Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-05

appreciation Of the subject were TO abstain from
entering such places Il would lead to the estab-
lishment Of public exchange, or club room Of
some kind, which would suPersede the ballroom
place of resort"
? This writer must have been indigenous to
that portion Of southern Indiana (adjoining II
linois) where, vhen the stranger, suspicious 81
the surroundings, on asking if persons sse
much ''psstered with the the agur," is IN.
swered with ehattering teeth, mighty littles
indeed, sir, but jist over the river, in the Till
nois country, they has it awful bad-awfal
bad - .-..-----
The truth is, the bad liquor sold in an ordi-
nary Broadway fash drinking house in day,
would we'll nigh float all the Washington city
bar rooms for q week. Here, as there, they
are for the most part the resort of strangers
of whom we usually have more than our legiti-
mate proportion according to population-and
young men about town. Our business fellow
citizens and strangers whose tastes do not lead
them to such places, quite as rarely enter q
Washington bar room rs similar classes in New
York enter such places there-quite as rarely
The Times to the contrary notwithstanding,
every Washington Hotel, great or small, Pc :.
sesses ample accommodations for meeting to
fulfill business engagements, for conversation,
lounging or what not, possessed by the Hotels
of New York or any other American city;
while the elegant places of common resort,
without charge, for both ladies and gentleme a
public libraries, picture galleries, institu.
tions, public grounds, &C., with which Wash
ington is adorned and graced, in interest, ex-
tent, magnifcence, and other agreeable and
desirable attributes, greatly outnumber, and
are greatly superior to those of New York or
any other American city, in proportion to pop
ulatlOn. HE Times man must certainly have
had touch of the Indiana "agur' when in
dieting the article on which we comment above
The NEW KANSAS APPOINrMESrs.-Asmuc
interest is manifested, both in that Territory
and here, concerning the Federal appointments
which must, not long hence, be made for Kan
sas, We have to say that % to man up tree
the following " slate" appears to be the one
likely to succeed. OF course there is as earn
est and lively contention for the Federal Offices
in Kansas as elsewhere:
Mr.. Schroeder, for Receiver and Samuel J Z.
Jones, for Register of the district land Office at
Fort Scott.
Jackson C. Thompson, for Agent for the Wea
and Miami Indians.
Alexander Johnson for Agent for the Shaw
nee and Wyandott Indians
Joshua II. Danforth, for Agent for the Kick.
apoo Indians. ..-.
Mr.. Gilbert, for United States District At
torney in the Territory and State of Kansas.
Sterling G. Cato, for District Judge of the
United States Court Of the State
The following re-appointments are likewise
expected, to wit Gen. Clarkson, for Postmas-
ter at Leavenworth; Maj Miller, for Indian
Agent; and Gen. John Calhoun as Surveyor
General.
The re-appointment of J. Winston as United
States Marshal, and the disappointment of
Maj. Vanderslice, as Indian Agent, meets with
hearty approval from the citizens of Kansas
now in this city, and the names we have given
above will also, it is stated, give them very
general satisfaction.
A SIGNAL ExEAPLIFICATIoN. Never was
the power of the Democratic party organization
more forciby illustrated than in the effect of
the utilization of Governor W Use with Senator
Douglas and the rest of the Congressional alb
squatulators, on his(Gov. VS. political stand
ing at home. day before news OF it broke
upon his astounded fellow citizens of Virginia,
he disputed with Senator Hunter the leadership
of the States Democracy, and was regarded
by thousands on thousands Of them as the most
likely as we'll as the properest man for the next
Democratic-party Presidential nomination
Now. among the party at home lin Virginia. !
he is without sufficient strength to carry q
single member OF the Legislature with him to
his position Of opposition on the great question
dividing the political organizations of the coun-
try. No other public man, since the formation
Of this Government, ever so suddenly fell from
political position 80 commanding as be occu.
pied before thus quitting his foot into it," into
one of so little influence as all realize who
comprehend the entire unanimity of the Vir.
ginia Democracy for the Lecompton Constitu
ton: Gov. Wise, in prop,Ia persone, being
absolutely the only living Virginia Democrat
as far as We can perceive, not with his party
with reference to Lecompton
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE The following Of.
fcers have been ordered to the steamer Des-
PotSAj hOW o. ANO" LUX, ABOUT 10 Ball on
special service with provisions for the home
squadron: Lieutenant Commanding, E. G. Par.
rott; Lieutenants, II. S. Newcomb, d. A. Nc
DermOt, ]. d. Daniels, and John E. Hart;
Passed Assistant Surgeon, B. Vreeland
A Board for the examination of the senior
class of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy
has been ordered to convene at Annapolis,
Maryland, on the LIST of April next. The Board
is composed of the following officers: Captains.
II. A. Adams, A. A.. HARDWOOD, and c. Ring
gold; Commanders, Z. G. Tilton and S P. Lee.
SENATOR GREENS SPEECH.-Our exchanges
are teeming with praises of the last speech of
Senator Green upon the Kansas question: of
which the Alexandria Gazette says, in tina
course Of an article upon it:
MIR. Green then spoke for about an hour on
the question before the Senate, making a very
strong presentation of the facts and arguments
with which our readers are already familiar II