Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-01
spirit Of the lretnine Press.

Inc sOh1On OmclaHy announces an ap-
pointment of Dan. E. Sickles, ESQ, At.
torneyat Law, of New York city, to be
Secretary obligation at London, of which
we notified our readers on Saturday last
Our neighbor goes into ecstacies over his
selection. The same paper continues
its manipulations of the affairs of the
party in New York, trying as it were to
whistle the N. York National Democrat and
Albany Argus back into the party ranks.
1t seemsthatthe etiquette Democrat and
Argus clique-in the Legislature repu-
date the recent Legislative Democratic
address, not because it fails to 90 in for
the platform, &C., but because it endorses
the administration. as well as the inaug-
ural and the platform. The organs of
the clique above mentioned, assuming to
speak for half dozen legislators whose
names are appended to the address. de-
clare that they did not authorize their
signatures to be put to it. The Union
praises the address, and contends in
soothing tones that it is not fair for the
Democrat to take the grounds that it is re.
pudiated blythe gentlemenin question, un.
lessthey are willing to do so over their own
signatures, which they have not done.
For the life OF us, we cannot see that the
On'o" has made the slightest impression,
so far, upon their factious in N. York by so
industriously tickling them with straw.
The Union further quotes recent book
on Turkish law, by Francis Davaise, late
American consul at Constantinople, to
show that Austria perpetrated an illegal
and atrocious act in recently arresting
Costa, the Hungarian refugee, in Smyrna.
The Union also contains an interesting
Paris letter. -.
The Republics leader discusses the pro-
posed Norfolk and Louisville Railroad
scheme, upon the theory that railroads
are Union-preservers. The article is as
interesting as the subject, which is saying
much for it. At present the whole of the
line between the pointsnamed, east Of the
Kentucky line, is under construction or
already finished. 1t is not to cost more
than an average of $4,000 per mile, is
to have no grade against the current of
the trade of more than sixty feet to the
mile, and its whole length-from the
ocean at Norfolk to the falls of the Ohio
is to be but seven hundred and nineteen
miles. In Scott county, Virginia, the en-
gineer has located the road through a
natural tunnel in which creek courses
under little mountain for five hundred
feet. This mountain must be passed, and
this tunnel, with trifing cost, is to fur
nish the means of passing it. The same
paper quotes the Boston Transcript, to
prove that 7. Butler King cannot possibly
be defaulter.
The Inteligencer contains letter from
Colonel Benton, transmitting one from
Mr.. Harris Heap, companion of Superin.
tendent Beale in his central route expedi-
ton to California, in both of which the
peculiar virtues of the Fremont route for
the Pacific railroad are set forth. The
1ntelligencer's London correspondent dis
courses foreign affairs generally, and tie
of the British Ministry upon the
Turco-Russian question particularly,
which he conceives to be om1inous of an
indisposition to stand by Turkey, we
take it.
The Sun deprecates the practice of ap-
pending the names of gentlemen to the
proceedings of public meetings without
their knowledge OF consent. The singu-
lar doings of the "Blind Johnny" gather
ings form the editors text.