Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-25
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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ingtOn (telegraphic) correspondence Ill '"'
New York Herald of yesterday;
.u, m.ttsr Of complete astonishment to
the f,;ends of Sickles here that he Is running
IN oonos;tiou TO the regular nominee OF the
d.mn.rat;c narty, thereby hazsrding the elec-
tion of that sterling democrat ana tried STATES
man Gen Wslbridge. am informed ne mas
been written to by the friends Oh Mr; buehanan
Lection. and is only dividing and distracting
the marty, and may thereby cause the election
of black republican. l am just this moment
informed BY an intimate friend Of Old Buck
that he (Buchanan) prefers Gen. Walbridge
should represent the third district Of your city.
This is reliable Mr.. Sickles will please, there
fore, leave the ring"
The act Of Mr.. Sickles in "leaving the
ring, would doubtless have beneficial effect
on the price of the Msriposa stock owned by
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett. But We incline
to the opinion that Mr.. S. will do nothing Of
the sort, however much his acceptance of the
regular Democratic nomination in the third
district of New York may interfere with the
financial schemes Of the open and avowed
hackers of Col. Fremont.
We presume that if Mr.. Sickles has been
written to to withdraw by friend of Mr..
Buchanan, the writer must have been some
such friend as General Wslbridge himself,
who did not find it convenient to declare in
his speeches whether he was for his partner,
Col. Fremont, or Mr.. Buchanan, before the
result of the recent Pennsylvania and Indiana
elections was known. this point, he. (Gen.
Walbridge,) was claimed by the Fremonters
as one of themselves quite up to that time.
This is fact known to almost every man
"around town"
That General Walbridge failed to take open
and emphatic ground for Mr.. Buchanan up
claim Of the Fremonters to him as their prop
erty, as We explain. Undor such circum-
stances it cannot bo reasonably expected that
Mr.. Sickles will decline tho regular Demo.
cratic nomination in Gen. WIS favor; more
especially-we must add-as it has been cur.
rently said for months past that the latter
would run . stump against the Democratic
nomination in the district, if failing to get it
himself.
Personally, no man has kinder feelings for
General Walbridge than ourself But we
will not permit cur personal feelings to lead
rs to cOuntenance him in standing in what we
regard as an equivocal position toward the
Democratic party. For his sake We wish there
never had been such things as the Mariposa'
and the " Bolton and Barron" in existence.
Kansas.-It is worthy Of note that peace
now reigns throughout Kansas. Governor
Geary has already fairly redeemed the i'm.
piled promise of pacifying the Territory in
volved in his selection after his experience as
a successful executive officer in a new coun-
try. The telegraph, it will be remembered,
now chronicles only alleged stopages of " Free
State settlers" about entering the Territory,
which, as all the world have come to know,
simply means that men going into the Terri
tory for the avowed purpose of making war
rather than cultivating the soil, have been
prevented from carrying out that purpose
that's all. This is as it should be, as all re.
alize who desire that Kansas shall be left to
the fair operation of the principle Of self gov
eminent at the foundation of its basis law
As yet the {" shriekers for freedom" how
ever, continue their Misrepresentation con-
corning the state of things there. That is,
on the stump in the States. Thus, the bogus
Governor Robinson who fed between two
days from the wrath of his betrayed-s sold
-California. constituents, is now in New
York detailing false accounts of the manner
in which James Ii. Lanes murderers, robbers
nd 90 hou Ia IL
with by the outraged and excited people Of
the Territory. Fortunately for the cause of
the continuance of the Union and order and
peace in that particular Territory, the Penn
sylvania and Indiana elections Of last week
have already so Influenced the public mind Of
the North as that freedom shrieking" lie even
80 soon at great discount. After the 4th
of November We shall hear little indeed of it !;
as after the Presidential contest shall have
been ended, there will be no inducement for
the continuance Of the systematic misrspre.
sentation Of occurrences in Kansas, such as
those with which the Fremont Press have
been blatant for months past. By the 4th Of
March next nine tenths of the people of the
non -slaveholding States will be amazed on
the extent and bold character
OF the Kansas affairs humbug that has Of late
been successfully imposed on them for poiti
cal ends only.
How 1t Was Dons.-A gentleman in ex-
tsnsive business in Wall street, New York,
explained to US how Huntington,
the now famous Yankee forger, managed to
rob his fellow business men of New York out
Of something more than half million Of dol.
lars in less than year Thus, being note
broker professionally, the paper Of many
sound merchants and traders passed through
his hands. His custom was to mako fac sum
'fies Of the notes left with him to negotiate on
account Of others, and, after having thus dis
posed Of the honest ones, to hypothecate the
f1rgeries for loans at usurious interest. He
was not stock Spectator, or a gambler, and,