Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-12-13
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

oqu0allng 'faculty, Spinai oe-
sesse,) are getting tired of their intense labors
without apparently producing the slightest
result in the way Of getting into tho chair, q
speaker after their own heart. A week ago
we told our readers to look out for their ex.
pected jeremaids, to be first sounded through
the New York Tribune. Those jeremaids are
commencing. Sundry correspondents from
this city, dnoluding the very head Of the facul-
ty himself, our illustrious friend DR.. Greeley
appear in the issue Of that journal of the day
before yesterday, writhing in agony over the
obstinate, if not incurable, condition Of the
back-bones Of Messrs Haven, Wheeler, Will
liams, Walk, Whitney, and Clark, of N. Y,
Harrison, of Ohio, Broome, Fuller, and one or
two others of Pa, Dunn and Scott, of Ind,
and Bishop, and a colleague of N. J. As
matter Of course, they are duly accused of vio-
lating their anti-election pledges, and refusing
to obey the will of their constituents, because
they will not consent to organize the House
upon principles in keeping with the doctrines
which the Hon. Mr. Giddings has been preach
ing with SO much pertinacity, in the Hall, for
twenty years past.
We take it for granted that 1t will require
something more than the comparatively
gentle hints concerning their independent
course in this election in which the Tribune
has so far INDUCED, to coax any one of these
gentlemen upon an undisguised snti-slavery
platform. The Tribsns to the contrary not
outstanding, every one of them were elected
as Internationally national-men, and
though some of them have steadily signified
their opposition to the Nebraska bill per Sc,
not one of them ever limited q willingness to
merge everything in the cause of Abolitionism,
by way of getting revenge for the enactment
of the Nebraska bill by the last Congress.
That is what they are now asked to do. 1t is
very clear to US that no amount Of violent
abuse which the Tribune and journals akin
to it will shortly pour on their heads, will
suffice to move them an inch from their evident
purpose of continuing to remember that there
are other interests worth protecting in this
country, besides those of that now so important
and very generally wor shipped gentleman
Sambo.
Massachusetts, astonishing revolu-
ton that has just taken place in the senti-
ments of the people of Massachusetts,, as de-
monstrsted in the municipal elections that oc-
Cured throughout the State day or two since,
was brought about evidently by union of the
national Know Nothings and Wings with the
Democrats, the two formers Importing the can
didates OF the latter, standing on the Democra-
tic platform, and nothing else, though running
as ''citizens" candidates. The
Know Nothings who have broken of from their
party there are not the Gardiner men per SC,
but the real twelfth section men. Shurtleff, the
" American" candidate for Mayor of Boston,
was supported both by the Republicans and
the Gardiner Know Nothings, and was beaten
by 1000 majority by a union of the Wing
party proper, the Democrats, and the twelfth
section Know Nothings, who supported Rice,
the victor. The same combination was made
throughout the State, With like result every.
where, so far as we have yet seen.
This election will hardly have the effect Of
making DR.. Greely's putty stick in the
crevices of those black bones" he has been
so industriously tinkering in this region for
some time past He has been calling most
vociferously on Hercules (the Northern pub
lie voice. to help him out of his present ugly
dilemma. Hercules has proclaimed most en-
phatically that he has no sympathy Whatever
with DR.. Greedy and hiss CO. laboring lobby prac.
titiOners at Washington. He thus says in an
way, that he is dead agin" |
the success Of their dangerous remedy for the |
condition of the body polite Giddings-ixing
the House of Representatives Of the United |
States. |
The Senate Printer. The Democratic Sem
atorial caucus is said to have had rather |
warm time of it yesterday over, the PROPOSE
ton to nominate Senate printer. 1t is said |
to have been opposed in speeches by Senators
Mason, Bayard, ard Butler, and advocated |
by Senators Slidell and Reed. They adj |
lourned without disposing of the subject
Senator Brown having the floor for speech,
against the proposition, it is presumed.
We hear, further, that to-day the subject |
was not reached when they were in caucus.
We are satisfied, from what is said around us,
that much of the opposition to the nomination |
Of printer arises from the indisposition of |
many of those who desire 30 to do, to make |
also caucus nominations for the other officers |
IF the body. At present it seems as though |
The Democracy of the Senate will 60 into cleo.
lion of the officers of the body without making