Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-27
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Message Of Yesterday .-Those

The Message Of Yesterday who
recollect that at the last session of Congress
the usual appropriation for the repair and ex-
tension of the VARIOUS Notifications of the gov.
ernment, and other incidental expenses of the
same class, was refused, under mistaken no.
ton that money 80 expended was money thrown
away, will not be astonished at the message
sent In to the House yesterday, which we do
not attribute to the state of our relations with
England. There exist ample grounds for the
Residents recommend ations and those of the
Secretary Of War in this connection, without
going to our matters with England to find
them.
lthas always unfortunately happened that
pursuits in life have not been such as to make
them familiar with military science, have
failed to appreciate the value Of Notifications
on our coasts exposed to nations that may
sooner or latter be in arms against US; while
there are not few who fail to comprehend
the Importance of any expenditure that may
not be required under their own immediate
observation. Our political system is such, that
gentlemen afflicted with such notions are
often sent to Congress. There were many
of them in the last House; and the result is
that much heavier expenditures on fortifca-
lions, DC, than usual, are now absolutely
necessary, through their repugnance to the
system which is endorsed by every military
authority that has so far existed in every civ
ilised country, and the military efficacy of
which was recently made 50 plain at Sebasto-
pol as that he who runs may read. We have
no reason whatever to doubt that the present
Congress will see the wisdom of the Presidents
in this connection, in the
exposition of the actual condition of the gov
srnment's Notifications from the w ar Depart.
ment, on which the message is based.
Oh! that mine Enemy would write a
Book The Democratic politicians in this
city, who like hunting for treasures among
musty documents, will doubtless soon get at
the work of searching the files of the Union
newspaper when under the editorial guardian
ship of Major Donelson, for that gentlemsn's
views of the administrative qualities of Mr..
Fillmore, his character as a public man, &c.
We recollect we'll, that, at the time, his at.
tacks on the administration of Fillmore did
not please the Democrats generally; as
it was thought by their long heads, that he
(Mr. F } was really strengthening the princi-
pies and policy of the Democratic party, as
against the Republican party, then looming
up in the background, and preparing to take
the shape of a distinct political organization,
it has since assumed. His violent assaults
on Mr. Fillmore and his policy were regarded
by them as being exceedingly NAL oprOpOs
and as having been couched in terms of per.
sOnal derogation of Mr.. F., not justified by
his character as a man.
As unfortunate as they then considered
them, they now, doubtless regard them as
lucky hits for the Democratic cause. Thew
will quote "Donelson on Fillmore" from this
time to the day of the election in each of their
papers, and on every stump in the Union
adding, we trust, that however much they
may have deprecated Mr.. DIS style of war
fare on Mr.. F they quote him only, that the
country may comprehend precisely, that gen.
tleman's 60 recent candid and unbiased
opinion of his present chief
A Test.-We find that Southern gentlemen
Of this city, of Congress and not of it, are most
anxious to-day on the subject of the probable
course of the Northern friends of Mr.. Fillmore
on the Kansas contested election case, as it is
likely to be reported back in the course of
the day from the House Elections Committee
1t is already reduced to certainty that the
next report of the Republican party majority
OF that committee on the case in question, will
be to carry out the most ultra suggestions of
the most ultra abolitionists who are plotting
and scheming at this point in connection with
it. Not content with exporting to Kansas
abolitionists by hundreds, Sharpe's rifles by
thousands, and the requisite supply of money,
all to shape the complexion of tho institutions
of the embryo State, they are doing their
best to forestall an unbiased decision of the
voters Of the Territory on the all-absorbing
issue, by Congressional action; using their
majority of the Elections Committee to that
end.
1t is no wonder, therefore, that the friends
of the principle of the Nebraska bill from
the South, including all the Southern Know
Nothings, are nervously anxious to ascertain
whether Mr.. Fillmore's immediate men in the
House-the Northern National Americans
design keeping the promise of fair dealing
between the conflicting interests in the new
Territory with which the speeches of the
North at the Philadelphia Convention were
SO redolent. If the gentlemen to whom we
refer vote in this matter under the lead of
Messrs. Washburne, of Maine, Mr.. Gliding, ct
al, they will give their presidential candidate q
set back" that will amount to something
like an assurance that he will not carry ain.
gle slaveholding State.
Ex-senator Benton.-It seems to be un-
derstood in w ashingtsn that this distinguished