The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-07
WASHINGTON.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE EVENING rELBGRAPn.1
WAsHINGToN, June Z.
General stee dma an's Plantation.

WARRINGTON, June z.
General stee dman's Plantation.
trustworthy private letter from Arkansas,
received by high official here, states that
General Steedman is carrying on plantation at
Pine Bluff, Ark, and that negroes were trans
ported thither at Government expense from
Atlanta, Ca, of which State he was military
commander
Southern Omce-hOIders.
The etary of the Treasury, in Difference to
the expressed judgment OF Congress- has invited
all temporarily appointed Treasury Agents at
the South, who cannot take the oath, TO resign,
and win petition Congress to permit payment to
be made them for salaries due for their time of
actual service.
Mail Contracts.
A contract for a tri-weekly mail service from
Virginia City, Nevada, via Humboldt TO Boise
City, Idaho, for four years from September
next at S75, 900 per annum, has been awarded
to-day.
Post once Troubles.
On account of difficulty with the Post Office
Department. the Concord Railroad refuses to
carry the mails any longer under the present
arrangement, and mail teams with feet horses,
will Immediately commence running between
Concord, Manchester Nashua, and Portsmouth
land All the Northern New England railroads
are either refusing to carry the mails now, or
else have notified the Government that they
Will only carry them thirty days longer. The
difficulty is this-the contracts for carrying the
mails IN New England and New York expired
June 80, 1865, having been in force four years.
The companies all made an advance in price,
alleging that they paid u per cent in the shape
nf % lI,g,
ing the mails, and that every article OF railroad
consum[ ton and labor cost more than in 1861
Governor Dennison refused to pay more, and the
roads have now been carrying for year at old
prices but are now universally refusing to con-
tnue.
Army and Navy Matters.
The following are official announcement
Army Gdzette.-Brevet Brigadier-General w.
f. Barry, Colonel I'd United States Artillery, is
assigned to the command of the District of On.
tario, headquarters at Buffalo, New York.
Colonel A. Vogdes, 1st United States Artillery,
is assigned to the command of the District of
st. Lawrence, headquarters at Ogdensburg, Ne "
York. The rendezvous for returned troops at
Philadelphia, Pa. Springfield, ILL Indianapolis,
Ind. Davenport, Iowa; and Madison Wis.,, ha We
been ordered discontinued and broken up.
The Macy Gazette of May 30 promoted Lieu
tenant Simon p. Gillett to be Lieutenant Com
mander from April q, 1866; Lieutenant Thomas
May 8, 1866; Ensign a. s. Crowningshield and
James H. Sands to be Masters from November
10, 1865. May 30, appointed Edward Frothing.
ham Assistant Ensign from May 23.
Santa Anna and Mexicam Affairs.
The published statement that letter has been
sent by Mr.. Yslesas, Minister OF Finance of the
Mexican Liberal Government, to Liberal chiefs
in Mexico, in regard to the resignation of Presi
dent Juarez, and calling for a convention to
invest Santa Anna with the powers OF Dictator
| OF Mexico, is entirely false Santa Anna has
| written private letter to Senior Romero, ex
| planning his views in reference to the war nov
waging in Mexico between the Liberal Govern
ment and the Austrian despot, and giving as
| surances of his desire to support and fight fol
the Liberal Government against Macmillan
etc. But Senior Romero declines to have any
intercourse in an official capacity with Sants
| Anna, and refers him to President Juarez, OF
! the ground that Santa Anna has recognized the
Empire, and by the laws Of Mexico is considered
traitor, and liable to trial before a militar.
| court-martial on that charge. Santa Anna
efforts TO convince the loyal Mexicans that he i
| heart and soul with them has failed.