Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-22
Yours respectfully,
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[ THE w ASHINGTON MONUMENT.-We hear after all
The grandiloquent professions and promises of the
AAnow-Nothings, who, through frauds, &C., some
months ago. obtained possession of the Washington
Monument and its affairs, they have managed to
gather into its treasury up to this time the enor
nous amount of 500, while the salaries
they have agreed to pay to officers who have
nothing to do lowing to their apparent utter
failure to obtain the confidence and, through that,
the money, of their followers;) have amounted to
something more than the whole sum they have
gathered! Not q stroke Of work toward the pro-
secuton of the erection of the testimonials has been
done, that may be perceiVed-certainly not stone
stands on the shaft that was not there before they
took forcble possession The season has so far ad-
vanced to render it certain that it is entire
season lost far that enterprise is concerned.
1t will be remembered that those who now hold
possession of the work boasted that they were go
ing to send it up to the heavens with jerk" AS
far as can be perceived, their "jerk in connection
with the work bids fair only to be sufficiently eec-
tive to extract from the pockets Of their friends
money enough to support number of W aSningtOn
Know-Nothings in utter id1eness, who though in
capable for the most part of earning honest llv-
ing in competition with their fellow citizens at large
have been promised to be provided for" by the
Know-Nothing managers around u.s. for services len
dered in our municipal politics.
According to a recent publication of those fraudu-
ently in control of the affairs of the monument Mr.
John Wilson, late Commissioner of the General
Lind Office and now President of the Second Ward
Known othing lodge of this city, has been made
their general agent. They are to give him salary
of So, 600 per annum, and nave prenXeQ HON
before his name, e'presume by way of adding to
the importance of his office.
1t is very clear from the way in which the affairs
of the monument are now being conducted that all
the money paid towards its completion, while under
its present CONTROL will raise it foot higher,
while there ofice-seeking Know Nothings in
Washington to be pensioned, or money required to
be expended for Know-Nthing party purposes
Washington STAR
A U. S. SENATOR AN EDITOR AGAIN.-Ex-Sena-
tor Borland of Arkansas having voluntarily retired
from high Office under the present Administration,
has returned to his former professionalism of jour
nalism. He is now the senior editor of The Little
Rock Gazette and Democrat, one of the ablest pa
pers in the Southwest. We beg to welcome him
right cordially back to the press-gang. His saluta-
tory is one of the most appropriate things of the
kind we have ever seem In it he displays a just
and full appreciation of the responsibility and dignity
of the position he has re-assumed. 'There is no
more honorable calling followed, henester bread
eaten than that Of the who without one thought
of the pleasure or dispeasure of living man, unde
tered by apprehension and unahured by greed or
ambition, in all truth and conscience, devotes his
mind to the discussion of public affairs, in the col
umns of the leading journals, us the language he
adopts, and which every one must approve and adj
mre. Success to him.
lMemphis EAGLE and Enquirer.