Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-13

legally, as it is their undisputed right to do in
case they have, as they claim to have, a ma
jority of the voters of the Territory on their
side The effect Of such action on their part
cannot fail to be that Bleeding Kansas" will
soon cease to be an issue before the American
people, however announcement that may be to the
patriots who have sought to strengthen them
selves before the people by playing for effect
with that question.
Wemay add here, that the dispatches concern
ing the result Of the Kansas election Of the 4th
inst, which We are now publishing from day to
day, are from the pen of the ST. Louis agent Of
the Associated Press, who for two years past has
tinged nearly his every account of Kansas af.
fairs with his individual Republican party bias
Our experience teaches that while all he sends
over the wires that tells against his own side
may be regarded as positively true, not 1.-THE
of that coming from his pen that smacks Of Re-
publican party successes, &C., is true.
GENERAL DUFF GREENS SCHEMES We do
not know how We can better, in fewer words,
explain the condition of public sentiment here
upon the railroad banking and iron manufac
turing crotchets of the venerable gentleman
named above, than to quote as follows, briefly,
from late Washington letter we find in the
Albany Atlas and Argus. All it says will
strike all who have kept the run Of General
Green's many vagaries of political economy
since his quarrel with Jackson occurred, will
recognize the force and truth Of what this
writer says of his present useless expenditure
of time and attainments, which, otherwise
directed, might be of some service to somebody
WASHINGTON, Jan 5. 1855.
The "RailrOad Conventio nr which took place
at the National Hotel in this city on Monday
night, was the means of bringing to the surface
one Of the most novel, striking, startling and
magnificent schemes which have entered the
brain of man since the explosion of the South
sea Bubble. 10 is worth while TO tell you very
briefly what the telegraph does not, namely.
what were the plans connected with railroad
construction and interests" submitted to the
meeting by Gen Duff Green, and upon which
as the report of the Associated Press avs there
was diversity of opinion You will wonder.
when you hear them, how there could have been
any other diversity of opinion than simple d f.
ference whether the man who submitted the
plans WAS mad Joking.
Gen. Green proposes first, that all the railroad
stock of the country shall be capitalized and
duced to one denomination, and all the lrOad
companies in the Union consolidated into one
grand, mammoth railroad corporation. This
done, and the railroad system of the country in
same interests, and acting in concert through one
board of directors. GeneIa al Green proposes that
Congress shall donate all the public land of the
United States to the Post Office Department, as
basis to enable that Department to lake all adj
vance payment to this grand consoIida (.s Hot
Mummy railroad company, Of fifty millions of
dollars a. d compensation for Carrying the mails.
The company, thus i'll possession Of ffty mi lions
of ready capital, erect mammoth iron mining
and manufacturing establishment at Iron Noun
tain, Missouri, and enter into the business Of
making iron And in order further to insure the
success of tue grand consolidated company, Con-
gress shall place prObibitory duties on iron i'm
ported into the country. and make various other
''needful rules and TegulatiOus' with tender ref
eFence Ia the interests of the company aforesaid
More of the same visionary, wild, -xtfavavaut
stuff, filling up details and removing objections
was submitted by the General, amidst the i'll
concealed wonder and amazement of the persons
present. ] suspect Congress will not ADOPT the
Generals plans, nor, ] am afraid, the railroad
companies either. II they did, we might soon
have General Duff Green as king OF the United
States, and PantaloOn for his prime minister
GOVERNOR WIsE's VERY LAsr.-We need
hardly assure the distant public that the posi-
tons of the letter written by Governor Wise to
the 9Th of January celebration at Tammany
Hall, New York. meet the sanction of no South
ern member of either branrh of Congress We
state the fact only because it will, Of course b..
,ssaycd by the Republican party press to create
the impression that Gov. W represents others
at the South in this matter besides hirns If;
which is not so. He is a free agent, and Us his
opinions and views on such subject affect his
own future only, We see no reason to devote
space in the Star to their discussion. Yet we
may not inapprcpriately remark that the voting
in Kansas Oh the 4th-the action Of its non
slavehOlding State party-in virtually and
practically accepting the Lecompton COnstitu-
ton, shows that Governor Wise is sOlicitOus 10
effect for them in this matter that which they
admit to be not worth cOntending for. The
truth is, the admission Of Kansas into the
Union on the LecOmpton Constitution is so
manifestly but mere necessary preliminary
to placing in the hands Of the people of the
Territory the entire settlement of all their own
affairs in issue, that even Jim Lane Co are
no longer able to prevent any considerable
number Of them from availing themselves Of
the opportunity so TO do. by refusing longer to
play the game Of bleeding Kansas for the
benefit of politicians of the East
CoSFIRMED.-It is understood that the NOM
ination OF the Hon. Nathan Clifford, of Maine
to he an associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, vice Curtis resigned, was
duly confirmed by the Senate yesterday-the
vote being % for to 20 against the confrma.
ton. We have every reason to believe that all
the votes in the negative were those of opposi-
ton Senators
Judge Clifford has spent n very considerable
portion Of his life in the public service and
however thus employed, has discharged all the
duties dcvOlved ON him with eminent ability
and in manner to give entire satisfaction to
all not determined to find fault with all Demo
cratic functionaries on account of their politics.
Unfortunately there are too many such persons;
as there will continue to be, until weak human
nature changes its characteristics. That Judge
Clifford 8 appointment will prove eminently
fortunate and wise one, we entertain no doubt
whatever, and are satisfied that in twelve
month those Of our Democratic friends who
have been inclined to give ear to the aspersions