Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-22
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Fx-speaker Robert C. Winthrop

gentleman has written a letter endorsing the
straight-out Wing movement in Massachusetts,,
worthy, in its pith and sarcasm, of his fame as
an orator in Congress. He is for war to the
knife on the new Republican organization.
which he upbraids for bringing iguominious
disgrace on Massachusetts,, in its fantastic and
unconstitutional legislative antics. He accuses
its leaders of having accomplished the enact.
ment of the Nebraska BILL by putting forth
the famous Free Soil Congressional protest
against the measure, at the time, and in way
when, for them to assume the leadership in op-
position to it, was 10 force the South to rally
with great unanimity to its support. He
charges, also, that the fact that the Republi-
can party stands on the single plank of hostil-
ity to the South, not only makes its distasteful
to Union-loving and conservative men of the
North, but is arousing such an opposition and
union at the South as will give the cause of
slavery extension, to which he and his friends
are opposed, far greater strength than it would
have if opposed constitutionally, and only by
legitimate means, which, he thinks, would
have been su ffcient.
He ridicules the pretensions of Republican
ism to greater purity and patriotism and to
more effectiveness, as against the Democracy.
than the Wing party, possessed, with terrible
annihilating effect; and he answers its pro-
testation that the Wing party is dead by call.
ing to mind the fact that very lately it was
believing itself hoarse over the idea that it
had dispensed and extinguished this very Dem
ocratic party, which, it now protests, will pre-
vail everywhere over the land if the Wing
party does not merge itself in its (the Repub-
lican) organization.
Mr.. WIS letter is, indeed, tremendous
broadside, from which Republicanism will
find it difficult to recover; as it embraces more
strong-pungent and effective-facts and
thoughts, each utterly demolishing the posi-
ton at which it is aimed, than has been pre-
viously launched in q single political epistlc
for years past.
California Surveys Returns have just
reached the General Land Office from the
Surveyor General of California of his recent
operations in the southeastern part of the
State, to wit: The exterior lines of thirty-fye
townships Oh the right bank of the Colorado
river, extending from the mouth of the ella
westward along fifty miles of the south bound.
airy of the State, as established by the COM
missioners under the treaty with Mexico, ard
connecting Herewith. Likewise, about one
hundred and fifty miles, more or less, of the
San Bernardino meridian, extending from q
point about twenty miles south Of the San ia
cinto river, township seven, south,) through
the initial point on the top Of San Bernardino
to township twenty north, or to the hills and
mountains; and of the following named par
allels east Of the meridian, including Offsets ::
About one hundred and ten miles of the prin.
cipal base line; one hundred miles of the first
standard parallel south, to the high mountains
twenty five miles Of the first standard parallel
north, and fftyfv miles Of the second paral-
lei north, running east to point near the
south extremity of Soda Lake. Also, the ex-
terror boundaries of about twelve townships,
situated on the right bank of the Soinas river
at the sixth standard parallel south from the
Mont Diablo base line, and extending cast to
the Saloma creek.
These surveys, except the last mentioned,
comprehend the new field of operations in the
southeast angle of the State, and nearly com
plete the connection, by actual survey lines
between the City of San Francisco and the
mouth Of the ella river, and north of said
city to near the source of the great Sacra-
mento valley, and at this rate of progress, the
State of California, though the youngest mem
mer of the American family, will soon be in
tersected by actual surveys, and be thus pos
sessed Of the data for the construction of moro
correct maps Of her surface than many of the
old thirteen.