Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-05-03

A large proportion Of these exports are to
foreign ports, and the entire quantity was sent
beyond the limits Of Washington Territory.
The district includes the entire waters of Pu-
gets Sound, in which there are eleven settle
ments worthy of note. These carry on trade
with each other amounting to some S2OO, 900
annually, comprising only articles of domestic
growth and manufacture which are consumed
in the district
The number Of vessels belonging to the dis
trict, including two steamers, is n, with an
aggregate capacity of 4.079.26 tons; and the
number of vessels Of all classes that entered the
district during the year were q foreign and I47
American, having an aggregate tonnage of
Al ,27l63 Besides the exports of this district,
| very large share of the produce sent from
Washington Territory is shipped by the way of
the COwlitz and Columbia rivers
The white population of the Territory is est-
mated at only about 5000 souls
CALIFORNIA SURvEYs.-1he General Land
Office is in receipt of the following plats of sur
veys of private claims, from the Surveyor Gem
eral of California: Plat of the Boga rancho,
".
ing 22,2Ol s0-1OO acres, situated in township %
north, range 3 east, and townships 10, 20, q
and p north, range east of Mt Diablo me-
indian; lying on the Rio de las Plumas, on
Feather river and its north and northwest
branches. Plat of part of the rancho Pastoral
de las Borregas, finally confirmed to Martin
Murphy, jr., containing 1894 35-lOO acres, sit
uated in township south, range and west
of the Mount Dablo meridian Plat of Soils
rancho, finally confirmed to r ufina Castro ct al
containing 1875 46 100 acres, situated in town
ship 10 south, range west and township 10
south, range west of the Mt. Diablo meridian.
Also, the following approved township plats
of surveys in the same State: Townships q to
20, inclusive, north, range / 81 to 80, inclu-
sive, north, range 2; 81 and 90 to 20, inclusive
north, range g.; 81 to %, inclusive. north
range 4; q to q, inclusive, north, range 5 :;
Il to 70, inclusive, north, range 6; 81 to Is,
inclusive, north, range Z; 81 to 23 inclusive
north, range s; 81 to %, incloDve, north
range g; and Il north ranges 10 and III. all
east of the San Bernardino meridian, and con-
tanning in the aggregate upwards of 900, 900
acres.
The LULL.-We congratulate Congress upon
the state of quiescence in which the passage Of
the Kansas State bill leaves the nerves of all
the members of both Houses apparently The
unintiated around us must be not q little sur
prised to see the lambs and the lions of the
late furious parliamentary discussions upon
the Kansas question lying down together, as it
were, as in the House hall this morning, where
all were apparently "band of brothers. /"
The truth is, after all, We arc one great nation
with common interests and affections, getting
at loggerheads now and then among ourselves,
but never to such an extent as that we cannot
forget our private or rather international diff.
cultics at the close of such a heated term of
disputation as that over Kansas just concluded.
THE WEArHER.-The following report of the
weather for this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution
The time of observation is about O'Clock a