Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-26
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

GorQ8Y
gentleman at Lesvenworth City, bearing
date there on the 2lst instant, and at Boone
vile, Missouri, on the Oath. So it is the latest
from that quarter. The sender is, in our judy
ment, q perfectly reliable person. We would
rather have his assurance than that Of all the
Republican party blStherskiting professional
senders of kilograms in the Territory and st.
Louis. He telegraphs as follows:
"LEAvENwoRTH CITY. X. T., Jan. 81, 1855
Editor Of the Star: The Democrats have certain
ly carried the Legislature, and most probably
the whole State ticket. Place no confidence
whatever in what may purport to be contrary in
formation concerning the result of the Kansas
election of the 4th inst.'
1t will be perceived that this bears out our
assurances published on Friday last.
THEY MUsr FIND FAULT.-The usually in
telligent and often fair Washington correspond
ent of the Corner and Enquirer recently
launched forth n torrent of abuse and a food
of insinuation against the Secretary of War
and the Department over which that gentleman
presidcs, on account of the fact that the expen.
ditures of the quartermaster's department in
connection with the Utah expedition have
swollen its aggregate cost to the Government
much beyond the sum appropriated for its dis
bursement in the course of the current fiscal
year.
Now, all know that when the last Army APP
preparation bill was passed no one dreamed of
the necessity for the Utah expedition, which
all approve, except the Mormons themselves,
and few journals like the New York Epen,ng
Post, which gravely argues that the General
Government has neither law nor justice on its
side in attempting to maintain its authority in
Utah, when the majority of the inhabitants of
that Territory prefer that it shall be entirely
independent of the North American Confed-
eracy. That is, that it shall become separate
and distinct government, located in almost the
very centre of the territory now under the
jurisdiction of the United States. This absurd
position, by the by, is very natural sequence
OF the higher law doctrines of the Post and its
oomfreres. The writer in the Courier and
Enquirer Of course sympathizes with it. or he
would not rail against the cost of the so neces-
sary expedition to which we refer above
But the folly and hollowness of his pretence
ofadvocating economy and the strict observance
of the letter of the law in this case, is abund-
antly demonstrated in the portion of his (same)
letter wherein he urges that the new condition
of things (the Indian war; that exists in Ari-
IONA, renders it absolutely necessary that the
expenditures of the quartermaster's depart
ment in that region shall be Immediately and
enormously increased, though there is no law
for doing there what he proposes.
As for his foolish aspersiOns upon the Secre-
tary of War for failing to withdraw all the
troops from Kansas last summer, the pub
lie will comprehend at a glance that they
amount to mere Republican party crashing of
the teeth because the Government here refused
in that way to aid and abet the avowed purpose
of Lane, Robinson Co., to create a revolution
there against the authority of the General
Government for the benefit of Abolitionism.
1t is the duty of the Administration-the
higher law theory to the contrary notwith-
standing-to maintain, intact, the General Gov
ernment's authority every where within the
limits of the United States
In such combinations Of circumstances, most
extraordinary in our history, if nc in that of
older nations, the responsibility for promptly
crushing out rebellion during the recess of
Congress or at any other time, is devolved, by
the Constitution, on the President, whose mil.
itary policy, with reference to Kansas as we'll
as Utah meets the cordial appreciation of n vast
majority OF the people of the country, as will
be apparent to all when Congress comes to
vote upon it. Notwithstanding the compare
lively meagre pecuniary resources of the War
Department for such sudden and wholly unex-
pected emergencies these, so far their man.
agement by the Secretary has been the admi-
ration of all the military men of the country
for he has effected with them results that. had
he possessed less nerve, energy and foresight,
would have cost the National Treasury per.
hsps twice as much. We are very sure that
Congress will be much more likely to tender
him vote of thanks for the extraordinary sue
cess that has attended all his share of the work
OF the due protection of the rights and interests
oil the General Government in Kansas and
Utah, than to censure him for not quietly aid
ing and abetting Jim Lane and Brigham Young
In their cherished idea of subverting the au-
thOrity of the United States in both Territories
PUBLIC-ScHOoL EDIFIcEs.-The mind of the
New York public is being much exercised over
the recent calamity of the suffocation of six
little children in attempting to escape with
their fellows from model school house. in
Brooklyn, under a panic. The reader will
recollect the more awful calamity of the death
OF forty-three such little ones by the breaking
of the stairway by which, under similar panic,
a year or two since the pupils of New York
city public school were endeavoring to make
their way out of the building into the street
Ii was supposed that that awful occurrence
would cause the arrangement of sufficient secu-
rites in connection with all public school edi-
heeS in that region, to guarantee parents
against the numbering Of their helpless children
after any such fashion. This last accident.
however, proves that those entertaining such
hope hoped in vain.
While it shows, past peradventure, that the
New York public school houses are still la
mentally insecure, and thus unfit for the Dur.
pose tor which they have been constructed with
such flourish Of trumpets, it also naturally
suggests to us the importance of the question,