Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-01-19
Very respectfully,
 GEO. c. WATKINS.
From Washington.


 Gen. Walker-Kansas-Maa Service ID Arhan- | sas, etc.
 1 The President sent to Congress to-day mes- sage with accompanying documents relative to the capture of Gen. Walker by Com. Paula ing, which gave rise in the Senate to a lengthy debate. The message is plain manly docu- ment giving full statement of his views. which are in the main unobectionable
 kansas affairs are assuming new aspect It now appears that at the election held on the 2lst ut, there were seven thousand votes polled, notwithstanding the black republicans used eve. ry effort to prevent members of their party from voting. They have secretly held a con- Vention and nominated a full ticket to be voted Tor at the election to be held under the Le- compton constitution, which was held on the 4th inst. They insist that their party is large ly in the majority, that they will succeed and at once change the pro-savery feature of the constitution. This will at once take the Kan sas issue out of Congress and make a local question out of it, to be decided by the people of the State.
 The proposals for mails in Arkansas will be advertised in few days, by which the mail fa- cilites of the State will be improved Judge Sebastian has induced the Postmaster General to make the following improvements in the ser vice.
 Daily mail in stages from Helena to Little Rock, instead of tri-weekly. | Trl-weekly in stages from Des Arc to Ft. Smith instead of horse mail once a week.
 Tri-weekly in stages from Helena to Iron Mountain and St. Louis, with lateral branches to Pocahontas and Smithville Daily in stages from Iron Mountain by Poca- hontas, Batesvlle, to Little Rock
 Stages invited on southern side of Arkan. sas river from Little Rock to Ft Smith.
 Another steamboat line from Jacksonport up Black River to Pocahontas.
 Some dissatisfaction has existed on the line of road between Des Arc and Ft Smith be- cause Judge Sebastian did not have coach ser- vice placed upon the route last year. The fol. lowing letter addressed from the Post Office Department to him shows that the fault was not with him, and that while he did every thing within his power his failure was alone attribu. table to the high price bid: Post O6ice Department, } Contract Office, June 26th, '56 {
 SiR-ln reply to your communication of the l7th May last, have the honor to inform you that route No. 7699, from Des Arc to Ft. Smith. has been let to contract to go into operation on the lst July. The lowest bid for coach service was $l9,OOO, which sum the Postmas- ter General considered as entirely too high. 1 Your suggestions relative to the improve ment of the mail service in Arkan,as will he considered in preparing the routes for advertise ment which Is now in course of preparation. and, whenever practicable, will be adopted. Very respectfully, l Your ob't serv't VIM. Il. DUNDAS, 2d Asst Postmaster GenZ.n
 HoN. VIM. K. SEBASTIAN, Helena, Ark.
 Judge Sebastian has introduced bill for bulling jail and building to accommodate the district court at Van Buren.
 Also bill to extend the principles of the graduation act to the reserved sections within railroad grants. This is just as there is no good reason why actual settlers should be forced to pay S2 50 per acre for land which if not with in the immediate limits of the reservation. they could get for perhaps less than one half that sum. The bill proposes that land subject to the graduation of 121s cents per acre. shall be located at 9 cents-that at 25 cents at 5O-and so on through the scale. l rsg0 ARKANSAS