Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-17
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

H'f'o''o'' ASoAs 0onaSo SyrUS DaItOn, 8lS0
proprietor and. editor Of the same sheet
The third is Amos Hadlsy, also proprietor
and editor of the Reporter. The fourth is
VIM. Prescott, chairman of the meeting, and
father.in'law Of Amos Hadlsy aforesaid. The
rest-some nine or ten in numbsr-are notori-
Gus Abolitionists, who hang around the corners
Of Concord ready for any job which promises
to get their names in tho newspapers, for
which they are bedevilsd with hankering.
The modesty Of this proceeding of Mr.. Burke
is apparent, when we observe that these dozen
outcasts from the Democratic fold, have pre.
sumed to nominate member of Congress for
district in which not one of them lives: Who
shall be the nominee in the third district of
New Hampshire this bogus State committee
graciously vouchsafe to the people thereof to
determine for themselves. We fancy We can
see sold Sam" crashing his teeth and shaking
his hurley shoulders In unrestrained rage, at
this impudent effort Of q dozen fshey politi.
clans and disappointed, Office. seekers to mount
him first, for ride into Office in 1857. Ell
Beware Of Bogus Money -Perceiving in
the Washington Sentinel an advertisement
purporting to embrace list of ''the only banks
in the District having offices Of redemption in
Washington and conducted by responsible
persons, We have to warn the distant pub
lie against being imposed upon by its repre-.
sensations. The Arlington bank mentioned
therein, is said to be the new concern of some
strangers who are not known by this commu-
nifty to be worth enough to redeem one hun.
dredth part Of the Arlington bank bills with
which the country is believed to have been
flooded. So, also, do we find in the list 10.
called Farmers and Merchants bank" rep-
resented as being good at one half per cent
discount. This, toe, is one Of the bogus con.
Germs whose paper is not circulated here. We
do not know tn at We ever saw one of the bills
Of this pretended Washington city bank, vet
all bank bills, which are worthy Of credit are
freely taken at the Star Office. .... ... ..
We earnestly request all newspapers at
distance from this city to warn their neigh
bors against burning their fingers with the
notes of pretended Washington banks which
no sane man in Washington dreams Of touch
ing. " l--p= ''
Foreign Letter Writers. 1t seems that the
Paris correspondents Of the American press
are as little to be relied on for the truth, az
many Washington correspondents. This is
forcibly illustrated by the cock and bull
stories with which they are flooding the Jour-
nails of their employers, all about the wonder.
full mission with which Mr. Daniel E Sickles,
as Secretary of Legation at London has been
charged. We took occasion to say, week or
two since, that the return Of Mr.. Sickles to
Europe was seized on BY the Government here
simply and merely to save the cost Of the pay
and mileage of bearer of dispatches, it be-
Ing necessary to send papers to Mr. Soule
about the time Mr.. Sickles wont back. he
has no more Of an American mission in his
hands, of any description, than the man in the
moon has. Yet the Paris letter writer's pro-
fess to give details all about the remarkable
business on the continent with which he has
been charged here. In truth, it was but to
hand package to MI. Soule, about the con
tents of which no one probably knew less than
Mr.. Daniel E. sickles. 80 they go. ..
The "0ld Spanish Settlement Claims -
Congress- at its last session, passed an act
creating commission (the Register and Re
'eiver at Natchitoches, La,) to examine and
report on such Of the ''old settlement claimsn
10 lands in what has been known as "the
neutral territory" since the year 1919, when
spain relinquished all her claims to lands
within Louisiana, and coded the Floridas
Many Of these claims were reported On in 1924,
and confirmed in 1928, but still a number re-.
main unsettled. The new commission ,is to
have not only cognisance of claims, founded
IN ancient Spanish settlement alone, but also
IN unsettled claims, founded on zpritte~ titles.
Congress reserves to itself the right, ultimate
y, to confirm or disapprove the doings of this
Board The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has just issued instructions on
which the Board is to 90 into operation. tits
TO continue in existence for two years. Any
laims not presented within that time, are, of
course, not cognisable thereafter. "a ..f
Bad Nomination.. The New York Tribune
Is urging it's readers to scratch the names of
improper nominees from the regular ticket
wherever they may find such. This is good
advice. Party nominations are being bolted
at this time moro extensively than ever
before, because, Of late, tricksters everywhere
have managed to obtain more or less control
Of the nominating conventions of all parties
Regular nominations are losing their binding
force, because they are not now, as formerly.
almost certain to be good nominations. At
the rate at which they have been losing their
hold on the popular mind of late, they bid
fair ere long to be an earnest, not of success
as heretofore, but of pretty certain defeat.
We entertain strong hopes that the lessons
which nominating conventions have been re-
csiving recently, will restore the system to
like its original purity. 'Az ~.
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