New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-04
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, July 3, 1860.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, July 5 lS6O.
THE CALIFORNIA MAILS.
The Post Office Department WIS Informed by
Telegram from Mr.. D~vdge this morning that the
mails had not been taken BY the California steamer
yesterday. 1t Is proper the pubic should under-
stand the facts of this Gaze. On Saturday morn
ing the Postmaster. General tel-graphed Mr.. Van
derbilt asking whether be would take the mails
under the ems of the present law-that Is, for
the hostages. No answer was received, aud Mr..
Dix was instructed to make the necessary inquiry,
wlo replied he had heard indirectly that the
terms would not be accepted.
1t was ascertaued yeste daJ that NJ. Wander
bilt had gone to Saratoga, aud dispatch was sent
there IeicatiI The offer, with an expression OF
the Presjdeuts desire that the mails should be car
lied and that be would recommend Congress to
mike fair compensation for he service. No re-
ply was received tO any of tue kilograms to Mr.
Vanderbilt or Mr.. Da'idge, either by the Depart
meut or their agents here, and it Is believed this
silence was precorcerted with view of COMPEL
ing stme conditional arrangement upon which q
cain before Congress might be predlcated'
A. other steamer will start on the llth int, and
an effort will be mede in the ne milne to bring
a cut an understanding, as the Department is en-
tjrrly at the power % be monopoly.
The following statement EXHIBITS the amount
paid COR carrying the mails to California for ten
years. ending Oh the 1st of October, 1893;
Per
Ke,rYok Havana New Orleans and Apinwa line s$9 10y
Pensa and stoTia line. az
Ado the d 5la for t ten s.o
The compensation under the temporary contract
with Cornelius Vanderbilt, for n'ne months ser
vice. from the lst Of October, 1859, 10 the both
of June. 1860 was as f'l ws:
Steam Zip service from NewioTk 10 California e1 az ,oo
s.Yiee from New Orieans to Aspinwsl....... 10000
Tesl el5I9Oo
Nod Ishnus service for nine months 1000
SSo<ooV
A5d a,noUnt pad for previous ten years ergce oSISOo
Tsl f., ten yesrs aud nine months. s765Ooo
Tb,se large subsidies mi bt have prompted llbe-
raj Ineu to carry the mails for II few months, even
with the siuty Of ultimate lOrs. But with the
assurn4 &c that Congress would make reasonable
remuneration there is 30 excuse for the refusal
THE PENNSYLVANIA FUSION.
The scheme proposed by the Democratic State
Committee in Pennsylvania to run an electoral
ticket with pledges contingent on the result, Is
openly repudiated b, the Hrecknridge organza-
tion here which distinctly refuses all terms or
alliance with the Douglas faction. That PROPOSE
ton started with Messrs. Bigler, Gilmore and other
patrio's of that order, who are for any contriy-
ance which promises the remotest hope of success.
They have had to abandon it, however, under
threat of being prescribed.
THE DISTURBANCE IN PHILADELPHIA.
The disturbance at the Breckinriige meeting in
Philadelphia last night and the indent y offered to
Gen. Lane by the Douglas TowdeS have intensified
the hostility between the divisions, so that they
denouuce each other in the mos unmeasured terms.
DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION DiSBANDED.
The jackson Democratic Association OF this
city, which has heretofore been the most active
campaigu Organization, brok. up last night after
stormy meeting and an animated struggle between