Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-10-10
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The PUBLIC-STOREsQ CEsTIoN.-The New York
JoKrHGl of Commerce takes the trouble to expose
the utter want OF foundation for the wholesale ac-
cusations of the New York correspondent Of the
Mobile Register. leveled against the parties with
whom the Secretary of the Treasury not long since
contracted tO have the labor in the public stores
in New York done which was formerly performed
BY a considerable army of SHARED individuals.
This correspondent. by the bye, was as dif'use as
bountiful with his accnsations; bestowing them
with a free hand likewise on the Secretary of the
Treasury and dozen prominent gentlemen in the
same connection viii Ia said gentlemen have no
more To do with the Government and its contracts
than the man in the moon. While we think the
journal OF COmUsTcs gives undue Importance to
the roorbacks written TO the Register. by bestow-
ing any notice whatever upon them, we are glad
it has made plain the fact that, by making the
contract in question, Secretary Cobb has lcSsened
the cost to the Federal Treasury of collecting the
customs revenue in New York somewhere be-
tween SIS OtO and 500 eco having previously les
sened it about SiOO.OCO by dispensing with the
services Of entirely useless Ulcers under the Col
lector of the port of New York and other chief
Treasury Department functonaries there.
The mOnstrous ISLANDERS Of the writer for the
Register have done good. instead Of harm--deci
dedly. They have attracted public attention to
substantial and successful one, emitting him to
the gratitude of the country; and also to the fur
thcr fact that men disappointed about office, or
something of the sort, rs the Registers writer
evidently is continue to sickle at nothing in the
way of monstrous and indiscrminate SANDER. to
crafty their thirst for revenge-thus warning the
public against placing confidence in the class of
| ISLANDERS such as that on which we are comment
ing.
THE STARS PROPHECY BEING WORKED Our
The Washington correST ondent of the Baltimore
Sun says:
to be supported for Clerk of the III puse of Repre-
sentatives by anti-l.ecompton Democrats from the
Middle States upon the understanding that they
will vote with the Republicans for Speaker the
latter Of course to support Mr. FOrnev In maxi NJ
this arrangement he says that il is not to he un-
| dcrStOod that he may not support the Charleston
nominee. lie does not expect aid as a candidate
| for Clerk from Judge Douglas as that gentle
mans counsel here has been la dispose of ali parfv
difficulties within the party. and that he should
support the Democratic nominee even if il were
Mr.. buchanan, provided that the princi Dles of
the Cincinnati platform were not departed from =
| A month since we announced or foretOld this
= bargain intrigue and management to place the
figlenan Of Senator Douglas in the House clerk.
| ship; as well as that for the sake Of conserving
| some lingering chance of obtaining the Charles
| ton nomination. which he foolishlv imagines he
| hls, Senator Douglas would scheme TO make il
appear that he has neither lot part in tn work
Of transferring the votes of his Congressional fol-
lowers in the House from New York, Pennsylva-
MIA and New Jersey to the Republican nominee
| for Speaker
Though upto this time 10th, as explained above,
to father this Legitimate result of his course for the
last year or two his modest hesitancy bids fair to
wear of, perhaps, by the meeting of Congress. by
| which time, unless utterly bereft of all mother
wit In his chase after the Grazing bauble-the
Presidency-he will have discovered that the game
Of pretending continued identity with the Demo-
cratic party while striving to oatlead Mr. Seward
Tor abolition support by maintaining more plau-
| slble and sPecious abolition doctrine than his is
not worth the candle.
TIE BEGINNING OF THE END.-The result of the