Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-05


ing In the Businesses Of the Great Basin, are as
sumed to amount to the unexpected numbers of
some 10000 Indian souls. There In a country
Northeast and South Of Carson valley very little
known 10 the United States, or even trappers and
traders. We hear that Lieut. Ives has not arriv-
ed at Fort Yuma, and fears are entertained for
his safety. This expedition will be Of great
value I'm results to the government.
think these Mormons ought to be shipped of
to the island of New Guinea, at the expense of
Uncle sam. There is an inland continent there,
and Utah in the mountains, and they can find
against the Darkey tribes whose hair hangs in
bites-called by naturalsts the Horaforas. They
can turn sailors, traders, sugar planters, Mahom-
In peace with US They are race of essential
Arab blackguards. should not be surprised to
see them turn American Bedouins.
Ii the President wants to zee what Arizona Is in
mines let him get Prof Bal d to read to him the
chapters In Veneea's History Of California, 1857,
on the Jesuit accounts of Sonora in 100. He
will there see that the Alta Pimeria (Gadsden
purchase) Is a storehOuse Of silver lkened to Po-
tosi. They said 157 years ago that they found
silver existing pure In masses. The Territory is
immensely rich beyond doubt in silver, the
new American mining companies 90 to show l
think in ten years it win furnish fifty millions
probably hundred millions of silver year, and
that ii will take two minis to work up their
metal into dollars 1t is as rich as California,
mark my word. The Presidents message will
be of immense advantage to the settlers there
The Alta California of the last month contains
great deal of useful news about the country.
great scandal in California, and IL wants thorough
Searching out. | should think the President
might find three honest Democrats to probe the
matter to the bottom. There have been too manv
Dutchmen in that mint, as all California says. |
has caused great scandal to our party
If you ever get the opportunity with the Presi
dent tell him | take the liberty TO say that the
people of California will hold his hands up during
the coming struggle, until the storm of paper
money, Mormon treachery, and Kansas craZiness
passes. We are in our once In four years crazy
fevers, but good doctors and mild medicine will
bring the patient round. Nature must have its
perfect work and we must govern and hurry
things like magnetism does the wires. The
President has endeared himself TO the people of
the Pacific by his just and patriotic public senti-
ments and acts. ! hope God may spare his life
many years. and that he will retire from public
affairs with the country quieted and his country
men rising up to bless his name as follower of
the eternal principles of Democratic conservative
policy Of Washington and Jackson.
Yeurs, in great haste, MN
A FAILURE.-Yesterday, the opponents of
the admission of Kansas into the Union as
State under the Lecompton constitution en-
deavored to engineer through the lower house
of the Pennsylvania Legislature, at Harris
burg, resolutions instructing Senator Bigler to
vote against the introduction of the Territory
into the Union under that instrument. But
they were defeated by a majority of twelve
Had they proved victorious we should never
have heard the last of the fact from the Re-
publican party and fshy Democratic presses
As the matter stands, however, they will of
course be rs mute as mice on the subject
Senator Bigler has fairly won a very high posi-
ton here as public man, and in this action of
the Legislature of Pennsylvania the sensible
reader will perceive a manifestation of the
confidence of his constituents in him, such as
is rarely accorded in these days of bunkum
State legislation.
NAVAL lNTELLIGENCE.-TheN Navy Depart
ment are in receipt of dispatches, bearing date
January A, which announce the arrival Of the
steamer Saranac at Pernambuco, after ten
days sail from Rarbadoes. All on board we'll.
The Saranac was to sail for Rio Janeiro about
the 10th Of January.
THE CONTEMPT CAsE.-We hear that Mr.. J
d. Williamson, of New York, the alleged con-
tumacious witness before one of the inyestga.
ting committees, is prepared to purge himself
from all suspicion of intended contempt of the
authority of the House.
APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICES OF THE PEAcE-
No. up -
.heSSrs. HehIy nee'er' 'ohh u. clark, ana
John III. Goddard, have been reappointed JUS
tices of the Peace for the District of Columbia,
and were confirmed by the Senate on the 81
! instant.
Ahh "EAIh EN- NC ioiio"ing report OF the
weather for this morning is made from the Morse
Teloaronb limo 70 IN. Sn;,b,o,;. I,.;....;
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1ne llHe oi opserSatlon Is aDoutS clock q m
FEBRUARY 5, 1858
Buffalo, n. Y............. clear, cold
New York, N. Y......... clear cool
Philadelphia, Pa......... cloudy, cool
Baltimore, Md ............clOudy cool
Washington, d. C......... cloudy, cool
Richmond, Va ............ cold raining
Petersburg, Va ........... snowy wet
Norfolk, Va showing, hail rain
UiiInS 'on' 'C'.'......ciouay, coid
coiuiilDla, .c''.'.......ciouay coid.