The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-05-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, April 2


learn. with pleasure, tina, the Compro.
mise Committee of the Senate have agreed
upon the terms of their report. and directed
their Chairman, Mr.. Clay, to present their
views to The Senate and the country. The
last meeting of the Committee was on
Thursday. It was then decided that, IN
one bill, should he united California, the
territorial governments, and the Texan
proposition. The terms Of the Fugitive
Slave bill were agreed upon. Mr.. Cass,
as learn, suggested them, and they are
so favorable and we'll guarded as TO remove
all objections OF the Northern people
They were framed with "A view to meet
some of those objections. The PROPOSE
lions are, 10 amend the act of 1893 SO as
10 make it the duty of the Federal Courts
in each State, to appoint Commissioners
10 enforce the act. The owner OF a fugi-
live slave or his agent, is 10 go before a
magistrate in Court. in his county, and
describe the person Of the fugitive. and sla'e
the fact Of his elopement, whereupon he is
TO take certificate Of the facts, which he
is TO present to one of the Comm!ss ioners
above named, in the State where the fugl-
tive is found. The Commissioner is 10 ar.
rest the slave and return him to the owner,
or his agent. the latter giving bond, with
ou, other Than his own security, to try the
said slave upon his return home. by jury
of the vlcinage. This jury is 10 decide up
on The identity Of the fugitive with the per-
son alleged to have eloped. These guards
are 10 prevent the possibility Of anything
like kidnapping.
The other measure agreed upon regards
the slave trade in this District. |, is pro.
posed simply to extend over this District
the law of Maryland, as it existed four years
ago, and which will ehectually suppress
the slave marts in this District.
Mr.. Clay retired on Friday, into the
country, in order to write the report ex>
planning and recommending these meas
ures. He IS at the mansion Of Mr.. George
Calvert, in Maryland, and will probably
conclude his labor today.
The weather has become very delight
fuI. and Congress IS IN a better humor than
heretofore. No one doubts tina. the great
question is now to be settled.
At the Treasury, during the week ending
yesterday, The sim of SG99 600 in U. S.
Stocks, was transferred TO foreigners. The
week before it was S330,OO0. Foreigners
are selling out French funds at a great
loss. and purchasing ours at large ad-
vance.
WASHINGTON, AprIl 90.
The week opens brightly. Whatever
discontenls have prevailed they are now
nearly distinguished. Nothing would be
more auspicIous than the agreement Of the
members Of the Committee, ten of the thir.
teen being present. to scheme Of compro-
mise.
My letter OF yesterday briefly stated the
pro visions Of the scheme. The whole thing
is becoming easy. Some days ago, there
were but twenty Northern Democratic
members who could be vouched for, as GER
tain supporters Of this. or any so liberal
scheme. Now, we can count thirty. The
passage of the bill proposed is Beyond a
doubt. Mr. Benton will rave and rage,
but who will relard him2 He has already
given US his programme. The nuisance
must be tolerated. II he abstain from open
violence, his opposition will be oil no count.
We cannot, thus morning, count mp more
than twelve Senators who will, with MIR.
Benton, resist the propositions OF the Com
m,,,ee. The country may be congra'uIa.
ted upon the happy result. Those who
doubted, a, any time, the strength and cu-
rabliiy oil our institutions, have been great
ly disappointed. The Union is broader and
stronger now than it ever was before.
The three bills Of Mr.. Clay's Committee
will now pass the Senate-ihat IS, in
month. and the House will easily pass them
Faction is dying away. !; fades before
strong and free opinion.
am glad TO see that Mr.. Hunters bill.
TO establish Board of Accounts. is to come
up for consideration. in the Senate. TO-
morrow. The arguments in favor of the
measure are not to be answered. Expert
ence has proved that Congress is a most
uuf, tribunal for the adjudication Of private
claims. No bills Of the kind can pass wiih>
out og>rolling. A large and doubtful claim
is better than any OF the legion Of small
and just ones.
The Census bill is 10 be again debated
today. Nothing can pass without a long
talk. Yet every 5ody knows that the Gen.
sus mus, be taken. The hundred questions
are opposed by few. They are admira-
bly, devised for the purpose Of exhibiting
the resources and social improvement oil
the county. The last Census embraced
f., vvhich ro