Washington telegraph., 1854-08-30
A Queer Case.

When the appropriation for keeping up
the Navy Yard at Memphis came under the
consideration Of Congress just before the
close of the session, the Senate struck Off
| from the amount of the estimates and the
House reduced them still farther. Mr..
Jones, of Tennessee, becoming indignant
at this, introduced a Bill TO donate the
Memphis Navy Yard to the Mayor and
| Council of that city-wbich, contrary to
any expectation. we suppose. was actually
done.
Mr.. Atchison, in his remarks on the ap-
preparation Bill said
"He was somewhat, responsible for this
Navy Yard at NIGnphis. 1t was establish
ed since he had in Congress 1t was
laughed at when FIRST proposed; but the
time the Wing and Democratic candidates
for Governor Of Tennessee were in Congress
one in the Senate and the other IN the
House-the Wing member went round
among his political friends saying "lf you
viii only give me this Navy Yard at Mem
phis will be able to sweep the State. = =
The Democratic candidate appealed to his
party friends, that unless he could get the
Navy Yard the Wing candidate would de-
feat him. Laughter. Both parties were
placed under this sort Of party quarrels,
and they had to vote for the Navy I 4ard.-
Had it not been for this circumstance there
never would have been Navy Yard 700
miles from the seaboard.
The last Memphis Eagle & Enquirer bit
terly denounces the proceedings, and calls
upon the Town Council to reject the dona-
ton with scorn, should the bill be approved
by the President Upon Mr.. Atchison the
Eagle and Enquirer is particularly severe,
denouncing as wholly unworthy Of public
confidence the man who could thus condemn
himself from his own lips, and boldly avow
that he had been helping to squander near
ly million Of dollars Of public money,
for the sole purpose of promoting party
and personal interests in Tennessee"
Tie Eagle and Enquirer contends that
the Government is bound to prosecute the
works at the Memphis Navy Yard-that
the public faith has been pledged to estab-
lish and keep it up. and that the act dona-
ting it to the Memphis city council is but a
"mess of pottage" ingeniously served up by
Northern members to swinGle the South and
Southwest out Of their rights
After handling very roughly, Mr. Atchi
son in particular, the Eagle & Enquirer
castigates members in general, and charges
them with being Influenced in their acts by
the corrupting power Of NANCY.
Doubtless under certain circumstances
great benefits would be derived from the es-
tablshment of Navy Y ard at Memphis 1t
Maury, upon whose recommendation it was
established, must have fully satisfied the
authorities of its Importance, and the En-
quirer challenges any one to show that one
single expectation in regard to the Navy
Yard at Memphis has ever been dIsappoint-
ed, or that it has proved to be, in solitary
instance inadequate to the purposes Of Its
establishment.
There certainly must be Scre10 loose
probably taco of them-an intellectual screw
and a moral screw--amongst the members
of Congress, when they are thus perfectly
willing to throw away million Of dollars
without any equivalent, while, at the same
time they refuse comparatively small sum
for removing the raft in Red rivera work
which would give good navigation to vast
and fertile region Of country, now but par
TALLY settled, flood it with an enterprsiug
population, and what is more-add another
laurel to Uncle Sans brew and put money
in his pocke +" instead of disgracing him
and squandering his money like the Mem
phis Navy Yard donation.
70 We have received pamphlet, pub
| lished at Helena. Arkansas, by ALFRED