Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-04
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


THE ELECTION IN BALTIxoRE.-The " meas
ures' of Mayor Swan prove as we anticipated
mere means by which the Democrats may DO
more easily driven from the polls s. /.
The following special dispatch from one IN
whose observation and entire reliability we
cohfde, tells the tale:
BALTIMORE, Nov. 4, 3 p m.--Poils taken by
humans Few special polfcemen appeared. Most
the regular poicemens refuse 70 DO tnelr outy.
Some Democrats are killed. Hundreds OF natu-
rslized citizens have been scourged from the
polls. The election is Tragedy
CoSsuMMArED. The olong- sought rear
ranscment of the schedules Of connections and
running time for the transportation of the great
Southern and Southwestern mails from this city
went into operation to-day. For FIVE years past
the Post Office Department is said to have been
endeavoring to effect this object, by which six
teen hours (more than full BUSINESS day. are
gained between Washington city and Memphis,
Tennessee; fourteen hours between Wa hington
and Nashville; twelve hours between Charles
ton and Nashville, and a proportionate saving
on the direct route between Washington and
New Orleans. The difficulty has been for the
most part in harmonizing the running of the
eleven railroad companies whose respective
roads are necessarily employed in transporting
the mails in question, which, leaving this point,
pass through Richmond, Va, Wilmington, N.
c., kingsville and Charleston, S. c., Augusta
and Atlanta, Ga, Montgomery, Ala, New Or
leans, Nashville and Memphis, connecting all
intermediate points, and supplying avast scope
Of adjacent territory with the mails. We have
reason to believe that half dozen times within
the last six or eight months definite arrange
ments for beginning to run the new schedules
have been made, from which FIRST one and then
another of the railroad companies referred to
above have flown of.
Now, however thanks to the energy and firm
ness of Postmaster General Brown, the contract
Office, and Special Agent Eastman, who was
charged with the negotiations on the subject
that necessarily took place at distance from
Washington city, all has at length been har-
moniously settled, and the public are to reap
the advantages of the FIVE years anxious efforts
of the department referred to above. In these
days time is emphatically money in all bust
ness transactions; and in thus saving the tray
cling and corresponding public interested so
much time as is economical by the new sched-
ules in question, the Postmaster General has
conferred a very substantial benefit indeed on
the country at large. May his many pending
efforts of the same sort for other regions result
as happily,
Tbs UPPER MIssoURI-The Indian Bureau
has received a very interesting report from
Col. Redfeld, its agent for the Upper Missouri,
who recently left St. Louis for the scene of his
iabors-the far-of territory On our Canadian
border, stretching from the Mississippi almost
to the Pacific. Col. r. has held councils with
most Of the tribes located in that region, the
names Of some Of which are almost unknown
on this side of the Alleghanies. He distributed
to them the presents with which he was charged,
and finds the Governments affairs with them
generally in a satisfactory condition.
The Mendems and Gros- Nentres, the Ricka-
rees and one or two other tribes, have perma-
nent homes, cultivate corn, vines, &C., and
with the Yanetons may, in his judgment, easily
be put upon the road to civilization and indus
trial improvement, were the Government to
establish farms and mechanical pursuits among
them. The small pox has ravaged some o. the
tribes terribly, in that region, in the last year
carrying of at least one-fOurth Of the Men
dems. The total number Of all the nations, he
thinks, likely to be benefited by having indus
trial establishments among them is about 500
The Sioux are their enemies, and he asks
prompt protection for them.
On the 9Th of July he was at Fort William
(mouth of the Yellowstone, where he met bands
of the Crows, and learned of the terrible suffer
ings of the Assinibones from the small pox
Mr.. Clark. Of the firm of Frost d CO.. fur
traders had got himself into trouble with the
Assinibones by carrying whisky among them
They shot Blackfeet youth, one of a number
who were in Mr.. C.'s party. His whisky is
supposed to have been at the bottom Of the out
RACES committed by the Assnibones Oh defence
less travellers.
A MERITED EXPosURE.-The Philadelphia
Ledger thus exposes the character of the tele-
graphic dispatches which have been imposed
upon the patrons of the Associated Press
tele5raphing arrangements, by the violent K now
Nothing partisan politician who is entrusted
with the management of their business in Bal
tlmore The arrangement is at present close
monopoly, and we see no way in which the per-
petration OF such outrageous breaches of good
faith on the part Of those employed by the
company furnishing telegraph news to the news
papers. can be prevented at present:
TELEGRAPHIc DISPATCHES Some oftbe news
papers complain Of the one-sided and partisan re-
ports sent to all the newspap ers of the country by
Tue agent or the Associated Press at Baltimore in
the recent Conflict OF authority between the Mayor
nf Baltimore and the Governor of MARYLAND
There has been a studied effort apparently ON his
part to THROW ridicule upon Gov. Lyon for his
very proper efforts TO protect citizens in their con
M fhal
faithfully executed. Instead of sending the
newspapers facts Of undoubted accuracy, he has
favored the press universally with his opinions
and his prejudices, so that one maj has the mower
I" poison the mind Of the whole countiy with his
own errors. We have carefully pruned the des-
patches which came through that source but
some of our newspapers, we see. have published
them With their expressions Of feeling just they
Were sem by the correspondent, though their own
views OF the propriety Of the GOvernoris action
we know, do not correspond with that of the Bal.
tlmore news-agent. Why do not the Associated
Press place In such position man who has
brains enough to understand its respousibili les