Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-27

last f.rthing of an ample fortune: This worthy
but unfortunate old gentleman, who has seen his
three score years and ten, has thus, within a
brief period been called to mourn the loss of two
active and dutiful sons at sea, and now, anal
stroke, has been wrested In his old age and in
Armity Of the last dollar Of a hard learned patr-
mony J.
OxE-SrDED ACCOUNTANTS Republican par
| ty Washington letter writer's are just now send
| ing off budgets of Kansas news purporting to
have been derived Immediately from Mr. Fred
erick p Stanton, which sound very much like
| the dispatches sent east from the st. Louis
Democrat Office to bolster the cause of the To-
| pekaites Mr.. StantoR,s course in the Terri
| tory seems to have been that of an earnest OPP
ponent of the Democratic party, and this al
| legged information from him is apparently in
| fair keeping with his course in Kansas. We
regard it as the result of his sympathies as were
Gov. Walkers accounts of the suppression of
| the LecOmptOn Constitution and of the char
acter of that instrument. His (Gov. W 81 fifty
dollar story in connection with that instrument,
and his extraordinary misapprehension of it,
according to the same letter writer's, are doubt
less well remembered by all the Stars readers.
Mr.. Stanton is doubtless quite sincere in
all he has really told the letter-wrters in ques-
ton concerning affairs in Kansas; yet those
who know both gentlemen will not be more apt
| to attribute to General Calhoun the purpose of
classifying the returns of the election of the 4th,
than to Mr.. Stanton that of incorporating
| that gentleman's character in the following
statement, which We take from a special des-
patch from this city published in the New
York Tribune of yesterday:
Mr. Stanton thinks the result (of the 4th inst }
depends entirely upon Mr.. Calhoun i'm giving GER
tifcates, and il the Free State are defrauded
he (Calhoun) cannot return to the Territory with
out hazard of his life"
| Gen. Calhoun is a man of as much character
as any gentleman who ever went to Kansas,
| and would be as far from betraying a trust by
| classifying an election return as Mr. Stanton
would be from Intentionally disappearing
his conduct-quite as far. 1t is very evident,
we think, that in publishing the insinuations
against General Calhouns integrity as coming
| from Mr.. Stanton, these Republican letter
| writer's have misunderstood that gentleman.
AN ABLE SPEEC 1.-The speech upon the
! Kansas question: delivered In the House Hall
| yesterday, by Mr. Anderson, of Missouri, at
tracts no little attention around US, insomuch
as it was marked with much more than the
| usual ability of maiden efforts in Congress-
| 1t has certainly earned for Mr.. A. high repu-
tation as debater: 1t was a very carefully
prepared argument in defence of the Lecomp-
ton constitution, and its friends in the territory
Even the republican members, one and all
admit its great ability. So we conclude that
it Is destined to fall with much weight on the
popular ear.
The LEvEE.-The second Levee of the sea.
| son, last evening, was quite as overfowingly
| and brilliantly attended as the previous one !;
and very busy, indeed, for two hours, were the
President and Miss Lane in receiving, and
Marshal Hoover and Commissioner Blake in
presenting, the steady stream of visitors The
President appeared in vigorous health, but was
really suffering from a cold and hoarseness
which debarred him from conversing with his
visitors to any extent.
The COLLECTOR OF THE PoRr OF NEW YORK.
We place no confidence whatever in the stories
published at a distance from Washington city,
alleging that there is disposition on the part
OF the President to withhold from the Senate
the nomination of Mr.. Augustus Schell to be
the Collector of the Port of New York On the
contrary, we have every reason to believe that
Mr.. s. is regarded here as a very valuable and
in all respects satisfactory Government officer
and, as such will be nominated and confirmed
in bis regular order and due time
REsIGNED.-Mr Edward A. Pollard, Of Ga,
has resigned temporary clerkship in the In
dian Bureau, to take effect retrospectively in
order to accept the appointment of clerk to the
House Committee on the Judiciary
The 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 about 8 o'clock a. m:
JANUARY "a, lS5S
Buffalo, N. ". raining; wind w.
New York, N. Y.........pleasant.