Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-16


boundary of the State, a quantity of land
equal to strip of six sections in width along
the routes Of said road and branches A large
body of land, supposed to lie within the prob
able limits OF the grant, chiefly in the state OF
Arkansas, was taken out of market imme-
diately after the passage of the law, which
lands have sirre and are still withheld from
sale 0r entry except for pre-emptions
We understand that the maps of the final
location Of the main trunk of the Cairo and
Fulton road, as far as situated in Arkansas,
and the branch to Fort Smith, have just reached
the General Land Office, through the Governor
of Arkansas, which will enable the Land De-
plrtment, as soon as the routes and lateral
limits of the grant can be laid down on the
office maps, to restore to market large body
Of lands now reserved and no longer needed
for the grant, in the State, and to designate
! the lands accruing to the State of Arkansas
under the grant-a work of great labor, which
will require some time; after which the bal
ance of the lands will be restored, in part, to
| private entry, and the rest within the six
mile limits will be offered 1t public sale as re-
! quired by law.
TO Hide the Blunders Of the Allies, some
"press" gang wight who writes letters from
Europe to the American newspapers, bent Oh
| finding excuses for the reprehensible blunde s
and paliatiyes for the terrible disasters of the
Allies before Sebastopol, has concocted story
| purporting to be a conversation of Louis Ma
poleon, in which the Emperor is made to take
on himself all the responsibilities of the
! Crimean campaign, as its manager, saying in
the course Of the pretended conversation:
~ am glad to say that in my opinion, Sc
| bastopOl will fall ere long. and am certain
that no one here ever doubted of our ability
to take it, And now that Lord Raglan i
dead, things will be made to show how little
the Generals Of the Allied armies wanted to
take it-tor they only used as a cloak to cover
their real intentions, which have been to draw
as many Russian troops into the Crimea a.
possible, so that we might cripple them on thi.
ground, without advancing into the interior Cf
Russia, which would have to be done if We
had SebaStopol now and il would be sheer
madness to follow Russian army after having
such precedent as NapoleOn's Campaign Of
1917, where lac lost the finest army the world
ever saw through the effects of climate"
This is the sheerest - trash" imaginable.
Louis Napoleon is no fool, and never would
have avOwed himself the author of meas
ures with their results to the allies such rs
have marked their campaign before Sebasto-
pol, contemplating jus, such results on both
sides as have occurred, for the hopeless end OF
OF worrying Russia--of exhausting her COM
paratively inexhaustible armies and other re-
sources for war.
The Mission 10 England-An impression i.
prevailing here that the mission to England,
soon to be vacant through the return to the
United States Of Mr.. James Buchanan, will be
rendered to the Hon Wm. Preston, of Louis
vile, Ky. We notice this rumor, only as a
run,Or, on what foundation we know not-adI-
ing merely that We have heard nothing to
justify an impression en- our mind that any
selection has been made for the position.
We may not inappropriately add, that nothing
would Civ. US greater pleasure, individually,
than to find this rumor eyentuate in reality
iOl tHc S'hbclHdh III iuEc'tob - certainly on"
Of the ab!cst, most accomplished, hish-toned
and sagacious public men by whom the coun-
ellis Of the United States have been graced
for many years past. No one who is familiar
with the details Of his able and brilliant
career III tho House of Representatives can,
for an instant, doubt his eminent fitness for
the post which, more than any other, requires
a man formed, mentally and by education,
very much in Mr.. Prestons mould
The Fever.-We have endeavored to trace
out the origin of the rumors that are going over
the country by telegraph, crediting Washing
ton with the death within its limits by yellow
fever Of two Of the fugitiveS from Portsmouth,
We have to say that we can find no founda-
ton whatever for the report Two persons,
one of them teething infant, recently from
Portsmouth, have died here, neither of them,
however, being afflicted with anything re-
-emblin2 the yellow fever. Our readers may
rest assured that we shall not be backward in
announcing the presence Of the yellow fever in
Washington or any o,hcr contagious or in
fictitious disease, when Washington may be 20
afflicted to make it ou- duty, which we
shall promptly perform. Up to this time, how
ever, all such stories are unfoundcd in truth.
Col Duncan, U. S. A.-The New York Mr.
ror, Of yesterday, in giving the latest news of
the progressing revolution in Mexico, says:
q" The revoiutiOnistS were in pursuit of tho
rctreatihg army. TIE force Of the revolutions
lists was 1000, with eleven pieces of artillery,
and they We're under the command of Colonel
Duncan late Of the United states Army
The Mirror is slightly in error, evidently
as there is far better reason to hope that Col
Duncan, late Of tho United States Army, is
much nearer HEAVIER, than Mexico; having died,
long since.
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Depsrtment.-Ony yesterday, the 18th August,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered on
tho books Of the Department.
For the Interior Department SIS $50 S.
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