Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-19

WARDS Ino SoUtnefp cltv.ens IN Nausea
think they have the right nc to ask South
ern Governor. They want Gssry no longer,
and it Is to be hoped, sir, tttAt no step VIII %
taken to renew his relation since his resigna-
ton.
The Richest Community In the Woria-
LoI. the Poor Indian "A day or two since
wa had occasion to mention that the result 81
thu late sale of the Delaware I1ndians) trust
lands was $40, 900 The lands sold were
only those comprised in the eastern division
Of this great reservation. The western div.
sion is now adver tised TO be sold. That con-
tains some $50, 900 acres, and will undoubted-
BY bring an aggregate Of at least 5000, 900.
The tribe are also the owners of home ressr.
walton almost Immediately adjoining Leaven-
worth City, forty miles long by ten broad.
That would sail tomorrow readily for $40 per
acre; sr IN aggregate of S3,OOO,O00. Thus
their total wealth, independent Of personal
property-and ono Of them are men of con-
siderable individual means-is about 81 070,-
900. They numi,er in all some nine hundred
souls; and, from the real estate described
above, are worth an average of S., 440 per
soul, or s22. 12o to each family of FIVE persons
among them.
So much for the p olicy with reference to the
future of the North American Indians initia-
ted By the late adm inistration, and so ener.
getically, faithfully aud fearlessly carried out
by Mr.. Secretary Nc Clelland and the Indian
Bureau, under a sttrm Of opposition on the
frontier, often threatening to break out into
armed resistance of the governments authori.
ty, and scarcely less persistent and more cum
ming opposition here. where those DESTROYS to
speculate in these II ust lands were of course
directly or indirectly Represented. Blu. for
the policy referred TO above, and its faithful
pursuit by the legal guardians of tho tribe,
the Delawares at this moment would hardly
have been worth dime There is much in
deed, in the facts stated above, to encourage
the new administration in the faithful OBJ
servance of the moral obligations of tho Indian
treaties CT the Confederacy.
Mike in the Ring The veritable and re-
doubtable Mike Walsh has again precipitated
himself upon Washington, having returned
from his European tour. We did not Know,
until seeing him yesterday afternoon. in the
great hall at Willards'. where everybody who
is nybody in Democratic politics so loves to
congregate just new, that he had come home.
He looks as hearty and talks rs emphatic as
ever, ard in his every movement shows that
contact with men and things on the other side
of the herring pond has not obliter ated sir
gle trace of his 50 characteristic New York.
iihness. Thus, as ever, he is the rarest and
fairest specimen of those who are wont to
cluster around Old Ia mmany in primary cleo.
tion times. Mike has never been an Office
seeker per Sc, though no che looks closer after
the main chance, for the boys, than he lie
has many friends here, who, we know, are
glad to welcome him back.
The Boston Appointments were settled
yesterday in Cabinet council and transpired
at its adjournment about an hour after the
Star went to press. : Arthur w. Austin has
been appointed Collie 1.or vice VIM Peasles.
Watson Freeman has been re-appointed Mar.
shall of the District Of Massachusetts, and
Chas. L. Woodbury. United States Attorney
for Massachusetts,, Woo Mr.. Hallett
1t is generally bel ieved that Charles Gordon
Greene IS to be r''.appoinled Naval Officer,
and that Mr.. Postmaster Bailey is also to be
continued.
The declensaon to re-appoint Mr. Hallett
has created no little feeling among his friends
here, a large nsumbsr Of whom exerted them.
selves most energetically to prevent him from
coming under the rotation principle. Many
of them are Southern members of both Houses
of Congress, with whom Mr.. Ii. has long been
great psrso nal favorite.
The saehe ms.-Forming portion Of the go
interesting de legation Of cutters in and cutters
out and pelit icsl carvers generally from New
York, now ir. W sshington, are no less than
nine Of the venerable Sachems of the Tamma.
ny Society; that closest of all close corpora
lions, as democratic as its tendencies certain
ly have been of late years. Of course they
some to participate in the work of the arrange
Iasnt Of the dispensation of the Administrations
patronage in Gotham, where ali the world
knows it is immense. Would that it were less,
for the sake of the future of the country.
A Novel Expedient.-The very lates: wrin-
kle is an expedient adopted by New York
ofice-sesker to insure due perusal of his "pa-
pers" by the appointing power. To this end
he has actually caused a copy of them to be
printed, naking good sized volume, which
be has filed with the originals. We mention
the fact by way of illustrating the progress of
the era in the matter Of ofice-se eking, where
in, some Improvement could be invented to
dispense with the insufferable boring incident
to it up to this time, the genius orig inatipg it
would be fairly entitled to fortune, even if
he should never thus make one.
Appointments by the President CT the
United sta!es-Collsctors Of Customs.-Wn-
liam T Colcock, Charleston, S. @ Te-appoint-
ed. Minatt A. Osborn, New Haven, Conn,
re appointed. George T. Wright, TspI ahan.
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