The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-10-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
WAsHINGTON, Sept. "a.

Senate. Animated debates and amends
ments took place. In the scramble iol
Uacle Sans money, the outsiders tare'
badly. The African steamer line, for which
potent outside influence was raised, hae
shorlrun The project was ruled out o
order by an overwhelming majority, as al
amendment 10 navy bill. 1t may he re-
viyed as an amendment TO Mr.. Burt's in
tended bill to abolish the African eighty
gun squadron. The friends Of the African
steamer line think that il will effect more
for the prevention Of the slave trade thar
the eighty gun squadron. But the projec
cannot succeed at this session. The an
nua appropriation for The Chagres line
did no, ge, through without some res'r'c'
tons. lnnumerable projects were Offered
in the Senate, as amendments TO the civil
and diplomatic bill. Many were carried
Mr.. Benton failed in his project 10 carry on
the experiments with Professor Pages
electromagnetic engine. Mr. Benton stated
what is probably true, that Mr.. Page has
brought up the invention 10 seven and
halr horse power, and would soon be able
10 put a ten horse power engine upon ran
road; and that there is no Limit to the IN.
crease Of the power. But the Senate was
ndisposed to vote any more money Tor the
experiments. They must be left to midi
viJua enterprise. Mr.. Gwin remarked
that the same objections were urged against
Professor Morse's application for aid in his
experiments with the electro magnetic 'ele-
graph. but the aid was given, and produced
wonderful results. Mr.. Pages triumph
will bo very great, should he succeed
against the opinion of almost the whole
world. A short debate occurred on MI.
Dawson's amendment TO pay the New
Mexican Senator elect, who is here-MaJor
observation-disclosures to the amount OF TWO
thousand dollars. II was lost by one vote.
Mr.. Winthrop made an eloquent hafansue
on his proposition 10 subscribe for a thou
sand copies Of the writings of John Adams.
He adduced the fact Of the purchase oil the
papers OF the other four revolutionary Pres
idenIs. John Adams, he said, was the
father Of The revolution. In 1855. before
Bladdock's defeat, and when he was 22
years old. predicted the future glory of
America as the great naval and commercial
power of the world. John Adams noml
mated George Washington as the Com.
mander>in Chief of the American armies.
He, TOO, made John Marshall the Chief
Justice of the United States. Upon the
Declaration of Independence he y'o'e the
famous letter predicting The glorious results.
No one was willing to offer any direct OPP
position, and the project passed.
There was a somewhat savage discussion
upon a proposition 10 relieve Mr.. Richie
of the Union, from his embarrassmen's. as
contractor for the Public Printing. Mr..
Bright opposed it and Mr.. Badger sustained
it. MIR. Turney was very bitter in his OPP
position to it, and Mr.. Foole equally warm
in lis favor. Mr.. Hale was vigorous and
sarcastic in his hostility. Mr.. Richie took
the contract at rulnousIy low rates, trust.
ing, as is contended, to the bounty OF Cons
cress SO often manifested to public printers.
Mr.. Rl,ctie, or his friends for him, evident
~ made some serious mistake in their es.
Inmates of the expense. He has alIeady
los, nearly all that he had acquired here.
He announces that he is unable 10 go on
with the contract, and asks to be relieved
from il. He asks that, for the work exc
cuted, he should be paid at the rate OF
forty.fve per cent reduction on the prices
of 1919, and that the work, if continued
after the present session, shall be paid tor
at thirty per cent reduction from those
prices.
Mr.. Richie is about to withdraw from
the Union. and il is to 60 INTO the hands Of
MIR. Edmund Burke, and will be the organ
of the Democracy, and support Gen. Cass
for the Presidency,-Cm, Char. Cour.
A private Geographic dispatch. from
Macon, Ca, gives US the information that
a large meeting of the Union men Of that
place was held on Saturday last, at the