Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-15
Wing at home, who stepped aboard the craft

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We spprehend that there is no " higher law
too huge in the dimensions of its monstrosi
ties to glide down his throat whenever b,
happens to be startled with the apparitioI
Of ca niger in the fence" He is saii
| to be q gentleman of fine oratorical powers
and excellent sense in the main. Mr.. Spin
| ner represents the St. Lawrence, (Prestor
Kings district of New York; was, year
ago, Democrat, has had very little con
nection with public affairs, and has nc
thought Of aught else political, at present, ex.
cept to keep slavery by hook or by crook Out
Of Kansas. The public may rely on it that he
will not flag at, or finch from, any thing the
nominal "cause of freedom" may require at
his hands. OF course, he is counted by the Re-
publican leaders as one of them However,
except on the slavery question, they will g nd
it hard work to bring him up to the point Of
voting with them. Mr.. Oliver, of Missouri
was Wing in the last Congress, but may now
be written down as supporter of the policy
of the Democratic party. Mr.. Hickman is a
Democrat from Pennsylvania, who could not
90 Mr. Aiken; nominalIy, because he feared,
funnily enough, that Mr. A had sold him.
self to the Dutch'--the Know Nothings
Though we look on that reason, as, to say the
best of it, an exceedingly fanciful one, and
have a notion that he was " sort o. fraid' to
vote for the owner of from one thousand to if
teen hundred slaves. Yet we believe that
Abolitionism will make nothing whatever by
his nomination on the Election Committee,
which was doubtless intended to strengthen the
prospect that the committee will in disregard
of all right, law, and justice, unblushingly
award the Kansas seat to ex.Gov Reeder
Mr.. Colfax, of Indiana, late Wing, is now
one of Mr.. Horace Greeley's fingers in the
House, and may be expected to 60 all lengths
for Rspublicanism," or Abolitionism. He
will require but to know the programme of his
party, our readers may rely on it. Mr.. Smith,
of Alabama, late q Democrat, is now the most
ardent among the South Americans. His
Know Nothingism is dying very hard-if dying
out, it is. In the Kansas contest he will be
compelled by his sense Of right and wrong to
long after almost all his southern COM
patriots have given up Know Nothingism be-
cause in practice it has amounted in the North
only to a good enough Morgan" to send
Abolitionists to Congress, we ex pect to find
him defending the tenets of that pa rty; as he
his hallucination with reference to those
notions. Mr. Bingham of Ohio, was, if we are
not mistaken, formerly a Wing. He is now,
however, thorc ugh Giddings-its in politics.
He is said to be sharp in debate. No other
member of the House will contend more
strenuously for whatever Mr. Giddings or Mr.
Stanton may lay down as {" the law and the
prophets" than the Hon Mr. Bingham Of
Ohio.
Worsted Two important votes were given
yesterday in the House, after due debate
That is, on the question of the reference of the
Presidents Kansas message, and on Mr.. Grow 5
effort to procure the reference of the laws of the
territories of Utah, New Mexico and Minneso-
ia, to his Territorial committee. Mr.. Gddings,
Mr.. Grow, and others Of that ilk, insisted on
their reference to the Committee on Terrific
ries, which had been constituted with especial
reference to the work of managing them, las
one of the sessions ends and aims of 4" Repub-
licanism, y while Messrs. Cobb, of Ga, Rich
ardson, and others urged their commitment to
the Committee of the Whole and the Judi
ciary Committee. On the division, the pseudo
friends of freedom were beaten. A bad
beginning this, gentlemen; which will serve,
in part, to open the eyes of the country to the
fact that you exhausted your power for great
mischief to the future of the Constitution and
country, in the struggle for the Speakership.
Where is DR.. Greeley with his backbone lini-
ment land why did mt father Joshua ply the
whip, and Mr.. Stanton the spurs, with more
vigor?
The Know Nothing National Convention,
to assemble at Philadelphia on the 22d of Feb
ruary, is to prove an abortion. That's evi.
dent here, already. No politician in W ashing
ton anticipates that it will make nominations
The truth is, the day-far too early for sensi.
BILE men to dream of nominating-was Sc
lected in fit of excessive Know Nothing pa
triotism. The convention will make much
more havoc with brandy smashes and gir
cocktails than with the hopes of the rival as
pirants for their nomination.; as to nominal,
any one of them now, can hardly fail to seve
the connection of the followers Of nearly al
the rest of them with the party"
Business.-In the course of the three pas
days, six hundred and thirty mine letters wer,
received at the General Land Office, not in
GLIDING the usual, generally, heavy return
| from the different Land Offices.
The Current Operations Of the Trsasur,
Department.-On yesterday, 14th February
there were of Treasury Warrants entered o.
the books Of the Department ....#
For the Treasury Department. S4,795 o.
| For the Interior Department. 1898 O
| For customs. ................. 6,687 A.
War Warrants received and en-
| tered. ................... 1872 8