Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-31
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUy-A Balti-
more correspondent thus describes a partizan
pamphlet being circulated in that city concern :
ing the election riots in this city on the first
Monday in June last Ifit is such q document
as he describes it to be, it is certainly no won
der that those who got it up have taken due
care not to circulate it here, where all know the
utter unreliability of its statements Such
papers, as oar correspondent justly intimates,
can do no harm, rs they cannot fail to disprove
their own statements in the estimation of nine
tenths Of those who read them:
A document, printed in very black tyne and
entitled In large letters 90 Military Execution i'm
Washington was handed me this morning By 4
preacher OF the Gospel Of sspeace and pooI viii
toward men, - with i request to read and circu-
late i have read IL, and have done somethino
beside, which perhaps was interpreted to do
have Thought about it. II reads fairly, the
statements Sssng To- be made in a calm manner il
Is well gotten up, and likely to produce the effect
Intended. viz: to exasPerate against Iaw-abidimg
men The feelings OF anger and bigotry which one
would think Were already strong enough I ct
US examine IL calmly. Ii commences with n
statement OF the occurrences at the election
Which are laTnely substantiated by ext rarts from
partisan papers, written during or iinInedioteIv
after the excitement Of the day and by roEuutayy
aIfd1vl!s Of men who appear to be respectable
and l have no doubt they are u-eftv stron1
document this; perhaps the only fault being thai
II proves too much.
Allowing the whole statement to be correct
what are we to think of the authorities of the
city, OF the President Of the United States and
OF the Officers Of the marine corps, Simnlv this
ihat al a time when things were in the utmost
luz; wen me erection was progressing as cleo
Ton never progressed before; when acccordin
TO the statement OF the anony nous author. a fe ~
persons were at the polls voting. few others 20
speenaDie clnzens, Were mildly conversng in
small groups, on the probable result of the eIsc
ton; body OF soldiers marched out from tbci,
barracks, by the command OF the President OF e.
United States, and without provocation are or
oefeo 10 nre upon an unaTmed and unofYending
crowd OF peaceable citizens, by the chjef cits,
officer. 'i CITY
Rather singular proceedings these ye,;1,, 9,
such were the circumstances by all means H.;
hang the President, the Mayor and the W,Iiae -
We forget, though, one circumstance pistoJs arc
small things and may be hidden in oneIs ,ss,
Psiea - cannon fortunately, cannot be so con
redleu, ana that these peacable citizens md !.
cannon pretty well loaded, and which thew 49, :.
PIePaILe1 10 nfe Is fact too glaring to omit But
naa possession OF this, children twelve years
Oi age, and surely 10 harm as intended
The absuIdity of this statement is self-evidsn,.
mn mus nave notlves for their actions ard
men uhace ustoined TO murder must be violeniIv
moved before they assassinate In cold bIaod r.
document, as we said before proves too Inucb :,
destroys Itself, there Is no need for aroument
against IL. 1Aie III
The CANVASS IN CALIFORNIA.-Weha have 70.
liable lettersfrom California by the last Steamer
concerning the State (political) canvass about
being inaugurated there in the action Of the
approaching Democratic State Convention
From them we gather that Ex-senator John r.
Weller, who is supported by the anti Broderick
wing OF the party, is certain of the Guberna-
toriai nomination by a majority of nearly four
To one; and of subsequent election by, it NAV
be, majority Of fifty thousand votes. In
iact, the Democrats in this contest will sweep
the state almost withoutOpposition. This state
Of things is remarkable insomucb "a tho main
opposition there, (Or at least their frend,on the
Atlantic side) have been very confident Of late
that they arc gaining strength in that ouarter
Of the Union.
We allude to the Republican party le,ao,,
This state Of things is remarkable also because
there is, in California, perhaps, a larger mum.
Der Of very disappointed seekers after Office
under the present Administration, than in anv
other State wherein the Administration had
no more patronage. Experience teaches that
this class OF politicians never fail to essay more
or less mischief to the party to which they be-
long, when by any possible chance they may
succeed in SO doing. That they are now all
prepared to turn in manfully to secure the suc
cess OF the Democratic nominees, is evidence IA
rs OF the hopelessness of Democratic opposition
to the National Administration in California
FATHER than OF any radical change in the natu