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The Washington union., 1858-02-20
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nth pr,nella Inerdian
Townships Y, ls TO- and 80, of range
vs~nsAlS II q 70 aud g. q range
Townships 1919, 10 aad 81, q range =.
Townshis 1s r. and sl, q ranges and o
rowu-hirs Ss co. 81 and 81 q range H.
Townships 50, and 81 f IL l3 "a 10 10, ~ u.s. 10,
Tow nshius 70 So and u, Orange q.
rown4h,ps 70 70 and 80 - cs oa range % ss
Townshlps ~ ranges a. 20 30 81,
s2 and SO ~
M .be land oa,ce at ,mlss Aen4s
day q s1s 9. Ss % ", q % s n ss s %
within ix sses each sid q The sorlng
railroad SUBJECT as required es law :"
mIn,aum Of s.sod dollars aud say csat Re,
NORTH ef ne ii~ aad ~sst Ja A pireipo' "e'da"
Tow nshlps os, ~, and 4. q range z
Townships 20, II, and ~ Of ranges and 4
Townships 20, II, ~, and 73, Of range =
townships l, g g aud 3 70 q 9, sssss & = 10 H. y and 10
Townships ~, 7s, and "a q ID
Townships II, ", 73, "a, Of range 10.
Tow ushps H. vi 70. ranges IL, Is, 10, and 20
Township, n..s e a saa AZ 'as e. q y e aaasss ass'
30, 81, 32, and 80
Lands appropria,ca by law m the uso schools rusry
other purposes, be fron, he
The " the railroads viii he
for aid raioads and particular
containing the quantities respectively shown on th onc
Tho oacr, Of tho days
appointed viii proceed the order which they advertised
un the whole
sale shall be kept longer than TWO week. and no private
raj t,on weeks
the Washington this aiteenh day
Jauuay Don thousand eight hundred and EIGHT
JAMFS BlCHtNAN,
Bv the President
THcs.A
oonmss soner Of the General once
NOTICE TO PRE- ENiroS cAmAxr<
Every person the gh, of empon The
townships townships above mentioned
required establish the the satisfaction the register and
land Office. ake therefor
practicable after s,eig This ~ and before the appointed for the
the public alc OF the land embracing the tract
claimed otherwise such claim will be forfeited.
TfI(E a. HENDRICKS,
Commissioner of the General Land O1ice.
Jan 22-ley yswtds Inte&star1
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NEW YORK ADVERTISEMENTS,
wheeler 4 WtlSs~.
MANUFACTURING ooMrASYs nHRovED sEwNs MACHINE.
Yam1 a. xan. .fsssarsrs, and OAos
yJvHESE ma, zines combine all the improvements
.od The uuaniDus appsoysi hs,
cd the pso~ors n warmly reeon.endns them They
have samieay bong 10 test hcm Thoroughly and have
Among that they possess over all others
ii, Beauty and s,mpy eoosuucea and eonleqasn,siou
"a. uaessmled and rsAdiy Of operation.
M e rsmsss.s. PERFECTION IL their s,chg their .p
sy e variety s s q s a .ss.r sss New York and their ..0
m the prine,pal cities othe union
May 2s-I,s
Fashionable Dry Goods In Now York.
A n immense assortment Of sessonable fabrics con,
"A s,antIy On hand also, full and
ATTRACTIVE SUCK Or cARrkIINts
OIL cloths mans rugs, materials lacc eurias,
cornces, window shades &c, ,kc, ~,
MUCH BELOW REGULAR PRSkfi
s,s a,, $50 md .ssS VI al.sa nsa'%s; .,.s.,
Nay ao-iy aud ~ asA - c',Aar'Ds s,re-,
Matthew Hale Smith,
COUNSELLOR LAW.
Rooms 70, n, No. I6 Wall arsN Neto FORK
Aug i5-tft
WHOLESALE PAPER DEAiEfs,
No IL Ct:F aye1 Nep foA,
INVITE thc attention of dealers and consumers to
their large stock Of printing xsas .s wsppns sos ~ r %
May 26--lxs s,tF fa&g sibt assf
Ben. 4 Il. A. WhitleCk = Co.,
Beekmaa Street corner Of Nassae. opposite the Asfor
HOUSE,
,uoiRroas OF rHE PREMIUM CHAMPAIGN. cRssANT cAnNKr
r IMPORTERS of Cogr,ac brandies for druggists and
Hennsssey Tas, Gas
lIon Co. highest rspntstn and ses
prctors celebrated raDdes In the native rcs and narrH
Ccgnsc, viz: fsAl
vney ard Of Chateau Bernard,
iqucnr champs dor,
Superior vineyard, yieux Cnguac.
Also
Exclusive importers Of the
Old Royal Hollands
DurgomAster Srhuapgs,
sherry Madeira and Fcft VINES &C. 60
Ales pcrters and cigars direct from shippers
CiAMrAGNE, cREMANr
HMxEA w. Co. exclusive of this wine asi
ar in receipt or shipments by regular packets and beg he VII,
NAV NOT have given under their guarantee hH
present imported
Rcnj NJ. whit,cck,
Fafx Whiock, .-..-- .
Fredk j. Hayerstick, REN T. A. WHiIiVK 6sn
Oliver ,.i1dgc,
Henry IaMmcycr. .ag
May 26--1y~
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ding signed therefor and tho value thereof therein
COMPLETION of Panama Railroad. tl.-Re,luction
"f farctu CaIt,rnat od States steamships New
York for AspnHn the 9Th and goth f ,ci month, connecting
With mail steamers from Panama Francisco.
These have approved ty the Navy
Department aud guaranty lassf and scfty.
The railroad az miles ons) completed from
ocean baggage passengers
passengers
embarked the expense
money paid in New York all &c trip
Reserve kept in New York Panama and
Francisco accident the
entirely reliable
they
steamer, charge
and children without other protectors.
For through apply agency
Wert street, New York, l. ". RAYMOND
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

