The weekly Placer herald., 1854-01-28
New PROPOSALS To CARRY THE MAILS
HyrwrrN ruR ATLANTIC SrATIs AND

New PROPOSALS To CARRY THE MAILS
BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC STATES AND
CALlFoREIA.-In rep y to the proposals
asked for by the Postmaster General, F..
Mills, citizen Of New York, We |
known from his connection with steamers,
offers to carry the u. :. Mails for six
wears after the lSt of October, 1854, from
New York, by Char eston, GfpracticabI-)
~avannah and Havana, to \spinwall and
back, twice Il month, tor $500, 200 a year;
from New York to Asp'nwall direct,
twice month, for $4,000; from New
York, by Havana, to New Or cans aud
back, twice a month, for &95, 200; from
New Orleans to AspinwaIl direct and
back, twice month, tor 100000. A. G..
Sloo and Arnold Harris offer to carry the
mails from New Orleans, via lSthmus of
Tehualitepec, to San Francisco and back
twice a month, for s75O,O0O. w. c
TempIrton, in hehaIf Of himself and the
Accessory Transit Company, offer to car
ry the Mails from New York and New
Or cans to San Francisco, via Nicaragua,
and back, twice month, for 100000
The price at present paid for the service
is s6Ss,25 +. Mills wi ! convey the
mails from Panama, 10y San Diego, Mon
serey, San Francisco, Port Ortort,, etc :,
70 Astoria and back, twice month, for
826S,OOO. The steamers proposed to be
used are Of the first class. Of course
Congress has no right to take away their
contracts from the present companies
carrying the mails, but the Government
has y right, according TO agreement, to
take the mail steamers at 4 valuation, and
thus close the contract. Then the steam
srs may be either sold or su, other dis
position he made of them as NAV br
thought best and the contract to convey
the mails may be reawArded TO the low
est bidder 1t WAS to ascertain for what
the mail service cou d be performed, in
the event of the United States conc uding
to take the steamers, that the Postmaster
General WAS ordered by the last Con-
Rress to advertise for those proposals.
IMPORTANT DEclsIor-The State of
California having app led to re ec., Ms
seminary lands, under an act of Congress,
passed third of March, 1853, ''the mission,
Of San Luis Rey, and the lands appurte
nant theretO," the commissioner of the
general land Office has decided against the
HppIlcAtOf, on Inc RTOullu tuat TIC IaI1lS
thus proposed 10 he selected are covered
by claim now before the Board of Land
Commissioners in California, and are in
consequences reserved, aud NOT subject To
such location; for the reason that the sec
Ond act cOntenplates only the selection of
improved. agricultural lands, md cannot
10 considered as embracing valuable i'm
provemen,r, if such exist, as is believed,
1t this mission. We have satisfied our
self from Ca tornians that the improve
nents on the lands Of this mission are
worth s5O,000.- Washington Star.
REvENUE AcT.--Several petitions have
been circulated in this city, praying for
the repeal Of the revenue law Of the last
legislature. They have received nnmer-
ous signatures Objection, however, hat
been taken to the wording OF the docu-
ment. We have reaxons 70 believe thai
the merchants Of Stockton viii Z they de.
sire the removal OF the license tax, dc
not object to that on consigpsd goods
'stachtoa Repu6lissa.