Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-12-17
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
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WONDERFULLY SYhPATHErrc.-The Wash
ton correspondents Of the Republican. party
presses, and such newspapers themselves, are
just now shedding bucketsfull of crocodile tears
over the injury to the Democratic party to grow
out Of the declensioa Of the Democrats of the
United States Senate longer to deyolye the
duty ofrepresenting their sentiments upon ter
ritorial slavery questions upon q gentleman
who notoriously not only fails to entertain them,
but plumes himself on the violence and ultra.
ism Of his opposition to them. We apprehend
that the jeremiads of such newspapers and such
writers for the press from this city will effect
little upon the mind Of any one sincerely at
taehed 70 the Democratic party; all Democrats
being well aware that their real solicitude in
connection with inter Democratic party affairs
means only the hope Of being able to contribute,
by hook or BY crook, to nti-Democratic- party
political capital. The New York Times, for
instance, a staunch Republican, party sheet,
thinks the Democrats of the Senate have treated
Mr. Douglas shockingly, and must suffer from
50 doing. So does the New York Tribune, the
Albany Ere'ring Journal, and the Philadel-
phia Press-the latter being, in truth, the most
effective Rspublican-party newspaper of them
all; insomuch as, while feigning identity with
the Democracy, and therefore claiming the pri-
yilsge Of standing near to the Demoora tic
partys ranks, 1t Is the better enabled to ply its
busy stiletto, right and left into the backs of
all true-hearted and faithful Democratic-party
statesmen within the reach Of its vengeful arm
The truth is, the Democratic Senators had
no alternative left other than that to which
they resorted. Senator Douglas is well known
to be determined to maintain here, this winter
his political attitude of the last session Even
IN his current speeches at the South, he pro
claims that he has nothing whatever TO take
back; while his Illinois newspaper organs, the
Springfield Register, ct. al, declare that when
he reaches Washington, he means to essay to
enforce and carry out every position of his
Illinois canyass-the eminent right of the agents
Of abolition emigrsnt aid societies to leZis-
late ab iRitio to prevent the entrance of slave
holders with their slave property into United
States Territory included, of course. Indeed,
be said rs much himself in his late Memphis
speech, in defending therein the eminent sove-
reignty Of the territorial squatter. Among
these positions Of his illinois, canvas, was the
declaration that the Democratic majority of the
Senate, wherein they had differed from him upon
the Kansas question, had been guilty of mon
strous fraud upon the cause Of civil liberty while
the Republican party, in its position on the same
question, had been the savior of that cause
With the knowledge that Mr.. Douglas ut
tered that language in his late Senatorial
canvass, and that he ayows the purpose of de-
Tending such position in legislating in the
course Of the current session upon Territorial
questions. the idea that the Democratic ma
iority Of the Senate could with justice to them
selves for an instant longer continue him as
their organ upon the Territorial Committee, is
most preposterous. 1t was eninently proper
that they should do as they have done in the
premises In so doing they have rendered 1t
absolutely necessary that Mr.. Douglas on reach
ing this city, shall at once either take po-
sition in the opposition ranks, or abandon his
theory of the right Of the employees of Emi.
grant Aid Societies forever hereafter to make
1t impossible that another Territory shall ap-
ply for admission into the Union with slave
holding State constitution, and also take duo
care that those who profess to act for him In
hereafter cease to war in close alliance with
the Republican party, on all supporters of the
Democratic party as represented by the Ma
tiOnal Administration and the Democracy of
Congress.
The KEY TO i've extract from the New
York HeTaii'S money article, Of the 18th inst,
the following excerpt, concerning the return of
the steamship Washington, without transship-
ping her passengers upon the Hermann, which
bears out to the letter our previous exposi-
tiOns Of the intrigues by which the result was
brought about. 1t will be remembered that
the parties alluded to receive annually from
the United States Treasury an aggregate of
more than S7OO,O 900 to be expended after this
fashion to the injury Of the public interest, by
keeping the Nicaragua transit route closed for
the benefit of their existing monopoly:
SATURDAY, Dec Il-6 p. IN.
The steamship Washington, arrived at this
port this morning from AspinwaIl, having failed
To make her junction with the Hermann In con-
quence OF the omission by the latter vessel 10
touch al san Juan del Sur, according to her in
strnctions- Much indignation is expressed In
the street al an event which, IL seems, could
hardly have been consummated without treeche-
~ on the part Of persons in whom the Nicaragua
Transit Company placed confidence. IL this
Hy's unfaithful servants may escape punishment
bV reason Of their obscurity, IL must not be for
gotten that parties who may have hired them to
betray their masters can claim sueh immunI-
ty Three parties are benefited by breaking up
The new enterprise-the Pacific Mall Company,
the Panama Railroad Company and Commodore
Vanderbilt. Which of the three Is responsible
fOr the failure to reopen the Nicaragua route and
Ior the sunerings endured and damage indicted
the four hundred passengers who left this
city In the Washington for California,
OPERATIONS OF THE PATENT 0FFIcE.-The
following is the List Of Patents issued from the
United States Patent Office for the week ending
December IA, lS5S-each bearing that date:
Robert A. Adams, Of 80. Louis, Mo.-For i'm
prOvement In stencils
j. h Atwood, Of Mansfield Centre, Ct.-For
improvement In sewing machines.
wTist-band fastener.
Amos II. Boyd, Of Saeo, Me-For improve
meat In sewing machines.
JOhn =. Clark Of Philadelpbia D. ~ t,-,