Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-13
wAsHuaroH NEWS AND GOSSIP.


opening that ITO him) most annoying bore-a
Newspaper. While In New York, be saw the
funeral Of the rufiaD and rowdy, Poole, CON
eerning whose untimely end 20 much Is now
being published in the newspapers. Poole
was what il there termed "fancy mana
bully and blackguard, the companion and
protector of swindlers and thieves, and the
managing man for gang Of despefadoes
whose only ostsnsible means Of earning live
lihood, is In hiring their 6sts to carry primary
elections for either wing Of the Wing party
which will pay most money for such service,
on each passing occasion. He (Posle) was
long the terror Of New York city, having been
indicted for various crimes. While living, he
was held in unfeignedhorror by all respecta-
bic persons in the American commercial me.
tropolis. He received his death wound at the
hands Of q member of ssimilar gang of scoun.
drels, who carry on business for the Demo.
crass, like to that of Poole and his confreres.
Being notorious. some fifty thousand persons
turned ont to see him buried, perhaps ten
thousand of them following hi, remains to the
grave. He was thus converted into hero,
showing that New York city is sadly in want
of wonder just now. The worst feature in
the affair, IL the fast that with very few ex-
captions the immense crowd following this no.
! tOrious rufian to the grave, was native bors-
men who boast that of all men in the world
they, being Americans, are best qualified for
self government. Now, while 1t is very true
that the great mass Of our native born fellsw
Americans control themselves far better in all
positions as citizens, than do any others, the
world over, that, with full kno Wedge of the
character of Poole, ten thousand of them, of
New York city, should thus worship his
memory in public, shows that even the native
born population Of our large cities requires
for the we'll being of society there, the govern
rnent Of sumptuary laws which, happily, are
no where else needed in the United States
The funeral cortege of the rufian Poole was
nothing more than an ovation to motor lous vice,
brutality and crime, and it was precisely on a
par in the morality Of its tone, with the avowed
| ovatiOns to the worst principles of human ma
| ture, which disgraced Paris in her original
revolutionary days.
To rs, the sight was indeed melancholy
| one, inasmuch as it engen dered such refec.
tions as We express above The New York
world just now wants hero sadly, and such
has been the demagoguism of the lat ten
years in that quarter, as to induce rowdyism,
ruff.anism, thievipg, swindling, and their kin
dred vices to combine together, as it we're, to
astonish society there, by displaying them.
selves with drums beating and colors flying, to
| the modification of all who have the we'll
being of the community really at heart. 1t
was, In fact, glorying in what should have pro.
ducod universal shame
False 1ntelligencs 1t is said that at Pekin
when an editor inserts any false intelligence
the possibility OF It's repetition is removed by
| the rsmIpal Of has head. If this rule were
adopted in the United States, what a host of
headless editors thcro would be, for scarcely q
day passes that We do not pick up q. least a
dozen papers, containing items purportipg to
be Washington news that have no: The least
foundation in truth. The grossest misap prc-
tensions, and greatest suount of wholesale
slanders, perhaps, is found in the Washington
correspondence Of the letter writer's for the
press OF the country opposed to the present
administration. The silliest 1umors and
most improbable stories are picked up en- the
Avenue and at the hotels, and sent of to their
employers by the letter writer's as the most
reliable and important news from the Capitol;
and frequently commented on by the editors
OF The journals receiving these precious epis
ties In a most serious manner. The great evil
OF this thing Is, that when il is discovered tn at
their readers have been deceived by the false
intelligence they have printed, most of these
| editors have rot the manliness nor Justice to
correct their erYors
Inc people, however, are beginning to sec
these things in their true light, and will, ere
long, lose all confidence in the men who. To
crafty party rancor, or the maleyolence of
their own bad hearts, give to their readers
false intelligence. that they may irjare a DO
hsscal opponent, or personal enemy. Chief
among those who delight in this thing, is
Beane,t, OF the Herald. He stops at nothing
that will injure those he hates. The greater
the falsehood the better the item. The Alba.
ny Atlas shus notices Strabismus Bennett and
his Satanic Herald:
"The New York Herald seems IN devo,e
itself to the lowest forms CT political gossip
to inventions too idle for belief, too insipid
for jokes.
Every prophecy it has made has turned
out false every measure it advocated has
proved failure, and it goes on sinking from
one fora OF absurdity to another till IL is
not only mired, but accustomed to, and con.
tent with, the mire
If, as at Pekiu, the heads Of such editors
arc not removed, public opinion will be as
swift and sure in Furnishing the offenders, as
tho Chinese executioner. The one cuts OF
tho head, the other the paper by Withdraw
ing its countenanoe.
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