Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-09-05

WssHrVcroN. September The President.
he Secretary Of the state, Treasurer and other
officials. with Generals Ward and Burnett ana
several members Of the press, attended the
wedding Of Hon. Hiram Walbricgs, to-day,
which was a TechsTche affair
Il is prohabls that the contemplated charges
in the heads Of Government bureaus will not
be officially announced before the termination
OF the present fiscal quarter Of the year
During the month Of August more than NJ
teen hundred warrants were issued uncer the
Bounty Law Of 1850, TO satisfy which over two
hundred and thirty Thousand acres are neces-
ssrv. So far. tW enty-siX million and a hall
acres have been granted in accordance WIN
that act.
Edward NJ. Hastings has been appointed Re-
ceiver OF public msneys az Montgomery, Ala
An extent for thirty-fvs thousand acres, Sc
iected in lieu Of those located warrants OF
scrip issued BY virtue Of a special certificate, IN
favor Of Wisconsin, under the second section,
act of March, 1885, is now in course OF pre-
u~aration in the General Land Office, and viii
be transmitted to the Governor Of that State
in few days.
ina PRESIDENTS reply to Professor Slliman
and others on the affairs Of Kansas viii soon
be published.
REMOVAL or TIE UNIoS OFFIcE.-After
an occupancy Of nearly thirty years, the
Washington Uai0H Office has been removed
from its old quarters IN Z street, between Ihir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets, to the new and
spacious building, expressly erected for is
use. On the same street, between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets. The UHiOn, in announcing
is change Of quarters, says:
% We left the old building from necessity,
not choice, for it is endssred to Us by assoela-
tions Of the most gratifying character, and not
without a peculiar interest for our fellow
citizens throughout the country. As simple,
unpretending, and even snsbby-looklng as me
old sauutnm was and is, it was honored in It's
dsv by the frequent friendly visits o. Prssi-
dents Jackson, Van Buren,, Tyler, Polk and
Pierce. and BY most, if not all those distln-
guished statesmen who were officially connected
with their respective ADMINISTRATIONS. It's
main. nine, uncushioned ChaiTs-we have them
stilI-have been occupied BY the representa-
tives Of the wealth, genius, power and intellect
Of the nation-by foreign ambassadors ara ma
tive diplomatists-by Calhoun, Webster, Clay,
Havne. FORSYTH, Wright, McDufie, and other
great and gifted patriots and statesmen whose
fame fills the country and whose memories are
still warmly cherished By a grateful and al
sdmiring people"
TIE TESTIMONY OF a BLACK REPUBLICAN,
Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Ohio, for years q
Democrat, was elected to Congress on the anti
Nebraska platform, and has ever since acted
with the Republican party. He has Just beer
making a tour OF Kansas, and in a late numbel
Of his own paper, the Steu5enville (Ohio.
UaiOH, lie says:
Every street, corner, and 'doggery,' Of
which even in this old Massachusetts tow
mere were not a few, had its crowd Of disput'
ants. HereI found James H. Lane, who invited
ne over to his wigwam, where we took
smoke and talked over matters. de Jusuhei
his course and that Of the ultra Free-State meT
Of which be is the leading spirit upon eircum'
stances upon which be alleges the people in th'
Free-States know little or nothing. also me
Governor Robinson, General P0mroy, MI.
Jenkins. DR.. Cutter, S. n. Wood, and othel
] notabilIties Of the Free-State party HE prrn'
cipal topic was the Topeka legislature, theI
I about 10 assemble. No one seemed TO know
precisely what they were going to dos no piaE
seemed agreed upon, and the more prudent &C
knowledged tina. the whole proceeding wal
a farce, which they scarcely knew DO 7 to &c
out of with any kind Of credit. They werI
determined not to vote for Members Tor tn
/ Constitutional Convention, bit aFowed tina
they would vote for members Of the Terrific
rial Legislature next October, when they sx
pecsed 70 carry every election district IN tn
Territory. / endeaVored to understand then
on the hypothesis Of consistency, but coui'
not. They would not vote a. the constitution
al election. because that would recognize 10.
bogus Legislature ; butthey would vote IN Dc
tober for delegate 10 Congress, aud for Legis
lstiye officers under the sam : bogus law.
- Thsy also svowed their intention OF votinl
down the constitution, whether good or bad
saving that they had a majority, and woul,
make a constitution in their own time, and sucl
a one as they wanted. To a suggestion tha
il would be Of vast interest to the prosperity
Of the Territory to have political matters sci
lied Immediately and finally, the reply wa
that such a settlement might tend to build u
the ID Democratic party, which they DE-
sired to see crushed TO atoms.
81 withdrew, more than ever convinced TIA
he Free-st2ts leaders De not desire to SCI
peace or f%ratsrnsl feeling prevail among th'
people. Their object is TO keep Kans4.
bleeding for the puTPosssof furnishing Blael
Republican electioneering capitaiin the states
Looking over the whole field, and after mixin
with the people Of the Territory for near
month, such a eslclusion forces Itself upon n
irresistibly."
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