Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-31

Republican on the Lecompton question, we |
make the above quotation which tells the tale |
of the work their Representatives are now en-. |
gagged in, and the political company they keep,
more forcibly than can be explained by our pen. |
FoRr DEFIANCE AND MoHARE RIVER Wac.
OK RoAD.--We stated, yeste rday, that the War |
Department is in receipt of communication |
from Lit. Edward F. Beale, Superintendent of
the survey of the Fort Defiance and Mohave
Wagon Road, bearing date January 23d, 1858,
at Colorado river The following is an extract
from that letter, and is all of public interest
which it contains:
81 left Los Angeles on the 10th Of January and
was furnished by General Clark with an escort
OF dragons as far as this river, whence they re-
turned to Fort TETON With the aid OF Captain
Johnson, who kindly placed the steamer Jesup
at my disposal, nv entire party was transported
over the river at one time. The mules Were then
swan over without loss, and the same evening
we left the river on our homeward journey
81 brought with me camels, laden with grain
for my mules, and should have made nv return
on them this winter, but the threatening appear
ance Of our affairs with Utah has determined me
10 leave them where they may he needed in the
spring. shall, therefore, send them hack with
my. clerk and leave them In his charge assisted
by three or four men, until they wanted on
service again. Determined to test their ability to
| stand cold and snow, placed them in a small
valley near the summit of the Sierra Nevada. i'm
mediatelv on nv arrival here The have been
in the snow almost ever since and fattened every
day. ---...
"On one occasion the wagon employed in
hauling provisions to the camp-a strong six
| mule team-waS completely blocked up with
| snow and ice at a long distance from camp. The
camels were Immediately dispatched, aud six of
them taking the load returned tn roug h the snow
although the mules were not able TO haul in the
empty wagon. On the present journey the ice
| has formed every night to the thickness Of an
inch I'm water vessels and Vet they seem per-
| fecty Indifferent to it, Yesterday it rained
| heavily, rendering the ground very muddy and
slippery, but found they Travelled through it
quite as easily as our mules, though much more
| heavily ladened.
| :" hope to report to you In person in the early
| part OF March, and have undertaken this winter
Journey in order that no part Of The work entrusted
| to me should be negectt d, and that the practical
| bility of the road for winter summer transit
should BIZ fully tested and proven"
| The CoSFIRMATIoNs.-Long SINCE we mott
fed the Stars readers that the Presidents
nominations for this District would be duly
confirmed, notwithstanding tho prognOstica-
tiOns of the letter writers in the cases of some
of them. Final action upon them was deayed
until yesterday, for the most part by and through
the absorption of the Senate in the engrossing
subject of Kansas. We drew the conclusion
mentioned first above, from the fact that the
nominations were good ones; though the most
ardent friends of those who sought to be, but
were not, nominated, to the places, of course
thought them execrable; as disappointed ger
tlemen always do in such cases
| Apropos.-We perceive that the Democratic
press of Pennsylvania universally speak in the
highest terms of the appointment of their form
er fellow citizen, Mr.. William Finn, to be the
Navy Agent here, which tells we'll for his stand
ing in the Keystone State, whence he removed
to Washington city many years since.
We quote, below, two of their late notices of
his appointment, as follows
| Mr.. VIM. Finn, formerly of Pittsburg but
| who has for several years resided in Washington
| city, has been appointed Navy Agent at that port
! During the last campaign Mr. Finn took an act
| i've part for Mr.. Buchanan, whose friend he has
been for years His appointment is hailed with
! much satisfaction by his numerous friends in AL
| lhgheny county -PitsbuTg Post
| Among the recent appointments of the Presi-
dent there is no that has ELECTED more pleas
ure among those who know him, than that Of
| ashington. A PENNSYLVANIA an old and tried
friend of the President-and a Democrat without
| spot or blemish, his preferment is Just tribute
.oa gentleman who has many friends in his IA
| tive State who rejoice at his success If the
President has been fortunate in the ba lance of
his appointments in the District, the public will
have no cause to complain Erie ObSeTrer.
The CONTEMPLATED FRAUD UPON THE RE-
cUSANT SOUTH AMERICANs.-Our Republican
party exchanges are now coming to us replete
with articles showing that their friends in the
House design cheating such of the South Amer
lean members as they can persuade to aid their
efforts to defeat the Kansas State bill Thus
the Republican party members propose to vote
for the Crittenden amendment, which proposes
to permit the people of Kansas to determine for
themselves on their own institutions at future
day. Though they will vote for it, there is
an evident understanding among them to scout
the obligation upon them it involves to admit
Kansas into the Urion with pro-slavcry Con-
stitutiOn, if such she should choose under Mr.
Crittenden's proposed law if enacted
In plain English their effort is simply to use
: South Americans as so many catspaws to draw
: from the fire the chestnuts-their prospect for
success in 1860, which must be dinglng way
unless they succeed in making Kansas an Abo-
lition State, virtually by action of Congress
CANAL BOARD CAUCUs-The new Board
Of Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, or rather a majority of them, held
a caucus in the city Of Baltimore, and agreed
upon the following gentlemen as officers of the
Company:
w. S. Rnggold, (the present incumbcnt) as
Clerk; Hon. Mr.. Hoffman, Treasurer, j. g.
Stone, General Superintendent Horace Ben
ton, VIM. p. Allnutt, Leon Benton, A X.
Stake, l.. G.. StanhOpe, Lloyd, and Lowe, Divi.
sion Superintendents; j. McH. Hollingsworth.
Collector at Georgetown; j. Richard, at Will
Transport; W. Wells at Hancock. and John u
Shaw, at Cumberland.
TIE 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 q. m :
MARCH 81, 1862.
| New York, N f......... clear, warm.