Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

VI. II,
raguan fame, left Washington yesterday after
noon, for New York, apparently as quietly as
he entered our city on Friday forenoon last
If he was accompanied to the depot by others
that the friends travelling with him, he was es-
corted thither so quietly and unobtrusively, as
that none but themselves were aware of his
presence there. No better evidence of the sound
conservatism of this community is necessary
than the manner in which it so unanimously
refrained from giving the slightest aid and CON-
fort to the principle Of fllibustersm, such as
would have been involved in stepping forward
to shower compliments of any sort upon him.
We have every reason to believe that his recer
ton by the Federal authorities here was not a
whit more enthusiastic or sympathetic Ac-
cording to the New York press, his entrance
into that city is to be celebrated by a sort of
three-tailors- of TOoley street" explosion of
the popular sentiment there i'm admiration of
his career in Central America.
We apprehend, however, that with tho news
of the result of the Crabbe expedition to Sonora
ringing in their ears, and with the sight of Gen.
Walker-accompanied by the dozen individuals
only who have 50 far escaped with him alive
from Nicaragua, out of the six or seven thousand
who went there to his assistance-will together,
prove sufficient to render it certain thatfurtber
efforts to obtain either money from the New
York capitalists or men from among the I'm
employed of that city to further another such
raid upon a nation with which we arc at peace.
under his auspices at least, must prove abor-
tive. Capitalists do not often throw their
money away with their eyes open; nor do men,
even when desperately hungeripg for a crust of
bread, seek such life as all now know from
published letters from Nicaragua, was the lot
of perhaps ninety in every hundred sent out to
his assistance, with death at the end on it as
their only possible means of release from the
trap into which they had unwittingly entered.
HE BETTER SOCIETY A friend ut our elbow
mentioned moment since that seven murders
were committed in New York city in the course
Of the week ending on Saturday last Heaven
knows how many unsuccessful attempts at as
sassination took place there in that time. Yet
the New York Tribune, and all the journal.
sympathizing with it, can find no more popular
theme than lecturing the South upon its blood
thirstiness, as well as its God-forsaken practices
in all things. While we have no disposition to
occupy the Stars columns with statements and
arguments to disprove the buggaboo fabrca
tons of facts in some cases and of circumstances
bearing on these facts in others, on which such
newspapers rely in their work of inducing the
pious old ladies at the North to continue to roll
up their eyes In horror at the state of Southern
society, we are tempted now and then to hold
up to them the mirror in which the little pecu.
liarites Of their Z" better society," are reflected
so faithfully. To that end we quote this after
noon the New York Tribune itself, upon the
actual condition of men and things-of society
in the Empire City, as follows:
- Since the first of April" 1--WE are told) ssthere
nave been at least twice sixteen attempts at muir
der, besides violent assaults and rum. hole flo hts
without precedent. Ten thousand hardened and
hopeless female outcasts swarm the streets at
night; two thousand children. under the puise of
Peddiers from the age OF ten TO sixteen, penet ate
every public building store and office i'm the CITY
10 peg, steal, spy for burglars, and on their own
account practice those vices which cannot Ia.
named in respectable language: five Thousand
great and small gamblers prev upon the credu-
ious and the infatuated standing all day al the
doors OF their dens in Broadway, as well known
IN person and profession as the Mayor himself;
Ten thousand lazy, drunken, thievnI short ooys
swlll-boys, killers, rouS hs, and rowdies of OIL
names, lounge on the rum-cursed corners of the
travel dangerous TO all who can be suspe.ted of
having resPectability or money; thousands of
,rnlgrant swindlers, mock auctioneers, lottery
dealers, policy BAG kers pic kets hall thieves
burglars, wharf-Tats, area-sneaks pimps and
vampires, practice their knaveTies as openIv aud
with as little fear of punishment. as though they
were engaged in the most yirtuolls and leGitm,,s
OF human pursuits
A charming picture, truly, of their better
society than that Of the South.
HE Posr OFFICE DEPARrNEyr.-N,p-P Post
Offices Estabtished- Woodstock Valley. Wind.
ham county Conn, Thomas p. Leonard. Post.
master; Suffolk Station, Suffolk county. NY.
Ira L'Hommedeu, Postmaster; Globe Village.
Worcester county, Mass, (re-establishedO Al
bert j. Partridge, Postmaster; Fallston. Beaver
county, Pa, ROb't D. Cooper, Postmaster: Mil
Ter Eddy, Armstrong county, Pa. Rob't Girls
well, postmaster; Bethlehem, Forsyth county.
ia, Peter Bennett, Postmaster; Robinson. OF
taWa county, Mich, Jno. w. Burnard. Postmas-
ter; Morgan Valley, Wyoming county, Va.
Henry McCarty, Postmaster; Flat Fork. Roane
county, Va, Robert Reins, Postmaster Elk
Fork, Jackson county, Va, John WEIGH, Post
master; Gibbs's Cross Roads, Cumberland
county, N. c., Nathan l.. Phillips, Postmaster:
Gain creek, Plckens district, S. c., Henry Hin
kle, Postmaster; Maxwell's Mills, Pickens dis
trict, S. c., X. Maxwell, Postmaster; Oakland
Hall county, Ga, Z. 2. Headen, Postmaster:
Seminole, Nanatie county, Fla, d. III. Tucker,
Postmaster; Paper Mills, Baltimore comfy.
Nd, (re-established,) Wm. H. Hoffman. Post
master; Williams's Mill, Coyinyton countv
Ala, Jno. b. Williams, Postmaster; Mapleton.
Bourbon county, Kansas Territory, s. O. Himoe
Postmaster; Hampden, Coffee county. Kansas
Territory W. A. Ella, Postmaster; Peoria
FRANKLIN county, Kansas Territory, Alfred
johnson, Postmaster
Name Of Post Office Changei-Mud, CabeI
county, Va, changed to GrifithsyiIle 4; Elf
Harmon Postmaster
Post Office D'se0"ti"ned.-Raining SPRING
Titus county, Texas.
CLERICAL CHANGES IN THE GENERAL LAM
OFFIcE.-We heard, on the avenue this morn.