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Wmetta JUwate. xYO <so> ____ MARIETTA GEO., TUESDAY MORNING NOV 22 . 1861. PRINTERS INK. This number of the Advocate is prin ted with Ink made by B. A. Randall, & Co., of this place, and will be found to compare favorably witn the best uoitn ern made Ink THE 14TII GEO. REGIMENT. It is painful to read even the recital of the suffering’s of this Regiment in Western Virginia. Exposed to all the evils of a bleak and desolate country three-fouiths of the Regiment sick with scarcely any protection and no comforts in that uninhabitable region is a deplorable condition. They have asked to be removed. Why the force is kept there the government understands than we do—but we can see no reason ■vvhy they should be thus destitute. TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY, The constitutional ground upon which Gov. Brown rests his late seizure is ex ceptional —while it may be construed to admit the right of the State in extraor dinary cases to take prix ate property upon the payment of just compensation i it is very far from affirming the power to take it at will. The two construc tions involve just the difference between the right of a citizen to hold property’ as against the right of the government to take it. If Gov. Brown can fix the value of salt at $5 per sack he can fix it at sl. If he can seize salt—he in ij seize any sp cies of property and the result is that individual wealth is held at the discretion of the executive and the State is no longer dependent upon the people who created it. The bill which has just passed the Senate is less objectionable in its as sumption of power —we do not know that it conflicts as much with constitu tional right as with sound policy. No law was ever passed to regulate trad that did not recoil upon those it was in tended to serve and the attempt to give to salt, bacon,or any other commodity a price lobs than their market value is simply absurd. The effect will be, in evitably, that traders will not purchase such articles and the consumers must get them as they can or do without. The bill fixes the prices at 60 per cent over the prices of April last. Cot ton was then selling at 10 or 11 cents and domestics at 7or 8. Cotton is now selling at 7 and domestics at 10 and 12 This was esteemed extortion -but the bill authorizes an advance upon this.— But, upon pork, of which it is known there is an inadequate supply in the South, the bill fixes a price far below its present market value. Wc suggested to meet the evil of the day, a law, defining extortion, with pro per penalties and we are not sure that the Legislature has found abetter reme dy- THEIR ISIS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. New Orleans, Nov. 20.--The most intense anxiety prevails here with re gard to situation of affairs on the Mis sissippi, near Columbus, Ky. A grand combined attack by all the enemy's forces, land ami river, is anticipated at any moineitl. Commodore Hollins is there in command of our river liotiba.— He to-day sent orders by telegraph f. r all the available boats and the steam ram Manassas, to go up immediately. A floating battery of 20 guns goes up at 9 o’clock to-night. It will be towed by four boats, and it is e\| ected that the voyage will occupy eight davs All ihe river pilots have impressed into the Confederate service. Seventeen thousand troops ami seventy pieces of ordinance are at Columbus. THE INDIANS TR(>r BI.ESOSIE o\ THE TEN l’RO\ I! ER. The Ilous'on “Telegraph” < f the 4th inst. contains a letter giving an ac count of a light I etween a scouting party ot fexans, eight in number, and a baud ot Indians, which took place on Ihe 23d ult in Hamilton countv, Texas. One Texan Rob ?rt Cai ter, an old and highly respected gentlem m, was killed and three others wound d. The 7e,'e •jraph, commenting upon the above, says: Ihe last mail from the frontier briefs us the following letter. We have re ceived other accounts of Indian foray-, which led us to believe that f’.k. 