Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-10
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

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piication had been made Z The Gosernmeht
here by Assistant Treasurer Cisco ana Marshal
Rynders, for u s. military means Of project
ing the public property in that city, cas it
should be in danger in the course OF riot hat
was looked for to occur to-day, is probably cor
rect
| iCertain it is that Adjutant General Cooper,
and Colonel Harris Of the Marine Corps-the
latter being in attendance on the Naval Courts
in this city as a witness were yesterday dis
patched to New York by the afternoon train
Tits understood that they were charged with
the duty of having exeryt thing in readiness to
protect the property of the United States there
of every description, including, Of course, the
specie in the sub-Treasury. They are discreet
experienced and efficient officers, and will, we
know, be careful in all the arrangements they
may feel called on to make to meet any posi-
BILE emergency. - ....4. ...-
T THR PUBLIC PRIyrING.-The New York
Hsruld ''puts inn its ''oar'' upon this subject,
arguing that there is likely to be q very gene
raj muss with reference to it, and concluding
with an appeal for the establishments of Gov
eminent Printing Office We see no good end
to be attained by anything of the sort. An
United States government printing establish
ment can hardly Fail to become the grandest
eleemosynary institution the world ever saw !;
costing the National Treasury millions on mil
lions more than the cost of the public printing
at the present time, which is much less than
the public are being led to believe by persons
who, considering it plumber" are endeavor-
ing to clutch it after the fashion of highway
men. The prices paid at this time are some
thirty per centum less than when it was done
by the venerable Thomas Richie, while the
wages paid by the public printer are full six
teen per centum higher ~
But with reference to the scheme for making
public printing bureau, we have to say from
our own experience here, that it will turn out
to be neither more nor less than a sort of huse
hospital in which to keep, at the expense of the
national treasury, all the used up and broken
down printers in the Union who claim to have
rendered political services to individual mem
bers Of Congress Of all parties-cross roads and
rum shop strikers" and inditers of personal
partisan appeals in their behalf in country
week.-Mrs.. The bene6ciaries of such an estab-
lishment will take due care that the wages
allotted to them shall be fat salaries-not print
ers' wages, according to the rules of the trade.
As for the Herald's idea that the outr de
pressure to change the destination of the pub
lie printing is to be very great, it is evidently
true. Every hungry individual for plunder-in
the land, appears to have set his heart on get
ting his spoon into the dish those known noto-
riously as constitutional plunderers being loud
est in their denunciation of the present system,
while most eager to fasten themselves upon the
public printing by the means of black mailing
or frightening the present printer into buying
them of. II rumor be true, he is daily beset
by such propositions. Our advice to him
is to keep his hands clear of any cahood-
ling with any parties who proclaim that they
regard the public printing under the present
system as being plumber. We regard him as
being a candidate upon his individual merit
as an experienced and previously well-tried
mechanic, and as a consistent and reliable
Democrat who has given dollars in aid of the
Democratic party cause, where those who re-
gard the public printing as plumber and are
seeking to obtain it as such, have given pennies
to the same cause.
We are heartily sick and tired of the efforts
being made to mislead the public and Congress
on this subject, and propose to publish brief
daguerreotype sketches of the raids of the
plunder-mongers who are smelling around the
public printing, upon the national treasury
showing up their former connection, direct and
indirect, with what they evidently regard as
treasury plundering schemes, and their jobs in
prospective, which are not few in number
That is, if we can find time so to do This
public printing matter is one of no little i'm
portance to the business interests of the Fed.
eral Metropolis, hundreds Of our best mechan-
les and their families deriving their bread from
1t; and we are no longer disposed to remain
quiet on the subject while gangs of treasury
plunderers by trade are setting their traps to
induce the removal of the work from our
midst in their efforts to secure its alleged pro-
fits for themselves, probably in the name of
others. The only change that can possibly be
made will be TO let the work out to the lowest
bidder, to be executed where wages paid to
printers may be lowest, of course. Such must
be the upshot of the labors of the plumber
mongers in this connection. if they manage to
effect anything beyond their own individual
exposure.
IHE fRoBABILITY OF REGENCY IN PRUs-
sIA.-The current disability Of the King Of Prus-
STA has created a hubbub in vernmental (ca hi
net and diplomatc) circles of Europe that has ex-
tended even among the diplomats stationed at
this distant Cabinet The question in issue is.
whether Prussia is to be temporarily governed
by regency. The only information that we
have seen On the subject, that looks like she'd
ding light on it, is in late Berlin letter TO the
London Times, which is as follows Viz:
The probabilities Of Regency being institu-
ted appears to me 10 be just now ON the Increase
and IL realized will be matter of congratulation ;
since, both for the country and for the Prince of
Prussia, 1t would be far preferable state of
thugs TO provisional adj IN nstTdtion Of the bust
ness OF the Government merely In the name Of the
hing, as being more definite and confering great
eIdegfee OF liberty on the temporaryhold or power
Inc sdowness OF the progress in the Kings recov-
cry oneIs strong ground: for the presumption
that he will be prevented for a Enlightened De-
rlod' from exercising his monarchieal functions,
ana The certificate OF bis medical attendants to
thai effect. when called ON lIvt