Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

SAoa, ouA Vluoo WdS run UOHu Oy p0rBOu8
making anxious inquiries as to the fate Of
those known or supposed TO be upon the iii.
fated steamship Arctic. CONSERVATION and
grief were depicted upon avery counssnanoe.
To us, the duty of according to them all the
information that had reached the Star office
was a melancholy task, indeed Extras were
issued from our counter at and, IL a. M,
embracing the news as fast as received from
our attentive and efficient northern telegraph
agent and correspondent. On the day before
yesterday, we were in the society of Edward
4. Collins, in this city, whittier he came on
flying business visit. He was in excellent
spirits, having every confidence in the safety
Of his noble ship and all on board her, know.
ing well that, as piece of workmanship, she
was as we'll calculated to Withstand the dangers
Of the seas, or what are knswn as the usual
casualties Of such vessels, as any other ship
ever built She was, however, oyertaken by
an accident such as it was impossible to guard
against, in construction at least. The noble
hearted and enterprising Collins is the heav-
lest looser-his family, one and all, as we'll as
his property, being thus ingulfed by the sad
catastrophe We are sure that he has the sym
pathy of his fellew-citizens, one and all, to an
extent to which American sympathy was never
bsfore manifested in the misfortunes of sin.
gle individual. Some Of those on board the
arctic were Immediately connected with our
fellow citizens, which accounts for more or less
of the very extraordinary excitement mani
tested until the Star went to press by the
crowds at times thronging our counting room
The Elections.-The Democrats of Washing
ton, though hoping for little, like sensible
fellows, under the circumstances, appeared to
be much cast down yesterday, by the first tele-
graphic guns from Pennsylvania and Ohio.
They were eager to hear the news, until it
became apparent that all they were to get in
the course Of that day at least, was destined
to prove excruciating to them. AS it did not
take long for them to appreciate the fact that
the telegraph seemed determined to frown on
their hopes, they rarely inquired a second
time-what the :" drotted thing" had brought
last. They had an awful bad night of it, many of
them-more especially those who have not been
long enough in Office here to learn, wisely, of
disconnect themselves from politics Visions of
a acknowledging President and Cabinet seemed
to float before their eyes, with the consequent
premonition of the probable loss of their respec.
tive Offices, following not sery far in the rear
We tried to console them q we could; but to no
purpose-as their hearts were pertinaciously
desolate. Not one Of them seemed to believe
in the philosophy proving SO consoling to j acob
Faithful in times past That's, in. the firm reli-
anee on the " better luck tdMeome next
time" understand that most of tn EN- rested
badly last night-very badly indeed, and they
have to-day RETAINED from seeking to obtain
information relative to single additional re-
turn, being firmly Of opinion that those afro
cious fellows, the Geographic reporters, are
bent on adding insult to injury.
The Anacostia Bank. understanding that
parties in this city, who are said to have re-
Gently come here from other parts, are very
busy in filling up and signing notes for circu-
lation abroad of some so-called Anacostia Bank,
purporting to be located in Washington city,
we have to caution the distant public against
receiving any such paper as money There is
no such institution in Washington, and there
never has been any such bank here As far
as is known in Washington, the proposed affair
is wholly irresponsible to the community, who
are to be persuaded to part with their property
for its promises to pay. Within the last five
or six years, the people, generally at dis
lance, have been shamefully swindled by pre-
tended Washington banks, dozen of which
have been started after the same fashion-on
the brass of irresponsible persons-and every
one of them have dishonored their issues after
so managing matters as that by the time they
were ready to close their doors, their notes were
in the hands Of innocent people at distance,
to the tune of from fifty thousand to from two
to three hundred thousand dollars So long
as there are fools at distance, who will take
in pay bank notes about which nothing posi-
tive is known, just SO long will sharpers issue,
nominally from this point, all the bogus mo-
neg the community will take. That is, pro-
vided Congress continues to leave orr District
laws so that the trick can be done, as at present
with impunity. He who fancies that such
will not be the case, knows little, indeed, of
American nature. It is due to truth that we
should add, that it is very rare for a citizen of
W ashington or Georgetown to be in any man
ner concerned in one of th csc bogus bank note
operations Nor are their notes
,ver received among US in business transac-
ions. Our real and responsible banks are
we'll known, and their issues are as current at
homo as the gold itself, in which they pay
hem. They have no occasion to send their
ssues to distant points to obtain circulation
or them, end mono of them indulge in that
practice, which, in itself, embraces proof Of
he fraud intended ultimately to be practised
,pon good, easy, foolish souls, who will take
unknown bank paper under such suspicious
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