's great Indian treaty is an unmitigated humbug. Ihe Indians are certaii.lv becoming is troublesome this tall as « \ei ami at least two ri gimeuts of ran gers will be required topi teet the fron tier this winter. Wetrust -hat since thin war is our business at piesent, the war will be carried on ’knite to the hili' against all our enemies. Nothing but the extermination of the Indian* will ever save our frontier settlement- THE MARIE TTA SEMI' WEE KL Y ADVOCATE MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS. Richmond, November 19, 1861. The following is the Message of Presi dent Davis, read before Congress to day. To the Congress of the Confederate Stales : The few weeks winch have elapsed since your adjournment lias brough us so near the close of the year that we arc now able to sum up the general icstilis The retrospect is such as should fill the hearts of our people with gratitude to Providence for liis kind interposition in their behalf. Abundant yields have rewarded the labor of the agriculturist, whilst the manufacturing industry of the Confed erate States was never as prosperous as now. The necessities ol tne times have called into existence new branches of manufactures and given a fresh im pulse to the aciivity of those heretofore in operation. The means of the Con federate States for manufacturing the necessities and comforts of life, within themselves, increases as the conflict continues, and we are gradually becom ing independent of the rest of the world for the supply of such mili ary s ores and munitions as are indispensable for war. The operations of the Mmy, Soon to be partially interrupted by the approach ing winter, have afforded a protection to the country and shed a lustre upon its aims, through the trying vicissi tudes of more than one arduous cam paign, which entitle cur brave vobins teers io our praise and our gratitude.— From its commencement up to the pres ent period, the war has been constantly enlarging i s proportions and extend' ing its boundaries, so as to include new fields. Jhe conflict now extends from ihe shores of the Chesapeake to the confines of Missouri and Arizona.— Yet, sudden calls from the remotest points for military aid have been met with promptness enough, not only to avert disasters in the lace of superior numbers, but also to roll back the tide of invasion from the border. When the war commenced the enemy were possessed of certain strategic points and strong places within the Confederate States. They greatly ex celled in numbers, in available resour ces, and in the supplies necessary for war ; mili ary establishments had been long organized and were complete ; the navy, and lor the most part, the army, once common to both, were in their possession. To meet all this, we had to create, not only an army, in the face of war itself, but also the military es tablishments necessary to equip and place it in the field. It ought, indeed, to be a subject of gratification, that the spit it of the volunteers and the patriot ism of the people, have enabled us, un der I’rovidence, to grapple successfully with these difficulties. A succession of glorious victories at Bethel, Bull Run, Manassas, Springfield, Lexington, Lees burg ami Belmont, has checked the wicked invasion which greed of gain and the unhallowed lust of powe r brought upon our soil, and has proved j that numbers cease to avail w hen direc ted against a people lighting for the sacred right of self-government and the privileges of freemen. Alter more than seven months of war, the enemy have not only failed co extend their occupa tion of our soil, but new States and Ter ritories have been add, d to our Con j federacy ; while, instead ol their threat | ened march of conquest, they have been ' driver. to assume the defensive ; and ■ upon a fair comparison between the i two belligerents, as to men, military means and financial condition, the Con federate States are, relatively, much stronger now than when the struggle commenced. Since your adjournment, the people of Missouri have conduct d the war in the face of almost unparalleled difficul ties, with a spirit ami success alike wor thy of themselves ami of the great cause in which they are struggling. [ Si .cc that time K ntueky, too, has become the theatre of active hostilities. i The federal forces have not only refused ' to acknowledge her right to neutrality in the war, but have invaded her for the purpose of attackin •’ the Confed t- • ate Stales. Outrages of the most des potic character have been perpetrated upon her people Some of her most eminent citizens have been seized and borne away to languish in foreign pris . ons, without knowing w.io were their accusers, or specitiea ions ot' charges made against them, while others h ivi i been forced to al and >n their homes, families and property an 1 seek a refuge in distant lands. Finding th it the Co:i --' federate