Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-09

swear by all that's honest, to the value of
I" Parker vsin2 and "Potosi % Did he ever
publish line concerning the late Administra
tons consultations and acts, and CONCERNING
James Buchanan and the Democracy in the
late canvass, that has not turned out to be the
TRUTH Amt the Herald, in fine, the very
model Of truth Knowing, as Bennett mist
know, how implicitly the world has reason to
believe In the truth of every thing appearing
in the Herald concerning public affairs, our
only wonder is that he ceased Furnishing, for
the instant, the somewhat rusty buttons on that
diplomatic suit he. caused to be made for him
self in Paris when " slushing' poor Pierce in
the hope of coaxing out of him, after that fash
ion, the mission to France, to treat the Star to
the compliments he here bestows on it,
The Stars mission is no less surely to expose
the mendacity, charlatanism and impudence of
such aspirations as his after that French en-
bassy, than the entire want of foundation of
such inischievous roorbacks as those he vouches
for concerning our affairs with China. He may
yelp at US, as in the extract we quote above,
throughout his whole paper, and he will still
find that brief contradiction in the Star of
the truth Of any one of the Herald's wonder.
full Washington stories, will extinguish it, in
stanter, in public estimation. g..
By-the-by; no is throwing away labor in bur.
nishing up the buttons of that old diplomatic
coat of his-for if the Herald does nought for
the next year but puff, puff, puff the Admins
tration, he will be no nearer at the end of it,
than when "poor Pierce was in the White
House, to the realization Of the embassy to
France.
ANSWERS TO QUERIBs.-A subscriber, an en-.
listed United States soldier at distant post,
writes US the following letter
Editor ofths Star: Sir: Would you please to
answer the following questions in your weekly
for the benefit of your Army readers and for the
benefit Of your enlisted readers in particular:
1. Are officers Of the Army allowed enlisted
men to act as walters,
2. Can an enlisted man be compelled noiems TO-
lens, to become an officers servant.
3. What amount of pay is an enlisted waiter en-.
titled to, besides the regular pay allowed by the
United States for his services as a soldier!
4. Is it consistent with Army regulations fol
soldiers, on coming off guard to be compelled tc
chop and saw wood for officers and officers mes
SEES, being at the same time reported as performing
garrison policel
S. Are men who have enlisted to act as soldiers
(and who find themselves compelled to perform
the above four duties, besides working every day
in lieu Of performing the duty of soldiers, bound
to fulfill their engagement,
6. Are men prohibited, by regulation, from re-
porting the maltreatment they receive from OH
GERS, to their superior officers, And if not, why
do company officers prevent men from doing so
Sir, you can obtain information concerning the
uhnxvo pfv k1,o Into Is.
Office, through some Of your reporters.
BY complying with the above request you will
confer an obligation on hundreds, who, for the
present, must remain NAMELEss
U. 9. ARMY, February &c 1857.
To his question No. | we answer, no.
To No. q no.
To No. 3, no increase of pay whatever.
To No. 4, no.
To No. 5, we have to answer, that all who
enter the Government service are of course
bound to fulfill any oaths they may take on 50
doing. The safe path of honor and duty, is for
soldier who has cause of complaint against a
superior in the service, to obey the obnoxious
order first, and then to demonstrate or to send
to the authority higher than that officer Through
the latter, that he may have an opportunity to
reply to iD formal complaint of his alleged
grievance.
10 the first branch Of the 9th query we have
also to answer no. And, further, that any en-
listed man on proving the truth of such an allie.
CATION as is embraced in the latter clause (of
this 9th query against an officer of his company.
Will cause his prompt punishment. How to
proceed, to that end, we have previously ex-
planned above.
The ART ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION
recently few gems have been added to this
collection which greatly increase its interest to
the amateur. One is portrait of Mrs. John
Slidell, OF Louisiana, by Healey, which strikes
us as that skillful and practiced artists chef
dGurre. Besides embracing striking like
ness as composition, it is the finest picture
we have yet seen from his easel.
Its finish is replete with the results of his
twenty-five years patient professional study
and labor in the best European schools 1t is
original throughout, and if surviving for CEN
fury, will rank its author among the masters
OF his noble art Artists, like saints, are never
appreciated by their own generation; and yet
we must be so Questionable as to declare that
as work of art, we do not know that we ever
saw anything handed down for centuries as
great picture, that struck us more focibfy than
that to which we here refer.
Dr. Stones basso relieve lin marble) of Chief
Justice fancy, is classical to fault, and is no
less perfect as a likeness, than in its execution
AS a sculptural study it may indeed be gazed
on by one Of taste proftably, for hours.
REApPoINrNEyTs.-Weh hear of sundry 70
appointments by the President on which we
sincerely believe, the Democratic party is to be
congratulated. We refer to those of Chas. Cor
don Green of the Boston Post, to be the Naval
Officer for the port Of Boston; BENZ Mccullough
to be U. 8. Marshal for the Eastern District o.
Texas; and Sam'l D Hay to be U. S. District
Attorney there.
Also, that of Joseph W. Gray, of the Plain
dealer, to be Postmaster at Cleveland. Ohio
Thomas Miller, Of whom we do not know. has
also been appointed Postmaster at Columbus.
Ohio, vice Thomas Sparsda whose conm;ss;or