Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-29
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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House hall of something like the SceAG wit
which their proceedings of yesterday wer
varied. We have repeatedly pointed out tn
| fact that there are twenty five or thirty mem
bers only who compose the band SO determine,
to force Mr.. Banks down the throats of Tn
rest of the anti Nebraska Representatives
and that they are really led by Messrs. Gid
dings and Wade; 1.-THE latter being the gentle
man who, not long since, declared, in tn
greenness of his simple heart, that there wa
no such person a member Of the chamber a
an abolitionist. These gentlemen, with th,
exception of Messrs. Giddings and Grow, ar
remarkable for being wholly without orator.
cal ability, so far as the country has been abb,
to judge from their efforts in the hall. Never
theless, they exert commanding influence upor
those now under, their control through theil
slant habit of keeping unprincipled and men,
dacious letter writer's for papers sympathising
with them, posted up with the inuendoes and
ISLANDERS of the hour likely to intimidate those
whose course they seek to affect. Now and then
one of them, as in the case of the Ashtabula
letter of Mr.. Giddings, and the more recent let.
ter of Mr.. w ade lover a fictitious signature)
to the Cleveland Herald, plays the part of the
newspaper slanderer of his compeers in per-
son.
In the case brought to the notice of the
country yesterday, more gratuitous and un-
warranted false representations were mover
made over fictitious signature; as was made
manifest in what Messrs. Campbell, Thoring-
ton, Sherman, Letter, and Dunn felt called
on to say. The purpose was but to lash the
mass Of the nti-Nebrsska members, until they
dare not call their souls their own throughout
the rest of the current contest. We need
hardly remark that the bitter was very badly
bitten indeed on this occasion, as all arc now
aware that Nh. Wade was the victim of an
exposure Of the utter want of foundation for
more or less of his statements, and of COM
ments thereupon from the caustic lips Of
Mr.. Dunn, thSkwould cause any gentleman
whose perceptions of right and wrong have not
been scared over with the burning iron of abo.
litionism, almost to flee his country. ...
The lesson taught by the debate of the day,
is the improperly of such acts on the part of
members of Congress as only become the par
ticular class of writer's from this city for the
pre- IS, who will SANDER any man for handful,
Of franks or five dollar gold piece. Their
number is not large, We are happy to be able
to be able to say, but they are very indus.
trious. They disgrace the corps of gentleme en-
at this point who write for the distant press
and the latter owe it to their respectability to
taboo them.
We are expecting another similar emeute to
occur in the House hall in the course of
this week, wherein another of the whipping
in fraternity will find that in following the
illustrious epistolary example Of Messrs Gid
dings and Wade, he has been engaged in a
business that costs much more than it comes to-
The Poor.-Never, within our recollection,
have we had in W ashington a season in which
the usual outdoors labor of the poor has been
necessarily suspended. Indeed, we do not
know that within twenty-five years past, the
snow has ever before, more than one week con.
covered the ground in this vicinity
The consequence of the present state of the
weather has been an almost total suspension
of the means of supper which the neediest
among Us have, and IN immense increase of
suffering on the part of those who are not 90 be-
fore hand " 1t is time, high time, that our
fellow citizens should meet in each ward. and
appoint committees to seek out cases Of suffer-
ing from want, and other committees to solicit
donations for their relief, at each house. II
the ladies will undertake this good work, we
know that it will be promptly and thoroughly
perfOrmed-God bless them. To be effective.
1t should be commenced without twent four
hours delay.
The Church Property Question. "A CORES.
pendent writes US as follows on this question {:
Mr.. Editor In a speech made in the House
OF Representatives on the 9th inst BY the
Hon. Mr. Whitney, of New York, that gentle
man states that at the Council of Bisbops
held In Baltimore in l84g, the Bishops Of the
catholic Church are directed to take into
their own hands al Church property, any law
OF the State to the contrary notwithstanding.
have carefully examined the proceedings of
that Council as they are published Gin most
excellent Latin" and on the authority of the
Bishops composing the Council, and find no
such decree as that alluded to by Mr.. Whit
ney. Having also examined the DEGREES OF
the previous and subsequent Councils of Bish-
ops In Baltimore, can find nothing like that
to which Mr.. Whitney refers, and Of which be
has promised to furnish free translation. -
!. have thought it due to fairness and honesty
to say this much in relation to this matter
as Mr.. Whitney's statement has gone to the
world without contradiction, and as / am
sure he does not desire to sustain a cause SO
honorable as that in which he is engag and
Of which he is the champion, by sweeping
misrepresentation. No; he only wants e
show that the law of the State Of New York
passed in 1855, requiring the Bishops Of
churches TO transfer to trustees all the churct
property in their posscssion, was annulled :,
anticipation by the decree of the BaItimor,
Council passed, as he states, six years before
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