Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-09-08
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is nshm srrtvsd yesterday morning from Galveston.
pace che 'eh ON the evening Of the 23rd. tho day
onsne lett shs was detained ~ hour the Passes
''"e or Aen nrr engine She towed up the city
~, 0,"s' no 's'er dates than had by the undas
sss " p'peis from Galveston, Houston, Washington.
ana Auo, have come. but following items are all We
can CLEAN Of the slightest interest,"
"ous'oa Telegraph, referring to the clearsnces Of
inc osfqae John Kerr and the brig Rodney from Boston,
fot Galveston, say,:-
we perceive that Of tho United States paper.
sek 'necrins manner VI the readiness Of Down East
so % the Foremost b, engage lucr live trade Just
between the Northern and Eastern States and the
ns-swsddled State of Texss This 10 unju.t In oil new
cnerpnsss, Yankees have been, aud ever will be-
hSt and foremost The tendency such remarks
spesk OIL hey have any particular tendency ais to
add more stimulus To Yankee spirit and throw obsta
ees In thar which they will DO certain surmou.
IL tis only 10 show how click they do liz perish in
the endcavor.
Grea, apathy prevails relation to the election Of men,
bsrs Of the Texan Congress- being generally thought that
shere will 30 no occasion for another The Telegraph how
ever thinks The ogsniz VI tho present Government
should be maintained with much care aud sociude #
snnexston to tho United States were forever out Of tho
question. Itssys:-
Annszsion break down in the next session Of the
United States Congress. alter ALL there 10 chance
matt may Mighty ehors will be made defer the rsii.
neanon u our constitution a. long a. possible. shall be
found mprueiicable defeat Should IL become nece.-
sary Tor the Texan Congress act, may be- sure
thai the matters submitted to them will be Of vital i'm
portsnee and It's elaboration possess n degree Of interest
to which the history Of oil preceding furnish no
parallel.
We find In the Texas National Register valuable CON-
manicsuon from the Commissioner Of the General Land
Office, suggusins the Convention such action US may
facilitate the issuing Of Land Patents The Commissioner
recommends that "ihe territory now included within IN,
limits o each county, DO created land section; the sec
tons thus created should be divided according territory
into four land Districts for each of which the
Commissioner of the General Land Office should have the
power OF appointing Craftsman and Surveyor whose
duty shall be examine the field Of oil surveys
situated within the limits Of their respective Districts aud
to eoec, all errors that they discover in the sane
divisional and connecting lines; compile MAPS and
do all other things that will tend the yeectng the
land business Of their respective districts in
with the instructions Vi the COMMISSIONS OF the General
Land occ BY this the field notes OF all survey,
will be returned situation for pasnung" Cash
payments for Patents arc recommended in lieu Of the
promissory permitted, a. folows:-siO for
Patent OF league Sc for less than league and
third; - Tor one.thrd Of league; and 80 for
less than third. The Commissioner says that these
charges "would make average about five dollars for
each Patent issued Ab,u thirty Patents per day are is
sued, the peeusion OF other business about eighty
per day be issued and all the necessary business
acted This would amour, in to five thousand hive
hundred and eighty, which, the average charge for each
would produce the sum Of $4,000" The expenses of
the Land Office, for salaries and contingencies are now
Sl4550. The office in this way, would only pay it,
expenses but be of The Commissioner
recommends that provision should also be made tho re-
Of the field Of oil surveys the General Land
Office within a reasonable length Of tne say three or five
years. and the holders Of oil land claims that have emana
ted from the Government should be compelled, either TO
have claims surveyed and the field notes returned Il,
the Office within reasonable length of me in default
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should be adopted the district officers proposed
could the expiration Of the limited for the return
of field lie dispensed WITH and the citizens Of the
county could with certainly obtain their Pat.ns on their
arrival at the General Land Office.
The Committee, TO whom refc rred the Commis-
sionor's communication made a report strongly IN favor
OF his recommendations They think that, by the adop-
Of such system, the great and incr easing demand
Cor Patents, owing Annexation, will be supplied and
that tho certainty thus gwen titles will facilitate sales
The oi:crs of the United States Dragons under Col.
Twiggs, ON reaching Washington. paid their respects
body to the President OF Texas at his residence.
The continued drought has completely dried I'D The
bayou this city which emptes into the Gu-a thing we
told unprecedented since the building Of Galveston 1t
has been suggested that this ards an op-
portuniy for securing abundance OF fresh for
supply of,ur city, by simply throwing up dam across the
mouth Of the bayou, TO exclude the water OF the Gulf
Goirtson Ntps
The Civilian says; "Msjor Donelson informed Us on
his from the West that Gen. Taylor would imme
diaey after disembaIking and establishing comfortably on
shore the United States troops under his mand pro.
coed the OF government and communicate with
President Jones The point they would occupy and the
movements they would make, consulting and acting IN
with the presen government Of Texas the mat
The troops IL is understood, strictly
defensive-repellng any encroachment which may be
made upon the eritory OF Texas. but making none un
less in relaiaton upon that OF Mexico"