states were about to be inva through Kentucky, ami that her people, alter being deceived into a nr taken security, were unarm- d and in danger of being’ subjugated by th" 6- l erai forces, - nr armies were ma: h- 1 into that Slate to repel the enemy an I prevent their oceupi. icy of certain strategic points which would have giv en them great advantages in the v- n test -a step which was justified, not only by the necessity of seit' i feirn -, on the part of' the Confederate Stales, but dso by a desire to aid the pc 'pie of Kentucky. It was never intend' -1 I y ti.e Confederate G vcrmneiit to*’ n iner ! or coerce the pe ude of that St .te, but. on the contrary, it Was declared by oir Generals t at they wouL; withdrw ti: ir troops it a f :. r d Guvernm nt w-.mi 1 do lik.-w.se. Proclamation was also ma le ot tm- desire t > respect the n u- i tiali’y of Kentucky ami the intention to abide by the w isiies- t her pimple, as a . - ? ■■ ■ free t opinions. Ihese deci ;rations wre ap proved by ne. ami Ish übl i. gar lit as one', f the best effects of the march of our tv ops into Kentuckv. i; it s I end in giving to her people the liberty of choice and free opportunity to decide their own destiny according to their own will. The,army has been chiefly instrumen tal in prosecuting’the great contest in which we are engaged ; but the navy has also been effective : n full propor tion to its means. The naval officers, deprived to a great extent of an oppor tunity’ to make their professional ski I available at sea, have served with com mendable zeal and gallantry on shore and upon inland waters; further details of which will be found in the reports of the Secretaries of the Navy and War. In the transportation of the mails many diticulties have arisen, which will be fully developed in the report of Post nias’er General. The absorption of the ordinary’ means of transportation for the movement ot troops ami military sup’ pl es the insufficiency of rolling stock of railroads for the accumulation of busi ness resulting' both from military operations and the obstruction of water communication by the presence of the enemy’s fleet, the failure and even re fusal of contractors to comply with the terms of their agreements, the difficul ties inherent it; inaugurating so vast and complicated a system as that which requires postal facilities for every town ami visage in a territory so extended as ours,have all comuined g tO impede the best directed efforts of the Postmaster General, whose.zeal, industry and ability lu-ve been taxed to the utmost extent. Some of these difficulties can be over come by time, and an improved condi tion of t e country, by the restoration of peace ; but others may be remedied by legislation, and your attention is in vited to the recommendations contained in the report of the head ol that depart ment. Ihe condition of the Treasury will, doubtless be a subject of anxious inqui ry on your part. lam happy to sty that the financial system alrca ly adopt ed, has worked well, so far and promi ses good results for thefuture. To the ex tent that Treasury Notes may be issued the Government is enabled to borrow money without interest, and thus facili ate the conduct of the war. This ex tent is measured by the portion of the field of circulation which these no es can be made to occupy. The proportion of thefield thus occupied, depends again upon amount of the debt for which tney are receiveable; ami when dues, not on ly to the Confederate and State Govern ments, but also to corporations and in dividuals, are payable in this medium, a large amount of it may l e circulated at par. i here is every reason to be lieve that the Confecerate Treasury Notes are last becoming such a medi um. Ihe provision that the Notes shad be convertible into Confederate stock, bearing eight per cent inte.est at the pleasure ol the holder, insures them against a depreciation below the value of that stock, and considerable fall in that value need not be feared, so long as the interest shall be punctually p lid The punctual payment of Uns in terest has been secured by the Act passed by you at the last session, im posing such a rate of taxation as must provide sufficient means for that pur pose. For the successful prosecution of this war, it is indispensable that the means ol transporting troops and mili tary supplies furnished, as far as possi l ble, in such manner, as not to interrupt the commercial m elcourse between our