The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-09-15
Items Telegraphed from Washington.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.--The Postmaster Gen
eral has received additional ASSURANCES from
the parties under the Johnson Pac.ic mail con-
tract, that they will be prepared 20 execute the
service. United States vessels will render any
protection which may be necessary in connec-
ton with the Nicaragua route.
The Government has received AZ yet no Off
cial information of the arrival of tIr McLane
in in this country, on board Of the United
States sloop of war Brooklyn.
Washington, Sept. 9.-The Post Office De-
partment is not in the receipt of ,ay new as
surances from the nominal contrsssor for car
rying the California mails, to II effect that
he will fulfil his contract. The Department has
no information of the establishment of a line
by him to perform the required service; but if
he fails, the Pacific Mail Steamshp Company
and the Panama Railroad Company have offer
ed to carry the mails from New York to Gan
Francisco, via Panama, for the pSstages, which
are rising three hundred thousand dollars an
nually. Wells, Fargo, e. Co., have minated
their readiness to carry them, and MIR. Wander
bilt who now has o line of steamers, also stands
ready to take them. The bid of the latter in
Nav last was to carry them for nine months,
from the lst of October next frsm New York
to San Francisco, for thirty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars, exclusive of the cost of trans
port by the Panama railroad, which is now
100000 annually,
This sum of $4,000 was to be doubled if
carried by way of Nicaragua. Vanderbilts
bid, for carrying from New Orleans via Mica
ragua to San Francisco for the nine months,
was $4,000. The bid of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, in connection with the
Panama Railroad, was also $l99, 600 for nine
months service from New York to San Fran
cisco direct via Panama. They made no bid
for carrying from New Orleans. Johnson's
bid for carrying for the same tiMe the m9ils
from New York and New Orleans to San
Francisco, via Nicaragua, was but $l62,000.
Preparations on a grand scale are on foot
at Arlington Springs fer The tournament of the
Sons of Malta of our three Clues, assisted by
delegations from New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, and Richmond. / am Informed that
the costume and armor of knights of the chiv-
airic age viii marx the ovation. The highest
functionaries of the Government IRE invited IS
guests, and stands, tents, and paailions, suited
to the occasion, are in process oferection.
Several sases of appeal having been brought
before the Secretary Of the Treasury, the De-
psrtuept has decided that worsted aeotton stuff,
not being suitable for the manufaetnre of shoes
or buttons exclusively but may pc used for
other purposes, is liable to duty of 20 per
cent. and plate glass to "a per csfi. the one
coming under the classification o. manuiac,
lures Of glass, and the other under that of
worsted manufactures, NOT othsFsssae provided
for in the tariff act of 1857. -
1t is said the President has rendered the
Commissionership of the General Land Office
to ex Congressman Hughes, Of Indiana, which
he will probably decline, as he did last March
the appointment of COMMISSIONERS Patents.
1t IS understood the Cabinet to-day had the
San Juan Island question under consideration.