New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-01-27
More Points from tho General Land once.

The commissioner Of the general land
Office has written the following letter to w.
r. Green, a banker Of Bangor, OAK:
In reply to your letter of the 9Th inst,
desiring to be informed as to my "aims and
purposes" in my late rulings. you are adj
vised that propose to execute the laws as
they stand. Entrymen of public lands are
required to comply with the con-
ditions prescribed by law. Their entries
must be confirmed by this Office before
patent can issue. The action OF the regis
ter and receiver in the acceptance OF proofs
and issuing certificates is preliminary only
not final nor conclusive, but subject to re-
view and final action by this office and de-
partment. Conveyances, after final entry
and the issue OF receivers receipt, are al
lowable and legal as between the parties,
but purchasers before patent take their own
risk. The government has the right, and
may cancel an entry for fraud, illegality or
Noncompliance with the law. These are
not innocent purchasers and have never
been SO treated in the practice or decisions
OF the departments or by the courts. For
your further information upon this point
you are referred to the decision OF Secretary
Teller in the case Of c. P. Cogsm ell, 3 L. D.,
70. lido notproposet to conform fraudulent
entries if / knew them to be SO, and do
propose to find out those which are honest
found otherwise, and have honest entries
patented and fraudulent Cancelled.
Information having been received at the
general land Office that settlers in Dakota
are requested by clerks of courts and local
ohcers to make proof in duplicate, thus
involving them in double expense Commits
sioner Sparks instructed the register and
receiver at Aberdeen that this practice is
without authority, and must be forthwith
discontinued, and money illegally collected
be refunded to the settlers.
Gen. Halleck's Enmity to General Grant.
Army officers here who know the secret
OF the bitter hostility that between
Gen. Grant and Gen. Halleck say that
when Gen. Mcclellan 8 private war papers
are made public profound sensation will
De created and the hatred OF Grant for
Halleck will be no longer a mystery. An
officer who has seen the documents pre-
served by Gen. Mcclellan says:
On Feb. 16, 1862, Gen. Grant sent his
famous unconditional surrender to Gen.
Buckner at Fort Donelson The news of
the surrender had thrilled the North from
one end to the other. Gen. Halleck, then
at st. Louis, was troubled at the great re-
nown SO suddenly attained by his subor-
dlnate officer. Two days after the surren-
der McClellen telegraphed as follows to
Halleck: 'tWhere is Grant? George B Nc
Clellen, major general commanding" The
same day Gen. McClellen received the fol
lowing: "Gen. George B. McC1elen, Wash
lngton: In answer to your question, would
say Grant is somewhere in the rear OF the
army drunk. H.W Halleck, Major General
VI course what Mcclellan desired to know
from his question was the whereabouts OF
Grants forces. The reply OF Halleck was
all the more inexcusable from the fact that
Grant had kept him constantly posted OF
his aims and plans, and on that very day
had telegraphed Haleck that he proposed
to go ahead on a gunboat and reconnoiter
the river in the direction OF Nashville and
his army would follow. Gen. Mcclellan
kept the originals OF all his dispatches and
certified copies were made for the war de-
partment. Three or four years ago Gen.
Grant read these original dispatches, which
was the first intimation that he had ever
had that they were in existence.