Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-21
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT or IHE IuOh NING PhESS.
The LnfeAigsHcer adds the testimony of Mr.
Bartlett, of Rhode Island, the former commits
sioner to run our boundary line with Mexico,
g. sustain the entire propriety of the selection
ef the ella river route for that of the overland
hail from the Mississippi to California 1t
will be remembered that some six years ago
Fir. b. was long employed in discharging sci
entifc duties in that quarter, and knows we'll
from personal observation, all that portion Of
the route, the feasibility of which has been
questioned. In the course of its remarks on
the subject, the htelHgencer says:
"Indeed, it appears that Mr.. Bartlett, six years
ego, in dispatch to the Secretary of the Interior,
hinder date Of Santa Cruz. September p, 1851, and
thus, while actually engaged in his survey, COM
municated TO our Government the same views
with regard to the superior advantages possessed
by this southerly roule which, in the present pa
per, he recites with greater elaboration and mi
nuteness of geographical detail When we con-
slider the perplexity which must have attended
the decision of the Postmaster General in select
ing any route whatever through this partially ex-
plored country, where all the lines that came into
competition and comparison with each other We're
beset with counterbalancing advantages and dis
advantages, it is the more gratifying to find this
independent and, as We believe, reliable evidence
in proof that the determination of the Department
was the best that could have been made under
the circumstances"
The same journal contains a correspondence
in which Mr.. &. ". P GUSTS substantiates the
fact that, in the Revolutionary days of France,
Washington was made a Field Marshal (hon-
orary) of that country.
The Union again discusses the Kansas ques-
tiOn, in reviewing the recent letters of ex-Sen-
ator AtchisOn against Governor Walker In
the course of the article, the editor publishes
the following extract from n despatch from
Governor Walker to the State Department,
dated July 10Th, ultimO, which will doubtless
prove sufficient to satisfy all at the South who
have been complaining of his course in the Ter
rltory, whose complaints are not the result of q
fixed desire to pick holes in it, The extract in
question is as follows:
go On one point have been grossly misrepre-
sented. 1t il as to who, in INV Judgment should
vote upon the ratification of the constitution
nave been represented as desiring that every man
should vote who happened TO be in the Territory
on the day Of that election. This. indeed would
DE desirable If there were concIUSre evidence that
All such persons were actual bona fds settlers but
the only sufficient and usual proof of such a fact
would be some previous residence On this
point which is one Of detail, have never pro-
posed TO make suggestions to the convention al /
though. when asked my opinion by members OF
that body, have indicated previous residence
OF three six months, and that the same ouaifi-
cdtlonS should De adopted in the constitution in
regard not only to that but 20 all future elections;
and, in my Jud gment, one o other of these terms
Of residence Will be adopted BY the convention,
rom whom anticipate cordial cooperation
. IL is somewhat extraordinary that, while this
accusation of letting every man vote who m; Y
happen to be in the Territory tie day of the cleo
lion has been preferred in the South as indicating
desire on my part to let in abolition Migrants
and interlopeTs 10 control the result the Rfpub-
licans of Kansas have drawn ali entirely d feren,
conclusion-viz: that designed in this manner
10 bring many thousand Missourians into the
Territory to decide the contest