Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-09

upon continuing to hold which all their calcu.
lations of controlling the House were based, it
is not unsafe to conclude that when the body
comes to vote on any really. test question, they
win be found in q beggarly minority. While
we do not expect to dnd the Administration in
an absolute majority in the House, it is never
theless equally clear to US that their vote on
any party question, wherein the election Of
officers or governmental policy is concerned
will be twice as great as that of either of the
wings or factions of the opposition.
Assignment Of Land Warrants in the Dis.
trict Of Columbia.-The National Iuteiki-
gencer, of this morning, says:
George c. Whiting, ESQ, Acting Commits
sioner Of the General Land Office, has decided
that, in cases where assignments of land war
rants have been acknowledged in this District
before either magistrates or notaries-public
whose official characters and signatures are
known to that Office, the certificate of the clerk
of the court authcnticating these facts is not
required"
Our contemporary should have added, that
when the General Land Office dispenses with
the county clerks SEAL knowing the signature
or seal of the certifying officer, it is necessary,
in order to secure respect for the assignment
not certified by the county clerks clerk SEAL
at the land Offices in the West, that there
should be memorandum on the warrant from
tho Commissioner of the General Land Office
setting forth that he has authorized the coun-
ty seal to be dispensed with in the particular
case.
Superintendent of Timber Agencies.-We
understand that the Secretary Of the Navy has
concluded to discontinue, after the LIST of Au-
gust next, the superintendency of timber agen-
cies under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, he
having determined to make change in the
entire system. The local agencies in the State
of Alabama have already been discontinued.
From Fort Observation-Disclosures from David
H. Burr, Esq, the Surveyor General of Utah,
who is now on his way to that distant territory,
state that the Indians were all quiet in the
neighborhood of Fort Laramie on the 10th and
and 18th of June. His party had Travelled
more than sixty miles, all the way through
countless thousands of buffalo
The Secretary Of the Navy will leavS
Washington tomorrow for the White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia. whittier, it seems to be I'M
derstood, bis physicians advise him to repai.
Death Of an Army Omcer.-Second Lieu
tenant Samuel 7. Shepherd, I'd Dragons, died
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, June
n, 1855, of cholera
A Foreign Consul Recognized THE Presi-
dent has recognized j. H. Harjes as Consul of
the Hanseatic town Lubbock, for the States of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Department.-On Saturday, the 9TH Of July,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered on
the books Of the Department
For the Treasury Department. $50, 500 90
For the Interisr Department 49,. 81 1853 %
For the Customs. ................ S7,6I6 Is
War Warrants received and en-
tered 164,64S OF
Appropriation Warrants for the
War Department.. 47O, 535 81
Appropriation Warrants for the
Interior Department. .......... 1873 IS
Drawn On account of the Navy. %, 5S7 90