Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-31
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Washington News byyi Teieeursph.-w

have 50 often had occasion to call attention Of
late to the wilful pcrvcrsions Of the truth in
the special correspondence, by telegraph from
Washington, ofvarious Northern journals, that
we have had little time or space in which to
notice nero errors made in such communica-
tions-many of the writer's for the distant
press from this point being gentlemen who
would not Intentionally make misstatement
Nevertheless, their errors 60 to prove the
truth of our position, often urged, that the
most unreliable thing conceivable, is Wash
ington news first seeing the light in the New
York papers. Examples of this fact are found
in very recent special telcgraphic communica-
tions to the New York Tribmns, whose special
telegraphic correspondent evidently aims to
stick manfully to the truth.
Thus, in one of dispatches he seats the Sec
retaries Of War and the Navy as guests at the
table of Prince John Van Buren, lat the Ma
tional in this city, at the recent dinner which
was not attended by the President, as alleged,
and for some time harped on by the Now York
Herald. Neither of the three gentlemen to
"HNhh We oii0oO WIZ pICsCut, uuu ue cor
rccted his mistake, as promptly as properly.
In the other of his dispatches to which We
allude, the Secretary of State is credited with
opposing the appointment of Montgomery
Blair, Esq now the Government Solicitor to
the Claims Court, to the Supreme bench. That
mistake is in all probability the blunder of a
telcgraphic operator, or of the translator Of
the despatch in the Tribune office. However,
it serves to illustrate tho utter unreliability Of
the special telegraphic news Of the New York
paPers-which is the point at which We aim.
Bogus and Suspicious Currency We are
glad to perceive that the business men Of Wis
consin and Illinois have been able to combine
successfully to drive Gu. of CIRCULATION in their
region the Georgia bank notes, with which
portions Of those States have, Of late, been
Hooded. They were the currency Of banks
established after the fashion Of the g Nation
al, = Anacostia, . . Union, y and other bogus
concerns essayed not long since to be estab-
iished or located here Their owners are Wall
street men, wlo aim to circulate their prom
ises to pay only at far distant points, where
few can know their true character After the
same fashion, certain sections of the country
were flooded with the notes of the late bogus
Washington city banks to which we allude
ebovt; thousands, tens of thousands, and hun
dredS of Thousands Of dollars, in their notes.
remaining unpaid I, this day, in the hands
OF ignorant and confding persons as they
were repudiated by tie parties issuing them
tho moment 1t became most profitable so
to treat them. Fortunately for this conlmu.
nifty, few among US were SO green as to burn
their fingers with them; though here and
there such notes continue to be held-uppaid-
by Westinghouse
BY the bye, is the M. john Thompson who
lately figured as the lender of the $500, 600
for few days to the managers Of the bogus
Tontine Insurance Company of New York,
through which act they were enabled to swim
die many honest people, the person who was
the proprietor Of the bogus national bank OF
| this city, for whose notes remaining out there
happened to be nobody legally responsible
who Is worth a chew Of tobacco! A pretty
man this, to be regarded as authority for the
whole country, with reference t. the value of
the notes Of solvent banks in every State The
fact that counterfeit detectors' are in the
hands Of such parties forms key to the for.
mcr enigma of the quotations Of the notes oil
some Of the bogus banks formerly located
| here, at higher rates than those of the we'll.
established solvent and honestly conducted
| banking establishments Of the District of Co.
lumbia, which was a uniform practice while
the former pretended to have existence in thi:
quarter.