Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-25
Ssrgsant.at.Arms Of the United States House
of Representatives.

VI nepresontdClVos.
Mr.. Sheets, of Indiana, one of the principal
abolition Tor anti-slavery) orators there (all o
whom declared themselves against the admis
sion of Kansas with a slaveholdipy oopstitu
ton, showing dudgeon when styled "aboli
tionists," though expressing willingness to b,
known as anti-slaveryites) insisted vehement,
on the repeal Of the twelfth section, which
was done for the accommodation of those o.
MS INK. he expressed his willingness, and
that of his brother anti-slaveryitss, to aocept
the Washington platform Why, reader
Listen:
HE was willing to accept compromise,
but the section must be got rid of; he was
willing to accept the Washington platform
for if there was anything in it, it was so COW
cred up with verbiage that President would
be elected before the people would find out
what it was all about. (Tumultuous laugh
teri
Three Southern States had been carried on
the 18th section repeal it, and we will give
you the entire North. (Applause.) He ap-
pealed to the Council to take off this trammel.
that the great North and North-We est may
march to triumph Do this and place on the
ticket good Southern msR, and most of the
Southern States will be carried with or with
out the 18th section"
From one Of the New York journals we take
the following birds eye view of the proceed
ings between the time when the Council died
and the nominating convention was born
Mtdntght.-The defeated North are in
private caucus at the Merchants Hotel to see
what they will do about it. The Centrals and
N trnn nj all - 4 -.- 4
for the nominating Convention tomorrow, and
the South Americans are consoling themselves
with drinking. 1t is impossible to answer the
question. What of the morrow
The adoption Of the new platform has en-
livened the Nationals, and they will press
nomination pretty strongly. Law has the
most friends of any single person, but Fill
more and Erastus Brooks have their hackers
The North will probably oppose nomination,
and if she is made to do so, then the bolt which
did not come off on the platform will probably
take place. The Northern side was badly en-
gineered in the fight on the platform. The
New England and Ohio delegates had agreed
to go together for a single proposition, to re.
peal the Twelfth Section, but Ely and Brews.
ter betrayed them and put the North in
false position, from which it never extricated
itself"
Erastus Brooks for the Presidency! Amt
that high? We are getting seriously alarm ed
for the senior of our talented, truthful and
engenuous neighbor. Why, they'll put him
up for the Presidency next, as sure as a gun
if they keep on much longer after that fashion
And then We shall have to hang ourself out of
pure ennui, occasioned by the loss of our Gus.
somary afternoons treat in reading his per-
spicacious, profound, disinterested and re-.
freshing-if at times slightly Peck sniff an -,
and at other times Observation-Disclosures
But all this reminds US of a story we have
heard of two distinguished clergyman of anti
revolutionary times, in Boston; the Rev. Mr..
Byles and the Rev. Mr.. Winslow Parson B
a learned man and great wag in his way,
was remarkably absent-minded; while Parson
Winslow was famed for Sinking work; for
watching to find strange parsons in town, all
of whom be asked to preach in his pulpit.
Parson Byles's slave Pompey-for in those
days even New England clergymen held slaves
coming into his masters study, said his coat
was shabby and he wanted a new one every
well, Pomp," 60 ask your mistress for one of
mine that have laid aside" Pompey, how.
ever, stirred never a peg, and the Parson CON.
tinued reading. Casting up his eyes in
quarter of an hour, he again saw Pomp in his
presence, unbidden. Master, want a new
coat" 500 to your mistress and ask her for
one of mine, Pompey" Still Pomp stirred
not; and the Parson again buried himself in
study. A third time looking up after tho
lapse of some minutes and asking the perse-
vering Pomp "What now? ?" he was answered
81 want new coat" On that occasion, his
master recollecting that he had told him where
to apply for one, ordered him thither again, in
a huff. Whom Pomp protested that he could
not think of DOMINIC black coat. "Why
not, Pompey?" "Cause, ma.sa, if Parscn
Winslow see me wild black coat on, no sure to
nab me fur to preach to he congregation"
Really, it seems as though the Know Nothing
National Convention is about to be as indis.
eliminate in its search for suitable occupant
for the Presidential chair, as Parson Winslow
was in times Of yore, for brethren to ill his
pulpit.
The Metropolitan Railroa d and the Streets
Of Washington.-Finding no little excitemen mt
among our fellow citizens with reference to
the petition of this company for liberty to
extend their road through this city to juno
ton with the Baltimore and Washington rail-
road, We take occasion to spread it before our
readers IN srtensO; remarking only that we
understand from its president that it is not
proposed to cross or traverse Pennsylvanis
avenue with it, any where
The Memorial Of the President and Directors
Of the Metropolitan Railroad Company respect
fully shows to your honorable bodies, that q
bill was passed by Congress at the I'd session
of the SD Congress, and approved March 3,
1858, granting the right Of way to company,
whenever incorporated by the State Maryland,
to lay out and construct railroad from any
point in connection with the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, at on near the Point of Rocks, to
Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.
That the General Assembly of the State OF
Maryland, at the session Of 1853, passed bill
to INCORPORATE the METROPOLITAN Railroad Com