Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-19

front white marble portco) with the Undesirable
crowd around him, and the hurrahing and hic-
coughing (by turns) crowd at his feet also proves
that he takes amazingly to his new political pre-
delictions
Having been clipped" in the waters of Democ-
racy, he thus seems to take delight I'm PLAYING
about in the very muddiest (dirtiest) part Of the
pool contraryt to the instincts of his nature before
being 'born again" politically. For, until he
rated to the Democracy, he was as dead, politi-
cally, 1t will be remembered, as any smoked and
dried herring hanging at this moment on greasy
stick, for sale at penny, In Baltimore's Marsh
market. By-the-by, Mr. Johnson, though to his
credit be ii written, as staunch an anti-Know-
Nothing, always, as any in the land, has in no
other matter identified himself with the Demo-
cratic party, by giving up single one of his
former ultra federal views or principles Upon
the slavery question he is yet az emphatically
against the South as Mr.. Seward himself; while
upon every other question-tariff, internal i'm
provements, &c, &c.-he is yet where he was
when he would not touch the paw Of a hurrah
boy with forty-foot pole Thus, his Democracy
Is simply his Douglasism; which, in turn is
simply for the qualification of his thirty years
disnclination towards the institution of the
South.
cratic pretensions that set so ungainly on him-as
he persists in wearing them-to selfishness on bis
part; but, rather, to desire to crafty bis persist
ent illwll to the South, las he practices his new
creed, the author of all the Democratic party,s
victories that have one by one demolished the
popularity of his favorite Federal measures and
principles. Here, every body 'to the manor born
is laughing in his sleeve at Mr.. J g democratic
pretensions-everybody-n because falling To
credit the integrity of his intentions but because
they set as oddly and unnaturally upon him as the
lions skin on the donkey, of the old fable He
Is capital lawyer, | am ready to aver; but not
whit better or more trustworthy politician than
ne was when, not long since, conscientiousy
arguing In effect in all his political speeches that
every strict construction Democrat in the land
deserved ropes end, if notrope enough to make
him halter. w. ID. VII
The Next SENsATION.-The last wonder-the
excitement over the japanese Embdssy-will have
| fairly died out every where in a week or more:
when we shall have almost as much fuss over the
| arrival Of the Great Eastern which is to reach
New York by the I'd of July, If the calculations
of the experts concerning her capabilities be not
wrong. Her alleged speed since the alterations
effected upon her, has dwindled down to an
average Of fourteen knots per hour; at which rate
she may be expected to make the voyage in eight
| days and half. The pilots and others capable of
| judging are essentially bothered stll over the
question whether she can possibly enter the harbor
Of New York, being apparently equally divided
upon IT. IL she does enter safely, after happy
voyage her trip bids far to initiate as distinct an
era in ocean navigation was initiated by the
success Of the first voyage by steam between Eng
land and the United States; as, even without OBJ
tanning greater speed by the employment of vessels
of her immense size, the cost of commercial trans
Portation by their use, If they can be convenient
ly used, will be so materially lessened, doubtless
as to speedily lead to the employment of such shi
wherever there may be great commerce between
ports. The expense of the alterations made in the
ship 1.-THE Great Eastern) since her original trial
trip, has been about S125 900
RESTORED TO The ACTIVE List Lieutenant
Augustus 5. Baldwin has been restored to the