Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-21

should take his well known statue of America
at that price. This President P. refused to do,
demanding for the money the execution of some
other design that would be satisfactory. To
this Powers refused to assent So no contract
has been made with him up to this time for the
elaborate work he was to have executed for the
Government. In July next, the appropriation
will revert by limitation of law to the Treasury
of the United States. &c. if Powers is ever to
execute anything to be placed in the Capitol
building, new law authorizing him to be paid
for 1t must necessarily be passed.
The Lone BRIDGE.-With deep regret we
have to inform those interested that, after thor.
ough investigation of all the questions involved
in the proposition, the Secretary of the Interior
has felt compelled to decline to order the re-
pair of the Long Bridge over the Potomac He
finds, from careful estimates of the cost of the
work made in detail by competent engineers,
that the amount required to that end ia greater
than the sum subject to his use for such pur-
pose 80 he could not cause the repairs in ques-
ton to be made without creating deficiency
In view of the fact that the Senate positively mad
unequivOcally declined to make an appropria-
ton for that particula purpose, he does not feel
ut liberty to use the money for the repairs Of
bridges in his hands, so as to create deficiency
in prosecuting a work for which Congress de-
clined to appropriate.
However much our fellow citizens of Wash
ington and the surrounding section of Virginia
may be disappointed in thus learning of the
existence of so formidable legal obstacles to
their qualification in this matter, a genuine
public spirit will surely counsel them that, in
his decision, the Secretary has adhered, though
unwillingly, indeed. to a strict line of duty !,
which must increase their respect for and con-
fience in him as public officer.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FILLIBUsrERISG.-The
New York Express, mOralizing over the proba-
bic fate of the followersO of Walker in Nicaragua
and Crabbe in Sonora, says, with justice, truth
| and force rarely surpassed in the columns of the
daily press:
'The most daring ingenuity is inadequate TO
the formation of any excuse for these dis, EacefuI
demonstrations. Ii cannot be said that the par
ties participating in them, do so because they
unable to procure the means of living honestly
and dying honorably in following peaceful pur-
suits. There is labor enough in the land to tax
the industry Of all the young able bodied men in
| tiff they will but make up their minds to look
for it-,nd, in looking for it, to undergo the
thousandth part eff the Irvations they Voluntarily
endure in the service of Col Ciabb or a General
Walker. If the city is overcrowded with people
who can find ''nothing to do - there roads to
be made, bitches to be dug, fields to be plowed
| and forests to be felled, in the country TO dig
canal, TO lay a railroad to fell trees, and to get
an honest living by it,-are certainly far better
than to be starving and stealing in Sonora Mic
aragua. with nothing to look forward to, ulti
mately, but d cruel death and dishonorable grave
Young men we invoke you to take these truths
| into consideraticn-and the next time you are
asked TO 20 "fllibustefing,' tell them that ri
racy' has ceased to be either popular profita-
BILE. Ii does not pay. 1t is come to he bad
| speculation running everybody that embarks in
| The NAVAL COURTS OF INQUIRY.-In Court
l. since the last issue of the Star. 1.-THE case of
exLieut. Bartlett still pending,) the Hon. H.
| j. Anderson, Commissioner of Customs recalled
for cross-examnation by counsel for the defence,
and II. ID. Watson, Esq, late captain in the
| marine corps, have been examined, the latter
| on behalf of ex-Lieut. B. Mr.. Watson was
| giving testimony at p. In.
Before Court No. 2, after the Star went to
press yesterday, the defence of 1t. Sartori was
read and submitted. To-day, the case of 1t.
John c. Carter, (furIoughed by the late Naval
| Retiring Board,) was taken up, and CommO-
L L,1
Dry, and Newton, "a member of Court No. 3D.
were examined in 1t. C. defence Mr. Blount
| is his counsel.
Before Court No. 3, the case of Capt Boar
man still pending, Commander Long was this
| morning examined on behalf of the defence, ere
they adjourned for the time being to permit a
member of the Court to obey a summons from
| Court No. to give testimony before it.
APPOINTED BY THE PREsIDENT.-Wiliam P.
Russell Postmaster at MiddIebury, VT, in place
of Emerson b. Wright, removed.
Thomas Wood Postmaster at Lafayette, Ind,
in place of Jacob Walker, deceased
l.. NJ. Hellman Postmaster at Mokelumne
Hill, Cal, in place Of Henry S. Anhiser, re-
signed.
Thomas Bacon Postmaster at Osdensburr. N
Y, in place of Luke Baldwin, removed.
By tie Secretary Of tie Nary.-Thompson
Van Reswick to be Inspector of Lumber at the
Washington Navy Yard when his services are
required.
Nor REsIGNED.-Dr Gale, an Examiner Of
the Patent Office SALARY So, 500 per annum) has
not resigned, as asserted of late in many news
papers The story, doubtless, originated in
the fact that DIR. Breed, an Assistant Examiner
in the same Bureau SALARY 81 800 per annum)
has rendered his resignation, to take effect on
the LIST proximo.
| The GOvERSORsHIP OF UrAH.-We apprc-
bend that little reliance is to be placed in the
truth Of the rumor that the President is about
to appoint ex-Judge Drummond, of Utah, Gov
ernor of that Territory, which is being so extern
sively published over the country.
RENovED.-Mr. JosephW Huston, of Mich,
second. class Clerk in the Office of the Sixth
| Auditor Of the Treasury, (for the Post Office
DEPARTMENT. has been removed by the Secre
tary Of the Treasury.
APpOINTED.-The Secretary Of the Treasury
has appointed Thomas j. Timmins and Thomas
c. Maberry, Assistant Appraisers of the Customs
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