Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-04


tics and capacities of the regions of which We
write above, will soon comprehend that We are
not dreamer on this subject.
A Clergyman shrisking lying for Free
dom.-The Boston Post exposes, with q mas
ter hand, the systematic lying of the freedom
shriekers whenever writing aught from Kansas
likely to see the light. 1t quotes the follow
ing extract from n letter published In the Bos-
ton atlas freedom shrieker) from an abolition
clergyman named Mute:
LAWRENCE, KAN, Oct IL, 1855.
DsAR SIR The cold weather keeps off thus
far, and we hope 1t will until the arrival of
the clothing. Every day We hear of new
cases Of restitution. Yesterday, found two
families without -four, and with hardly sim
gle article of groceries. One Of them living
in a sod cabin, without q foor-a family of six
persons; nearly, if not quite, every member
has been sick with the intermittent fever, but
are now recovered, and hard at work to pre-
pare for the winter. 1 relieved their most
pressing wants from the small fund in my
hands, and wish 1 could furnish them with
lumber enough to build comfortable shelter.
Having looked on that picture, the reader
will please look on this,-another letter writ
ten by the same Reverend Mute dated (Octo-
Der l5th) but two days subsequent to the
other. Improves that whatever may be the con-
dition Ct his neighbors, the "Reverend" Mute
is making n good thing of his residence in
Kansas. Men of sense will comprehend that
it stamps with falsehood all he says in the
other letter concerning the state of the Terri
tory. Thus, to a relative (who furnished the
d. iii IL 80 L.
on the 18th ult., as follows:
"We like Kansas more than ever. This
summer and fall, thus far, the weather has
been more pleasant than it was last year. l
have harvested about eight acres of corn, and
have an acre of potatoes Of the best kind, and
good crop to dig. have between ten and
twelve acres of wheat sown, and it comes up
finely; % tons of hay cut and stacked, 3 COWS,
2 horses, yoke of No. l oxen, hogs, ZOE
hens, &C., &c [ am now adding large room
to our house on the claim, and getting ready
to lathe and plaster the front room. Our
house in town will be finished in few weeks
| if this weather holds on. l think shall rent
| it for year, or until have pre- empted the
claim, as L can get over $500 year for it, in
advance every month"
The Post adds:
I" Mr.. Mute also admits in this letter to his
relative that there are many false reports
and some gross and foolish exaggeratons min
gled with the truth about Kansas affair She
might have added, and this mingling will con-
tinue until after the 4th of November
All Over Only think ont, reader No
one now cares to read abuse of anybody :,
Huzza for election day that in coming
round has thus brought about the I" era of
good feeling" as it were. The Lord only
knows how long it will continue. We pray
tina. it may never depart but prayers such
as this addressed to the politicians of all par
ties will provo, We fear, not more eficacious
than singing psalms to dead horses. We in
tend to set good example, and will hereafter
be as amiable to our talented neighbor as
though We had not had occasion to chide him
gently now and then in the course of the late
protracted campaign, commencing with the
rise and progress of Know Nothingism and
ending only with its death at the hands of the
Democracy to come eff at sunduwn precisely
to-day; when it will draw its last breath at
the basis of an important political organiza-
ton.
Nicaragua.-All well.informed men at this
point regard the situation of Walker in Mica
ragua as being most imminently critical No
credit whatever appears to be given by them
to his accounts and those Of his followers of
his late engagements. On the contrary. the
letter published in the New York Trtbune
from Virgin Bay, representing that he was
repulsed in his attack on Messaya, and re-
turned to Granada to find that all his stores,
arms, and indeed even to his every paper had
fallen int the hands of his enemies who had
completely sacked his stronghold, Granada,
and succeeded in retreating unmolestcd with
all their plumber. Thus he is conceived to
have been stripped Of all his resources. The
news by the next arrival from that quarter
will be looked for with great interest.
Death of Lewis Pitt, Esq.-The follow
ing pathetic letter reached US this morning
Its news will be received here by a large cir
Gle with deep sorrow, for its subject was be-
loved in Washington:
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3, 1856
1t may be of interest to some of your Wash
ingtOn readers to know that Lewis Pitt, for
several years a clerk under Col Forney in the
House of Representatives, is dead. He died
on Saturday night, after protracted illness,
and was buried this afternoon. Poor Lew a
few days ago he was confident he would be
well enough to 90 out to vote for Buchanan,
whose election he was looking forward to with
high hopes. But the sunrise which will greet
Buchanan as President elect will light up poor
Pitts fresh made grave. lie was man of
good heart and generous impulses, and l know
of but few men who will be more sincerely
lamented within their own personal circle
than Pitt.
Bound for Karsas.-Extract from q letter
to the editor, dated " In camp on tho bank of
the Des Moines River, Iowa, Oct. %, 1856"
awe have seen, in the five days from Bur-
lington, no less than six or eight hundred men,
all armed, bound for Kansas. 1 saw jim
Lane in Burlington one day last week. He
was on his way East, after recruits. Yester-
day We passed two csnnOns, carried under the
name of TsaPsrs."