Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-30

upon which the new party are to 30 before the
country. The end of their movement cannot
yet be foreseen, though its success can hardly
fsil 70 be very much in the proportionin which
Northern democrats identify themselves with
the cause Of the repeal Of the fugitive slave
law.
judiciary Reform in the District Of Co
lumbia.-Mr. May, to-day, reported q bill to
this end. It makes four Courts-of Equity,
Appeals, Common Pleas and q Criminal Court; |
one Judge for each of these Courts, and three !
Judges to make the Court Of Appeals. 1t sim
pliAes the practice, pleading and evidence
and reduces the expenses Of litigation.
It provides for summary modes of Furnishing
small criminal offences, without jury, it the
accused 50 elects. 1t provides also for codify.
ing, publishing and distributing the laws ior
public places here, for public inspection.
The plan proposed is expec'e ed to decrease
he cost OF the present system to the United
States one half, at least. 1t abolishes the
present single court clerkship, and makes a
single clerk for each court, to be appointed by
lis judge. Under this bill, the cost Of an ap-
peal is only to be $l0o-going upon the orig.
nal papers in all cases.
The Gadsden Treaty Is the law of the land,
the Senate having duly passed the bill, yes'er-
day, making the appropriation necessary to en-
able the President to carry it out, and the ratii
cations having been exchanged to-day. Wepre-
sumo that its consumation will give rise to still
| another cry of Southern aggression, with which
| to gull the gullible at the North. Col. Benton
| it will be recollected, 80 regarded it, as seen
| through his spectacles. As he has become the
Msgnus Apollo of those who cling to the coat
tails of the $3.50 elergymen of New England,
Of course they, too, must see 1t in the same
| light. So, we shall soon have music over it.
Connecticut in Washington The recent
action of the Legislature Of the State of Connec-
ticut, in rushing more thoroughly into the
arms of abolitionism than Massachusetts has
ever done, has furnished q popular topic for
conversation of late, among public men con-
gregated here. The general impression is,
that this body have gone to lengths in which
they cannot possibly be sustained by popular
opinion in the State. That is to say, that
however much Connecticut popular opinion
may be alive to the pressing necessity for the
sueliorstion Of the condition Of the blacks of
the South, it does not realize that those
in Connecticut can be prudently raised to
entire social equality with the whites of the
State, as the majority of their Legislature vir-
tually PROPOSE in the action to which We refer
above. The Southern members are by NO
means displeased at the efforts of these philan-
thropists to put in practice at homo, what they
would prescribe for their neighbors who have
not called them in. Their very unanimous
opinion is, that all their good resokves will fall
short of making the physical condition of the
blacks in Connecticut, really as comfortable as
that of the colored population in the slave,
holding States. They reason upon the theory
that throughout that State the prejudice agains t
the co-equality of colored labor, which exists
prevails everywhere else at the North in the
minds of white laborers. That prejudice they
translate mean a sentiment against the social
co-equality of the colored race, and are ready
many of them, to wager that it will produce re.
action in popular sentiment there, which viii
not be long in exposing much of the clap-trap
Of the manufactured to-order-from- W ASKING.
ton" Indignation against the enactment of the
Nebraska bill.
Western Mails.-Senator Brown drew Ia
mentable picture yesterday of the condition
of the mail service on the Mississippi river.
That is, of the inadequacy of the supply to the
offices of minor Importance on both siies of tina.
noble and important National artery. There
can be no question that the existing condition
Of things there requires amendment, indeed.
Yet it is we'll for the country to understand
that before the Postmas: er General can do 60,
he must have authority of law to make the
necessary expenditures from the National
treasury ~ snaS Gnu. Iue desired improve
meats will cost much, but not more than the
altered condition Of those river towns and their
tributary back country will fairly warrant.
Yet We despair Of seeing Congress take any
such dilemma by the horns. Our country il
rapl lily running apace in population, wealth,
the diffusion of education, and every other
conceivable inducement to a corresponding
greater demand for und supply of newspapers
and letters. Yet more or less gentlemen ia
public life seem to have made up their minds
that, under such circumstances and with labor
and supplies of all sorts doubled in value in
the last ten years. adequate facilities should
De obtained and rendered by the Government
at prices then ranging.
The San Francisco Custom House.-We
hear that the last Pacific mail brought irfor.
nation to the Treasury Department, that the
legislature of California having taken the re-
| quisite action TO vest in the United States q
valid title to the site of the proposed San Fran.
CISCO Custom House, it has been decided by the
Governor to the United States for $3.50 OO0
one-half its estimated value The work upon
it has therefore been recommended, and ia
being vigorously pushed.
Tho Pittsburg Pennsylvania Custom Hou.a
The final report of tho commissioners an.
nouncing the completion and their acceptane.
OF this work on the part Ct the Government
reached the Treasury Department this morn.
ing, We believe.
The fenate's Proceedings on the Question
OF hatifylng the Gadsden Treaty.-It seems
to be understood that yesterdays executive
session of the Senate was devoted to the aon.
s'deraiion of the propriety of removing the in.
junction of secyeev from kb> ro~.. =,