Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-18

comes TO be known in our ports on both sides
of the isthmus that not q dime has, from frs
last, been paid by Walker to his army, and
what is equally well known here, that not
withstanding the fact that though he has beer
Joined by some two thousand Americans since
landing in Nicaragua, disease of the coun'
try, similar TO yellow fever, has carried off his
recruits so fast as that his force is at this mo-
ment no greater than on the day on which he
took Grenada, he will commence to expe.
rience the want of men; which, we think,
will compel him to evacuate his ill gotten
possessions in q hurry. s.a
If the climate was not one in which the
chances are eight in ten that an American
who exposes himself in military service there
will die ere becoming acclimated, and if his
military chest was full of money, we would
have no doubt of his final success. Want and
nature, however, consIire against him, and
are sternly centending with him at every step.
Under the circumstances, it seems clear to us
that they "a lack of means and the climate)
must be victorious in the end. -...
The Sale Of q Land Warrant Descending
to Minor THE Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office has recently had occasion to
decide various points with reference to the
right Of minor to dispose Of a land warrant
granted to her for her parents military ser
vice, and of her guardian to do the same I'M
der certain circumstances, which being Of in
terest to persons purchasing land warrants,
We publish his rulings, as follows:
This warrant, accompanied by an assign
ment from the minor to her guardian, also by
transcript from the records of the court of
Alexandria County, Va, that -, an infan.
under fourteen years Of age, made choice Of
- for guardian, and ordering that said -
have leave to sell, &c, said transcript being
accompanied by a transfer from said guardian
in blank.
Upon the subject of the foregoing, this office
wrote, undor date Of 18th of February, 1856,
as follows:
That the first assignment, being by the
minor herself, was, Of course, invalid. That
by the decision of the Department, tho law of
the domicil of the infant gives the law Of the
case, and the power to sell must be in accord
ance herewith otherwise the sale is a nallity.
LIST. That it was well established that
guardian appointed in any one State in this
Union, had no right to receive the profits or to
assume the possession of the real estate of his
ward in any other State, without having re-
ceived due appointment from the proper tri-
bunals of the State where it was situated,
(Story's conflict of laws P. 4l6( Hence, that
the same principle applied to land warrants,
they being considered as reality, and, Of course,
subject to the law of the domicil of the infant.
%. That is was held in England and Ameri-
ca that guardian might change the domicil
of his ward, so as to effect the right of su,ces.
sion, if it was done bona fde and without
fraud, (Story's conflict, p. 417.) That this,
Of the case; but on the contrary, We had q
case in which a guardian, by foreign appoint
ment, without the aid of the law of the domi-
Gil Of the infant, disposed of the property.
That this, we thought was not legal, and d,
consequently, the transfer could not be recog-
nized, unless thereafter the case should come
within the principle referred to under the I'd
head, and an afirmance of the sale should
thereafter be given by the court.
Naval and N arine Promotions and Ap.
pointments Confirmed by the senate.-Sur-
geons, John II. Wright and John Thornley, ;
Assistant Surgeons, A. L. Cihon, j. S. Kitchen,
John Vansant, James Laws, E. R. Denley,
VIM. johnson, Jr., F. L. Calf, Stewart Ken
nedy and VIM. M. Page Purser, c J. Emery
Chaplains, John Lee Watson and Robert
Givin; Chief Engineer, ]. P. Whipple.
Marine Corps.-Lieut. COL, John Harris,
Major, Ward Marston; Captains, F. B.
McNeill and Josiah Watson; Major George F.
Lindsay as Quartermaster; Captain D. j.
Sutherland as Assistant Quartermaster First
Lieuts. Israel Gree n, Jacob Read, and C. A.
Henderson Second Lieuts., Julius E. Meiere,
w. W. Kirkland, A. w. Stark, D. M. Cohen,
James Lewis, and A. D. Sparks.
The Fremont Land Claim.-It seems that
the game of maligning the Attorney General
with reference to the Fremont land claim, is
again being ossayed by Washington CORES
pondents. There is no doubt in our mind tn at
this simultaneous and general attempt to mis-
represent that gentleman has been precon
certed for sinister end. The public, we ap-
prehend, will very shortly be put in possession
of information from a reliable source in con-
nection with the attacks, that will expose
their falsehood and mendacity.
The q. 8. Frigate Potomac.-The first
lieutenant of this ship, Commodore Pauld-
ings's flag ship, Lieut.. Maxwell Woodruff,
reached w Washington on business, leaving her
on Monday last ct Pensacola. The health of
her officers and crew has been better through
out the cruise than was ever before expe.
rienced by those On board Government ves-
sci Of her size on the same station. The Pc
tomac left San Juan del Norte on the 18th of
January, and called in at Havana on her way
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Department.-On Saturday, 10th February,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered or
the books of the Department
For the redemption of Stocks.... 1914 "a
For the Treasury Department.. 32015 81
For the Interior Department., ID O43 Ia