The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-13
Our Warrington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON. ian II Is

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, 1856.
Neao Retrenchment Bilt-Consternation Among TIE
Spoilsn,en-Assistant officials to Be Dispensed Wa
Atmospheric acknowledgements Report 7Aereon--
No Judiciary Bill This Session-Colins Line Of Ocean
Ste0meys-Bounty Land Bill.
In few days the spoil-men of the administration win
be dumbfounded at the appearance Of q bill In the
House Of Representatives abolishing the Offices Of As
sstsnt Secretary Of State and ssant Secretary Of
Treasury. This viii but the beginning but II win
be good beginning. 1t will check the present great
tendency towards a duplication of the whole govern
ment We have now the assistant Secretary Of State
and Assistant Secretary # the Treasury; and Mr. Nc
Clean asked for Assistant Secretary OF the Interior
This all system Of things, and If permitted to 70
on unchecked we shall have assistant com ptrol
ers auditors and chief clcrks-in fact the cry will DO
for more, more, until have complete double set Of
officers for the government; whep by the rule Of
increasing patronage, presume Implication will be
commenced the general Post Office Departments furnish
ing the necessary precedent. Thin BILL however,
will arrest this growing evil and should be passed with
We have now on exhibition, in q committee room At
the capitol miniature atmospheric telegraph, invented
ration, are very complete and satisfactory. committee
Of the Senate, In a report upon its merits, says
81 The mai, between Washington and New York 10 nov
tee do not greatly srr the mails may be carried
between these cities in two hours by the proposed az
mospnerc telegraPn ana the expenditure
for the Hansm sfion OF act Of mails, would enable
the Post Office apartment 70 send ak Of mails every
twelve hours The impulse which such frequent rapid
and certain delivery Of the s between distant points
would give to all the business Of country Il ncacu
liable operating with much safety aud unerring cer-
tainty in night A. in daylight unaffected by changes OF
seasons or weathsr-aud exempt from liability to those
mschances accidents and delays which daily retard
ing the delivery Of the mails throughout the COUNTRY the
atmospheric telegraph destined become the ex
elusive mail carrier Of the age.u
In Mr.. Richardson's object to procure from Con.
gresa an appropriation Of 000 much thereof
as may be necessary 10 construct line Of his telegraph
from this city to Baltimore, as matter of experiment
IL was but yesterday, as 1t were that the genius Of
Morse gave us the telegraph and enabled us to writs
with long pen from city OF the Union TO another
and though IL was received at first with doubt-nAy
With derison-s now one Of the great facts well as
one Of the necessities, oil the age.
Al this moment when every man seems to be 4 spe-
cia competitor against time, when mammon Is In tho
ascendant and the dictum that I'll ae IL money! i'm
presses itself upon all the affairs of fe-whsn hours
minutes and seconds pounds shillings and pence
Mr.. Richardson's invention comes upon Ms TO supply
lima which 10 con essedly wanting
can now assure you that judiciary bill will
pass the Senate this session. Its best friends have
rendered all hopes Of success, and Supreme Court
will continue under Its present organization Much bet
ter this than to have destroyed the representative cha
racter Of the court by establishing Capitalization.
congress every day becoming more and more favor
able TO the Collins line OF ocean steamers and tia
friends are quite sangune that the present contract win
be continued.
The Bounty Land bill will certainly pass in some
shape, and that very