Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-19

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a, the polls upon tho,e responsible for them.
Hence their nervous anxisy to defeat, in the
House, the proposition to which the Senate ad-
here 90 pertinaciously.
| At present, we are not able to give q guess
satisfactory to ourself at least as to the p, oba
BILE fate Of the scheme. Its increased strength
arises from the fear of more or less nervous
gentlemen, that the cholera may make it's ap-
! pearance here ere the end of July, as it seems
| to be going everywhere over the country, with
hop, skip and jump, as it we're. This, to
say the least of it, is funny ground for favor
| ing the project which can be much better de-
Tended on dozen other grounds. The ceuu-
| try should know that Buncombe speeches arc
at tho bottom of over-loug sessions. If the
| House and Senate could be forced by public
| opinion to refuse to permit their time to be
occupied by the delivery of essays on subjects
not actually under consideration, concocted in
most instances, for the benefit only of the per
| ION delivering them, there would be little need
fo' recesses, or FIR facing the dog days in the
Federal city. The vicious habit to which We
| refer above, has already near ntirely driven
legitimate debate out Of sSg he in the House, ex-
cspt in addressing the Committee Of the Whole
On . the five minutes rule; when real speeches
| On subjects actually ia hand, marked with
display Of ability equal to that ever manifested
| by an Q. S. Congress, are made by more or
| less gentlemen who, on rising to read prosy
| hour essay to the members, are very sure to
| empty the benches in q trice. There is as
much mind, character, and attachments in Con.
gress at this time, as ever before. The misfor-
| tune is, that their practice under the rules has
como by degrees to justify tho sacrifice of
nearly everything else, to the desire of any
| and every member {. to put himself right be
fore the country "
| Personal Explanation.-Much Of this days
session Of the House was devoted to "per-
sonal explanations" between Mr.. Church
we'll in reply to Senator Bell, and from Mr.
Campbell, of Ohio, to charge in Mr.. Church
wells Nebraska speech, that he (Mr. Camp
belly was an abolitionist This he denied,
having never voted any but a whig ticket 10.
Ills purpose in making this explanation, he
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sentatives from Tennessee from odium from
alleged sympathy with abolit. members
This controversy was exceedingly spicy and
| interesting, and commanded the entire atten.
ZION Of the House for some time
Appointments for Nsbrsska and Kansas
The happy family" in and out Of Congress
are in an awful state Of suspense Just now
| about tho Nebraska and Kansas appointments
soon to be promu' ged. Every Democratic
4uid Dunc around Us, of every degree, seems
to have his private slate )" and not few Of
them appear willing eoh to swear by his
1wn. It is known, however, that in mos,
| cases the wish is father to the thou xht. each
such gentleman having made up his mind that
the applicants he backs, are of course TO be
Gppoin ed. Hundreds who have huzzaed 70,
the Nebraska bill, conceive that 80 doing ary
.nti les them to associate judgeships at leas,
| while hot a few gentlemen who have been ia
'ooed by the people for from twenty t. forty
years, are apparently firmly Of opinion tha
he Tern cries were created only for eleemosy
nary purposes to suit their own particular
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tore, be surprised to learn that the Pres
ident and Cabinet are understood to be having
desperate time of II just now, under the ten
der attentions Of both these sets Of self saeri
6cing gentlemen, and their hosts of friends
We find it as yet utterly impossible to salts
~ ourselves that single one of the Thousand
rumors flying In this connection Is true, ant
therefore frankly say to the readers of tn,
! Star that these appointments, if determine,
"a, are Jet kept profund secret from all est
side of the Cabinet ministers, to whom til,
President has alone probably expressed hi
preference in the matter
The New York Herald's Last Roorback -
Some days since, the Hsraid published des
patch from this city purporling to give tn,
details of an arranged interview and conferenc,
between the President and members Of th,
Foreign Affairs Committees of both Houses O.
Congress. 1t bore go evident marks of exag
5eration, that We hardly ihought its falls,
statements worthy of contradiction; knowing
that men possessing the slightest modicum o
brains, would appreciate its purpose to b,
simply to write something startling, wiihou
the slightest regard to its truth We have hear
1t commented On by more or less gentlemen rep
resented as having been actors in the 6ctitiou
scenes therein described, all of whom unitee
in declaring it to be gross misrepresen, atior
Of what occurred as we'll as of the circum
stances under which they found themselye
together.
We are induced to refer to the fact at th
time, by finding in the Hsraa Of SATURDAY
last, grave effort to give currency to its sill,
stories above referred to, wherein lin the las
patch Of roorbacks pretended consultation
1t thu President's House over the Herald.
sources of Inform alton il written of, as though
any su h thing had occurred This last stor,
is as silly fabrication as the other, to Civ,
which an air Of plausibility, this was written
Truly, since the HeraA has abanione earl,
and reliable news fer partizan politics, it
Information from Washington is not worth 6
iuid of tobacco, per column
Washington N,ws BY way of ILLUSTRATING
The value of much appearing in the pa.
pers under this taking title, We hav.
10 call attention to The fact that Wash
ington writer in the New York T,,6un,
~ krrd t0a Ill