Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-10
Eugene Mack; Carpenter~ohn Jarvis; Sail.
maker-Francis Boom.
The officers are ordered to report at Norfolk
on the 18th Of July.

Oh WIG ~Seu VI July. ga
Nineveh.-To day, our familiar spirit sends
US something of variety-the beginning of a
list of the most active and efficient officers and
members Of q secret-proscriptive-oa th-bound-
political-society existing all over the country
of which Nineveh was the political metropolis.
Our kind and laborious familiar spirit has dis
covered in the catacombs under the ruins of
the ancient and venerated city, the copy ofthe
list sent to that burgh from the commercial en-
porium of the country, in the fall of the year
1854, B. C. 1t is in the handwriting of per-
son known in those days as G. H. Deshler, who
signed himself as Secretary of the Grand Coun-
Gil of the United States of North America. The
purpose of sending the list to Nineveh was to
inform the brethren of that ancient city who
were most to be confded in over the country
as active workers in the cause, in furtherance
of which, they had sworn, at midnight, to de-
stroy the Constitution under which they lived.
We, to-day, give few of the names found on
the list, rs follows:
j. w. Barker, President Grand Council u
S. N. A. ....
W: +. Chapman, Secretary of State Council
of New York.
J. H. Lyon, of Jersey city, President of
State Council of New Jersey.
j. A. Nichols, Of Newark, Corresponding
Secretary of State Council of New Jersey.
j. S. Ditman, of Newark, Recording Secre-
tary of State Council of New Jersey.
Hon. w. A. Newell, of Allentown, j.
j. Cocks, Esq, of Trenton, N. j.
A Livingston of Trenton 7
DIR. w. II. Rossell, of Trenton, N j.
DR.. w. NJ. Whitehead, Of Elizabethtown
J. S. Cameron, New Brunswick, N. j., led.
itor)
j. Rogers, Burlington, N j., (editor)
): r Babcock, Burlington, N j., (editor)
N. c. Arthur, Wheeling, Va, Correspond
ing Secretary of State Council of Western
Virginia.
j.. r; Clinton, of Grenada, Miss, deputy for
Mississippi.
R. Gray, of Covington, Ky, deputy for Ten
nessee.
c. W. Slack, of Boston, Mass, "a trump.)
5. j. N. Smith, of New Orleans, full of
cnergy.)
Rev. R. westbrook, Secretary of the Amer.
lean Sunday School Union,) Philadelphia.
The 'deputies' noted above-so say the
records of the Order which our familiar spirit
has placed in our possession-were persons au-
thorized and enjoined to get up Councils in
the States set opposite to their names. We
shall continue this list for perhaps day or
two, and then leave it, to go on with the pub
LEGATION of the lists of jewellers in and fir. e
quenters of the ancient city of Nineveh 2, 10.
years ago. Only think of it, reader.
The Contested Eltctions-for seats in the
Board of Aldermen, were not disposed of yes
terday afternoon, as was anticipated from what
passed on the subject in their chamber at the
last previous meeting. The Know Nothing
majority Of the Board merely reported reso.
luton affirming that Samuel C. Busey. the
know Nothing incumbent from the Fifth Ward,
is entitled to his present place in the Board.
and the said report was laid over until Monday
next to afford the anti-Know Nothing member
OF the committee an opportunity to make his
minority report, the free use of the papers in
the case to that end, having been denied him
up to that time. The Know Nothing majority
of the Committee expressly declined giving any
reason for the opinion to which they profess to
have arrived, contenting themselves with sim.
ply affirming that they had come to the conclu-
sion embodied in the report With reference to
this fact, we need hardly remark that few men
of common sense, who know how earnestly an
xious for Office under the present National Adj
ministration p. M. Pearson, a Know Nothing
member of this committee, was, ere he became
n Notbipn xrhap
lot, how loving he was towards Catholic Pat
and infidel Hans in the old jackson Democrat
ic Association of this city, until it turned out
that that course would not procure for him the
desired Office under the General Government,
and how active and efficient members of the
the secret political society which requires oaths
of fidelity to its purposes and Of devotion to its
interests and those of its members above and
beyond any other possible obligation, the ma
jority of this committee are--how those, we
say, who know these facts, ever expected
that any sort Of testimony would extract
from them report in favor of the contest
anti, Is more than we can easily imagine.
If such thing was ever dreamed Of, we ad..
ritual of the Know Nothing order, and, then,
the testimony in the famous Lowell case,
wherein Know Nothing witness avowed that
the obligations he had assumed as member
of the order compelled him even to perjure
himself in the witness stand, when the inter-
ests of the order so required.
We may not appropriately add here, that
dread of the comments of the Star upon such
apologies as would necessarily be made for the
report in question, had it been attempted to
justify it, evidently formed the reason why no
such effort was cssayed-as F. S. Evans, the
Know Nothing chairman of the election COM
mittec, declared, in the few remarks he made
that he had RETAINED from accompanying the
report with scratch of pen, as he knew that
whatever he might say in justification of it
would forthwith be distorted or misrepresented
to the public. Such was the substance. if NOT