The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-04-14
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WAsnIHaroN March, ID

WASHINGTON, March 90.
The managers Of the principal tele4
graph lines, IN connection with the pony
express, have agreed upon the following
prices for private dispatches 10 and from
California:
For ten words from any Atlantic city
or any other telegraph station, OF plce
rersd, two dollars md forty-iiye cents: for
a similar number Of words, from the FIRST
station on the California telegraph line to
any part of California, and rice rersa, two
dollurs; while the charge for expressing
the message, without regard to length,
will be So as each, making the sum to-
tai from any station in the Atlantic
States to any station in California, SO 90
for ten words, The charge for each adj
ditional word above that number will be
twenty cents for the entire distance. The
understanding is that the telegraph COM
panies will refund TIE entire tolls to par
ties forwarding any message which fails
to reach California, or rae rerSa, in adj
vance of any other route, and that they
will also return to the lender any moneys
paid for dispatches filed in season TO over
take the express at st. Joseph, which
through any reason may fail to reach that
place before the departure Of the express.
The House bill, authorizing publishers
to print on their papers the date when
subscriptions expire, and reducing the
postage Oh town and city drop letters to
one cent, passed both Houses Of Com
gress .ss, '.a ~,
WAsHINGros, March 80.
III Private letters from Arizona, state that
Delegates have been elected to d Conyen-
ton, to be held at Tucson, on the first
Monday in April; to organize provi-
sional Government for the Territory. All
connection with New Mexico is severed.
R Owens, two years ago a member 81
the Legislature Of Texas, will probably be
elected Governor Of Arizona, under pro.
yisional Government. b
Tie same adriees state that the dis,
Eturbanees in Chihuahua will probably des-
troy the trade Of El. Paso, and prevent
the expectation of specie Most of the
| specie ilsed by the United States Govern.
fment and Overland Mail Company, has
heretofore been drawn from Chihuahua.
s.z s;: NAsHINGToS, March I.
In response 10 the report Of the House
Committee on Territories, which asserts
THAT the acceptance OF rejection Of the nd.
/ mission Of d State rests entirely IN The
discretion of Congress at the time Of such
/ application. ...54
Mr.. Clark, of Missouri, Of tile Minority,
will present the following points:
/ Tie Constitution of Kansas was not
formed and presented to Congress III nc.
Ecordance with law, meaning the English
4 bill, but in derogation thereof that it does
mot appear that there IS within her limits
q sufficient population as required BIZ law,
land further, the proposed area embraces
1.-THE Cherokee Indian Territory, which
l Congress in 1854 formally decided should
|constitute no part Of the Territory Of Kan.
i sas, but be excluded from its boundaries.
/ These reasons form the ground Of the OBJ.
Election, on the Democratic side, to the adj
mission of Kansas, under the Wyandotte
i Constitutions ,3ss hi 81. .ss.s Il.
i n The Post Office Committee Of the
i House had Mr.. Gwin's Pacific Telegraph
Iabill up this morning, and referred it to
the Sub Committee, consisting Of Messrs.
Colfax, Craig, Of North Carolina, and
i Allen. While there was a general agree.
1 ment ia faFor Of some such enterprise, and
1 of extending Government aid towards its
iconstruction5 it was thought proper to ex-
anime the details Of this particular pro
ject more fully. #:z .s .. n. ,5s
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