Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-12
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


ents on whom we rely, indicate that Plummer
DEM will have from 10000 to $4,000 rlu-
rality over Nicholson Ok. N. Fusion) for Canal
COMMISSIONER Pennsylvania. The new Leg.
islature is Overwhelmingly Democratic, which
secures the Democrats the United States sena-
tor to be chosen at Harrisburg next winter
Our friends at Columbus telegraphcd US last
evening, at q late hour, as follows: Z" Election
close; Chase probably elected +"
: From the returns We have seen, our impress
sion is that Chase has from 1000 to IL, 900 plu.
rality over Medill.
At the Ohio election, last year, the anti
Democratic majority was just 77.423 votes.
The eksnge, therefore, is almost astounding,
the loss of the opposition being more than
$1,000. Those who voted for Trimbls will not
vote in the Presidential election for any one
with abolition prociivities.
Trimble's vote will be between 10000 ami
and 80. 600.
Monsieur Trop Tard.-The letter In the New
York Herald Of the 9Th instant, all about the
Dominican question, is simply rehash Of
what has long since been published officially,
and more especially in the elaborate speech of
Senator Mason, on the subject of our Domini-
can relations. The writer, Of course, dresses up
those facts with liberal garnishing of cocks
and bulls. As told in the official documents,
tho interference, which was indeed very dis
tasteful to US, was only in the way Of influ
encin2, if possible, the shape CT treaty then
being formed. It will be recollected that Gen
Cass interfered, and thus prevented France
from making n slave.trade treaty, which
threatened to prove injurious to American
rights and interests; and also that his inter-
ference in that case was specially commended
and endorsed by this Government. Now, that
fact strikes US as all estoppel to action en-
the part Of this Government, making the sim.
liar Interference of France and England to
prevent Dominica from concluding treaty
with US, which, they allege, threatened griev-
GUS harm to these interests .r
BY the by, We recOllect that when the mat
ter was q subject Of conversation in foreign
diplomatic circles in this city, those who arc
generally believed to know the views Of the
French and English legations here, affirmed
that the real cause of their interference YVES
an indirect declaration by q party-then
in Dominica-involved in the negotiations
on the American side, that this government
was DESTROYS Of obtaining the port of sa.
mana, for the particular purpose of mak-
ing il point from which American fillibusters
might precipitate themselves on Cuba. As q
matter Of course, it was untrue that this gov
eminent ever entertained any such idea, and
We trust and believe that it is equally untrue
that any one identified with the government,
directly or indirectly, uttered anything in JUS
tifying or approving fllibustering, that might
fairly be construed into such an intimation.
Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer We
heartily welcome this publication We have
had scores after scores already of pronouncirg
dictionaries Of the common words of our Ian
guage, which pronunciation almost every BODY
can got at tolerably we'll without dictionary,
while we have been left to grope about in the
dark without any guide in regard to the pro.
of the names of places, whore mis-
takes are more frequent and less easy to cor
rect By means Of personal intercourse. There
is pronouncing dictionary of proper names
to that great humbug of humbugs,
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, which, al
though certified as perfect by a long list Ct
Presidents Of the United States, Cabinet Min
isters, and member Of Congress, who could
never have examined it, contains more gross
blunders in photography, etymology, and pro
than any and all other dictionaries
printed in the United States put together.
Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer is vast
improvement, both in theory and in execution.
But in looking into this pronouncing diction.
airy we fud some blunders go mon strous as to
be altogether discreditable to the editors. For
instance, we have this word L" BOMBAY Port
Bonn, or Boa Bahia, 2 /. Q. Good Harbour
Now, Bonn Bahia is not Portuguese, or any.
thing else. 1t is mere nonsense and grammat.
ical impossibility. Boo Bahia is Portuguese;
but Boa Bahia does not represent in sound
Bombay. The truth is, that the derivation Of
the name BOMBAY" has nothing whatever to
do with the Portuguese for " Good Harbour"
but is derived from native name which the
Portuguese found there; being that of the god
dess MoMEA DEVI. BOMBAY and MoMBA are
the same word, the labial NJ having sided, in
Portuguese pronunciation, into the labial B.
The Very Last Wrinkls.-The London
Morning Post advocates the employment Of
North American Indians by its Government
as troops in Crimea! Its article upon the sub
jet is an exceedingly funny one, demonstrat-
ing one Of two facts, viz, either that England
is eTen more desperately put to it to obtain
her complement of troops to fight the Rus
slams, or that the editor of the London Morn.
ing Post is as green as grass-is lamentably
ignorant not only of the true character, habits,
and mode of warfare Of the North American
Indians, but of the description Of soldiers