Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-03
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

morrow political roorbacks will be as Pienv
"a cbs,tnut. were a month ago. The Fill
mourner and Freemounter Journals viii rAin
them on the reading public as they were never
before showered.
tn. Hon O. B. Matteson, House of Repre-
.sntatiyes, was recently in this city for some
tv.ntv.four hours. AWashingtOn correspon-
d.nt of the New York Erpress writes, Of bis
tMr. Msttsson'O presence among us, that he
6 has been here on . trade-to sell OF Fremont
In New York, and In return to receive Demo-
cratic aid for King, Governor The Demo.
Gratis, however, won't take King. Their i'm.
mense Irish vote, they say, would desert them
en- masss If they attempted to pass of King
upon them. Matteson-after expressing his
fears that Fremont had no ohaDce'-was
heard to say: well, if We cannot carry FIRE.
mont in New York, at any rate Fillmore shall
not have the State-ws will take care OF that
That means, if anything-the shriekers TOR
freedom mean-to spite Fillmore to vote ior
Buchanan, Cuba and Central America"
Another correspondent writes:
"We have been watching Matteson's move
ments here, and have found him closeted re-
peatedly with leading and prominent Demo
Gratis In this city. The Buchanan men, on tne
strength Of Matteson's promises or sales, are
quite encouraged As to New York"
Now, the English of all this nonsense Is,
that the Washington writer's for and the con-
ductors of, the Express are playing their game
under profound impression that all the fools
of New York State are not yet dead
Mr. Matteson came to Washington, as We
happen to know, to attend to the interest OF
the town of his residence, Utica N. Y, as in
volved in the disbursement Of an appropria-
ton 10 ade in law Of the last session OF Con-
gress, ordering the construction Of An S.
court-rooms and post Office building there.
During his brief stay here he was closely en-
gagged at the State, Treasury and Interior
Departments upon that business, and attended
to that alone, being very anxious to return
homo as soon az possible, whore he Is eanCi-
date in the approaching election. All stories
concerning negotiations between him and
Democrats here to strengthen King and weaken
Fillmore are made of whole cloth, as we'll as
all stories representing him as admitting that
Fremont would not carry New York which are
equally unfounded.
We know that fact from q brief con ersatiOn
left on our mind, owing to his e1travagsnt
calculations with reference to Fremont's
strength in the Empire State, the impression
that he-Mstteson-wss afflicted so far rs New
York Is concerned, with q foolishskink like
that which net long since induced the Now
York Fremounter journals to claim in advance
of the recent Pennsylvania election $1,000
majority for the Fusion State ticket. We
question whether Mr.. Matteson had FIVE
minutes conversation with any man in Wash
ington on politics, so confined was he by his
business at the Departments.
By the by, while the New York Express is
crying cut against the New York Fremonters
| ~ being engaged in selling out to the Buch-
| anan men, on the Presidential ticket, tho Tn
6une is roundly abusing the Fillmore leaders
Of that State for being up to their eyes In an in
trigue to sell their rank and Ale to the Demo.
Gratis on the same issue! We trust that al |,
this means that great many recent Fremont
and Fillmore men of New York have turned
Democrats since the Pennsylvania and In .
diana elections At any rate such seems to
be the impression Of the New York Herald,
which, in its issue of Saturday last, admitted
tina Buchanan will probably carry that State
tom orrow. So mote 81 BE-.
Fremont's Religion.-The New York Mr.
gives up the contest, declaring in effect tina
the common belief in Fremonts late Roman
| Catholicism which pervades the minds of the
opposition in the Northern States, has done
for his prospects. The editor shrieks for a
denial Of his former Catholicism from himself
personally. He will not dare to publish one
over his own signature. We were frst to call
public attention to tho fact tn lat he had former
| ly pretended to be Roman Catholic, accom-
panying the charge with proofs that set the
Efprsss and other Catholic. hating journals
at work upon that scent Right glad are We,
that we did 30; for the Mirror tells but the
truth in its virtual admission tn at it has proved
the spider in his dumping, as in the following
brief extract from that journal:
I'm regard to Col. Fremonts religion and
| its effect upon the canvass, We frankly con-
fess, that il he is defeated in the great contest
| of Tuesday next, it will be entirely owing to
| this dsmnable iteration that he is Roman
| Catholic. While the Protestant American
masses have no disposition to interfere with
mans religion (which is an affair with his
Cody any more than with his love, ian affair
| with his mistress,) they have set their faces
like fints against the elevation to higher Offices
| OF the Government, Of a man whose allegiance
| to the Pope is stronger than his allegiance to
the State. And We have no doubt that tens Of
thousands Of the more bigoted Protestants per-
| sist In the belief, after all deniaIs that Col
Fremont is a little fshy on the Catholic cues.
| ton. 1t was with special reference to the
prejudices Of these weak minded brethren
that the Mirror proposed to get one moro alb
solute, unqualified, unequivooal, unambig-
uous dsntal from the lips of Col. Fremont, and
| send it once more on the wings Of lightning
through the Union. That's all"
The Old Line Whigs.-The following, which
we take from that sterling conservative Jour.
NAL the Journal of Comnsrcs, squares 80
entirely with our own views upon the subject
ON which IL treats as tn at ua oonx 10 .nt;.. ~.