Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-12-18
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Kit EN- sgin, they amt got no friends. !"


Kit EN- sgin, they amt got no friends"
1t sounds queer to US to hear the Know Moth
ings being roundly abused by the Republi-
cans. To credit what the latter say Of them,
now that it is found impossible to hitch them
to the car of the venerable Mr.. Giddings,
(Which is rolling in triumph over the willing
necks Of most Of the Northern representa-
tives, as that of Juggernaut does over those of
his vetaries in the East one might fancy that
they (the Republicans owe Know Nothingism
nothing whatever for their present positions in
Congress. They are abusing them all for the
God-forsaken traitors to their ante-election
professions. The truth is, but for the inhu-
ence of Know Nothingism, there would hardly
be handful of Republican representa-
tives in Congress from Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, or Illinois.
There never was a more glazing instance of
essaying to kick down the bridge over which
politicians have come safely into place, than
Is manifested in the laundering anathemas
which the score of spinal-disease practitioners
OF Or. Greeley are just now assailing the Ma
tional Know NOthings of the House. Curses
so long and deep and bitter, must rise off
stomachs filed with the gall of biting and
nauseating disappointment. So the world
-.Ss every where.
LOOK 20 the Poll Lists.-Our fellow citizens
VINO are entitled to vote at the approaching
municipal election In Washington, are earn.
estiy requested to examine the poll lists of
their respective wards, so as that they may be
assured that their names are not onIy entered
thereon, but that they are correctly spelled.
1t will be recollected that while the Know
Nothings, through their secret examination
attended so efficiently to this absolutely ne.
cessary requirement as that not one of them
or Of those voting with them, had their votes
rejected On such grounds, a large number of
their opponents lost their votes through their
own negligence in that connection. This
plain duty Of citizenship can be discharged
only between now and the end of the current
month. The poll lists are posted in many
public places in each Ward; aud if a voter
Ward, or is wrong spelled thereon, he has but
70 ask the Assessor to mako the correction.
and 1t will instantly be made. If left unat-
tended to longer than the last day of the cur.
rent month Of December, it will cost him a
lawsuit to get his rights. We trust that
every citizen, no matter whether he is as well
known to the Assessor as any other man in the
Ward, will at once examine the list for his
name. In some Of the cases of such omissions,
brought to the notice of the public heretofore.
the omitted parties were natives of Washing
ton and holders Of real estate in this city, who
mad long been voters, and wore as well known
TO every one in the city's limits as the Mavor
and members Of the Councils themselves
The Proposition.-Mr. NcMullin's propo-
sition for practically proroguing the House,
though very appropriate remedy for the
deadlock in which the body finds itself, was
received with very ill-gr indeed by its op-
ponents yesterday. The truth is, while nine.
fenths Of those who act With Mr.. Mem in the
present crisis would surely be returned if
NS Up IAeir present commissions and
again appealing to their constituents, almost
as large a proportion of their opponents in
Inc hall would fail TO be reelected under like
circumstances. The notorious decline of Know
Nothingism Tor its divisiOn) at the North. a,
demonstrated In the elections that have taken
place there since those in which the nressnt
northern representatives were returned 70
Congress, render this fact certain. bevond nor
adventure. Its very general realization nro.
ducsd the manifestation of uneasiness pndsr
the plain and sure remedy for the existing
state Of things, when il was enunciated in the
hall There is dread Of the consequences Of
entirely surrendering the councils of the op-
position to the guidance Of Messrs Giddings,
Greeley d Co., which is lily concealed by
those who, having heretofore claimed not to
Dc out and out abOltiOnists, are now following
ultra abolition leaders in all they do in the
hall.
Mr.. Dunn The pent-up spirit of the Houge
game near exploding, yesterday, in the course