Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-29

Government Of the United States, in the way
of another extravsgant ocean mail steamer
monopoly contract. This game Of detraction,
30 PLAYED, will of course have the effect Of
making Congress the moro cautious in legisla.
ting on the subject of the Tehuantepec specu-
lation. for the benefit of which such an ava
lanch of abuse andldetraction is being showered
upon every person and everything that might
| stand in direct or indirect competition with it,
for the favor Of the travelling public or Of Con-
gress.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - Dispatches have
beeu received at the Navy Department from
several points in the Pacific, among which we
notice the following:
From the U. s. ship st. Marys, at Honolulu,
| under date of December Z, Commander Davis
reports that nothing of importance has trans
pired on shipboard since his previous report
The number of American vessels which had
entered or appeared of that port during the
season are said to have been nearly one hun
dred, and the value of American property con-
tanned in them was estimated at 500, OOO, OOO
| Commander Davis communicates his intention
to remain in that port until the latter part of
January.
From the U. s. Atrato expedition, at Camp
Toucey, Pacific coast, up to the Goth ult., there
had not been single case of sickness, though
the party was much exposed. Lieut. Craven
was about discharging the provisions, with a
view to send the vessel to Carthagena for sup
plies. The supplies on hand were sufficient for
two months, but some anxiety is expressed lest
the bread should spoil in that humid climate.
From the u S. flag ship San Jacinto, at
| Hong Kong, the dispatches are up to Nov.
18th. Nothing of Importance is stated except
that the Levant, under command of Comman-
| der VIM. Smith, was to leave for Boston via
Cape Of Good Hope, early in December. These
dispatches are accompanied by a report on the
coal supplied to the steam frigate Minnesota,
from the naval stores at that place, and which
| is stated to be anthracite coal sent from the
United States by the Navy Department during
1854 and 1855. 1t is said to be of fair average
quality instead of worthless" as previously
reported.
There are also dispatches from from Capt
S. +. Dupont, of the steamer Minnesota, bear
ing date Nov. 1lth, which announce the arrival
of that vessel at Hong Kong with his Excel
lency VIM. 3. Read, U. S. Minister to China,
on board, having left Hampton Roads on the
1st Of July, the running time being los days
% days from Table Bay to this anchorage The
passage to the Cape of Good Hope was long and
tedious, the winds being generally light and
ahead. The Commander gives an account of
the voyage sailing capacities, DC and, except
SO far as the rigging is concerned, reports her
equal to any other ship in the navy She car
ries fuel for nineteen days, and consume s thirty
tons per day. With fair wind, her speed is
about thirteen or fourteen knots per hour and
with the typhoons and monsoons-strong head
winds-she made four knots per hour while in
calm weather nine knots per hour is reported
to be her average speed.
| Gov. McMULLIN.-Thisg gentleman is already
the busiest man on the Pacific side His first
| message lays open before US. 1t is a very SEN
si5le and business-like document, teeminp with
! interesting information concerning the condi
ton and prospects of Washington Territory.
| We have also received copy of his letter to the
editors of the Pioneer and Democrat-more
than seven columns long-descriptive of his
journey overland, to his post, and of the people
and things of the Territory, which is also paper
| of really great interest. The Governor is evil
IDENTIFY already putting in the big licks'' for
the first U. S. Senatorship from the State of
Washington, when the Territory shall have
been admitted into the Union. He has gone
| very commercially to work TO that end That
| is, he is proving cOnclusively to the people of
the Territory, that all his energies and his expe-
rience are being earnestly devoted to the ad-
vancement of their interests
REMOvED.-We hear, with regret, that mo
Etheridge, Esq, long the Chief Clerk in the
Navy Department, and of late years one of its
principal clerks, has been notified that his SER
vices will not be required in the Department
after the 3lst instant. This change will be
sincerely regretted by a very large class of per-
sons in and out of the naval service of the Uni
ted States, to whose esteem and respect he had
justly won, not only by the manner in which he
discharged the duties committed to his care,
but by his high toned character as a gentleman,
which has made him a very general favorite.
We presume that politics also caused the
change in his case.
| GENERAL CALHouN.-From information re-
i
houn, of Kansas Territory, can reach this CITY
before the 4th prOximo. In the usual course
Of through travelling Gen. Clarkson, the bearer
of the Lecompton Constitution, should be here
this afternoon, having started from .Leayen.
worth in time to do go
HE LEcoAProN CONSTITUTION is expected
to reach Washington in the course of to-day.
We presume that the President will immedi.
ately transmit it to Congress, as he is under.
stood to have concluded the preparation of his
message to accompany it some days ago
The MAIL CoNTRACroRS.-We understand
that arrangements have been made by the Post
| Office Department for the issue to- day of some
100000 of Treasury notes, as payment to COL
tractors for carrying the mails.
NoNINATIoN.-We learn that S. B. Jewett.
| Esq, was yesterday nominated to the Senate,
| as Marshal for the northern district of New