Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-08

man can peruse the Constitution without
| forming high estimate of the intelligence and
| patriotism ofthe men who framed ii; and we are
Inclined to bellows that very much il not all the
| opposition TO II may be traced to the strongly
marked Democr ratio features that eminentiy
GEN. Gro. ". BOWMAN, SUpERrsrKSpKsr
or PUBLIC PRISrIxa.--This gentleman having
been appointed to one Of the most important Of
fees in Washington, sketch of his history and
political services will not be without interest 10
the public, and particularly to the members OF
the typographical fraternity.
Gen. Bowman is q Pennsylvania BY birth.
but at an early age wasapprentced to the print
ing business in Virginia, where he learned his
trade thoroughly and then, for some time.
worked as journeymsn in this city, in the Of
fee of Gen. Duff Green. He was at that time
considered one of the best and most rapid COM
positors in Washington. About 1892 he pur.
chased the Bedford Pa Gazette, and for
twenty-five years conducted it with marked
ability. So ardent was he in his support of
Democratic principles that he became as well
known to the whole people of the keystone
State as any editor ever laboring within its
limits
When Governor Skunk was elected to the
Executive office, he appointed Gen. Bowman
his Adjutant General, and during the four
years that distinguished and lamented states
man filed the Gubernatorial Chair, his Adju-
tant General remained one of his most intimate
and trusted friends. Itwas during this period
that war with Mexico was declared and Penn
sylvania being called upon for volunteers it
became Gen. BOwman's duty to muster those
volunteers into service. This duty he per-
formed in a most able manner, and so we'll
were all parties pleased with his management
of the States military affairs that the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature rendered him a liberal sum,
in addition to his regular salary, to remuneratc
him for his services. With a magnanimity
rarely witnessed he declined this offer On the
death of Governor Skunk he resigned his COM
mission, but was again appointed to the same
office by Gov. Bigler and continued to fill it
until the expiration Of his commission in 1856
During the present year Gen. Bowman sold
his establishment. and retired from the editorial
chair. AS man he is as honest as steel. and
as true as the pole star lie is active and
energetic in his business habits. and will un-
doubtcdly make most excellent officer His
appointment will be we'll received indeed in
Pennsylvania
WELL ABUsED.-The Star is, lust now
about the best abused journal in the land. The
fishy Democratic journals of the North, that, on
divers accounts, recently undertook to play in
the hands of the Republican party upon the
Kansas question, feeling to the quick the points
we have taken occasion to make against their
regeneration, are splitting. scratching and
clawing at US with venomous ferocity rarely
before equalled, while drawing consolation for
themselves from the publications of single
journal printed south of Mason and Dixon =
line. whose views on the question of the accep-
lance Of the Kansas State Constitution by Con-
gress are sympathetic with theirs Thus the
Ohio Statesman, which went off half-cocked on
the subject and is now laboring to build up
sort of anti-slavery Democratic party appar-
entity, blackguards the Star with an intensity
of dirty vulgarity so far almost unparalleled in
the history of the American newspaper press;
which the Chicago Times republshes with a
degree of susto which, if meaning anything,
means simply that it, too, is as savagey fero-
cious in its sentiments towards us as the Ohio
journal first named above.
The Star has no reply to make to any such
assaults. In the discharge of its duty to the
integrity and principles of the Democratic
party it has outlived similar attacks from much
ADLER and more influential quarters. Its con-
ductor rejoices in the proof that he il doing
substantial service in the Democratic cause, in
volved in such attacks on the Star from quar-
tiers so hostile to the position on the Kansas
IL Al
and the party in Congress occupy.
OFFICE SEEKING.-The new Speaker, Clerk
and DoOrkeeper, are literally being run down
by political friends sOicitous for Office for them
selves or others. We presume that each one
| OF them received, yesterday, hundreds of Wis
itors to the end of obtaining places under them
Each succeeding hour We witness occurrences
proving how rapidly .the Office seeking dis
ease is becoming chronic in the land Nine
out of ten of those ambitious of filling subor.
dinate places under the House could do better
ont Of public employment, if striving to sue
coed in life otherwise, with half the industry,
shrewdness and energy they display in their
efforts to get Office. Nothing makes US 50 sick
at heart as to witness such displays of the ten
uohSy VI ttiucS .tLiS uiTectlOn, Us are be-
ing manifested around US just now For every
one Of the quite one hundred places, important
and unimportant, in the gift of the Clerk and
Doorkeeper, are sought by perhaps an average
OF four or five, every one Of whom, in turn,
have an average Of four or five friends vigor-
ously at work to secure their appointment
Under such circumstances, Messieurs, the Clerk
and Doorkeeper, are just now about the best
badgered gentlemen alive, we fancy.
SrRANGERs.-The number of strangers in
Washington is already legion. AS they are
nearly all Of them to be found ut all times in
the Capitol, on the avenue, or in the public
portions of the hotels, they give our little city
something Of the air of New York in the matter
Of the crowd and general briskness The pres.
ence Of so many of them, so early. bears GU,
our previously-stated impression that this is
destined to be the gayest and most animated
session known to the history of the American
Congress. We are glad to have them among US
in such great numbers; for their presence is an