Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-12-07

by the Northern emigration aid societies. Til
views Of many Of that class of emigrants
change wonderfully between tho time Of 90 &
ting their free ticket for the journey out, sad
that of choosing their tickets to be voted when
they were called on to commence shaping the
institutions Of the embryo State.
Senator Atchison 1T is we'll known in
Washington that the stories (of Abolition pa.
rentage) charging that Senator Atchisol has
been engaged in . scheme to pack Kansas
with five thousand fraudulent votes, are about
the silliest roorbacks ever invented in the fac.
tory in which Abolitionism turns out false.
hoods, as though with q machine capable Of
producing now one as fast as shoe-pegs are
turned out in New England. On the day after
different versions of this roorback reach Wash.
ington, We have tho account of the election of
Whitfield, to be the delegate from Kansas, in
Congress, by an overwhelming majority This
story appearing first in the immediate organ
Of Col. Benton, by tho by, is thought to do
little credit to the Colonel's editors sagscity.
He should have started it sooner, to make it
stick. To invent it but day before tho cleo.
ton in Kansas, was bungling work on his part;
as it has satisfied all, not that General Atchi-
son has been engaged as he asserts, but that
the malignity of his Missouri maligners is so
bitter as to mako them proclaim their own
shame, as it were-that they he state not to
SANDER him, even under circumstances in
which to do so, is to proclaim to the world the
dirty work they are engaged in.
The Accounts Of Mr.. C L. Russell, excel.
lector at Cleaveland, Ohio.-We learn that
since that person has been indicted under the
Treasury law for defalcation, he has paid into
the Treasury, through the District Attorney
for Ohio. $4,000, and has secured $50, 900
more subseq uently, SO that it cannot fail to be
eventually recovered. 1t is not yet known
what is the precise balance due from Russell,
this being one of the "false entry" cases al
luded to in the report of the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Business.-There is an evident wish of a
large number of members of the House to
proceed promptly to business. Yet, the cool
est observers around US are beginning to be of
opinion that there is much larger amount Of
pent-up talk to be previously duly blown of,
than was expected before the members came
together. Those whose judgment in such mat.
ters We have reason to place most confidence,
seem satisfied by the manner in which the
session has already opened, that there is no
telling when real business will be taken up
systematically by the House, SO evidently in
clined, just now, to 60 q "wonder mongering."
The Ways and Commands Disappointed
In sending the ostend inquiry to the Foreign
Affairs Committee yesterday, we fear the
House have deprived the lovers of good joke,
all over the country, Of the finest possible OPP
portunity for a very hearty laugh; and the
Commands of important information concern
ing the quality-if not the price-of the far
famed oysters Of Ostend.
The Current Operations OF the Treasury
Department.-On yesterday, tho 9th of Dec ,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered On
the books of the Department
For the redemption of stoek..... 97,O18 81
For tho Interior Department.. 1,943 70
r. no