Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-19

An IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT ORDBR-It
will be recOllected that the Shawnee lands in
Kansas were reserved from occupation under
presumption claims. by treaty, until after GER
tain portions Of them could be surveyed and
set apart as reservations, or a reservation for
the benefit Of the tribe. These surveys and
selections having been made, it il understood
that the Secretary of the Interior has issued
directions to open the balance 0: the lands in
question To settlement
The now famous county Of johnson is To-
Gated On these Shawnee lands, and, We appre-
bend, the names OF those recorded improbably
az voters at the Oxford precinct, are no others
than those Of MissOurians who have initiated
pre-emption claims ON these lands that can and
will now be promptly perfected-certainly be-
fore the 2lst proximo, when, after the decision
of the Convention to frame a State Constitution
for Kansas, they will be entitled to vote upon
the acceptance or rejection of that instrument.
SELf-VISDICATED.-Th reading public will
remember how vehemently the decision of the
President and Postmaster General in the mat
ter of the adoption of a route for the overland
mail to California was assailed by the Repub-
lcan party press, on the ground that it was de-
signed to injure the North for the benefit of the
South. We combatted that infamous asper-
sion at the time, asking that the verdict of pop
ular opinion should be delayed until the prac
tcal result Of the action Of those functionaries
in the premises on which to base a common
sense decision, might be at hand. That result
is already before us. We give it place in our
columns without note or comment, for it re-
quircs neither at our hands
We learn from the San Diego (Cal) Herald
that the overland mail line between that place
and San Antonio, Texas, is run now with re-
markable regularity and speed. Five mails have
already gone through to San Diego in the follow
ing time:
irs', or pioneer mail ............5 50 days
arcoAu maj '...-.................3 81 :"
Third mail ......................0 81
foufth MALL. ..........-........D 4"
llth HAIL. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS k 90
The desert was crossed on the last trip in TWEEN
ty-nine hours. The fifth mail got through In the
shortest time ever made on that route Ii will he
seen that the speed is gradually increasing with
each mail and :. will probably not be long be-
fore the journey will be regularly made in twenty
days The distance TO be travelled is much
greater than that OF the San Antonio and San Die
20 line that il is doubtful IL il can be done in the
time cont acted for. The San Antonio line may
now be considered as successfully established
80 - oPpdIeutib u from the
| savage Indians iDfesting the whole route, and
the construction Of a few bridges
Corporation DEEDs.-A very mistaken
opinion seems to be generally entertained in
n relation to the validity of the deeds granted
by the Corporation Or real estate which has
been sold by tho Collector for taxes due there
on 1t has not been ruled by the Circuit Court.
rs many suppose, that under the present char
ter Of the city, it is the d. y of the Tax COL
lector, before he -oceeds to sell the real estate
to levy upon the personal property on tho
premises, if any exist. One Of the amendments
to the City Charter-section adopted by
Congress May 8, ls4s, is conclusive on the sub
ject. 1t reads:
e." That real property, whether improved or un-
improved, on which or more years taxes
shali nave become due, and remain unpaid, q.
on winch any special tax, imposed by virtue of
authority OF the provis ions of this act Shall have
become due, and remain unpaid, or 20 much