The Herald chimes in with and backs up tho n
sertion of Senator Hammond of South Caroin,
that the great mass Of the white people st tn
North-those who work to earn their bread ssi
"have saved no property in adyance-csn hTt
Sin the same category with the slaves Of tho South
1t i. said that the wish is often father to thethOus
and. whatever may be the case with Gov. Hammond,
such we take unquestionably to be, in part asleM'
the origin of The HtraldS readiness to back upM
reacho what the Governor says of Northern VIVA
laborers. The assertion Of that journal that theh
borers Of the North are no better than whltesl'a
or, for that matter, than negro slaves may,
least, be relied on as proof of The Herdtd's mn
and aim to make them SO. Weare justified co..
Guiding that il desires to make slaves Of our NotA
ern white laborers, while its highest ambition IN
Itself is TO crack the whip over them in the cspss
~ of overseer for masters who refuse to rceoyals
on its part any claim Of social equality. pn'
baps however, in judging of the servIe spri
which it ascribes to that great body Of our men
the North who have their own way to make in tn
world The Herald pushes rather too far the prinei'
pie of judging its neighbors by itself. We mus
however, admit that, with these ideas on the sub
ject of white slaves it is quite consistent in i's
yOcacy Of the LecOmpton Constitution.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

The Herald in substance admits that it is our
GoyeInment, not the French, which is to decide
authoritatively whether Col Allsop's alleged com
plitity in the late attempt to destroy Louis Napo-
leon subjects him to extrsdtion. So far, good :
But it persists in affirming that the ofense of Col
Allsop is civil, not political, because there was no
revolution actually in progress-nO general upris-
ing-ro actual war-wheu that ofense was COM
nlitted.
Query: VIII The Herald be good enough 10 say
whether there was or was not revolution or civil
war raging in France " hen Louis Napoleon landed
with ffty-three followers at Bouogne in 1910 from
that ''nest of assassns, England, and commenced
a fight which resulted in at least one death. Sup
pose he had escaped to this country and Louis Phil
lippe had demanded him, would The Herald, with
the law standing as at present have insisted that
he be given I'D,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

and the will Of The majority OF tie ind ydusl 60
uents are ideutlcaD the result lsIote, NAV a,
NO, accord with the will Of this corporate p.eoi ny
this people or a majority Of them may have d.
10 indicate their will under the law.
"But. to all persons who do not rsprser. ths., =.
tsrties IN Their antononie action the result upss,
lar il conclusive. Such persons are borBd 10 fnS ~
will of the corporate people 10 the resulting vote -,
r. recognize no other indication of that wit ~i
But the other sovereign pary-the Unhsd S,,..
or those who represent them 10 this autonomic seu
Cons ress land tie lees so If they made the lawI n, -
thus bound under law. They may regard bett.r =,
depce Of the will Of the party they are conpsts.
Wifi any there be-for here they are sctosoSn.S
"That evidence might be found &c criminal se,s /.
acts OF yiolebce. wrong and Outrage. But liz sA,,s
he NOR. indicative OF the will OF the other party -
ntople of the future State than the vote un:e, h,
Congress may with perfect consistency disreszd 3.
latter
Estoppels, legal fctions, the con'rivances oil
yers by which fact is made to give place 10 {.
sumption, whatever may be their utility 10 lie NJ
Element of private controversies between ndrSA
sls-snd even for this purpose Fhey are h.. a.
inc out of fashon--can have no application 70
case like that of the admission Of Kansas ~.
in which Congress is net acting as judge, bQss
one of the parties ininterest.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

