Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-22

but that the entire people of the United States
will, with their accustomed readiness to recog-
Mise business and common sense, be satisfied,
that the Administration have adopted that route
for tho overland mails, which, in accordance
with a sound principle of political economy,
will produce the greatest good to the greatest
number.
BY starting from ST. Louis the great western
mart, and connecting at Little Rock with the
line from Memphis, the two great sections of the
country are accommodated
Instead Of projecting this mail and its at
tendant benefits into the wilderness, from the
frontier Of Missouri, to buffet with North winds
and SHOWS upon the plains of Kansas, in winter,
and drag over monotonous, waterleSS, treeless
wastes in summer, it was located through the
centre of Missouri, Of Arkansas. and through
out the western frontier of Texas. 1t will thus
develop hitherto unknown resources in those
States. 1t will open vast agricultural and
mineral region in Missouri, lend a helping hand
to the young growing and unappreciated State
of Arkansas, and conduct the hardy pioneer to
the detachable woodlands and prairies of Texas.
For nearly a thousand miles the traveller will
BY traversing a country Astounding in beauty
and i'll healthfulneSs, possessing salubriOus
climate and fecund soil.
INTERESTING FROM THE NIAGARA-Ycster.
day, the Navy Department received dispatches
from Capt. Hudson, of the Niagara dated at
Liverpool rs late as the 9TH inst On the It'll
30 miles of the telcsraphic wire had been
cOiled OH her, and on the 9TH they were con-
tnuing to coil it on her at the rate of 100 miles
i'll "a hours. All was going on satisfactorily
with the business (errandD Of the ship. Capt
Hudson also forwarded to the Department copies
of letter from the Grand Duke Constantine,
Grand Admiral of Russia, thanking him and
his officers for their kindness and courtesy to
two Russian naval officers who had visited the
Niagara, and his Capt II 's) own modest, dig
niiled and truly appropriate reply.
CLERICAL TRASsFERs-K Pritchard. ESQ,
| the appeal clerk of the Interior Department,
engaged on business sent up from the Pension
Bureau, has been transferred to the discharge
of duties connected with the Departments bust
ness at distance from the city and Charles II.
Rhett. Esq. of South Carolina has been trans
ferred from the Pension Bureau to the desk in
the Department proper thus made vacant 1t
is understood that the duties to be discharged
hereafter by Mr. Pritchard are of a confidential
character, and require the services of a gentle.
man Of great experience in connection with its
affairs. Hence, we presume, arises the sclec-
ton OF Mr. p. for their management
HE COLrMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF
AND DUNE AND THE BLIND, which was noticed
in our columns short time since, is now re-
ceiying applications for admission As the in
structions of the school will commence in few
days it is desirable that all who intend placing
children in the institution should make known
the fact at once to the Superintendent, Mr..
Edward M. Gallaudet. 1t is, of course, the
aim of the institution to dispense its benefits to
all within its reach, Any person, therefore.
who may be acquainted with deaf, mute or
blind children in INDECENT circumstances, will
advance the cause Of humanity and education
by furnishing. Mr.. Gallaudet with the namo
and residence of such children
THE PRoCLAMArION.-The proclamation of
Governor Walker to the rebellious people in
Lawrence (kanSas Territory has reached this
region of the country in good time 1t will, no
| doubt, be extensively republished throughout
the South, and must prove to the satisfaction
of all those who will listen to truth and reason
concerning Kansas affairs, that those who charge
| upon him Gov. Wy a disposition to play false
to his trust-to the duty of administering the
functions Of his Office strictly upon the princi.
Piles of the Kansas Nebraska act-do him gross
injustice.
THE VISIT OF THE WESTERN ExCURsIoNIsrs
to this city and Mount Vernon, yesterday, was
delightful one. They were Hospitality enter
tanned by our fellow-citizens on all sides each
vieing with the other in the discharge of the
duty of making their time pass as pleasantly
as possible. The reader will find in our local
columns full account Of all of general interest
that was said and done by them and their en-
tertainers, ere most of them took their depar-
ture for Baltimore, at 10 p. IN. The balance
left Washington by the trains Of this morning.
in fine spirits
TIE GRANTS OF PUBLIC LANDS TO MIME
sofa IN AID OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAIL
RoADs.-The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has notified the Governor of the Territory
of Minnesota of the necessity for the prompt
filing at his bureau of the plats of the railroads
the construct on of which is TO be aided by the
also for the appointment of proper agents to act
In conjunction with him in making the selec-
tions for the respective roads authorized by the
law
NAVAL COURTS OF ISoUIRY.-In Court No
the case Of Commander Robert d. Thorburn
wasscontinued, and Commanders Boutwell, and
X Pevey, and Commodores Smith and McCau-
ley. and Ii. NJ. j. Woolsey were examined in
his behalf
Court No. 2 transacted no business to-day.
No new case being ready to be taken up by
them.
Court No. 5 were also prevented from pro.
ceediDg to-day with the rendin: case Of Capt
Long, owing TO the absence Of expected wit
neSSeS.
SELECrEp.-Thc Secretary Of tho Treasury
has selected rs the site Tor the new Custom
House at Perth Amboy, n. j., a lot at the cor
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