New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-02
FROM WASHING TON.
Correspondence Of The N. Y, Tribune.

Corespondense OF The N. T. Tribune'
WASHINGTON, June 80, 1861.
The overland California mail contract has taken
a new turn. The remarkable arrangement be.
tween the Postmaster. General and Mr.. Birch for
a weekly mail from San Antonio TO san Diego, for
$l50,000, excited the Presidents attention. and
he sent for all the papers, and took charge of tho
whole subject. The San Antonio contract 70
mains suspended until the Presidents decision shall
be given. The Government has the advantage Of
the best advice and the most complete information
rom interested and disinterested parties. The
President regards the service provided for by tho
late law as of national Importance and must nats
ally conclude that it belongs to a central route.
1t surely would be absurd and grossly unjust b
divert this great national service to an extreme Nc
tional route over region Of dead mems journsys"
and plains without water or grass, equally abhor
rent to men and beasts. The law authorizing the
establishment of this line cOntemplates two objects
First, the promotion of rapid and regular inter.
course between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and
secondly, the encouragement of settlement. II is
an admitted fact that emigration from Texas itself
and from the very neighhOrhOOd of San Antonio has
always, without any exception, sought the central
route from st. Louis, via the South Pass and Salt
Lake. That is, Texan emgrants voluntarily make
Journey of 1000 miles nOrthwardy to get good
starting point for their western journey.
|. The mail is to accommodate correspondence and
business. st. Louis is considerably south Of the
center of business, yet the North, which support
the Post Office is willing to take that as starting
point for the California mail, and to 20 straiEa
westward If this main trunk line is located on snj
parallel south of this natural highway, it will bei
pure donation to sectional fanaticism and poitcd
favor ha bo torh vf M
Northern States; no mail will be conveyed over i;
and in the end an additional appropriation Of tho
same amount as is now provided by law, will b
required to maintain the real all service over tho
central route now cOntenaed for.
The statistics of letter-writhg, newspaper publ.
cation, mail conveyance and hostages paid ant
collected will show the Justice of the claim in behaf
of the central line. The Northern States writ
(date of 1867 9S,S50,374 letters in year; tt'
District of Columbia, S9l, 900; and the Southers
States, 81, 7O9, OBS; making total OF Isl, 4504s.
The population, postal expenses and postal re'en~
of the two sections stand as follows:
North ' s1ss s.: 49," tss
Do we need any further illustrations to she's
where the money comes from that goes to supper
our mail system and where the money goes to
IL it probable that, with so heavy balances
ready against the South in respect to Post'omec
revenues, the Free States will consent ~ the sae
tional burden of 5000, 900 year to crafty an 9
reasonable sectional prejudice think ht
Buchanan is resolved that this thing shall be fGa
understood aud fairly decided.
The President and Secretary of State endure y
delay found necessary in making the diplomatic Y
pointInents with exemplary equanimity. The resi-
nations do not come in, and the respectable q
gentlemen who have invited them seem quite resigns
. to do without them. Not so, however with y
srmy Of applicants who will surely flock hithef hs
hungry stcrks soon after the opening of the hsa
yeaE, demanding the redemption of the pledge
rotation in Office volunteered in the Inaugural
This bias been LAY Of sOrrowiu apprehsrH
among the cerbs, bat as yet the reality has P'Sss
| less terrible than tbcD Gears What to.mouesU
bring forth Tomorrow only will reveal but SsfJi
0i dismissal were served on very few parties "
| those chiefly ia tie Department of tho InefN..
For the comfort OF outsiders who throng the 81
| rooms and passcgIs, Il ls announced that Secfep
Thompson had prolonged interviews with theo~.
missoners OF the Pens; Ii. Land and Patent Bafr,
from which is expected ,u result black-balhrs~
| wedding out.
Philips OF Nirgril seems to be tho only p1. =
note Who has suecumDed 10 the pressure. ~
yields only 10 appropriately with his own deksA.J 4
IL is said that Martin Of Mississippi AN admsi 4
| follower of Thompson and JEFF. Davis will tshsr
place. But, as Milton said the wars OF The ~
| talcby were Of no more consequence than mo IL
mishes Of Kites and crows, 90 presume the rSs
Of TIE TRIBUNE viii generally regard hesss
comings aud outgOlngs oflittle suborlnates nv
ngton as about equivalent 70 the wrigslmssSs,%ss
worms. PEMAQV~