Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-20
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Dull Ttmes.-We, who cater for the amuse-
ment and edifcation of the "dear people" after
dinner, are having just now q very hard time
OF 1t, there being such total cessation Of all
interesting occurrences in public affairs here
and throughout the country, as we never knew
before. Nothing striking can be done by the
Government just now, because the GGvernme, t
clock Is 80 wound up as that it goes by it.
self, ticking along in the old humdrum way.
Jefferson said that " few die and none resign. u
The party in power having taken unto them
selves all Of tho spoils Of their last presiden-
tial victory they fancy, few or no changes are
being made. So the politicians from abroad
have ceased for the time being to come to
Washington to cahoodle" over Office as of
yore. Their aspirations, their back billings
their asscyerations, their opportunities, and
ere they oil get through around the Depart
ments, the seedy habiliments of more or less
of them. are no longer at hand to furnish us
the groundwork for readable paragraphs
The warm weather makes shockingly against
US, too, as nobody seems to have sufficient en-
ergy under its melting influence to do any
thing worth recording in print.
Thus our labor is doubled-news of interest
we must find, and while suffering bodily and
mentally under the enervating effects of an
August sun, we must strive much moro under
such circumstances as we describe above, to
cater for the Stars columns, than when
Washington is the scene of occurrences preg-
nant with the future of the country, with hun
dreds of men in it whose every movement, ii
not sentiment, is Of great interest to the public
at large. Alas for us in humdrum-tmes like
the present! Then it is, that we feel the pro-
fession of a journalist to be irksome and life
wearying; being forced to be sprightIy and
forcible, or at least to strive SO to be, when
we feel that we are stupidity dull and almost as
weak, bodily, as Taunton water''-prover
bially without strength enough to run down
hill, if the old New England adagc may be
relied on. Won't somebody pity US in this,
our extremity?
The Republican Party.-The New York
Tribune says that Senator Hamlir, Of M zine,
has declared for this new political or aniz alton
We doubt the fact, though tho Tribune, be-
ing the. chief newspaper Of the movement.
might De expected to know early Of occurren-
ees likely to give it strength and Importance
In the same number of the Tribune we find
constitution and bylaws purporting to be
those of the association of the Republican
party in Washington city, which, as matter
of course, can all be comfortably seated in the
sanctum Of our neighbor of the National Era.
if that apartment is twelve feet square I" The
Republican party in Washington City, is no
thing more nor less than the never-t o-be for
gotten Van Buren, Buffalo platform party of
the Federal Metropolis, weakened by the loss
Of at least one-tenth of its Members, in the
withdrawal of the two individuals who having
been conspicuous free sellers in 1913, are now
proprietors Of the Organ newspaper, which,
TO its credit be it written, has, as at present ed
tied, no affinity, whatever, with aboIitionism,
direct or indirect
The fact that the Democratic party are in
much better plight in Maine at this time than
at any previous time in the last two years,
having a fair chance Of success in the al
preaching election, If nothing else, leads US to
place little confidence in the Tribunals an
nouncement conc srning Senator Hamlin, who.
though decidedly anti Nebraskaish, was in all
other respects in full communion with the
Democratic party
Senator Seward, and not Senator Chase, as
many fancy, is the ruling spirit of the new
party which has so soon swallowed Know
Nothingism whole, and with little greasing.
We do not believe that Senator Seward and his
immediate managers hope to carry the day in
1856. Indeed, we kno,0 that during the last
session Of Congress, when they we're laying
their plans to begin this organization in the
summer, they freely admitted the impossibility
Of brining their party under three or four years
up to the strength necessary to enable them to
carry a national election.
They will run Chase, or some one else will
ling to be beaten, in 1856, reserving Mr Sew
ard, for whose benefit alone the organization
was conceived, for the contest of 1860. Long
before that time arrives, however, it will be
found that abolitionism cannot possibly be in
stalled supreme in the Government of the
United States, as they arc now constituted.
and also that the Catholic and foreign-born
voters will not aid in that work, however
earnestly and consistently Governor Seward
may have labored-as he has done beyond oil
question-in their defence.
As this new party gains strength at the North,
demonstrations against the continuance of the
Union, If abolitionism bids fair to be inst ,lled
in its government, must SO increase throughout
the South as to excite greatly against the so
called Republican party all Northern men
whose profits and property may be involved
in the continuance of the Union Year by
year, through the aggregation of capital, the
power of that class is becoming greatly in
creased, notwithstanding the increasing popu-
larity Of extreme radicalism in the non-slave
holding States. That power has not yet been
brought into play; but serious danger to the
Union, from the increasing political strength Of
abolitionism, viii not long hence compel its
exertion; when it will be found equal to tie