Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-30

DETER
tire catalogue of puts of Parker Vein which we
recently copied from the files of its /" historian !'
Is IL possible to concoct a more magnificent pro.
gralnne OF promises, whereby TO entlce eager ahe
sanguine avarice into q surrender OF us cash
w hat farmer, struggling to obtain bare living
for a large family from the sterile soil OF New
England, who will not jump at the chance OF join.
ing this - annual army of 1OO, 600 neighbors and
making in solid cash one hundred million Of dol
lars every wear, We do not know what have
been Mr.. Eli Thayer's antecedents, but he has
studied, If not practised, to good pur-
pose, in the school Of fancy-stock jobbing and
moOnShine speculation.
"That Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri offer
marked inducements to labor when accompanied
by capital, we have no doubt But any attempt
to force upon either of those States, or upon any
any other, supply Of labor beyond its immedf-
ate demands must end in ruin, which will fall
the heaviest upon the laborers who Weld to it's
There are lands in these States
which have been exhausted by bad culture and
winch nio may he bought cheaply and possibly be
reclaimed. But money to be expended in ma
nure, in extra labor, and in various improvements
OF every Sort Is the main thing needed-and that
can be expended TO five times good advantage
In the fertile and unexhausted West There may
be opportunities of making money by buying
farms in Virginia; but who ever proposes TO try
the experiment would do well not to rely with
any great degree of confidence upon the absurd
assurances and palpable exaggerations of Mr.. Eli
Thayer. A movement of this kind. to command
confidence and success. should be managed with
discretion and prudence. The business men
nection with 1t, must know that nothing is more
certain to bring 1t into disttrust and contempt,
and them as its hackers into discTedit. than tn
absurd Overstatements and the delusive promises
which form the staple of Mr.. Thayer's appeals
They sound much more like the rigmarole of the
mock auctioneer, or the Herald's bald puffs of
Potosi and Parker Vein, than the sober realities
and simple facts upon which business operation
should rest for its basis
1t will be perceived that the Times takes
precisely the same view Of Thayer's thieving
scheme as that Of the Star, explained weeks
ago. That is, so far as its claims to be an in
dustrial enterprise are concerned
There is another aspect of the subject not
without interest to the rejecting. 1t is simply
the fact that such an individual rs this Mr.
Thayer should have been elected to the Con-
gress of the United States by Massachusetts,
constituency, who, up to ten or twelve years
ago, invariably sent to represent them in W ash-
ingtOn men Of mind and character, whose COM
potency for the proper discharge of all the duties
of member of the Congress of the United
States commanded the respect of the whole
country. The woeful change, as illustrated in
the selection of Thayer to fill the place OF such
IA man as John Davis Notwithstanding the
virulence of the latter's federalism, is speak
boosted system of popular education in Massa-
chusetts. Education is not merely to teach
men to read and write; but to increase mans
capacity to avail himself of all the blessings
and sources Of improvement, moral intellec-
tual, industrial, social, &c. &c, which Proyi-
dence has placed within his reach Massachu-
sett 8 boosted system, it seems has so moulded
the mind OF her people, as that they have be-
come the tools of demagogues and cheral,ers
dtndasfrte such as this Mr. Thayer, than
whom more ignorant and impudent charlatan
never foisted himself upon the most debased
constituency elsewhere
We have no fancy for the educational system
of Massachusetts, because it teaches only that
little learning that maketh a man mad Ere
its initiation, the people of that State were
perhaps, the most law abiding and conscientious
in the world We question whether, at this
time, the civilized world contains any other
people, notwithstanding their professions Of
propriety, godlness, &c, so utterly reckless of
the restraints Of true christianity, of moral
principle, OF the principle Of right between
man and man, and of that of sound patriotism,
as the people Of Massachusetts, who, if their
newspapers, preachers. law proceedings, &c,
&c, are to be credited as laying bare the work.
ings Of their minds and hearts. have almost
with one accord abandoned themselves to the
influence OF the idea that in all things religious
industrial, social and political the end justiies
the means. We do not wonder that Mr. Eli
Thayer has been elected to Congress from the
Worcester district Of Massachusetts,.
lNDIANA.-Our private advices from Indiana
Lead US to believe that the course of the RepuL-
lican party in their late Legislature. in termi-
mating the session without passing the usual
appropriation bills, has generated widespread
distress among the blind, insane, and other
former recipients Of the States charities and
bounty, all of whom have, er alccessfate, been
turned out OF the places wherein they had been
cared for at the expense of the State. and are
left to depend upon the slender reed of indiyid-
ual charity. We have contended. consistently,
that the Republican party arc wholly unfit to
govern. They have held power no where with
out demonstrating the truth of this, our conyic
ton in some way or other. Wherever thew
have been able to do so, they have nulli6ed
such laws as were obnoxious to their prejudices
simply because they are thus obnoxious. De-
falcatlons have been the general rue-not the
exceptfon-in the conduct of financial officers
installed by them. So, too, have they almost
invariably delivered up the public interest
bonnd hand and foot to bands or gangs of spec.
Visitors, IN the way OF granting all sorts of spe.
eial privileges, for which the world has good
reason to believe, men among them have cor
ruptly received unlawful and improper remu.
neration, personally. How far their claim 70
be the party of real philanthropy is an honest
and truthful one, is aptly illustrated indeed. in
their act in the Legislature of Indiana TO which
We refer above.
The NAVAL Courts OF IxQuIRY-In Court
No. !, the case Of Commander Oscar Bullus ire
tired on leave pay by the late Naval Retiring
Board) was taken UP; Commander b. conduct
ing his own case. Commodore Lavalette. Pur.
ser Jno. ii. Hamilton, Capt. ii. A. Adams, Can't.