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rtments a seat upon the floor of the Senate. Mr. Haynes, of Tenn, moved to amend the bill by striking out, in the 4th and 5th lines, the words "with the privilege of discussing any measures appertaining to his department. " The amendment was agreed to as follows: Yeas--Messrs Brown, Caperton, Clark, Davis, Dortch, Haynes, Henry, Johnston of Ark, Mitchell, Oldnam, Peyton, Simms, Sparrow, and Yancey--14. Nays--Messrs. Barnwell, Burnett, Clay, Hill, Hunter, Maxwell, Orr, Phelan, Semmes, and Wigfad--10. On motion of Mr. Sparrow, the bill was postponed indefinitely. Mr. Wigfad, from the special committee appointed to investigate the duties and privileges of reporters upon the floor of the Senate, submitted a report defining the duties of reporters for the press, and the relations which exist between them and the Senate, which was accompanied by the following resolutions which were considered and debated at some length: Resolved, That the privilege of the flo
Life at Tullahoma. --A correspondent of the Chattanooga Rebel gives a description of Tullahoma and life therein. As the place occupies so much of public attention at this time the following brief extract from the letter will be readable: A shocking place. (I mean for a gentleman!) A dismal, melancholy railroad station. A place for bats to fly and owes to helot. Such, such is Tullahoma. Take a trip to Purgatory by way of "Semmes's hole," and pay a flying visit to Corinth, Miss., or return, and you may get some nation of it, nothing else will suffice; language woeful, imprecative, or descriptive, fails altogether. A few scattered, equaled, and dilapidated tenements, (clammed, jammed, and damned, worse than the black hole of Calcutta, vide Macaulay;) up to the eyes; nor having stone nor em; black jacks around you; and a dull, leaden, ever relay sky above you! Of the amusements so popular there the writer adds: Nothing to do but to eat and quarrel. We have f