Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-07
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


from thirty to fifty ex-members who come to
to sell their personal influence for hard cash
on the mail and contingencies; their influence
aforesaid for such consideration, to be used to
get through Congress any legislation whatever
desired to put money in the pockets of the
payees. Some Of these gentlemen have fol-
lowed this business for years past, until they
are we'll known around the Halls of Congress
as lobby memJers." Their former position
in the public service gives them at all times
an entree into both Chambers, which affords
advantages for eleetioneering for schemes on
the Treasury for which Spectators pay liber-
| ally. Their knowledge of the rules governing
the transaction of business in Congress also
makes them somewhat desirable agents. These
| advantages, backed by the fact that they are
| VIGOROUSLY less serupulous in their means of
carrying their points than most others, have.
! up to this time, rendered them so successful
as professional Legislative drummers that they
have, among them, shared much of the public
money which never should have left the Trea-
| sury of the United States. Little good it does
them, however, as in spite Of our laws and
the efforts of our police, faro banks still four
ish in Washington. We have reason to be-
lieve that heavy force of this description is
already engaged to work through Congress the
New York Pacific railroad scheme, through
which it is designed to get the Government to
build the road, and then to virtually make it
present to dozen or so spectators in nearly
every State in the Union. These ex-members
are to be paid for their services here, in stock,
provided they carry the project through. We
shall have to keep our attention fixed upon
them afectionately. As they show their hands,
we shall inform the public, and moro espe-
eia!ly honest members of Congress, what
schemes on the Treasury each may have in
hand, so that they may beware of the plots of
these gentlemen. The rules Of the House and
Senate should promptly be SO amended, as
| that exmember claim agents or drummers,
shall be excluded from the Halls. as other
claim agents are excluded.
| Rich, RACYM RARE .,,-REFREsHING 80!
REcHERcHE ~. RELIGIOUS .!M.!-Among the
letters read at the very last Adamantine rati-
fcation meeting in the city of New York from
the pens of distinguished gentlemen engaged
in the patriotic business of saving the Union
in these troublous times-though John Van
| Buren, maliciously insinuates that some of
them, belonging in the Empire State, are
merely "sitting mp nTM the Union in order
| to rob the body''-we find one from our popu-
lar and clever neighbor, the publisher and
proprietor of the Washington Sentinel, which,
it strikes US, requires n word in explanation;
| least, judging him by the single effuson, his
thousand friends and acquaintances in this
region, and the "long boys of the ALBANIAN
tine organization in New York, may unneees-
sarily mourn him NJ lost hereafter to the king
| dom of good fellowship of which he is, in
deed, Prince. We, therefore, bid them
take heart He is not becoming serious"
as his letter in question seems to Indicate lie
happily bids fair to live long in the full flow
| of joviality, which has made him hosts of
| friends everywhere, despite the apparent vio-
lent biblical turn that has suddenly taken
him. Those for whom we especially write
just now may dry up their tears. This ailing
being by no means constitutional with him, it
can hardly strike in. Indeed, it cannot be
more than slight incubation, caught from
recent very close study Of the speeches of his
present 'Gamaliel''-better known in the
rural districts of New York as Scripture
Dick" Remembering we'll that his Taylor
ism in the canvass of 1913 was quite as ardent
as his Cooleyism now, we are forcibly struck
with the belief, that in virtually claiming to
be a heavy ''stockholder in the Democratic
party he must be slightly bitten with the
impression that Democracy is sort Of po-
litical Shanghai line, in which a very i'm
posing show Of stock is to be obtained for the
smallest possible amount of capital actually
invested. With these few remarks, by way of
preventing them from being dumfounded by
amaZement at the scriptural turn he seems to
be taking in this letter, we venture to lay be
| fore our readers the following extracts from
our esteemed neig boris effusion In question
viz:
But turn, gentlemen from the consider
alton OF these graver matters with irresistible
mirth at the attempt to read you and me out
| OF the Democratic party, because, forsoOth,
| we choose to lift up our voice Of remonstrance
at the official conduct Of this hitherto unknown
but now self magnified Mogul of the Demo
cratic party Who is this Goliah of Gath who
has brought reproach upon Israel. that he
should defy the armies of the living Democra-
cy! And what if he cOmeth with sword,
and with spear, and with shield, We
come to him in the name of our party and the
Constitution of our country, which he has
| defed. We acknowledge no such Gamaliel,
| at whose feet we have knelt and learned our
Democracy. We claim to be real stockholders
in the Democratic party, and hold our claim
to fellowship from higher rource than the
political stock jobbers and wicked spectators
who, for sordid purposes, now imprudently
assert their right to the highest seats in the
synagogue. Once upon time in the old
Commonwealth of Virginia, an eloquent but
meek and then almost friendless young divine
was attempted to be tramflsd under foot by
the insolence of pretenders, and by the force
of money and power was forbade communion
with his church. The day commemorative
sively he took his seat. Table after table had
been entertained, till at length, inspired with
Christian fortitude, he said within himself
1t is the LoRD's TABLE, and none shall hi nder
me-;
GENERAL LANE IN OREGON Reports from
the seat of war in Oregon, dated Camp Myr-
tie, Umpqua Valley, Oregon, September 18th,
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