Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-18
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

rectl0QS IN the QrSE dCCobhSo
m to day in Philadelphia, authorize tue oe'iei
that the Democratic State ticket mas "eeh
eleeted by between 6 and 600 majority we
bovs carried fifteen out of Pennsy lvanias
twenty five members of Congress
IvnY,x.-Nothing has been received here
TO-DAY to shake our confidence in the belief
that Wizards (Dem.) majority for Governor
will be less than 5000, and the official returns
NAV run it up to 1000. We have six mem
hers of Congress from Indiana, and our friends
in indianapolis have strong hopes that the Of
icisl returns will show that we have at least
two NOR G.
OHIo.-We are without private dispatches
to-day from the Ohio election. Our friends in
Columbus assured US last night of the cleo.
ton of Groesbeck, Pendleton, Miller, Cox,
Cockrell; also of Horn and MediIl from whose
districts the returns arc not yet all in They
clining to state it to Us as a fixed fact. All
those named above arc Democrats.
Frsmonts Religion. Louis f. Tasistro,
ESQ, and Richard Yeadon, Esq the latter
being one Of the editors Of the Charleston
South Carolina) Courier, one of the mildest
and most conservative journals in the South
are after the Woody Horse" with partieu-
larry sharp sticks. Mr.. Tasistro in no: long
since addressing Fillmore meeting at Day
ton Ohio, said-we quote from the ChrOnicfe
of that city
/" He knev Col FemOHt TO be II CathO/Ec
that Ire (Tasstro) lr9r then u CdthOttc him
Seif-fhat Mr.. Fremont, turing his auy az
Washington city, prerfO"S 10 the ttme ~ hes
HaT5I0gs, regularly 0ttehiotel tire same etHrCh
ruth htHssl/-ihat he has sem M. Fremont
time anil 0Satu, go NJOHgh artM Tire Cath0-
tic .JoyntHi@ Of ,coysdip. And in the words Of
Mr.. Tasistro-FrsmOnt's ptrr anu Hltne fcsre
in tie opposite SIDE Of tie aisle Of the same
chMch, md re haze prayed at tie s@Dle
SHRINE together u hnnGre9 Hhlcs.'
Mr.. Yeadon, writing over his own name 10
tho New York NsacS, says:
G. now proceed to state a fact, more ger
name 70 my case, on my personal responsi
bility 1t is that my colleagues in Charleston
have in their possession or control, letters OF
have had access 20 them, from Hrs. ire
nso1lt herself to highly respectable lady in
Charleston, (NhOsc name is known TO MY oOl-
leagues and mysc!f) in which she, (.Mrs
n > "
monts.) 1oIthkraTaI from tie Roman CafhO-
lie ehWrca;' and nothing but q rather TOO
fastidiOus sense Of dtlicacy prevents my col
leagues from publishing those Ietters, unless
Col. Fremont, (as they have repeatedly and
publicly challenged him to do shall DENY,
under his own name, (or authorize some re.
sFonsible person to IL . fer him. that he has
ever been Roman Catholic
Again a dentist in Charleston, Of resDect.
ability as man and em;Eent in his profession,
(whose name is in possession both Of my col
leagues and rnyself) has Informed my col
leagues " that he WAS present, at one or more
interviews between Frenont and his mother,
Mrs Hale, when the apOStacy Of the former
from ProtestaEism, (the creed Of his deceas cd
iather,) was referred to-" This information
is as yet confidential, bat the seal of confidence
will be removed if Col. Fremont shall dare to
make the issue, presented and challenged By
the Charleston Courier.
Lastly, Mr.. Ebenezer Tbayer, q highly
respectable free school teacher, (who, believe
part educated Col, Fremont, IN the free scho l.
under his (M:. Thayor') charge } and who
had himself been in communion with the RO-
man Catholic Church, & has tsStifed,n for my
colleagues, .. hat Mrs. Hale has conversed
with hin, Oh the subject, expressing her re-
crets that q Charles has TUNED Roman Catho-
lie
Mrs Hale, by her maternal influence,
persuaded her son - Charles" in early life,
about his fourteenth year, TO undergo the rite
OF Protestant Episcopal confirmation, a. the
hands Of Bishop Gadsden, ia Charleston He
subsequently, however, throw off his mother S
ieadIng-EtIuss and authority, and united him
self with the Roman Catholic ChU!ch, toward
which lie had always manifested a strong pro-.
clivlty, a. tho church of his deceased father
Yet, 1t seems frCIn Mrs. Fremont s letters to
her correspondent in Charleston, that onjlgal
mi a., VIA
religious enc. from the ColOpel's ayowed.iu
difference to religion. it cannot bc,) has in
duccd bin TO turn again-aJo, " he can turn
and turn again." dixie an eel, 10 suit ais own
purposes, or those Of the Eire-wCrker2 &C
whom he Is the plant pupFct
1t Is manifest, then, that Col Fremont
stands convicted Of tho sin of double apostacy
, religion, first Protestant, then a Roman
Catholic, and then, pretensiveIy perhaps, a
Protestant sgain,) besides being q renegade
IN politics and traitor 10 his friends snd his
State. All things ~ turTs, and nothing
long, surely usht II be the motto for this
slippery Freq Soil candidate for the Presi
dency.'
The Now York IrtLnnc must haston to ii nd
4 third Fremont Oh the army list, ii i. would
ave John Charles frcm the ugly conscq ne Gces
81 ;Aeso Development among tie intense anti
So'H'itC sOtSlS w tAO 4NOttIJ ICIfty lSU OF
whom, the bitterest half perhaps, are yet sup
pcrters IF its oily candidate.
p. S,-Aftc- preparing the above artistic, We
learned incidentally Of u fact OF no little inter
est in this connection VIZ Catholic lady Of
this city, Of high standing in society, Oh goin,
int the house oftLo late venerable and beloved
Father MlttacFS, "a one occasion met Col
John e. Fremont on tLe Threshold, the latter
being ia the act Of leaving the presence Of the
so generally reyered clergyman. On entering
his sitting room, Father Mathews pointed to
five dollars laying Oh his table, and remarked
that the gentleman the lady had met was 10
other than the celebrated Fremont, who had
iefG that money there 10 pay for masses to be
said for him, as he was going over the Rocky
AountaiIf. We lave the name Of the lady,
who will sUjstantiate the fact il Col. Fremont
Al sar.Tr