Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-19

9dszisf m 1sSd warrants q d sfticis r. ordinary
trafiic, the buyer and seller with the person who
buys warrants for location and holds his lands at
distance to await any pected advance in price,
which may not oceur for many years to come In
the one case, the money paid for warrants is
speedily returned and kept In circulation, whilst
nv II r. sesS qIss e 's sss ss%S
Tie SETTLEMENT df<the w he1been rapid be.
yond ali experiences and sli e1psctation; Indeed,
It, Yet, tapid has been the incfease and spread
Of popuiation, the drearn Of spectators has fsf
ouissripped it, asa.ye Psssams the land held tc>s
day for arise could hardly be brought updercul-
tivation in twenty years"
MAIL FAILUREs.-As We perceive growing
in the newspapers against the Post Office De-
partment on account of recent mail failures
between Cincinnati and This city, We have
taken occasion to ascertain the cause of them,
and have satisfied oursef that the blame, if
any is justly chargeable any where, does not
lie at the Departments door Thus the failure
of the Cincinnati morning mail of Friday last,
was occasioned by the breaking down, at New
Creek, of the express train going west, which
delayed the train above mentioned sufficiently
long to cause failure to connect ut Benwood.
The failure Of connection with the mail
that left on Tuesday morning last, the
13th-going west-resulted from the breaking
of an axle of the tender, between Cambridge
and GAINESVILLE. The same mail was again de-
layed by somewhat similar railroad accident
five miles west Of Zenia. Thus two connec-
tons were lost by this one mail, through rail-
road accidents.
The public will see at once that no blame in
these matters lays at the Department. door.
From OUR EAST INDIA SoUADRoN-The
Navy Department have dispatches from Com
modore Armstrong lin command of his flag
ship, the San Jacinto) dated Shanghai, China,
July, 20, 1857. Commodore A. encloses state
ment from an English merchant, who having
lost brother by shipwreck on the island of
Formosa with two American companions had
caused search to be made for them. From
the account which the natives employed give Of
the result of their investigation, it appears that
such men were in the hands of the aborigines
Of the island as late as four years ago, three or
four years after their shipwreck. They allege
that 40 whites were wrecked on the island
coast in 1910, and were all massacred. In De-
cember, 1912, another vessel with Is foreigners
on her was wrecked there all of them but two,
who were drowned were ransomed and sent to
Canton, by Chinese merchant.
NAVAL Courts OF INoUIRY.-Before Court
No. l, to-day, tho case of Lieut.. Whiting being
on trial, Commander Roots, Lieut.. Dennison,
Capt. Pope and DR.. Mason were examined, the
three first named on the Governments behalf,
and the last for the applicant.
Before Court No. 2, the testimony in the case
Of Lieut. Murray was closed 10y the testimony
of Capt. Cavendy, of the steamship CONNER
ciaD Washington called by the applicant. This
Court is to take up Lieut.. " R. Morgans case
next.
Before Court No. 3, to-day, the defence in the
case of Commander Shaw was read and submit
ted and then the case of It. H. c. Flagg, fur
loughed) who asks to be transferred to the leave
of absence pay list, was taken up. No pro-
gress had been made in it up to p. m.
The ATLANTIC SUBMARINE CABLE, &C.-The
Navy Department have dispatches from Capt.
Hudson, of the U. S. steamship Niagara, at
Plymouth, England, on the LIST inst He had
landed all the machinery used on his vessel in
the unfortunate effort to lay the submarine tel
egraph cable, and was preparing to land the
balance of the cable On board, which was to be
stored in wooden er-tight tank that had
been prepared for its reception and preserva-
ton. Lieut.. c. II. Wells had been transferred
to the steamship Susquehanna, to supply the
NIL Of bn
that ship, sick. Officers and crew of the Niagara
we'll.
CooL.-The missionary branch of the Oberlin
(Ohio) abolition establishment at Winnebaga-
shish, Wisconsin, is said to have applied to the
Government here to accord to them, without re-
curing them to keep under instruction GER
tain number of Indian children rs the law pro-
vides, the payment for that service, which, if
performed, the law would accord to them. They
allege, it's said, that the Indian children will
not remain with them. To grant their request
would be simply to pension them out Of the pa-
tional treasury.
FoRT KEARNEY AND HONEY LAKE WAGON
RoAD.-We have letters to the 18th ult from
California, saying that when last heard from,
the party constructing this work, under the SUI
perintendence of Colonel Kirk, were within $50
miles of the City Rocks, the eastern terminus of
their work, and were progressing finely with it,
They expected to finish up ere the close of the
working season. -
The TREATY WITH THE PAwNEEs.-By the
treaty with these Indians, recently negotiated
by Commissioner Denver, ten or twelve mil.
lions of acres of land are secured to the United
States, as also their pledge to remain at peace
with us and to influence the neighboring tribes
| to do likewise.
KANSAS SURvEYs.-The following approved
| township plats have been received at the Gen.