Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-29
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WASdlN6IUN NEWS AND GOCCl<.
CUBA.-We incidentally remark in another
connection to-day, that the acquisition OF CUBA
10 the great present purpose of our country
Though little has been said of late N the news
papers upon the subject, there never was
time when it occupied more OF the Pobiic
thought. Every succeeding hour, and each
succeeding political and industrial event of
| Importance in Western Europe, the United
| States and Central and South America make
| its necessity to our future more apparent to all
statesmen That it is the great event to which
| the present Administration look forward, as to
be the brightest jewel in the crown of its policy,
| those will realize who remember the President 8
earnestness upon the subject ere his elevation
to his present position. That in its success
is involved results of more Importance to the
two great sections of the cenfederacy-political,
so far as the South is concerned, and industrial,
as to the North-than any other living ques-
| ton, all also realize, who remember that even
John Quincy Adams looked forward to it as the
| great consummation of American statesman
ship, for the benefit of our whole country,
which should never be lost sight of by its Gov
eminent.
Political events in Europe have, of late, rap
idly tended towards placing Spain in position
| wherein her paramount interests will compel
her to listen to reason on the subject; while on
| this side of the Atlantic, the weakness of our
neutrality law, as manifested in the impunity
| of fllibusterism has been tending to defeat the
] cy of the affairs of Spain.
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throughout Spanish America, the result of the
lawless and murderous acts of Walker and his
| followers, that cannot fail to postpone the day
| when Cuba shall be ours. But for the effect Of
Walkers raids, the path to a happy settlement
| of the Cuban question with Spain would at this
moment be open to us; that. however, is bar
| rier which can now be overcome only by long,
patient, and persistent labor on the part of the
| great minds in the Presidential chair and the
! State Department, backed by the earnest SYM
| pathy Of the rest of the Cabinet and Congress,
| as well as the American press, which is at this
moment more unanimous for the acquisition,
than ever before for an important measure of
| national policy. ..
Fiiibusterism is higher lavish, recklessness.
| sslfshness, the entire negaton of the rights of
| others, and, in fine, the qualification of the
worst passions Of human nature with impuc
nifty That for its sake national consumma-
ton so important to all the sound interest of
! our country as the acquisition of Cuba should
be postponed, is most provoking. The measures
of President Buchanan to put a stop to the in
furious effects of future filibustering, however,
are doubtless such, as that in time the nation s
interest as involved in the acquisition of Cuba
Will be relieved from the load it has thus been
compelled to carry for a few years past.
HE CAMEL ExPERIaENT.-The latest ad-
vices received here concerning the progress
and promise of the camel experiment of the
Government in its military operations on the
frontier, continue to confirm the highest homes
of its friends. From the day the animals were
landed on the coast OF Texas to this hour the
experiment has proved an eminently successful
one; until the experience had with them as
beasts of burden has been such that all con-
cerned in their manag sment and use are upani.
mously OF opinion that they suit, as beasts of
burden, the requireme nts of our great western
plains as well Is those of Asia and Africa. In
persevering to obtain from Congress the means
Of making these experiments, and in his saga
cious arrangements TO cc,nsummate them to the
best advantage, the late Secretary of War has
certainly conferred a benefit on his country
second to none other for which the nation has
so far been indebted to a gentleman in a SINH
lar official position. In twenty FIVE years hence
camel trains will be we'll nigh as common in the
| far west of the United States as on the most
| travelled routes Of the East. By this time mex,
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account, and be in actual use by citizens cross
ing the great North American desert As vet
the national advantages to result from this idea
| Of Secretary Davis are not to be calculated.
| DIsCoNrENr.-The merchants in this region
are highly incensed against the last New YORK.
| dry-goods wrinkle-the course Of the iobber.
In retailing goods actually at less prices than
they charged stranger merchants for them no,
long since, when purchasing in large quantities
10 say the least Of it, the practice is a cut
throat one, and must result in inducing all
merchants who buy in New York to avoid such
| houses hereafter as they would the plapue.
The plea for their conduct is, that they can in
no other way raise the means Of meeting their
liabilities, their customers having failed to
meet their accruing indebtedness We have a
sneaking notion that, while they are selling
small quantities of really merchantable goods in
that way as blind or bait, they are getting
rid Of their accumulated old stock, under ordi-
nary circumstances, otherwise unstable On
their hands. However that may be, the course
10 their legitimate customers is one of bad faith
A day or two since a Washington merchant,
hearing that q house with which he had LONG
dealt-psying promptly as per agreement-was
retailing BaJou gloves at seventy cents pair,
wrote to learn what they would take for one
hundred dozen Of them, cash; and was answered
80 80 per dozen So, those buying by the pair
at seventy cents, and fancying that they were
getting the article they bargained for, were
being swindled-that's clear.