The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26
FROM WASHINGTON

FROM WASHINGTON.
February l9.-Both Houses have adjourn.
ed over TO Tuesday next, to afford m oppor-
tunity for members to attend the ceremonies
of the Inauguration of the statue of Washing
ton Mt Richmond, on Monday, the 29d.
Gov Floyd and large party will go down
tomorrow night.
The Army bill still hangs in the Senate
The pending question is upon the employ.
ment OF four thousand volunteers. The oh.
lection to the measure is the great expense
attending it, The army now consists of
ABOUT eighteen thousand men, supposing all
the companies to be filled up to the author
lied number of seventy-four. Beyond this
amount Congress is not disposed to 90.
Some of the speakers in the Senate, in re-
gard TO tie necessity of augmcntnp the mr..
my, have thrown cold water upon the Utnb
crusade.
The Senate will not dispose of the Army
bill before the end of next week. After thai
the Kansas admission BILL yesterday repor,ed
from the Committee on Territories BY Mr.
Green of Missouri, will be taken IN, and
pressed to n conclusion. Mr.. Green's report
Is able and conclusive. Congress has MOTH
ing to do, as he shows, with the approval or
d'sapproval of the Constitution of n State.
"ut SIMPLY to see whether it be the legal
Constitution of a new State, and whether Il
be republican in form; whether the bou,do-
RES proposed be admissible, and whether the
number OF. inhabitanis be sufficient to Justify
State organization. The bill for the ad-
mission of Kansas will pass the Senate by
majority of six or eight. But it may be nee.
essary to resort 10 the prerious question in the
Senate, for the purpose of restricting the dis.
cusson within reasonable limits. The Re-.
publican Senators claim thirty days for
speeches, which is unreasonable. Henry CLAW.
at one time, advocated the adoption of the
previous question in the Senate, in order tn
put on, and to debate, and obtain voto nm
question.
The Special Committee of the lIouse ON
the Kansas message. have agreed TO nyesti-
gate only one Subjective legality Of the
apporlionment of the delegates for tho Le-
compton Convention.
The report of the Committee will tend TO
facilitate instead of embarrassing the PASSAGE
of the Kansas admission bill.
Colonel Orr showed much Judgment and
tact in constituting this important committee.
The Black Republicans alone censure the
selection Cor. Ch Cor.
BANKRUPT.-l took stock in the Demo-
cratic Party, and came on here to WASHING.
ton to secure my share of the dividend Int
on my arrival, found the ID thing
broke.-JameS G. Jones.
The Columbia (Tennessee) Mirror saws:
'Whether Senator Jones made this declnro-
ton or not, we do not pretend to know; but
they say he did, and that language is charac
terisiic of the man. lie was not the first 10
discover that the Great National Democratic
Party is broke; nor is he the only ambitions
political capitalist who took stock in the con.
Germ, and failed to secure share of the divi-
dends. liz fact, it has yielded no dividends
unless you put down the stealage under that
head. The institution has been, and still is.
wretchrdly managed. The stock is at
heavy discount all over the Union, ard il
daily deprecialng. Its boosted sinking fund
the Kansas Nebraska bill md the PRINCIPLES
therein involved-has been swept away long
ago; and il what is left of its capital stock
were divided out to-day among the share
holders, the largest amount distributed would
not buy the vote Of single railroad Irish.
man.
"Of the many splendid promises W hieh the
Administration made the people, not one has
been redeemed at maturity; they have all
been suffered to go to protest without the
faintest effort TO "pay them out" With such
n miserable management, it is no wonder that
the thing 1--WE omit Senator Jones' pious ex
Plelive "by particular request') is bankrupt.
That it is bankrupt, nobody pretends to
doubt; and the worst of it, or rather, the hest
OF II, Is, that bankruptcy is utterly hopeless;
Tor It's Liabilities exceed its assets by at least
five hundred per cent.
| HANGING OF A PolsoYER,-James r.. FL
bridge but twenty one years of age, was
hung in the Jail yard at Canton, New York.
on FRIDAY last, for having murdered, by pois
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