Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-14

Office holds that to constitute right of pre-
emption under the law the mail route on which
the claim is based must form q part of system
stretching laterally across the Territory, being
a link in, or part Of, q connected route from the
line of the States west Of the Mississippi to the
Pacific.
Second. The party preferring the claim must
furnish map, showing the " stations" with
certificate sworn to by the postmaster at each
'station," setting forth that the said stations
are between the points designated in the con-
tract. The map is required to be duly filed in
the district land Office, and to be accompanied
by evidence from the Post Office Department
that the claimant is q contra ,tor on the route
designated.
Third. The mail contractor claiming must
file in the district office his declaration of in
tent to claim the benefit of the law within three
months from the selection of his " stations if
on surveyed lands; if not on lands surveyed at
the time when selected, then the said declare
ton may be filed at any time within three
months after the return of the township plat to
the district office
Fourth. Proof satisfactory to the local land
Offices must be adduced, exhibiting the extent
of the improvement at each " station" and that
it fully subserves the purpose of the "station. ,
Fifth. To be but one "station" for each
twenty miles-the distance between the pre-
empted tracts may exceed but cannot be less
than twenty miles.
Sixth. If on unoffered land, the claim must
be proved up and paid for during the existence
Of the contract, and before the day fixed by the
President for the sale of the land if not, all
rights of the party are forfeited. If on offered
lands and subject to private entry, the proof
and payment are to be made in a year from the
date Of the commencement of the improvement.
Seventh. Each contractor bringing himself
within the law, is entitled to a presumption not
exceeding $40 acres, in continuous tracts, to in
clude his improvements, according to the lines
OF the public surveys, and not extending to any
pass in q mountain or other defile; and, of
course, not including mineral or other re-
served lands. ia r-'.,-
Eighth. Notice to adverse claimants to any
portion of the land selected as a station
must be given in writing, and should be served
in time to allow at least day for every twenty
miles the party must have to travel in going to
the place of taking testimony. ..
The principles laid down above are applied
also to the presumption rights of the contractors
for the transportation of the mail (overland)
from the Mississippi to San Francisco.
PROMOTED AND APPoINTED.-Mr. Thomas j.
Wallace has been promoted to fill the third class
clerkship in the Third Auditors office made
vacant by the recent removal of Mr.. MENUS
Mr.. ". A. d. Carroll of Mississippi, has
been appointed to ell the va sancy made in the
office of the Register of the Treasury first class
clcrkship) by the promotion of Mr.. Wallace.
Mr.. John. L. Holland has been promoted to
fill the clerical vacancy (third class in the Office
of the Fourth Auditors Office Occasioned by
Mr.. Ricketts, removal.
Mr.. j. D. Anderson promoted to fill the (sec-
ond class va ;ancy occasioned by Mr.. Holland S
promotion.
Mr.. Samuel Melvin has been appointed to the
first class clerkship vacant through Mr.. Ander-
sons promotion.
The OVERLAND MAIL.-It seems to be un-
derstood that the Hon. Mr.. Phelps of Missouri
who has been in Washington for some time past,
route of the st. Louis branch of the great over
land mail TO California, that having been the
business that brought him hither on this occa.
sion. Thus, we hear, the President consents
that the branch in question shall intersect the
Memphis branch at Preston, Texas, instead of
at Little Rock, Arkansas, a, now provided To
intersect at Preston, this mail i'll pass through
Springfield, Missouri, and Fayetteville, Van
Buren,, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. This change
is of course to be dependent on obtaining the
consent of the contractors for performing the
service, whose refusal is not anticipated
From THE STEAMSHIP NIAGARA The Navy
Department have advices from Capt. Hudson,
Of the Niagara, at Plymouth, Eng, to the 9th
ultiIno. 1t was not then determined whe ther
to reconmence laying the trans Atlantic cable
before July first next; the probability being
that no previous effort will be made
The pending proposition to transfer the re-
naming portion of the cable on the vessels of
the late expedition (2,52S statute miles in
length to the Great India Telegraph line now
so particularly required, seemed likely to pre-
vail; as by the 1st of May next it was easily
pOooiblc W udhc dHOtucI lOJ vi o,UNU miles, Inc
quantity required to renew the Atlantic ex-
pertinent
MAssACHUsETrs.-The American party OF
Massachusetts, are making very vigorous cam
paign apparently, against ex-Speaker Banks,
the Republican nominee for Governor. They
have renOminated Governor Gardiner, and are
electioneering for him with great enthusiasm
From the manner in which their canvass Is
being conducted, we judge that they entertain
high hopes of defeating Banks, though on what
grounds we know not. The State is stepped SO
deeply in Abolitionism, and the disease there
is so essentially chronic, that we can perceive
no hope of its eradication to point sufficient
to admit of the overthrow of the Republican
party at this time
The NAVAL Courts OF INQUIRY-Before
Court No. l, the case of Mr.. March being still
under consideration Lit BRA sher and the Ray