Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-19
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


tionists of Congress (under whatever different
party names they seek to be KNOWN are just
now in great slee over what they believe to
have been the effect of the speech of Senator
Crittenden, in Strengthening the cause of Abo-
litionism as that is to be involved in the next
Presidential election. In few words, they
think that the bOldness with which Mr.. Crit
tenden has come to the rescue of their purpose
OF defeating the admission Of Kansas into the
Union with pro-slavery constitution, has
nerved two American party representatives, OF
whose assistance they previously despaired, to
stand with them to the bitter end. We allude
to Messrs Underwood of Kentucky, and Gill
mer of North Carolina. They do not yet hope
that Mr.. Glmer will go the whole hog for them,
as they certainly count on Mr.. UInderwoOd's
doing,-reckoning without their host in his
case we trust-but that he will pertinaciously
vote with and for their cause upon every Incl
dental question arising in the consideration of
the Senate's Kansas State bill, whereon he can
possibly SO vote without enabling his constitu-
ents to comprehend at a glance the fact that he
is effectively playing for the sake Of thwarting
the Democratic party, to make Kansas a non
slaveholding State.
1t would astOund the constituents of the
Hon. Mr.. Gilmer to hear the familiar CONVEX
| sations Of the red-mouthed Aboltionists now
in this city, wherein they speculate upon the
service to their cause they hope and calculate
| Mr.. Gilmer will render in the current Kansas
contest. They argue that though not ventur-
| ing to vote against the admission of Kansas
into the Union on the Lecompton Constitution
| on the final question, he can and will aid them
to the bitter end, by voting with them upon
every preliminary question, which, if carried
against the Lecompton Constitution cause, will
| operate to secure its eventual defeat. For oul
part, we entertain no such poor opinion of Mr.
Gilmer, who is a very emphatic and outspoker
| gentleman, as to believe that the Aboitionist:
are correct in cengratulating themselves or
having bagged him-body and breeches-fol
the furtherance of their ends. We prefer t.
await the developments of his course when the
bill comes down from the Senate.
The RETIRED NAVY OFFIcERs.-We feel il
to be our duty to recommend earnestly to the
| officers who hope to be restored to active duty
in the service under the operation of the Law
recently enacted by Congress, to leave the
President entirely free to make up his iudg
ment on their respective cases from the record
without permitting their friends to importune
him with political or personal appeals. En-
comprised as he is just now with important
questions of State, he can have little time t.
bestow on visitors who may call on him to af
feet the decision of questions which it is hi
duty to decide wholly as the record may re
quire.
The bill contemplates that he shall right any
possible wrongs done by the late courts mar
tial, and leaves him, entirely unprejudicec
and unaffected as he is to be by the result of hi
own action in the premises, to determine il
what cases the courts may possibly have mad,
erroneous decisions. We feel assured, from
what we learn, that personal applications OF
the part of the friends of Navy officers inter
ested, or on the part of any such officer himself
will only have the effect of operating unfavor
ably on his case; and therefore, for their owl
sakes, we give them this caution.
FIyANCIAL.-Sweeny, Rittenhouse, FAINT a
Co quote currency, land warrants, &c, as fol
lows, corrected up to IL m. to-day:
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