Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-02
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

w hCdlNU1ON NEWS AND JOSSlf.
HE CARD OF THE President OF THE
NORTHERN LIBERTIES FIRE CoMPANr-ap-
pearing in yesterdays Star-was, in truth, a
striking illustration of she justice OF our posi-
ton in holding that organization to full share
Of responsibility for the disgraceful and dan
gerous riot of the night before. 1t amounted
to a boast that the procession marched down
to the point where the rowdies on the other
side stood also armed, for the purpose of incit-
ing a riot
We are informed that the Chief-of- Police. in
the course of the day, notified the writer of that
card that the marching of the procession to that
point would be likely to end in a riot, and OBJ
tanned his promise to abstain from so doing
and that the authorities conceived the danger
of riot thus averted Instead of doing 80, the
procession. armed with firearms, proceeded d.
rect to the spot where its leader knew its pres
ence would surely lead to bloodshed and to
danger to the. lives of men, women and chill
dren in no manner connected with fre-rowdy
rioting. His excuse for having thus carried
armed men to a point where he knew their
presence would be likely to lead to bloodshed
is, simply, that he and they were exercising
their rights as freemen of going where they
pleased about the city. All will comprehend
that going where and a, they did, and under
the circumstances in which they went there,
they went in search of just such riot as their
presence generated at the corner of Four and
a-half street and Pennsylvania avenue.
1t matters little which gang of rowdies fired
the first shot, for it is plain that both gangs had
armed themselves, and were in all things pre-
pared to join in the fight We hold them equal
ly culpable, and equally dangerous to the fu-
ture peace and good order of Washington city
and trust that they will both he punished to
the extent of the law. We have heard some
speaking of these rioters as being connected
with different political organizations. In the
name OF both political parties, we protest against
disgracing them by holding Democracy or
American partyism as q shield to protect them
with party sympathy against the just penalty
of their misdeeds. Those engaged in the riots
are entitled to no sympathy whatever on the
part of peaceable and respectable citizens-and
least OF all to sympathy which makes Democ-
racy and American partyism virtually response
be for their coolly-cOncocted and preparation
deeds Of blood and violence
The DEPosIroRs WITH PAIRo NouRsE.-
We have repeatedly been requested by indi-
vidual depositors with the late banking house
of Pairo Nourse to suggest the propriety of a
meeting on their part to take measures for their
own protection, if that be possible now The
lingering hope that ere this they would have
evinced a disposition to satisfy the depositors
that in their assignment they were as solicitous
for their interest for their own, together with
an indispositiOn to publish aught tending to
keep the public mind excited upon the subject
just now, have, however, induced US to say as
little of their affairs as we could, consistently
with our duty to the Washington public Time
however, passes rapidly, and If the depositors
In question would accomplish anything it must
be done promptly. The defaulting house re-
ceived some 5000, 900 of the money of our fellow
citizens in trust, and have evidently speculated
with II in Western lands to such an extent as
that they found it either necessary or conve-
nient to break without a run upon them. The
manner in which they received deposits when
they must have known themselves to be so in.
solvent as to require them to assign their prop
erty In trust is So universally condemned and
the manner in which they still refrain from
spread their affairs before the public has so
ugly look about it as to convince us that the
quicker the depositors move in the matter Of
their own protection the better They should
promptly assemble, employ able counsel, pro-
cure an injunction upon the execution of the
assignment already made. and the appoint
ment Of trustees by the Circuit Court, who will
manage the assets Of the failing house, so as to
realize sufficient to pay off the depositors, with
out thought Of waiting for n rise in Western
lands which will satisfy Pairo and Nourse with
the sales Of their assigned property.
NIcAEAGUA-We take the following inter
esting item concerning Nicaraguan affairs from
the New York Heroid, republishing it because
We have every reason to believe, from inforna-
ton for some time in our possession, that the
English effort referred to to induce tho Govern
ment of Nicaragua to place its transit route
under English control, is being made:
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1857. .
have been informed, ON authority in which I
place full reliance, that negotiations hay. b.en
going on for many months past, between the rep
resentatives of some influential English capital-
lists and the present Provisional Government OF
Nicaragua, in regard to the right to convey pas.
sehSers and freight through that country. and |
am assured that. far IL can at present bc the
State OF Nicaragua is pledged to cede the sole
right to this association. The capitalists Of whom
II Is composed are Thomas Manning, Esq e, her
Britannia Majesty $ consul at Reaejo Nicaragua,
now residing in London, and the executors OF
William Glenton, Esq. late Of Leon, Nicaragua
The Government Is indebted To them about
S2j6 900. The agents here are w GIenton, son of
the late WIN Glenton, and b. Glover late of the
finn Of Dawson Co. of this city.
Nought could be more disastrous to the fu-
ture of the connection of the Atlantic and Pa
cifc sides Of the United States and territories
than the success Of this scheme, rs must be ap-
parent To all.
In the same connection We are just now
threatened with formidable Spanish Ameri-
can league, really against American CONNER cial
and other interests, acting, of course, under
British influence. In addition to what we not
long since said upon that particular subject,