Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-11-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


transacted in this city tomorrow, the day
having been set apart by our municipal au-
therities for Thanksgiving, no paper will be
issued from our Office on that afternoon. The
suspension Of work during that day falls hard
On all those in public and priva employment.
who, with their families, live on what is earned
by working by the day. Thus, it will extract
perhaps ten thousand dollars at least from the
available means of the neediest class in this
community-an effect Of keeping" the occa-
sion as it is usually kept-which, we presume,
was not taken into consideration by the repre-
sentatives lin the Councils) of our fellow -cisi
zens thus injured. The intent of setting apart
the day as q holiday was, Of course, all right;
but we question seriously whether the aggre-
gate of harm done by it, will not be much
greater that the good to result from it.
Besides the loss Of at least ten thousand dol
lars to those among US who are most needy,
where one will devote the occasion to its reli-
gious end, ten-quite ten-will avail them
selves of the opportunity to spend the day in
hilarity; which, besides costing money, will
tend to unfit those so employing themselves
for hereafter profting as they should, by the
lessons they might learn through regular
attendance at the churches of the city
Our ideas on this subject are unpopular,
we know; yet We give them to the Stars
readers because We sincerely entertain them,
and in the hope that they may induce our
next municipal councils to reflect whether it
will not be better, as the time approaches,
to recommend that business be transacted
throughout the city as usual on that day, and
that all eat the best dinner to be obtained,
and duly attend ch urch in the evening.
Fee, Fo, Fun Our Know Nothing friends
are already smelling ''the blood'' not only of
the "Englishmen" employed under the House
Of Representatives, but Of every other moth
er's son who is attached to that branch of the
public service. However well their anxiety to
get possession ofthe patronage of the House may
accord with tho oaths of their order, it looks
odd enough, in view of the indignation they
have been expressing on account of the dis
position Of the Administration to make politi-
ice-holding brethren. AS politics are man
aged now, no one can complain if they take
possession of the whole of the House patron
ago. That is, provided they can get it. 1t is,
however, still questionable whether they can
achieve any considerable portion of it, Ger
tainly not without agreeing to help into other
offices under the House a fair proportion Of
Mr.. Stewards Abolition or Republican friends.
There has been sort of caucus Of (outside)
simon-pure Know Nothing leaders from a dis
lance in session here daily for some days past
Their aggregation at this point was probably
accidental; the smell ef the blood becomes
stronger, hourly, as the first Monday Of next
month draws higher, and thus it very naturally
attracts hither those disposed to take hand
in the task Of arranging how the spells shall
greatly mistaken, there is strong disposition
among them to make the division on the rule
upon which the negro divided out the result
Of bis days fishing in partnership with the
Indian. Here's a shad for me and her
ring for you; and a herring for you and a
shad for me-" They will continue to sit daily,
and their number to increase until the Con-
gressional ball fairly opens; when those whose
action it is hoped to influence thus, will prob
ably take the liberty Of managing their own
matters on their own judgment, as truly un-
grateful as such conduct on their part will be,
after all the disinterested labors in advance Of
their friends, 80 full OF solicitude only for a
harmonious arrangement Of the so interesting
questions of the spoils, in which Mr.. Seward s
Republican friends may reasonably be ad-
mitted to have come little interest.
The Present State Of the AfYair.-Ws ap.
prehend that the Union Of this morning will be
found to be correct in its intimation that Bri
tain, if now disposed to interfere against the
actual condition of things in Nicaragua, as
now existing, gill quickly perceive that she
has no case Of existing taets on which to base
even plausible objection. Kinney is, rs the
Unson says, quietly cultivating farm. That
IL, about an acre Of Indian corn, and half an
acre Of beans, FROM the produce Of which he
and his half dozen ioahng followers hope to
being in Nicaragua; and Walker is, so far as
international law is concerned, so employed
under the government de facto Of Nicara-
qua, as to preclyae all right of England to OBJ
ject to the manner in which be got there
Though we do not mean to intimate that he
got there properly, yet beirg there and in the
employment of the de Jacto government, Eng
lands objection, il any she essays, will come
too late. There is difference between ques-
tiens Of fact, and those Of right. The former
are now 10 be dealt with while the latter
would have been the questions in issue had
England seen proper 10 move 10 the matter
when Walker was recently, apparently flli-
clustering on his own hook, in Nicaragua Sho
(Englsnd) will have no more legal right to OBJ
jsct to employment Of tho adventurer, Walker,
by the Nicaraguan Government, than 70 that of