Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-04
Washington News.


lishments in Oregon have just appealed to the
General Land Office for reversal of decision
of the Surveyor General of that territory In
the organic law of Oregon Territory there is
clause saying, land provided also that the
title to the land not exceeding $40 acres now
occupied by missionary stations among the
Indian tribes in said territory together with
improvements thereon, be confirmed and es-
tablished In the several religious societies to
which said missionary stations respectively
belong The Surveyor General there, in con-
STRUNG this clause, holds that it does not
convey grant of $40 acres for each such
missionary station, but single grant of
$40 acres to each dc domination having mis-
sionary stations in Oregon. without reference
to the number Of such stations each may have
in that quarter. His reading of the law is so
manifestly contrary to its intent, that we pre-
sumo the Land Office bureau will forthwith
overru!e his decision. By the by, public attcn-
ton is very rapidly awakening in all quarters.
to the advantages for settlers offered y Oregon
and Washington Territories
THE CONDITION OF THE PRINcEroN.-We
learn that Commodore Shubrick, writing from
PASSPORT, Maine, where he is temporarily de-
tanned by fogs, informs the Department that
Engineer Martins alterations in the ma
chinery Of the Princeton have so far i'm
proved her, as to render fit for her present
voyage. She, however. requires twenty
five tons OF coal for twenty-four hours
steaming, which will prevent her from being
used where she cannot get coal Mt very short
intervals. Commodore S. agrees with Engineer
Martin in the opinion that alterations may be
made in her boilers which will obviate her
present enormous consumption of coal.
LABOR IN VAIN.-We hear that many petit
tions have been presented to the President
urging him to remit the sentence of death.
under which Woodward, recently convicted
substituting for it Punishment from the United
States AS the Executive is clearly without
authority to Danish any man from the United
States under any circumstances, it strikes us
a sad mistake in asking too much in his be-
| half Had they petitioned for communication
| of his sentence to imprisonment for life in the
Penitentiary Of the District of Columbia, it
might have been obtained. Now to ask that
he may 60 free of punishment under the pre-
! tence of Punishment. (Which the Executive has
| no power to order.) is apparently running the
game into the ground. !
The New CusToN-IIoUsE TO BE- BUILT AT
| WILMINGTON, DELAwARE.-The proposals for
| the construction of this work having been
| opened, We hear that all of them-sOme four
! or five in numbcr-are found to be above the
amount appropriated by Congress for the pur-
pose and. further, that the Secretary of the
Treasury is now considering what he can well
do for the public interest under such COM
| bination of circumstances
The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIORS; present
visit to New York is not on Government ac-
count, a. ta,e papers continue to allege. We
| repeat, he is probably there only to effect the
removal of his family to Georgetown, in this
District.
The CYL EkGisEERsHIP AT THE BROOKLYN
YARD has been conferred ON Col Ward B.
Burnett. as we anticipated. some days since.
POSTMASTER GENERAL CAMPBELL We nm
derstand, leaves Washington this afternoon
for Philadelphia.
GoyERNaa !C9ER, Of Georgia, arrived here
this morning. apa, it - snid. spent an hour
to-day with the President.
THE II0N. CALEE CUsmSG has returned from
Berkeley, and is again at his post
GPENoUGB's STATUE reached here this
morning -.