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VOLUME III. SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, MARCH 18, 1854. NUMBER 40 Santa fe iUickly crcttc TERMS. WEEKLY- $2 50 year, payable invariably in advance; iiingle copies 12 1-4 cent.. Advertise, ments $1 OU per square ot ten lines for tlie first luertion, and Wets, for every subsequent insertion. TO THE PUBLIC. THE Public will pleas, take notice that I have appointed Mr. Rudolph Locb my Agent dunng my absence " SWe8' JAC0B AMBER0, Agent for ABRAHAM it ROFEN I'HALL. FOR gtEE. THE GOVERNMENT MILL, as it stands, to ether with two pieces oMand. -nd a good DWELLING HOUSE, all situated within a mile ofíiepl.i. of Sania Ft. The mill is composed ofonepirof.lonesforaf!,i-t.n.ll,andacircular TesKbec, .h,.pprlof put 'up at auction M the Whist bidder, at 11 o -clock on Monday the 1st of May. Enquire of the Act. Assistant Qijahtek Master. Santa Fe, Feb. 7, 1834. If. KOTICE OF DISSOLITIOX. mHE CO parlnetsliiphiretotW Misting between I Charles Be.iubi.1. and Solomon Iieutliiier, un der the style .md firm of Bea.ib.u &. Dentlmer. is Se e y dissolved by muliial coi.senl. to lake rlfrrf from Wry I, l4 T"" "T h hereby emp.weied to -ollect M u.oiucsdue the ,a,e co-partnership. rHARLE9 BEAUBIF.M. SOLOMON BK.UTUNER. Don F ernandei de Taoj, Fen. tó, im. MOXTEZLMA HILL. THE undersized dc-irrs to inform her friend and Hie public, thai lie has now moved her tablUhme.it to the builrtine on the plaza known the Montezuma Hall, where she will always keep on hand the best kind of liquors and bee.. Attached to Hie Hall is fine 'tM always supplied with forage. CAB0L1NE STEIN. Banta Fe, Jan. 7, 185 1. 3io 89UTHEIIN MAIL. WINTER ARRANGEMENT. THE southern mail via El Paso to San Antonio, Texas, leaves Santa Fe on the loth of each month arrives at El Paso in from six to eiBlil days, and reaches San Antonio on the Hlh ot the nexl month. Returning, leaves San Antonio on lie 15th of the same, arrives at El Paso in from 14 lo IH days, and reaches Santa Fe on ihe 14th of the next month, making the trip through in fiom 3 to 2i days, winter and summer. 1 lie Contractor lias snared no expense in placing upon this route spring carriages the best adapted for the convenience well as comfort of passengers Parsons going to, or coming from the States will find this a very pleasant route, particularly during the wintei months, as it is entirely free from the intense cold and heavy snows that so frequently obstruct the eastern mail route to Independence. RATES OF FARE. $125 00 through from Santa Fe to an Antonio. 30 00 from Santa Fe to El P so. Passenger, allowed 40lbsMgage.gKiaMAN N.D. Passengers not required to stand guard. Santa Fe, Oct. 7, 1853 tf THE undersignea begs leave to inform his friends and the public goncrally, that he is prepared to do all kinds of cabinet and carpenter's work on the most reasonable terms. Shop, two doors above the store of Jesus Loya. Santa ie, May 7, 18Í.3 y JAMES H. CLIIT. LEGAL KOTICE. W. W. II. DAVIS, (district attornky or Tin vsmo states tor NEW MEXICO,) ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, santa fe, níw Mexico, y ILL practice in all the courts of Ihe Terri- Office in the same room occupied by th Secre tary of th. Territory. REFERENCES. Hon. C. Cushing, Alt. Gen. TJ. S. Hon. Geo. M. Dallas, Philada. Hun. R. Brodhead, U. S. Senate.; Hon. Simon C imeron, Penna, , Gen. R. Patterson, Philada. Col. Thomas J. Whipple, New York. Haddock, Reed k Co., Philada. James, Kent k Santee, " Wood, Bacon 4 Co., ' proposals ron cariuixg THE MAILS. PROPOSALS for carrying th. Mails of the United States, from the 1st day of July, 1854, to th. 1st day of July, 1858, in the Sale of Cali fornia, and in the Territories of Oregon, Utah, ami New Mexico, will be received at the Contract Office of th. Post Office Department, in the Cuj ot Washington, until 9 A. M. of Ihe 3d April. 1854, (to be decided by the 23d of April, 1851,) on th. route, and in th. times herein specified, via i IN NEW MEXICO. 