Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-19

there. and will spread its influences over the
continent.
Shall we open our hearts and hands to for
ward this great work? The treasury of the
society needs to be replenished Multitudes
are applying for q passage to the land of their
fathers. Shall they be denied? Every emf
grant, who desires it, is presented on his ar.
rival, with farm, and is sustained for six
months, until he can bring into requisition his
Own resources. J. n. d.
Fupny.-The Organ gravely assures its
readers that the failure Of the contestants for
the seats fraudulently filled in the Council
Board of Washington at the last election, to
prosecute their claims on the day before
yesterday before the election committee of
the Board, is proof positive of the falsity of
the allegation of frauds committed on the 4th
of June last 1t will be reeollected that a
majority of this committee have taken pre-
cisdy such oaths in their midnight working
lodges, rs were taken by majority Of the
election committee of the other Board, which
resulted in the consummatiOn of the frauds of
the election day and the setting at defiance of
the admitted decision of our highest court of
law in the cases of Messrs. Gideon and Fitz-
patrick. The Organ forgets to mention that
the action of the Board Of Aldermen and their
committee on Monday night, made it appa-
rent 10 all blessed with an ounce Of brains
that 10 amount of law, justice, and right that
the contestants might have on their side,
would possibly procure for them that justice
at the hands of the lower board and its COM
mittee, which the secret oaths taken in the
Know Nothing lodges forbade Under such cir
eumstances, and as what was done in the
upper board in the same connection has de-
monstrated past denial. that no legal or moral
Obligation is permitted to stand in the way Of
The commands of the lodges, all sensible
persons must see at glance that the further
prosecution of the contests would be about the
most useless application Of time and talents
imaginabie-as useless as administering the
pledge Of honesty to every inmate of the Dis.
trict Penitentiary with the expectation that
they will observe it,
The State Of Affairs in the Crimea.-The
anxiety with reference to the condition of az
fairs in the Crimea manifested by public men
here, is as intense at this moment, if not moro
intense than ever before. This is evident in
thousand ways, but in none more than in
the hocks in which they come to the Star
Office in person, or send to us when each sue
cceding steamers news is expected, for ear
liest copies of this journal. Among military
men in Washington, it is very generally be-
lieved that the Allies now have but three
desperate alternatives left them. First, to
repeat the assault Of June 18th, with even
more murderously disastrous consequences to
themselves, as the impregnable Redan and
Malakoff batteries must be taken before there
can be the slightest hope that they can carry
Sebastopol by assault. Next, to retreat to
their shipping, which cannot be done without
immense loss, unless the Russians choose to
permit them to depart in peace Third. to
essay to penetrate into the interior. where thew
will lind on all really important points, lines
Of Publications as complete, quite as complete
for defence, as those in and around Sebasto.
pol. That is, if they make that attempt they
must reduce new Sebastopol every fifty miles
on their march into the interior of the country.
leaving their rear uncovered, too, and making
the attempt with the knowledge that their re-
turn to the coast cannot be effected except
through seas Of blood, as it we're One has
but to look closely at good military map of
the seat Of war To comprehend the truth of
these remarks-that is, if he has carefully
studied the history of the campaign up to this
time. The Glowing from the Crimean cor
respondence of the London Times tells the
story:
"LOrd CLAN amiab bic disposition is acute
ly touched by the loss of 80 many gallant Inen
For myself, L admit that, knowing nothing of
war, and merely chronicling, as far as possible,
the results Of its operations, | do not see any
possibility of our being able to abandon our
present position on the south side of SebastO-
POL, or to make general attack on the Rus.
san armies which are encamped before US
Livery ravine has been made another Sebasto-
pol by their engineers. Our land TRANSPORT
corps is so hardly pressed by the service of the
siege artillery, that, as l am informed the "a
'i'Ii Va iuSl Octll, Uu several occasions
Gently, not forthcoming for the troops to the
full amount
. 1t is to be presumed that the Allied gem
erals are acquainted with some facts respect
lag the strength and position of the Russian
army which induce them to think it would be
unadvsable to break up our camp and try to
force the passes of the Belbek. They NAV
dl'trust their own strength or the efficiency of
their means Of transport, or they may be- de-
tered by the force and the attitude of the
enemy; they may be influenced by considera-
tons and may act on information of which we
are ignorant; but the belief of many officers
OF inferior rank and of great intelligence is
that the proper way to attack SebastOpol is t.
put finger and thumb On its windpipe, no mat
ter how far the place may be removed from
the great organ itself, and let it starve We
are not strong enough, it is said, to invest the
place immediately outside, for we are only
10000 men, and it would require an army Of
2JO,o0o or 26o,000 men to occupy the lines,
"A HIGH uoull able them 70, r.-;,t al