Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-01
WAsHIEaroN GEws AND GOSSIP.

I WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
r, The Fort Leavenworth Military Reserva-
;ion-The Government owns more land, as q |
Military reservation, Immediately around Fort |
Leavenworth, than is required for its military
purposes in that immediate vicinitys The seat
of Government of Kansas, it is thought, will
be located on or very near that reservation.
If what can be spared there be sold by com.
missioners for the benefit of the United States,
under such restrictions and securities as will
insure an honest accountability for the pro-
ceeds of such sale, and that it shall be con.
Quoted fairly in all respects, the treasury can
not fail to be greatly benefited thereby. If,
however, prompt action be not taken in the
premises, some fine morning it will, probably,
be found that the property has been hunni-
fuggled beyond the reach of the rightful own
er-the United States. Such things have oe-
Cured more than once in the history of the
Governments affairs in the far West. Con-
gross is usually made the go.between' for
such operations Thus, amendments are tack.
ed to bills in the hurry of the last hours Of
session, meaning very differently from what
most of those voting for them in hubbub and
furry suppose them to mean. It always hap
pens that they mean at least something to en-
rich somebody at the public's expense, who
would not be so enriched by the action of
Congress, if the majority knew precisely what
they were about in so doing. We already hear
Of design to apply to Congress, next winter,
to legislate upon the subject of this reserva.
ton, so that the ''poor squatter," ii. e., in this
case, the regular specializing, inveterate gam
bier in the public lands1 will be duly pro-
tected in his rights and interests. We pre-
sumo that the sale Of this property will be
duly treated of in the forthcoming reports of
the Secretaries of War and of the Treasury,
who will, doubtless, take good care to point
out to honorable members the danger of sac
rifcing the public interest for the benefit of
the land pirates whose hearts are 80 set on
fobbing this particular rich prize -. T..
The Port Of SANTANA, &c-We perceive from
the last news from England, that the London
Times seems greatly worried at the succ ess
Of the United States in negotiat with the
Dominican Republic for special privileges
in the port and magnificent bay of SANTANA
ihe Times for q year or two did its best to in.
duce the Government of England to forestall
Inc United States in this matter, and now COM
plains that, in failing to take its advice, the
ministry have lost the most important &C.
QUESTION for English commerce within their
reach. The editor, in the remarks to which
we refer, reminds his readers that he also
urged the Government to embrace the offer of
the transit route over the Nicaraguan 18TH
mus made few years ago, which, being re-
fused, was subsequently opened by New York
ers, who have made out Of it not only the best
and politically, to the United Statss) vastly
the most important route for overland inter-
communication between tho Atlantic and Pa
cifc, but have also realised immense fortunes
out of the profits accruing from their enter-
prise thus directed. We judge from the drift
Of the Ii0'es in it's article on this subject, that
tho master minds controlling it's opinions were
under the impression that these two achieve.
ments-the appropriation of the Nicaraeuan
is'nmus and OF me port and bay of SANTANA by
the United States-have immeasurably height.
ened our commercial and political pros o.
poets In the West Indies, Central and South
America, and the Pacific, insuring us, as it
were, supremacy over European interests any
where in those quarters, whenever they NAV
come into collision with ours.
We are highly gratifed to find such admis.
SONS IN the great newspaper of the world; in
asmuch as We have repeatedly taken occasion
to urge that the Government and people of the
United States have more to gain at the ex.
pense of the Old World, out of the firm and
exclusive establishment of our national influ-
ence over the Bay of SANTANA and the Mica
raguan isthmus, than in any possible settle
ment at this time of any question in allegiance
with foreign government with reference to
any other foreign part of the globe The arti
Gle in the Times, to which We refer, cannot be
read without opening ones eyes to the wisdom
OF the policy in pursuance of which the free
DOCTORS of San Juan were lately made to feel
that they are not hereafter to interfere direct
ly or indirectly with American interests and
rights in that gu after
News from the Mexican Boundary Com.
mlssion.-We learn that Major Emory, United
States Mexican Boundary Commissioner, dis
patched Mr.. Wheaton, ono of his assistants,
ahead OF his main corps, SO as. to reach Ell
Paso by the 30th of September, in order to be
IN time to start the boundary survey at the
date provided for by the treaty. Information
had reached the Commissioner 1T San An
tonic, Texas, on the 18th ultimo, that Mr.. w.
had duly arrived at Ell Paso ten days before
the appointed time, and up to the 25th ultimo,
no information had been received of the Mex
lean Commissioner at Ell Paso or Oh ihuahna