12900 From Santa Fe, by Albuquerque, Socorro, Dona Ana, Fort Fillmore, Frontero (Tex as), El Paso, Ban Elizano, Mugoffiinsville, and Leona, to San Antonio, 910 miles and back, once a month. Leave Santa Fe on the 1st of each month ) , Arrive in San Antonio in 25 days. Leave San Antonio on the 1st of each month i Arrive at Sinta F. in 25 days. Bids to carry twice a month ar. invited ( alio bids to make the trip in 20 days. 12901 Fiuiu &ta Fa. by La Csltvla, to Fernando de Taos, 70 miles and back, twice a month. L 'ave Santa Fe on the 1st and 15th of each month, at 8 A. M Arrive at Fernando de Taos by the 3d and 17th at 12 M Leave Fernando de Taos on the 12th and 28lh of each month at 8 A. M Arrive at Santa F. by the 14th and 30th at 12 M. Bids for weekly trips are invited. 12902 From DouanJ, by Fort Belkrap, to Gaines ville in Texas, and back, once in two weeks. Bidders to state dislance and schedule of arrivals and departures. Bids for weekly trips are invited. FORM FOR A BID. Where no change from adtt'Utment U contemplated by the bilder. "I (or we, as Ihe ease may be) here write the name or names in full of here "tate the resiJem e or residence!. hereby pmpose to carry the mail on roule Nu. , fmm lo ',. fien as the Postmaster Gener l's advertisement for pro pos da for Ihe same, dated October 13, K,i3, re quires, in the -time slated in the schedules con tained in said advertisuient. and by the following mode o( c nvejance, to wit i here st te hnw it is to be conveyed, for the annual sum of here wnle out the sum in words at full length Dated. Signed. Form of a Guaranty. The undersigned undertake that, if the forego ing hi, I for mirying ihe mail on route No. he accepted by the P similiter General, the bidder shall, priui to the 1st day ' f July nexl, enter into the reqtiiied obligation to pcil'iiriu Ihe service pro posed, with good ami sulfieient. sureties. Dated Signed by two guarautors. fjrn of Cetdftcalt. The undersigned (postmaster, udge, or a clerk of a court of record, as the case may be) certifies lhal he is well acquainted with the above guaran tors and their property, and that they nre men of property and able to uiake good their guaranty. Dated "'pied- INSTRUCTIONS. Jimdrriring cmi'ilinu to be incorporated in the ton ti lifts to ike extent the Department may deem proper. 1. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter mediate office, when not otherwise specified, for assorting Ihe mails. 2. On routes where the mode of conveyance admits of it. the special agents of Ihe Department, also post office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys, are lo be conveyed without extra charge. 3. No pay will he made for trips not performed and for eeeh of such omissions not s tisfaciorily explained th'e. limes the pay of Ihe trip may be deducted. For arrivals so far behind time as to break connexion with depending mails, and ml sutneienily excused, one-fourth of the compensa lion for the trip is sntije t to forfeiture, Deduc tion may also he ordered for a grade of perform ance inferior to that spcilied in the contract. For repeated delinquencies of the kind herein specified enlarged penalties, proportioned to the nature I hereof and the importance of the mail, may be made. 4. For leaving behind or tnrowing olT Ihe mails or any porlion of them for the admission of pas ..ngera, or for being concerned in selling up or runninir an express conveying commercial inlelli gence ahead ot the mail, a quarter's pay may be deducted 5. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency he promptly and satisfactorily explained by cer Ulicales of pi stmasters or the affidavits of other creditable, persons, for failii.g lo arrive in contract time ) for neglecting lo take the mail from, or de liver it into a post office; for siiflering it (either owing to the iinsuitableness of the place or manner of carrying it) to be injured, destroyed, robbed or lost and for refusing, after demand, to convpf the mail as frequently as the contractor runs or icon cerned in running a coach or steamboat on a route. 