Nebraska advertiser., 1862-03-13
Nebraska City corresponding.

snow fakes hurting through the air, show
that our present month of March has
been correctly named. He certainly
presents a rough and warlike appearance
and should his clustering continue these
twenty days, we shall right sing
The winds Of March are humming,
Their parting song, their parting songs
And Summer skies are Ginning,
And days grow long, and days grow long"
Should the splendid victories Of the
last month be followed up, and fresh lau-
rels be added to the army of the Union,
as we confidently expect, during the next
thirty days, the God of War, will have
established his claim Of protection and
rights to rule the month. And now that
the great plan conceived alike in the spir-
it of humanity, and in accordance with
the ~profoundest knowledge of military
skill, is beginning to unfold itself, we
may with assurance anticipate results that
will make glad the heart of every
true friend of the Union. We may ex-
pect the next few weeks big with events,
Our recent brilliant triumphs were but
the beginning Of the end indications of
the still more glorious results just in
reach. Il was beftting and proper that
the great heart of a loyal and generous
people should celebrate these victories
with "bonires i~lluminatIons and every
appropriate demonstration of thanksgiv-
ing and rejoicing"
Our city presented a brilliant appear
ance on the evening Of the 22d in honor
of the birthday of Washington, and in
celebration of the splendid victory at Fl.
DOnelsOn. Nearly every house in the
city was illuminated, and the streets and
places of public resort seemed to vie with
each other in the brilIiancy of their trans
pa~rencies. Hon. VIM. H. Taylor read
the farewell address of Washington, pre-
faced by some most judicious and appro-
pirate remarks. Judge Holly delivered
the Grafton, doing full justice TO the Oc-
casion.
You may have noticed in the NeUs a
few weeks since, an exceedingly silly,
and hatulent epistle, written by"our DEL
egate from his seat in the exterior De-
partment at Washington in which, with
his accustomed vanity, he affects to take
all the odium attached to the false en-
try of the Saline lands of Nebraska
There is no more doubt Morton was privy
TO the fraud and collision, than that be
committed a d~astardly act of rascality
and meanne in his abortive attempt
TO enter saline lands, through his hired
man, Bill Prey. But whether his ca
p%acious shoulders are capable of receiv-
ing all the blame is a matter of question
Happily tie ini1uity is being ventilated,
and to no other man are the people of
Nebraska % much Indebted for exposing
the fraud as TO Hon. VIM H. Taylor of
this city. 1t happened on this wise
Among the large numbers that went
from this section of the country last sea-
son to gather salt at the mines, Geo. P.
West, Esq. a wealthy farmer living in
this vicinity, made a trip, and was SO
well pleased with the prospect, that upon
his return, be desired Mr.. Taylor to en-
ter into partnership with him in the man
ufacture of salt, Mr.. T. to advance mon
ney in the purchases.of furnaces, boilers,
and other materials, adding that they
"would be obliged to lease the lands of
Morton" Taylor at once replied that
Morton had DO right to lease of Min
eral Lands in Nebraska-that all min
eral lands ere expressly reserved by the
Government, and hat he thought West
must be mistaken in Morton's setting up
a claim to them. But to be assured of
the facts in the case, he Immediately Wis
tied the land Office, and found to his sur
prise, that Morton did CLAIM a portion of
them. He At once made affidavit that
he believed them to be salt lands, and
the Department at Washington ordered
the entries cancelled, in all cases where
the patents had not yet been delivered.
In a recent letter Of the Secretary Of the
Interior, 1 find the Commissioner re-
ports (:
eleven tracts. all situated in township
Ten north, Of range six east, in Nebraska,
have been represented to the department
is Saline Lands. The information not
been received through local land
Administration channels, yet from a re-
source"
The Commissioner further says:
The Secretary desiring my views on
his question, l have the honor to recon-
mend that the Surveyor-G General of Kan
;as-N Nebraska be directed to take up all
he field notes Of the surveyors in Ne
1raska, and make out from the same di.
exhibiting all saline tracts" by
egal subdivisions, and furnish copies of
such TO this, and the local Office, where