Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND eossY.'

- WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
A Sensation.-The letter of Senator Doug
las to the Chicago clergymen, has created
much sensation among the thousand politica ans i
in Washington, including The members of the
council Of Beecher, Stowe &
Co., yet left on the ground. We fnd all men,
Of all parties, in and out Of churches, who are
not advocates Of their right to set their own
views Of the fitness Of things temporal above
the constitution, under the pretence that their
malice, bigotry and propensity to meddle in
the concerns Of their neighbors are the dictates
of the higher law of consistency agreeing in
pronouneing theSenator's letter just the paper
needed by the times All, and more especially
church members, are grateful to him for thus
coming to the rescue of the true principles of
christianity at the bottom of our Institutions,
involved IN his exposition of the Incompatible
ity with that of clerical assumptions of divine
rights in temporal affairs in the United States |
Of America. The truth is, the times are sadly |
out of joint s'Young America in the North
ern Church, is running after ''the strange God
of political power. This is by no means the
first time men have assumed to crafty their
personal ambition, their passions, prejudices,
malevolence and pride, under the pretenee of
serving the Lord more sealously than their
neighbors. Three-fourths of all the wars
which have cursed the civilized world at least
of those which were wholly without justifca-
tion-are traceable to acts of churches, in as
Stunning to regulate temporal affairs Up to
this time, public opinion in the United States
has kept the Church within its legitimate
| sphere; and the consequence is, that among all
denominations in our country, religion has so
far been a vital principle; conducting more
| here than anywhere else in the world for the
| last fifty years, to the real improvement Of the
human race. Within the past ten years, the
abolition clergy have been doing their best to
establish interference in secular affairs by 'sthc
divine right of their sacred institution of the
clergy as their function, under the unwrit-
ten command of God. They have thus won
derfully increased the tendency to infdelity
ameng us, and brought the Church at large in
to popular contempt. Senator Douglas, in his
own vindicatien, has been compelled to t:bring
up' portion of these blasphemous defamers
of their ne1ghbors with round turn All
men, who value vital christianity, will thank
him heartily for exposing so promptly the
enormity Of their revolving proposition, that
the Almighty has specially devolved On them
the duty OF regulating, not only the conscien-
ces, but the votes of the Congress Of the United
States in the discharge of their constitutional
functions: ,.,rf lrlseJ ... . r. ,,.
The Fate Of the Treaty still continues to be
the question most discussed around the Wash
ington hotels All the politicians and news
paper men here assembled, are in the habit 81
visiting the great halls of one or two of them
once or twice in the twenty -four hours, to learn
what may be going or if not to discuss
, public affairs. Drummers for all sorts OF
schemes connected with the affairs of the Gov.
eminent are always On hand there, to election
eer, of course, with members of Congress
There are, perhaps, twenty of these gentlemen
actively engaged in endeavOring to defeat the
! ratification Of the Gadsden treaty as sent in tC
the Sen ate by the President Just now, they
are Iaboring successfully in the hope of being
o able to persuade a majority of the Senate t.
take the final question, ere the four senatorial
: friends of the measure who are in attendance
upon the chas:oRe oT ceDyension can retul'
tney must fail in this object, IS those gentle
men will probably return, we, hear, in forty
! eight hours By the By, it is at least a move
idea' to IND outside spectators working man.
, fully to induce the Senate of the United State.
to undertake the func tions OF the treaty max ne
power, devolved by the Constitution On the
Executive branch Of Government alone. Ac-
cording to tho understanding prevalent in
usually well informed circles such parties are
urging changes in the treaty as sent in to the
senate, which, if undertaken by that BODY.
will make it very different instrument from
that sent to them for confirmation or rejection.
| Letters Conveyed by Steamboats, Under
the Post Office regulations, the master or man
ager OF steamboat is required to deposit al,
letters conveyed thereby, except those relatin.
10 the cargo, in the post Office of the place to
which they are addressed, and is entitled t.
received TWO cents for each letter SO delivered
The Postmaster's duty is then to charge such
letters with the same postage as if thew had
reached his Office through the mail, the law
prescribing that the two cents above mentioned
shall be paid by the Department and not BY
| the recipient Of the letter These rules d.
| not apply to letters enclosed in the stanped
Envelopes Of the Department. Such letters by
special provision of law, may be conveyed
out Of the mail and delivered by persons not
In the service Of the Department
The California Land Commission cor.
respondent writes US in reply to the informa-
fion concerning the labors of this commission.
which we published ON the day before yester-
day from California letter Our Washing
tom correspondent says
1 have had the opportunity to know tina.
your California correspondent is mistaken ip
these views. With no motive, on your part
to mlsrepresent, you will cheerfully allow. ]
presume, a small space in your columns. in
simple justice to the original Board of Land
Commissioners in California CHARGED as they
were, with judicial business, as intricate A.
can be well imagined and more massive, in a
pecuniary sense, than any ever before com.
mitted to special Judiciary, under our consti- |
tntion, they discharged the trust with all the |
dispatch that belonged to triumphant ability |