Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-11-30
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

something Of Disappointed 1t will
be recollected that few weeks since two or
three Know Nothing members of tho House
published call for caucus of their party of
that body, to assemble yesterday in the House
Hall. They were of the wing Of the opposi-
ton represented by the journalof our talented
amiable, knowing and ingenious neighbor in
this city and the Now York Ezpress in New
York, and are vulgarly known as " Hindoos -
Well, their party" our party 10 our in
genuous, knowing, smiable and talented
neighbor is in the habit of styling it in about
his every other paragraph-duly met, accord
ing to the call, to the number of ten members
all told, and little batch of Know Nothing
managers Of this city, by way of swelling
their number, we presume Their heads
were duly laid together, with what result
further than tho disclosure of the fact that
their prospect of organizing the House, after
their own desire, had become " small by de-
grees, and beautifully less" since the original
publication Of the call for the caucus, which
bears evidence of the expectation OF its au.
thors that they would have been joined not
only by the Southern Know Nothings, Bat by
those Of the North, in the House, who used
Know Nothingism in the election for q stick
with which to break Democratic heads CT
course, the latter had no idea of going into
caucus with them, for they are (vulgarly
speaking) ChOctaws rather than Hindoos.
The Southern Know Nothinss refrained from
fraternizing with them, as they have not the
slightest idea Of swapping off the twelfth sec
tion, for the printing for " the Orean.'
1t is said on the Avenue that though no vote
was taken, they came to an understanding
that it was useless to press the claims of Mr.
Haven, their original candidate for the Speak
ership, as the ChOctaws, it is evident, will pre-
fer to vote for an out and-out southern Demo
crat if necessary to beat him. They are
also said to have come to the conclusion to
make their real fight for the printing on the
SO oft defeated Mr. Sergeant, whilom a car
didate for the Clerkship. We presume this is
the result Of our talented, amiable, knowing
and ingenious neighbor's JanE pcs in offerirg
up the l2sh section, which has so disgruntled his
late political friends from the South, without
attracting for him a single Choctaw supporter.
Dir. Sergeant is the man of all others for
them to fail back upon, as he was never known,
as far as VIC have heard, to have any leaning
Except towards office 80 decided as that he
could not be any thing-l2th section man OF
nOt-as occasion might require.
In the matter of the Speakership we may
add they are said to have concluded to fall
back on Mr.. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky,
in the hope that the Democrats " i'll eventually
be induce to sustain him; which, to say the
least of it, is very questionable. Mr.. Mar
shall is a very clever gentleman indeed, and
personally everything one could wish him to
be. But in politics he was probably about the
most "Tsntaxkarous' Know Nothing who was
On the stump last fall, from Maine TO Oregon,
anc is, OF course, quite as ardently bent or
tho defeat Of whoever the Democrats NAV
nominate for President, rs any man possibly
can be. lie must have lost the former cum
ming of his hand if, in the Speakership, he
failed TO administer the office to the end OF
forcing the Democracy to come out of the game
Of the session, losers of all they can possibly
be stripped Of by The most adroit management
OF matters So as 10 make the tell against the
unterTifed at every turn of the legislative
cards.