Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-12-28
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

~ stated here that the iron manufacturers OF
Pennsylvania are endeavoring to organize an
association to promote their interests in differ
ent portions of the Union, and with view to
control the next Presidential election. They
will urge not only specific duties on iron. but
generally by the Government
In favor of their particular line Of interests.
Ex- Senator Cooper, it is stated, will address
Q convention Of those engaged in this move.
msnt, in Philadelphia, at an early day.
Republican Senators and Representatives in
Congress are said to have come to the unani-
NOUS conclusion that parties and politics are
so shaped in this Congress that nothing will be
effected during the present session concerning
the Pacific railroad or Q modification Of the
tariff. That is equivalent to declaring that
they will do all in their power to prevent the
eonsummation Of any practical result in either
matter, with view Of keeping the questions
open to strengthen their own party in the ma
tional election of 1850. 30. ..
We hear it said that q sort Of political re-
union took place on Christmas day, at the resi-
dence Of Mr.. F. P. Blair-Silver Spring-at
which there we're in attendance strange ad.
mixture of black spirits and white, blue
spirits and gray" all belonging to some branch
or other of the opposition.
Commander Wilkes has made lengthy 70.
port on the mineral character of Chatham
county, N. c., with view to establishing at
that point q naval depot of construction He
considers the spot selected as almost fabulously
rich in coal and iron of the best quality The
report will shortly bo submitted to Congress.
Mr.. Greenwood, Of Ark, recently submitted
to the House Judiciary Committee, . bill to pun
ish negro stealing in the Indian country, and
the question is believed to have arisen, in the
Committee room, whether slaves can be held in
the Indian country. under the Constitution As
the Committee are divided in their views, the
matter will, no doubt, be brought before Con-
gress at an early day, and present new phase
Of the inexhaustible issue.
The contract for the steamers America and
Canada, which were intended for the Paraguay
expedition, has not yet been signed, and it il
probable those vessels will not be employed by
the Government. The fact that they are side
wheel steamers is serious objection to them,
and it is hoped the force already sent to Para
quay will be sufficient
DR.. Jerez alleges that he anticipates receiy.
ing the Cass-Irissari treaty next week, fully
ratified.
We hear that bill will soon be submitted
to the House Of Representatives, providing for
the establishment of Consular pupils, to be as.
signed to such Consulates as the President NAV
deem proper, and from whom future Cousuls
shall be selected
1t is believed that Commodore Stringham
will be appointed to succeed Com Mcintosh
In command of the Gulf squadron
A TEMPEST IN TEA-PoT.-The New York
Commercial Advertiser Is terribly disgruntlsd
over our recent alluson to the probability that
efforts in Southern Georgia to enforce the due
execution Of the law for the prevention of the
African slave trade, will prove as abortive as
efforts in New England to enforce the duo ex-
ecution Of the fugitive slave law. The Adrer-
riser assumes the privilege of attributing what
We said in that connection to official insp;ra-
uon-a silly thought, truly. We know not
whether the Government hero share in the
opinion Of ours thus disgruntling our cotem-
porary; yet We are well satisfied of its correct
ness. Those who know the frmness of Presi.
dent Buchanan and his Cabinet are we'll salts
ned that every power the laws give them to en-
force the due execution Of the Law in the case
OF the Wanderer, will be promptly and firmly
executed; but wherever tout of South Cardinal
public opinion is in this country opposed to the
execution Of a law, it is virtually q dead
letter; and nowhere else more surely 50 than
in the city where the Adcertissr itself is print.
ed. The laws nleshes catch and hold far fewer,
there, contrary to the vicious public opini on Of
the yicinage, than at the South There. and
throughout New England, the law in such
cases is little more, practically, than the bas-
tard public opinion Of the hour
The AdreTtissr, by-the-by, threatens to dis
solve the UpIon Immediately, if not sooner,n
In case the law fails to be executed against the
Wanderers alleged offence. We advise that
Journal to begin its work of dissolution rather
because throughout almost the entire North
the Fugitive Slave Law is VIGOROUSLY dead
letter. Hundreds Of abortive efforts to exc.
cute that Law haye been essayed, and it is
quite as proper to dissolye the Union on 40
count Of the failure to execute tho law for the
protection OF slave property, as for the failure
to execute the law to prevent the African slays
trade, We opine. Now that the Southern bull
thus cores the Northern OK, the Adrey.iser bel
lows loudly, indeed; though for ten years past,
while the Northern bull was goring the South.
ern OK, that journal held, with Mr.. Toots, that
1t WA +" Of no consequence"
RETIRING DISABLED AgxY AND MARINE
CORPS ORFIcERs.-The bill recently reported
by the senate's Committee on Military Affairs
to promote the efficiency Of the Army and Ma.
rine Corps. by retiring disabled officers, and
about which good deal of public interest is
provides as follows:
First. That a commissioned ote:cer, incapablr
OF performing duty, shall be withdrawn from
active service, and from the line of promotion'
and shall be placed on q retired list He is still
10 receive the proper psy Of the rank be held at
the time OF his retiracy, whether hy stat or regi
mental commission, together with the service
rdtions, and the allowances (as provided by lawl
for one servant. If the disability IL the result Of
wounds received in action. his pay and allow.
ance are to be that Of the highest rank to which
he has attained, by brevrt or otherwise
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