Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-01

one hundred additional copies OF tue report NC Pihcu
ii which was agreed to.
Mr. Richardson proposes to have tubular passage
running parallel each other, from end to end OF an
given distance Three tubular passages are TO be places
either above or below the surface Of the ground as oun
most convenient and be constructed Of metal wood
br ckwork or any other suitable material AT one ter
minus Of the tubular passages and between them, there
to be liked airexhaustng and forcing machine, con
nected by means Of curved tubes with each Of the tubular
passages which machine is to be actuated by steam
engine any other suitable and competent power aDc
arranged that when put in notion 1t may cause thu
air to flow from passage into the other with great
| velocity.
The report is an elaborate one, and goes into full
description Of the machine and its promised advantages
| and says:
After weighing all the objections that have been suggest
ed deem proper recommend app opration small in
comparison with the national interests involved IN its sue
cess, to test its utility and capacity.
ct is deensd expedient that the experiment should be
made for short distance upon established mail route IN
order that successfully might constitute part of more
extended work. and your committee has been disposed to
prescribe direct line between Washington and Baltimore
The impulse which such frequent, rapid and certain
delivery of mails between distant points would give to al
the business of the country is ncaculable. Operating with
much safety and unerrng certainty as might in daylight
Unaffected by changes Of season weather. and exempt from
liability those misehances accidents, and de avs which
daily reardng the delivery of the mails throughout the
country the atmospheric telegraph destined to become
the exclusive mail.carrier Of the age.
NAIL LINE TO CHINA
Mr.. GWIN. ask the consent Of the Senate to take up
the bin reported from the Committee the Post Office
and Post Roads to establish line Of steam mail ships
between San Francisco in California, and Shanghai, IN
China, touching at the Sandwich Islands and Japan.
Mr.. SEWARD Mr.. President, the summer sostice is
passed. the thermometer indicates 90o time is becoming
precious in the Senate; shall therefore condense the
explanation which the Committee the Post Office and
4 Post Roads has instructed me to make
The bill directs the Postmaster General to contract fol-
five years with the lowest bidder, on fair competitions
with good security for the carriage of monthly mails be-
tween San Francisco in California and Shanghai Chi
hut, If fba pdupcI do md in
vessels Of at least two thousand tons burden
structed in the best manner with regard to speed and
safety of cost of not thnn $500 900 per annum
and directs also that any deficiency of the accrung post
ages to defray the expense of the transaction shall be
paid by the Treasury of the United States. Will the
Senate please to consider that we have in operation
very perfect postal system which pervades and
trates all the inhabited regions of our country while is
connected by steam mail vessels with similar European
postal systems beyond the Atlantic and that by this
ional agency letters newspapers, and commercial sol
entc and political communications of oil sorts regu
larry exchanged among the people of the United States
and those of Western Europe Will the Senate please
consider also that efficiency has been recently given
to these postal systems by the establishment of electric
telegraphs co-extensiye with them both continents
One hundred millions of letters pass through own
post Offices annually.
Now will the Senate consider that since our
postal system thus described was established we have
forever ceased to be merely Atlantic people, and that
the contrary having added to the Union flourish
ing commercial State Of vast dimensions and also
rtory which is to become State the Pacific
coast and that being engaged in filing the terri
tory thus rounded off, we have become continental Anne
rcan Power holding the attitude to Asia that
do to Europe, and sustaining the relations to the
countries on each of those continents? What pro-
posed simply to extend existing postal system west
ward the Pacific ocean, to exchange intelligence
with the nations dwelling its islands and
already exchange intelligence with the nations that dwell
the islands and coasts Of the Atlantic ocean The
very statement of the in this form to me
complete demonstration. Nevertheless will briefly
illustrate.
Mr. S. then proceeded at length in support of the
bill
TEN MILLION BILL
message here received from the House Of Repre-
senaves announcing that the House had passed the bill
enable the President Of the United States fulfil the
and the Mexican Republic of the hrtieth December
thousand eight hundred and ftythree, amended by
the Senate Of the United States
On motion by Mr.. CLAYTON,
Resolpd That the President be requested compatible
with the public interest communicate to the Senate all the
correspondence the Department of State and
Bh Ministers residing this Government in the
1S49 AID 1850 relative the reciprocal interchange of the
productions Of the United States and the British North Anne
st. Lawrence and the Welland and Rdout canals.
The bill was read the second time.
Mr.. HUNTER moved that 1t be put on its passage
which ordered and the bill passedby the follow
ing vote:
YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Allen, Achison Badger, Bayard,
Bright Brodhead, Brown Glass; Clay, Clayton Dodge Of
Iowa. Douglas Evans Fish, Fitzpatrick Geyer Gwin Hous-
tom Hunter James, Johnson Jones of Iowa, Jones of Ten
Mallory Mason, Norris Petit, Rusk, Sebastian Sill
dell Toucey Weller, and Williams-3i.
NAYS-Messrs Chase, Fessenden, Gillette, Seward, Sum-
ner, and Wade-6.
MAIL LINE TO CHINA-AGAIN.
Mr.. GWIN moved to resume the consideration Of the
bill to establish line of mail steamers between San Fran
csco California, to Shanghai China via the Sandwich
Islands and Japan; which was agreed to.
long debate ensued, in which Messrs. ADAMS, NAL
LORY, MASON, EVANS, BROWN, CLAY, and others
opposed the bill, and Messrs. HAMLIN RUSK, JONES,
of Tennessee JOHNSON, and others supported it.
Mr.. BROWN moved an amendment the effect of which
to authorize the Postmaster General to establish
daily mail between Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, and
New Orleans but it was voted down.
The question then taken ordering the bill to be
engrossed and decided in the affirmative, follows
YEAS-Mesrs. Allen, Brodhead, Cass Dodge Of Wisconsin,
Douglas Fessenden Gwn, Hamlin Houston James, John
Jones of Iowa. Jones Of Tennessee Rockwell Ruk Sc
ward, Slidell Stuart Wade and Weller-20.
NAYS-Messrs. Adams Atchson Bayard, Bright, Brown,
Chase Clay Dodge of lows Evans Fitzpatrick Geyer, Gil
ette Hunter, Mallory, ason, Petit Shields, Sumner and
Williams--19
On motion by Mr. BRoDHEAD, the Senate proceeded
the consideration of Executive business and after
brief period spent therein,
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr.. FAULKNER asked the indulgence Of the House
for personal explanation but for brief official