Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-04-03
FROM WASHINGTON.

T. i-.-.r. .F -zat.f, WAsuIEsTox, March a..
| The Post Office Committee in the
House this morning, after two days
argument, resolved, with but one dis
senting voice, that the inland postal ser
vice of the country should be restored
to its condition on the Sd of March, 1859
and. instructed their chairman to prepare
and report a bill for that purpose to a
special meeting of that committee TO-
morrow. 5E1 .bsa# rs-82s l=HgEJ5
From present indications the Pacific
Railroad Committee of the House will
probably reconsider, at their meeting on
Monday, the vote in favor of one road
The Cabinet had protracted sitting
to-day, at which the capture of the Mex
lean steamers and prisoners before Vera
Cruz, was much discussed.
The President will not probably reply
at once to the Senate resolution calling
for information respecting the capture
of Miramon steamers, the instructions to
our naval officers in the Gulf, &c. Dis
patches, with full information as to the
occurrences, are on their way from New
Orleans, and the Preble will no doubt
bring further authentic information. q
,- The instructions which were a few
days ago given to Mr.. McLane and
through him to our naval officers, will
not be communicated, because they have
not been acted upon, but probably there
were no instructions which could bear
upon the case of the capture, because
there had been no opportunity to send
out any or month past. faaf aH} Il
The captures were not made Under any
instructions, for it could not have been
anticipated: .-s .s,-,-..,7. ...,i+ -
The Texas Senators and Members, with
General Forbes Britten, appeared before
the House Military Committee to-day,
and urged, with great yehemenee,s the
appropriation of a million and a quarter
of dollars for the, Texas mounted regi-
ment "
| The Committee adj journed until TO-
morrow, when the subject wifi be again
reviewed, and some definite action had
The impression prevails that they will
decide adversely to it, inasmuch as the
President and Secretary of War hare
neither of them recommended it. i5.h 81
Gen. Pomeroy arrived here yerterday
from Atchisen, Kansas, in three days
the quickest trip ever made from that
Territory to this city-and was accom-
plished by the new line of railroad just
opened between lAtchison and st. Jo-
seph, where connection is madeiWith the
railroad to the Illinois. rsz ....-
The. .Represe entatives and Senators from
Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina
had their last conference yesterday, and
decided that, in view of the two National
IGnnEentions -Mhieheare about to Assem-
ble,- it was advisable to postpone the AT
Atlanta Conference until after the Presi-
dental election. ''i- ''''''
The Lighthouse Bill appropriates
$4,000 for the beacon lights ON the Hud-
son River, between Albany and Troy, in
the State of New, York. .....-..r -.
Sandy Hook is one of the FIVE stations
at which car signals are to be established,
at cost of $4,000 g'4oF aaz 30 l!isa
.WAsiilSeroN, March ee.
The President Vas engaged with the
Secretary of State for several hours to-
day, on business connected with Mexican
affairs. The recent events in the Gulf
occasion much solicitude in official quar-