The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-28
FROM OUR 0RN CORRESPONDENT.
Nnw YonK. luonday night july 20, 1855

NEW YORK, (Monday nlgitb July 20, 1900.
Except that the Evening Post is larger, neatly
printed and cxpensively 'madc up than the "Red
Fb& and the s.iuligator,' really cannot much
difference between ii and its disgusting cotemporares.
The most sanderous and diclonsly improbable accusa
tioiM against men Of high character and standing form
the web and woof Of its clumsy editorials and the
higher the character and the exalted the station of
to be assaied the does the Post editor tax
hs Ingenuity TO invent scurrilous epithcts, vulgar
purs, and bareiaced untruths, wherewth to season
tia II daily offers to its few readers. To-day
the Post discovers the evidence of that used up fill
buster, William Walker that the President and his cai
net had laid plot for "the tearing down the iag OF
Slsln and the bringing about war between Mexico
and Span, In order that Cuba might hcn be seized by
thsomer power The only evidence Of this conspiracy
sist IN what illibuster Walker says that Ge Hcnnng
sl SAID that Secretary Floyd sad that the President SAID
and In Walker expreson OF complete reliance ON strict
truth and honor OF the Anglo Swedish knhterrant who.
fus, t for Casn in SPAIN and for desposm in Ccsa,
offered 10 fight when the fighting in Hun
gary. and Who recently, fought for self and Walker
la Nicaragua. And this Is the testimony which the Post
declares 10 be good that OF Governor Floyd AMI
these the whose statements to he considered
"worthy of credit those of the honored Secretary
of War 1t is insulting to the understanding and intel
lgence of any civilized community to seek to make them
believe such tissue of gross absur,ity and flsehood
IL the President and the Secretary of War wished to
nurse between Mexico and Spain, desired,
the Post elegantly expresses it, to steal Cuba they
certainly could have found tried rusty efficient,
and capable agents than 'tle ruthless mercenarics to
whom the Post alludes If Secretary Floyd could have
persuaded Hennngsen and his cher to go to Mexico
and enter service there he would have done most praise
worthy and patriotic act the probabilities are that we
should have been thus rid of both worthless for and
in the excess of his generosity he offered the generals
money to pay their expenses, and thus deprive them OF
all for not going, he is still further entitled to
popular commendation and gratitude Men who are base
enough to repeat private conversation, or publish
private correspondence generally considered in
Iensely infamous to be ocast from all society claim
ing to be decent How much more Infamous they,
however who repeat what puports to be private con
versaton which, in reality, never took place. who
publish what pretcnds to be private correspondence,
but which is in reality base forgery!
The paper that gives currency to- and pretens to place
reliance such transparent fasehoods, is the fitting
organ tho publication Of the pot valiant letter Of the
gallant senator from Massachusetts, who only rescued
from the scourge which he richly desc, we'd at the hands
of Senator Gwin by his reiterated disavowal to honorable
senators of any intention to offend the senator from
California; who his escape to the Intervention Of
those gentlemen alone and who unmindfnl ignorant
every rule of gentlemens society fogetfu of every
sentiment of gratitude has sought through the columns
of his congena journal to rcpudate the generous action
of those who saved him from being logged, to fasy
their statements, and, with true Bob-Acres swagger,
make 1t appear that lis personal courage is only to be
equalled by his magnanmity With the awl, the wax
end, and the last, he may be cunning offence He
had better stick to those useful implements and neither
write speak of the weapons used in spheres to which
he does not belong
II is suggested that the Post Alligator and Red Flag
be analSamuted, that when the editor Of the second
is sent TO the penitentary and the editor OF the third
falls victim to the joint machnations of Lola Montcz,
Louis Napoleon, and dentist, whose forget,
the editor of the first continue the business and pre-
serve thc tone of the journals thus likely to be de-
prived of their master spirits.
The motion to discharge James Sutton Elliott from
arrest at the suit of General Peel her Britannia Mnestys
Secretary of War; for enbczzcmcnt of public property
denied to-day by Judge ngraham, of the supreme
court.
The following the exports Of specie from this port
for the past week and for the year 1885, with compar
son for the last six years