Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-24

Length ON load line $50 $50 IT. Is, n in 49,:
Breath Breath q beam beam I@eldsdl 8 :: $
Depth OF hold from under spar
deck 50 81 sok
The reader can judge of her immense size
when he sees that she is some 80 feet longer
than the Minnesota, now about leaving for
Philadelphia, to be coppered
The Vanderbilt we learn, will be omen to.
day for the reception of the public To-mor-
row, the President and his Cabinet are ex-
pected to visit her; and on Saturday, the two
Houses of Congress. She will probably leave
on Saturday night or Sunday morning.
Roasting EN- Our brief expositions of
the fact that Mr.. John c. Fremont, for very
very good and sufficient reasons, passed for a
vehement Catholic here ere being smitten
with desire to become half Know Nothing
and half Abolition candidate for the Presi.
dency-and we were first to take up the subject
have fairly laid the foundation of one of the
most stupendous wrangles the world has known
for quarter Of century at least. The Re-
publican press are devoting, not columns, but
pages, weekly and daily, to prove that his
acts in vehemently defending all the doctrines
and practices Of the Roman Catholic Church,
his assumption of the obligations entered into
by marrying Protestant under its ministry,
his erection of the cross rather than the flag
of the United States in taking mock possession
of the Middle Pass of the Rocky Mountains,
his failure to show himself in an Episcopal
church at least once during his sojourn in this
city Of years duration, 60 &c, &c p, are by
no means incompatible with his profession of
lifelong membership Of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church Well, politics, indeed do in
duce men to make great fools of themselves
What but the heat Of politics could induce
such journal as the New York Tribune to
essay its present game with reference to FIRE.
monts late religious proclivites, upon the in
tense anti Catholics who, for the most, are
the patrons of that journal. The New York
Express, however. is very ably exposing the
shallowness and the utter want of sincerity of
the labors of the Republican press in this
connection.
For our part, we feel so thorough contempt
for the paltry game Of deception On this sub
ject, which the Republican managers seem to
be playing by and with Fremont's advice and
consent, as that we have no patience with them
whatever. We know, too, that there is not a
Catholic in the Union whose heart does not
recoil with horror from the idea Of the sup
port Of any man for the Presidency, whether
Catholic or Protestant, who has cut sucb q
pigeon wing" about his religion, for the sake
OF an Office, as that of Fremont. The dancing.
master blood in his veins may, perhaps, fairly
account for his singular regeneration ON this
subject; such early associations not being
those which instil very heightened principles
about anything, In mans mind
The Naval Promotions.-The following is
correct list of the recent combinations nv
the Senate of the naval promotions growing
out of the action Of the late Naval Retiring
Board:
Captatns.-G. p. Pendergrast William G.
Nicholson, Joseph b. Hull, John Kelly. VIM
ID ID. Gardner, David G. Farragut, Stephen B.
wilson, Thomas A. Dornin, Robert B Cum
ningham, Victor NJ. Randolph, Frederick En-
gle, John Rudd, VIM. Mexican, Franklin Bn-
caanan, Samuel Mercer, Chas Lowpdes, Louis
N N doldsborough, George N. Hollins, Duncan
N: .ningrahsm. John Marston, Henry A. Adams.
william 5 Walker, George F Pearson, Sam
uei Du FONT, William l. Hudson, George
a. a. Magruder, John Pope, Levin M Powell,
| GhaIles W likes, Thomas O. Selfridge, Henry
Eagle, Gershom j. Van Brunt. William M
| dlendy, George S Blake, Samuel Barron. An.
drew A. Harwood. -,A'
r., Comaanders Charles II. McBlair. Jsbn
livingston, Archibald Fairfax, Henry
N; Thatcher, James II Rowan, William Nc.
Plair, John ) MissroOn, Richard l.. PAGE
rreoeIick Chatard, Benjamin j. Totten. A.,
I9ur sinclair, Robert B. Hitchcock, Charles
IL. a II. Kennedy, Thomas w. Brent. Josenb
Lanman, John h. Mitchell, Thomas TnTnar
Charles d: Poor, James f SebencL T;mn,Sn
a hunt, oyIVanus W. Godon, William Rad
ford, Samuel +. Hazard, John M. Rs,,;eu
George A. Prentiss, Alfred Taylor Samus,
Phillips Lee, John P. ellis, Samuel Swart.
won't, Raphael Semmes, James P. McK;nst,v
| Oliver Gibson, Jno A. DahIgren. Stsnhsn,
| G. Rowan, Edward r. Thompson, Guert Gan
sevoort, Charles Green, Edward HANDY.
Melancthon Smith, Cicero Price, John r
Goldsborough, Charles S. Boggs, Theodore p.
| Green, John r Tucker, Thos. J. Page, Geo
| Minor, Percival Drayton, Robert +. Pinckney,
Thomas X. Rootes, Edward M. Yard, VIM
Young, Jos Green, John De Camp, Chas.
w. Pickering, Overton Carr, Luther Stoddart,
VIM. N. Walker, John A. Winslow, BENJAMIN