Evening star., 1869-06-11
:. LORD. HOW THIS WORLD Is GIVEN
10 LYING. .''-SHAKsPEARK

csTDing affairs in Washington a born IDIOT, or
= he writing this stuff 10 order TO suit the
worlds columns IL would be absurd to no.
tice such monstrous nonsense but for the fact
that several papers are treating the thing seri.
Ously, and Masking horrifisd editorial COM
ments TO the disadvantage of Washington.
This city has been black guarded pretty extsr-
sively in the World heretofore, but for lying
viilification at our expense this surpasses any
previous attempt. If there il a single line OF
tins two column article that does not contain
an untruth we have bean unable 10 find it. But
lie TO line is under the average. Here, for
instance. is paragraph clipped at random. in
which there are as many blunderiug false
hoods as words.
These negroes who began and continued
the outbreak of Monday live m hat part of the
city known as the Island" which is formed
Dy the Potomac Oh one side and the canal on
the other. On the north side OF this simmons
cluslyeiy- These lines OF location have been
locally named Murder Bay "Frederick-
town. "howardtown,' and "Uniontown," all
inese oslag settlements within the corporate
limits OF the city, the first leading out from the
Long Bridge and the others running in con-
succession and ending at the base OF old Fort
stanton, across the Northern Branch of the
Potomac. These settlements contain negroes
only. The localities have been given over
wholly 10 them"
Now 'tse negroes who began and contiE ued
the outbreak OF Monday" do not live sson the
Island" ssthe Island" IS not on the north side
of the canal; .'Fredericktowp,'"H '"Howardtown"
ard "Uniontovn'' are not on the north side of
the canal; Murder Bay. "Howardtownr and
"UnIontown" are not on the .sIsland;" sHew-
ardtown" and "Uniontown" are not "within
the corporate limits of the city," murder Bay"
does not ''ieas out from the Long Bridge" there
Is no "Ncrthern Branch Of the Potomac
"Uniontown" Is not a settlement Of negroes,
but Is exclusively white settlement and is
situated, as everybody knows, opposite Wash.
IngtoD, At the other end of the Nayv Yard
Bridge.
But these. though thickly st-ewn. are bat
minor lies, comparatively harmless Now
comes the richness:
.'ln this section Of the city (tne Island) the
white people do not live at all, so far as I
could discover from many a walk through Il
for purposes of observation. Certainly, no
white woman would be safe there in the broad
est olaze OF noon. No white man ever goes
there at night who knows the least of the char.
aeteristics Of this place. In the daytime a mar
RISKS his life to 20 there alone III he Islaccom.
panied, however, by policeman or two, walks
quickly along, and Is not tempted to stop and
look round him out of curiosity, he NAV mass
without violence, though not without Insult
W hen strangers come 70 the city they are care
tully warned by hotel clerks, by citizens ana
by policemen not TO venture on the other side
OF the canal They do not venture, AT least
principal hotels SINCE 1866 contain the ndr,es of
about 40 guests Vho hare ysteriCusly ds1ppearci
NOT to erdde bodrf bills fer hey hare leff dbund
an b00g19c IF cdIue behind them and hnpS been yos,
generally the rery first eue rfng of tRefr orrirgI
IL is known thar they nave set out for a walk
Nv themselves and have never come back Not
oS direct evidence, but by irresistible circur-
staniiantial supposition, II is known that these
strangers have uuwittingly ventured into the
negro quarters ana have been there Killed for
what Was on them, and their bodies put out of
nm,
esnal-whereof long neglect has made the mud
-en and twelve feet deep in parts-on the other
both afford easy and undiscoverable means
whereby the victims can be and have been
burid out OF sight. These men have never
turned up. By the very sim mplIcity and brew
ny OF the means employed 10 rob and murder
elaborate slaughter which leaves no trace
behind that leads TO con viction For a
negro, surrounded by other negroes who
nave no regard for human life, and VINO
are keenly appreciabIe of q division of spoils.
TO mash out the brains of a white man. 10 rob
him TO the skin, and 70 throw his naked BODY
confederates or his witnesses with part of the
gains, Is the easiest thing in the world 10 do.
yet the hardest thing in the world TO find out
tPparentLy, ZOO hHndJea dHd Dore Of oese murders
tGre, tsftatn fOr ysGrs been successfully eJan s.d
~ the loyal black Republicans of Washro,on City
The Rogers murder IN New York was simple
open AFFAIR, begun on the sidewalk, finished In
a doorway, and all In broad daylight on A
public street; yet 10 has not been found out
These frequent murders by negroes in Wash.
Ington City secure their perpetrators from
commission"
Does this stun need any COMMENT Is II
worth while 70 mention the fact that the
Island" Seventh ward,) set down by this
Gracious correspondent as place where the
white people do not live 81 ALL" has the
heaviest white population OF any ward III the
city, except the Fourth; that its population Is
made up more largely Of permanent, Wash
ington-born citizens than any other: that il Is
aoundantly supplied with churches, one OF
them, ST. DominIck's, now iE progress of erec-
lion. being concededly the finest church edifice
IL lie city; that its public schools have carried
oi more scholarships than (wIth one excep-
nor any other district, and that the Female
Grammar School conducted in this terrible
locality. Z" where no white woman is safe in the
brOadest blaze of noon" has ranked for years
The highest In Washington
II Is scarcely possible 10 Treat seriously tn,
story OF The 30 murdered hotel guests How
Is II Messrs. Chadwick Sykes, Owens, King.
willard, Potts, Semmes, Benson, and the rest
OF youf Here you are charged by the Wortf's
Z" Mck-" with allowing yonr guests to be mur-
dered, without word OF protest, al the rate Of
one per week for the last four years; and he
more than inumates that you have kept mum
AOf INC sake VI plun0cr-tQe baggagp
Where are thes 200 trunks, the 2O0 hat-boxes.
the 40 umbrellas left behind BY these 2uo mur-
dered travellers Disgorge, Oh, Hotel Keepers,
and clear your conscienees,
And the naked bodies Of the victims are
swept away past discovery by the IS wifi cur
rent" That - good, To those who know w the
Localities we hardly need say that there isn't
current enough TO fioat a dead cat over the
sand barsi and any corpses entrusted TO it
would most certainly return by every tide TO
naens the murderers. Very likely all the go
"demmed unpleasant bodies may be found
anoat 1t this hour, along with the dead kittens,
isst years hens eggs, and rotten caboagss, that
saii down, day amer day. TO Severson's immor
tai dyse ON NE eos and sail back to the Marie,
on the food.
Next We nave the World correspondent on
figures. Figures, we are told, never lie. I.st
~ see hoW they fare an the hands of a Worli
correspondent:
''Out OF about 10000 population, WS.hinr.
ton city numbefs ~ least s0OuD blacks ,na
sp,OoO carpet baggers, who lead them and sh.-s
every element Of their degradation except fhssr
Ignorance. OF these 6O,DO0 negroes Al I.ss,
800 are former slaves. Or the 57,UO) former
slaves, NJ least $4,000 are Of the class that in
days OF fpeace, were called neld-hands."
The last census Of the city, taken In 1857.
nxes the entire population Of Washinston a,
Ice,o52, and IL 10 needless to say that in conse
quence OF the decrease Of the population brought
her hv a fha r.au.,,or % a.