Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-17
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

truth, Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald is likely to have entire success in
the manufacture of facts Fl
A short time since we exposed the faliacy OF
his story about Kansas stripped of troops, turn
ed over to rioters, and deprived OF her doyernor
by the action of the late Secretary of War If
anything was wanting to make that exposure
complete, the publication of the correspondence
between Gov. Geary and Gen. Smith supplied it.
But this correspondent now attempts by garb-
ling the letter of Gen. Smith to pervert its
meaning and suppress its main facts Every
one who reads the letter of Gen. Smith will see
that the purpose for which Gov. -Geary made
his last call was not within the scope of the
Presidents instructions, nor embraced by the
laws regulating the use of the military power in
the suppression of instruction and the due exc
cution of the laws of the land What then be-
comes OF the correspondents "true question"
who rescinded orders of the President which or
ders the President did not, and legally could
not have issued? We did hold that the letter of
Gen. Smith refuted the whole tissue Of misrep-
resentation contained in the startling disclosures
made on the declared authority of Gov. Geary,
and we relied on that portion Of the letter which
cally suppressed.
The campaign against the Cheyennes has long
been projected, and the outrages committed by
them were of so horrible a nature that in his
last annual report the Secretary of War ex-
planned how that movement of troops had been
delayed by the pressing necessity for their pres
ence in the settled portions of Kansas.
The theory Of the correspondent seems to be
that which every cheat entertains-that conceal
ment is the rule Of human action,-for we ven
ture the opinion that he has no personal ac-
quaintance with Gen. Davis, and we hope our
comprehension will never sink to the low level
of the housing suspicion which colors this cor.
respondents representations.
An editorial of the New Orleans Dsltn has
long since set forth in exact terms the absence
of any connection or intercourse between Gen.
Davis and the conductors of that paper The
Vicksburg Sentinel has twice changed owners
since Gen. Davis was at that place, and it is
we'll known that he has no control over that
paper; yet the correspondent, without any au-
thority, re-asserts 1t to be his organ, and with
out the least foundation, afirms that he is re.
sponsible for its article in relation to the New
Orleans DeiGa
Though Gen. Davis long before the meeting
of the National Convention informed his friends
in published letter that he was unwilling to
be brought before that Convention for place
on the Presidential ticket. and was subsequent
ly elected to the United States Senate, the Her
M correspondent nevertheless insists that
he was connected with the purchase of the
Delta, not a party paper, for the purpose of
being nominated for the Vice Presidency,-a
position as silly as it is untrue.
We know of no other Southern party than the
Democratic party of the South; and the unan-
unity with which that party supported the cleo
ton OF Mr.. Buchanan is to be found in the
returns The published answers of Gen Davis
TO invitations to address public meetings in
pennsylvania, Georgia, Mississippi and else
where, during the last Presidential canvass,
furnish the best evidence of his sympathy with
the views and wishes of his political friends in
their support OF the candidate of the Democracy
Those who know Gen. Davis have no difficult
ty IN obtaining the open expression of his opin-
ions, and as the Herald's correspondent has
not this relation, We will inform him that Gen.
Davis holds his calumnies in such contempt
that he thinks we have wasted our time in no.
tlcing them. Assumptions which the writer could
not know to be true, which probability marks
as false, and for the utterance of which there
could be no laudable motive, he expects every
honorable mind instinctively to reject, until
better authority is adduced than rumor speak.
ing through the traducer himself
Our NEW GRASADIAN RELATIoSs.-Weh have
tOyvin lott a
anna, an American of experience, caution and
| high character, In whose representations and
views upon American questions in that quarter
| OF the globe we place entire confidence His
letter will be found of great interest just at this
moment as well as the extracts from the Pana.
ma Star and Herald he sends US, which we also
| append:
PANAMA, April 1, 1857.
| Editor of the Star: As anticipated, and so
wrote you, this Government has, in the most in.
sultln9 manner, rejected the propositions of the
| United States for a peaceful adjustment of the
| questions at issue between the two Governments
New Granada deserves no further forbearance AT
| our hands; and ] trust our Government will n
once adopt the most stringent measures of re-
dress. No doubt General Herran, the Charpe
d Afaires from this Government will exert him
| self to induce President Buchanan TO despatcb
| another agent To Bogota but | hope all such
| efforts Will prove abOrtve. A more unfortunate
ISeP touiu not De auOpted as II would result as
disastronsly as the mission of Morse Should
| Gen Herran hold out Inducements to our Gov
eminent that the matters in disguise can be peace
| 1nlly settled, he ought not to he believed for |
am persuaded he has no authority from his Gov
eminent to give any such assurance The temper
fthe people Of this country leaves not the slight
-. nope OF an amicable adjustment. | enclose
two slips from the Panama Star and Herald one
OF which gives the latest news from Bopota and
| the other commencing the policy adopted bv
zen. pierce,s administration with regard to our
dfnculties with this Government-the latter of
which know will crafty you. OBSERVER
| rom BoGorA.-Our readers will not he sur
pr1sed TO learn that Mr. Bowlin. the L. q Minis
| yer, ana Mr. Morse, the Special Commissioner
jointly deputed to lay before the Executive of Bo-
gola the proposition Of the United States Gov
ernnient relative to the 18th of April have been
unsuccessful, that negotiations have been sus-
| pended, and that now all further action in the
| at Washington. ''"''
. Not only has the demand of the United States