Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-06
EVENING STAR.
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
WASHING TON CITY:
WEDNESDAY.-.... 49,. MAY ., 1871.

SPIRII or The luOhNINU fhESS.
The InfeIligeRcer quotes a letter from DR..
jackson of Boston, in refutatiOn of the silly
story that the National Hotel disease was the
result of poison mixed with the water or food Of
the house. DIR. J. when here attended a profess
sionsl gentleman who suffered greatly from it.
This person neither eat nor drank in the house,
where he was for some time engaged in taking
testimony. We also find in the InteUioe1rer
capital letter from our fellow-citizen, Walter
Lenox, Esq, upon the subject Of the abolition
school quartered upon this city by the rabid ia
natics of the North, under the management of
a Miss Miner When instituted, the Star took
occasion to warn this community against the in
cendiary purposes at the bottom of the scheme,
and to assure its sponsors in New England that
in the end it would be rooted out of the limits
of the Federal Metropolis. The time is rapidly
approaching when that work will become an
absolute necessity on the part of the municipal
authorities, "a suggested by Mr. Lenox. Mr..
l.. concludes his letter with the following we'll
put, sensible, and entirely proper remarks:
"With Justice we can say to the advocates of
this measure, YOU not competent to decide this
question; your habits of thought, your ignorance
of our true relations TO the colored population,
prevent You from making full and candid exam
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the public mind is inauspicious even for its con-
sideration. If Your humanity demands this par
ticular sphere for its action, and if, to your
own language, prejudice would brand them at
yOur Northern schools, establish separate insttu-
lions in the free States, dispense your money
there abundantly your charity will supply,
draw to them the unfortunate at your own door,
or from abroad, and IN all respects CRAFTY the
largest impulses Of your philanthropy; but do
not seek to impose upon d system contrary tn
our wishes and interests. and for the further
hN-e A,fK,
whom YOU express a wish To serve. We must
insist that within our limits we are the best, and
must be the exclusive, judges of the character
and degree Of instruction that shall I've impaired
TO this class of our population; who shall d,
their teachers, and what the nature of the infu
ences they may seek or shall be permitted to ex
eTCise We have not been insensible heretofor,
10 their wants, and still hold ourselves ready e
minister to them with all proper libeTalty and
with far better jud -ment Than strangers. We
fully acknowledge and respect our relations Il
the General Government and to the citizens Of the
States, but in this matter alone must be thu
conseTvators of our own peace and welfare. And
still further, cannot tolerate an influence il
our midst which will not only constantly disturb
the repOse and prosperity of our own communit,
and OF the country, but may even rend asunde
the Union itself such protest il is the duty
OF our corporate authorities to make. lis benef
cent effect may be to persuade the supporters o
this scheme to abandon Its further prosecution
but, If otherwise, the responsibility will be will
those who by their own Wanton acts of agg ressiol
make resistance necessity and submission al
1mPoSslDlllty- w L.
The Union, in an article upon the rejection
Of the Dallas Clarendon treaty, foreshadows tn
difficulties by which that event can hardly fai
to surround our relations with Britain.
We also find in the Union the following in
teresting Army news from New Mexico:
By private letter from an officer of the rife.
stationed at Fort Thorn, New Mexico, we learr
that on the 18th March Lieut.. Baker, with de
tachment of thirty -fivefnen of Company B. of tina
regiment. overlook party of eighteen Apaches
strongly protected by rocky and narrow canon
and after sharp action defeated them, and re
covered forty-two horses which they had stoler
from Senior Will. Lieut.. b lost two of his men
one killed instantly. and the other MORTAL,
wounded. A sergeant, corporal and a bugle
were also wounded, and two horses were killed
and four wounded by the arrows of the A pac hes
The affair was regarded as quite creditable to 1t
Baker and his men