Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-07

can prevent tho contractors from acquiring
valid claim for hundred Thousand or two, on
account Of being delayed after purchasing
and preparing materials, &C., unless he can
find some authority under which he can at
once advance the money necessary to construct
the foundations, 10, which Congress has failed
to appropriate
sureties on Ofdcial Bonds-Liability Of q
Dead surety's Estate Tho administrator of
deceased surety on an official bond, executed
in the usual form for the Pay Department,
notified the Government that he should not
consider the estate of the intestate liable for
any default of the principal in the bond, after
the death Of said surety. In acting on this
notification, the proper officer of the Treasury
Department ruled that the bond by its terms
being made binding on the representatives Of
the obligers, and there being no language in
the condition limiting its operation to the life
time Of the sureties, the estate of the deceased
surety was not released from liability for the
future defaults of the principal, if such should
occur; but that, to prevent embarrassment
both to Government and individuals, it would
be advisable to require new bond, under the
provisions Of the act Of March 2, 1s49, Statutes
at Large, vol. Q, chap. Xxx.
A Misrepresentation corrected.-Were we
to follow the duty up closely, it would require
all our time and space to expose and contra
dict the errors and Intentional misrepresenta-
tions Of the New York Herald, concerning
facts involved in current American public af:
fairs. That journals issue of Friday last is a
fair specimen of the systematic mendacity and
equally systematic slang-whang which to.
gether form the staple of its whole capital.
For weeks past, it has studiously and vehement.
ly repeated and commented upon glaring
falsehood of its own, with reference to the 40.
ton of Congress about Nebraska and Kansas,
which we have not contradicted up to this
time only because We were DESTROYS to ascer:
tain the precise point Of Misrepresentation Of
the truth the conductors of the Herald would
the President of the United States, for 90
cruelty refusing Bennett the mission to France.
The point to which We now particularly re.
fer is the Herald's story that Congress have
rassed q homestead bill or provision applied
to Kansas and Nebraska. This, In few words,
is absolutely and unqualifedly false, as al
will find to their cost WHO 60 into either OF
those territories under the expectation Of being
allowed to take up United States lands within
their boundaries without paying for them. The
Herald has invented this story out of the &C.
ton of the National Legislature in passing the
| bill to extend the public lands system Of the
| Government over the Territories of New Mex
| loo, Kansas and Nebraska, which contains q
law granting homestead to actual settlers in
New Mexico only. Settlements being thu
| cheapest mode of protecting that territory from
hostile savages now giving more trouble there
than in all the rest of the frontier appurtsnan
| ces of the United States This clause in the
bill has not the slightest reference to Kansas
and Nebraska, Whatever.
Mr. Richardson, Of Illinois We under
| stand that this gentleman is, by no means
thankful to those Northern journals who seen
bent on representing that, in his remarks il
the House on Saturday last, he took occasion
TO express himself urkindly concerning tn.
President and his Cabinet. Though differin.
with them upon the propriety of the enactnen
of the river and hsrbor bill, he said nothing
| to warrant the versions of his remarks which
such journals have taken the liberty to give
| evidently under the impression that something
| political IS to be gained just now by oreatinl
the impression that Mr.. R. is hostile to tn
national Administration. His adverse crit
| cisms were, for the most part, directed agains
| those gentlemen who, as he thinks, seem t.
! N axe it rule never to acknowledge the con
| stitutionality Of an appropriation for an i'm
| provement in the West, while always able t.
find a fair excuse for voting for Atlantic coas
| improvements. It will be remembered tina
the veto message drew no comparison invidiou
or otherwise between Eastern and Western
| improvements. This fact alone should be suf
| dcient to convince reasoning mon Of the erro1
| in the accounts of his remarks which credi
| him with making any such charge against th'
| President as that to which we refer above.
IA Very Important Bill Passed. partia
clearing up of the smoke Of the last hours O
| the session has discovered to US the fact thai
| the original land graduation bill of Mr.. Cobb
Of Alabama, has actually passed, and having
been signed by the President, has already
become law. Its provisions are essentially
those so long contended for by Senator Brown
of Miss, and the author of the bill referred
to. This is the first occasion on which gen.
eral land graduation bill has passed, and it,
effect must be very important indeed upon the
future management of the government public
lands.
In THE HOUSE, ON Saturday, few members
were present, and the Speaker signed the bills
which had not been enrolled up to their ad-
journment on the day before. Afterwards, a
desultory and out-of-order debate sprang up
on the riv - harbor bill veto, in which
Messrs. c = .lellan Richardson opposed it,
and Msssr jarksdal approved it.
Mr.. K - lmade point of order that, under
the reso laion of adjournment agreed to on the
day before, no business Of any kind whatever
could be then transacted by the House.
The Speaker sustained the point of order
When the House adjourned to meet ct half
past seven, g. m, to- day.
The Senate met to- day at half past I clock,
| q. m and after passing the usual resolution
| of thanks addressed to their presiding officer,