Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-13
WAsHIEs-oa N Tvs AND GOSSIP.

AAANoASE ~ sWo AND 6OSS1x.
news from ulinois-We have seen pri-
vats dispatch from Chicago, this morning. as
follows:
CHICAGO, 8 A. N, Nov. l3-The returns
ffsm Illinois look we'll. Richardson, Allen
Harris, and Marshall, all true Nebraska Dem.
ocrats, are elected by decided majorities. The
Senate will be Democr attic The House doubt
full. General Shields 4oiH b. his o.cn sue.
ssssor in tho United States Senate.
This purports to como from source in which
We have perfect confidence. Unless the sigma.
ture is forged to it, it must convey tho truth.
Interesting from Washington Territory
An attentive subscriber 1t Fort Townsend,
Washington Territory, writes us, under date
October 6. as follows:
The United States revenue cutter Jeffsr.
son Davis, Capt. Pease, has arrived here. and
all in good time. The citizens are reioiced to
sec the cutter, and we'll they may be, as such
'lllaiAous and treacherous looking Indians as
are around here were never seen elsewhere
Ihey arc troublesome now, and as many as
one thousand of them are expected here soon
to demand money first, and then Moed, for the
some time since. The sUh te Indians are the
worst. The court 10 now in session. trying four
Indians for murder, and two, certain, will be
hung. Then white folks, look out.
at Is very fortunate that tho cutter is all
fitted out and ready for war. Those grape
and canister shot are the things. They are
nice for opening communication with whites
or Indians.
"The second night here, the commander of
tho cutter took Sydney Bird Englishman,)
tor stealing from on board an American bark
during the night, and cutting the rigging. He
was pat In double irons, as it was Sunday and
- there is no Jail here or even in the Terri
tory. About three O'Clock, .. M, six shots
(rife) were fired, and one ball won't Just clear
Of the heads Of the men on board the cutter
Capt. Pease informed the owner of the shanty
on shore, from whence the shots came that if
any more were fred from that direction over
his vessel, he would instantly sweep tho shore
with grape and canister shot from six twelve.
FOUNDERS; and if he (the CaptaiD) found that
ne sold or gave any more liquor to Indians, he
would knock his house down, (you know the
penalty is very severe,) and put him in double
irons. Since then all Is still. Oh, these sOhite
Indians Among the copper ones are Generals
Iaylor, Fierce, and Scott, Ii I'd Jim, His Grace
the Duke Of York, TO-, DC. 1t is lively times
you may depent.
1.-The cutter will have to 20 to San Fran
cisco for provisions and men, il December, as
there is no other alternative. There is not one
pound OF bread, sugar, beef, DC in this town,
and not much at Olympia. 1t is an awful
country, and there is no place whore revenue
cutter Is more needed at present."
Avery Unanimous Communicative have
yet to find the first citizen Of Washington of
either or any political party, Except, perhaps,
the forty or fifty who are avowed Abolition.
isss) who does not express qualification at Sey-
mour's probable triumph over Clark. 1t being
clear that but for the Know Nothing element
in tho contest, Clark would have triumphed
(as, otherwise, largo wing Of the Silver
Greys would have voted for c., a. we'll as the
large wing Of the Hards who voted for Ullman
to defeat Seymour.) Some of tho Democrats
are beginning to believe that Know Nothing
ism, after all, Is not the terrible thing they
took 1t for. So folks 90 at times, in political
affairs. However tho new element may have
=" punished the Democrats In PENNSYLVANIA,
Maine, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois,
it has punished Abolitionism, Maine Lavish,
Bloomerism, DC. ahOckingly in New York,
and bids fair to punish the Wing party proper
as awfully, to-day, in Massachusetts. There,
il has in most cases adopted persons of ultra
free soil tendencies for its Congressional can
didates, though its candidate for Governor
was, up to his nomination, Silver Grey Wing.
Subsequently, however, he has come out
against the Fugitive Slave law and for the
restoration of tho Missouri COMPROMISE
Having done 30, We think it highly probable
that very large wing of the Wing party of
the State, not Know Nothings, will abandon
Governor Washburn and vote for Gardiner, in
order to keep out Judge Charles Allen of
Worcester, the Free Soil nominee, IS pestiferous
an Abolitionist as ever squeaked his hour on
the floor Of the House of Representatives.
The Massacre Of Lieut.. Grattan and his
will be remembered that ND to
this time, though the sad occurrence took place
near Fort Laramie some months ago, no re-
liable information concerning its details has
boon spread before the American public This
has been cccasioned by the fact that the
whole party were destroyed. The War De-
partment, however, very recently received
dispatches from Lieut.. Col Steptoe, 2d artil-
lery, who commands at Fort Laramie, where
in all the facts arc set forth, which entirely
e1onsrate the memory of Lieut.. Grattan from
the inputation of rashness. which has worry
been charged on him in tho absence
Of satisfactory information conserving the
affair.
We extract from the dispatches In question,
as follows:
CLEARING il whispered about that the diff.
Guilty was occasioned entirely by the rashness
Of Lieut. Grsttan, I think it due to the mem
DRY of thu young officer that you should be
thoroughly informed as to the facts, and, there
fore, take the liberty Of extracting from a
private letter just received:
"The best authenticated account seems to be
that Mr.. Grattan, expecting to get the Indian
murderer without any trouble went into the
midst of the Indian village with his men and
pieces. He could not well ave avoided this "A