Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-03

of the municipal regulations of Washington to
pronounce them impotent, and TO declsre-as we
do-that the time has arrived when IL has become
the duty OF Congress to take the District of Co
limba more directly In hand, and to rule IL as
to guarantee general and constant peace order and
safetyA We call upon the Senators and Repre-
sentatives IN CONGRESS fom the state Of South
Carolina to assume their full share of responsi-
biiity In this matter and to see to II that neither
Democratic,snor Know Nothing, nor Republicans,
nor Agrasian rule nor the conflict of these several
elements, shall be permitted to make a pandefslo
mum Of the Federal Capital. ~
The city is now-or should be-yoverned by
the citizens. under charter granted them by the
General Government Let them still so govern
Il, so far as their city Improvements are con-
cerned Though the Government even now makes
great part of the y but let the whole system of
police, and the policemen, both of the day and
the night, heiuder the direct control of the Gen
e al Government; and give to the guard at least
| semi-nilitary understanding them. if you
Will, to other fields of duty whenever. from any
cause, their efficiency and fidelity may seem to
wane. Let this be done, and the bowie knife,
revolver and brickbat warfare, of late SO familiar
| to the Federal Metropolis, will cease, and we
shall no longer have reason to blush for the deg
radiation of city that. under proper system Of
government must ere long become the very centre
of the refinement, intelligence, elegance and pro-
priety of the whole republic. ..g....-'''
w hat are the owners of property and the stead
fast citizens Of ashington thinking Of, that they
| for tue very measures We would impose upon
them! s.'..H..
PRE-ENpTIoS CLAIMS TO LANDS FOR RAIL.
ROAD PURposEs.-The Commissioner of the
General Land Office, in q recent decision has
laid down the law and views of his office on
several points of great interest and Importance
| to the public of the South and West, as fol-
| lows:
c1o,p I,o 81
drawn from market for railroad purposes where
the settlements were made in good faith with
the Government before the passage of the law
making the grant, and prior to the definite
location" or surveying and stalking off of the
route of the road, are subject to consumation
within the period fixed by law for proving up
and entering offered and unoffered lands, at
one ordinary minimum of $l.2j per acre, and
| payment may be made in specie, or with mill
tary bounty land warrants.
| ,. After the surveying and stalking off Of any
route, the presumption right ceases on the rail-
| road sections; but from and after that date the
| 4. :. reserved sections, within the six mile
limits of the route, are pre-emptible at mini
mum of 81. 30 per acre till the date of g final
adjustment" of the alternate sections to which
the railroad lS entitled.
3. From the date Of the final allotment afore
said until the date Of oBertng The u. s. re-
scrUsd Sections at public sale, presumption
rights to lands in such sections cannot attach :;
but after the Offering, the reserved sections again
become pre-emptibie at minimum of 50 30 per
acre.
A. Where the 50 30 minimum attaches bounty
land warrants under the act Of 81 March, 1855,
cannot be used in part payment there being
an express inhibition of such use in the statute;
but warrants issued under prior acts of Con-
gress may be so used-one warrant only to be
laid on single presumption claim at the rate
of 81 % per acre, aud the balance required to
make up the -. 30 to be paid in specie
The ADvICEs BY TELEGRApH.-We are fre-
quently taken to task by friends on account of
the tone-evident bias-of telegraphic des-
patches now and then published in the Star 5
columns, and it is quite task to beat into
them, individually, the comprehension Of the
fact that we necessarily publish such items pre-
clsely as they reach US, always a few moments
ere locking up the form to 60 to press. Or, m
other words, that it is past editorial capacity
"
the sgent through whose hands we receive them
to check the tendency to political bias with
which they are furnished to him. We find in a
late number of the Ppnnsyirunian an expos-
ton of this matter, which, brief as il is, sets
forth the difficulty capitally. 80 we ac accordingly
transfer it to the Star as embracing an expla-
nation that can hardly fail to prove more salts.
factory to those Of our friends who have ques-
toned us On the subject, than any we have
been able to give them orally in brief conversa-
tiohs:
OPINIONS BIZ TELEGEAPH-It is Il great mis-
fortune that the persons acting the agents OF the
Associated Press throughout the country are muc b
more addicted to sending their individual opin-
Ions 10y telegraph than established facts Al ali
ihe more important poftts, these lnln-
lf"Stly OF political bias, opposed Ia the Democ-
idcy. and scarcely a day passes in which some
imp ortdlt Tact IL not distorted pFeiudiced by
thIs nias, "a by the luggIng in OF some indy dual
opinion OF the correspondent. This prejudice
has been 50 prominent in all dies pate e, from
The West, for y wear Or more, rs Ia make them
wholly unreliable, even AN indi~ation of fact !:
and the occasions have not few where tho 81.
persons have attempted by gross msstateme mt \
to fo!estali public opinion upon matters Of vital
public concern, 10y SurreptitioUs use Of even the
Dcmocr ratio press. For instance, the des pate h
rom Baltimore, published Yesterday, had this
sentence: The conservative portion of the COM
partizan measure and this is published North
| and south as an unprejudced statement of fact,
whereas it Is the mere unsupported assertion of a
Know Nothing correspondent, and directly 1t
variance with the sentiment ofthe whole press of
Baltimore, with the single exception of that upon
which the Baltimore agent OF the Assoc lated
Press Is employed. We pay some "a 900 annually
for telegraph news, not for the opinions Of irres-
ponsible and prrjudiced individuals, whose bu-
sincss is only with facts But what makes the
matter worse Is the fact that the great bulk of our
dispatches are received at 50 late an hour as to
preclude editorial supervision.
The CASE OF CART. REYNoLDs-Somet time
since We mentioned the fact that Capt Rey
nolds. late of the Quartcrmaster Department,
U. S. A, had been restored by the President to
his former position in the service That the
reader may understand the circumstances un-
der which this act of Executive justice was de-
termined on, we quote q Washington letter
published recently in the RiehmoUa Enquirer
| as follows:
=. There las been case of