Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-31
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


newspapers to say a great many false and
foolish things. The following said by the
New York Mirror on the subject, contains per.
haps, as many misststements in that connec-
ton as We have yet seen strung together in as
many lines:
"But. notwithstanding the boastful speech of
Mr.. Wise before tie rabble at Washington,
clsi ming to have met tho black ight with
bis VISOR down and dealt him a mortal blow
We are not q2ite sure but the Virginia cock is
Growing before day-break. Only about eighty
counties have been heard from, and there are
one hundred aud thirty seven in The State :;
aud the majority fer Wise lsgs far behind that
for Pierce IN 1852 But We confess we have
little hope of cheering news from toe back
woods. Arericanism fourishes best in the
light of day. 1t has no affinity with the owls
| and bats Of darkness and superstition. A
State that lacks roads and telegraphs by which
| to forward its election returns; a State whose
probable Governor elect once boosted in Con.
| gress that he represented district in which
| no newspaper was published State that
| contains more white people unable to read or
write than any other State in the Union, will
naturally be the Last to yield to the all-sub-
DUNG spirit of Americanism that is destined
soon TO melt down all opposition; and, purging
the whole family Of States from all sectional
drOss, fuse it into one bright and beautiful
and everlasting AMALGAM all the better ele
ments of the republic, literally consOidatin :.
the confcderacy and making it the PLuRI
BUS UNUM Of nations"
In the first place, nine-tenths of those lin.
GLIDING large proportion CT Know Nothings)
who attended to hear Mr.. WISE on Saturday
night last, were not rabble," but the very
best Of our citizens, and the men who enjoy
most Of the respect of their fellow. citizens in
Washington en- account of their intelligence
true public spirit, and utility to society No
public meeting was ever before convened in
this city whereat SO large portion Cf those
woo are most respected By the community were
present. The g rabble" who ware there, were
skulking friends Of the Mirror man who,
having little interest in society, can mcst
afford TO violate its laws and its rules Of co.n
i;y, which quite thousand respectable Know
Nothings, who were On the ground, were as
anxious to uphold as any Of their opponents
Next: The Mirrors asPersion on the a;ri
cultural portion of Virginia is evidence Of the
extreme ignorance of him who wrote it. All
people Of our country are aware, and admit
that the sheet.anchor Of the hope Of the pres.
ervation of American liberties is eur agricui
tural population, among whom a much higher
tone of principle in political, as in personal,
affairs exists, than among the mass of the peo
pie Of our cities. Their Ignorance" so much
harped on by shallow writer's like the man OF
the Mirror, is but ign rance Of the ways 0:
the vicious and corrupt. They know enough
to 30, as class the happiest, pursst, Gaa most
prosperous people in the world. aul avail
themselve3 OF every incident Cf progress qui' :
fast enough FOR safety. Ame1ic anism' Toy
which term the Mirrors writer means Know
Notbingism) does M! flourish best in ,bs Ugh,
with the owls and bats u darkness and super
stitiOn." The man who asserts to the CONTRARY
must fancy that even yet 10 one out Of /" tie o.
der knows of its fearful oa,hs to secresy, AID
Ct the midnight gatherings Of i conspirators
against the rights OF all who refuse or 81! TO
conspire with them This un;7uthlul boas; of
the H1srror man that Know Nothingism loves
the light CT the day, conveys r.buko Ct IL
midnight cOnspiIings aid palpable adiais-
sion CT the disrsputable and dangerous char
acter OF Its ac's and aims. He is right in
coming to the conclusion that il canno. make
Roadway among suoh q popula;i N as that If
rural Virginia Ia Richmond, = city with
nearly all tas ICES ard bal habits Of am
American city Of ito size, Know Nottingham
has focrished as elsewhere among like pppu
lati0ns. In Boston, whore people are psrh6p
as unprincipled a. aby other people of the
same number wbo now live in one CITY. In
New York, whOse population lie CO vicious as
II is possible for ;ho people Of an American
:ity 20 be, and indeed in all other American
cities to which vice and crime Iesor. for the
Immunity resulting from the crowd CT po5son3
there dwelling, each intent on his OVID objects
and takiEg little note OF those OF ;hs individ
usls by whom he is surrounded, Know No
thingisn fourishes, as it furnishes nowhere
else, after rural populations Gi.covsr its real
character, tendency, and aims.
Eeroie.-Ths three Knor Nothing Commits
sione,s Of election for thc Third Ward s,en
greatly inanlted by the adoption Of E reso-
luton by the Board OF Aldermen, requesting
them to permit some respectable anti Know
Nothing to remain in the room while they may
be counting the votss on Monday nj ght no1t.
hey deem it Al impu.a;i0n on their honor
They should havo looked nearer homo for that
imputation. Their own friends in tee Councils
by their acts avow the purpose OF af1rding an
opportunity for the com 10 ission of frauds at the
election. They deny their political opponents
a single representative upon the election.
boards in four wards of the
city, for the hrst TINA Washington, aimee it's
corporate existence, and they refuse TO direct
or even to request that the ballot: re-
coived be made of record, 80 that any ono q,
inclined may, after tia election, verify the
fact that he hes been fairly dealt with and
they chose these three individual members G,
their secret oath-bound political fraternity us
their instruments for Carrying out whatever