Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-23

| theirs, who had seen perish at one blow the re-
suits Of life OF toll and who had fallen because
they were in the front Of battle, FALLEN as mar.
| tyrs OF commercial honor ,)-he would say, be Of
good cheer II all be lostsall is lost except hon
or; You retain that, he said, undiminished I'M
furnished In respect to the people Of Ma.sachu-
sets, to the working classes, he would say-be
the return Of prosperity Is before you, and there
Is that charity which never faileth to comfort and
sustain the unfortunate. To the wealthy he would
say that the time had come for wealth to show its
courage, and not to TetreBch by diminishing the
means Of employment for the poor Rekindle
| the forges, give renewed action to manufactures,
and start our native Commonwealth afresh in It's
| march to prosperity. The weigh hit of the times
he affirmed fstts much heavier on the working
classes, and to the Massachusetts, Mechanics As
ISOLATION falls that most exquisite and best of du-
ties-a charitable care of those to whom God
chsafes less Of the material life which falls to
members Of this association. (Great applause.
The BoGUs DEFICIT-Those who anticipate
that the years revenue viii not prove ample
with the $4,000, 900 still in tho Treasury. for
the years economical expenditures Of the Gov
ernment, are clearly behind the times. Such
is by no means the opinion of those in whose
judgment upon such matters we have been &C.
customed to rely. For year or two past every
effort has been made, and very properly too, to
reduce greatly, if not entirely TO get rid of all
surplus in the Treasury. Still thirteen mil
lions remain there. We shall be much more
surprised to find it not increased year from
hence, if Congress does not continue to legislate
in order to get rid of it, than to find it all gone
through deficiency in the years revenue.
The importation of duty paying articles of most
descriptions may possibly decrease in proper
ton to the increase of the population of the
country, to some extent; but the hourly in
creasins wants of the country, and the fact that
the United States are now quite as well off az
before their monetary affairs became deranged-
possess even more specie, and as much substan-
tial property-will together, bring the con-
sumption Of foreign goods, wares and merehan-
die much more nearly up to the standard Tin
value of duties paid Of last year, than most Of
the financial wonder mongering press imagine.
The country is not broken-money and other
property is only changing hands at home in the
present state Of things, much faster than may
be advantageous to those compelled to part
with it under the pressure of the late panic
BASE LIBELs-Some of the Northern news
papers are publishing story that John Nc
quired a bride of $3.50, and that Caleb Cushing,
U. S. Attorney General, required bride Of
81 1000, to obtain from them official opinions
favorable to the purchase of the famous "brick
church property in New York, as site for
city post office. These statements are said to
have been made in evidence, recently, in a law
trial concerning the aforesaid church property,
the owners of which-their speculatons on the
National Treasury having failed-are at log
gerheads. While it is very probable that some
Of their agents have come hither to bride
through their scheme, and have met Peter
Funks, like themselves, in Washington, smart
enough to get out of them money on the pre-
tenco Of payment for the favorable exercise of
their individual influence on the Attorney
General and New York District Attorney, those
who believe that either Of those two distin-
guished gentlemen knew aught concerning the
successful biting of the New York titers, are fit
subjects FOR lunatic hospital. We know of no
othes appropriate reply to such SANDERS of the
two gentlemen named, than to suggest that
they are fit candidates for cells In lunatic hos
pitfalls.
DIscHARGED.-We regret to say that there
has been a large discharge of mechanics-ffty
ip-carpenters-recentlye employed in the Navy
Yard at Norfolk, Va. That a necessity should
exist for issuing such an order is deplorable, in
view Of the fact that the condition of the bust
ness Of commercial ship building is such as to
make it positively certain that the capable men
thus thrown cut of work will be unable to find
employment in the course of tho approaching
hard season on working men. We know, we'll,
that no one is more deeply grieved at the ne
cessity for this discharge than the Secretary of
the Navy himself who would, if he could do so
consistently with the public interest, over
which it is his duty to watch, much prefer to
employ additional mechanical labor in all the
Navy Yards, than to discharge hand at such
time Oar hope, however, is, in view of all the
circumstances. that he may very shortly find it
within his power to direct the speedy re-
rloymeut of the discharged ship-carpenters re.
| ferred to above.
SENATOR HUSTER.-This distinguished gen
| tieman has at length been goaded by the
| current persistent efforts to represent him to
be an opponent Of the present Administration.
into writing letter emphatically denying that
allegation, while taking ground with reference
to the propriety of a portion of the course of
Governor Walker common to almost all the u
S. Senators, without distinction of party, repre-
senting Southern States. Months ago we took
occasion to explain what we had every reason
| to believe to be Mr.. Hunters position-for he
hesitated not in private conversation to express
confidence in and friendship for the prescn,
Administration, as we were assured by many
and we are glad to find that we were then cor.
| rect, explained in this letter from his pen
as that is represented by the press. Those who
know him well, notwithstanding the efforts thai
have been made to force him into a position Of
hostility to the present Administration, are
well aware that there has really existed a:
little danger that he would compromise hi
position in tho great Democratic party in The
land, as that he would fail to be true as stee
to the protection Of the just and constitutions
rights of the South, which are bound up will