Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-30
wAsHIHaToN HKws And GOSSIP.

WAAAIH6IOH NKWe And GOSSIP.
| Whsslsr and Greeley answered. We notice
that Mr.. John Wheeler, II. O., 10 out in az
editorial article In the New York Tribune. o,
day or two since, which, if we mistake not,
he will regret that he has ever had written and
printed beftre be gets through with it-even
the Tr'6nns will be compelled to do Justice to
the truth when the exposure of Mr.. Wheeler's
duplicity Is made Considering the subject
appropriate, the circumstances alluded to
having transpired here, for the News and los.
sip columns Of the Star, we shall descant upon
Il In plain terms, and at length.
The article in the Tri5uns is as follows.
"Ths Independent course OF John Wheeler
As member Of Congress from this CITY has
elected the warmest praise from enlightened
men Ct all parties, while from another class.
limited in number, and devoted in their attach.
ment to Douglas and Forney, he has been a..
sailed, aud is pursued, with bitter and nm.
scrupulous hostility The origin of this Zeal.
ing on their part is worthy of its native. John
W. Forney was the Clerk of tho House of Rep
resenta-.1as to which Mr.. Wheeler was elected
member. and prior to his taking his sea. be
was Deset by che peculiar friends Of Forney to
Us AO-SicCtlOu 10 tuHt very DrpQiR0Ie
office. Mr. Wheeler mad read Forney's lettsr
to Roberts, as given in evidence on the For.
rest trial, and he could not give his vote Ut
confidence to such q man. And finally. out of
patience with the perseveripg attempt to dra
COON him into the support of FOrney for Clerk
he alphabetically declared in the presence and
hearing of that individual and his friends that
: ne would not vote for Forney to save his life {"
ihls was an oftense not to be forgotten or for
given, and hence we see Mr.. Wheeler pursued
with unrslenting hatred by the peculiar friends
Hart, G. G. West and about a dozen other
spoils men. Many Of these persons reside in
mr.. Wheeiers district, and in order TO kill
him on for re election, the resolutions in favor
OF Nebraska were concocted and introduced
into the Committee at the Stuyvesant Institute
those resolutions were sprung upon the Com
mittee, and were passed without q why or a
wherefore, as Is usual in such cases, but thew
have been ignored, re cinded and repudia ted.
Inese friends OF Forney and devotees of Doug
las have openly avowed their purpose to defeat
Mr.. Wheeler's re. election to Congress If
there are upright American citizens enough in
his district to disregard the behests of party
and sustain an honest and independent Rep
resentative-no matter by what party name
he may hitherto have been known-we trust
Mr.. Wheeler will be re- elected
IL Mr.. Wheeler mad? or does he or the wri
ter Of the article suppose that this tissue of
misstatements cannot be exposed to their own
shame? When Mr.. FOrney was candidate
for reelection, his friends, as We know, from
Pennsylvania, came hero in large numbers
men Of the FIRST standing, including the most
prominent Of both parties-to testify to his
noble qualities Of head and heart Mr.. Wheeler
saw those gentlemen often; was frequently at
their roons in friendly intercourse, and they
very naturally spoke to him about voting for
MIR. Forney. He laughed at the Forrest letter.
treated 1t with great Indifference, and answered
that 1t had not the least effect upon his deci-
sion-objec,iug to him alone because he was
decided and incorporating supporter OF
President Pierce. 10 this statement some Of
the inst men of Pennsylvania, gentlemen of
the highest standing, present on that occasion
will, If necessary, bear the strongest testimony.
Now he seeks, through the columns of the
Tribune, to make capital, taking exactly the
other ground. The other portion Of his state.
ment in the Tribune, that the Nebraska reso-
lutions were introduced into tho committee by
the friends Of Forney and Douglas to kill
Wheeler's chance for reelection, is no less un-
true. We are satisfied that Mr.. Wheeler, and
his new friend Greeley, did not know how easily
this calumny could be corrected. We are in
formed by excellent authority, that, at the time
these resolutions were introduced, they were
intended to operate upon Mr. Cutting whose
position was then supposed to be cquivocal,
and Mr.. Wheeler was hardly named in con-
nection With them. The resolution Of censure
upon Wheeler was offered by Mr. Mcintyre,
who, we are told, was his own early and warm
friend, to whom he is more indebted for his
election to Congress than probably any other
man In his district; but be could not stand
Wheeler glazing detection to national prin
ciples. Richard Schell, who is said to have
subscribed one thousand dollars to elect Mr..
Wheeler, supported McIntyre's resolution, and
publicly denounced Wheeler's course-he, too,
having been one of Wheeler's first friends
This il the first time that We have heard that
any of Mr.. Forney's friends threatened to op-
pose Mr.. Wheeler and We kno.r, that, 30 ia,
as that gentleman himself is concerned, he
has not exhibited the slightest feeling on the
subject. Mr.. Wheeler has right to make all
necessary capital; but he alone is injured by
such fatal untruths as no has induced his new
ally, Horace Greeley, to publish.
Gone at Last.-The President, whose de
parture We announced yesterday and the day
before, certainly left the city in the six O'Clock
train this morning, for Berkeley Springs, Va.
1t is said he will remain there only few days
and will visit Old Point c. mfort and Cape N ay
before his return. We are sure he is gone this
time, for We saw him of ourselves.
The Death Of ex-senator Downs.-As gen.
sral rule, our respected neighbors of the Intel.
igenee, are Indifferent to the Newspaper strife
for the early publication of news; but ocoa-
sionally they depart from their staid propriety
of conduct, and snap up IN ITEM with the
| chuckling eagerness peculiar to the restless
| impatient, indefatigable, 60 ahead penny pres
| OF the country. Of late, the Intelii6encer has
been caught napping-and the detection caused
| not the slightest uneasiness to our cotempo.
| raries-in the way, or, rather, for the want, Of
Geographic news. To make amends, in this
mornings issue it fsvors Its readers with the
following grateful discovery: