Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-13

practices of the kind we have described, which
are worse in their effect upon it, than all the
other fostering moral plaques of that monster
city.
Nineveh.-We continue to-day the list of
leading, active, and most efficient members Of
the secret political society existing 1854, b. O.,
vch was the political capital in those ancient
times. We have-heretofore given history of
this list:
A. S. Glenn, Wheeling Va, President of
State Council of Western Virginia.
Adam Rhulman, Harper's Ferry, Vice Pres
ident, do.
N C. Arthur, Wheeling, Va, Secretary, do
Z. Nightingale, Providence, r. l., Presi-
dent of the State Council of Rhode Island.
Ed. p. Jones, Charleston, S. c., President
of the State Council of South Carolina.
I. s. Gourdin, Charleston, S, c., Secretary
do.
I'M. Slade, Middlebury, VT, President of
the State Council of Vermont.
r. NJ. Guiltord, Burlington, VT, Secretary
E. 3. Barrett, Covington, Ky, President
of the State Council of Kentucky.
III. J. Billings, Louisville, Ky, Vice Presi
dent, do
A D. Smalley, Newport, Ky, Secretary do
L. S. Page, now State Public Auditor of
Kentucky.
R. c. Wintersmith, State Treasurer of Ken
lucky.
j. NJ Harlan, Adjutant General of Ken
lucky.
James Harlan, Adjutant General of Ken
lucky.
j. b. Thompson, U. s. Senator from Ken
lucky.
Georgo,G. Tarvin, Covington, KY, (very ac-
tive)
VIM. H. Manning, San Francisco, Deputy
for California.
The Cat Fairly out of the Bag.-Andrew
j. DonelsOn, who has of late been enGeayoring
to hide his long ears by drawing the mantel
Of Jackson over them, though he is well aware
that Jackson, for the last twenty years of his
life, regarded him as the nuisance and plague
of his existence, has lately confirmed all we
took occasion to say not long since concerning
the origin of his Donelson' 81 hostility to Pres
idert Pierce, by publishing n letter he wrote
to that functionary, urging the appointment of
his son-in-law, young Major Wilcox, of Miss,
to a first class mission, solely on the ground
that he (the President) would thus vindicate his
attachment to the principles of Jackson-that's
all-not because he wanted the Office for his
son-in-law-not at all, But the letter is as
follows:
TULIP GROVE, December 90 1852
Dear Sir: My sOn-in-law, Colonel Wilcox, of
Mississippi, informs me that his name will be
presented to you to fill mission of the first
grade to one Of the Courts at which the Span
ish language is spoken. L could not venture
the expression Of the qualification his nominal
ton will afford me, did not feel certain that
1t would meet the appreciation of the sound
portion OF the Democracy, and have salutary
influence as an evidence of the sympathy of
your administration with those men who risked
something for the country when powerful COM
binatiOns, under the garb of State rights, were
busy in sowing the seeds of disunion and civil
war. Col Wilcox in his State took the course
which you did in yours, and thus saved his par
ty from the aScendcncy of an ultraism which
would have been as fatal to it as the Hartford
Convention has been to the Federalism of the
war of 1912.
L am truly you obedient servant,
A. j. DONELsoy.
To Mr.. PIERCE,
President ELECT Of the United States
will laugh heartily over this letter. Not be-
cause he is not in all respects reputable and
deserving gentleman, but at the idea Of setting
up his selection for first class foreign mission
as the grand test of the devotion of President
Pierce to the principles of jackson. lie fought
calamity in the Mexican war, and for that he
was sent to Congress, where intellectually and
SO far as the education as 4 statesman was con-
cerned, he was in no way distinguished above
any other single member of the body that can
DC named. Men who knew the qualifications
of attanments sagacity, experience, &c, re-
quisite for the proper discharge of the functions
of 4 Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador
Extraordinary, regarded Donelsons effort to
procure such "A place for him, the richest joke
Of the season; and it was very generally un-
derstood to be convincing proof that d. himself
did not possess an ounce of brains, as it evil
IDENTITY never entered his nodde that qualifica-
tionS were necessary in the premises.
Ills letter reminds us of the fact that the
growing of Donelson around the streets Of
Washington and Nashville over his disappoint-
men: about this affair, rendered him ridiculous
in the eyes Of all men Of common sense with
whom, in those days, he was thrown in contact;
Tor lie could talk Of nothing else, and talked of
that as a child would whine after an orange
or stick of candy, Of which some one had de-
prived him.
1t should be borne in mind that President
Pierce had no more fulsomc aduIator than
Donelson up to the moment when it became ap-
parent even to him-long after the fact was ap-
parent to every one else-that the administra-
uon had never, for an instant, entertained the
quisical notion Of attempting to make Minis
ter Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraor-
binary out of Major Wilcox, of Mississippi
Death Of a Valuable Mal.-The authorities
of the Smithsonian Institution have just re-
ceived information Of the death Of DR.. j. G.