Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-01-20
WASHING TON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


WASHING TON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
CURRENT MOVES ON THE POLITICAL CHESS
BoARD.-The most noteworthy feature oil inc
session of the House of Representatives last
night-held to afford a sort of escaPe-vaiVe ioi
the pent up Buneombe,' owing to the reahy
remarka able previous close attention oil the en-
tire session of the House to legitimate bust
ness,-was tho speech of Mr.. Humphrey Mar
shall. ythe American-party leader in the body,
in reply to the late political manifesto Of the
distinguished and justly respected veteran
member from Maine, Mr.. Israel WaShburn jr,
whose point was to announce to the world that
the Republican party leaders had planted their
party immoyably upon the doctrines of Senator
Stewards Rochester speech. On behalf of his
party, Mr.. Marshall formally announced that
1t will not Ego" Senator Seward and bis doc
trines; but will organize anew if the Repub
lican party will not "fuse" on some other than
an abolition platform. So far as the non
saveholding States are concerned, the Repub-
licans have this game between the wings of the
opposition entirely in their own hands; and
having no hope of gaining anything material
with the American party, they will ''stand on"
Mr.. Stewards Rochester hand" least by
throwing it up they may lose more aboli-
ton votes than they can possibly gain from tae
American party by "backing water"
On the other hand, we are not among those
who believe that the proposed fusion on any
conceivable terms, if carried out, will fail to
lose Maryland to the Opposition. 1t will re-
quire-in the present temper of the rural dis
tricts of that State over their loss of slave prop
erty by underground railroad operations
q formal fusion between the American and Re-
publican parties to insure Maryland to the De-
mocracy; SO we have little faith that the an
ticipated coalition against the Democratic party
will take place. Messrs. Washburne and Mar
shall, or other leading politicians, may bill and
coO-squabble, and then kiss and make up
over such proposition until the next presiden-
tial election; yet they will accomplish nothing
more likely to induce the American party of
the South to turn Abolitionists, than to induce
the main body of Mr.. Stewards supporters TO
cease to be Abolitionists
The Force OF EARLY AssOCIArroxs.-1ho
Opposition press take great delight in publish
ing undulterated slang and vulgar abuse said
to have been uttered by Senator Broderick in
familiar conversation, against his fellow Soma
tors of the Democratic party. His very last
exploit in that line, according to a special
Washington dispatch TO the New York Tribune.
wasconccrning the recent Democratic senatorial
caucus with reference TO the Cuban question
and is as follows
Mr.. BrOdariCk said, on bearing an accounf
OF the caucus, that it resembled the meeting of d
gang of burg glars"
This effort at BON mot on tho part of Mr.
BrodericB seems to illustrate, capitally, indeed
the force of early associations however lament
ably 1T may lack point as applied to the gentle
men he complimented with it; for we re member
him well, when, toddy-stick in hand, he dis
pensed from his saloon" such liquor as is even
now sold around the purlieus Of the Five
Points" to the New York shoulder-hitting poll
ticians and the aliased individuals whose habit.
and characters are such, notwithstanding their
fashy- dashy appearance, as that when not alb
solutely in the hands of the police, they are
rarely beyond its surveillance.
We remember we'll, too, that during the
times of the Vigilance Committee in San Fran
cisco, Mr.. Frederick was published as the DO
litical patron and political leader of the ankee
Sullivan, Pat Mulligan 4 Co. gangs of ballot
box suffers, dead-fall gamblers, desperadoes
and violatOrs of law of every description, whose
acts gave rise to the committee aforesaid I'm
der such circumstances we do not feel justified
in di5puting the fact that Mr. Broderick NAV
be:able, at any moment to recall to his mind
eye perfect picture of . the meeting of
gang of burglars" Yet we recognize nothing
in that fact, proving that he must also have
known intuitively how such a meeting Of
u S. Senators, as he took the liberty Of stig-
matizing, according to the TriJHne's CORES
correspondent may have appeared
An APPROACHING GRAND ENTERTAINMENT.
The New York Herald of the day before yes
terday, suggests that grand Ball be given to
the British Minister and Lady Napier previous
to their departure for Europe, and recommends
New York as the point at which it must occur,
and the Academy of Music as the place The
Herald objects TO Washington as the scene of
such feStivity, on the ground that there are not
enough families Of distinction in the CITY lust
now, to render it an entertainment such as we
desire to see given to Lord and Lady Napier"
The proposition of the Hsraid comes little too
late, as arrangements Of the most ample kind
are already being made to give such compl.-
mentary entertainment to Lord and Lady Ma
pier in this city, as their distinguished charac-
tiers demand, and the high estimation of our
citizens and prominent members of Congress
has prompted them to tender. The affair is
in good hands, and will be made worthy tho
occasion and the spirit of our people New
Workers desiring to participate in the festi vi
ties, which will come off during the ensuing
month, can doubtless have their wishes graft
fed on communication with either of their
Senators in Congress.
GEN. PAEz.-The Navy Department is in
receipt by this mornings mail of the following
interesting despatch from Commander Daniel
Is. Ridgely, of the steamer Atlanta, on board
OF which Gen. Paez returned to Venezuela:
U. s. STEAMER ATLANTA,