6. The Postmaster general may annul Ihe con tract for repeated failures to run agreeably to contract; fur disoheying the posi office laws, or the iustsuctions of the Uepaitinent ; for refusing to discharge a carrier when required by the Depart ment to do so; for assigning the cuntía' t without the assent of the Postmaster General; for tunning an express as aforesaid; or for transporting per sons or packages conveying mailable matter out of the msil. 7. The Postmaster general may order an in crease of service on a route by allowing therefor a pro rata increase on the contract pay. He may also order an increase of pay for the additional stock or carriers if any. the contractor may, however, in the case of increase of speed, relin quish the contract by giving prompt notice to the Department that he prefers doing so to carrying the order into fifed The Pualmasler General may also curtail or dis ontiiiue tho service at pro rata necrease ot pay, if he allow one mould's exlra compensation on the amount dispensed with, whenever in his opinion the pnlilic interests do not require the same, or in eae he desires to suner ede il by a different grade of transportation. Be may also cnanee the times of arrival and d'parlure (provided he does not curtail the running lime) without increasing tne n y. 8. Payments will tie mad. for the service through drafts on postmasters, or otherwise after the expiration of each quarter say in February, May, August and November. 9. The distances ar. given according to the best information) but no increased pay will be allowed should they be greater than advertised, if the points to be supplied be correctly slated 10. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from knowingly making a contract for the transportation of the mails with any person who shall have entered into, or proposed to enter into any combination to prevent the making of any bid for a mail contract by anr other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall have given or performed, or promised to give or perform any consideration whatever, or to do or not lo do any thing whatever, m order to in duce any other person or persons not to bid for a mail contract. Particular attention is called to Ihe 28 h section of the act of 18311, prohibiting combi nations to prevent bidding, 11 A bid received a Her time, viz. 9 A St. of the 3d April 1854, or without the guaranty re quired by law, or th t combines several routes in one sum of compensation, cannot be c onsidered in competition with a regular proposal reasonable in amount. 12. A bidder may offer, where the transporta tion oiled for by the advertisement is diuViilt r I impracticable at certain seasons, to substitute an i inferior mode of conveyance, or to inlenn t ser- ' vice a specified number of days, week or tnonihs. I He may propose to omit an inaccessible office, or on. not on the slag, or railroad, or at a steamboat landing, a. the case may b. or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He may propose different times of nniiol and departure, jirovided no more running time is asked, and no mail connexion prejudiced. He may ask additional running time for t ie trip during a specified number of days in seasons of very bad roads ; but beyond these changes a proposal for service differing from that called for by the ad vertisement will not be considered in competition with a regular bid reasonable in amount Where a bid contains ny such alterations, their disadvan tages will hf estimated in comparing it with other proposals. 13. There should be but on. route bid for in a proposal 14. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the name and resilience of the bidder ; and those of each member of a firm, where a company offers, should be distinctly slated, also the mode of con veyance if a higher mode than horseback be in tended. 15 The bid should be sent under seal, address ed to the second assistant Pastmaster General, su perscribed "Mail proposals in the Slate of-." It should be giiarntird and the sufficiency of the gmirantars certified (see formal ind should be dis patrhed in time to be received by or before 9 a. m. of the 3d April 1851. 16. The contracts are to be executed end re turned to the Department by or before the 1st of Julv 1854. 17. Under the act of March 3 1845, the routes are to he let to the lowest bidstendering sufficient guaranties, without other reference to the mode nf transportation titan may be necessary for the due celerity, certainty and security of such trans portation. When the lowest bid proposes a mode of conveyance inadequate to the line celerity, cer tainty and security or the mails, it will not be ac cepted. 18. When the hid does not specify a mode of conveyance, i-lo when it proposes lo carry 'ac cording to the advertisement,' but without such specification, it will be considered as a proposal for horseback servke. 