Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-04-18
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

here look to the nomination at Philadelphia,
on an Abolition platform, of Col. j. G. Ere
mont for President and Hon. Mr.. Banks for
Vice President They are growing candi-
dates, more especially as no well-informei
politician of the Republican party in Congress
entertains the idea that his friends can elect
any one. The question with them is, simply,
who can they best afford to sacrifice in the
approaching contest; and their minds are all
turning rapidly to the gentlemen we name
above. Mr.. Seward is undoubtedly playing
for 1860, in the belief that the Republican
party will grow as the opposition party to the
next Democratic administration. His friends,
and, indeed, all the Democrats also, are of
opinion that the so-called American party
will not survive the coming Presidential cleo
ton, in which no one in Washington but them
solver dream that they can obtain a single
electoral vote. We have watched the prog
ress Of Republican party opinion upon the
question of their nomination with no little in
terest, and have satisfied ourself that they
now look to Fremont and Banks as their men
with great unanimity.
The Tribune's Opinion Of the Foreign Born.
Mr.. G. s. Pike, one of the editors of the New
York Tribune, now or very recently on visit
to Washington, writes to- that journal that /" a
survey of the attire, manner and expression
of the lighter shades of the colored people
who thrOng Pennsylvania avenue Of a Sun
day afternoon demonstrates them to be a race
scarcely inferior to the average of the white
race on this continent, and superior to the
average of the immigrants from the Old
World
The foreign born citizens Of the United
States will realize from this short extract
what the Tribune thinks of them when it
proposes to use those who would hunt them
out of the country, or strip them of their privi-
leges of American citizenship. The dodge of
its party just now is to combine in the next
Presidential contest the issues of anti foreign
er, anti-Catholic, and anti-slavery. Hence,
We presume, the change in the phase Of its
opinions with reference to the foreigners in
the United States
Settled We hear that the accounts of
the Hon. Thomas j. Henly, superintendent
of Indian affairs for the Department of Cali
fornia, have boon settled by that gentleman,
who has been, for a week or two, in Wash
ington They embrace the expenditure of
over $500, 900 for multitude of objects The
Governments showing is said to have been
within twenty FIVE dollars Of his, an instance
of commendable accuracy on his part, rare,
indeed, in the management of extensive and
varied pecuniary trusts in a new section of
country.
Mr.. H. has also, on this visit, finally closed
his account with the Post Office Department,
as late postmaster at San Francisco. 1t is
said that the balance found due to him was
about S11 900, which he had left in the hands
of the Government until coming to w ashing-
ing to make his settlement in person.
prompt and faithful public officer is Mr.. Hen
ly, Of California.
The Attempted Fraud in the senate.-An
examination of the paper last offered to the
Senate of The United States by Col James H.
Love as the veritable petition of the mock
legislature Of the bogus State Of Kansas, will
show that is very different paper from the
one originally sent in purporting to be that
same document. A considerable portion of
the first one was stricken out all that portion
wherein it was claimed that the action of the
abolition party IN assuming to substitu te their
constitution for the Territorial
government, (organic law made by Congress,
was legal. This second one, by the by, is
without the signatures of the parties who, it
was originally alleged, signed it. So it is the
petition of nobody. The history of the mem
orial in question is in fair keeping with the
rest of the false pretences which the Ropub.
lican managers have essayed to palm on the
public Of the Atlantic States.
All Lost.-It is almost moral impOssibiity
that q single man of the force under Schles-
singer, the Hungarian, could have escaped
from Costa RIGA. Of his four hundred men,
ninety were killed ON the ground, nd nine
teen of the twenty made prisoners were SUBJ
sequently shot. The rest, according to all
accounts, dispersed in the woods, where, as a
matter of course, they became a prey to their
fierce pursuers. The forests of Central Amer
lea are not like those of the United States,
wherein one can make progress. The under
growth in them is much like that of an East
India jungle, in which it is utterly impossib BILE
for stranger to make headway The enly
fate left left for persons seeking refuge in
them, under the circumstances under which
the American fllibusters fed to them, is
death by starvation or capture.
John Wentworth 1.-The Democracy of the
country will be glad to learn that this noto-
rious individual has, at length, fully and
fairly ceased to pretend that he is identified
with them. No man was ever in Congress
who left behind him worse personal charac-
ter, or who was more universally despised
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