Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-07-19

These sales, presume, were confirmed at the |
cums;ances by an individual acting as trustee be |
confirmed by any court in the land
IL does not appear that any Of the officers or
hut IL Is almost impossible resist the suspicion
that some Of them did do so in an Indirect way.
This of the Delaware lands is used here |
for an example-not because IL is isolated one,
but because IL happened to recur to the writer
mrmory as he is Informed that few public sales
take place at which armed Spectators do not
drive away those who desire TO purchase and
improve -
Now, as the present Administrator of the Gen.
eral Government has determined that IL HI s
power TO order detachments OF the Army to any
point where the proper execution OF the law is
DISTRACTED, would 1t not benefit honest pre-emT-
toner's relieve the Government officers from un-
jest suspicion and secure the rights OF the cltizen
who bids with a view to settlement, TO have
few troops present avery public sale Of land, TO
that these squaters. who are nothing else but
armed specu lators, do not, with bowie knife ara
revolver, deter those who desire land for settle
msnt from bidding. The presumption laws, Of
course, will reserve from sale the lands OF the
honest settler In the explanations that were
published about the Fort-Snelling purchase, II
was said the sQuatteTs were opposed to the Gov
eminent selling land for more than dollar ana a
quarter an acre; yet | never heard that these
squatters had any qualms OF conscience about ex-
orting from the actual settler the largest price
ttey can get. IL is we'll known that there are al
ways lands open TO settlement at the Government
price, but these either sterile or distant from
market, and he who buys and cnltivates them
gives years of labor TO Increase the value of the
beter-located tracts that have been seized by the
ruttian hand; thus making the industrious citizen
who guides the pillow tributary TO him that Yields
| the bowie knife. CLAY.
| SLIGHTLY INCoRRECT.-A story is travelling
around in the newspapers, to the effect that
- the ladies of the Mount Vernon Association"
| have solicited the services of Mr.. George O..
| Thorburn, of Newark, N. j., to take charge of
the premises. 1t can be little more than puff
of the Mr.. Thorburn aforesaid, who is probably
unknown to nearly everybody concerned in the
current effort to raise the purchase price of the
portion of the estate which Mr.. John A. Wash
ington proposes to ALLEVIATE to the ladies when
they succeed in raising the money! remote
contingency, apparently, at present. The story
wears very much of the air of an effort to hum
bug the Mr.. Thorburn, or the public, by way
| Of giving him notoriety.
DIPLoMATIC.-M. Blondel, appointed by the
| Belgian Government to succeed III. De Bosch
| Spencer, who was appointed Minister to Tur,
key, has since been named to Sardinia, and i,
is not improbable that this arrangement may
detain Mr.. Spencer in this country.
Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister, having
received permission of absence from this coun
try, will leave for Europe in the course of few
days for his family, with whom he will return
| in autumn.
THE MEXICAN MINIsrER.-It is now asserted
that Minister Forsyth has been instructed tC
withdraw the legation from Mexico and return
home, and that Mr.. Henry, of the Army, i,
bearer of dispatches to him.
| NAvAL.-The U. S. storeship Supply sailed
from Rio Janeiro for New York June g.
The WEATHBR.-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.