19 Since the passage of the act of March 3, 1815, a new description of bid has been received. It doos not specify a mode of conveyance, but en gages to to take the entire mail each trip with celerity, i ertainty and security, usine the terms of Ihe law. These bids are styled, from the manner in winch they are designated on the books of the Department, 'star 4WV The experience of the Department enables it to lay down Ihe following rules, viz 1 When the mail oj the rout, is not so lnrg as to require two-horses conch convoynnco, a star hid, If the lowest, will always be preferred to the spceilie bid. When the um'ils are of such size and weight as to render it necessary, in reference to them alono, to provide two horse conch conveyance, the specific bid, though the highest, for coach service, if ndindged to be entirely sufficient for the routo, will lie preferred to the star bid, in cuso the difference is not such ns to interfere with the policy of the law of 1845, which looks co a reduction in the cost of transportation. Exceptions, however, mny be allowed where the star bid is rando by the owner of tho stock now used on the route in the performance if conch service. On routes of tho highest class, where four horse conch or steamboat trunoportntion is re quired by tho sizennd imporfnnco of the mails, and the specific hid is adjudged sufficient for the route, the preference for tho specific hid will ho if necessary, carried to a groutes extent of difference than on tho inferior couch routos. 20. A modification of a hid, In any of its es sontinl terms, is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot be received, so ns to intorfero with re gular competition, after tho Inst hour set for receiving bids. 20. I'ostninsters nro to bo careful not to cer tify tho sufficiency of guarantors or sureties without knowing that they are persons nf suffi cient responsibility; and all bidders, guarantors and sureties arc distinctly notified that on a fai lure tu enter into or to perform the eontracts for the servico proposed for in the nooented bids, their legal liabilities will be enforcou n gainst them. 22. Tho contractors will be substantially in the forms heretofore used in this Department, exoept in the respects particularly mentioned in those instructions; and on steambont routes tho contractors will bo required to deliver the mails into tho post offices nt the ends of the routes and into nil the immediate post offices. 2.1. Present contractors and persons known at the Department must, equally without others, procure guarantors and certificates nf their su fficiency uhstnntinlly in the forms above prss cribed. Tho certificates of sufficiency mast be signed by a postmaster, or a judge, or olork of a court ef record. JAMFS CAMPBELL, Post Master General. Post Office Department, October 13, 1853. oct!5 wl2w BRITISH INDIA. Ono of tho immediato cansos of the pro found interest token by the British peo ple in tho qunrrel between Russia and Turkey, is the influence which a war in volving England therein must have on the British Empiro in India. A favorite themo with the anti-Russian party in England,- for many years, has beeen the steady and threatening advance of the Russian power in Asia towards tho Brit ish East Indian Empire. Every biicccss of arms and of negotiation by which Rus sia has advanced her frontier or acquired inllnenco in Asia, has been watched and denounced as ono step nearer the suppos ed aim of overturning the British domi nion. Volumes have been written toa ronce the British nation against theso de signs, and the Government has so far giv en its counti'nanee to the reality of the danger as to have sent costly embassies to rersia and. other intervening countries to counteract Russian intrigues and es tablish an adverse English influence The littu war with the'Ahgliiuis was traced to Rustan plots gftin"t England; and the result has; lft a unijiiiot frontier, which in nstb protected with strong srme Rgninst internal discontents, as well as pacified and courted by all the arts of pursuation. If open war hreaks out in Europe between Russia and England, that which has been done slowly, insidiously, and by indirec tion in Asia, will be prosecuted boldly, with tho stron hand : and England may expect tho native sovereigns beyond tho ooruer to ue ronsea up uy an me oris oi Russian diplomacy and by Russian pro mises and bribes, to invado tho British dominions ; and every aggrieved poten tate or tribe within the whole Indian