Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-23
wlsHMGTns NEWS Avn GOSSIP.

personally, has many qualities making him
remarkable man, as well as public spirited
one-though his political peculiarities all 60
| through wrong chutss-has recently been i'm.
prisoned in Paris for refusing to pay the de.
mand of a French sculptor for 81 500, on 40
count Of injury alleged to have been done in
the unfortunate New York Crystal Palac. to
this sculpsOrs work of art. Horace res d.
Rotor of that defunct institution, and the de-
mand and subsequent arrest was made on the
ground that, under the French law, every di-
rector Of such incorporated affairs is personally
responsible for all the debts Of the concern
Horace was kept in the Rue de Clinohy prison
for some forty-eight hours, during which he
was decidedly the American ".isn" of Paris,
having been called on in his eight by FIVE c.et
apartment by nearly all the Americans of
distinction then in that city. 1t seems lat the
Judge very sensibly decided that Horace's
case should be tried under tho law of the
| vicinags-New York-under which the trans
action on which the claim was founded took
place. A lucky ruling, indeed, for poor
Horace, as there happens to be hundreds of
tradesmen in Paris who profess to have SINH
lar claims against the New York Crystal
Palace-suficient in the aggregate to swamp
the Tribune and half the rest of the ne ys.
paper establishments in New York, had poor
Horace bson held answerable for them, indi
ridually. For some time his case looked
Il afh Ina al Ill
given to locomOtion than any other newspaper
man IN this country, must have felt particu-
larry 'streaked" at the imminent prospect of
spending the remainder of his life in debtor 3
prison in a foreign country, as the leadin &
consequence Of the lamentable failure of the
New York Crystal Palace enterprise
Characteristic, in Know Nothinsism
About midnight on the Eight before last, the
debris OF the meeting in front of the City Hal,
transPsrancies and sill, made its way, under
the windows of the President, we hear.
and amused themselves for some tims By
making night hideous with yells and brula
blaokguardism, mingling shouts for Z" Sam"
with curses and denunciations of the Chief
| Magistrate of the United States, whistlipa
the Rogue's March," DC, 30, in the
hearing Of his family. We have no com.
ments to make on this affair, further than to
| assure the distant public that it ia in fair
keeping with the conduct of Washington
Know Nothingism en- more than one oeoasion-
in tho dark, of eOu.se-towsrds Mr.. Henry A
Wise, while that gentlemen tarried at tie
residence Of his daughter in this city, and
subsequently, towards more than one of our
own citizens whose blameless and useful lives
have won them the rsspec: of this community.
but who, unfortunately for the peace OK their
family and for respect for their rights, do TO:
happen to be disciple, of " Sam"
1t would 90 worse than idle for reputable
persons who are identified with the Know No
thing party to disclaim rsspon Utility for these
disgraceful outrages, as such things never
occurred here before they gave their counte.
nance 10 the plotting of the vicious, ignorant
bigO,ed and virulsnt, in the darkness and
secrecy of midnight, against their fellow citi
Iens. Such conduct is but the legitimate effect
VI u worry pidlH cause l0ceed.
Col. kinuey's Vessel Juna
2lst.-Wm. Fabens and Fletcher Webster are
here, 1t is said for the purpose Of getting the
Treasury Department to nave a clearance is
sued to Col. Kinney's vessel, now claimed at
New York by the Federal authorities The
order was probably Obtained to-day"
On inquiry at the Treasury Department We
find this story t, be unfounded. Up to las!
night no sub request as is stated above had
been made by any parties whatever, nor, a.
far as We could perceive, was there the slight
est probability. whatever, that any such 70.
quest, if made would be granted. There seems
10 be peculiar fatality connected with this
kinney affair, viz: that few publications can be
made out Of tbs Star, with reference 70 il, that
do not prove to be unmitigated roorbacks on
due investigation. L. has been business of
shear false pretences from first to last, for
which some persons must be responsible, as
they could not have been without authors II
will be remembered that Col. Kinney's pro.
clamation, published Immediately after his al.
legged flight in schooner bound for Jamaica,
e'N"SN tAS PoiPOoc VI ulliDQsloIIQR IN MGR
ragua. The idSa Of obtaining the authority
of this government after what has passed on
the subject, for the sailing Of the vessel carry
ing to him the means of effectively violating
the neutrality laws of the United States, is 30
very prePosssrous as to make it hardly posi-
BILE that even those who have BEEN most moo.
ulatei with Col. KS idlosyncraoies, would
Veatura to suggest it to the Government.
Our Schools We again call the atter lion
Of our fellow citizens to the progre. sing exam.
nations of the various public schools Of Wash.
inston, and have to urge as many of those
really identified with ouE citys future As Dos
sible to be sure to attend those ys. to come
off. These great nurseries of true American
progress, (when not perverted to the inculca-
ton of isms,) and truly benevolent institutions,
have improved wonderfully among us in the
last ten years--thanks more particularly to
those public spirited citizens who have 90 long
made their improvement the eare of thai, ,iss