Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-30
vs. 7sdtNGfoN NEWS AND GOSSIP

Adyices were received in Washington by the
European mails received this morning, rcnd
erirg it positively certain that Shanghai lin
China has fallen into the hands of the rebels
who arc vigorously extending their operations.
carrying all before them. This news comes
10 various parties here who have Eastern con-
ncstions There is not shadow of doubt of
! It's truth
The PRINTING OF CoSGRESs.-The young
man who telegraphs for the northern associa-
ted press from this point, by usually being
careful 10 send little over the wires except what
he previously finds in the columns of the Star.
has been becoming rSiiGble of late. However,
he piV once in a while venture to send other
/ things, and rarely does so without getting his
/ foot in it. The fact that whenever he so VEN
lures he is almost sure to be wrong. was illus
| tratcd in his despatch published over the
! country yesterday morning. wherein he an
nOunced the senior editor of this paper as a
candidate for the post of public printer. We
| know not who gammoned the young man to
| the extent of stufling him with such story
/ But we do know, that if Congress fails TO elect
Il public printer until the editor of tho SfGr
becomes directly or indirectly a candidate or
seeker Of the place, they will have no printing
done this session. We arc candidates TO do
/ printing in the way of advertisements for oar
/ fellow -citizens of Washington and its vicinity.
and for all others who may have wants, wishes or
| purposes to MAKE known to the public at large.
! We ask 10 favOrs great or small at the hands
I either of Congress or the Administration: be-
| ing quite able to paddle our canoe with the
( favor of those who, knowing that our daily
! circulation is greater than that of all the
other Washington dailes together, shrewdly
! patrOni<e u, as the very best possible means
of getting tho whole community to patronize
them
Az USFouNDED fascination AGAINST Mr..
BrCHAyAS.-We clip from the New Y ork Her.
aId the following paragraph, viz
I'm relation to another Senator, we can
also say something-we mean Mr.. Douglas.
During his visit to Mr.. Buchanan in London.
Minister frequently stated his opinions in ref
erence to the administration He expressed
his entire disapprobation of the course of Gen
eral Pierce and his Cabinet, and said that the
| distribution of appointments was altogether
wrong, and that the same policy, though not
to the like extent, adopted by Mr.. Polk, had
led to the disasters in his administration
/ These opinions have been freely expressed by
Mr. buchanan to many Americans in London
He expressed them to Senator Douglas and tc
rs in his presence. We therefore speak know
ingly on the subject,
Our object in transferring the above to oul
columns, is simply to say that it meets Nc
credit it political circles here In the first
place, it is directly in the teeth of Mr. Blu
chanan's repeated declarations of strong sym
patty with President Pierce and his entire
appreciation Of his administration, writer
time and again to persons in Washington not
the Administration. In the next place, il
cannot be, even If he entertained the senti
nents here attributed to him, that a gentleman
of Mr., Buchanan's great experience, extreme
caution, and delicate sense ofprorrie,y, would
in his position, go express himself in mixed
company. And, more especially, in the com
pany Of a man known to all the world al one
incapable of approaching the obligation rest
ing on gentlemen blessed with spark of sell
respect, which forbids any such use of this
pretended private conversation Of Mr. B $, a.
The proprietor of the Hc,nM has ATTEMPTED t
make, Of something said by our Minister tt
England wholly different from Bennett. yer
sion Of what was said, doubtless We know
that Mr.. Buchanan has very just apprecia
ton Of the unmitigated poltroonery Of Ben
nett. He knows that he is in the habit O.
selling his soul for siApence profit, as often il
the week "a a purchaser chances by. That hi
even regularly sells his hide for notorety
counting kicking cutting. or cowshinnins n!
a very certain way of keeping up the public
excitement concerning himself which pay.
when everything else fails Mr. Buchanan
with the full knowledge that Bennett wa:
sneaking around him to catch up his private
conversation for publcation-the James Cor
dan Bennett system-nover made any such
remarks in his presence, a Bennett here at
tributes to him. The story is evidently only
one link in the chain of laundering falschood:
of the day, on which he relies, to obliterate
from the popular memory the avalanche OF
similar falschoods of the day before, already
discovered, every one of them. to have beer
made up, 'bodaciously, of whole cloth, eithc,
to enable him to maiign some honest man, OF
to feed the public appetite for scandal
The SPEAKERsHIr-Iialf dozen promin.
ent asprants for this position-MeSsrs Boyd
Orr, Jones of Tenn, Richardson, O,ds and Dis
ncy-are already on the ground, and nearly
half - the House are also in Washington
80, we are having right merry time of it.
The gentlemen most Immediately interested
however, do not appear so clearly to be on
1" the anxious benches" as do some two hun
dred persons with axes to grind, half of whom
emily, belong in Washington the rest having
come here in hurry to help the new men,
! borc to choose a presiding officer As may be
surmised, these very interested gentlemen
have each an end in view personal to himself,
and he is working like mole to accomplish
| that purpose; which, he judges, can best be
attained by the election of lis candidate for