Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-19

WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Tho Enthusiastically Of the General Land
0mes,-About twice year, Washington city,
and, Of course, the tslegraphic columns Of the
distant press, are full Of story saying that the
President is about to remove John Wilson, ESQ.
Commissioner of the General Land Office, and
| appoint this or that distinguished man, or
veteran ofice-seeker, in his stead The period
for the renewal of this story having arrived,
it Is again aAoat here. Everybody's talking
Of It upon undoubted authority, though no.
body knows exactly upon whose or what au-
thority. The nearest approach to vertical
ton Of the rumor which We have been able to
aehieve-as indefatigable as We are, necessari
ly, in investigating such matters for the in
formation of the Stars fifty thousand read
ers-ie to have satisfied ourself that more than
one outside patriot wants the Office, and want
ing it, has set the usual machinery for Office.
getting in motion. In this case, though from
constant practice since the advent Of the
present Administration, all parts of the ma.
chinery work well-capitally--it strikes us
that the pole Of the operators has, as usual,
when aimed at that particular Office, proved
too short to fetch the persimmons. The truth
Is, jast now. no other post in the gift of the
Government is Of more importance than the
Commission ership Of the General Land Office,
from the fact that the public lands system is
about being extended over New Mexico, with
its numerous existing ancient and complicated
private land titles and claims, and Kansas and
Nebrasks, whore there is to DO an unprece-
dented rush Of pre-emptioners and other set
tiers among whom anything but perfect har.
mony Is to be looked for; and also over the ter.
ritory Of Washington, in which tho bureaus
matters bid fair to be more easily managed.
Under such circumstances, guarantee that
tho business Of the department in Washington
will be managed without fault, mistake or
faMz pas Of any kind, is desideratum not
lightly to be thrown away by gentlemen of
good sense who are aware that, after all, they
are to be held responsible to the country for
any unfortunate act in connection with land
office affairs. We do not conceive it possible,
therefore, that change will be made in the
Commissioner en- political grounds, in the OK
isting state Of things. We find ourself almost
alone among the outsiders in this opinion
Yet their difference with Us by no means shakes
our confidence in our own judgment; a. the
outsiders are very generally anxious to see the
present Commissioners head rolling into the
basket. He's stubborn man in his way, man.
aging triumphantly to guard his charge against
the schemes Of many Of the outsiders afore
said, to make each his 'jack, )" by obtaining
some decision Of the bureau violating private
rights or those Of the State. Were he less
wide awake to the obligations and require
ments Of his position, they would be quite as
clamorous for his retention, as they certainly
are for his expulsion from Office However
as he has so far certainly successfully gu arded
his charge to the satisfaction of those really
responsible for his official conduct, and as that
achievement is now about to be much more
difficult than ever before, we conclude that the
current efforts to bring about his removal will
prove az abortive as those which have been
made from time up to this period
The Cyans.-Perceiving in Northern jour
mails, Washington News'' saying that this
vessel is about to be ordered again to San Juan
with feet at her back, and all that sort OF
thing we have to say that the story, in our
Judgment, Is all fudge. The English lieuten-
ant, Jolly, though protesting to keep up q
blockade there, is doing nothing of the sort
practically. He did order one or two Ameri-
can vessels to do this or that Immediately after
his return thither. Their shippers however,
paid no more attention to his directions than
to the whistling of the wind, and he very pru.
IDENTIFY forgot to insist on obedience to lis COM
mands. In the meanwhile, as We explained
some time since, Mr.. Buchanan and Lord
Clarendon are striving to settle the whole
Central American question amicab!y, and
pending their negotiations We hardly think
that the United States Government will do
what they will probably eventually do
namely, restore San Juan del Norte to Mica.
ragua by force Of arms, If that be necessary to
prevent the future molesta.ion of Americans
and American interests in that quarter. From
what We have lately heard, We do not think
that there is now much prospect that Mr..
Buchanan will be able to secure the treaty no
is enaeavoring to make. Knowing well the
extent Of American interests ON the Nicaraguan
isthmus, and that they are hourly becoming
Of greater national Importance, we judge that
sooner or later the Government of the United
States will provide for their future protection
without saying by your leave, SIR" to John
Bull, by arranging matters In that quarter
precisely as they conceive that the exigencies
of the case may demand. However, if Lieut.
Jolly, in one of his jolly tdrunken) moments,
which come upon him with great regularity,
should really lay straw in the way of any
American right or interest there, we shall not
be surprised to find the United States Govern.
ment proceeding to do whatever they think
the state Of affairs demand, without longer
waiting the movements of Lord Clarendon for
etiquette's sake.
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Senate Tho Wing politicians In Washington:
taking it for granted that the newly elected
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