Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-15
wIsHfKGToN NEWS AND GOSSIP

| wAsHfKsToK NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The .st<uEsle was renewed today in the
House Hal. Bee our report of the proceedings
70 the last Moment.-Ere we went to press
to-day, Mr.. Richardson got in his resolution
closing tls Nebraska debate on satafday next,
at II, h., and postponing the Pacific railroad
bill to the Oath -.
few words passed between Messrs- Hunt
and CraigerKhich it was judged, by some
present. mi ght lead to duel
The Caucus, this niosning, IF tie represeal
tatise supporters Of the Nebraska bill met
shortly after the appointed hour in the House
Foreign Affairs Committee room, which was
densely crowded, some one hundred gentle,
men being. present. Mr.. 0lds was called to
the chair, and resolution was adopted author
izing Mr. Richardson to propose, in the House
to-day, to extend the time for the close Of the
general debate on the bill to 2 p. m, of Friday
next, if its opponents desired such an extern
sion of time, =. -. - :. ..a...;
The condition of affairs in the Hall was con-
versed over (rather than debated) by many of
those present, and it is understood to have been
agreed that no formal postponement of the
especial order'' by the House is necessary to
their purpose of passing the Nebraska bill in
advance of the transaction Of any other bust
ness On reflection and examination, it was
concluded that on going into committee a ma
j4rity could always postpone the consideration
Of the special order from day to day. ----
Impudence.-Those who telegraph from
Washington to the New York Trabune and its
kindred prints, unblushing!y announced that
the adjournmant Of Friday night last was
brought about by the "cayiDg inn Of the
friends of Nebraska. They have to resort to
such gross and palpable misrepresentation of
well known facts, to serve their miserable pur-
pose of deceiving the public, though they can
not possibly fail to be aware that their tricks,
such as that, will be speedily exposed. Their
calculation, however, was, that it might serve
the momentary end Of encouraging the meet
ing convened for Saturday evening, in the
New York Park to pass the cut and dried in
eendiary resolves Of Bryant, Greeley, Jay Il
Co.-all we'll known AboIitionists designed,
foolishly enough, to intimidate the representa-
tives from New York city into the belief that
popular sentiment there will possibly follow
the men named above in anything. At six, p.
m, on any day, without single previous an
nouncement, the erection of speaking stand,
the footing Of band of music, and the bel.
lowing Of any man, with stout lungs, from the
stand aforesaid, will in half an hour, attract
crowd Of from FIVE to eight thousand people
in the New York Park, not more than tenth
Of whom, however, can, by any possible
chance, be bona tide citizens of the United
States. These are stereotyped facts, which all
who know New York we'll, realize. Meetings
of this sort, held there, will endorse anything
their getters up have, cut and dried, in hand.
Immediately surrounding the stand will cry
out at aye; when the managers will, of course,
proclaim and publish their doings and pur.
poses as triumphantly endorsed. ~
No member from New York city is to be
operated upon by any such bogus system of
political tactics, all of them knowing that the
faint Of the ultraisms of Bryant, Jay & Co,
upon any thing, we care not what, is sufficient
to make it odious to nineteen twentieths Of the
legal voters of the city
But, returning to our starting point. we
have to assure the distant public, that the ad-
journment of Friday night, is well understood
in Washington to have been moved by Mr.
Richardson on the request of gentlemen OPP
posed to the bill, who were not willing to con-
tinue voting With its abolition opponents after
the latter should make it plain to the world,
that they were simply aiming to carry out the
Injunction of Mr.. Horace Greedy, under the
superintendency of Mr.. Senator Sumner to,
if possible, reyoutionize the Government of
the United States, if such en act be necessary
to defeat the intention of the majority to ex-
ercise constitutional right in a constitutional
way. These gentlemen (of the opposition to the
billy declared that they wanted to make an effort
to agree among themselves as to the time neces-
sary for the farther discussion of the measure,
and voluntarily offered to vote hereafter with
the majority against efforts to revolutionize
the Government of the United States, though
not to vote for the bill. Under such representa-
lions only, did the majority promptly and
properly consent to the adjournment until next
day, after a continuous session of thirty-six
hours duration. The truth of this statement
is manifest in the changed character of the
voting on Saturday, when the motions designed
to kill time'' were supported by from 40 to
80 members only; instead Of from IS to 49, as
before.
The Building Of the New Naval Steam
ships.-Our friends in Baltimore, who seem to
be much disappointed because the artizans of
tina. famous clipper building city are not to
have an opportunity to show their skill in con-
structing steamships of war, in tho distribu-
ton of the work OF The sort recently ordered
by Congress, are reminded that the Govern
Inent is unfortunately without the necessary
paraphernalia and materials at that point No
Government in the world which builds naval
ships to last, builds them by contract, for the
simple reason that there requires to be used in
them, timber of various kinds which no private
ship owners can procure. That is, seasoned at
a cost which would break any private parties
undertaking to lay out of the interest on their