Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-28
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP,

- W ANU HuSSlf.
The Nicaragua Fmbroglio. New
York Herald undertakes to attribute the re-
cent article in the Star explanatory of the
fats involved in the affair between Walker
aud the Transit Company, to the Attorney
General of the United States. We have to
say that that functionary had no more to do
with 1t than the man in the moon. The W ash
ingtOn correspondent of the New York Times,
after stating that the information on which
the article in question was based, was obtain.
ed from parties connected with the Transit
Company, (which is true, it being our custom
in seeking information always to apply to
those who must necessarily know most con
corning the matters We desire to elu,idate)
also undertakes to impugn our motive in
making the publication saying that it was
made to effect the price of Nicaragua Transit
stock. We have long submitted in silence to
personal calumny from the pen of the lying
little scoundrel who prostitutes the columns
of the New York Times in this city, to black
mail any and all who come to Washington on
business with the Government, because in.
disposed to notice any one known as he is, to
be mere Swiss, engaged in selling the col
umns of the journals for which he writes, to
sustain, villify, or misrepresent any gentle
man or measure whatever, when money, from
a five dollar gold piece up, will be paid to
him for so doing.
Not long since this little lying scoundrcl
villihed Us personally, grossly, in the columns
Of the New Orleans Ptcayune, and gave to a
gentleman who spoke to him upon the sub
ject, as reasOn for disappearing us in
personal affair with another gentleman, his
own personal hostility to US. We have stood
this poltroonery from him until our patience
is exhausted, and therefore have to explain
why, up to this time, we have to failed to no.
tice the personal falsehoods and inuendoes Of
this lying little scoundrel, who, not being able
to comprehend how gentleman can pursue
any policy with reference to public question
not based on the purpose Of black mailing
some one, takes it for granted that all his
coteup oraries Of the press are actuated by
motives az base as his own
Nick Bottom.-The pseudo Governor of
the meek State of Kansas has paraphrased
Nick Bottoms ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS speech to
the audience, in Shakspeare's time, TO the
very life, in his second and last message, in
which he declares that he and his mock Legis-
lature are, after all, merely "making be
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ment.
By-the-by, in looking over the documents
accompanying the Presidents late message
on Kansas affairs we find funny letter to the
President, bearing date shortly after they
issued q fierce proclamation, signed by the
same parties, declaring their intention, backed
BY the gallant men Of Lawrence, to hang,
draw and quarter half Missouri, and pro-
claiming themselves eager to begin that work.
That is, the letter in question is inexpressibIy
iudierous when read in connection with the
braggadocio proclamation to which we here
refer. 1t (the letter. is as follows:
LAWRENCE, Kansas Territory,
January q, 1856.
SIR We have authentic information that
an overwhelming force of the citizens of Mis-
scuri are organizing upon our border, amply
supplied with artillery, for the avowed pur
pose Of invading this Territory, demolishing
our towns. and butchering our unoffendipg
Tree State citizens. We respectfully demand,
on behalf Of the citizens of Kansas, that the
comnandants CT the United States troops in
TINS vicinity be Immediately instructed to in
erIere 70 prevent such al inhuman outrage.
Respectfully, il Lane.
Chair'n Executive Com, KIT.
G. ROBINSON,
chairman Committee Of Safety
Attest y. ii GOODWIN, Sec. Elk Com, K. T.
dEo. W DEIrzLER, Sec Com. safety.
FRANKLIN PIECE, President U. s.
Our precious heroes proclaim to the world
that they are ready to burst their breecbe,
through anxiety to get fight out of all Mis-
souri,; declaring the ability of Lawrence sim
gle-handed to whip all (so-called) border ruff.
fandom. But at the same time they take &C.
casion to call in the magistrate having juris.
diction, to keep the peace; to afford them
protection from the parties they are so anx-
ious to thrash. In this matter they prove
themselves to be as cowardly knayes rs ever
earned the just scorn Of the crowd on a conn.
try courthouse green, who rarely fail TO an.
preciate at glance the value of the beroi,m
which talks amazingly about its ability and
anxiety to chew up all creation. when yerv
sure that the justice of tho peace and deputy
snsrin stand HARDLY ready to protect it from