Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-17
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

IHe CHtot rcpuDiSncS an able article
from Yesterdays Richmond Enquirer
upon the efforts to get up opposition in
the Democratic party. The Southern
editor puts an estoppel instantly to the
success of any such movement, so far as
the Democracy of Virginia are concerned
lie declares that he is at q loss to know
the cause for such opposition. 1t will
not be long before he sees through the
mist; when he and all the country will
realize that it is mere question of stealing.
The Administration are down on New
York Dry Dock speculations, specula-
tons in Texas Bonds, in Western River
mail contracts, in Western Navy Yard
and Marine hospital sites, &C., &c. They
are also as emphatically against the plum
der Of the Treasury by persons who may
not be in the public service. They re-
fused this man the Secretaryship of the
Interior, that man the mission to France,
and the other man another mission, all
OF whom being in Congress, have simply
combined to get revenge for all this
shocking conduct on the part of Pierce
and his constitutional advisers. IF thew
would only let public men, and those
who would use them to that end, suck
the Treasury to their content: and if
they would also place themselves and
their patronage wholly in the hands of
tnat class Of public men, there would be
no -" democratic opposition" from those
Who are now in coalition with Mess1s.
Chase, Sumner, Seward & Co.
The Cn'on further republishes one of
It's recent articles upon The PRINCIPLES
OF the Compromise Measures" as UNDER
stood and carried out in the Ralt;,noro
convention. The same paper also con.
talns the Heralds explanation of the CO.
ALTON to elect Mr.. Tucker Senate nrinter
wherein Bennett gravely assures the
country that Messrs. Sumner, Chase &
Co., 80 voted, because determined here.
after to mount the Compromise Fugitive
Slave Law Platform and help our tall
ented and ingenious neighbor, the Senti-
mel, to /" save the onion"
The InteQigenesr, to-day, gives an in.
teresting history of what has heretofore
been done by the General Government to
the end of getting the custody of the Re
mains of Washington. The same iour-
nal contains full extracts from the an
nual reports of the Postmaster General.
The Sentinel Of this morning is a rich
paper, after fashion. 1t numbers through
column to satisfy the world that it has
always been good friend of the Admin.
lstration, while in the next column to
that In which it thus says, Art thou in
health, brother git gives the Admins
tratlon lunse after lunge of - independent
support under the fifth rib, in the full |
hlment of the " consideration - of dire (ifE
denied) war on the Democracy, for which
Nhessrs. Summer, Chase, Seward, and Co. |
agreed to give its publisher the Senate
printing In that same article the Senti-
nsseems to labor manfully and very OPEN
ly for the lobby on the Peter G. Washing.
ton question. The Sentinel is rich, indeed. |
to-day, In the gravity with which it de-
MES what Is it doing, when it must know |
that every reader with half an eye in his
heat, knows from its own columns the
true pc nts at which it aims.
Mr.. Goo DALI 8 BENEFIT Tonight. Mr..
Goodall appears for the las. time in his
celebrated character of Ed,xo-d 1f;d,u |