Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-07

DR.. Milton J. Love and Mr.. Horace White were
examined for the applicant. T. NJ Blount and
P. p Phillips, Esq.'s, counsel for applicant
the former managing the defence.
ApporSrED.-We hear that the President
has recently made the following appointments.
Viz: EE
>Tbos Crockett Collector of the Customs at
Yorktown Va, vice J. B. Birmingham re.
signed.
Dr. Thos. P Bagnell Surveyor of the Port at
Accomac, w, vice Saml Melvin resigned.
Batch Herndon do. at Velasco, Texas, vice N.
Rudder deceased.
vice ]. G. Dill deceased.
The GEORGIA ELEcrIoS.-Our private ad-
vices to-day by telegraph confirm much of the
news coming to US by the regular telegraphing
agents Of the press, concerning the Georgia
election. We do not doubt the electio of Trippe
and Hill to Congress, over Bailey and Linton
Stephens, Democrats. Mr.. Trippe, X. N, was
| member of the last Congress, and Foster TX.
NJ represented in it the district to which Mr..
| Hill succeeds. We see nothing so far to induce
US to believe that the Democratic split in the
| first Congressional district has caused the de-
| feat of Mr.. Seward, the late member
The CALIFORNIA STATE DEBT-The recent
vote of the people of California to assume the
| honestly incurred, $50 far as her creditors are
concerned) but also illegally incurred, State
debt, is good thing for our own fellow citizens
not few of whom have recently purchased
| certificates in it, some at low a rate as fifty
cents on the dollar The New York journals
unanimously regard the vote in question as
being likely to do much towards restoring pub
lie confidence in the financial condition of the
country at large. TWAS evidently unexpected
in the commercial emporium of the country,
where it has so soon produced the happiest co.'s
ceivable effect. -
| SORGHUM SYRUP.-This morning, we saw and
tested specimen Of the syrup manufactured
from the cane Of the sorghum by Mr. Rives, of
the Treasury Department. at his farm, some
seven miles north of this city. The juice was
expressed by one of Hedges's patent mills fer
the purpose, driven by two horses, and was
| boiled down in kettles or boilers constructed
fashion. The mill is found to work admirably,
giving every satisfaction. The syrup produced,
which in this case is between the consistency of
molasses and sugar. is one of the most delight
| full condiments or CONNECTIONS we ever tasted
An INTERESTING PUBLIC LANDS DECISION
The Acting Commissioner of the General Land
Office has recently had occasion to write as fol-
lows to an enquirer concerning the right to pre-
empt lands illegally, informally. or improperly
sold or, in other words, the sale of which from
any cause is invalid. Viz:
"In answer TO your inquiry you are Informed
that no land is pre-emptible while covered by ac-
iual sale; and though the sale should be declared
invalid 1t continues not pre-emptible until after
the usual publication OF the thirty DAYS notice of
its restoration to market
DEATH OF AN ARMY OPFICER.-Col. Ichabod
b. Crane, lst Artillery, died at Port Richmond,
Staten Island, N. Y, on the 9Th instant, of
paralysis.
The late Col. Crane entered the Marine CORPS
in 1909, and was subsequently transferred to
the line in which he served so long with great
credit to himself and profit to the country
An INSPECTION VISIT. The Secretary of
War to-day paid a visit to the Washington
Waterworks, proceeding along the whole line
He is accompanied by Capt Meigs, the engineer
constructing the work which they are thus in
specting together.
The WEATHER The following report of the
weather. for this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution.
The time Of observation is about o clock a. m:
OCTOBER z 1857