Daily Evening Star

Washington News.

Outside Politicians at Syracuse.—The story that the President has despatched Col. Forney, Mr. Beverly Tucker, Major Whipple et al to Syracuse, is made up of whole cloth. We hear that he seems to give himself little concern indeed with reference to what is going on in that quarter, laughing heartily at the attempt to create the impression that he has dispatched a sort of kitchen cabinet there.

The truth is, Col. Forney has not gone to Syracuse. Major Whipple is a resident of New York city, and being a very active politician wherever he may live, goes to Syracuse as all the most active Democratic politicians of the State have gone. That is—“prospecting,” as they term it in California—though in New York they call it “to see what may turn up, and to take a hand in the mess.”

As for Mr. Beverly Tucker, he is notoriously on his own hook just now, in everything political. Indeed, in his sympathies as between the rival roses of New York, he is well known to stand with those who are in next to open opposition to the Administration here; which, in itself, disproves the silly story that the President has sent him thither as a sort of unofficial plenipotentiary.

By-the-by, in Washington, a far thicker fog hangs over Mr. Tucker's proposed Sentinel newspaper enterprise, than over anything else just now to be named. While newspapers at a distance are making all sorts of positive announcements (contradictory) concerning it, here, no one seems to know aught about his arrangements in this connection, further than that his right hand man in the concern is to be Mr. Lewis C. Levin. Though this appears to be well nigh the universal impression in political circles in Washington, we confess to be without information to justify us in asserting even that much to be true. The very last Sentinel newspaper rumor makes it positively the prospective organ of a Wm. C. Rives party, and credits the respectable Washington banking firm of Selden, Withers & Co. with being up to their eyes in the speculation.

As for the Rives part of the story, we know nothing of its truth; but so far as the Selden, Withers & Co. portion is concerned, we have to say to the outside-barbarian world, that these gentlemen deal in money-securities, exchange, &c.—not in politics; and would as soon think of embarking in a ballet dancing speculation, as of identifying themselves directly or indirectly with a political newspaper.