Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-24
nominal route Of the petitioning company has

nominal route of the petitioning company has.
in part, never been surveyed by them, and is To-
Gated where the actual surveys of the objecting
company prove that the construction of rail-
road is next to impossible.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
decides that he cannot set apart the lands as re-
| quested, unless the demand be founded upon
actual location, survey and stalking off on the
| ground; and that without a map founded on
such basis, it is not within the legal compe-
tence Of bis Office to act favorably on the appli-
cation. I'd
The DETECTION Of the route, too, is held to be
so great as not fairly to bring the application
within the intent of the law.
ADvrcEs Fhox SUPERINTENDENT McGRAw's
PARrY.-The Interior Department have advices
from Mr.. McGraw, the Superintendent of the
expedition constructing the Fort Kearney, South
Pass and Honey Lake wagon road, dated at
SCOTS Bluffs, Nebraska Territory, (about fifty
miles east of Fort Laramie,) on the 22d August
ultimo. His party were getting on well. They
had spent some time in making repairs Of the
| road at Ash Hollow and Scott's Bluffs, both of
| which are perhaps the worst portion of the
| whole line. These repairs are likely greatly
to facilitate the progress of the 1000 wagons
| said to be on the road (going wesD behind the
constructing party. All were we'll
LIST OF PArENrs.-The following is tho list
of Patents issued from the United States Patent
Office, for the week ending Sept. %, IS57-each
| bearing that date:
al z1v md Ill.,
| Ill For improved cutting apparatus for grain
and grass harvesters.
VIM. w. Bachelor, of New York, N. Y.-For
| improvement in gas burners.
| Joseph +. Black, of Lancaster Ill-For i'm
proved machine for binding grain.
Geo. L. Burt, Abram Wright and George F.
| Wright, of Harvard, Mass.-For improvement in
| Mortimer NJ. Camp, of New Haven Conn-For
| improvement in life boats
| Edwin Clark, of Lancaster, Pa.-For improve
| ment In bearings for milestone drivers.
| Patrick Clark, Of Railway NJ For i'm.
engines.
Simeon Coon, of Ithaca, N. Y.-For improve.
ment in burglars alarms
Isaac A. Durham, of North Bridgewater, Mass
| For improved edge plane for trimming boot and
John G. Durham, of Raritan. N. For i'm.
PEovement in reaping and moving machines. :
Augustus Eliaers, of Boston, Mass For I'M
provement in portfolio or music stands
L
improvement in harvesters '
Edmund Gibbs, Of Madison, wis.-For i'm
Pr0yement in steam heating apparatus.
Philander Gilbert, Of Alexandria. O-For inn.
proved apparatus for loading logs on wagons
JOS H. Hall, of Cincinnati, O.-For improve
ment in locks
Henry Hammer, of Dubuque, Iowa.-For i'm
provement In the process of making white lead
Isaac Hermann, of New York, N. Y For safe
| ty clasp for bracelets, &c.
James Neil, of YorkvilIe, n. For improve
NJ fnF rtI linz IA
David c. Peacock, Of BROOKLYN N Y.-For
| sleeve fastener.
Geo. A. Prentiss, of Cambridge. Mass-For
rollers '- -'''''o''
TT w. Robertson, of New York, N. Y.-For
hand stamp.
AnsIey c. Smith and JOS K Creighton. of East
birmingham, Pa.-For improved machine for A.
ling and setting saws
Barzillai c. Smith, of Burlington, n. J.-For
Improvement In the mode of connecting and dis
connecting the blocks of iron other pavements
}. III swan, of New York n Y-For imDrove
ment In railroad car seats.
Abram : Swartz, Of Buffalo, N. Y.-For i'm
provement in the trussed bridge u =
Chauncey Thomas, Of West Newbury Mass
For improved carriage prop.
ID. c. Turner, Of Azatlan, wis.-For improve.
ment In rotary steam engines
Isaac Van DOren, Of Someiville N J-For inn
provement in rakes for harvesters
VIM H. walton, OF Brooklyn, n. Y, L Geo
NJ Phinney, of New York, N. Y.-For improve
Norman w. Wheeler, Of New York, ~ y
For improvement in valve gear for osciliating
steam engines.
Samuel Fl. Whitaker, Of Cincinnati, O.-For
improved mt mschine.
George Williamson, of Brooklyn, N. Y-For
Improvement In diving apparatus.
fly trap.
Henry Loewenberg, of New York, N. Y-For
w. r. Messenger and Henry Reclaim. of New
N For m
WIN. II. Mitchell, of BROOKLYN n Y-For ma.
chine for distributing type
Jas w Strange and Saml Darling Of Bangor
Me,-fof improvement in pencil sharpeners.
Henry ID Blake, of New Hartford Conn, as
si9nor to WHY'S Fl. Warner, of New Britain.
Conn.-For improved wrench
Samuel PennOck, OF Kennett,s Square p, AZ
signor to himself and Morton Pennock of same
pidce-for Improvement in harvesters
John Humphrey, of Keene, N H., assgnor to
Humphrey aforesaid F or improvement in lat hes
for manufacture Of clothes pins, etc
RsisSnes.-Anson Atwood, of Troy, N v
For improvement in cast iron car wheels Pat
Solomon T. Holly, of Rockford, Iu.-For i'm
Provement in seed planters. Patented June I6,
1857.
Edward Howell, of Ashtabula. Obio-For
process for removing photographs from glass to
paper. Patented May -, 1857.
Dtsign.-George b. Foster, Of Boston, Mass
For design Tor gas burner shades.
The SHIPwRECK.-Our exchanges come to
| as full of nothing but accounts of the ship
wreck of the Central America The indefatig-
| able newspaper men of New York, not content
with publishing dozen or two dozen versions
of the affair, must need spread before their
readers fifty or hundred such accounts, as
though the world thinks of nothing just now
but that subject. The moral of the manner in
which the New York papers seem to gloat over
the affair appears to us to be, that its newspa-
per readers are consti,ut Onaly devoted to the
horrible in literary matters-a state of mind
into which they have been duly indicted by
the style of newspaper men they have had
among them for some years past.
| PROMOTED.--Wc hear, on the Avenue, of the
following promotions in the General Land Office
recently made. Viz:
Mr.. Thompson Allen to be head of division
| Fourth class clerkship, 81 800 per annum) vice