Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-15

| We are glsd to learn that cur draft on the be
nevolencc of wasbins ton. insAehalf of thos
now suffering in Portsmouth, Va. is ,bein,
duly honored. One gentleman has eiyen $40,
70 the cause of mercy and true charity, ant
the employees in the bureau Of the First Comp
troller of the Treasury, often foremost in sucl
good works, have given s62, and many indi
viduals have deposited or sent different sum
to the banking house Of Chubb Brothers to b.
50 disposed Of. VIII it not be we'll for. tn,
heads Of the different public offices in Wash
ington TO start subscription papers similar I,
that 50 promptly and handsomely filed up il
the comptroller's Office ~ q : :
Washington Next Winter. From all ",
can learn, Washington city is destined mex
winter to be the resort Of much larger mum
Der of persons (of both sexes) of wealth, taste
fashion, and distinction, from all quarters O
the Union and abroad, than ever before. Thi
is as itshould be. Here, are congregated during
the session the most distinguished and activ,
public men from every Congressional distric:
in the United States, including the leadin,
lawyers eff the country, with not few persons
famous for their superiority as men Of science
literature, and business utility-many of whom
come hither on business before Congress or the
Executive Departments. Of late years, SO
great during the sessions has been the atten-
dance Of strangers Of means, as to induce the
hosts Of all the leading hotels Of the city to
entertain their guests very much as they are
entertained at the most celebrated watering
places, with the addition of comforts and
luxuries of all sorts difficult to be had in
an establishment where a great pressure of
business is expected only for from six weeks
to three months, at most, of the year. Sol
rees and grand balls, charming music almost
nightly, and all the luxuries of high life
in Europe, are provided by them, free for the
entertainment Of all respectable guests of all
such houses; the charges being quite as mod
crate as those of any first class houses in any
American large city. The debates Of Congress,
the arguments before the Supreme Court
nearly always by legal gentlemen Of national
ton, the library of Congress, the various works
of art the property of the Government collect
ed at this point, and the society of the men of
celebrity, attainments, and influence, foreign
and domestic, always here at such season,
who are as approachablo as any other class of
persons In society anywhere in this country,
together, form attractions for a sojourn in
Washington, incomparably much superior to
those existing anywhere else on this side Of
the Atlantic.
All this accounts for the growing habit on the
part Of those 50 TO do, who can afford the time for
visiting the seat Of Government while Congress
is sitting, and cannot fail very shortly to make
a trip to the Federal city during the season as
necessary to the comfort of those who go from
home in the course of the year, as trip to the
sea side or to an interior watering place
in the summer. The great Improvements
in the great lines of travel in all dircc-
tons so rapidly taking place, including the
reduction of railroad and steamboat fares
growing out Of increasing competition, are
elements likely to increase the number of
such visitors next winter, for whose accommo
dation the empresarios Of cur leading hotels
and boarding houses, and our merchants
and tradesmen brought into immediate con-
tact by their business with such visitors, are
making unusual preparations.
Telegraphie Election Returns New
York Tribune says, with great force
"We trust that our readers do not hold US
in any degree responsible for the accuracy OF
the telegraphic trash we are obliged to print
from day to day in place Of election returns.
There Is now and then, a grain of wheat hid
den in stacks of this chat, and we have no
choice but to let it slide, and caution our read
ers (by this time almost needlessly) against
putting any trust in it. If it should happen
to be in part true, they will learn that circum-
stance IN due course OF mail"
We endorse all this, and call the attention
of cur readers to its so palpable truth. We,
and other journalists DESTROYS of spreading be.
fore the world the earliest news, pay all thai
was ever asked of us for news by telegraph
and instead Of the truth in the matter Of cleo
tions in 100 many instances we get but false
hoods, concocted wholly for the benefit o
Know Nothingism.
Nov, this abuse of and injury to the presse
paying the contractors who furnish news by tel
egraph to the associated press has got beyond
', forbsarance on our part, and we look to then
to 5isplsce their unfaithful agents, employing
others in their stead who will comprehend tn
fact that they are hired to hunt up and trans
nit facts of interest-not to manufacture para
graphs for the benefit of any political party
| Unless this be done, and that with little delay
| those contractors will find regularly organize
opposition in their business, backed by tn
means of another association Of the press sufi
GENTLY able to carry out the project.
"A Little Learning is a Dangerou
rh,n.r philosophy, in its immense hbrar
os -. from the experience
A.. -. :, -arving for cent?
anu oD'-. sally ad
ries, contains nothing more univel.
mitted to be true by those whose opin
ions is worth pinch Of snuff, than the axiom
ut the head Of this article; and were we L