Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-04
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

q fraudulent Publication Proofs are &C.
cumuistiDg from day to day of the base means
by which the base ends of Know Nothingism
are attempted to be attained. The persons
usurping without a show of right the title of
the Board Of Managers Of the Washington
National Monument Society, In their address
to the people Of the United States, as pub
lishea aid re-publi,hed in their Organ for
the last four weeks, contains the following
paragraph: =
"a new Board of Managers have now been
appointed. We come into cfioe under favor
able auspices, and with we'll founded hopes Of
means to prosecute the work. Since our elec-
ton, on the I'D February last, We have not
hssn idle. Oar arrangements have been be.
gun, and are now in progress. All causes of
difference between rs and the Old Board have,
as We hope, been removed, and We will fmme-
The assertion contained in the last sentence
Ct that paragraph, unequivocally conveying
the idea that they and the only true and gen.
uine board Of managers had come to an IN.
derstsnding whereby their duo election and
authority ss board were acknowledged or
ncquissced in by the true board, is e paIpabls
falsehood; the fs!sshood Of it is plain and
manifest on the face of every commune alton
between the two parties; on the face of the
resolutions Published in the papers of This city,
with the address of the true board. Those
resolutions, the Instant they were passed, were
communicated to the persons 80 usurping the
title Of managers; and these who read the news-
papers hsTo seen how unequivosalIy and en-.
phatically they dsnornce the illsgslity and IN
fairness Of the pretended election on the 22d
of February last, and repudiate the auther-
ity attempted to be set up under it,
So far from such denunciaticn and repudia.
tion having been recalled or in any degree
modified, the true and only board Of man.
ayers. in their gerry last communication to the
board Of false claimants (which was in answer
to certain acquisitions from the latter ex.
pressly referred to the resolutions denying
a-d rspudiating their authority to intervene
IN any of the society's affairs. 30
Bat the turpitude of this faIsehood does not
end here. Inc disengenuous and mean at.
tempt to shield i: from detection and exposure
IS no less worthy of general abhorsrce. Tho
sentence containing the falsehood is found
only in the Organs edition; but is wholly
omitted in the edition published in the IntsL-
hgsHesr. The policy and canning Of this dc
ceitful varisncs between the two editions ia
apparenterough. The calculation was fcun dsd
on the very evident and strong probability
that the National Intslligenesr's edition
would first meet the eyes Of those who could a,
once detect, and would necessarily donounce
and expose the falsshood az soon as It's ex-
isterse EhouId be Eade known to them: and
that having snce read the address in that
paper, and wholly unsEspicious of tie truth,
they would not think of looking after II in tho
Organ. They have succeeded, however, in
merely delaying detection-the work Of ius.
tics has been retarded, but has at last reached
Its goal. #-. ..rt
This is ali Of piece with the forgery and
perjury, by which the public were made to
believe for few days the statement ,hs. sixty
Know Nothing workmen had been discharged
from tbs GOsport Navy Yard
lis Ovsr!-A truce TO politics, cav we.
Never was mortal more wearied out with the
pulling and hauling, scratching anA SQUAD
bling, s,olding End fretting, sweating and
swearing, cosxins and g-upbling, cpoutiug,
and doing oil sorts of uneongcnial things, in
which We, as an active participant: in tie pre-
iRnaries OF the municipal Canvas, Icing de-
cided as We 80 to press, have bssn deeply i'm
mersed for the last week. We prefer scf,
crabs and sherry, at this season, By long sdds
90 such scenes and excitement a. those in
vhich we have been almost alone engaged 10
&r the last seven days. Naturally, We are
fat, good-natared soul, oveIdoaing with tie
mix Of human kindness FOX evsrybody, qaits
n much az die the father Of our friend, the
editor Of the Alexandria Gazette, who in bis
day was famous Tor being able to keep
crowded theatre in good bunor with poorly
played comedy, by the vehement ssst With
mhicL he enjoyed everything even meant to DO
nmusirs. l. cane Lard to us, therefore, ever to
be unamiablc, and We do not readily forgive
ourselffor permitting tie bill. within us to be 60
alfred by our opponents, cs that it gets the
uppSrnard OF our really kindly nature We
have lost some ten pounds CT flesh by the Ia
bors and Undue excitement os tie weeks CAM
paign, which, We confess, PAS US in better
trim for the editsrisi laboIs Of the summer
AID in that We are benefited iy what we have
undergone. We are, nevertheless, clipping
our hands over the fact that we feel at liberty,
after today, to let pOlitics:go 70 the dogs.
Thousands Of cur readers, no doubt, rejoice
with rs that the SsGr can now return to its
bsaten path as the simple sathersr and dresser
up Of Just such news Of matters around us as
all the Washington world, and those who keep
their eyes on sfairs tran.piring hero anu in
this vicinity, like to hear Of.
II always tells the Truth.-Our talented.
ingenious, and truthful neighbOr, it seems, ia
quite az near the mark In accounting for the