Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-06
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Star enters upon its fifth year, under our aus
pices. From a very small beginning it has
gradually and surely achieved circulation,
greater than that of any other daily newspaper
in the world published in city Of the popula-
ton of Washington, and its advertising patron
age is at this moment unequalled by that OF any
other newspaper Of twice its age, published In
any other city in the world of the population Of
the Federal Metropolis There are substantial
reasons for these facts, or they would not exist
They mean that no other journal has ever ac-
auired in the same time so large share OF the
confidence and regard of the population among
whom it is printed, and whore 1T may be known.
That this popularity is not of the mushroom or
der. Is evident from the fact known to all its
D atrons, that day by day and step by step its
business has improved. and, without fuctu-
alton, it has steadily grown in public favor.
We have labOred earnestly to make it deserve
these substantial evidences of the good opinion
of the public, faithfully intoxicating at all times
and in all things without fear or favor what we
believed to be for the best interests of society.
We have also expended our means literally to
improve it not hesitating to do so to the extent
of our ability when and where such expenditures
were advisable. As an advertising medium, it is
now unrivaled anywhere for it is n daily well
come visitor in the bosom of nearly every family
in Washington and the surrounding cities and
country. Its advertising columns show that the
business men among us known for their thrift
and sagaciouS enterprise are well aware that
fact. Our purpose is to increase its utility as
public journal by the application of the means
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sire it to be. Viz: A newspaper second in its
wide spread influence in favor of commendable
principles in all the affairs of life to that of no
other newspaper in the United States.
We owe much, indeed, for its unprecedented
success to our fellow-citzens of all parties, who
have evinced for it degree of regard, and, in it,
degree of confidence, which has inSpirited us in
the work of its improvement, beyond measure
teaching us that, with unhagging industry and
energy and continued devotion to their best in
terests, We may continue to calculate upon the
step by step increase of its prosperity. Though
now in the middle of long recess, its regular
issue was never before go great at this season
of the year as at present; nor was the adver
Using patronage it enjoys ever so large in the
summer. as nOw-even when Congress may have
been sitting We have much, indeed, for which
to thank the public, and in its future conduct
shall strive conscientiously to show that we are
duly grateful.
The CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CASBL.-We
cannot perceive how more than three months
through navigation, at most can be enjoyed on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal this season
Notwithstanding the energy with which its
managers are pressing its repairs. The loss to
the business community relying upon it for IA
cilities must be immense. We have now en-
tered on the seventh month of the year, and it
is not possible that its through navigation can
be resumed ere the opening of the eighth month";
while no calculation can reasonably be made on
its use during the twelfth mOnth-December
We attribute this state Of its affairs to the pol
icy of Maryland in her management oft. She
has dragged it into politics, and also exhibited
fixed determination to do all she docs in con-
nectiOn with it not for the benefit of the bust
ness of the work itself. but to prevent it from
being the means of enabling any others to do
any business whatever elsewhere, that is now
being done or may hereafter be done in Balti-
more. To create delays and endorsements
in the transaction Of business by means of the
the canal, is evidently the leading feature of the
States canal policy. That she has eminently
succeeded in it this season, is past denial. Ey-
cry two years, or whenever a political change
takes place in the States government similar
change is made in most of the employees of the
Canal Company, who are selected for the most
part on account Of their political services rather
than for their capacity to discharge the duties
Of Canal superintendent, lock tenders, &c,
best for the interest of the work Under such
circumstances who wonders that such disastrous
breaks, washing away of dams. &c, take place,
as those which now render the work nuisance
to all and help to none in business.
There is just one remedy for this state of the
canals affairs. That is, sale or gift Of the
work by the State to some parties or other able,
willing and sufficiently interested to put it in
complete order and to keep it in such condition
This will be brought about only by the pressure
Of an indignant public opinion and the present
condition of the work is fast generating that
The idea of selling it to the set of spectators
who will promise most for it, which the State
authorities entertain, if carried out will simply
perpctuato the existing difficulties and Gisabil-
tiles Of the work Whoever purchases it must
buy it subject to very heavy liens, mortgages,
preferred debts, &c; thus in the end paying
what may be regarded as almost its present full
value, in paying them off The time viii soon
come when the State must transfer the canal
wholly into the hands of those directly and i'm
mediately interested in making it what it should
be.
SPECULATIXG.-The public may write down
all = Washington correspondence, whether by
telegraph or otherwise, attributing to the infu-
ence Of Costa Rica the elevation of Martinez to
the Presidency of Nicaragua, as having originated
directly or indirectly with one of two classes of
spectators Not that we mean that the writer's
of such . Washington news" are the specula-
tors; but they are imposed on by those interest
ed either in the profits and losses of pecunary
spectators in fillibustering, or in contemplated
enterprises to run the Nicaragua transit route
The game of those who speculate in fIlibuster-
ing is, Of course TO send Walker back to Mica
ragua; and it will never do for them to permit
the world to know that thorough Nicaraguan