Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-27

what new crotchets have got into his now so
kinky Uranium. The Colonel has evidently
outlived his day of usefulness as a public man
full a quarter of a century
= How TO PRocEED.-The tenth section of the
treaty with the Chippewas of Lake Superior,
bearing dste September 80, 1854, secures N
missionsfies,S teachers, and other persons ~
siding in:the coded territory or the reservations
70 which the said treaty refers, the fightto en-
ter the lands occupied by them at the minimum
price, /" Whenever the surveys shall be cqtn-
pleted to the amount Of one quarter section
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
having been asked how such a claim shall be
contaminated, answered as follows. Viz:
alt sfhe opinion Of this office that a claimant
under said section should frst make proof before
the Register and Receiver of the land district in
which his claim 10 situated. and to their satisfac-
ton that he is person of the character contem-
plated by said section !; that is, ga missionary,
teacher, or other person residing In the Terri
tory, - before aud at the date Of the treaty, "By
authority of lac - that he was of fun age al
that time that the land claimed is within the
territory coded, or upon one of the reservations
thereby made and that he was actually residing
upon and occupying the land claimed at and be-
fore the date OF said treaty. .r....
+" After submitting his proof as indicated, and
the Register and Receiver are satisfied that the
claim is bona fide one, and that no superior
right exists on the part of another, to the land
claimed, then 1T will be proper for them to per-
init the entry by such claimant in a compact form
by legal subdivisions of not exceeding one hun
dred and sixty acres in quantity. ..
The written proof In such cases should ac-
company the entry as In ordinary pre-empton
cases subject to the examination and approval Of
this office"
A NEEDLEss PANIc.-The rumor that it is
the intention of the Government to bring va
rious public works for the construction of which
Congress has appropriated to a stand-still. has
already greatly alarmed persons in all sections
Of the Union Immediately interested in their
prosecution. We stated few days since that
we placed no confidence in these rumors Fur.
ther inquiries have satisfied us that they were
written, like many other similar stories from
Washington city to the distant press, simply
to the end Of writing something likely to be
exten.ively talked over in these dull times.
We are very sure that neither tho President
nor any member Of his Government dreams of
voluntarily doing aught not absolutely neces-
sary under the strict letter Of the law, and the
most stringent requirements of the public in.
terests, likely in times like the present to in
crease the number of unemployed mechanics
and labor ers in the United States-not they.
Our CURRENcY.-We learn unoficially that
the banks of this District have determined to
receive the issues of the following named banks
on deposit and in payment of their bills receiv-
able, and for notes placed with them for collec-
ton. Viz: Bank Of tho Metropolis; Bank of
Washington Patriotic Bank Bank of Com
Bank: Georgetown; and the banks of Balti-
more. These notes and the issues of banks of
Baltimore constitute therefore the currency of
the District for the sine bong.
MINNEsOrA.-Our political friends in Mime
sofa claim sweeping victory in their recent
election, having chosen II. II. Sibley Governor,
and Messrs. Becker, Phelps and Cavanaugh to
Congress-all Democrats working majority
of both branches Of the Legislature, and their
candidate for Territorial Delegate in the House
of Representatives, to hold his seat until Min
nesOta may be admitted into the Union as a
State.
P.S. Wehave just received the following most
satisfactory letter from a gentleman in whose
Judgment In such matters we have for seven
teen years past, had every reason to place i'm
plicit confidence
ST. PAUL, NJ T., Oct H. 1857.
Editor Washington Star: My Dear Sir: Permit
me To congratulate you and our political friends
generally, that Minnesota is Democ ratio in eyery
branch Of her government and we shall send
you two Senator's and three Representatives true
to the Union and the national Democracy This
hxes the official character of our new State for
years. Yours truly, **~
HE NAVAL COURTS OF INQUIRY.-TO-day
before Court No. ], the defence of Master r.
Clarendon Jones was read and submitted The
judgment Of the Court in it was made up and
transmitted to the Department The case of
exit holland was taken up, and Commodore
Reed was examined in it on the Governments
behalf.
: Before Court No. 2, the case Of Commander
hinggoid (retired on leave pay was opened to-
day. No progress, however, was made in it,
Before Court No. 3, to-day, in the case of
Capt Richie, which is under consideration,
Surgeon B. R. Tinslar was examined on the
Governments behalf
The Work AT DIFFERENT NAVY YARDS
By way of explaining the real value of disclo-
sures of much of the Washington correspond
ence OF the distant press, we may not inappro-
priately mention that we have satisfied ourself
that instead of decreasing the weekly aggre-
gate of work done, and of course Of wages paid,
ut the different Navy Yards of the country,
they will be shortly increased under the cur
rent and prospective requirements Of the SER
vice. Thus, at the Navy Yard in this city, pre-
parations are about to be made for the imme
date construction of the immense engines of
the new steam sloop Florida.
APPoISrED.-We hear that DR.. W. W. Bank,
OF Virginia, has been appointed Secretary of
the Legation of the United States in Brazil.
DIR. b. has resided eight years in Mexico and
speaks and writes the Spanish language with
the facility Of an educated native. As u. S.
Consul at Aguas, Calcutes, he gave great sat.
isfaction to this Government and to his fellow
citizens called thither. His appointment TO
Brazil is capital one, indeed.
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