Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-03

the principal sufferers, however; though in
the most of their troubles the popular voice,
as expressed by the newspapers, has been loud
in condemnation of the futility of their efforts
to overcome impossibilities. We travelled
last week some four hundred miles by rail-
road, and were an eyewitness to the terrible
destruction of railroad paraphernalia grow.
ing out of the extreme weather, notwithstand-
ing the unexampled good temper and perse-
verance exhibited by every officer and SER
want Of the companies over whose roads we
wendell our way. Our trip was to Ri,hmond
city and back, via the Orange and Alexandria
and Central Virginia roads. Though some
time since the endorsements from accumu-
lated snow on the tracks ceased, those re-
suit ing from undue metallic contraction
and expansion continue. The rapid rate
at which such leading routes are run heats
the bearings of the wheels now, as much
as in the summer; and when stopped, the
extreme cold ION the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad down to 2s0 below zero) cools them
so much faster than under ordinary circum
stances, as to result in flaws and contortions
of car machinery producing stoppages, which
end in mail failures notwithstanding extraor.
binary exertions on tho part of the railroad
men to prevent them. The engines, too, are
subject to similar accidents from the same
cause, and no scientific skill has been compe-
tent to guard against the evil up to this time.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad company are
now said to have piled up at single point on
their long ine-Piedmont-quite eighty tons
of disabled wheels, the fruit of the unpropi-
tious temperature of the last two months !,
No other railroad is better conducted than the
particular lines we name; nor have their
been fewer "failures to connect on any
other routes in the Union located in SO high
latitudes, in the course Of the season. 1t will
be fair estimate to say that the enormous
destruction of machinery to which we alude
| above, arising from the causes we mention,
| will sweep away at least what would be the
seasons profits of all the companies from the
southern boundary of Virginia to Canada,
during the unpropitious season.
Save Him from his friends-He can AXE
| care Of his enemies We h ave no earthly
| disposition to write harsh paragraph con-
corning Mr.. Fillmore, for whom. personally,
We entertain deep respect and kind regard
| But We should be unfaithful to our duty as
| chronicler of current events of interest were
we to fail to explain to our readers the phases
| which the contest for the Presidency NAV
| take with reference to him from time to time
His own State voted in the Philadelphia Con-
vention for the most part for Live Oak
| George Law, the gentleman who figured 80
conspicuously in the Dry Dock Bank case not
very long since before the United States Su.
preme Court. Since the nomination of Mr. Fill
more, the George Law delegates have, in SOL
emn and mournful conclave, repudiated his
nomination, for various reasons Among them
we find enumerated the declaration tn at he is a
bogus Hindoo-a false FIRE worshipper,-one
who eats the devouring element only as the
juggler does; taking due care not to scorch his
throat while seeming to the gaping crowd to
be gulphing it down in yard-long flakes or
streams. They protest against his nomina.
ton because
| "First. The nominee is not a member of
the American party; he has never been inside
OF council room, and no act of his life, no
word spoken or line written by him of which
we have any knowledge, indicates that he
| sympathizes with that party, or that he would
carry out its principles
| Second. His nomination we regard as an
utter betrayal Of the great American move.
| ment-a traitorous attempt to wrest it from its
purpose and make it minister to the selfish
| ambition Of the leaders and demagogues of the
dead organization of the past.
| Third. He was forced upon the State of
new York by Southern votes against the wish
| OF our State delegates, and from those States
which no man pretends can carry their vote
| tor an American President.
| Fourth He was forced upon the State of
New York against the express wish of large
| majority of our State Legislature against the
| express wish of majority of the State officers,
| and, we repeat against the express wish of two
| thirds OF our delegates in the Convention
| Filth. he was not nominated by ma
Jorlty OF the States, or by the delegates of a
| majority of the States. Several States were
permitted tocast their votes through q single
delegate, who cast the whole number of votes
TO which his State would have been entitled.
such votes were cast by parties who had pre-
viousiy protested against the proceedings and
retired from the Convention.
Oregon Territory have reached
the General Land Office from the Surveyor
General at Salem, Oregon Territory, of the
sectional surveys of fourteen townships and
the exteriors Of five townships. These sec.
tional surveys are situated south and west OF
Columbia River, commencing opposite to Fort
Vancouver and extending to point down the
river about ten miles below Rainier and run.
ming back to near the head waters of the
Tualatin river, whilst the township exterior.
lie between the forks of the ntiam river.
Appointment Of Indian Agents.-Mr Mi
chaeI T. Simmons, of Washington Territory
to be agent for the Indians in that Territory
Mr.. George Butler, of South Carolina, VIII,
was commissioned during the recess of tn.
Senate, to be agent for the Cherokee Indians
Messrs. E. A. Stevenson and James A. Pat
terson, of California, to be agents for the In