The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21
FROM WASHING TON.
FEBRUARY IL. Is

VlI'c uncertain rs Nc'' NHt'b'i any w ""
radlrg mcn ,urcs Of legislation upon which
50 much time has been spent, will be passed.
The Postage Bill from the House. has nor
oeeh taken UP in the Senate, and do not
think any bill viii be projected OF This scs-
sion, but the suffice, is TO be brought up
ard the Senate win vo'. upon the leading
centuries Of the hll. There is now cOnsI
lcrabe disposition to adopt the uniform
rate Of two and half cents pre- paid, and
.trikinr off coins representing quarter
dimes; also Of sending mail matter in pack
ages in ro il rond cars, or other conveynnces,
several times day in the vicinity OF the
iusiness centres, thus vastly increasing the
pos, Office revenue. The House proposition
to exempt from postage the newspapers
within thirty miles from the pluce of issue
will take halfa million from the revenue Of
the Department, aud the Senate will certaln>
" REJECT that.
The bill to establish q Board Of Accounts
is still before the House, md is debated
with much animal ton. Tn" signs are very
nnfavorabIe to its passage; though mp'iou
u las i, on the table was rel ec'rd
1t is now quite crr'nin that Congress viii
not agree to raise the two Dragon Rrgl-
mcnt> which hnvc boon called for. and are
., data f,E
and Mexican borders from ludan hos'iIi.
ties. But . understand that Ii is to BE-
President to employ the services of Texan
mounted rangers, for frontier defence. They
can be employed at vastly less expense
Than regulars. The expense of a regular
Dragon Regiment on the frontiers. is es-
,ma'cd al the enormous sum Of fifteen huns
bred dollars year per man.
The estimates Of the Quarlermastcr's De
,,nr'men, for the next fiscal year, are very
heavy-nrarly five millions; and learn
TINT, yesterday, the House Committee o.,
Ways ard Means determined 10 cut it down
me bait. The Army Bill has not yet been
reported, hu, it will be very much reduced
from the estimates.
The For,ifcaion Bill and the Civil and
Diplomatic Bill were reported yesterday; out
the House. with remarkable pe''inIci'y,
refuses still to assign any day for taking up
he general appropriation biIls.
An incident took place yesterday which is
an Illustration Of the different stne OF feel.
ing in the House now. from that which eX
listed year ago. Mr.. Julinn, a Free Soil.
cr, novel an amendment to the bill rec i've
10 Board Of Accounts providing that no
claim for n elnve should be allowed. The
vote was taken by ,ellers and there was e!e-
ven votes in the affirmative. Upon simI-
lar questions, year ago, there was ma.
iori,y on the anti slavery side, rs was shown
by some votes.
There is 10 be, very soon, another effort
to pass n bill establishing q mint in Cali
forna. The New Workers contend TINT it
is for the interest Of The South to establish
u min, in that city. Thirty millions of sill.
yer and gold from Mryico and South Amer.
lea, and elsewhere now, they say. goes to
Eng land to be coined, which would come 10
a mlnt in New.York. If il comes 10 New
York it would benefit exchange, TO such an
extent, they say, "a to add one per cent. to
the aggregate annual value of the Southern
crops Of cotton. &c.
Mr.. Bright, Of Indiana. has introduced a
bill providing that the future act of 1913
-hnI not interfere with any prosecutions for
ppna lilies for the violation Of 'he fugitive
act Of 1893. Some suits under The latter
act are pcndng in Indiana, and some sup
pose it to be repealed ny the new act.
The deficiency appropriation bill is pend
ng IN the Senate, and very lnrge a2propri.
atoms have been Offered as amendments to
IT, for Indian claims, &c. rs a plan has
been adopted for the enlargement Of the cap-
itol. that work will be commenced as soon
as Congress adjourns.
Tho twenty second Of Febru ry will be
observed here as n national fesrivi,y. Some
of the members have been in, tied to, nd
will intend, celebrations of the day in some
of the Northern cities: and n number Of
persons from he North and South are eX'
prced to visit this city on the occasion.-
Cor. Oh. COu.
A BENEFICENT AcT.-The Senate of the
United States yesterday passed a bill which
will stand on enduring monument of wise
and philanthropic legislation. We refer to
the bill appropria,ing ten millions of acres
ofthe public lands equal TO twelve millions
five hundred thousand dolIar-) to be appor>
toned among the several States IN an equit.
able ratio. Cor the endowment Of Hospitals
for the INDECENT Insane. Most sincerely do
we congratulate the humane nnd estima BILE
lady (Mss DIx) to whose unwenried exer.
lIuns in rousing public sympathy and inllu-
euce in aid o. her benevolent scheme. IS the
rouniry mainly indebted for the success