pe tninsn'a will be encouraged and aided to harass tho company, its servants ana troops. Hence, a state of declared war between these two Governments will iuiposo tho immediate cost upon England ot sending out strong ainiaments by land and sen, tor the security ot its possessions in lniiia, and to be prepared to meet all the strength and all the artifices which Russia can employ for compassing tho overthrow of tho British rule in theso regions. Tho far oil' danger has doubtless moro influ ence in causing tho long hesitation of the British Cabinet in redeeming their pled ges of giving material support to tho canso of the Sultan, than any considera tion connected with tho probable results in Europe Tho frontier of Asiatic Rus sia comes down to the neighborhood of British India, in contiguity with disaf fected tribes, or tribes liablo to bo mado so, with which England must contend at a vast distance at an enormous cost, and at great disadvantage. Ilenco, tho secu rity of tho British Indian dominions bo comes an anxious part of the inquiry how Russian aggression and ambition in En ropo is to be checked by tho interference of the Western powers. The Cabinet ap pears to have taken this view, but tho op position insist that this is a forciblo rea son for prompt and vigorous interposition. They sayMiat tho struggle for mastery in India must come sooner or latter; that Russia relaxes no effort to extend her pow er and influence in that direction, and will surely make the attempt as soon as ho shall have secured tho avenues for ap proach, and consolidated her means to the end. Now then is tho best opportu nity for making a successful resistanco, and destroying her influence hero, when tho christian powers of Western Eorope aro in alliance with tho Sultan, the chief Alahommcdan powerof Asia, and tho sym pathy of all tho Alahommcdan tribes, may bo counted upon in opposition to tho on pressor of tho Turks. There never could be a better opportunity for bringing on tho contest in Asia for turning back tho encroachments of Russia. So arguo the warpaityin England, find the inostpacific foreseeing the ultimato probability of war in spite of all efforts to adjust tho quarrel by diplomacy, acknowledge tho danger and discuss the means of meeting it. In tho meantime, they haveahttlo war on hand which may serve to show them how costly a great war may bo. The war with Burmah, which was thought to be so snugly settled by tho annexation of the Burmese provinco of I'eru to tho British Empire and tho exaction of certain in demnities, is revived with feelings of now exasperation. The king himself, having in view tho penalties lie has already suf fered for opposing tho arbitrary will of sonio British subordinates, affects to de sire peace, and makes no open avowal of his sympathy with his subjects, who havo instituted a guerrilla wartaro against tho British. One chieftan is at tho head of 0,. 00 men, and another of 4,500 men, and other parties nro in arms with largo forco to drive out tho British. English accounts describe them as mere highway robbers, but they aro regularly arranged into troops under nativo leaders, who arc hereditary chiefs, and among their most activo supporters is tho King's brother, who is heir to tho throne. After a two years war, which has cost Great Britain millions of pounds sterling, the whole toil and cost is to begin again, for the British have no suitable torce or permanent foot hold in the country, and the rebels have threatened to devastate tho whole pro vince rather than permit its permanent occupation. If this Empire were within reach of Russian help, how snüUeuly would these insurgents find arms and money and troops, if needed, to carry on this war fare : and along tho British frontier to wards which Russia is Advancing, thcro are tribes and nations that only want pro vocatiou and opportunity, and had such countennnco, to give tho British occup ants infinito troublo, and demand of Great Britain immense exertions and enprinons expenditures. New Orleans Picayune, Industry is tho foundation of all good, as laziness is the root of all evil. 1U liiu lliusmiuouo v mo vi'K;iun.o givon tbovo wo may add ono tiint will shortly uo witinntiio observation oiitioso who are fond ofcultivating flowering bul bs. Wo refer to the Cyclamen 1'erti cum, a bulb bearing a newer of rare de licacy and beauty- While