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Some idea of the magnitude nfthePyiamids ;
of Egypt may be gained, from the statements
ot Mr. GlkWon, in his late lectures, in the city !
of Boston. Tlie great Pyramid of Memphis
originally covered more than 13 acies ol i
ground—contained more than 89,000 000
cubic feet of stone, and the weight of its j
Masoniy is estimated at neatly 7,000,000 of
tons! The three Pyramids of Gheizeh j
contain nearly 13,000.000 tons of stone.— j
Compare this with the Bunker Hill Monu
ment, said to contain 6447 tons! The stone
of the great Pyramid alone, would construct
1062 monuments, and 25,000,000 of tons
of the thiity pyramids would erect 3si4
monuments. As lighthouses, 10 miles aptut,
they would surround the entire North end
Booth American continent, and yet leave
a heavy balance !
There are 30 of these pyramids at Mem
phis. Mr. G. says that the time required
to build these pyramids consecutively, at
the least estimate* would exceed 300 years,
and allowing 22 1-2 years for a kingly gene
ration, thirty kings would have reigned in
675 years. The date of the erection of the
last pyramid cannot be placed lowet than
2200 before Christ. The last of these con
•auctions at Memphis is therefore, 4000 j
years old, and the first of the thirty at least
4500. All the Pyramids in Egypt were
built many generations before the biith of
Abraham, whom we have been taught to
regard almost as the Father of the human
race. Tracing to the ancient denizens of
the Nile, the fountain source of all we
know, the Great Pyramid carries hu
man discovery and invention to beyond
2500 B. C. ,
Mr. Gliddon gives an interesting sluU
ment with reference to the manner of build
ing the Pyramids. Herodotus has recorded
as a marvel, that they were constiuefed
from the top downwards. Cheopis lived 63
years, and iris pyramid is the largest. Ihe
rule will hold good with ail the pyramids of
Memphis. The size of the tomb has been
found a sure indication of the length of
each Pharaoh’s reign; those who reigned
longest, having the largest anil best finished
tombs —those whose rule was short, having
left smaller and less finished mausolea.—
Yankee Blade.
Love. —Love is a stale of being and not
Wmg; tor somebody, though if he does
not choose to love at all, he need not love
sny body, must, if he loves, love somebody;
•nd nobody necessarily loves nobody.
Since somebody loves somebody, arid
nobody loves nobody, love is a relation be
tween somebody and somebody, and nobody
and nobody, respectively.
Now, the relation between nobody and
nobody must be the same as the relation be
tween somebody and somebody. For a re
lation eannot be a thing and not a tiring;
and if the relation between somebody and
somebody lie a thing, that between nobody
and nobody must be a thing, too; which is
absurd.
Therefore, since a relation which is no
thing is beyond our ideas, love is not. as lias
but of the transcendental idealist. !in that
a poet, to sing about love, must necessarily
be a madman; his eye moving it: a splendid
ly insane obicularify, and his pen bestowing
a nomenclature and a residence upon gase
ous nonentity, as our fiicnd Lord William
would say.
Thus we see that love is a nontentity—
which accounts for the vain attempts of phi
losophers to define it.
How odd it is that a non entity should
rsise sighs, draw tears, break hearts, cause
bloodshed ! How singular that it should
Einch waists, tighten boots, mid reform tai
irs* bills! W’liat a strange being is mortal
man!
CaioHanj.— Love being a non entity, nnd
non entities not admitting of mutual differ
ences, consequently there is no difference
between love, commonly so called, and the
love of o good dinner. And fuitlier, the
HCOU w £*r?rvi MMiuvi o UCdU
that truly loves.
