The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-12-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Dec. |

President Fillmore was waited upon yes
terday by a large number of members o.
Congress, Of all parties. Gen. Cass was O.
the number. Much respect is manifested fol
Mr.. Fillmore, and, if the prosperity Of tht
country is any evidence of the wisdom of ar
administration, Mr.. Fillmore must be Solo
mon. But if Mr.. Fillmore has not made, he
has done nothing to mar, public prosperity
Let well alone is a mark of wisdom.
Mr.. Brooks expressed his apprehension, in
the debate, yesterday, that the surplus rev.
enuc will, at the commencement Of the next
Congress, reach the amount of forty millions,
to the great detrimcnt of the business inter-
ests of the country. No change Of the tariff
is likely to take place till the end of the uext
session of Congress- Liberal appropriations
will reduce the amount of the surplus. The
French claims will take FIVE millions, and the
Pacific Rail Road fifteen millions year, for
at least five years.
1t appears in advices from Mexico, that the
contract for the Tchuantepcc Rail Road is
granted to u Mexican company, who will
probably do nothing more than to make q
wagon road, if that. But in the present
condition of Mexico, the Central Government
is unable to guaranty any contract which
they may make. No responsible company
will take any contract from Mexico, if their
interests are to depend on the guaranty of
Mexico alone.
The cap stone of the pedestal of the Jack
son statue, weighing twenty tons, has, with
great labor, been drawn through our streets
from the rail road depot, and has finally
reached its destination.
THE EXCHANGE BANK OF MUIrREEsBoIO'.
This new Bank, says tho Chattanooga Ad-
vertiser, We believe, is the first that has gone
into operation in the State under the general
banking law passed at the last session of the
Legislature. J. g. w. Spence are proprie-
tors. The bills are exceedingly neat, and are
mostly of the small denominations of |, 9,
and 3 dollars. They will consequently prove
q great convenience in making change. We
understand that $4,000 of these small bills
have been received ut the Union Bank, and
will consequently somewhat relieve the EN-
barrasslnent Of our local circulation. The
Exchange Bank and the State Bank are the
only Cncs, where issues are of dcnomina-
ton less than S..
sy"A correspondent Of the New York
Tribune, writing from Washington, Of re-
cent date, says:
"'The matter of Cabinet making is engross-
ing considerable share of the valuable time
and attention of the quidnuncs of this politi-
cal metropolis. Erastus Corning is promi-
nent among the candidates Of those who have
nothing to do with the appointment of the
Presidents advisers. People turn up their
noses at the suggestion that either Mr. Cush-
ing or Mr.. Soule will be Secretary OF State
But il may be that they will have to turn
them down again. The prejudice against Mr..
Soule on the ground that he is Il Frenchman,
is unbcfitting the members of u party that
owes its triumph in the late election to the
NotCo Viz VI VuI DOiH po-
pulation. A letter has just been received in
the city from the Presidents brother n.law,
in which it was stated that nothing was set
tied in regard to the Cabinet except that
there would be M restordtions. Mr.. Buchan-
an has recently declared himself to be entire
ly indifferent to resuming a position in the
Government, and proposes to employ his lei.
sure by writing the memoirs of his times.
~ The expenses Of governing New
Mexico are estimated at about one million Of
dollars The whole amount of property, real
and personal in the territory, is, by the last
census, valued at $2,7OO,OOO. At this rate
the Central Railroad Company of Savannah
is worth moro than the whole territory Of
New Mexico, with its 100000 Pueblo Indians.
Tho whole of New Mexico would not sell,
under the hammer, for the sum it costs the
United States per annum to maintain it, if
the above estimate be true.
cY'It has been discovered that feathers
unskilfully dried and put in beds, arc deadly
to persons with weak lungs sleeping upon
them. Old feather beds, Of double age on
which filth and disease have long fingered,
4 c..s