Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-08-04

AN IMPORTANT DECISION has Just been
made by the Attorney General, holding that
recommendations for office on file in the de-
parfments are not matter of record there,
and cannot be inspected except by those
personally interested, nor can copies be fur
nished upon application for use of evidence
in the causes TO which private citizens are
parties, much less for publication.
SET AT LIBERIY.-U. s. Marshal Payre
in New York received yesterday from Pres
dent Hayes a pardon for Col Robert Des
Anges, formerly a deputy collector in the
custom house, who was convicted o. COM
piicity iii The Lawrence silk smuggling
frauds two years ago. The evidence againSL
him was positive, and he was convicted and
received the full penalty of the law-twO
years Imprisonment in the Albany peniten-
tiary, and fine OF $4,000. He was sentenced
November q 1875. Under the Communication
law his term expired July 20, and he was re-
naming in prison because of inability II
pay the fine, which the President has r.
mitted. Des Anges promised IL released To
make important disclosures in relation To
the transactions in when he participate
and Nil probably he heard from hereafter as
a government witness.
PRESIDENT HAYES AND THE WASHING
TON MONUMENT This morning the Presf-
dent, accomp anied by his son, Webb c.
Hayes, visited the monument Office at the
City Hall, 20 examine the plan OF Mr.. Lar
kin q. Meade for the com pletion of the
Washington monument. Nr. Meades plan
II 10 Dldte on the COluultlr rs III now SLdf,iS
q figure of Washington s. feet in height
Of hammered bronze. The President
seemed we'll pleased with the design. Tue
engineers commission having reported a
mode of streng heuing the structure by n
hoop skirt around the foundation, which, by
the way, comes In very apropos, as the mon
UmeDt has had ''pull back" for ~ years.
thus enabling the structure to bear the In
creased weight, 1t is thought the President
viii favor this idea in order that the modi-
fed plan may be carried out. The Pres Ident
"A nj
for completing the structure, and ma ie hlm-
self acquainted with what has been done in
been inspected by large number of artists
and others, and 1t may be safe to say that
nine out of every ten approve Oft.
THE NORTH CAROLINA KILKENNY CATS.
The summer dizziness of Washington has
been enlivened for the past week or more by
scores of Nortn Carolina gentlemen, the ma
jOrily of them democrats, VINO want office
First came Judge Leech. He wanted an Of
hce awful bad. His favOrite diversion
,eemed TO be to hang around the lobby of the
Ebbitt house, and, surrounded by a score of
hungry star heelS,' eXpatiate on how he
could wake up the dead WING party In the
Old North State, which would carry every
thing before 1t like whirlwind, provided
each member who fell into the ranks could
have an office. Leech exhausted himself in
about a fortnight, went home disgruntled,
and is evidently now Illuminating how Pre-
sldent Hayes can expect to succeed u Hess
OF the defunct political party. Next came a
score OF worn out political hacks with
charges against Colonel Douglass. They
fought him persistently for a week or more,
and when il was developed that the Attorney
General wanted the evidence OF more than a
detective under a cloud TO remove him. they
too, became solicitOus as to the righte Dus-
ness OF the southern policy, actually Dor
rowed money from the very one they
rad Deen prosecuting, and then went
home detected. Some still remain, however
who don't give up so easily. Day after day
the President is bored with some North
Carolina gentleman, 'be gawd SIR" who
eft" in The confederacy, who makes promi.
sts OF what be can do IL he Is only saddle led on
tie public RIB. By some strange coinci-
dence three of them are after the same Office.
They meet on the street, hav; social con-
verse together, drink Apple Jack out of the
same bottle, and simply go to the President
and berafe one another. The upshOt Is that
the President has apparently come to the
Conclusion that the North Carolina gang
are bad lot, and takes the evidence they
then selves give him for that very logical
Conclusion. In view of the political majority
North Carolina didu't give for Hayes, he is
doubtless willing to let the Office hunters
from that state wait awhile 10 the end that
he may ascertain who are aud who are not
worthy OF his confidence. If they keep on
abusing one another as they have done he
Will soon lose all faith i'll the goodness OF
any OF them.