Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-28

The RETURN OF THE FILIBUsrER WALKER,
has spread CONSERVATION in the camp of the
fllibusters here. The fIibustcr council in this
city is composed of gentlemen of character
and deserved position in society against whom
naught can be alleged except that their ideas
of right and wrong in dealing with weak neigh
boring nations, are based upon the fllibuster's
code of morals and propriety. They are per-
sons of talents, and cultivate an extensive ac-
quaintance with the hundreds here who are
connected with the distant press through whom
they get before the public nearly all the justl-
tihcations of Walkers career that have been
published. They are the real authors of the
published inuehdoes against the integrity Of
the Presidents course upon filibustering SO
signally refuted in the annual Message and
quite as emphatically set at rest by the prompt
and efficient action of Commodore Paulding in
rescuing the property-stearnships- AIneri-
can citizens which Walker had seized in Mica
ragua. and sending him to the United States to
answer for his last violation of the law of this
land.
An effort is, doubtless, to be made at once
from this point to create the impression that
over with indignation because Commodore
Paulding has so signally indicated the integ-
rity of the purpose of this Government in its
dealings with weak and unofending neighbor-
ing nations; which has no foundation in fact.
As, here and at the North, a certain class of per-
sons in large cities sympathisers with the
fibusters, and wherever there are such persons
the Z" fast press of course express their SEN
timents. The New Orleans Delta and Mobile
1rb""s, for instance, are examples Of the
latter, which, upon the smallest possible amount
Of capital in the way of the sympathy Of citi-
zens engaged in legitimate industrial calIings,
make noise enough to seem to represent the
opinion of empires Of men. Such bowling as
We shall have from them over Walkers forced
return was never yet heard. In the mean
time the course Of the Government of the Uni
ted States on this subject will continue to meet
the emphatic approval Of the country at large,
as in all things else since James Buchanan be-
came the President of the United States.
DIR. CHAs. MACKAY, the popular and talent
ed editor of the London Wnarafed Mars, and
the author Of most Of the songs which have Of
late years become nationalities, as it were
throughout England, has reached this city ac-
conpanied by Charles Francis Train, Esq, the
author Of Young America in Wall street."
and other popular recent American publica-
tons, and also Col. Hiram Fuller, the never
to-be-forgotten " Belle Britain of the New
York Mirror. They have apartments at Will
lards'. DIR. Mackay, we hear, proposes to de-
liver lecture in this city, on Saturday even
inO vi he -; IL l..
announced in due time. His career as lectu-
rer, since reaching the United States, has been
crninently successful. Independent Of his rep
utation as one of the most popular Htcyatcurs
Of the day on the other side of the Atlantic his
well-known extraordinary talent as a lecturer
must insure him u full house in the Federal
Metropolis, where true genius is surer of uni
versal appreciation than anywhere else in the
United States.
INDIAN COUNcILs-The council between the
Poncahs delegation of Indians, now in w ash
inston, and the Acting Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, that was to have taken place at
noon to-day, was unavodably postponed on
account of the indisposition of one of the
chiefs. 1t is to come of at 10 a NJ to- morrow
at The Indian Bureau, of course.
At noon Tomorrow a similar council is TO be
held at the same place with the Pottawo ttamie
delegation now here.
The former, without their attendants, are six
in number; the latter nine
Strangers in Washington, who have never
seen North American Indians in council, will
be very much interested on attending.
TIE WEATHER The following report of the
weather for this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution
The time Of observa alton IL about O'Clock n. m.