Year: 1868

ernor Bullock has not dozen followers among the
leading republicans OF the State In his efforts 10
secure fresh reconstruction 1t is currently whis-
pered, moreover. that he was disappointed at not
being elected United States Senator and that In the
new deal which he proposes he hopes 10 turn up
this trump card. The Representatives IRON
Georgia are improving the recess by collecting
testimony from unprejudced sources concern
ing the real condition OF affairs in the
State. They expect to obtain such evidence
as win show that peace and order prevail through
out the State; that II any breaches OF the peace have
taken place they have been occasioned by disap-
pointed politicians interested in having the present
State government set aside that the people OF
Georgia are disposed to obey the reconstruction
laws in good faith and that there is no disposition
to maltreat the negro or persecute Northern men
settling In the State. Whatever testimony and facts
they may have Will be laid before the Reconstruc-
ton Committee as offset to what has been sub
mitted to them by Governor Bullock and his friends


The Appropriation Bills.


The House Appropriation Committee had another
session to-day and continued the consideration Of
the diplomatic and Consular and the Executive,
Legislative ana Judicial Appropriation bills. No def
mite action was reached on either bill. The Diplo
matte and Consular Appropriation bill will, it is
pected, be ready TO be reported to the House soon



Der OF items and will take time to get through
with it.


The Mail Service ON the Plains.


The reply OF the Postmaster General to the resou-
tion OF the House calling for information relative to
the contract with Wells, Fargo Co. for carrying
the overland mails, with the accompanying papers,
has just been issued from the government printing
Office, and makes pamphlet OF some seventy EIGHT
pages. The reports OF the Postmaster at Salt Lake
City and Of the special agents of the Post Office De-
partment reflect very severely upon the conduct
Of Wells, Fargo & Co. and their agents in the
matter OF carrying the mails. Postmaster Street,
OF Salt Lake, says:-"ln some cases the mail
pouches were put under the coaches, subject
ing the mails OF necessity to loss and also
to injury from wet in passing through streams
and mudh0les. In many Instances theImails were
picked up along the road with the pouches
torn open and their contents either lost or injured
by rain" Special Agent Clampitt under date OF No
vember reports that the destruction or mail sacks
is occasioned by the sacks being placed under the
coach and on the reach or coupling, where every
motion OF the coach wears them through. large
amount or mail, official and otherwise, has been
picked up on the road Much OF that lost will doubt
less never be recovered. The sacks destroyed are
brass lock- through Sacks containing mail from the
departments at Washington, from the Chicago Office
and from the Eastern States"


Special Agent d. b. Ball. in a letter to the Second
Assistant Postmaster General. under date OF De-
ber q says:-"One brass lock pouch, which
left New York November for San Francisco, was
lashed to the running gear Of the coach, and one,
end becoming loose, was dragged until the pouch
burst and the contents were scattered along the
route" This Is the tone Of nearly all the letters to
the Post once Department from the special agents
ON the overland route.