Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-13

solicitor. What are amusesnents to most DOR
sons. to US (who years ago were completely
satiated with such mattsrs,) are litsrally task.
Yetwe attend them and wri to Of them to graf
lily our advertising friends. Wa are not the
couplimented party in suoh cases, as will be
perceived. No great enterprise has succeeded
and no great fortune has been made in Isgiti.
mate business of late years Independent of
the aid of the press. This is q truth which
all business men, up to tho mark of the times
will realize.
Under these circumstanceH, We trust that
those who desire the help of gratuitous no.
toes in the Star, will undsrstand that the
favor is literally on our side. ,-.,,-
The Smithsonian InstituH on.-The follow
ing, which We extract from th's Baltimore SUMS
telegraphic columns, tells, in few words, the
result of yesterdays session of the Regents of
the Smithsonian Institution
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE Regents of the
Snithsonion Institute met this morning, every
member of the board being present The ses
sion was conducted with closed doors, and
none of the reporters were admitted. The Re-
gents are understood to have voted by ma.
ioriy of two to break up the compromise which
brary and Museum, and the other half to pub.
locations. DC. ..
Mr. Cboate mada mastery and lucid argu.
ment to show that the act of Congress required
that tho Library and collections of natural
cariosities should be tho principal objects of
the Institution; ard that it would violate the
law to abrogate the compromise to favor pub
nosE 81 r I'M,
Regents who voted TO sustain the compromise
| were Messrs. Choate, Douglas Meacham, Eng
lsh, Stuart, and Towers. Those against are
all the oldest members Of the board who
probably felt commi tied to that course by their
previous action.
| Now this result, nd more especially by 50
close vote, throws ,apon Congress the respon.
sjbility Of ordering, by their own direct &C.
ton, that in the future conduct of the Institu-
ito ms affairs, their oft declared purpose tn at
it shall not be made a mere publishing house
| of abstruse documents on the NEST involved
| and really uninteresting branches Of science,
| shall be carried out. On three or four occa.
| sions, propositions which had for their design
the Endorsement of the policy with reference
to the management of the Institution which
| was agreed on in the Board of Regents, were
| introduced In Congress, and were as often
voted down by overwhelming msjorities This
is fact bearing on yesterdays action of the
board, on which every member of both Houses
should ponder.
An Infamous Falsehood We have waited
until this moment without noticing the New
York HerGid's current roorback about an in
trigue to secure the next Presidency for Mr..
Buchanan, in which that paper says that Sec.
rotary Davis and General Cushing are in
volved, and that the latter wrote letter to
Judge Black, Of Pennsylvapia, dsprecatory of
the President, which was handed to the latter
and by him handed to General c., with a de-
mand for explanation, &c We DELAYED
noticing this silly and malicious bundle of
Wholesale falsehoods only in order to ascertain
to what extent the Hsr3td would carry them,
and as it now seems disposed to drop them for
some other similar connection, We have to saw
that there is cot single word Of truth not a
single word Of Tin any thing the Herald
has contained on the subject As for General
Cushings imaginary letter to Judge Black, 1t
Is known to hundreds here that General C.
does not hesitate to declare that he never
wrote line to Judge Black in his life, or apy
such letter to any ono else as the Heraid de-
scribes. We mention the fact of this disayov.l.
only to show the world that the Herald has
gone into al systematIc an effort to decry tho
Administration, by deliberately concocted
false representations as In its efforts to defeat
the enterprise of Mr.. Fry, for which New
York jury, it will be recolle cted, mulcted Ben.
nett in the snug little sum Of SIG, 900.
Not So We learn that a gentleman con-
nectsd with the Northern press, who general.
y manages to be accurate in his statements.
has been deceived by q story which was cur.
rant in the public places of Washington last
evening, saying that the Government have ad-
vices of the death of the Hon John Y. Mason,
and telegraphed it as an ascertained story in
time for New York city paper of this morn.
ing. We hasten to correct the error Yes
terday, we announced that positive informa
ton Of his extreme illness had been received
nSIo. 1nis - THS, dHu uOtu1nS moro In the
matter has, SO far, reached tho Government or
any one else in Washington. The story of
last night started the politicians to conjectur-
ing who would be sent to Paris in Mr. Mason's
stead, and, as far as we could Judge, public
opinion here centered Immediately on Gov.
Seymour, of New York.
An Important Enterpris e.-Thsy are earn
estly at work in California to establish stage
route between San Francisco and Missouri.
The cost to be $4,000 900. 1t strikes us that
the enterprise must succeed. 1t is proposed
to settle western families at convenient sta
tions on the line Of the route, and to make
two through trips weekly. We are satisfied that
some such successful enterprise will pave the
way for the construction of the proposed Paoi-
fc Railroad. Any company that will run such
a line for a year. and then satisfv the countrv