Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-16


The TEnCASTEPEc RnurE.-A few days ago
we took occasion to refer TO the arrangements
proposed for the establishment of line Of COM
munication across the lsthmus of Tehuantepec
with the Pacific coast. We have now great sat
isfaction in stating that an agreement has been
entered into by' the Tehuantepec Company of
this State, and party ofcontractors resident in
Ohio and New York, for the transportation of
passengers, mails and freight over the road now
in the process of construction across the 18th
mus the contractors to cause to be constructed,
with dispatch, the necessary carriages for pas
sengerS, each carriage TO be capable of carving
eleven to fourteen persons comfortably and con-
lyeniently, with well-furnished cushioned seats
and protected against the weather and the ne
cesSary wagons for baggage, mails and specie
the carriages and wagons TO be ready at the cas-
tern terminus of the Tehuantcpec Road on or
before the 9th of February next
The contractors are also to provide the ne
ceSsary horses or mules TO be ready for service
at the same time and the necessary stables and
stations along the route, and the attendants re
quired to operate them. They alse stipulate to
carry such passengers, mails, baggage and trea-
sure, as they may be required to do by the Com
pany, at speed of not less than five miles an
hour, including stoppages. and to be response
Die for the safe conveyance of the same and to
be always ready to do this service ON the reeu-
/ Lar arrival of the steamers of the Company
They also agree to give security for the nerfor-
nance of their contract, and to increase their
facilities OF transportation as the increase of
business shall render such increase of facilities
necessary, upon due notice from the COMPANY
In consideration of these agreements on the
part OF the contractors, the Company guaran-
tees to them the exclusive right of performing
this service, and that the road shall beresdy for
its performance on the day named. The two
parties TO the contract also enter into certain
agreements as to the rates of transportation,
and the apportionment of the profits accruing
from the undertaking.
We hail this arrangement rs large and i'm
portant step in the right direction.-M. o. Pie.
KASsAs Nkws-By Yesterdays mails NC have
Kansas adyices upto Dec. Sd.
| The sale of the Delaware trust lands at Leay-
enworth created some excitement at first among
the speculating community, but the s11ntters
monopollze the sale of the best lands Many of
the capitalists have left without making very
extensive Investments on account Of the high
rates IS hieh they are knocked down. at The
| Governor has disbanded the militia organized
under his administration. Colonel Titus reports
that himself and the most of his company will
leave st. Louis on the fifteenth for Nicaragua.
Captain Walkers company remain in Lawrence
as the most OF them are residents of the place
think it is becoming more quiet in Southern
Kansas, as hear no, complaints from that vici-
NIFTY. Geary seems inclined to do justice to the
| frce-state men.
Some of the papers are rife with denuncia-
ton concerning his course towards Lecompte
aud Donaldson. Thirty-seven of the free-state
prisoners made their escape from Tecu,nseh by
breaking through the wall, and several have es-
capped from Lccomptsp, reducing the number
down TO nineteen, seventeen of which are those
convicted to five years imprisonment There
are large number ofindictments pending for
those who were engaged at the battle of Frank
lIn Free state men arc picked up here and
there, just as the deputy maishais take fancy.
The weather is ycryscold, with snow on the
ground.