Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-12-06
EAsHU. eToN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

AooS "alcu ie ny WoTQ ana Ie
pi0Aoo among all honorable mems to be bo-
HeVSl Briarius, with his hundred hands, was
. p gmy to John w. Forney. According to
"a Is evil genius, who presides overt the Herald,
'lr. Forney is not oaly the head and front of
the Kitchen Cabinet" Clerk of The House of
Representatives, editor of the Pennsyivanian
and Union, the ruling spirit of the spoils'
cliques in and about Washin gton, and the in
stigator of everything that is wicked connected
with the Pierce Administration; but he is, also,
editor and owner of the EvenSng Star! In
the Herald of Sunday last, Bennett indirect.
ly asserts that our merited rebuke of him, and
defence Of Mr.. Forney, was written by that
gentleman, who, according to Bennett, is edi-
tor and owner of this journal. How absurd !.
How supremacy ridiculous. The business and
editorial OF the Star is conducted wholly by
Its two conductors, whose names are at the
head Of the paper. and who, We repeat for the
hundredth time, own and control it exclusive
ly. We defy Bennett to prove that We have
ever received q sixpence from John ". Forney.
or any one else In his behalf, or that any one
beside Wallach & Hope have anything to do
with editing it, or in any way interested in the
publication Of this journal.
Bennett says, in reference to his malignant
perversion of the contents of Mr.. Buchanan's
letter to Forney, "Let Forney publish it, if this
be not true, and put us to SHAME" Put Ben
nett to shame. Does any sane man think
that the thing is possible? Why, what will
shame Bennett, will make any honest man fee
his country! Look at his hide, Scared from
head to toe by the cowhides of the men he has
foully maligned Read the history of his
election from public tables and the opera
house in New York, from the Office of the
Philadelphia Pennsytvauian for his attempt
to sell the columns Of that paper. Read
Daniel O'Connells rebuke of this moral
leper for traducing the character Of his
dead wife, and learn how, during his late
visit to Europe, he was ejected from every
respectable circle into which he attempt
ed to obtrude his detested presence, not
withstandiDg his offers to lend the influence
of the paper he prints to those he attempted to
approach. Learn, also, the facts about Ben
nett and his affairs, of the most revolving
character, current in the Partisan cafes, and
then tell US whether this man knows what
shame is Bennett is a stranger TO shame
such feeling never had place in his breast
He daily publishes the most atrocious false.
hoods, aud when convicted of them, invariably
fails to retract, or to make amends for the in.
juries he has endeavored to infict Witness
the case of Mr.. Belmont, against whom he
made the most positive charges, which have
since been proven to have been without the
least foundation in truth; yet Bennett persists
in these falsehoods. AS we'll might the head
Of the tabled hydra be destroyed as Bennett's
falsehoods-kill one, and another springs up
in its place.
We are daily looking for an eaposs of Ben
nett's matters in Paris, by Mr.. Revolt, his late
Paris correspondent, which, VIC suppose, he
will also attribute to the pen of Mr.. Forney.
Nous rerr0ns
The Ostend ARair.-We have more THAI
once taken occasion to say that the fuss made
IN the newspapers over the meeting Of four Or
FIVE gentlemen connected with American lega-
tioHs abroad, at Ostend, in the course of the
past summer, was the silliest nonEense ever
got up by the press by way Of feeding the pop
ular appetite fer wonders The STIR has
earned reputation Cor being sure to get at
the gist Of everything of the so1t-for never
misleading its readers, on a matter connected
with our foreign affairs especially; and as we
have previously published, the upshot Of our
iabo1s IN connection with the history Of the
misealled Ostend Congress is, simply, that there
was nothing in the wide world in it. In view
OF this fact, to find the House of Representa-
tises Of the United States busily and grayely
puzzling their noodles over it, is fun enough
for one day at least. 1t embraces capital
illustration, indeed of the propensity Of our
countrymen in public life TO Sc M to have the
care Of everything on their shoulders To US
the amusing debate CT yesterday sounded very
much as though the prevailing doctrine at this
time is, that our fathers made mistake in d.
viding the duties and responsibilities of con-
Quoting the government of the United States
into three branches-executiye, legislative,
and Notwithstanding TO nave devolyed on
Congress the task of experimenting III detail
all the movements of our diplomatic; agents
abroad-a,l-down to the very regula-
ton of the qualities OF the cigars they smoke,
the cogniac and champagne they drink and
where they shall go to get the very best oys-
tiers On the Continent, for which, by the by,
Ostend has been most famous for centuries.)
We know no other gentlemen more critical in
their taste for fine oysters than Messrs Mason,
Sickles and Sanders, while Mr.. Buchanans
hurley figure, and eountenance, are sadly de.
ceptiVe, if he, too, has not connoisseur's per.
ceptions Of the luxury of these delicious BIZ
valves.
We trust that the inquiry may be pushed,
in the firm belief that the reply to it will IL.
lussrate to the country the point of ridiculous
ness to which the prevailing taste of the day
is urging those who were originally designed