The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-21
NEWS.
TELEGRAMS.
From WnShinofnn


WASHINGTON, March l9-Al the special Mail
Agencies seventeen in number, have Just been dis
continued, and the order granting extra compensa-
uon, out OF the postages, affecting about eighty
Fostmasters, has been revoked owing to the failure
OF Congress TO make the necessary appropriations
1t Is not true, as published, that the Postmaster
General has threatened to resign his office unless
there shall be an extra session of Congress called.
There Is much reserve in official quarters as to
the extra session question, and satisfactory re-
sponse has thus far been elected But tonight
there is reason to believe it is held in allowance
for the present, liable to be taken up at fu-
ture period There is a subject pending which,
probably, produces the indecison, namely whether
the mail service, can be carried on by certificates
instead of cash, until Congress shall make the ne
cessary appropriations. 1t is a generally ac-
credited fact that nearly all the members of
the Cabinet are against an extra session. The com
pensatlon OF the Postmasters, and the contingent
expenses of their offices, amount to So 900 900 per
quarter, or equal to the revenue, leaving nothing
for the mail service. 1t has been estimated that
the service which is actually necessary to be- per-
formed, will require about twice as much as the en-
tire receipts, to say nothing of present indebted
ness. Next month the contracts for the Southern
States are to be made and in view of the bankrupt
condition of the Department. it is reasonably sun
posed the proposals will be far less favorable than if
contractors were to frame their proposals on a cash
basis.
Official information will go outin MONDAYS Pacific
mail OF the ratification the ten treaties with tbs In
took place during the late extraordinary session of
the Senate after Congress had adjourned, no ap-
preparation could be made to carry them into i'm
mediate effect. ltwas mainly owing to the expla-
nations made by General Lane that these treaties
were ratified, that gentleman having convinced his
brother Senators that they would tend to perma-
nent peace. He had the effective support of Sena-
tor Gwin ard ex-governor Stevens in his persever-
ing efforts. BY these treaties the title to fifty mil
lions of acres of land will be extnguished at cost
to this government of three and half cents per
acre. On that occasion resolution was passed al
most unanimously, providing that, hereafter, when
it is proposed to buy Indian land the Senate shall
first be consulted before entering into treaty stipu-
latiOns.
Should it be found impracticablc to make ar
rangements by which the mail service can be per-
formed by means of certificates and should it be de-
cided between and the Goth inst to call an
extra session of Congress, telegraphic dispatch on
that day to New Orleans could be forwarded by
way of the Tehuantepec route, in the steamer Of
the 18th from that port, to intercept at Acapulco,
the mail which will leave New Y ork for the Pacific
on Monday.
General Lane win return to Oregon in the steam
er of the 5th of April.
George I. Morris, editor of the Home Journal,
has been appointed Consul for Havre.
The Sickles trial will commence on Monday week.
Ex-senator Badger is to assist the District Att6r-