Year: 1860

As the net income of the 10000 Post Offices Of
the country, though really in the hands of the Post
masters rs technically in the Treasury Of the u
Hited States, it cannot be used for payment Of
Contractors till Congress passes an Appropriation
bill. And as the Appropriation bills rarely pass
both Houses till about the adjournment, reported
the other day from the Post Office Committee a
joint resolution, authorizing the Department. to use
this income for the present quarter ending March
3lst. for the payment of Transportation expenses.
notice that the Telegraph to the Chicago papers,
which, by some accident, upsets and twists up
every proposition make, reports il as "Not pass
ed" The fact is that it passed the House unan-
imously and the Senate also, and is now a law
So that contractors will receive their pay at once,
far the receipts of the Offices their routes
will pay them.


There is fair prospect too that the inland mail
service of the country, which the Postmaster Gen.
eral curtaied and cut off so rcmorseessly, after the
failure of the Post Office Appropriation bill last
year, will be restored, as it should be; for in no
other branch Rthe Government are our millions of
people so vitality and directly interested. The
House Post Office Committee, after several days Of
debate, decided, with but one exception, Mr.. X.
Davis of Mississppi,) that this service should be
restored and the Committee of Ways and Means.
anxious to carry out this decision. have incorpora
ted the restoration in the Post Office Appropriation
bill, which they have just reported 1t will pass
the House, and trust the concurrence Of the Sen-
ate is not doubtful, although their Committees hare
not yet examined or decided the question. Speak
ing of the Postal Reforms, might add that tho
bill drafted by the House Committee and which
passed the House by such overwhelming ma
jority, in favor of daily overland mail to the Pa
cifc on a single line, and to receive bids for con-
veying the entire Pacific mail in that way till the
25th of May, has been strangled in the Senate
What other plan will be adopted remains 10 be
seen. But l think majority ofthe House will in
sist that the mail shall be carried hereafter, not by
the Isthnus, and through foreign countries, but
shall be whether on one line or two lines,
soil; thus assisting indirectly at least in the de-
velopment Of our own country, instead Of Central
America.


The Pacific Railroad is before a select Com
mittee of l6, headed By Col. Curtis of Iowa a.
Chairman. The old difficulty however exists, OF
obtaining majority in favor of any one line For
years Congress has been for Pacific Railroad; but
every project has broken down on the question of
points and rights.


Those who have been so sanguine that the Senate
would admit Kansas, as she presents herself at this
session. will find in the following extract of Ions
letter to the Baltimore Sun (and Ion is the best
posted man in Washington as to the plans of his
party what the Democratic Senators are thinking
of doing now.


The Senate committee on Territories will, it 10
said, in consequence of their determination to re-
port the Pixies Peak or Jefferson Territorial bill,
propose to alter the boundaries of Kansas by en-
bracing within its limits the southern portion Of
Nebraska. The Wyandotte constitution will go
back for amendment in that particular if the bill
should pass. The House will not pass any but the
Wyandotte bill.


The objects to be accomplished by this Dem
ocratic manouvre are threefold-the hope of ma
king Kansas Democratic by this addition Of Terri
tory-the hope of keeping out Nebraska as State
for many long year to come by incorporating the
best ofher Territory into Kansas-and the hope Of
having better success as TO Governor, State Of
fcers and the Legislature which is TO elect two L.
S. Senators for Kansas at the new State Election
which this change would compel.


There is a good deal ofindignation here amongst
the Democracy at the "Southern hospitality" which


is to be meted out to Democratic delegates and
visitors by the Charleston people at tho approach
ing Natonrl Convention. Five dollars per day is
the lowest price for board and room and the bill
commence from the 18th of April, while the Con-
vcntion does not meet till the 3d.