people, nor place a check on their productive energies. To this end the means of transportation from one sec ; tion of our country to an »th *r, must I be carefully guarded and improved ami ; this should lie the object ol anxious care ! on the pari of the Mate and Conft-der ■ ate Governments, so far as they mav have powerover the subject. We have I already two ma n systems of through transportation from the Nurth to the South; one from Richmond and along I the seaboard, the other through Wes tern Viiginiato New Orleans A third might be secured by' completing a link i>t about forty miles between Danville, in Virginia, and Greensboro’, in North Carolina. The construction of tins com paratively short tin would give us a through route horn North to South in 'the interior of the Confed, rate St i es, and give us access io a p »pulatiou and t > military resources, iron which wt are now in great measure deburred.— A c sh mid increase greatly the saletv, and capacity of our means of transpor ting military supplies. If the construc tion of this load should in the pidg ' ment of Congress as it is in mini* imlis pensable for the m >re successful prose cution <>!’the war. tiie action of the Gov eminent will not b • restrained bv the e'iistirutional objection which would attain to a work t »r commercial purpo ses, and your attention i.- invited to the practic.iUilily d s -curing its e udv com pletion ly giving the necessary ai l to the c-impaiiy organization ami adminis tr ition. If we hinband our mean.- a:.-I make a jmiici'His us * of our r.-s nrces, it would : o diffi -nit to fix a limit to the period during which we could conduct a war ' against the a.ivers ry whom we en counter itiu very i tin ts which he makes to isjl ite al; i invadi- us must exh su-t iiis means, w* d-t tney -eivv to complete the circle and >1 ver.dty the productions H our industrial system. i’ue rec instruction whi m he ~eeks to effect by arms lecomes daily m.o.e an i more palpal*.y imposs ble Not only the cans- - which in luce i us to .-eparatc still exist in full force, but they have i een stimtr hem-d; ami whatevt rd mbt miy h ive hug.-red in the minds t any qtieut events It, instead ot being a cis solution vs a league, it were indeed i a rebellion in which we are outraged we might find ample vindication for the course we have adopted in the scenes j which arc now being enacted in tiic United States. Our people look with contemptuous astonishment on those with whom they have been so recently associated. They shrink with aversion from the bare idea of renewing such a connection —when theysee a President makingwar without the assent of Congress—when they be hold judges threatened because they maintained the wiit of habeas corpus, so sacred to freemen when ‘hey see justice and law trampled under the armed heel of military authority and upright men and innocent women drag ged to distant dungeons upon the more edict of a despot—when they find all (his tolerated ami applauded by people who had been in the full enjoyment of f reedom but a few mon hsago—they be lieve that there must be some radical incompatibility between such a people and themselves. With such a. people we may be content to live at peace, but the separation is final and for the inde pendence we have asserted we will ac cept no alternaiive. The nature of the hostilities which they have wag’ed against us must be charecterizml as barbarous wherever it is umli'isto.i.l. They have bombard cd uud'd'ended villages without giving noiice to women and children t» en able them to escape,au 1 iuone instance selected the night as the period when they might surprise them most I'fl.-e --tually whilst asleep and unsuspicious of dinger. Arson and rapine, he destruction of private houses and pro perty and injuries of the most wanton character oven upon non-combatants, have marked their forays along our borders and upon our territory. Al though we ought to have been admon ished by these things that they were disposed to make up >n us war in the most cruel and relentless spirit, yet w were not prep tied to see them fit out a large naval expedition with the con fessed purpose not only of plunder, but to incite a servile insurrecl on in the midst of us If they conveit their soldiers into incendiaries and involve us in a species of war which claims non-combatants, wome i and children us its vi< thus, they must expect to be I rented as.outlaws and enemies of man kind. There are certain