Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-27

They have had their minds wrought up to
such pitch by designing political knaves,
that they are willing to give their money to
send arms and ammunition to a rowing drunken
band Of thieves and robbers who have SQUAT
ted down in Kansas, and under the lead of
those notorious rufians. Robinson and Lane,
are making desperate efforts to sustain a mob
and traitorous government in that Territory
These New Haven men profess to be the
friends of the blacks, yet the very people to
whom they are sending their money and arms
have passed a law forbidding free blacks com
ing into the Territory! Can there be anything
more ridiculous and absurd than the profess
sions and practices of this Beecher and his as
socrates! He, preacher of the Gospel getting
up company of killers and arming them
with rides and Bibles to go and join such no.
1orioas scoundrels as Robinson, Lane, Co. :
Inc whole thing is, of course, farce and
numbug, and the Sharp's rifles are no more
use, or will be Of no more use to the poor fools
who carry them to Kansas, than so many corn
stalks, except to trade off for whisky and
tobacco.
GAS we have said before, Sharp's rifle in
the hands Of an inexperienced New England
pauper Is no better than a broom stick, and
we will venture bet of one hundred dollars
to fifty that forty nine out of every fifty of
the emigrants from Connecticut to Kansas
cannot hit barrel a hundred yards distant
with Sharp's rifle in a whole day, let them
load and FIRE as fast as they choose. In the
first place, they cannot shoot them more thai
three or four times without setting down and
cleaning the lock, and in the next place a
backwoodsman could, with a single rife, kill
off the whole fifty of Beecher's company be.
fore they could hit him, if they were all aim
ing at him. This whole talk, as we'll as the
proceedings about Kansas and Sharp's rides,
Is the greatest of humbugs, and amounts to
nothing more than a capital advertisement
for the Sharp's rifle manufacturing company,
which that company keep stirring and NOV
Ing around from paper to paper and place 20
place for the sole purpose of selling their
guns, but they sell fifty fools to one gun every
month. Beecher, Bowen, and their dupes
will buy the rifles; Greeley, Weed and Sew
ard will keep up the Kansas agitation until
after the election, and then the whole thing
will explode, and the public will learn that
there was no occasion for all the fuss and hub
bub that have been made, and that whilst
the people Of the North and East have been
giving their money to the paupers, thieves,
rowdies and lazy vagabouds that are swarm
ing Kansas from the North the people of Mis-
souri,, whom Henry w ard Beecher, with muir
der in his heart, wants his proteges to kill
have been quietly and peaceably pursuing
their usual aVocations on their farms and in
their workshops"
British Fillibusters in the United States.
These gentlemen seem to have hard time of
it. After Mr.. Stanley had set the powder on
fire by getting into foolish controversy with
the New York Tribune, it appears that he
took to his heels, conceiving, we suppose, that
He who fights and runs away.
May 1--we to fight another Gay.''
We gather this from the following, taken
from the New York Herald:
"SUIrs FOR ALLEGED ENLISTMENT FOR THE
CRIMEA -M1rtne Court Before Hon judge
Mccarthy March 4-Wm Schumacher as
Anthony Barclay and Charles Stanley Oscar
Gromrey as. Same.-Tse above suits were
brought to recover $500, alleged to be due
each OF the plaintiffs from defendants for ser
vices rendered and moneys expended under a
contract. The plaintiffs, by Mr.. J. B. Phil
lips, severaly insist that they were employed
by defendants, about the 14th of MAY, 1856,
to obtain men to be sent to Halifax, there to
be enlisted in the British service for the Cri-
mea, under an agreement for which they were
to receive So per month, and also that de
PENDANTS would procure for them, when they
should have each recruited one hundred men.
Lieutenant commission in the British army.
The plaintiffs claim that they have performed
the services according to the agreement, and
that there is now due to them severally two
months pay, besides the expenses incurred
by them in transporting the recruits, DC
amounting in all to $500 each
The defendant, Mr.. Barclay, by his coun,
sci, Mr.. c. Edwards, pleads to the jurisdiction
Of the Court, and insists it has no Jurisdiction
of his person that before and at the time of
the commencement Of this suit be was, and il.
the consul Of Her Britannia Majesty for tia Q
State of New York, duly accredited under the
signature of the President and seal of the
United States, and produces his exeauatur in
proof thereof, dc. The defendant, Mr.. Stan
ley, was not served with process, and did not
appear.
8 The Judge sustained the defend ant's OBJ.
lection, and dismissed the case"
As to Mr.. Barclay, he pleads privilege, al d
that is the answer he makes to the suit against
himself and Mr.. Stanley to recover payment
Of the fllibustering debts contracted by them
in New York.
Conhrmsd.-William G Singleton has been
confirmed by the Senate as Collector Of the
Customs at Newbern, N. c., vice Thomas S.
Singleton, deceased
Monetary and Commercial following
quotations Of bonds, stocks, and land warrants
were furnished US March 26) by Sweeney,
Rittenhousc, FAINT & CO.., bankers:
BONDS AND CITY STOCKS Par
washington Corporation PER cent sloo loa n IN.
Iis1sndria do do 8 do do I IsS SO 90 .!