There seems to be some hope that justice Wis
last overtake some of the small fry Of tn f'kr.
nifty of gamblers infestiDg every street d W. F
The policy and lottery ticket vendors, ssn
whom the Mayor has already caused to be arrested
made the best case they could the other day inv
suit Of The People against Jacob Borget. Aha'
full hearing Of argument the Recorder took up
whole body of law bearing upon the case, aud
the close Of thorough examination refused
motion 10 quash the Indictment; which decis'M'
as much as TO say, that no man presumPt'eg
guilty of yioIsting the laws against this species
gambling, shall escape trial by reason Of uuinN
tant omissions in the wording of the statutes, 9a
the indictments. But the inferential effect en-
ruling is its most important feature. l! 800"
that the Criminal Court is ready and willing tod
ecute laws which have been too long disregsrdeA
and that so far as the Recorder is concerned slfA
must follow regular indictment. This esuneOe'
able disposition was further shown yesterday o!'
decision in other cases of the same tenor where y
cape was attempted by pleading technically
Recorder overruling demurrer, and deciding "'
the indictments were properly framed. The c0'f
dinate branch of the Court (tbe City Judge "'
ours in these views, and there will DO no differs
ecis:on next month.
Now if the prosecuting officers aud the poi"
will do their duty, We may hope for seae'
breaking up Of the smallest and yet most dcsr~
tive species Of gambling known in the city. ~,
ably as many as Fifty thousand people, mainly d~
very poorest and most ignorant classes, ere pow
gamblers. Risks are taken for all sums, from :"
cent to thousand dollars the greater numeerPT
ing the small figures of few cents per DAY o''.
far infatuated IS to beg, or even steal, to gel W
means to keep up the exciting swindle' Wv
tenths Of the colored people are constant cu'~-
ers; Thousands Of poor labOrers, womepe' peei.r -.
waste large portion of their small earnings
transparent robbery: and not few citizens % .s
standing owe their ruin to the infstushon'
species Of gambling supports four hiths Of Wv
cslled exchange Offices, while hundreds oil 'ne: a
policy sellers, book in hand, explore d~eni's
shop, TO ply their traffic. If we may ''' !.
| dulse belief that an housst eaor. viii 30 m's' '
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

If we thought comments could add to the force
of the exposure made by Col Harris of the deliber-
ate disregard aud defiance Of the order of the House
by Mr.. A. II. Stephens, and his packed majority OF
the Kansas Investigating Committee, we should
hardly write Of aught else; but the simple record
of propositions and votes submitted By the Chalr-
man Of the Committee is so eloquent that attempts
TO elucidste il would be useless No man of decent
intelligence can read that record and not realize that
the Speaker packed that Committee on purpose TO
stiAe and defeat the investigation ordered by the
House-that the tools were admirably fitted to their
work-ald that the great Barnacle srt-How Not TO
doit-was never more strikingly Illustrated. What
ever the packed majority dared not vote down they
mustered courage to lay on the table. Would tina
every honest man in the country could but be H.
duced to read Col Hsrriss truthful and impress
Awe record
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

The msjority House report, of which summary
was Systematically heteegraph on Wednesday, rests
its advocacy of the LecOmpton Constitution ek-
clusivey ON The ground of apparent regularity 80
far as the record shows, and SO far the Commit
tee chose to look into the natter in the proceed
ings for the formation of that Constitution, whence
the Con mittee' concludes to its absolute binding
force, not only on the people Of Kansas, but on
Congress and tue people Of the United States who,
on the mere face Of the record, without looking
into the facts are bound, according to this report
to accept the LecomPton Constitution as embOdy
ing the will and expressing the wishes Of the PEG
pie OF Kansas.
We have been furnished with the following ex-
tract from forthcoming legal work, now il the
press, in which the question Of the admission Of
new States incidentally arises, and which appears
to US a very conclusive answer, in legal point Of
view, to the grouLd assumed in NJ. Stephens
report
The formation and admission a State Of the
United States is the action OF two parties, two politics
persons, exercising certain powers as sovereign IL Il
al autonOmic contract or agreement above posiuVe
law law in the ordinary sensel, not under 1t.
The will Of one, the new state, Is that OF those
Who in corporate capacity or a. one poitlca person
would become the political people 81 the now state O.
the moment Of its existence. 81
Z" method for sscersiniDg tneE corporae WI
may have been indicated under some law Tor the
exercise of the electoral franchise by the indyldua
constituents its acquisitions may have been compiled
with But iii it ID admitted that the WI 81 tbs psops:
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

