Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-17

but to learn how be can best serve the good
cause, to do that thing with rush In the
last Presidential canvass he probably expended
more money in gratuitous printing and other
wise bearing necessary canvassing expenses of
the Democratic party,-much more-than any
other gentleman in the Union The appear
ance OF his name at the head of its columns as
the Unions publisher for the future, embraces
what all here will at once comprehend to be
complete guarantee that its affairs will be con-
Quoted SO as that it will be prosperous jour
nal, indeed.
POLITICAL DEsPERATloS. Acting on the
hint Mr.. John W. Forney is understood to have
given them during his recent brief visit to the
Federal Metropolis, in declari ing that unless
they succeed in defeating the great measure of
the Democratic party and the National Admin
istration, they are sdead men," politically,
hereafter, the forlorn hope of the distinguished
Senator from Illinois-his immediate political
cohort in both HOuses-are just now by far the
bitterest and fiercest opponents of the Kansas
State bill in either chamber being more un,
governabie in the hostility of their sentiments
towards their Southern eo-legislators and the
South generally, than the venerable Joshua r.
Giddings has manifested himself to be at any
time this session. By the South in Congress,
without single exception so far as we can
learn, they have come to be regarded as more
unrelenting foes to Southern rights than ma
Jority of the ayowed Republican party members;
thus illustrating the eternity of the truth de-
claring that the most jealous in any cause al
likely to be the newest converts to it.
Col. SUNNER.-The result of the recent
court martial up this gallant oshcor, held at
Carlisle Barracks, was his acquittal on both
the charges preferred against him. This intel
ligence will, no doubt, be exceedingly crafty
ing to his friends in the army and elsewhere.
The elaboration of the Court, after the tes;i-
mony was all heard, was of very short duration
ere the verdict of g not guilty" was agreed
| upon. Col. S. left Carlisle Immediately after
the adjournment of the Court to visit his family
at Watertown, n. Y. He is under orders for
| Utah, and it is expected will leave Fort Lea
venworth with his regiment about the 10th of
| May. Our information as to his acauittal is
| from official sources, and confirms the previous
| ly published rumors.
TIE PERSONAL MISUNDERSTANDING. Our
readers of all parties, we know, will rejoice
that the almost-a-personal collision occurring in
the course of the Senate's protracted session of
the night before last, between Senators Green
and Cameron, was satisfactorily adjusted yes
| terday, in open Senate, by the frank and manly
| explanations made on both sides land duly
| published in the Stnr) which have restored
| their amicable relations, thus momentarily in
| terrupted.
BIDS FOR TREASURY NoTEs-In our notice,
yesterday, We omitted to mention that all the
| proposals for Treasury notes published in the
| list of bids, which were under five per cent
premium were accepted. These comprised an
| aggregate sum of 81, 200, 900 of the notes The
remaining 100000 of the whole amount of
notes offered were divided pro rata among the
| five per cent. bidders
REAProIsTMEST.-Iti is a report, which no
doubt emanates from an entirely reliable
source, that Philip Barton Key, ESQ has bee
nominated to the Senate for reappointment as
District Attorney for the District of Columbia
This is gratifying intelligence to a large circle
of friends of that gentleman
TIE WEArHER.-The following report of the
weather for this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution.
The time OF observation is about7 O'Clock a. IN ::
MARCH IL. 1883