Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-01
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Refreshing.-The earnestness and peril
nacity with which our talented, engenuous and
truthful neighbor sticks to its system of fall
sifcation, even when its conductors must be
is lying, is refreshing beyond description
We owe oar readers an apology for using
that expression. But in so fragrant a case
there is no way of getting around it. With
the biennial Register" the Blue-Book,
open before it, it continues to insist that the
amount paid to the Star newspaper for ad-
vertising for the Government is SIS, 900 an
nually. 1t quotes from that work payments
made to US for job printing, binding, adver-
tisments, &C., DC =, in the course of TWO years,
and grayely insists that the sum total shows
the amount of government payments to us for
services rendered in ONE year. Thus, it states
its case about 100 per centum above the truth.
Did We not know that its custom is always to
tell falsehoods when they suit its purposes
better than the truth, and to stick to them to
the bitter end, we might possibly have con-
cluded that its conductors are too ignorant to
have known the fact that the blue. book is
biennial, rather than an annual register, and
that its figures refer to two years expendi-
lures, rather than one.
We are, however, aware, that last summer
its chief conductor was a sort of walking ref
ereace concerning the cash value of every
Office or engagement to serve the Government
that the Know Nothing Office seekers who
surrounded him in such crowds, desired. To
answer the questions Of those people, he must
have thambed and thumbed and thumbed
again every page of the last previous edition
OF that work. So, he cannot fail to know pre-
cisely what the figures he quotes mean. Know.
ing what they mean, in attempting to palm
them on the public as a statement of the pay
ments made to the Star in q single year, our
talented, truthful and ingenious neighbor has
stated palpable an selfevident falsehood
That Journal is tterly destitute of char
acter, not for lack of controversial talent, but
through the mendacity which marks the poll
cy with which it is conducted, as evidenced
IN this, its very last dirty transaction. 1t has
not only thus cut itself of from popular con-
fdence, bat from that of those who, on its
hrstestablishment, were its patrons and frien ds;
nearly every one Of whom will, at this time,
regard as an insult the imputation that they
sympathiIe with it directly or indirectly, or
are In any manner identified with its state
ments concerning others, or its intrigues for its
own advantage.
violent, abusive and pretended South.
ern Rights paper for the first six months of its
existence, finding that it can make no money
on that tack, ii has come to be an ultra anti.
slavery sheet, justifying all the political abo
litionism Of the day, while protesting not to
take sides on the slavery question. While i.
has thus lost all the sympathy of the southern
men who so lack brains as at one time not To
have comprehended the real value of its south
ern rights protestations, it has not gained
the confidence Of a single person whose senti.
ments are opposed to its old professions
All, indeed, now know it for a mere trim
mer, Pandour, a jackall, seeking by ex-
pedients which honorable men repudiate, to
I'LL its hungry nav. Having exposed the
patent falsehood with which it went out of its
way to assail us last, we have just now little
more space to devote to it.
We may, however, add, in reply to the las,
part of its effort to crawl out of the unenvia.
bic situation in which its invariable trick Of
lying has involved it in this particular case.
hat We print more copies Of the Star daily
than are printed in all three of the other
daily Newspaper Offices in Washington, togeth-
er-the IHteiitgeneer, the Union, and the
oIsa"- This is the reason why, when our
ieno"-citi1ens really desire to communicate
WIN the public, they prefer to pay us for
rPA00 In our advertising columns twice the
may be- for which the Organ offers
van 70 lease to them its columns. Our
aAhy circulation outside Of wasbinxton =.
larger 'nan the whole daily circulation Of .nv
otner paper printed in this city-to saw no,h
ing OF our circulation in Washington, which :.
larger In proportion to population, we SINCE.
~ oeheVe' than that of any other paper in
any other city in the world. We beg our GER
tie, talented, ingenious and truthful neigh
Der to put these few facts in its pipe and smoke
en- 1t will thus increase its stock of knov,.
edse' No suggestion that can possibly be
made viii increase its stock of moral honesty.
70 long as 1t habitually prefers falsehood to
truth 80 We shall not waste words in advis.
ing it 10 that end.
me Truth OF History.-Our neishbor Of
the Sentinel, in his issue of yesterday. an.
plains at great length his position with r.f.,.
snes to the ssnate's printing question vb;.h
." announced In the last issue Of tb, Star