The south-western., 1854-09-13

for keeping up the navy yard at Memphis cam
under the consideration OF congress- ust betoI
| the close OF the session, the senate struck o.
| from the amount Of the estimates, and the hons
reduced them still farther Mr.. Jones, O. Ten
nessee, becoming Indignant at this, introduce
bill to donate the Memphis navy yard to IL
mayor and town council Of that city-whicIl
contrary to any expectation, we suppose WA
actually done.
Mr. Atchison. in his remarks on the appro
priation bill said:
He was somewhat responsible, for thi
navy yard at Memphis. 1t was established
since he had been in congress. ltwas laughed
at when first proposed, but at the time the viii!
and democratic candidates for governor of Ten
nessee were in congress--one in the senate anC
the other in the house-the whig member wen
round among his political friends saying: Il
you will only give me this navy yard at Memphl:
| will be able to sweep the state" The demo
cratic candidate appealed to his party friends
that unless he could get the navy yard the whig
candidate would defeat him. Laughter. Both
parties were placed under this sort Of party
quarres, and they had to vote for the navy yard
Had it not been for this circumstance there
never would have been a navy yard 700 miles
from the seaboard.
The last Memphis Eagle & Enquirer bitterly
denounces the proceedings, and calls upon the
town council to reject the donation with scorn,
should the bill be approved BY the president.
Upon Mr.. Atchison the Eagle and Enquirer is
particularly severe, denouncing as wholly I'M
worthy of public confidence the man who could
thus condemn himself from his own lips, and
boldly avow that he had been helping to squan
der nearly million Of dollars of public money
for the sole purpose of promoting party and
personal interests in Tennessee"
The 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 establish and keep it up,
and that the act donating it to the Memphis city
council is but a ''mess of pottage" ingenously
served up by northern members to swndle the
south and southwest out of their rights.
After handling very roughly, Mr. Atchison
n particular, the Eagle and Enquirer castigates
members in general, and charges them with
being Influenced in their acts by the corrupting
power of money.
Doubtless under certain circumstances great
benefits would be derived from the establish
nent of navy yard at Memphis. It. Maury,
Ipon whose recommendation it was established !
must have fully satisfied the authorities of its
Importance and the Enquirer challenges any
ne to show that one single expectation in re-
ard to the navy yard at Memphis has ever been
Isappointed, or that it has proved to be, in
solitary instance, inadequate to the purposes
f its establishment. +
There certainly must be screw. loose |
robab1y two of 1hem-an intellectual screw
nd moral screw-amongst the members Of :
ongress, when they are thus perfectly willing {
throw away million of dollars without any c
luIvalent. Washington Telegraph.
The following is the law creating SLreve- !
ort port of delivery, approved August 9, j
354: i
Be it enacted by the senate and house of !
presentatives of the United States of America \
congress assembled, That Tuscumbia, in the r.
ate of Alabama, shall be and is hereby con- 3
tuted port of delivery within the collection ;
strict of New Orleans, and there shall be ap-
'nted surveyor of customs, to reside at said re
rt, who shall, in addition to his own duties, a!
rtorm the duties and receive the salary and IL
1oiuments Of surveyor, prescribed by tie act
congress, approved on The second of March, de
5htcen hundred and thirty-one for importing "
srchandse into Pittsburg, Wheeling and other hi h;
aces. VI
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Pa le,
cah, in the State of Kentucky, Shreveport. ma
the State OF Louisiana, and Jef1ersonviile. in III
; State of Indiana shall be, and they are We
reby, constituted ports of delivery within We
: collection district of New Orleans, and i6y
re shall be appointed surveyor of customs fro fro
reside at each port, who shall, in addition to
III own duties, perform the duties and receive at
salary and emouments Of surveyor, pre-
ibed by the act of congress approved on the sol n
ond of March, eighteen hundred and thirty 1nf l'(
:, for importing merchandise into Pittsburr, su
1ecling, and other places
--a'- IT,.
INFLUENCE OF THE UNITED SrATEs.-The tb
1don Daily News one of the ablest and most We
uential organs of the liberty party in the so
ted kingdom, opens a long article on affairs ne
he United States with the following para fo,
ph: II
t is the custom of the most of conservatives. po
Great Britain, (and of some others than bo
servatives to sneer and joke about the no. to
the Americans have of their own iynpor Th
ee in the world. There is no use in PROVING thl
uch sati1ists that, in the deepest and lar 49,.
sense, the Americans cannot exaooerate ~