rights of hu inanity which are entitled to res pect, even in war, and he who refuses to regard them forfeits his claims, if captured to be considered as a prisoner ol war but must expect to be dealt with as an offender against all law, hu man and divine. But not content with violating’ our rights under the laws of nations at home, they have extended heir injuries to us within otherjurisdi tions. ihedis tinguished gentlemen, whom,with your approval at the last session, I com missioned to represent the Confederacy in certain foreign Courts have bee 1 recently seized by the captain of a Un ited States ship-of-war on board a British steamer on the voyage from the neutral Spanish port of Havana to England. They have thus claimed a general jurisdiction over the high seas and entering a British ship sailing un der its country’s flag, violated the rights of embassy, for the most part held sacred even amongst barbarians, by seizing’our Ministers whilst under the protection and domains of a neu tral nation. These gentlemen were as much un ler the protection ol th 1 Brit ish Government upon that ship and beneath its Hag as ii they had been on its soil, and a claim on the part of the I lited Slates to seize them in the str< et of London would have bet n as well founded as that to apprehend them where they were taken. Had they been malefactors and citizens of the United they could not have been arr'-s ted in the British ship o on British soil unless under the express provisions of I a treaty and according to the forms therein provided lor the extradition of i criminals. But rights the m >st sacred, seem to ' have lost all respect in their eyes. \\ hen dr. Faulkner a formin’ Minister 1 of th" ( nited Slates to France, coin i missioned before the secession, of Vir ginia, h s n ative S ate, returned ingood faith to Washington, to settle his ac counts and fulfill all the oblig’tii >ns into which h>- ha<l entered, he was p r iidiously arrested and imprisoned in New York, where he m>w is. Tin* un i suspecting couti len 'e with wii.cii ir- I’l-p H’ted I ahis g>Vi I’ U III' ‘ 111 was ablls- : ed. Hid hrs desi them used o 0.0 iiq . .. In conducing this war wc have s uicat Ho aid an i p ’ ipi.as" 1 n » alliance, iflensive or defensivs, abr tad. \\ c have aski’d fora recogii is.-.j place in tm? great family of na Lm- But in doing so we have dmii an I■ 1 noth ng fir.' which wc did no off -r a fair equivalent. she advantages of intercourse are mutual amouust na ions, and seeking to establish diplomatic i<d.. .s were only end" iv wing t > place that , in’erc"urse under the regulati m of pub lic I <w l’< rliaps we It id th" right, if we had chosen to exercise it, to ask to know wa.-tiier th • principle, th it Idock .des to i>e biud'ir.?’ must lie effectual, so so|- e n ily amio'i .ce J oy the great p >we r .s of E’lrope at Faris is to be generally ens-w "d, or applied only to particular pat ies When the Confederate States at your last session became a parrs to the deed trati m referring tv tins pr uci pie of international law, which has been recognized so long by publicists and Governments, we certainly supposed that it was to be universally enforc ed. The customary law of nations is made up of their practice rather -han their declarat ions, and if such declara- , tions, had only to be enfoiced in par— ticular instances, at the pleasure of those who make them, then the commerce of the world, so far fr on being placed under the regulatiim of a general law will become subject to the caprice of those who execute or suspend it at will. If such ,is to . be the course of nations in regard to ! this law, it is plain it will thus become a rule for the weak and not the strong. Feeling that such views must be ta ken by the neutral nations of the earth | I have therefore caused the evidence | to be coll ‘cted which proves complete ly the utter inefHci ncy of the pre- j claimed blockade of our coast, and ' si all direct it to be laid before such Governments as shall afford us the means of being he n d. But although we should be benefited by the enforcement of this law, so sol emnly declared by the great Powers of Europe, we are not dependent upon that enforcement for the successful prosecution ol the war. As 1. ng as hostilities continue the Confederate states will exhibit a steady’ increas ing capacity to furnish their troops | with food clothing and arms. If they ! should be forced to forego many of the luxuries and s>m • of the comforts o! : life, they will at least have the conso lation of knowing luut tney are thus daily becoming more and more inde pendent oi the rest ot the world. If in i this p "cess ' tior in the Confederate 1 State.