Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-16
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

A Rsosptien.-At 1 q. m. to-day, Lord
Napier, the new British Minister, had an in
tsrview with the President Of the United
States, at the Executive Mansion, and ere.
ssnted bis credentials as Her Britannia Males
ty's Euvcy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni.
potsntiary. making an appropriate speech on
her behalf to President Buchanan, which was
responded to In due form.
An Important Resignation We have
satisfactory reason to believe that the resigna-
ton Of Governor GeKry, Of the Gcvsrnorship
Of Kansas Territory, has been received by the
Government at this point.
The Bogus Decline Of virginia.-Ws are
net little unused at the avidity with which
The anti-slsvery press seize on the buggaboo
lsmsntstons and representations of the Rich.
mond Wing, over the alleged industrial con-
dit:on of the O.d Dominion. At houe, all
Bach jeremaids are well understood, and are
accordingly translated to mean just what th ey
are. Viz: clap-tr to affect the approach
Ing spring election. The opposition in VIZ
sinis having planted themselves on the policy
Of obtaining Tor tie State wha. they call her
share Of the public lands, are setting up the
poorest possible month to induce voters to be-
heve that unless thus relieved directly by the
National Government, sli property in Vir-
ginis's borders is soon to depreciate in value
some 80 Fer centum, and all her citizens are
70 be ruined by enormously increased taxa
tion. such is the explana alton, in few words,
OF the policy Of the Wing in this connection,
and those journals and politicians acting with
1t. That nobody at home Of common sense
places any confidence in those evil forebodings
L. evidenced by the fact that the value of
every description Of property within Virginia's
borders Is rising with far greater rapidity
than In any other old State, while her people
were never before SO clear CT debt, and with
10 much ready Ecney in their pockets.
Her obligations up to This time have been
satisfactorily complied with far more so than
Ii usual with States engaged as she is in push
ing public works extepsively and speedily.
Her taxation is light-very light whom com,
pared with that Of other States so engaged ::
and, a. explained above, her people are at
this moment better able to stand it doubled,
than they were twenty years ago to pay the
current rate Of taxation, which the Wing pre-.
tends to be growing and grumbling over. We
write prSsnds, because the conductors of that
Journal are too intelligent not 10 know that m
der Its alleged grisvous taxes and general going
TO the ID in Virginia as fast as possible, no
other people on the fsoe Of the globe are, a. O
community, better OF and more prosperous.
Cnder such circumstances, TO see the TVAip ct
a. Psr'issing in furnishing the Abolitionists
VIII political capital, as they are doing, is. to
asJ the least, provoking. Nothing mettles M
more than to read in Northern journals. ,pe.
e'ous ornaments to Justify Abolitionism, based
on the Wigs accounts Of the so deplor.hla
present industrial condition aud prospects Of
virginia. See there-say the Tribune, Post.
ana their a!iies-is it not our duty to overleap
law constitution and everything else 10 pre-.
vent the Territories Of the United States from
iaiiirg into the condition, in which the Rich
mond Wing insits, Virginia Is at this mo-
nsnt1
APropos Of this land Sistributisn idea We
stand by President Buchansn's wise and "a.
'h'te policy Of devoting the means of the G an
sfal seVernnent-lards, and surplus money
IN 'as trtasury-to pay ing its debts and build
Ing up Navy commensurate with the rapid
s OIL cur foreign commerce. The mes ns
Ds 'ne's things must be raised hereafter
oy Indirect taxation ;f,b,.
sasandeisd, either in extrayasapt o, 800,
'ssiiation, or by depo.i, With q, a,,;.;on
among the States. In raising those me. n,
Virginia must bear more thu, - -
the necessary taxation; As, under ,nv t.,,;f
on Imports the South and the ,.,;.n,,.--.,
Wess bear nearly the whole bru.. 20, .v. -
dollar OF the surplus and every dollar. worth
OF public lands Virginia would 70, v.,. ,,,.
latest invention Of unad liberated Fsd.,.,;...
10 create necessity for high protection, 10 ~
'nPsl her people would have to pay it back