Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-20


with them. The necessity of establishing steam
navigation on the waters Of the interior is deeply
felt by the government. IL is dictated both by
commercial and strategical reasons-for the trans
port of produce to the seaboard in time Of peace.
and for the provisioning Of fortified ports and
transport of troops in time of war Indeed, river
steam navigation has to precede the intended in
crease of the Russian navy, for reasons too OBJ
vious to require demonstration, hence the extra
ordinary activity in the former department. The
huls of these river steamers had of course to be
built in Russia, but il will be utterly impossible
for Russian machine shops to furnish the requisite
engines These establishments are few in num-
Der, and the manner in which they work is pro-
verbally slow. There is, then, wide field open
TO our able and ingenious machinsts, to which
We would call their attention The financial diff
hculties prevailing here afford advantages to the
Russian Government, which IL intimated to them
they would not be slow to perceive; while con-
tracts securing work TO our numerous unemployed
mechanics would be very desirable at present
The industrials of England are constantly
watching their chances abroad ours should do
the same. Situated we are, the prompteSt
means to resume activity, perhaps the only one at
this particular Juncture, consists in the further
extension OF our business transactions beyond the
limits and wants of own country. British
industry derived previous to the wa, very con-
siderable revenue from the necessities of the
Russian Empire; but the treaty of peace has
failed 10 restore the commercial intercourse be-
tween the two nations to it's former position
The increase of the Russian navy and marine
promises to our ship-building wards fair chance
We build not only faster vessels than England
but in an economical point of view we possess
unparalleled advantages in the best and cheapest
material and its abundance. Every inch of wood
used IN England and France for ship-buildng
purposes, has To come across the sea, greatly en-
HANGED by freights, etc. This country is destined
to become, at no very remote day, the monopo-
llZlng centre of naval architecture. We have
been hitherto too busy at home to improve inter
national opportunities. Now is the time for our
industrials to attend TO their interests abroad
and II they set about il in the right way their
crowned
TELLING WHOPPERs.-The New York Tn
b"ns, by way of keeping up its game of misrep-
resenta;ion of the South, impudently intimates
that failures on the part of Southern dealers to
pay their bills owing in New York has had as
much to do with the late failures in that city as
aught else. Now there is no truth whatever in
this insinuation. Tho register Of failing mer-
camille houses so pertinaciously published by
the gone-tO-pot house of Bowen & McNamee, in
their independent newspaper, proves that thi;
assertion OF the Tribune is untrue That shows
that there has been within the last six months
as great falling off in the number of Southern
mercantile houses failing, as there has been an
increase in the number of failures among the
Northern commercial houses Those are facts
bearing on the question of the influence of
Southern institutions on the business condition
or prosperity OF the country which should be
known and appreciated everywhere. We men,
ton them, therefore, in order that the poison of
the Trtb"He's SANDER may be thus extracted.
Mr.. Nathan Appleton, in his letter referred
to In the Star yesterday, explained satisfacto-
rily the cause of the financial trouble to be in
the Encouragement of the banks of New York
city; and it will take even more than the pcr-
sistent mcndacity with which the Tribune does
such things to shift the responsibility for the
injury inflicted on the country. even in part on
to the shoulders of the South, which through
out its length and breadth is at this moment
clearer Of debt to the North, and more ready
and willing TO pay on demand what it owes than
ever before.
REsToEED.-It will be recollcctcd that some
two years ago, Captain Alexander Reynolds,
then of the Quartermaster's department was
struck from the rolls Of the army on account of
an alleged heavy defalcation in his pecuniary
transactions with the Government Since that
time, his public accounts have been arbitraied,
we hear, resulting in his entire cxoneration
from the claim upon him. They have also gone
before the United States Courts for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania on the suit of the Gov
eminent, and an intelligent jury have decided
that he Is, to some extent the Governments
credltor-not its debtor
We hear hat under these circumstances and
after thorough examination into all the facts
involved in the case, the Secretary of War rec
commended to the President that Captain Rey-
nolds be restored to his rank in the service
and that he has accordingly been so restored
This action on the part of these distinguished
functlonaries is most commendable, insomuch
as it is the duty Of the Government to deal
generously with persons in Captain r s stua-
ton Both the arbitrators and jury Of his
countrymen decided, in effect that he had
been grievously injured, however unintentior-
ally, in the previous action Of the Govern
ment, and it was but right and proper that
that injury should be thus, as far as posi-
BILE, repaired. We honor the Secretary and
President for the promptness with which they
have indicated, In this case, the principle of
the integrity of the purpose of the Government
IN Its dealings with public servants, which their
predecessors would doubtless have been glad of
the opportunity to have done under similar
circumstances
The NAVAL Courts OF ISoUIRY.-Court
No. |, to-day, have been engaged in hearing
documentary testimony Ia the case of Lieut..
whiting, which is still before them
In Court No. 2, to-day, i'm the case of Lieut
Morgan, which they are still trying, Capt. Mer-
Ger, and Its. Morris and Murray were exam
ined on the applicants behalf After we went
to press, yesterday, Commodore Salter was also
examined on the same side of this case.
Before Court No. 3, where the case of LIT
Flagg continues on trial, Commanders GLENN
and Stoddard, and Commodore Smith were ex
amined on behalf Of the applicant.
AN IMPORTANT Plat REcIEvED.-By the
last mail from California the General Land
ofhce received plat Of the rancho Roblar de
La Miseria, confirmed to Daniel Mrirht 1 Ill