in full flower, tho stems aro erect, but as tho tinted pe tals decay with age, tho straight stein gradually uows, losing, However, none oi its vitality, until it forms a crescent, tho lower horn of which, bearing the seed pod, will press against the sido of tho flower-pot, about two-thirds of the depth below the rim. As soon as that obstruc tion is felt by tho plant, tho stem will gradually take ft sido-ward diroction, so as to be parallel to instead of at an angle with the side of the flower-pot. It will then retrace its inarch by increasing its curvature until it has climbed oyer tho rim ot tho flower pot, and üemisiteü its seed pod on the mould near tho present bulb. The plant is probably too delicate to bear exposure in the open ground in our climate. When thus planted, a et miliar deposit of tho seed is ma lo by tho plant, but the instinct is moro clearly shown in tho manner of overcoming tho artificial obstacle. Wero tho plant to persist in tho original direction of the cur vature of the stem, tho seed pod would only bo pressed moro 6trongly against tho sido of tho flower pot. By tho alte ration of the direction of tho curve it sur mounts the difliculty. But nature's realm is full of such wonderful displays of ins. tinct, N. Y, Commercial Advertiser . Tho Sonora incursion has agitated tho nation, and an array of resistance is being mado. From the San Diego (California) Herald, of the 3d of December, is quot ed a proclamation "to tho people ot thu United States" of one Win. Walker, who styles himself "President of Lower Cali furnia." Wo deem it proper to place be fore our readers this important document in extenso : To theienple rfthe United States: In declaring the Republic of Lower Ca lifornia free, sovereign, and independent, I deem it proper to give tho people of tho United States the reasons for tho step I have taken. It is due to tho nationality which Iih most jealously guarded the independence of the American States to declare why a nother representative is created on the in mediato confines of tho Union. Tho Mexican Government lias fur a long timo failed to perform its duties tu tho province of Lower California. Cut off as the territory was, by tho treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, from all direct com munication with tho rest of Mexico, tho central authorities have manifested little or no interest in tho affairs of tho Cali fornia peninsula, Tho geographical po sition of tho provinco is sueltas to make it certainly scparnto and distinct in its interest from tho other portion of tho Mex ican Republic. But tho moral and so cial tics which bound it to Mexico havo been even weaker and more d colombio than tho physical. Ilenco, to dcvelopo all the resources of Lower California, and to effect a proper social organization therfin, it was necessary to mako it inde pendent. Tho mineral and pastoral wealtU of Lower Coliforniais naturally very great; but to properly dcvelopo it, there muso bo good Government and sure protection to labor and property. Mexico- is una bio to furnish theso requisites for tho srrowth and prosperity of tlie peninsula. The territory, under Mexican ufc, wouhí forever remain wild, half savngo, ami uncultivated, covered with an indolent and half civilized propio desirous of keep ing all foreigDcrB from entering the limits of tho State. When tho people of a territory fuil al most entirely to developo tho resources that nature has placed ot their command, tho interest of civilization requires others to go in and possess the land. They can not, nor should they be allowed to play the "dog in the manger," and keep oth" ers from possessing what they havo fail ed to occupy and appropriate. Mexico has not performed any of tho ordinary ditties ot Government towards tho peoplo of Lower California. She has established no suro and ready means of communication for the people among them or tho rest of tho world, nor has she ev er undertaken to protect them from the wondering robbers who infest tho terri tory. Thus abandoning tho peninsula, and leaving it as it was, a "waif on the the waters." Mexico cannot complain if others tako it and make it valuable. On such considerations hove I and my companions in arms acted in tho course we have pursued. And for the success pf onf enterprise, we put our trnst in Rimy' \n\n IP . ll. .'1I...1 L!A..n C ikA .MMAlnlllu