The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-09
FOURTH EDITION
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Our Special Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, May ..
Neutral Vessels I'm chill.

Neutral vessels I'm chill.
An official decree from the Government of
Chill declares that neutral vessels which COM
municate with the ships of the Spanish squad
ron or which furnish them with fuel, provi-
sions, ammunition, or other supplies, will not be
permitted to enter or load in any part of the
republic.
COntrRband Coal I'm South America.
The Department OF State has been officially
informed by the Spanish Government that fossil
coal, the product of the mines of Chill, de-
clared to be contraband of war by the COM
mander of the Spanish squadron in the Pacific,
will only be considered such contraband of war
in case of its being despatched from Chilian
ports destined for the enemy's ships.
United states Mail Contract.
The Post Office Department has made a con-
tract for the conveyance OF the mails from New
Orleans to Mobile and back daily in suitable
steamboats,; also to carry the mails from New
Orleans, by way of Galveston, to Indanola and
back three times week in suitable steamships.
Telegraphie Communication with the
West Indies.
The President has approved the bill to encour.
age telegraphic communication between the Uni
ted States and the West India Islands and the Ba-
hamas. 1t provides that the International
Ocean Telegraph Company Incorporated under
the laws of the State of New York, their success.
sors and assigns, shall have the sole privilege,
for period of fourteen years, to lay, construct,
land, maintain, and operate telegraphic or
magnetic lines and cables in and over the
waters, islands, shores, and lands over which
the United States have jurisdiction, from the
shores of the State of Florida to the island of
Cuba and the Bahamas, either or both, and
other West India Islands.
The company shall at all times give the United
States the free use of SAID cable or cables, to a
telegraphic operator of hs own selection, to
transmit any messages to and from its military,
naval, and diplomatic or consular agents; and
the company shall keep all it, lines open to the
public for the transmission for daily pub-
lcation of markets and commercial reports
and intelligence, and all messages, des-
patches and communications shall be
forwarded in the order in which they shall be
received, ami the Company shall not be per-
mitted to charge and collect for messages trans
mitted through any of its submarine cables
more than the rate OF $3.50 for messages of ten
words; subject, however, to the power of Con-
gress to alter and determine said rates:
provided that the International Ocean Tele-
graph Company shall, within the period
of three years from the passage of this
act, cause the said submarine cable or cables TO
be laid down, and that the said cable or cables
shall be IN successful operation for the transmits
sion OF messages within the said period of ive
years; otherwise this grant TO be null and void,
and Congress reverses the power to, at any time
alter or repeal the above act
The President has also approved the bill eX-
tending the time for the completion of he Union
Pacific Rail way, Eastern Division, until the 27th
of June, 1866. The time for completing each
succeeding section OF one hundred miles is TO
be reckoned from that date. This bill also eX.
tends for two years the ume for commencing
and completing the Northern Pacific Railroad
and all its several sections.
Reception of Religious Delegation.
The President, to-day, by app ointm mt, gave
an audience TO the delegates of the General Con-
ference of the Methodist Protestant Church,
now in session at Georgetown. North Carolina,
Alabama, Virginia, Maryland, anu the District of
Columbia, only were represented, it having
been said that those appointed from the other
Southern States had not the means to pay the
expenses of travelling hither. The presiding
officer of the Conference introduced the dele
gates severally to the President, remarking tn at
they had by resolution unanimously adopted
come to pay their respects to him.
Abiding to the fiery ordeal through which the
Southern people had passed. he said he need not
remind the President of the difficulties which
environed them and the poverty with which
they were suffering. To this might be ascribed
the small number of ministers and lay delegates
present at the Conference. He might continue
mis- remarks, but feared to trespass on the Presi.
dents indulgence.
He however prayed that the blessing of Al.
mighty God may rest upon the President, and
that the Lord would give him the requisite
wisdom and strength to perform his important
duties. To this the brethren responded with an
emphatic amen"
The President thanked the delegates sincerely
| for the compliment which they had paid him by
this VISIT He trusted that the prayer they had
| offered would be heard and answered by the
| Power to which It was addressed, and that all
| honest efforts of the Conference would be
crowned with success. He hoped the day was
not distant when peace and prosperity would be
restored to an undivided country.
Latest Markets by Telegraph.
NEW York, May Stocks are steady. Chicago
and Rock Island, 962 limos Central, 49, Now
York Central, 92B; Reading, 1863; Hudson River