-, should be gradually diverted fr<,m th se great S mthern staples which have given life to so much of the eomtr.erce of mankind, into other chan nels, so as to make them rival produc ers instead of profitable customers, hey will not be the only or the chief losers by the change in the direc-* of their industry. Although it is true that the Cotton supply from the Southern States could only be tota ly cut off by the subver sion of our social system, yet it is plain that a I ng’continuance of t iis blockade might, by a diversi m of labor and an investment of capital in other employ ments, so diminish ihe supply as to hr ng ruin upon those interests of for eign conmries which are dependent on that staple. For every laborer who is diverted from the culture of Cotton in the South perhaps four times as many elsewhere, who have found subsistence in the various employmcn s growing out of its use, will lie forced also to change their occupation, while the war which is waged to take from us the right of self government can never attain that end. Ii remains to be seen how far it may work a revolution in tin; industrial sys tem of the world, which may carry suf fering together lands as well as to our own. In the meant rm ,we shall con tinue this struggle in nimble depend ence upon Providence, from whose searching scru uiy we ca not conceal the secretsol the hearts, an Ito whose rule we confidently submit our desti nies. For the rest, we shall defend ourselves. Liberty is always won when th r exists the unconquerable will to lie tree; and we have reason to know the strength that is given by a consciousness, not only of he magni tu le, but ot the righteousness of our cause.” JkfF"Rson Davls. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. HOUSE. Thursday night, Nov. 21. The JI nise me’ at 7 o’clock. On mo tion House bills were taken up for a second reading. After reading a I ,rge number of bills,Senate bills were taken up and read the first time. The House hen ad j mimed to 9 o’clock to-morrow moining. SENA E. Fridav, Nov, 22, 1861. 10 o’clock, she Senate Convened, and opened ■ with prayer l>y Rev. I he Journal was read. Also the bill io suspend the statutes ' of limitation- until the close of the war which was passed Also the bill requ ring the party con v <’t"d n c ial pros"cutions to piy the Cost o. w Im-sses which was lost. Also the >;l| au’h >i iz ng Gu ir lians, ' 1 rustees Ex u’ors, ml A lministrators : to invest in 1 mfederate bonds lands and negro s w nch w t.s p tss" I. \ls » tin- ii in reference to th" con ‘ u’l ■ :i"e ■ <• t ns sin Superior and Li fe; i »r c.>.i,• s ol this Stu e. 1 * ’i >’ !' 1 'ordon of Chath mi < 'ty eon. l- w<i .ii d. Ine bill wis th"U p i"c l. \ls> a bdl author zing certain free . s us of color i i '' iss • m i • y to sell th-ms Ive.s into perpe’in.l slaverv. dr. Lam* of \\ alker offered a substi tute requiring all free p -rsotis of color to 1.-av. th" St ite in 90 days or toclio .se I owners. Ihe bill and substitute were i laid -m the table for the present. Mr. Kille i chairman of the 'lilitarv j c mimit ee reported a bill authorizing the raising of 20,000 troops for the de fence of the Coast. Also a bill to guard against per sons leaving comp.nies which they hive j nrnd, which latter bill was read the first time. Mr Alexander chairman of the Pen itentiary committee reported the Insti tution to be in a flourishing an I pros - peious condition, under the m niage mentofof its Principal Keeper James A. Gieen. (he convicts had been em ployed principally in making airny equipments. They bought the Insti- I tntiuii was doing well enough. They ieccoininend that the Governor appoint : 2 tit and proper persons who in couju nc’ tiun with the Principal Keeper shall de I vise some means, and proper altern tions so as to classify the criiiiin Is..— I 7he resolution otha r fleet w:.s intro duced and passed. HOUSE. Friday Now 22. 