Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-01-27
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conduct Of the Departments businsss-drud-
gerry clerks-whose work must be done, If it b
intended hereafter to keep letter books for
daily reference. This refusal was the result of
sudden spasm of extra economy. So the Eve
temporary clerks must be discharged, and the
books Of the Department must run behind its
current business. The last addition to the
clerical force Of the Post Office Department Of
any moment took place in 1S49, under the ad
ministration Of Senator Collamer, if we remem
Der correctly. Since then, the business Of the
Department has accumulated so rapidly that it
is notorious here that any clerkship in it is q
more laborious birth than any similar position
in any other Executive Department. The de-
felt in the Post Office revenues grows, of course,
almost entirely out of the legislation of Con-
gress, most of the members vieing with each
other to increase the postal facilities of their
immediate constituents.
1t will be readily comprehended that many
honorable members, however keen their vision
may be in the matter of discovering extrava-
gance in all other propositions to vote money
for postal expenses, can see none whatever in
any such likely to benefit their own Congress
this obliquity of vision prevail, that no little
of the extra labor on the clerks of the Depart
ment, is the result of efforts of themselves to
induce the Postmaster General to grant extra
| allowances to Postmasters in their respective
Districts; that functionary having the right
| under the law to donate away the whole reve-
| nues of the Department after that fashion, eff
q mind to-" In view of the psrtinacity with
which he is beset by honorable members to
that end and the late refusal to allow him the
means of paying sufficient number of letter
book clerks, We cannot avoid the conclusion
that the House would serve the public interest
better by commencing their postal-expenses
reform in ceasing to dip into the extra allow
ances-to Postmasters-bunghole, rather than
| by going into "conniptions" over a fancied.
but unreal leak at the letter book clerks spig-
| got. -
The BoSToN NAVY AGENcY.-The Presidep,
has appointed Mr.. Amidon, Of Worcester, to
ill that important agency, to take effect at the
| expiration Of the present incumbent's term Of
service. The place was stoutly contested BY
Edward Riddle, Esq, of Boston. who brought to
bear faithful and jealous service and the warm
recommendations of some of the most eminent
men Of New England-such men as Rufus
Choate, Erasmus ID. Beach, Hon Jno. S. Wells
and host Of others. Col. Riddle bears his
disappointment with humorous philosophy
and, like the venerable Father Ritchie:s dis
| appointed friend, who was as ardent as a
Southern sun could make him." will relax no
| effort in sustaining the Democratic party and
the administration of Mr. Buchanan. Mr..
Riddle presided at the great mass meeting
| recently held on Bunker Hill, and its proceed
ings were highly creditable and significant of
the soundness Of the Bunker Hill Democracy
We may, however, remark that Mr. Amidon is
q gentleman of high character, deserved in
iuence, and unfinching devotion to the Demo-
cratic party, and will doubtless discharge the
duties Of the position to the entire satisfact icn
of all.
The NEW LOAN.-It is said that there has
been already paid into the United States
Treasury, here and in New York city, nearly
| one-ffth of the new loan, although hardly suf.
fcient time has elapsed for the successful bid
ders at distance to be notified, officially, of
the acceptance Of their bids. The time allowed
for the payment Of the loan is until the first of
March next. The promptness with which these
payments are made, and the averaged high
premiums at which.the loan was taken, (consid-
ering tn at the interest allowed thereon is only
five per cent? clearly indicates that the CAPT.
| talists, at least, who are directly interested,
are not prevented, by the alleged ''deplorable
| condition of things from investing their
means in a Government loan, at even less
Of int
mands elsewhere on the very best individual
and corporation securities.
Too GOOD TO BE Losr.-The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Express, says of
the two black cats rumored to have been once
On time found into the terrible trap leading
up into the Senate galleries, that "whsn res
cued, they bore evidence in their insane de-
meanOr, of the secrets they had overheard in
Executive session"
T. S-The Herald suggests the propriety Of
sending the Sergeant alarms after the afore.
said two black cats and having them brought
to the bar of the Senate and there interropated
DC; and in case Of contumaey on their part, of
consigning them to durance vile. The editor,
of course, demands a categorical answer to the
question, whether the Senate will deal after
that fashion with those two large black cats.
TEE WsArHsR.-The following report of tho
weather for this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution.
The time of observation Is about o'clock:
JANUARY 81, 1859.
New York, N. Y..........cloudy
Phlladelphia, Pa ..cloudy, moderate
Baltimore, Md. ..........raining, cool
Washington, d. C......... thick mist, wind NE.
Richmond raining, cool
Petersburg, Va. cloudy, 4So
NORFOLK, Va. .S2e, wind 81.
Lynch6ufg, va. cloudy, 40.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn ....... clear, 43a.
Bristol, Tenn. cloudy, 437.
Chattanooga, Tenn. raining, 40.
Wilmington, n. C........cIoudy, mild
Columbia, 8: cloudy, mild
Charleston, 9. C...........clear, $40 wind NV
augusta, ia Claiming.
S1Ndnhdn, Ud... .10Sgy, $50, wind NE
Macon, raining
Columbus, raining
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