The Shasta courier., 1855-01-20
EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM THE
ATLANTIC STATES!

slips from the San Francisco Herald and Marrs.
vile Express Extra, containing the news
brought by the join L. Stephens
Rhodes & Co.were thefirst on hand with files
of late Atlantic papers.
The Committee Territories in the House
| have agreed unanimously to make favorable
report upon the Senate bill of last session to es
tablish subterranean line of magnetic .tele-
graph to California.
The Pacific Railroad BILL having been again
postponed by Mr.. McDougal until the second
week in January, will probably be taken up at
that time; but it will not pass.
When it has become perfectly apparent that
the Railroad bill must fail, the delegation are
prepared 10 bring forward, and urge the imme-
diate passage of a bill 10 make Wagon Road
across the plains, and to protect it by Military
Posts This measure will have more chance of
success, although fear it will fail ALSO
Mr.. Latham has made an elaborate and able
| report from the Committee on Public Lands. in
favor of extending the California Land, Commits
Son, OF which | enclose copy. AS you will
perceive ihe report gives graphic history of
this Commission heretofore. "a summary STATE
ment of labor, and compares it with the opera
tions of previous Commissions of the same cha
! racier. The comparison is a very favorable one
To lhe+Cahiornia Board. There is no doubt of
| the success of the bill.
Postmaster General Campbell has notified the
Pacific Mail Steamship COMPANY that unless
they will give a weekly mail service to Califnr
ma tor the S750,000 per annum they now re-
celve for semi-monthly service he will use all
his influence TO get the contract repealed bv
Congress at lis present session. Present appear
ances ale that the Company will not Weld to
this demand. The California delegation will
doubtless sustain the Department
The House yesterday, on Mr.. Latham's mo-
ton, adopted an amendment appropriating
s225,0o0 in the Indian Appropriation bill for
California Indian purposes-to remove the Indi-
ans, settle and civilize them.
Mr.. Mace, of Iowa. has given notice of n Rill
10 prohibit slavery in Kansas and Nebraska
Upon this, renewal of the slavery discussion
has arisen but 1t does not promise much inter
est or excitement.
Lieut.. Col. Steptoe, of the T. S Army. has
been nominated to the Senate as Governor of
Utah, IN place of Brigham Young. He is al
ready at Salt Lake City in command of de-
tachnent of U. s. troops, destined for service in
California or Oregon. 1t some time since
found convenient to order Col. Steptoe to win
ter at Salt Lake. doubtless with view 10 hav-
ing his troops on the spot, if their aid should be
found necessary to maintain the authority of
Brghams successor The nomination will
probably be confirmed without delay, and it is
now believed the Mormons will not hesitate To
accord the new Governor prompt obedience
notwithstanding all of Youngs blasphemy
about being Governor himself until God All.
mighty should tell him he 'needent be Cover
nor any longer.'
Mr.. Shields has reported to the Senate. from
the Committee on Military Affairs, very i'm
portant bill for the increase and reorganization
of the Army, of which enclose comprehep-
sive synopsis. The bill provides for four new
regiments OF Infantry, and two of Cavalry and
adds ten First Lieutenanis to each regiment of
Infantry and Cavalry, besides making many
other very striking changes. The feeling in
Congress seems to be decidedly in favor of some
such measure although it may be modified in
its details. The bill increases the pay of officers
to the following rptas, to wit: Of Major Cen
eral, 1868 per month; Brigadier General. Sl65:
Colonel, 1876; Lient. Colonel. $l15; Major sos;
Captain Cavalry, $S5; Captain Artillery and
Infantry, S75; lst Lieut. Cavalry, sos; lst It.
Artillery and Infantry, $57 2d 1t. Cavalry. S55:
Cadet, S33 Paymasfer General and Surgeon
General same as Colonel The bill also provides
Tor retired list.
Money is worth from one and half IN three
per cent. IN Wall street on sixty days paper. and
nothing dong at any rates on longer time
resolution TO send a steamer to the Arctic
Seas In search OF DR.. Kane adopted. A bill
creating new department, that of the Depart
ment OF the Law, was discussed. bill was
also passed appropriaiing $64 900 to the relief Of
the heirs of Major General Wool
The New York Herald. under the mysterious
heading of X. N. N. O.--U s., says:
We beg leave to Inform our readers and the
public that arrangements have already been ef-
fected in the ranks OF the Know Nothings. both
IN New York and Virginia, which render morally
certain the defeat of Seward for the U. S. Sem
| ate by our new Legislature, and also the defeat
OF Wise9 the Democratic Cabinet candidate for
Governor of Virginia.