So long as there seemed the slightest prospect
that Walker and his flbusters would be able to
establish themselves in Central America, they had
in The n. Y. Times a most hearty advocate. Ii
was only when they were fairly shipped out of the
country they had so generously volunteered to re-
duce from state of anarchy to liberty and good
order, to raise from poverty and misery to higher
point in the scale Of civilization, that The n. 4.
Times at last found out that they were miserable
set of robbers. The zeal which that journal lately
displayed for regenerating Central America BY fill
buster conquest is now bestowed in advocating what
it is pleased to call Mexican protectorate. And
the ground upon which it proposes such protect
crate is precisely the ground, neither more nor less
upon hich it formerly apOogized for and sought to
promote the illibustering operations of Walker.
ave assume" says that journal, " that the
great body of the Mexican population would hail
an American prOtectOrate as welcome escape
g from uuendurabe ills" What are those " I'M
endurable ills 2" Alleged anarchy and frequent
civil war. But since The n. Y. Times itself in
forms US that this state of things has prevailed in
Mexico for thirty years past it would not seem to
be so very uncomfortable" after all. II the Mex;
cans have been able TO endure it for thirty years
past, why may they not continue to endure it for
thirty years to comet AT any rate, the assump-
ton that the Mexicans would hail an American
protectorate is utterly gratuitous. There have
been seine instances in history IN which discom-
fitted faction or an expelled leader had invited
foreign assistance-never an instance in the world
in which the body of people, however they may
have suffered from their own ignorance and inca
pacity or that of their rulers have invited wei
coined foreign protectorate. Nor is there single
act or word ofany constituted representative body
in Mexico, or even Of any influential Individual,
which has the slightest look toward calling in for.
eign rulers, and, least of all, u.s. This very thirty
years of anarchy and civil war which The " Y.
Times throws in the teeth Of the Mexcans has
grown out of the attempt to get rid Of Spanish
protectorate and there is every reason to believe
that the attempt to substitute for it North Amer
lean protectorate would be resisted with no less
pertinacity.
If The n. I. Times will obtain little more
know ledge than it seems at present to possess Of
the population and productions Of Mexico, perhaps
IFS zeal for protecting the Mexicans may be
somewhat sbsted. The statement of that journal
that six Of her seven millions are black" is just
a. baseess ard reckless most of the other s,er
tons by which il attempts to justify its proposed
assumption Of the guardianship OF Mexico. The
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15
Tn. Cincinnati Enquirer, on the 10th day d Ia
March 1sh3 says.

Tn. Cincinnati Enquirer, on the 10th day Vi IA
March, 1853 says;
"u ia objected to tine Lsoomptou Constitutios as
it excludes free negroes ana mnsyss i,om the STA
can Topeka Corst tuition, rhtch has sringeni ~
,ision Of the same ckdy0cter, and does not auo ~
black person to reside IN kdRsds.'
All this was utterly exploded two years ago. ".
have printed the Topeka Constitution at least twice
in full see "a History of the Struggle for Slavery
Re striction y. and there is not one word Of Ii.
" stringent provision in il. And yet, Senston
debate have asserted the contrary uncontrolled
within the last month
The grain Of truth which sustalns this pyramid \
falsehood is this: The Topeka Convention was q.
icited entreated, to vndcate the Free-Sts.e psr.y
from the current Border RuAian taunt that tier
were "nigger-theves," by excluding Free Blsen
f.: m the State By constitutional interdiet. Itp
urged that such sn exclusion would dissbuse .As
People of Missouri and prevent further inyaaon
from that quarter. The Convention refused 10 10
this. but passed instead special resolve that IN
first Stat, Legislature elected under this cOuslia.
ton ,pigM exclude Free Blacks from Kansas they
should, meantime, be instructed by a vote Of as
People to do so. A vote was accordingly takst
simultaneously with that which ratified the Coast
tuition, and majority voted to instruct the LesiaA
ture as proposed The Legislature, however ns'S
did any thing of the kind; so that there is nothing
either in the Topeka Constitution or in any AN
passed under it, WHICH prevents the settlements
Free Blacks in Kansas. Even if the LegisatSs
had passed such an act as was contemplated, ~
subsequent Legislature might have repeated 4
But soothing of the kind, we are confident w
ever DONE and the right to do it under the Iopess
Constitution has now lapsed.
We have probably corrected TINS same m's'aa'
ment several times before. Is there never TO BEN
end Of il ,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

