Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-30

ea,rated steamer New World in her convenieaceDi
and comforts Tor passengess, as in the taste md
of her decorations. No one can |
conceive Of the perfection to which the art of
steamboat buildi ng has been carried in New York,
until making a trip on the Commonwealth. 4
recoliect well when the New World was regarded
as the greatest conceivable achievement in sseam-
boat building Now that the Commonwealth
surpasses her 50 far, soon, one Is prone to ask
ones self-what will they next achieve In New
York, in the improvement Of steamboats,,
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30 Tar MANuvssfo.-Senatos Douglas bids fair to
rival Gov Wise in writing manifestoes politics
designed to advance his presidential aspirations
but really tending to convince the public that his
pretensions are inadmissible. 1t will be rernenl-
bered that before Governor Wise wrote his TWEEN
ty-seven- newspap per columns letter to Sanford,
which shook the public's faith in his sanity and
his subsequent Donnelly and Boston bagginp let.
tiers, which satisfied all that he has indeed gone
ssclean daft" Mr. Clay wrote unfortunate letter
on the Texas question which changed an almost ab-
soue certainty Of his election to the Presiden TO
overwhelming defeat. Nevertheless, ifa hundred
Over-ambitiOus gentlemen were notoriously TO
commit political suicide annually with the nen
the rest would not be thereby deferred from FOL.
lowing their example; nor would the politically
dead cease to scratch with the pen for popular
ediication, upon the lids of their several collins
None except presidential ospirants SO setiulo,slv
seek to become popular teachers, Al those who
have been laid aside by the people John Minor
Bolts is as glaring an example In this connection
as Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas-quite--ther chances
of reaching the executive Mansion being equal,
as well as their industry in :. Keeping themselves
before the people, nj.
land Club, Of Brooklyn, N. Y. Douglass very
last is his long heralded manifesto ps nted in the
September number Of Harpers' Magazine. A
bold man, indeed, is Mr.. Douglas; or he never
would have thus essayed to make patent to all
the world his contemptuous opinion Of and bitter
hostility TO the South az declared Of late to all
who choose to converse with him on the subject,
and explained in the letter to the Tribune from
which the Star quoted day or two since.
Mr.. Douglas, when it became necessary for him
to turn abOlitonst to his reelection to the
U. 8. Senate, did 80 with heartiness and bold
ness that placed him, for the time being, In the
estimation Of the whole South, cheek by jowl
with Messrs. Giddings Hale, L. Co. In SO doing be
fatty admitted the bred Sc OFT decision to be what it
IL regarded as being by the whole Democratic
party, and argued at length against its correct
ness. Having secured his reele:tion; and his adj
vances for the championship Of the abolition in
'erest having been spurned by that party he at
once sought to reinstate himself with the Democ-
racy by protesting the intention Of again acting
with theIn-Of sustaining their candidates to be
selected at Charleston, and thus endorsing their
doctrines. He has subsequently worked hard to
secure in his own behalf the delegations to
Charleston Of the States where abolitioni, ia too
rampant to permit the Democracy to hope TO carry
their ticket; having abandoned all hope Of being
sustained in the Convention by 4 single slave.
holding State, though protesting Ito stimulate
the labors Of his semi abolition strikers) that LIE is
certain Of the support there Of Louisiana. Arkan-
sas, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and of
Virginia also, (Heayen save the mark , after the
first ballot.
That he knows well enough that the idea that
he will receive single vote from a slaveholdiny
State In the Convention Is a sham. is evident in
the manner in which he is now again gradually
drawing himself upon an abolition platform TO be
prepared to contend with the Republican nom-
inee for the votes Of those of the Republican
who formerly voted with the Democratic party:
his expectation being to be able to defe, NOM
lnatioR at Charleston, and then running a stump
to draw to himself the whole Northern Demo
cratic vote and the former Democratic wing of
the present Republican party.
His last manifesto mentioned above affords
abundant proof of the fact. Though admitting
the bred Scott decision to have been what all the
world credited it with being, throughout his late
Senatorial canvass. as explained above, and vehe
mently protesting against it because it MSS Via,
it is alleged to be, in order to catch the votes
Of law-abiding Northern Democrats, he now
cooly disputes the correctness of his original and
the worlds accepted version Of il: maintaining
the minority opinions Of the dissenting Judges to
the contrary nOtwithstanding-that it does no,
affirm the equal lights Of shareholders in United
states Territories. He also argues, in that mani
festo, that from the foundation Of the Government,
until this hour, all that has been done by the
General Government with reference to the Terri
tories further than the Constitution gives it a
right to do with reference to fort and dock-yard
sites in the States, has been unconsttutionalIy
done-done only by and through usurpation of
authority And further, that, politically, the Ter
ri'ories are As sovereign in the right to regulate
their own concerns, as the States Also that none
but those actually squattng In the Territories
have more rights direct or Indirect in come ton
with them, than the citizens of Massachusetts
have in connection with the affairs Of Virginia
lie proclaims that whenever Territory contains
population enough-declining to state the requi-
sue hurnher-to organize for themselves Terrific
rial government. they may legally forbid the ex
lslence vi slavery in their midst. Or, In other
words he rciterates the argument Of his last can
vass Tor the Senatorship-that the first batch of
agents sent out by abolition emigration societies
may instantly deprive the shareholders of the
south OF equal hts in the common territory Of
the Government
10 thls point has the free soilism Of Stephen
Arnold Douglas come already; such, and such
only being the sum and substance Of this las,
manifesto, declaring that the Supreme Court did
not know what they decided; that its minority
entirely mistook the purport of the majority de-
cison that, from the adoption of the Constitution
until to-day the General Government has been |
persstently usurping authority In the Territories
that the south 10 without a shadow Of rights of |
coequality In them; and finally, that nobody but |
stephen Arnold Douglas has ever vet known
aught concerning the truth of the provisions of
the Constitution with reference to United states
Territories.
ORDERS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE N.vy.-I
general order has recently been issued by the |
Secretary OF the Navy In which he state. that no /
order Will be given to medical officers of the navy