1861 The House met a 9 o’clock, iq* by Rev. O. L. Smith, rnembei Brooks. i rh . Journal of yesterday was i ■ 01. Judge Cabiness nn»ved to i< < msaier the resolution appointing » committee to visit ‘he ta te Read aral investible its condition. | It was sustained by essi s Cabiuews I Du Bose, Wiittle, Al JI. id <»nd Dr. i Cochran. I It was opposed by M -SIR Bigham, ’ Lee, Thomas, Norwood, end Hargroves and the motion to reconsider was lost I’he first clans ■ fixiri"’ the C vernor’g ' saiarv al $3,000, was agreed to on yej terday. I'tic salaries of the J ndgew if the Su’ prem-5 PiHirt, wm th mxi item un.ici cousidei at ion. i horn as of Whitfield, to s like <m $3 000 nd insc> $2,2v0. Mr t)w us m .V"d o amci.d by n sei t ing $2,500. Messrs Wnittle, Lester, mitb. Dir Base and Norwood, sustained the re. port ot the committee ; In* question was divided, and the motion ‘o strike out was sustained bv iessrs thilberson i Dumas Render and Thomas. I Ihe motion to s like out was carried Mi Thomas moved to fill the blank with $2,500. Mr Lee moved to fill sinamd by adding 11 during the war,and to be $3,600 after p ‘ace is m de.” .vir Cnlbers' n moved ti a lay the amend’ ment on the table. Mr Love sustained the, motion not became he agreed wi h the mover, t nt i because the proposition to diminish cur rent salaries was unconiist i I uri-mal. Mr Norwood offerd a prov;s which Mr Lee accepted as a siil'sti'ii.<•, The question was to insert a sum in lieu ot $3,000. Mr Dußos" moved to fill the lank with $2,800. Lost. Lester of Cobb, m ved $2,625, which was 25 per cent, d dilution. ' I homas of' Whitfield, moved $2,500 which was cal l ied. ' The next item was the salary of the ’ Reporter of the Biipreme Gu. t. 1 The comnii tee earned $ 00, which was agreed to. > AFTEIINOON SEA MOV ’ The special order, a bill to fix the per Jtem, of members &c , was taken up. b Briscoe of Baldwin moved to fill the 1 blank fixing the services of t l> e President of the senate ; nd Speaker oftne House both $8 a day. L .st. Six dollars was proposed and adapted. The next clause, the pay of members was taken up. Mr. Bloodworth m >ved to fill the blank ’ with $4. Mr. Norwood proposed $5 ' Mr. Dever proposed a s Jury of s2off ! for the session. Mr. • orwood opposed > h ver’s motion Schley of K’ichuioiid, ( »posed that a committee be appointed to price the value of members services, and fix ll* 1 price accordingly ‘ Adams of Clark, proposed i hat the roll be called, and e .eh meinin r report what he thought his servic. s were worth at pleasure. Mr. C'doersori defeiiib d hi. ..... in favor of re reiichm nt md r form IL- was in favor of filling Hie blank wit' st. Mr Bri-coe spoke in favoi of filling the blank with $5 I homas of Whtlfieid. m ,d< . f ieelions speech in favor of s'» H< was in fa vor of r< trem h.n nt. md that in ms. jndgm 'lit is a suflieient r trenchment. Mr. Bloodwor b, favored $1 The vote was on fill u ■ |>te blank with $•> —it wise irried I>*» tin* sound on a ca 11 for a I.v ion Mr Oliver sp k" in favor of In in •- ti m, an 1 Hie vol' was hu ; . ly ui Ge alii, n Hive Ihe eyes and ii iy.- wto culled for, and wi*ie ayes 97, nas 14, ai. l he bl i»d< was fill. I v."H. s.> j’Jjp ( j, t- I tee reputed $4 foi •s' ry 20 « ' s | travel. • I'l bjfe L"V" m ved to aii|. i With ; $4 Mr. Gif >s ui in »ved i • <m id by filling Hie blmk with $2. Mr Black lav H’"d the ainmidmeiit Mr. W .suing, ‘on moved to insert 5 cents per m le. Mr. Dover tliHight su Ii a r.t" would !>e i just io those who live off the toad. Mr < horn is fav .red $4 Mr. Render 'bought he n i cage sh idd be esti mated by h" most direct route. Mr. Smith and Mr. Hook favored ti.<* repor.. of the committee. Hie v »te wis upon the larges sum $4, and it was adopt, d. i’he se. tion as amended was agreed to. Ihe next clause wa.a tm salary of the Secretary of th * Sena e The committee reported $3,100, from which all the sub i clerks shall l>e t aid. r. Le • pp"-i d I the report. He did not th.iik :he mount . sufficient, ami moved to inser $3 500. Judge ‘ abiness did m.t thoik 3,500 enough. Last year tha • ffict had received 6,942 dollars, lie mov d to till the blank with 400 it was )".-t. Air. Dimas prop ,s<*d o tin rm* ’.lank with 3,500 dollars tr. i'ii >m s and Mr. Gwen fivond tlui motion, and r. I Smith from the coinmi.tee, was will ng to accept tiie am ndmciJ. •• r Briscoe and Washington favored he motion, and it was adopted. The secti hi as a.n-'.rle I w - ag-eed to. Tue next sec i 'ii related t > the s.i a y of the Clerk of the IL.u-e. Mr. Lester prop >scd to fill the blank with , $4,000. Mr. Trammell of Cato >sa. in >ve i t-> fill the ; blank with $4,500. Lo-t. The qneatio.i *;is th -n <>n ihe motion of Mr. Lester, and the ba n wa- filled with $4,000. The next seetiun presiding cumpeu«ation