San Andreas independent., 1857-04-04
From our Extra of Monday last
A RRIV Al OF THE
JOHN +. STEPHENS !!
Memoranda.


Steamer Panama, from Central America, ar
rived at Panama March 10th, with one hum
dred and thirty deserters from Walkers army
the majority of whom belong to the Mounted
Rangers. They were sent out as a foraging
party by Walker, well mounted and armed, and
induced by proclamation issued by the Gov
ernor of Costa Rica, to desert. The proclama-
ton offers to all deserters from Walkers ranks
free passage to the Atlantic States The men
say they were kindly treated by the Costa Ri
cans Their passages through to New York
was paid to Capt. Dorr, and they were to sail
from Aspinwall on the Steamer Illinois, about
the Goth inst. 1t was reported that Gen Hen
ningsen and several others of Walkers army
had thrown away their commissions. The j.
L. Stevens brought 773 passengers, including
218 T. s. Troops, all well. Nothing additional
from Nicaragua.
Congressional.
The Senate passed bill directing the
Post Master General, and the President.
to make contract for line of telegraph
between Washington and San Francisco.
A bill was introduced, providing for steam
revenue cutter on the Pacific coast.
The House passed Army and Navy For
tifications, and Ocean Mail Steam appro-
priation bill. The Senate passed num-
Der of private bills, and then took up the
Post-ofice appropriation BILL
An amendment providing for the trans
portation Of letter mails in coaches from
the Mississippi to San Francisco, was adop-
ted and finally passed. The bill creating
the mission at the Court of Persia, passed
on the 18th Of March.
EXTRA SEssIoN.-The oath was admin
istered to NIr. Mason by Mr. Pierce, and
the former was chosen President pro tenn.
Messrs Bayard, Bright, Brodericll, Cam
eron, Chandler, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle,
IIamlin, Biny, Mallory, Potter, Rusk,
Simmons, Thompson, Old, Of N. j., and
Wade were declared qualified
The President elect soon after came in,
and the oath was administered to him,
when he made few appropriate remarks.
1t 10 o clock, cx-President Pierce enter
ed, and proceeded with the Senate
The SUPREME CoURT.-Thc Foreign
Minister proceeded to the East of the Cap
itol, whore the Inauguration ceremonies
were conducted.
In the House, the corruption inquiry
was brought to close by the resignation
of Mr. Edwards, of n. T., and the expul-
sion of Messrs. Simonton and Triplett, from
Reporters Seats. \ bill to deposit sur
plus revenue, excepting 81 100000, to be
refunded when called for, was reported by
the Committee on Ways and Means, and
passed by vote of 119 to 70.
The closing proceedings of Congress
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning,
were marked with the usual scenes of con-
fusion.
Apart from the ordinary appropriation
bill-the new Tariff act, the provision for
a line of coaches from the Mississippi to
San Francisco, the Minnesota Land Bill
with the liberal grant, the acknowledgment
of the services of Gen. Scott by the Senate,
and the remarks of Messrs. Buchanan and
Breckenridge accepting the trust confded
in them by the people, will claim atten-
ton.
Washington dispatches state that the
Senate have under consideration com
mercial treaty between the United States
and Persia. 1t was negotiated between
Mr. Carroll Spence at Constantinople, and
the Persian Embassy at the Turkish
Court
The very decided position President
Buchanan takes in his Inaugural of the
speedy construction Of the Pacific r. r..
gives form to the rumor that he intends to
make this one of the prominent features of
his Administration.
President Buchanan narrowly escaped
being poisoned when he was in Washing
ton on his late visit. He stopped at the
National House where J. CLANCY Jones
and John L. Dawson were stopping. 1t
appears that this House has been terribly
infested with rats of late and one of the
boarders, as the story goes, conceived the
idea that they ought to be destroyed ef-
fectually before the day of the Inaugural
tlon. He procured an extra large dose OF
Arsenic, which he exposed In the most
tempting manner around the house The
rats ate the poison and put directly for