Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-27

that has sprung up there since the dispersion
Of the far-famed Albany Regency of times
past. That was composed Of statesmen and
1thsrs of great intellect and influence over the
State, through the weight of their personal
character and the respect of their fellow-citi-
lens for their public services. The new Re.
sency is one that works wholly by bribery.
lirect and indirect, and is composed almost
Wholly Of men who should of right be in State
prisons, rather than hanging around the lob
bies of legislative chambers, and the bar
rooms and gambling houses of State capitols.
It is composed of Silver Grays, (now Know
Nothings,) Republicans, and Hards, in about
equal proportions; and in the coming election
t will sustain the Republican nominations. as
being the only candidates, with fair prospect
# success, that can be relied on, indirectly, to
aid and abet its schemes of plumber in return
tor its favor in the canvass.
Mr.. Sickles has done wonders in bringing
.bOut the manifestation of something like
common sense md integrity of purpose in the
action of the majority of this convention, but
he cannot accomplish the impossibilty of in
iucing the Hard portion of the Regency to
vote, with its blind followers, so as to weaken
the prospect of stealing with IMMUNITY from
The public purse at Albany next winter.
Gloucester Extraordinarily proposals
for the construction of this work were opened
at the Treasury Department on Saturday last
The contract was awarded to Messrs. Gushing,
Crosby, and others, of Lowell, for S25, 500.
The Learned Of the Land" Take the
New York Tribune, with its host of eloquent
and learned writers and staticians, its poets,
aud its critics, its correspondents, and its law
yers, and think for a moment on the misdirec
ZION of this disciplined array of talent and of
genius against the Constitution of the United
States, and many of those settled and essen
tial institutions by which the community is
protected, and public peace and private rights
secured.'
Thus discourseth the Union of Saturday.
For our part, though acknowledging the origi-
nality and freshness with which the New York
Tribune is conducted, our dull brain has not
been able to appreciate the talents, and ge
MUS, and learning of the host of writer's for
the Tribune, Of whom the Union speaks in so
high terms.
With the exception Of the subject of the
existing Russian war, wherein it does exhibit
much more reliable knowledge than any other
american newspaper. flor Count Garowsky is
its writer in that department) we find little
genius displayed, except in the matter of urging
ethiopian theories, which the experience Of
society has black balled, some of them centu-
ries ago. The talents Of this famous corps
seem to US to be little more than fanaticisrp,
self-sutiiciency, and bigotry run mad; and the
independence little more than evident efforts
to cram down the throat of society, by dint of
threats, buster, and Misrepresentation, its
tsmS, at which society's stomach revolts, as
whenever it has been attempted to dose it with
them since civilized society existed, which has
n;t been unfrequentiy. As for the solid in
formation of the corps in question, that is
capitally illustrated in q paragraph from
the Tribune that met cur eye the moment
before We read what we quote above from the
Union, as follows-(speaking Of the Pres-
dents indiposition at the Virginia springs)-
viz:
His speedy recovery will be anxiously
hoped for, not the less so from the ugly fact
that in the event Of his demise at the present
time, David K. Atchison, the ruff an leader of
the Missouri invaders of Kansas, would be.
come President of the United States.''
We have had the Tribune for more than a
year past laying down the law with reference
to the Kansas question, claiming to be alone
right in its knowledge of facts bearing on it,
and abusing the Hon. David r. Atchison in
this connection without stint. The cum of its
pretensions upon this point is, pretty much,
that nobody but the Tribune, brilliant corps
knows anything worth knowing with reference
to the Kansas question. Whereas, if the little
office boy who sometimes helps to do the Stars
Tipping, should announce that Mr.. Atchison
would, by law, become the acting president in
case Of the demise of President Pierce, we
should feel very much inclined to spank him,
for numskull-very much SO inclined, in
deed. As every boy who knows anything OF
American public affairs, should at least know
that there is no law under which a private
citisen-a gentleman not now in any way con.
nected with public life, or with the Senate of
the United States-could be at this time seated
in the Presidential chair by any means short
Of revolution.
0rdered.-Purser Levi D. Slamm, u. S. N,
has been ordered for duty at the Boston yard.
Bad Speoulation.-It will be perceived,
from the news from Mexico in this morning s
Star, that our anticipation, expressed some
days ago, that the advices from Vera Cruz
would settle the question as to Santa Anna s
.urther reign in Mexico, was correct to the let
Ter. The foreign-American and European
creditors of Santa Annals government did
their best to sustain him. Parties in New
York, who have been furnishing him money
without stint of late, are doubtless to be badly
burned through his abdicaton. They have
been working manfully to induce the govern
raent of the United States indirectly to guar
aatee the payment of Santa Annals obliga-