Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

ANOTHER MEETING PRoPosED.-As we anti
cipated, the meeting of yesterday afternoon has
already been seized on as pretence or justifi-
cation for meeting of persons in this commu-
nifty, whose partizanship so affects them as
that they entertain more or less sympathy
with the ruffians and rowdies who came hither
from Baltimore to create the necessity for
quelling their riot ION the LIST instant as it was
quelled. We invoked all good citizens to re-
main away from the first meeting, to which we
refer above, to a good end for the attendance
was very small, when it is remembered that the
cause in which it was convoked has the sympa-
thy of almost all in Washington who are thought
full and law-abiding citizens We trust that
those of the American party who really desire
that the trials connected with the riots of the
LIST instant which are soon to take place, shall
not be conducted under an inHamed condition
of popular political sentiment, will abstain from
attending the proposed counter meeting. The
names of those who will be found active
as participatOrs in it, will prove sufficient to
satisfy all OF all parties, that under whatever
pretence called, its drift will be but to excite
sympathy on political grounds for the par,ici-
pators in the riots who are held to answer to
the law
As nothing would give us greater pain than
to find any political party in this metropolis
either directly or indirectly sanctioning the
course Of the Baltimore rowdies here. we sin.
eerely hope that our American Party fellow
eilzens will not thus aid in convincing the coun-
try that, everywhere, their organization tends TO
intlct far greater evils upon society than any al
legged evils it is nominally designed to eradicate
While we are without the slightest political sym-
pathy with them, we are certainly solicitous, for
thefsir fame of our metropolis, that Plug Ugly
Ism shall find neither direct nor indirect counter
ance here on the part of persons who have any
BONA hde stake In the we'll being Of Washington
city.
ARREsrED.--Wm Browning and Charles b.
Mlnot, OF New London, Conn, have been Or
rested, per direction Of the Commissioner of
Pensions, for the preparation of frauds ON his
bureau in order to obtain bounty land warrants
for forging papers to obtain bounty land war
rants. These arrests were made only after
such investigation on the part of an agent of
the bureau sent on from Washington, as ended
In obtaining proof that rendered such q course
necessary. The parties seized are now in
prison, awaiting m examination before an U.
3 Commissioner, soon to be held We are salts.
fed that the result of their examination will
consign them to trial for the offence az charged
on them by the bureau.
GOVERNOR MERIwErHER, of New Mexico.
reached Washington yesterday. He is in fine
health, having borne his long journey over the
plains admirably. He rendered his resignation
TO President Pierce in February last. Presi-
dent +. declined acting upon it, doubtless N
accord to his successor an opportunity of select
ing that of Governor NJ. AS the latter ia do.
termined, we hear, not to return to the Terri.
tory, II Is to be presumed that he will very
shortly be relieved by President Buchanan;
who by-the-by, will, in these times, find fewer
prominent Democratic politicians unwilling to
step into his gubernatorial shoes than into those
OF the redoubtable Brigham
Posr OFFICE DEPARrxESr-Ne,c Omcr,
Observation-Disclosures Dane county. Wis.
Andrew L. Mann, Postmaster; Sous Creek
Dade county, Mo, Edward Ii. Travis. Post.
master; Jasper, Jasper county, Mo-, Jesse Fork
ner, Postmaster; Eye Hill, Reynolds county.
Mo, Robert E. B. Love, Postmaster; UNITY.
Scotland county, No, Jacob Maggard, Post.
master; Kiddville, Sullivan county, Mo-, David
Belmyer, Postmaster; Elwood, Doniphan coun.
ty, Kansas Territory, VIM. Sager, Postmaster.
Post Offices Diseontinusd.- Boone
county, Mo-; Hubbard's Corners, Madison
county, N. Y; New Salisbury, Columbiana
county, Ohio.
CORRECTION. in stating an
opinion recently given by the Attorney General
upon the case Of the Superintendent of the In
terror Department building, (for whose compen.
0"'i'n Congress clearly intended to provide. in |
. cause OF the miscellaneous appropriation act |
VI the last session, wherein clerica.; mistake
was maze as to the years in which he rendered |
the services) we said that he had decided that |
the othcer In question sis not entitled. lawfully
to compensation for that service, We sboui5
have written that he has decided that on ,c.
count of q clerical error, the law cannot ho
executed.
A LAW POINr DEcIpED.-The ATTORNEY Gan
eral, to whom was referred-by the Secretary
Of the Interior-the question how the IS, 600
by Congress to pay of the eighty
eight Cherokees omitted in the census taken by
D. W. Siler, in 1851, in execution of the treaty
'f 1885, with that tribe, land thereby deprived
VI their per capita allowance of the money d.
Tided out among the rest of the tribe, under the
reaty0 has decided that there not being sufi.