Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-13
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
HE SUBMISSION OF THE Coz sTIrUTIoN As
we anticipated, the proposition of Gov. Walker
that the action of the people of Kansas in con.
vention to frame a constitution, shall be An
pealed to the same people at a subsequent
time, has given rise 10 intense excitement
throughout the South.
The Charleston Mercury charges on Govern
or W., on the strength of foolish Washington
letters to northern journals. that he accepted
the position he fills only to the end of securing
the mph Of those in the Territory who de-
sire that 1t shall reject the institution of the
South. That is, on their garbled reports of his
alleged conversations while here con erning the
future of the Territory. While we perceive
neither justice nor right in Governor W. 3 plan
OF going behind the law in the contamination of
the admission of Kansas into the Union, which
cannot be essayed without giving the opponents
OF the adoption Of slavery undue advantages
we reject emphatically the idea that he has
at any time designed playing false to the
high obligation of his trust. To the oh.
legation of abstaining scrupulously from lend
Ing the weight of his official influence, pa-
tronage and other means into one party in
this momentous contest and against the other
We fear that his mere recommendation that tho
Convention shall regard itself as not clothed
with power to finish up its work, but shall send
the vexatlous question back to its constituents
under circumstances wherein the final dscison
Is likely to be made, rather by the anti-slayerv
Kansas emigration societies. than by the
bona fde residents of Kansas when il ube Con
ventIon) shall be chosen, las the law clear
~ deslghedJ VIII create new difficulties If
acted on las we trust it will not be) it will result
In such storm at the South as was never be-
fore experienced; for every Southern pewsna.
per OF all parties will take ground against it. as
involving scheme on the part of the Territorial
Government indirectly to aid the PURPOSES Of
the antl-siavery party there. If not acted ON.
all abolitiondom at the North will be in arms
against the new constitution In making this
recommendation, we sincerely fear that Cover
nor Walker has probably laid the foundation
tor an agitation even more dangerous to the fu
ture OF the Union, than the condition of civil
war that not long since existed in the Territory
CLOSING Up THE SuRyEys.-Yesterdav IN.
WV iScoOu W tuc surveyor U6Qerdl
Of Missouri, to cause to have SURVEYED all the
unsurveyed overlooked swamp lands which are
now fitted for agricultural purposes, in Stod-
dard, New Madrid, Butler, and perhaps Mis-
sissippi and Scott counties, in the State of Mis-
souri, These unsurveyed lands We're originally
regarded as overlooked swamp lands, but which
from various causes in the process Of time have
become fitted for agricultural purposes, and
they constitute the only portion of the public
lands remaining unsurveyed in the State of
Missouri, and will, when surveyed make final
close of the public surveys in that State On
the 9TH OF April last instructions were issued to
survey the unsurveyed overnowed lands in Pc
miscot county, Missouri, on terms proposed by
those interested in swamp lands and which were
deemed reasonable and necessary to enable the
Department to segregate what are probably the
swamp and Overaowed lands in the grants 10
Pemiscot county, under the warrant of 1850
from those which were saleable and fit for aeri
cultural purposes. The expense. to be incurred
in making said survey are to be divided between
the Government and the county of Pemiscot
THE WEArHER.-The following report of the
weather for this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution
and will be continued daily when the line is in
working order. The time of observation is
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