Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-11-21
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

dsy amt gwine for to be Disapinted Tho
Washington correspondent Of the New York
Express has discovered a mares nest-actu-
ally full grown mares nest! He has found
out, he tells the world, that there is secret
combination Of some fifteen or sixteen private
gentlemen Of Washington, to win the House
binding from the next Congress, He does us
the honor Of naming US las Wallace of the Star
meaning W. d. Wallach, we presume) as one
of the arch conspirators. He names the profits
of the work at from $50, 900 to $50 900 per
annum, and gravcly assures the reader that
fifteen or sixteen gentlemen Of Washington,
many Of whom, too, have no connection with
the printing or binding business whatever,
arc moving heaven and earth to manage to
divide it between them. According to his ac-
count, the unsophisticatcd reader will con-
cludc that each one of the fifteen is about to
spend, this winter, as much to get the work in
question, as all it may be worth.
Now, there never was q sillier story con-
cocted in the brain Of a nincompoop for
every body here knows well, that the contrac-
tor to do the House binding is elected by the
Printing Committee Of the House; and that
no one can-possibly be approached on the SUBJ
ject until after the Speaker shall be chosen
and has appointed the committee. To suppose
that fifteen or sixteen men of experience in
this city, even if DESTROYS of combining to Oh
tain the work in question, would electoneer,
as he says, with each member as he arrives,
knowing, as they must, that to seek the votes
of any but the three members Of the particu.
lar committee, will be time absolutely thrown
away, is sheer nonsense. As for attempting
to guess who those three members may be,
that is out of the question; because not
single gentleman who was On that COM
mittee in the last Congress, happens a men,
Der of the new House. So the whole story
is manufactured Of whole cloth. So far as
the Stars editor is concerned. having no
party to back him, if he were disposed
to be candidate for any thing at the hands
of the House or any branch Of its organiza-
such hopeless contest.
While his neishbor Of the Organ, backed by
party which that gentleman believes to be
very powerful, and being an adept at making
victorious arrangements concerning the distri.
button of the spoils, is already counting up in
advance how much he will surely have made
out of the approaching Congress by the 4th Of
March, 1857, he (he Stars EDITOR must fol-
low the example Of the poor boy at the wed
ding-must take back scat, ask for nothing,
and be exceedingly grateful if the good things
which arc to be handed around come even
within tttila.ing distance Of his nostrils. Being
an organ of TO party, he has no party in the
House, and asks for nothing more than the
continued favcr Of his business fellow citizens
and subscribers at distance. He shall, "a
heretofore, strive to deserve it, By laboring
hard to keep them supplied with the earliest
and most reliable Washington news, and with
an advertising medium that shall continue to
be, as up to this time, the best possible channel
through which any one in Washington o. its vi
cinity having any business whatever with the
public, may appeal to them. We are going it
''full-tilt" after the binding and printing o!
our neighbors in Washington, Georgetown, ard
Alexandria especially, of all degrees, and
every possible variety of color. We trust that
in getting up his next combination" the
correspondent CT the Express may be more
fortunate in the facts on which he essays his
shrewd surmises.
Eumiliating.-While Lord Palmerston AID
the Tunes arc amusing themselves with the
belief that they have only to put On the lion s
skin and roar, to brighten the United States
out of the defence Of their national honor as
assailed by the British Government through
Mr.. Champions Illegal operations here, the
Courier des Etats Unis has been publishing
the following lamentable exposition of the truth
of her England > condition as awarlike pow
or, which we extract from the Paris CORES
pondence of II. Gailardct, 70 that journal Of
November 10:
For the rest, if even Russia is forced to SIX
for peace, "a necessity which l believe to be
as yet very distant, notwithstanding our suc-
cesSes,) my conviction is that she will not ad-
dress herself to Austria, whose duplicity she
despises, nor To England, whom she detests,
but 70 France, whom she esteems even while
fighting her. This esteem, which survives
defeat, is proved by all the correspondence of
ot. petersburg, ana by letter from Prince
GOrtschakoff himself, who wrote lately to one
Of his friends There is a pleasure in fight
ing with the French soldiers; they are real
lions
While the Russian and French soldiers pre-
serve their mutual sympathies, even when
lighting each other, the English and French,
who are brCthers-in- arms, do not always sue
coed In efaeing their ancient antipathies, if
Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige
is to be believed, who states that frequent re-
ordinations have burst forth between the
Allies since the capture of SebastopOl. The
French soldiers, ela:ed by their victory, it
would seem, attach but little Importance to
the cooperation Of the English since the open
ing Of the war, and the Emperor Napoleon
has requested Marshal Pelissier to repress, as
far as possible, the indiscreet manifestation Of
this rivalry Of amour pyopTe, which might ia
the end affect iujuriously the entente coTdiaie
between the two armies. This moral condi-
ton, In an inverse sense, Zen sens tnUerss,) is
one Of the curious physiological results Of the