II il "A very sage rule not TO count one csicAehs
before they are Matched. This rule some oil our
contemporaries appear to have forgotten IN tneir
somewha premature Qualifications over the JOINT
French and English occupation of Canton NO
body, after the experience OF the former Augio-
Chinese war, had the slightest doubt that Canton
might easily be taken by small body OF European
troops. The French and English allies have as
vet achieved nothing beyond what everybody had
marked out for them. But to conclude from the
occupation of Canton, that the Chinese puzzle Is
solved; that the Chinese will henceforth cease to
regard the rest of the world as outside barbarians
that they will become incontinently reconcied 10
the opium trade; and that before another summer
has passed away foreign embaesaders may be re-
siding at the Imperial Court; certainly the GROUND
upon which these conclusions are arrived seems 10
be sufficiently slight. After having seen so many
cities in the very heart of the empire occupied
within few years past by rebels, the Imperial
Court seems not very likely to be brought so SUD
denly to terms by the mere occupation oy outside
barbarians of single distant frontier city and that
not of the first rank Meanwhile, what are the
French and English to DO with Canton now they
have got it To take it was easy; to plumber
il by means Of forced contributions will not be
difficult but after it is plunaered what thea
Efforts were made to induce the civilized worlf to
forget the atrocious and dsgraceful origin of the
first Anglo Chinese war by large promises OF the
benefits which trade, civilization aud Christianity
were to derive from it. Those promises have all
proved iusory, and now second war has been
undertaken in order to realize what the first failed
to accomplish. The conquest of Canton is not
however, the conquest of China. II five thousand
troops are sufficient for the capture and occupation
of that city, Canton it is to be recoected is but
one, and one Of the most assailabe, of many hun
bred cities, the occupation of which in Like manner
would require many hundred thousand troops
Little skilled as the Chinese in the art OF war
personslly they are no contemplate advers,rle'
and the climate is an auxiliary which would very
rapidly thin the ranks of European army. Will
India to reconquer and occupy, the English are Lo'
likely to have many men to spare for couquest-oi
China; and az to a Joint French and English con.
quest, not only would that be novelty in history
but the present position Of Napoleon III. and his
relations to the English people are not very favor
able to such an enterprise.
1t remains still to be seen whether the 0ccupa'
ton of Canton has improved or has damaged the
position of outside barbarians in China. Fsom the
obstinacy thus far shown by the Chinese, there
does not appear any strong reason to expect that
the loss of this single city will break their spirit,
overcome their prejudlces, or lead to any material
change in that policy of restricted intercourse with
foreigners upon which they have always acted.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15

proportion Of "black people in Mexico IS even less
than in the State Of New-York. That portion OF
the Mexican population which IS not Of European,
i, mainly Of Indian blood. But this, according to
the doctrine laid down in the bred Scott case, does
not afford any ground fer reducing the ae1icans 10
Slavery il being only persons Of African descent
who are obnoxious to that condition. But even
though this difficulty could be got rid Of the antic'
patton Of The ~ \. Tunes of ian immensely valu-
liable trade for ourselves and Europe could
hardly, under any circumstances, be realized
Mexico has silver Zines but the ore is very poor,
and the silver can only be procured By an exPendi
ture of labor which, on the average, leaves but
small margin for profits. In an agricultural point
of view, Mexico holds only secondary rank. she
suffers extremely from drouth A large part OF her
surface is rendered incapable of cultivation from
this cause alone; while even in those parts which
can be cultivated, the crops are often precsnous.
The best part Of Mexico is on the high taoleAnd oil
the interior; and here the distance from the coast
and the difficulties OF transportation make 1t lmpos-
sble to raise crops to be exported out OF the
country. The Mexcans always must continue 10
live very much within themselves, nor 10 there any
thing in the country which could ever enable 1t,
under any circumstances, to assume leading mer-
csIte position.