Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-10
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

american public affairs, ever uttered, those o
the annaturalized foreigners, English and Ger
man, who spoke ut the meeting of the unem
ployed at the Tabernacle in New York, OF
Monday night last, are most conspicuously in
famous. They demanded division of lands
threatening to apply the bayonet to obtair
the supremacy Of social Republicsnism ate,
the French fashion, and English and German
Radicalism and Atheism, DO These are
their panaceas for the hard times now aflict.
ing 50 many thousands in New York. The
following is specimen Of their harangues:
"Mr. Roedel here proceeded to address the
German portion Of the audience substantiall1
Is follows :-Brethren-For the first time
speak in an assembly like this. We have moi
an the same langua 20, but our feelings are
tne same; they unite US here with the Ameri.
can people For the advancement of these
sentiments, We must not only unite with them
IN speeches., but also in acts. In our country
we have fought for liberty, and MANY of ns
have lost in battle our fathers, brothers. or
sons. Here We are free, but not free enough:
We want the liberty of living. (Applause, J
We have fought in Germany for liberty of
speech and the liberty of the press. The DER
man press is against Us in this movement, but
we noed not care for what those papers saw:
We must act on our own hook Here we have
social liberty, liberty of speech, and liberty of
me press; and when we want anything that is
Just, we are bound to obtain it applause
Ii you don't know your rights yet, hunger will
teach them to you. You don't get bread nor
wood, and there is plenty of them At our
revolution in June we obtained three months
credit, and when we had no bread we soon oh.
tanned it, because We were 200 900 bsyonets
strong. have nothing further to say than to
advise you to put in practice the PRINCIPLES of
the social republic The Tribune said, today.
that the rich would give US million if they
were forced to it; but now they will hold their
money in their pockets and refuse to give it up.
When the wolf is hungry he has no considcra-
ton, and takes his food fearlessly where he
finds it; it must be the same with the masses,
Help yourselves, and then God will help Won
We must act as the wolf and we do not want
any auxiliaries! Let Us act act by ourselves
(Applause)
Now, We have to say, that it seems to be
high time to have gen a'arns at every street
corner in New York, and some other northern
cities, to manage such gentry, as Louis Napo
leon treats them,-powder and lead being the
only arguments, evidently, with which men
entertaining and urging such sentiments are
capable of being made to understand that
popular rights uuder our laws and institutions
do not extend to the privilege of numbering
and robbing by wholesale to procure the es-
Enlistment of the "Republic democratic
social and fraternal," in our midst If for
eigners in tho United States choose to give
encouragement to such sentiments, the result
will be change of our naturalization laws,
By which, hereafter, they will be vigorously
excluded from our land
The Old Soldiers seem, by no means, willing
to quit Washington in haste The truth is,
they very naturally want more bounty lands,
and pensions, and large numbers of them re
main with us urging their respective Repre-
sentatives and Senators to provide for them af-
ter that fashion. Altogether, they form the
most imposing lobby we have ever seen in
Washington. They crowd the doors of the halls
of Congress Offering up their petitions, in most
cases apparently with great success, as they
are listened to with a patience and Difference,
very properly, such as would be accorded by
their honors to no others so employed Boring
had come to be, for the most part, out of fash.
ion here, thanks, may we not fairly write, in
great measure to the Star. We have no dis
position to thssr renewal oft, each man being
personally interested in the case he has in
hand From present appearances, they seem
very likely, indeed, to carry their point.
Challenging General Houston Sam
is wag in his way, and enjoys heartily the
prospective joke of being challenged in his
old age for words spoken in the discharge of
bis dutics as legislator, it is said We hear
that he declares that should any suoh billet.
doux reach him, he shall turn them and the
matters of which they treat over to his faith
full mulatto attendant, Charles Marbury,
SO we'll known to all "men around town. in
Washington as having been game" man in
his day. Its whispered that Charles has been
practising for some time past at ten PAGES, in
anticipation of being called on to take half
dozen little affairs of honor off the Generals
hands
Work Dono in the General Land Office
The work completed in the General Land
Office for four weeks, ending December 30,
1854 is as follows:
Letters received, briefsd and registered. 2, 1888
Letters written. 1871
Letters written, occupying folio pages of
Iecoru.'.' ............. ,22l
Cash patents written. ................,6 1856
Cash patents recorded. .4,754
Ali lltary patents written. 5,942
Military patents recorded. ......... ,13S
Warrants examined. .435
Warrants briefed. Observation-Disclosures. .4O2S
Acres OF military scrip issued. .5,176
Ihe Presidential Reception Of Friday Hight
Hext.-We are. authorized to say that the Elk
ecutive Mansion will be thrown open between
the hours Of eight and ten o'clock, on Friday
evening next, the occasion being the first Pros
idential reception of the season We presume
h ut Tn p re- will ha n varv Ioroa otfand onoo M