Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-11
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

B. FIoyd had taken the liberty OF Offering tho
D.moc,at;c Presidential nomination to FIRE.
mont ara he was nominated by the Republic
aans-such being the roorback in its length
and bre.dth-sent to Ex-Gov. F. a slip con-
tanning its particulars. In reply, he (Ex-Gov..
Floyd writes promptly as follows:
ABINGDON, VA, 9th September. 1855.
hasten to answer your kind note received
this morning, and to say that there is scarcely
a shadow Of foundation for the statements CON
tanned in the slip you sent me. never had an
interview with Fremont except at his own
seeking or that of his special friends. never
made any offer to him Of anything for myself
or others He never expressed any eensure
for the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise in
my hearing All that is CANNON from begin
ing to end. 1 never saw him until met him
in New York and, after short acquaintance,
standing Mariposa) and extremely ill-informed
upon all political subjects. broke of all
communication with him on political subjects,
because I saw that the influences which gov
erped him were abolition These are the
simple facts; and the only thing about it which
worries me is to think that the interviews Of
gentlemen, in the confidence of privacy, should
be made the subject of newspaper discussion,
and misreyresented, too, for the purpose Of
giving something of effect to the fables they
are filed with. JOHN B. FLOYD
This is just the reply we. anticipated Ex
Gov. Floyd would make to such an aspersion
on his fair fame. We know him we'll enough
to feel assured that he would as willingly sever
his right arm off, as participate in any such in
trigue as that he so emphat;cally and indig.
nantly denies in the letter published above.
Ksnsas.-We are satisfied from what we
instructions have gone to Kansas which will
lead to such measures on the part of the Gov
ernment's officers, military and civil, as will
promptly put down the civil war there 1t is
deeply to be regretted that General Smith per.
mitted Lane to enter the Territory at the head
thus to create the necessity for the counter
precipitation of an army from Missouri for
their dispersion and punishment.
The Government here have a duty to do in
the premises which, we are satisfied. will be
done at all hazards. The fact that General
Smith failed to take the responsibility of dri-
wing Lane and his men out of the Territory ere
they had perpetrated one of their hundreds Of
recent murders, robberies and arsons can form
no legitimate reason why the General Govern.
ment should fail to prevent the Missouriaus
from taking their revenge. We have no doubt
that Lane and every man of his force who can
be arrested viii be duly arrested by the troops
Of the United States, but none but troops
called into service by the General Government
will be permitted to participate in arresting
them. Any others found in arms in the Ter
ritory, under whatever pretence, will be re-
gard ed as participants in the existing civil war
which it is the imper ative duty Of the Presi-
dent of the United States to put down at all
hazards, and will be dealt with accordingly.
Such, in few words, We believe to be the sub
stance of the instructions said to have been for
warded to General Smith and Gov. Geary.
Sc nator Pearce.-This justly distinguished
gentlema AM appears in this mornings L,tetti-
gencsr in q letter contradicting the absurd
story Of our talented, amiable and truthful
neighbor saying that he and Rufus Choate re-
fuse to support Fillmore because they were
disappointed in obtaining judgeships under bis
administration. Among those cognizant Of tie
unwritten history of public affairs no such de-
NAL was necessary. Mr.. Fillmore offered a
seat in his Cabinet to James A Pearce, who
declined it. No man who knows anything of
such matters will fail to comprehend that
gentleman who bad such tender made him
could have failed to have commanded a va
can't United States district judgeship if de-
string it.
In the case of Rufus Choate, we know of our
own knowledge that when friends suggested to
him the propriety of permitting bis name to be
presented to Mr.. Fillmore for the United States
circuit judgeship to which Judge Curtis was
subsequently, appointed, be firmly opposed the
idea, because he could not afford to relinqu ish
his practice. The organs story is the sheer
est balderdash imaginable
a Capital Appointment.-The War De-
'artment having necessity elsewhere for tho
services Of Major Emory of the U. s. Topc-
graphical Engin GERS (who he'd been selected
~ the Secretary of the Interior for the work.
me acting Secretary of the Interior has ap.
pointed our fellow.citizen, Randolph CoyIe,
1sq.' civil Ell gineer, to superintend the COM
'letion OF the Little Falls bridge over the Pc.
omae' for which Congress appropriated
''o,ooo at Its 10 1t regular session.
Inc seiectio of Mr. Coyle for this duty is
ed compliment to the professional
NH anu energy with which he has for some
'eAiS p Ast conducted the portion of the Gov
'lnm snt's improvements in this city with
VIZ oh he has been entrusted, and in other
orks constructed under his superintendence.
The Coal Question.-It appears, from our
Baltimore exchange papers, that at the regu-
lar monthly meeting Of the Board of Directors
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, yesterday, the following resolutions were