Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-01-28
WASHINGTONN NEWS AND GOSSIP

The DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR APPRoPRI-
ALTON BILL--The temporary defeat Of this
measure in the House hall yesterday, was
the result Of q combination of circumstances.
Thus, the mass of the Republicans voted
against it, because they think their party $
prospects in the next Presidential election will
be furthered by generating an absolute neces.
sity for an extra session of Congress, to be
made necessary by defeating as many general
appropriation bills as possible Some of the
intense aboiitiOnists among them so abomiuatc
the colonization Society, as to rejoice at the
opportunity to vote against appropriatiDg
money to go into its hands for any purpose
whatever, and Were thus doubly inclined to
vote tie bill down. The Southern Democrats
who voted against the bill, did So in the main,
because Its clause appr"priating to pay that
organization for its services TO the Government
IN receiving and taking care Of the EchO's car
20 OF wild Africans, contem plated payment lOr
educating and supporting them for one year
alter their return to the coast Though we
agree with those gentlemen that it would be
about as well to take money from the Federal
treasury to provide the means of paving for
the purchase Of ga flannel yes kit and n moral
pocket Handkerchief for each newborn Afri-
can babe, and that the only fitting education
Tor them 10 in the use Of the hoe, we do not
perceive In the terms OF tho agreement be-
tween the Society and the Government, a sub
stsntiai reason for stopping all appropriations
Tor the Consular and Diplomatic service, be-
cause those who dislike those terms were not
able to strike them out of the bill. We take IL
for granted that sober second thought will in
duce those gentleman at least to acouies,e
eventually In the enactment Of the bill; as
nothing would mortify us more than to find
them strengthening the strstagems of the Re-
publican party, in their devotion TO crotcbets.
PLAGIARISM MosT USBLUsuISG We must
have a copyright law, positively We must ;
American authors have long been plupdered
by British bOok-men and compiIers, and lust
low We have before Us in the very blacklist
and Whitest of black and white, perhaps, the
most Migrant example yet of this wholesale
stealing OF American brain labor The pa-
trlotle dander OF every Washingtonian will. we
are sure, be up, when he learns that the spc.
ferer IN this instance is q star of our own paIaxv
our talented, gifted, original, sprigb,Iy. &c.
j..
VINO, rs the readers Of our city contemporaries
are aware, has just published tie book of the
season and perhaps of the century, entitled
Life IN Washington, and life here and there
What W'H our readers say of the audacity OF
the tarnai Britishers when informed that Mrs.
"o'e' novelist Of some note, and who clearly
ousht 70 De ashamed of herself, has actually
n"''P ated Miss Windle's choicest gems of
.IOuBu', ana that In her novel STYLED "Piu
'"'ney' published some half DOZEN or mora
years ago. VIC Ind whole passages TINS mr..
Ioihed' or rather iorestalled from uI;c. :,
Washington" "o al
BY some bOcus pOcus mental n,oo...
psychological 'agrImentO presto ehauorHI
which We are not prepared to explain NJ,
Gore has absolutely been able to spirit from
MISS HIndie's mental laboratory all these
graceful Creations, and to reap the benefit Of
their use for some half dozen years prior to the
time wien Miss w. has found it convenient To-
record them upon paper. What Miss Windle
describes rs happening at White House re-
csPtion, Mrs. Gore locates at a "St Janes
drawing Room" We end Mrs. Cores Cabi-
net ministers and N. P.'s using, page in and
page out precisely the language Of our Hon
oe'ie'Aries and Id. C.'s. The bellies of Wash
s"n discuss costumes for the coming Fancy
nA" OF MRS. GWin, in the identical words Of
toe LONDON bellies in regard to the coming
0H ma'2"e OF Lord Calder; and i, will bs y
CONSOLATION perhaps to American busband. and
lovers to know that the English wome, sh
upon mantua- making details quite as n,rx.-
telty and internationally as our own MI,