Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-14

man the few vessels that in the very subor.
dinats mercantile marine of France are 1T for
privateer service cannot be brought into COM
parison with those of England.
The American privateers will immediate.
ly cover all seas, and will be immensely supe-
rior to all that England can oppose to them.
Here all depends on the measure (the guam.
tans) A French war Of or BY privateers viii
never be q " popular war" (beftam popnft) on
the sea; but of an American privateer war,
it is almost certain that it will assume that
character.
owe refer In that respect to article, pub.
lishei on this subject"
Public Surveys in Utah Territory.-Rs-
turns of the surveys have been received at
the General Land Office, up to the 3Oth OF
September last, from the Surveyor General at
Salt Lake City, showing the progress which
has been made since the opening of his office
on the 9th Of July, 1855. The evidences Of
the surveys, consisting Of ira scripts of field
notes, of diagrams and township plats, exhibit
the following result: The principal base line,
on the parallel of 400 north latitude, passes
through the city of Salt Lake, extends east
four miles to the Wahsstch mountains, and
west thirty.six miles to the Salt Lake. The
Salt Lake meridian, starting from corner of
the " Temple Block" or the initial point Of
survey in Utah. runs north through Cache
valley eighty -four miles to the proximity of
the southern boundary Of Oregon, and from
the initial point it extends south through the
Jordan, Tintick, and YOuab valley seventy
two miles. From these principal lines of the
public surveys the subdivisional surveys have
been extended east and west of the meridian,
and are limited by the Wahsatch mountains
on the east, Blue and Hsnsel valleys and &C.
dar mountains on the west, embracing about
one hundred and thirty townships and frac-
tional townships of surveys, and bordering
Salt Lake and surrounding Utah Lake, the
latter covering the area of about 80 600 acres,
and containing fresh water.
Sensible Advice.-The Richmond Enquirer
gives Mr.. Buch anan sound and sensible advice
indeed, with reference to the policy of his Ad-
ministrssion upon the subject of the squabbles
in the party" in New York, which, from rst
to last, gave the present Administration more
annoyance than has been its lot to encounter
from all other subjects and sources put To
gether
q Fortune is more propitious to Mr.. Buch
anan. Now York did nothing for him; and
il is not incumbent upon him to do anything
for New York If there be within the State
las undoubtedly there is) anything Of public
virtue and political wisdom which he would
enlist in the service Of the country, he may
select tho man in contempt Of the claims Of
the politicians. If he would have Marcy to
preside over the foreign relations of the Gov
ernment or Seymour to represent its inter
ests abroad, or Dickinson, or w God, or Dix or
any other able and worthy citizen, to serve it
In some other function, he may attain his OBJ
ject without the hazard of personal embsr-
rassment. But Mr Buchanan must have it
understood in the beginning of his Adj
ministration perhaps it would be we'll to
proclaimin his Inaugural Address--that he
recognizes no sort of obligation to the poll
tcians of New York-that what they get they
will receive out of mere favor, and that their
brolls and wraDgles are never to be obtruded
upon the consultations of the cabinet. If Mr.
Buchanan will adopt this prompt and peremp-
tory policy, he will save himself wo-d Of
vexation, and the country an infnity Of Sc an
dalous disputation. 1t was the wise saying of
the wisest of women, that Gan upgovernable
beast should be stinted in its provender i"
Mr.. Buchanan may profit of the lesson, and
by Judclous parsimony In the dispensation
Of patronage may reduce even the politicians
Of New York to something like decency and
decorum in the pursuit of spells ~
Major PORES Reception There was more
in the recent reception of Major Poore by the
good people of Boston at the conclusion of his
feat of wheeling barrel of pippins thirty-six
miles than meets the eye Of the casual OBJ
server. Ten times as many Of that city's den.
liens were present that occasion as at either
the reception with which abolitionism there
received Charles Summer not long since, or at
tn at subsequently accorded to Arson Burlin.
game. The English Of the frolic IT, that It was
neither more nor less than a burlssque of the
Sumner and Burlingame receptions, being so
offended by both psrtieS-the Boston public
And the recipient. TIE Major, who isa wag
Of the 6rst water, poked fun at the sympathi.
zers, too, in the finale of his speech, wherein
he talked about fighting Burlingames battles
ia Washington for him; no other two men in
Massachusetts, being further apart politically
than the two in question, the Major abomina
tInS dDOilIOuiem anu tuo aUolitlO01Sts, every
mothers son of them, politically, with intense
emphasis. On the whole, his burlesque upon
the Sumner and Burlingame receptions is one
of tho best things of the kind that has Gene
eff for years past.
A Know Nothing Tiekst.-We have be-
fore Us curious thing in the way Ct Know
Nothing electoral ticket voted in Montgomery
county, Maryland, at the recent election. The
cut it bears at its head represents a portrait of
Jackson on the left hand. huge hickory tree
in the centre, and the harp of old Ireland on
the right hand-the whole capped by an arch
bearing the inscription of jackson and Lib
erty F" 1t is worthy of note only because it
illustrates cspitally the fondness Of Know
Nothingism for false pretences.
1hs Proposed New Post Office at Balti.
hat