Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-04

now abuse Daniel Woodson.
The CHINA RooRBACKs-Some facetious or
malicious writer In Washington Tor New York) |
IS amusing himself, and endeavoring to perplex
the public by contributing to the Herald as
telegraphic dispatches, accounts of interviews
that never occurred, and conversations that
were never holden between Lord Napier on one
side, the President Gen. Cas-, DC, on the other,
about an alliance between England and this
country against China. ----
Governor Stewards name is also freely used
in this matter. He is represented as urging the
appointment Of r. j. Walker as Minister to
China, through fear lest his administration of
the government of Kansas should result in the
pacihcation Of that much vexed Territory, and
thus remove from the politics of the day fear
full topic of agitation, of which the Republican
party has greatly availed itself Really, this
writer dreams rather too largely upon the gull
libility even of his own readers.
lti clearly attempted to produce the belief
that the author of these fabulous statements is a
somewhat famous sol distant diplomat who, like
Caesar, has been the reporter of his own actions
His opportune presence in Washington at the
present moment gives plausibility to the at
tempt. In the meantime, no person of ordinary
sagacity attributes them to him rs he has
too little inventive genius for such original fab
relations, or too much selfrespect. They are
manufactured out of whole cloth, and had they
not a malicious intent, would excite nothing
but ridicule
They may indeed serve more than one pur-
vip nd hiatt ho-
sides disturbing the public mind of this country,
they may annoy the Ministry in England. The
most detailed account of any of these pretended
interviews, appeared in the Wednesdays issue
of the newspaper alluded to, and would go out
in the steamer of that day without the posi-
bility of correction. They may add to the al
ready annoying embarrassments of Lord Pal
merston in this Chinese question or, if he had
sagacity enough to detect their unmeaningness,
may still agitae the feverish pulse of the country
on the eve, as it is, Of an important and warm
ly-to- be-contested election
APRIL.-March, in the words Of the vener-
able adage, is surely borrowing ten days from
April; the weather being raw, clustering and
uncomfortably chilly. So far, we hear of less
state Of the weather, than we had expected
Nevertheless, until April, with its balmy genial
oreezes, fairly opens the Spring upon us, all
should be careful of taking cold-more especial
ly invalids and delicate persons. In spite of
the raw state of the weather the buds in this
region are rapidly swelling, and the grass is
slowly drawing on the expected summers sun
for coat of life-inspiring green. How we long
70 have the trees and the fields once more 81.
lently invite overtasked and care worn man to
forget, for the nOnce the interminable strifes Of
active business life and to feel the boy again, with
spirit as free as that Of the caroling birds hut-
tering from bough to bough around him, "Man
made the city; but God made the country" He
who loves forest groves, green fields, swift run
ming brooks, vine clad rocks in sheltered dells
lowing herds-Nature in her most attractive
garb-can alone realize the force of this so ia
miliar expression. We watch the development
Of April with an impotence of which wo are
we'll nigh ashamed, 20 eager are we again to
drink in the inspiration of it's geniality upon
our physical system, after the late heated term
of business labors since the winter IA ry set in
upon US.
NEEDLESS FREfTNG.-Our friends of the
Virginia press of all parties arc giving them
selves needless trouble concerning the last spec
ulation of Eli Thayer. Those knowing the man
and his newspaper and other cO-spoculators, are
well aware that he really entertains no idea of
eSsaying to make an Abolition or any other set
Element in Virginia. Neither he nor any other
Of the band of joint stock operators in his $50
calledD Virginia emigrant aid scheme, dream of
setting foot on the soil of the Old Dominion
They are by no means philanthropists to the
extent Of running any such hazard of their
ears and necks. Their aim is to clutch the dol.
lars Of fools by whom they are surrounded
that's all. He who believes that one dollar of
the large amount they will honeyfuggle intense
Abolitionists out Of will ever be expended in
Virginia, must know far less of them than we
do.
DESPERATE SHRrs.-The New York (State)
Republican party managers are moving heaven
and earth, as it were, to fortify themselves in
power. To this end they are urging sweeping
changes, some of which are rectly in the teeth
OF the principles Of Democracy, whose choicest
champions they profess to be, while others are
no less palpably at war with the organic law of
the State. Thus, they are endeavoring to pro.
cure the enactment of a law to take from the
people of New York city, acting through their
municipal corporation, the power to appoint
their own police, and to vest il In the State
government! So, also, do they seek to compass
the enactment Of a law establishing universal
negro suffrage throughout the State This last
proposition was voted down overwhelmingly on
the adoption of their present State constitution.
1t strikes us that the Democracy of New York
cannot desire more favorable issues on which 70
30 before the people at their next election, than
these The sooner the Republican party force
them on the statute book, the sooner are they
doomed to go into minority in New York. as
fast as they are galloping in that way now.
HE APPoISrNENrs.-We hardly need re-
mark that much of the time of the new AID.
ministrntion has been taken up with the work
Of weighing the claims of the host of applicants