The weekly Arizonian., 1859-03-31
Various Items.

were involved, and the operations ofthe Depart ment will be seriously embarrassed
 We see by the Memphis papers that c. D. l Poston Esq, ofthis Territory, had arrived at that city en route for his home in Kentucky. . !
 There is talk ofdivdng California and form ing the Territory of Colorado out of that DOT ton of the State South of a line running East from Mount Diabalo. A spirited public meeting was lately held at San Diego to consider the matter
 Five hundred troops have been sent up the Colorado to the Mohave country, and more are to follow
 The President re turned the bill authorizing the establishment of an Agricultural College, and donating public land therefor. The veto message occupied three columns in the Union, and contains the Presidents objections clearly and ably stated
 At the grand ball given to Lord Napier, in New York, one lady, tlle wife of an oil merchant, wore diamands worth $lO0,O00 and dress which cost $l4,OG0, It is about time for her husband to fail"
 The Legislature of New Mexico has passed a stringent law, without one dissenting vote, for the protection of slave property in the Terri tory.
 William Smith O'Brien, the Irish Patriot" has arrived in this country, and of course is now "lion" in all the large cities.
 A Special Committee have reported in favor of removing all the desks from the House of Representatives This will have tendency to do away with long speeches and dull sessions of the House.
 In the Senate, on the first day of March, Mir. Stuart of Michigan moved to amend the Post I Office bill so that the Overland Mail contract be reduced to weekly service, and the pay be E$l50,0O instead of $600,000; the amendment was agreed to- but owing to the failure of the entire bill the Overland contract remains un- disturbed.
 The public press from one extremity of the Union to the other, without distinction of party, joins in condeming the turbulent and reckless spirit ofCongress in neglecting the business of the country for senseless political wrangling - Let the people remember it. No appropriation passed for continuing the building of the capitol, furnishing it, or contin uing the water works, the House refusing to concur, and the Senate to recede It is understood that deficiency of four mil lions will exist in the Post Office Department on the first of June.
 The President vetoed the bill for the improv- , ment of the Lake St Clair Flats, one of the , most deserving measures of the session
 Robert S. Ould, has been appointed U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, in place of Phillip Barton Key, lately murdered by Daniel Sickles.
 The total amount of the appropriations made by Congress, amount to $90,297 l2O without a cent for the Post Office This enormous fig ure was reached after cutting down every large appropriation. This is more than the expense of government during the Mexican war
 An order has been issued from the War De- partment to sell five thousand mules, of those employed in the Quartermaster service. The transportation expenses of the army are to be , very much reduced g Mir. Mowry writes that he shall be in this s Territory early in May. Q The Overland Mail company talk of examin- !, ing the road along the Sonoita and Santa Cruz 1, Vallies, and through the Papago country, with , Ia view of running their coaches that way Peo.