Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-07

hourly looked for. The postmaster general submitted the matter to a cabinet council on yesterday. The following are the bids receiv- ed at the contract office for this service: S. Howell and A. E. Pace; from Gaines Landing, on the Mississippi, to San Francisco; to commence at Vicksburg if preferred-week ly, $1 OOO, ,OOO for the first year, $8OO,OOO for the second, $7OOOOO for the third, and $6OO,- GOO for the fourth year.
 James E. Birch; from Memphis to San Fran cisco--semi-w weekly, $6OOOOO
 James Glover; from Memphis or Vicksburg semi monthly, S3OOOOO; weekly, $45O,OOO; semi weekly, $6OoOOo.
 John Rutherford, Wm. B. Dinsmore, Wm. G. Fargo, James V. F. Gardner, Marcus l.. Kinyon, Hamilton Spence and Alexander Hol- land; from St. Louis-weekly, $45O,OOO; semi weekly S6OO,OOO.
 David D. Mitchell, Samuel B. Churchill, Robert Campbell, Wm. Gilpn, and others semi weekly $6OO,OOo.
 John Butterford Wm. B. Dinsmore, Wm. G. Fargo, and others; from Memphis-semi- monthly, $3OO,OOO; weekly, $450,0OO; semi weekly, $595,OOO.
 John Buttertield, and others; from St. Louis -semi-monthly, $30O,OOO; weekly, $450OoO; semi-weekly, $505,OOO.
 James Johnston, jr, and Joseph Clark; from St. Louis-semi- monthly, $26o,0OO; weekly, $39O,OOO; semi-weekly, $52O0OO. Wm. Hollingshead, the president of the Minnesota, Nebraska, and Pacific mail trans portatlon company put in bid, but it was ir- regular, being after tme-proposing to perform the semi weekly service for $550,OO0.
 John Butterfield and others, are willing to stpuiate in the contract that the route indicated by them may be modified and changed to the north or south to avoid any obstacle that may be found by experience to interfere with the safe and regular transmission of the mails.
 The New Orleans and Cairo mail, which has heretofore entirely failed to accomplish what was intended, is about to be established upon a different basis. With this view, the postmaster general has made satisfactory arrangements with the present contractors for the surrender of their contract.
 The total amount of appropriation made by the last session of Congress, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858, sums up SIP, 112 ,299 12, and distributed as follows:
 Legislative, executive, judicial,
 civil and miscellaneous S17. 693, ,29O 21 Diplomatic and consular. ..... 1O82O7O % Indian department, revolution ary, invalid, and other pen
 sions ................. 5,O522O5 Il Army fortitication and military
 academy ................. 19,426, ,19O fl Naval service. 13,262 5e1 79 Postotfice department. ..... II, 475 130 % Ocean steam mail service ~ 1,l2O85O % Among the appropriations made, is S15,OOO to adjust upon principles of equity and jus tice, the claim of Mark and Richard H. Bean of Arkansas.
 Notwithstanding the appropriations for the next fiscal year are very heavy, there will be enough and more than enough to meet it. The statement of the treasurer to the 25th of last month, shows surplus in the treasury, subject to draft, of SPA ,838, 246 24 At Little Rock of this surplus, there was S2l3, 400 O..
 Arkansas has again been honored in the ap- pontmeut of Judge E. W. Cullen of Ouachita, purser in the United States navy
 Land warrants are selling as follows:
 16O acres, 92 cents per acre.
 80 " 92 |"
 12O g.
 40 " 10
 Market depressed.
 ARKANSAS