Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-05
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
TIE CAUCUS misunderstanding to, the
custom prevailing for many years past, there
will be caucus of the dominant (Democrstic)
party members ofths House Of Rspresenta-
tives, in their Hall, at z p. m. when and where
it is anticipated that they viii nominate can-J
didates for the various elective Offices of their
organization. As there is an indie finite multi
tude of candidates for their favor, and rs there
is also q legion Of candidates for subordinate
Offices in the gift Of those who may carry of
the elective prizes, and as all of both have nu-
merous outside supporters-such pulling and
hauling of arriving members, Opposition as
well rs Democratic, as has taken place in the
congregating halls of the hotels of the city for
the last forty-eight hours, was never before
seen or heard Of here or elsewhere the disease
OF office seekingIhaving increased in Is ravages,
greatly, since the House of Representatives had
last to organize. f.... ..-s- s.
If one desires to realize how universal this
disease has affected the nation, he has only
quietly to observe what goes on in the places
mentioned above until Z p. m. tonight. Such
bowling and scraping and hand-squeezing such
anxious inquiries after the health of honorable
members and their dear wives and children,
such whisperings, such pledges, such petition
ing, &C., DC, to the end of the chapter Of the
usual appliances of candidates, will be then
and there witnessed and heard, as must put
quite a new wrinkle into the noddle of any one
not up to snuff in the Federal Metropolis.
We presume that there are ut least five hun
dred of those technically known as outsiders
mot candidates themselves, but individuals
for some reason or other taking especial inter-
est in the election of some one particular can
didate for some office, or in the organization of
this or that committee-now busly engaged in
button-holeing honorable members. They make
such pandemonium around the uninitiated of
Congress as sorely puzzles not a few Of them,
evidently. In times like the present, we fully
realize the eternal wisdom of the venerable
alage-" Blessed are they who expect little,
for they shall not be disappointed
Few indeed among the throng described
above, We fear, will find themselves in this
category Of the happy blessed, after, say about
the end of next week, by which time the House
will doubtless not only be organized but the
multitude OF subordinate places incident to the
transaction of its business will be filled
The CoNsrIrUrIoy.-Wer received a copy of
the Constitution made for Kansas, yesterday,
at too late an hour to enable us to write of it
understandingly-for it is necessarily docu-
ment Of great length-in time for our issue of
the day. So we preferred to remain silent con-
corning it for twenty-four hours In the mean
uhi off a of,IS ~ 81.
have to say that the popular judgment upon it
will be that il is not-as was so freely alleged
here, of late, in electioneering against its re-
ception by Congress-an instrument full Of
such improper provisions that its authors sought
to hide it from the peoples eye as long as pos
sible; but, without exception, the very best
State Constitution ever framed for any portion
Of the American Union. 1t is truly republican
In all its features guards public and popular
rights with more jealous care than any other
instrument of the kind, provides literally for
the progress of the new State, compels rigid
responsibility and accountability in all trusted
by the public as State or other officers or as
corporators; and, indeed, embraces no feature
that can possibly prove Objectionable to any,
except those resolved to oppose it because made
by the Lecompton Convention instead of the
Topeka Convention. In saying that it will be
universally hailed from one end of the land to
the other as tile model State Constitution of the
Confederacy, we simply express what we know
to be the opinion of it entertained by all the
public men of all parties now here, who have
already taken the trouble to read it carefully.
If its reception by Congress be now opposed,
it cannot be on the ground that it contains las
was so lately alleged) provisions repugnant to
the received ideas of right and wrong enter
tanned by any portion of the people of the Uni
ted States, except by men voted by their neigh
bora to be monomaniacs on some isolated sub
ject or other.
It's provisions, one and all, settle the fact of
its prompt acceptance by Congress, we think,
beyond peradventure, and vindicate the wis
dom of the Executive in electiDg to stand by
the action of its authors. That such Consti-
tuition should be rejected only because it was
not made under abolition auspices-which is
now the gist Of the controversy-would be
monstrOus, indeed.
Its great length prevents us from insertingit
in the Star, while 50 capital are its material
provisions, one and all, as that we fear to mu-
tilate it by quotations. So we will content
ourself with recommending all to read it-and
in twenty-four hours it will be in the reach of
every reader in this region in the large news
papers published here and elsewhere.
The public, from one end of the Confederacy
to the other, will soon be exclaiming-Can that
possibly be the Constitution that was lately
represented to US as being sort of raw head
and bloody-bones affair.
1NFIDELIsN IN WAsHrNGroN.-We Ieyret to
learn that there really does exist among us
little in6del organization, composed, it may be,
Of individuals who in many other respec are
excellent citizens. The following csmmunica-
ton from one Of them, We publish only by way of
calling attention to the fact Of the existence of
this half daft and half kinky organization here,
and not because we regard it as in any way
weakening the force of the sensible and we'll
balanced remarks quoted by the Star not long
since from the JOUrnai of Commeyce wherein