Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-30
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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culties on tle part of our Government with
| Spain; but as we have no particular relish for
re-hashing for the readers of the Star the idle
reports, or street gossip of the day, We have
carefully absta ned from practice which too
| manyof our eetemporaries feel more disposed
have been aware that our relations with Spain
| have assumed delicate, if not a belligerent
aspect; and that it would require something
more than skilful diplomacy to obtain full sat
isfaction for past outrages and ample guaran-
teesagsinstfature aggressions., A special CON-
mission to the court of Madrid is talked of, and
we have good reason for believing that the an
nouncement of the names of two distinguished
statesmen in connection with that commission,
has more substantial foundation than mere ru-
NOR 1t is now rendered almost certain that the
President will communicate his views to Con-
gress on the subject at an early day. While
it is highly probable that he will recommend
prompt, energetic, and even extreme measures,
it is equally probable that he will take oeca-
sion to repudiate .fttibastsrism, no matter
what form it may assume. or from what direc-
ton it may issue. 1t may be noted as a singu-
lar coincidence, that the tone and attitude as
sumed by the present Administration towards
Spain, growing out of our involved and in
volving relations with her great dependency,
Cuba, are precisely identical with the tone and
attitude assumed by President Jefferson's ad-
ministration pending the acquisition of Louisi-
ana. A reference to MIR. Jeferson's CORES
pondence during that period. would almost
make the yeriest stickier for ''things as they
are convert to Young Americas doctrine
Of manifest destiny" -.- -.l...
A seaman's Extra Pay under certain Cir
cumstaRces.-A sailor in the United States
Navy served out the term of his enlistment
honorably and faithfully, and at its expiration,
without receiving a faithful discharge, he re-
enlisted and subsequently deserted under the
last enlistment
During portion Of his first enlistment,
he served on the coast of California, and be-
came entitled to g extra pay" for which he
applied, under the act of August 81 1862
provided he had received an honorable dis
charge.
1t was held that as he had fully complied
with his first contract of enlistment, and had
right to an honorable discharge if he had
demanded it, his failure to complete a subse-
quent contract did not deprive him of his
right to gratuity depending upon service
and honorable discharge under his first enlist
ms hut thp ha1a of IL, !; L.
his last enlistment, was forfeited to the gov.
ernme mt.
The Boston Riot-CharIes Sumner-The
Boston riot, with its attendant outrage and
bloodshed, has not only called forth a senti-
ment of the deepest Indignation in this city,
but 1t has also satisfactorily demonstrated to
the world that, in all questions affecting the
honor Of the country or the stability or sa-
credness of its laws, the American people are
united as one man. The press of nearly every
political shade have, with unexampled una
nimty Of purpose and sentiment, denounced
the authors of the cowardly, bloody outrage
III Boston in terms of unmitigated scorn, con
tempt, and loathing. The insane idiots who
treated as mad men or mad dogs are usually
treated-caught and Gagged, if possible but
shot down If they persisted in their course of
death and danger. But what punishment is
meet for suca men as Sumner, Giddings &
Co, If it had not been for the incendiary
traitorous appeals of these creeping, crawling,
;oWardiy enemies Of the Republic, the Adolf
ton mob Of Boston would have let off their
excess Of steam in the customary shreks
stamps, and seedlings. In the place of MUIR
dering Batchelder, they would have been con-
tent with stigmatising Washington as a slave
breeder, OF wreaking their vengeance on the
President in an efigy demonstration
1t may be that before this excitement passes
away, when men minds are in too nfiamabIe
state to permit the cool exercise Of the rea.
soning faculties, the crazed aboIitionists of
New England will discover that if madmep
will resort to the argument of brute force,
that there are blows to receive as we'll as to
take. If Southern gentlemen are to be
threatened and assaulted, while legally seek
ing to obtain possession of property, for the
use of which they havo solemn constitutional
guarantee-if legal rights can only be sought
for and established at the bayonet's point
certain Northern men, now in our midst, will
have TO evince a little more circumspection
than they have ever e7inced in their walk. tall
and acts. While the person Of Virginia cit.
lzen Is only safe from rudeness and outrage
behind the serrled ranks Of armed men, Chas
Sumner is permitted to walk among the "slave
catchers' and fire eaters'' Of the South in
peace and security. While he invites hi.
constituents to resist the federal laws even
to the shedding Of blood, concocts his
| traitorous pf6ts, and sends forth his ncen
diary appeals under the broad protecting
panoply Of the laWJ he denounces, he
retains his seat in the Senate, and yet daily
violates the official oath which he took to sup.
port the Constitution Of the United States II
We contrast the treatment which Southern
STAKEHOLDER receives at the hands of q North
ern aboiitiOnist, with the treatment which the
latter receives at the hands of the former, We
may proudly assert that among the many vir.
| tues which adorn the Southern character, for.
| 5earaRce is not tic least conspicuous.
Printing Of the Patent Office Report. Mr..
| Brodhead's motion to reconsider the vote BY
which the Senate ordered the printing of 81