Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-24

and, therefore, to do the grinding and saving
required by the Government there, he fobbed
the property eventually, nevertheless; and as
early as 1850, one year or so after the date of
General Jesup's letter published above, &C
tually sold interests in it at enormous rates.
We know one gentleman who that year paid
him in this city $500 or 81 900 for lot or few
lots in it. He could then only give quit
claim title of course-the value of which was
predicated upon the eventuality of getting a
fee simple title to the property by lobbying
through his act passed March 2, 1855.
Below will be found copy of his contract
with the tenant he placed in occupancy of the
portion of the reserve he had got into his hands.
as described above, bearing date May 18th.
1850, wherein-though that was years before
he lobbied his bill through Congress, and while
he was tho mere tenant of the Government at
will,-he assumes to sell (at that early day. An
eighth interest in it for one thousand dollars;
all he subsequently paid the Government for
it and three-eighths of all the rest, being one
dollar and a quarter an acre The last clause
of this article of sale should be noted, as show
ing that he contemplated getting fee simple
title to the property for next to nothing, through
the eventual results of being placed by Captain
Woods in the nominal occupancy of it, and the
probable success Of his eventual law of March
I'd, 1856:
Memorandum of an Agreement made and en-
tered into this 18th day Of May, D. 1850, by and
between Robert Smith, Of the first part and Cal
win A. futile. of the second part witnrsSeth: That
whereas the parts OF the first part has obtained from
the Government Of the UDited States permission 10
| occupy the buildings and mills on the west side
OF The Mississippi river. opposite the Falls of ST.
| Anthony, and to cultivate portion of the public
ground adjoining the said mills, to hold the said
property as tenant of the public and under obi
cation to return it to the Commanding Officer or
| QuartermaSter, should 1t be required for military
purposes, at the end of one or more years the
| Government may decide. Now, be il known
the said party Of the first part doth hereby agree
To SELL transfer and set to the said party of
the second part, one undivided eighth part Of all
the interest which he, the said party Of the first
part acquired from the Government of the United
States as above specified and let out upon the fol-
| lowing conditions, to wit
That the said party Of the second part shall pay
| to the said party Of the first part the sum Of one
thousand dollars, which may be discharged and
| paid IN building house or houses and fading
| materials, or in labor at cash price, within The,
year 1850, or in the spring aud summer of ISL at
| the option Of the said patty Of the frst part
| And II is hereby further agreed aud underS
that this contract shall not conflict or interfere
| with an agreement made Oh the thirtieth day OF
| July, 1919, between the same parties i'm relation
| To repairing and putting in good running order
| the aforesaid mills. And ii Is also agreed and
| understood that when the land upon which the
| said mills aud buildings are situate and the
| lands adjoining shall he brought into market to
| be sold by the United States, each party shall
| furnish money to purchase the same according
| to his respective interest
Witness our hands the day and year above
| written
| Signed in duplicate. RoBER1 SMITH
CALVIN \. TUrTLE.
Tho limited space at our command will not
permit us to follow this subject further to-day.
We have in our possession rich collection of
| manuscript documents of various kinds bear
! ing on it, illustrative of the true character of
| the charges" of the times against all who act
| for the Government and those who deal with it,,
| in the proof they embrace that Smth-the
mover for the current extraordinarily
| defrauded the Government out of the town site
| portion of the reserve, worth million of dol
lars at this moment, which, by and through his
| operations in the lobby here. he and his CO.
operators got tor one dollar and quarter per
acre; he being allowed to become possessed of
three-eighths of the whole OH paying that price
for his share into the national treasury. And
further, that every oath taken by pre- emptor
who had agreed to accord him three-eighths of
| the land obtained by him under his Smith 81
law of March 2, 1855, involved the virtual
commission of perjury, as defined by the gen
eral presumption law of l9il; though it is
but due to justice that we should add that
probably the ignorant pre-emptors not COM
pretending that eX-member of Congress
Of eight years service would lead them TO
violate so grave n provision of law as the
thirteenth section of the general pre- -emption
law, were not aware of the crime they COM
mitted in receiving presumption titles to land
portions of which they had previously stipu-
lated to aleniate to Smith for his services in
the lobby, &c.
THE LEvEE.-Pariant pom la .Syrie, the
French national air. and a noble piece of inu-
sic, albeit unfamiliar to American ears, ush-
cred the earlier visitors into the Executive
Mansion last night The Marine Band occu
pied their old quarters in the ante-ro a
tight fit by the way, and which threatens to he
embarrassingy snug when the boy portion Of
the band sweils into manhood. But sufficient
for the day is the evil thereof.
Marshal Hoover was again the President $
right-hand man. the Senate not having
acted on the nomination Of his successor. Col.
Selden was present, however, taking a peep Mt
the promised land. Deputy Marshal Phillips
aided in making the presentations to the Pres
ident, and Mr.. Commissioner Blake was at his
post near Miss Lane
Prominent among the early arrivals was seen
the jolly, full moon face of Senator Hale, who.
not whit put back, apparently, by the Soc
dologer administered to - Topeka yesterday,
appeared, while going through the digital cour-
tesies with the President, to be congratulating
him on the triumph Of his policy
Among othcr personages of prominence who
were present last night VIC noticed Lord Ma
pier, Sir VIM. Gore Ousey, lady and daughter
Attorney General Black, Miss Cass, Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams, Of Phila NJ. Ogle Tayloe, Jno
Cochrane, Esq, Gen Harvey, Judge Mason
Collector of Baltimore) and lady, Marshal
CullOugh of Texas Hon Mr. McLane of Nd