Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

retreat a few miles north of Washington city,
that has recently been prepared for his &C
commOdation during the current extremely hot
weather. Wepresume that he will attend daily,
as usual, at his Office in the Executive Mansion.
1t is to be sincerely hoped that no one will in
trude business upon him at his retreat The
place he has selected is we'll calculated for his
temporary occupancy and that of his family,
and will insure him and them against the eff
fects of the malaria which always renders the
Executive Mansion so much to be dreaded as
residence in summer and early in the fall
CATCHING THUSDER.-A Washington CORES
pondent of the Cleveland (Ohio) Plaimdealer
walks into our local Democratic politicians
:" like q thousand of brick"-saying:
1.-The seekers for Office are still strongly repre-
States there are at leaso be offset bv dozen from
the District of Columbia. Ohio is somewhat
backward and modest in her demands The third
great State in the Union has two heads of bureaus
and some twenty six clerkships in Washington
The District has over three hundred clerkships,
besides important positions of higher grade, vet
she is not satisfied, but demands reduction of
the number for Ohio and other States, and that
few more be added to her own list. TO this end
she has her little petty ward clubs and ward COM
mttees. and her tOuchsto of Democ racy to good
the solicitations of the best Democrats i'm the
country, and finds that they do not choose to
break OFF their allegiance to their States and vote
with them, she lets loose her whole kennel Of
yelping ours to hunt them down and dog them
out of office. No matter how hard you may have
fOug lit for the Democratic cause at home, they
decide that if you vote there you can't vote here
and IL you don't vote here you not fit to hold
office. You must aid them in electing some mon
grel ticket, got up by set of political mounte-
banks who never voted for Democratic member
I .1TH To- Ill
| name is straightway blackened and handed in for
removal. An Ohio Democratic clerk who has
held Office here for few years and who has never
failed but once to 90 home and vote the Demo-
cratic ticket at his own residence in his state
since he has been here, has been summarily ar
ragned by some Of these District gentry, his
politics called in question and his place de-
manded."
He then goes on to handle them with teeth
and toe nails, individually. The fellow is evil
IDENTIFY after Office, whoever he may be, and is
disgruntled because some District of Columbia
Democrat has taken the trouble to show that
in the late Presidential contest he put himself
in position to play ''pig or puppy" with equal
ease-to appear to be Democrat or Republican
as either party NIGH win. Such contests are
refreshing in this steaming weather, when, for
the life of US, we find little afoat to interest
us-to say nothing of the task of finding some
thing to interest the Stars Ieaders-aithout
resorting to the trick of dressing up news items
from other newspapers. which they have pre-
viously seen in other journals, as editorials.
An INDIAN CoUNCIL.-This morning, the Kan
sas-tribe delegation that arrived in Washington
city day or two since, unlimited by the Govern
ment, had their first interview or council with
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at his Office
A large crowd Of curious persons attended in the
room, for the natives were in their blankets,
paints, and characteristic ornaments They
were attended by few half breeds, one of them
having his half breed wife and child along The
council lasted about half an hour, in the course
of which the principal chief declared this visit
to be but one of ceremony. He expressed his
desire to have an interview with the Commits
siOner and President, whereat he may state the
multiplicity of business that brought him and
his ehildren-as he styled his companions-to
Washington. The Commissioner received them
with great kindness, and informed them that
he would endeavor to arrange for the interview
tomorrow with the President they desired.
Ere they left, the principal chief stated that
they were without means to pay their board
here, with a delicate hint that the Bureau
should provide for them and was answered
that clerk would be sent down to their quar-
tiers to that end. We refrain from publishing
the jaw-breaking names Of the chiefs. The in
terpreter is Baptiste James. Lewis Papan and
Moses Belmont and Abel Belmont and child
accompanied them. Mrs. b. appears to be a
very intelligent woman, and to have the man
agement of much business
BosH.-The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Courier and Enquirer says:
g. 1t is said that s76O,OOO has been subscribed in
the South for the equipment of a new expedition
against Central America"
Some one has run " deep set saw on this
writer. 1t will be long ere men at the South
with money to spare will invest it in any more
such expeditions as that of Walker. All they
have so invested up to this time have been dead
losses-interest and principal; while the worse
than foolish causes in which they invested it
have turned out in many instances mere abor-
tons. The South will hereafter be as slow to
trust its cash in any such enterprises, as the
burned steamship proprietors of New York
city, who, by this time, we presume, compre-
bend that in such matters honesty is the best
policy. They have burned enormous holes in
their pockets, out of which an aggregate of
millions have slipped out of their possession
and right glad are we that men who speculate
in the intended profits of murder, robbery, and
arson, have been so punished for the loss of
their money is next to that of their lives, in the
estimation of such persons.
The CRoPs.-The newspapers arc publishing
resume OF the condition of the crops in all
the States, originally appearing few days
since IN the journal Of Commerce, the correct
ness of which strikes us as being somewhat
doubtful, so far as the wheat is concerned. We
form our conclusion in the premises from per-
sonai observation on the journey early in June
through Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana.
illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Canada, New York.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania which was the
Inject of our =. I,,t H.