Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-01
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

We take from the New York Herald the foi-
lowing very last on the explosion
Of the George Law imposture. Iu VIII anu
truth together tempt US to forgive the writer
for his own multitude of political tergiversa-
tons. Yet we may not fail to call the read
sr,s attention to the proof that it involves of
the inter unworthiness of the Herald as po-
litical guide; for it Is neither more nor less
than a scathing exposure of its own disrepu.
table political associations
TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT EXPLosIoN-IN Posi-
rroN.-It has been our painful duty to record
several horrible steamboat explosions, but
none more terrible than the recent collapse of
the apparently staunch craft, the George Law.
Some year ago or moro the George Law went
into the dry dock, was turned over on her
beam ends, duly scraped, coppered and fitted
out with an entirely new set of political ma
chinery. The George Law then started with
tremendous head of steam on, and all her
colors flying, for the White House. Under
the flag, and with all her fires up, tho George
Law steamed away for some time in gallant
style, but unfortunately ran against q snag at
Philadelphia, on the 22i of February last.
She was got of with difficulty, but leaked
badly, and labored for some time in the wake
of the clipper Fremont; but coming athwart
direction, and being very clumsily handled,
the George Law was driven into Salt river,
collapsed q fue, her boilers exploded with q
tremendous crash, her crew blown sky high,
and her fragments scattered in every direction.
To drop metaphor, the recent terrible break
down Of George Law, and his last appearance
on any stage, at the Academy, have created a
degree of interest and excitement much great
er than his equally rapid rise. One of the
most rkah le davaloDmeOts In thu whole
affair is found in the conduct of Laws friends
and intimate associates, who now fall to cur
sing each other with extreme JUNCTION. Each
charges the other with having been the cause
of the demolition of the great idol, and their
conduct is rich in the extreme.
Prominent among Georges agents was ex-
Senator Westcott, of Florida Elk Senator
Westcott was a sort of privy councillor to Law
his legal adviser; WestcOtt prepared his
speeches; dictated his political course; gave
him bon metS and funny stories for ordinary
conversation; furnished bits of poetry for quo
tation, and dealt out homeopathic doses of
historical "reminiscences and political records.
He was the DR.. Pangloss to this modern Lord
Duberly.. Since the terrible explosion, poor
ex Senator Westcott has disappeared from the
public view altogether; in fact, he is so en-
tirely used up that there is nothing left of
him but queue, which should be carefully
preserved In some museum as q great natural
aud political curiosity Then there is George
Laws spiritual adviser and chaplain n.ordi-
nary-the Reve end Joe Scoville He, too, is
in great tribulation. Another of the same
party is Doctor Valentine, who is George
Laws physician extraordinary, preserving
his constitution both physically and politi.
ealiy, regulating his diet, preparing prescrip
tons to keep him in sound order, and fit ar
tiele for fashionable consumption. This last
| named individual has been thrown into an
awfsl state Of mind by the great sun ashup of
his great patron, and has come out with a let
haplain-in-ordinary without mercy. Here's
the precious document:
"NEw York, Oct Is, 1853.
"JoE SCovILLE-I will not stay my hand
in opening your transactions to the world, and
likewise the manner in which yoa got Mr.
Bennett to work the Herald. You know tn at
have all the points and can raise he'll No
sooner was this thing done than you COM
menced your dirty operations. You who com
| menced with me, in starting the Law move.
ment, promised to stick to me through thick
| and thin, and not to injure the man if we did
| not succeed under these circumstances you
were put in conjunction with George Law by
me You commence the work-gO on spIen-
| didly until the work is nearly finished, and
then like COW that has given good pail OF
milk, turn round and kick it to hell.
| When | connected you with George Law,
| l thought L introduced a gentleman and was
| willing to stand the responsibility. You have,
| therefore, by your dirty action, thrown me
into an embarrassing position, which ought to
justify me in blowing your God damn brains
| TO the four winds of Heaven. 1t is the opin.
ion Of the Florence House that you are FIRST
| rate damn s. "a.
"George Sherman says you have broken
| your oath to him, and he therefore is likewise
| Of the same opinion. The programme of my
| lecture will shortly be out, in which will ex
pose your whole proceedings to the public,
and if you attack me in the Herald, las what
L shall cay will be the truth, and nothing but
the truthO will proceed Immediately to dis.
patch you to that bourne from whence no son
| Of bitch like you ever returns
"WN VALENTINE, III. D."
Some of the language used by the Doctor
may strike our readers as slightly unprofes.
| sional, but We give it to show the style Of con.
VersatiOn which obtains In the upper circles of
political life, and how mixing in good society
gives one that easy flow of wit, that charm Of
repartee, that unctuous humor that refined
courtesy, which makes the letters of Walpole,
De Stsel, Chesterfield, DE Sevigne and Val.
entine alike welcome in the library of the
scholar or the boudOir Of the beauty How
refined must have been tho political reunions
ct the great statesman, George Law, when
such elevated language as that Of the above
"tOfCc1" vac miuRlcu WIN the pOptlDR OF
champagne corks and the swallowing of oys.
tiers In every style.
The representative of the medical profession
charges the representative OF the clergy with
perjury, With kicking a good pail of milk
tthats an elegant IL etaphor) to q place un-
mentionable, reflects On his character gener-
ally and threatens to blow his-the Reverend
Joseph s-brains to the place where the Rev
erend Joseph kicked the pail Of milk If that
isn't nice opening for a fght-a mighty
pretty quarrel, as Sir Lucius O7Trigger would
say-we never saw one. We fancy II is onIy
the beginning Of series of remarkable dis.
closures.
Bat the most amusing part Of the whole
affair lie what the physician-in- ordinary saws
about working the Herald, as if the Herald was
a hand-organ; or q steam engine, or a force
pump, which was at anybody s service who
ga" NJ 20 apply the motive power. The fac.
-, tue independent course Of the New York
Herald has sopuzzlod and mystifed the whole
batch Of blood-suckers who surround George
Law, that they fall upon each other, charging
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