by the lad that
Mr.. Banks having been elected, be had con-
cluded to drop blacking boots and waiting on
the table, "now dat de black Republicans
have beat de Democrats" and that it was
further his purpose to get pages place in
the House hall If half the expectations of
the wonder-mongers in Washington with
reference to the proposed political complex
ion of the various House committees are re-
allied, the notion of the little mulatto will not
have been very extravagant, after ALL
judiciary Reform.-We trust, that among
the very first matters taken in hand by Con-
gress, will be the reorganization of the Judi
ciary system Of this District, which, as it ex-
lists, involves almost as many positive disa-
bilities upon the honest and enterprising
business man, and on the rights of the widow
and orphan, as pervade the present judicial
system of any despotic government of Europe
all of which have adopted more or less of the
Judicial improvements that characterize the
march Of the present century on the high
road of progress ;" while, under the pres
sure upon them of the matters affecting their
Immediate constituents, Congress have left US
of the District of Columbia suffering under the
system that was enacted for Maryland, much
of it, perhaps, century ago.
We do not propose that the bill of the last
session shall be taken up and passed, however
we'll We may think of that measure; as we do
not think that with the opposition to it among
our fellow citizens which was manifested to
1t during last winter, it can possibly triumph
Nearly all the portions Of that bill which do
not touch the present judges, are acceptable
to all Of our fellow citizens, we apprehend;
and most Of those may be got through Con-
gress without doubt, by vigorous effort
Provisions greatly decreasing tho fees and
allowances for auditing accounts in chancery
cases, &c, are absolutely necessary. If we
are not greatly mistaken, they often amount
to from twenty to one hundred dollars for do
ing what would be, for an energetic business
man, perhaps, half an hours labor-thus lit
orally robbing the dead by fair and perfectly
legal process Of law. The auditing branch of
that portion Of the legal business of this Dis
trict, has indeed gradually come to be one of
the most onerous burdens upon the rights and
interests of the community that ever grew up
under the wiley spinning of lawyers webs,
such as one reads of in Dickens's Bleak House
and other works wherein the evils of unre-
formed judicial systems and practices are set
forth We purpose to discuss this subject in
detail, at our earliest leisure
The Republican Party Of the H ouse. The
ballotings for House Printer prove the cor.
rectness of our former declaration, that the
strength of the Republican party in that
branch Of Congress is far less than the vote by
which Mr. Banks was eIacfed In ha tho SnaoL