Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-16
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

York Heydfd, charging various gentlemen |
who are named with having iuterfered in his |
behalf for the French mission, are =. all in my
eye" Not one of those mentioned in the
Herald in this connection ever entertained
procure any such official endorsement Of his
personal and political standing. The Herald
Is evidently most anxious to conceal the true
history of the efforts made by his immediate
fiiends in Benefits behalf, or its conductor
would publish facts concerning the affair
from parties such a. those who shortly after
the inauguration, asked in vain for the inser-
ton in the Union of an elaborate article
praising Bennett to the skies for services rem.
dered by the Herald in the election of Pierce,
In answer to the Herald, inquiries as to
how the knowledge of the application in his
| favor got out, We, who first published it to the
world have to inform him, that so many such
efforts as that on the Union, above mentioned
were made here by gentlemen Indirectly iden-
tilted with him, az to render patent the fact
| that his own immediate coterie had been fool.
ishly insulting the President with suoh pro-
position, for months before the Heruid's rage
on account Of Benefits disappointment made
the matter likely to afford the public sufficient
amusement to induce az to give it space in
the Star.
| I A SCENE AT THE NATIONAL Madame
RumOr tells funny stories sometimes. She
gives the following account of an interview
between Prince John Van Buren,, on his re-
cent visit to this city, and Colonel Beverly
! Tucker, the .Stniinet OF the IIards The scene
! was at the National Hotel, where the Prince
stopped, and where the gallant Colonel met
him, and thus accosted him
T.-Why, John, how are you' What the
devil brought you here Have the Hards
driven you out of Gotham, or has Guthrie call
ed You down here to give an account of yer.
self? How's the election,
p. J.-God bless yol, Bev, how do you do ,
AS for the election, | know nothing about it,
Guthrie is all right; 90 in for the resolutions
of '9S; hold that 1.-The blood of the martyrs is
the seed of the Church, - and my business here
is to buy a niger,
T.-Buy niger, Good gracious, Prince,
how you surprise me!
/ P. J.-Yes, buy niger 1 consider n
niger the great panacea the ornament of the
christian. the emblem OF the faith and fdeli-
ty in the politician, and, altogether, some
thing rery important to mankind generally.
Just see how Bronson has been pulled into a
star OF the first magnitude by galvanizing a
short lecture to Guthrie upon niggers-they
have nearly made great man out of Dickin-
son-more than half humanized Charley
O'Connor, and even raised poor Cooley to the
precincts of nOtoriety. Since miracles have
ceased, no such wonders have been performed
before, and all by niggers. Nothing in Ed
monds about spirit rappings begin to come UP
to it. 1 tell you, Bev, l must have niger
my fame requires it, and my personal wants
demand it
T.-Nonsense, John; but do you really want
a niger because, if you do, you must have
one.
P. J.-Wby, certainly 1 do. Everybody
seems to doubt everything 1 say about mig
gers. l tell you, Bev, l have changed my
mind upon that subject, and though 1 did not
r think so once, l now regard '>the Wilmot''
with the same adherence do the Maine law
It's sumptuary, merely-a check upon plea
sure-upon personal comfort-upon all the
arts and all the sciences-upOn greatness
upon chivalry-and, finally, check upon
nisgers. and therefore, wrong. Any man
that can see this hasn't got niger in his
eye, and any man that hasn't got niger il
o his eye in these days. is no man at all
T.-Why, John, you talk like Saint , Give
c Us your views in the Sentinel, and then you
will be considered orthodox. They are q
sound as nut. | thought you would come
c right at last.
:, P. Sound, Why am as sound on mig
. gers as the stump candidate for selectman wa
g make the world believe it. 1 want to ''crusl
G OUT unbelief and the Sentinel isn't stront
5 enough for that. | must have a niger;
:. real Hart nigger-an ordained Adamantine-
: such an one as Dickinson would delight t,
Il chase, and AZ would make a fit companion fo
t Cooley. tell yO", Bev, that | must get aheaC
I of the whole batch. and
Il ''Nigeers! niasers! niggers are the cards
= VherewIth to catch the conscience of the Ha.ds =
[ suppose we agree on the Maine law
T.-Ah John, therein we d0 harmonic
perfectly, and
. The colloquists then retired into corner
, 1t is shrewdly suspected to converse about the
' printing of Congress.
STUDIED MEASUREMENT OF FACrs-It Seems
that the two parties of Democratic enemies Of
the PRESIDENT, agree ut least in stating false.
=, hood for truth, wherever that course NAV be
likely to aid them in getting up prejudice
against that funetiOnary. Thus, we find the
Herald (of n. Y and the National Demo-
. rFat, OF the same city, eide by side with the
l New York Erenins Post, in publishing such
Misrepresentation of political facts in Massa.
chusetts They assert that Fisher Ames Hill
dreth, the new Postmaster at Lowell. Mass
is denouncing the Attorney Generals Froth-
ingham letter, while Mr.. HIS newspaper is
coming to us regularly with powerful argu-
ments in favor of the policy laid down in that
paper, which it defends with force and effect
SO also these New York papers proclaim
Nathaniel J. Lord, of Salem, to be an Adolf
t'onist-when all who were at the Baltimore
Democratic convention, know well that Mr.. L.
Is the gentleman to whom the seat held at Fl rst
by the late Hon. Robt. Rantoul was awarded
on account of Mr.. RS. supposed indentifca-
ton with parties who refused to acouiesce in
the compromise measures and sustain the fin.
gtive slave law-Mr. L. being about the hard
est of the hard in the Bay State
Again, they are busy in representing that
the Attorney General favored the election of
Senator Sumner to secure for himself the
judge'hip to which he was appointed, in the
face of the facts that Cushing was not made a
Judge until two years after Summers election
and that when that event transpired No ono