Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-07


telegraph. They telegraph that he is Ger.
tainly reelected, but by a close vote. If
this be 50, Mr.. Francis P. Blair. Jr., of St.
Louis, has not been elected to Congress, and
the Republican party 'jubilations" that have
been going On around US for SO hours past,
were shouts before getting out of the woods
I Stopping the Appropriations.-The Wash.
Tington correspondence of tho Journal Of Cow
meree says:
Congress is now to make appropriations
tor the , current hscal-from LIST Of July last,
to the 3Oth Of June next The Republicans
threaten to stop these sppropria ticns-thst is,
they will distress their entire constituencies
for the purpose of .pitng Presid .nt Pierce,
whose term of service will expire on the Sd Of
March-four months before the end of the ifs.
cal year They will soon find the absurdity
of their position, and abandon it
eff the House should be now able to stop tho
supplies; not supplies for a monarch, but sup
plies for an elective, representative govern
ment,-not for Mr.. Pierce, nor for the South,
but for carrying on the government for another
year; If they can attempt such an absurdity
now, what will they not do at the next session
If unfortunately, the next Presidential election
fail before the people? They will probably
iSAeSo oil oppIOpEldtiOuS anu ueXleCt Ill OIQl.
nary and proper legislative business. They
will hardly in fact permit the session to close
without violence and bloodsbed. 1t is true
that on the 4th of March Mr.. BreekinridRe
would be inaugursted as President and he
would Immediately call the next Congress
BY that time, the country would be pretty well
sick of sectional strife and its results, and We
might hope for the commencement of a better
state of things"
Every word uttered by the writer, which we
quote above, has force in the present condition
OF things. The policy Of the Republican
party and those Fillmourners who, holding out
against Fremont only on account Of his late
Roman Catholic professions and afinities, are
yet bent on abolitionizing Kansas and support
Fillmore in the belief that he will prove as
serviceable to that end as Fremont, is to get
up as great an excitement as possible, without
regard to its probable effect on the business
interests Of the country Their speeches and
votes prove that they are willing to set aside
constitution, law, justice and common decen-
cy, to carry their points-to vote for revolu
ton in the Government of the United States
dozen times day, if by that means they
can carry through their purposes. Under
these circumstances, we shall not be surprised
to md them voting in the end to defeat the
general appropriation bill, unless their oppo
nents will consent to make it bill to exclude
slavery from Kansas, rather than to provide
the means Of paying the executive and Judi.
cial expenses Of the United States for the
nert fiscal year.
Aissouri.-The German newspaper pub.
lished in st. Louis-The Wsrcker for come
other such jaw breaking nance which is Col.
Benton's organ among the foreign born popu.
lation of the State, refuses to place Buch anan's
name at the head of its columns in imitation
Of the Coloners own policy, least by SO doing
tas it avows) it may weaken John Charles
Fremonts prospects. We expect to learn
within a week that Republican party cleo.
toral ticket has been formed in that State,
which will be supported by portion of those
who voted for Benton on Monday last. That
is, by those of them who are under the iphu.
ence Of the clique by whom Benton is person.
ally surrounded. They are abolitionists to
the core, however vehemently they may for
the time being have professed to support Bu-
chanan in order to cheat the mass of those
voting recently for Benton, into voting,for him
and for bis nominees for the Legislature.
Iowa.-It is reduced to a moral certainty
that the fusion between the Republicans and
Fillmourners of Iowa, in the recent election,
is not to hold good in the Presidential cleo
ton. We know what we are writing in max.
ing this declaration. Were it possible to
transfer to Fremont the votes of the real Ma.
tional Know Nothings Of the State, the man.
aging Fillmourners would doubtless have con.
sented to extend the coalition. But they COM
pretended the utter impossibility of accom-.
plishing that end. So they refused to carrv
it beyond the recent election
Thus, instead of running against q single
opposition ticket, az on the late occasion, the
Democratic ticket is to have two to contend
against in Iowa in November next. The moro
the nerrier.
A csrd.-Messrs. Ridgeway and Pryor, of
Richmond, Virginia, met and exchanged shots
without effect. We, the undersigned, who
arrived on the ground after the fire, then in.
terpossd, and at our request the challenge was
Withdrawn. 1t appearing to our satisfaction
that the article Of Mr.. Pryor, which was the
occasion Of the challenge, was written under
tne oeilei that there was astudied purpose on
the part Of Mr.. Ridgeway to insult him and
provoke quarrel, we recommend that Mr..
Ridgeway disclaim such deliberate purpose,
and that each and every article which was
regarded as offensive either by Mr.. PRYOR or
Mr. Rldgeway be simultaneously and frankly
Withdrawn; and We trust that hereafter those
relations of kindness will subsist between
them which become gentlemen who have so
well approved their courage and honor.
P. s. BRooKs,
ID. A. EDNUNDsoN,
August 6. JOIN S. CAsKIE.
We, the respective friends of Messrs. Ridge.
way and Pryor, accept the foregoing adjust.