Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-06-27
WASHINGTON Hxws AND GOSSIP.

saw the ilgnt PHYSICALLY. come OF tnem In
sist that it was in Augusta, Ca; others in
Charleston, S. c.; and others, again, in Vir-
ginia. Who can solve the mystery?
If the public impression in this quarter con-
corning his family history be correct, it is not
wonderful that his birthplace should be in
doubt. That represents his father, worthy
man, to have been a young French teacher
of dancing I; and his mother as the daughter
Of worthy foreign confectioner of Norfolk,
Va; a very natural union, indeed, as all
know who study the history Of those two
classes of the foreign-born in the United
States. In the South, dancing masters are
exceedingly migratory, or, rather, peripatetic,
in their habits-wandering hither and thither
over the country, giving lessons here quar-
ter and elsewhere a quarter, as classes may
be obtainable. Hence, we presume, arises
the uncertainty as to the ColonePs birth
place. 1t is we'll known here that he (the
father was not of Huguenos family of long
residence in the United States, as has been
the south of France, Catholic, as ninety nine
in every hundred French dancing masters in
the United States are until the day they die.
The Huguenots are never dancing masters
being Puritans.
The New York Tribune sings any quantity
of slush at us because we attributed to Col
Fremont sympathy for the church of his an
cestry before he began to bill and COO ut the
Know Nothings, and insists that he was bap-
tised by an Episcopal clergyman, and has ad-
hered to that faith. We know not who bap-
tized him but We do know that our Catholic
fellow citizens have until recently looked on
him as one of their own outside ones. This
opinion has not rested alone on the fact that
he went to Roman Catholic priest-the so
generally beloved Father Van Horseigh, now
no more-to unite him in wedlock to the
daughter of Col. Benton; which was more
than Father V. II. would have dared to do
under the discipline of the church, unless
either groom or bride solemnly pledged him
or herself to be of the Roman Catholic faith,
and as solemnly promised to bring up the
children to be born unto them in the Roman
Catholic church. But they did not rest their
opinion in the premises on that faith alone,
which, to our mind, knowing Father Van
HorSeigh's infexibility as a Catholic disci Pill
| marian, as We do, would have been sufficient
to make us consider any one a Catholic in
faith and affections, who had been united to
Protestant lady under his ministry
They had, or thought they had, strong
proof of the Colonel's Roman Catholicity, in
the received account of the history of his ado
lesence, wherein he was represented to have
been the recipient of the angelic charity
of an association Of pious Roman Catholic
ladies Of Charleston, s. C to whom he is
| said to have been indebted for his educa-
tion under careful Roman Catholic priests,
In Roman Catholic institution in or near
| Baltimore, Md; and wherein it would proba-
bly, be as rare to see charity scholar who
was not of the religious faith of the insti-
tuition and those TO whose piety he might be
indebted for his education, as in a Protestant
institution, wherein, as in all colleges conduct.
cd by Roman Catholic priests, religious (sec-
tarian) instruction is regarded as point of
| Importance in the training of youth. Not O.
few Of our Roman Catholic fellow citizens
have been giving Col. Fremont credit until
| lately for Catholic earnestness of soul in re-
turn for all they believe him to have received
from Roman Catholic piety and zeal in good
works, to the extent Of having had a room
fitted up in his residence here, as Roman
Catholic family chapel.
We know further, that considering his sue
cess In life as being mainly the result of the
| discipline and excellent and solicitous train
ing Of Roman Catholic institution, they have
been very proud indeed of his career; and
that his recent seeming proclivity for BEECH
erism and his sudden evident desire to indoc.
trinate George Laws Know Nothing Conven
ton with the idea that they can rely on him
to 90 the whole Know Nothing hog if North
Americanism viii support him for the Presi
| dency, has made scores of them sick at the
| stomach.
The German Vote.-The Republican man.
ayers, all reeking az they are with the scent
| of their Know Nothing sfiliations-much more
than half their party being at this moment
ardent sympathizsrs with all that the anti.
Republican-party Know Nothings aim to ac-
complish against the foreign born in this coun-
try, are busy with schemes to cheat the Ger
mans among US into the support of Fremont
The card of three members Of the Massachu-
sets delegation to George Laws Convention
denying that Fremont gave them any pledge
of bis devotion to the aims of the Know No
thing party, was but enc of the tricks of the
Republican managers to cheat the Germ ans
nothing more. We have heard many intelli
gent gentlemen who were present at both the
recent Conventions in New York and Phila.
deiphia SO pronounce it; declaring that it was
well known to all behind the curtain there,
that the original revelations of the simple.
minded members of the Massachusetts, dele.
CATION Of the circumstances of their interview
with Fremont, were true to the letter; the
subsequent card which three of those nresent