Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-11

Majority for Dowdell, ll6.
Madison county gives for Compensation w
X. w. Cobb l,O97, Henry c. Sanford 5a, Henry
X. Beaver 81.
Lauderdae-R NJ. Patton Senator, Henry ID
Smith and :. A. NJ. Wood reps.
Lawrence-O: IL. Bynum Senator, Henry A.
Franklin-R. b. Lindsey Senator, r f. Bell
and VIM. NJ Jackson reps.
Morgan-R: Y. Walden rep, John d. Rather
Senator from Morgan and Limestone
LimesOne-FOr Congress, q. =. Houston ,U2
David Hubbard $50. Thos. IL. Hobbs and VIM
VI Redus reps.
and John B. Tally, John :. Eustace and James
NJ. Cloud reps Cobb's majority is about 100
In the Florence district the contest is close
between Geo. 5. Houston and David Hubbard
In Limestone, Morgan, Lawrence, Franklin and
Lauderdale Houston is about 3i5 ahead. Ma
riUn, Walker and Hancock to hear from These
three counties are claimed confidently for Hub
bard, by an aggregate of three OF four hundred.
Hence the fact that the district is regarded as
being 50 very close.
In the Huntsville district w r. W. Cobb is
again elected. He gets majorities in Madison,
Jackson, Marshall and Dekalb Cherokee. one
report gives to Sandford by 900, and another to
Cobb by $50.
A MISTAKE IN A NAME.-We find in the Rich
mond SOuth of yesterday morning the following
note:
To fhs Editor Of the WASHINGTON Star: .
IN your Issue OF The - instant, you publish
article on the subject of the course of Gov Wal
ker IN Kansas, as one among numerous instances
of recantation on the part Of such Of the South
ern press as had, at first, condemned him, and
place u 10 the credit of the Blue Ridge Republi-
can, of which am Editor. I'm this YOU do me
much injustice, not only regards the consis-
teicy OF my own course, but as regards my pres
ent opinion. j have not changed nv opinion of
the conduct Of Governor Walker in Kansas I
condemned him at II rst, and condemn him now
acquitted the Administration of any participa-
ton IN his delinquences at first, and | acauit Il
now. My reasons for this have been freely given
them here.
The article belongs to another paper. and the
placing II to my credit was, 1 know, purely acct
dental. But it has been copied into the Rich
ilond Examiner, and may be copied into other
papers, and have thought 1t due to myself, and
to my readers who almost unanimously approve
OF my course, to make the correction as soon as
possible.
should have addressed this note to YOU at
washington, but was about starting for Rich
mond when the article met my eye and conclud
II there.
Yours, respectfully,
II. NJ. GARLAND, JR.
Our mistake was in enormously transcribing
the name Of the journal from which the quota
ton was made-the Martinsburg Republican,
we believe, rather than the Blue Ridge Repub-
Hean, as printed in the Star. The mistake,
however, was Of no earthly importance to any
one except our friend of the Blue Ridge Repu6-
hcan. 1t matters not by v>pm written, the
arguments Of the article transferred TO the
Stars columns were exceedingly cogent and
well put, and are having very desirable ef
feet in the South.
Nor SATISFIED. surviving officers of the
regiment of New York Volunteers are in stew
over the award Of Gen1 Jackson's Gold Snuff
Box to Capt. Garrett Dykman. They unani.
mously protest against it, for good and sufi-
cient reasons, if their published statement be
True. While they award to him equal credit
-. MS services in the Mexican war, they main
'''ih 'nat he in no respect whatever distin.
gulshed himself above bis compeers. While
'ha' may be very true, it strikes us that had
any other Of them been the fortunate man Sc
iected by the Common Council of New York 10
receive the snuff box that selection wonld h.u.