Something Ncio. —“ The Life-Preserving
Coffin” struck us as something strange, and
we panted to examine it. It was most luxu
riously made, stuffed softly, with an eleva
tion for the head, like a satin pillow, and
the lining of delicate white silk. In order
to guard agaiust the occurrence of a Initial
before iife is extinct, Mr. Eisenhiat. of
Baltimore, has invented an arrangement of
springs and leavers on its inside, wheieby its
inmate, by the least motion of either head
or hand acting thereon, will instantly cause
the coffin lid to fly open. The inventor ad
vises families, or communities who may
feel disposed to make use of his life-pre
serving coffins, to have their tombs or vaults
so constructed as to give persons deposited
therein a chance for life ; to place the lock
on its door that will open either from the in
side or outside, also with a hell, and with
openings to admit pure air, and into which
no other coffins are admitted, and a key
placed inside to allow any one •••ho may be
resuscitated egress, until decomposition ac
tually takes placp, when they may be re
moved, and finally deposited in the ground,
they keeping the vault free from the accu
mulation of foul air.”
A woman quarreling with her husband,
told him she believed that if she should die
he would marry the Devil's daughter. The
tender husband replied, “ The law does not
allow a man to marry two sisters!”
A petulent old lady having refused a suitor
to har neice, he expostulated with, and re
quested her to give her reasons. “I see
the villain in your face,” said she. “That
is a personal refection” answered the lover
*• Uou have not dined,” said a stranger
to a friend. “ I have,” answered the other,
“ upon my honor.” “ Then,” rejoined the
first. “ l fear that you have made a very
light dinner.”
A Western editor, who had but a lean
subscription list, was requested to send bis
paper and take bis pay “in trade.” At the
expiration of the year, he discovered that
Ms new subscriber was a coffin-maker.
Free Negroes. —A correspondent in Abbe*
ville District furnishes the Abbeville (S. C.)
Mountaineer with the following striking
pi oof of the happy and contented situation
of our slave population, when compared
with that of the free negroes. The writer
is a gentleman of high standing in society
and the editor has no hesitation in vouching
for the correctness <>f his statements:
“ Not long since 1 was informed by a re
spectable citizen of Georgia—who is one
of three executors to the will of a gentle
man recently deceased in that State —that
tie gentleman provided in his will that, im
mediately after his death, the large number
nf negroes lie owned should be comfortably
situated in the State of Ohio which requisi
tion, my informant stated was fully complied
with; and now that the negroes have re
mained in Ohio about two years all the
while dissatisfied, they have applied to the
executors to send for them, stating their
willingness to serve them for the remainder
of their life, averring that they had rather
be Georgia slaves than Ohio free negioes!
This statement may he relied on as cor
rect.”
Stop the Swindler. —A man calling him
self Candler Brown, from Lansdale co.,
M : ss„ about 25 or 40 year* of age, of ex
tremely dark complexion, end about 6 feet
in Height, purporting to be a negro buyer
—passed off in this city, on Wednesday
morning lust, a large amount of counterfeit
SIOO notes of the Northern Bank of Ken
tucky. dated Lexington, Nov. 10th, 1842,
payable at Paris—No, 213, Letter D.,
signed M. T. Scott, Cashier, and Jno. Til
ford, President, He left here the same
day on horseback, with saddle bags, dressed
in a long diab colored overcoat, and has
probably gone into North Carolina or Vir
ginia. It will be seen by an advertisement
in this day’s paper, that a reward of S3OO
is offered for such infoimation as will lead to
his apprehension. The money paid him in
exchange for the said notes were bills of
the South Western Kail Rond Bank, paya
ble in Charleston. Hisgeneial appeaiance
is such ns would strike the notice of any
person, being of a remarkable dark com
plexion with black hair.— Charleston Mcr
cunj, Jan. Ist.
A Bill lias been introduced in the Legis
lature of Tennessee, now in session, foi the
establishment of anew State, of the Terri
tory of East Tennessee. Ihe preamble of
the bill states, that the great local interests
of that portion of the state lying east of the
Cumbeilaud mountains are totally distinct,
separate and adverse to the interests of that
portion of the state lying west of tl e moun
tains; that at a future and not distant day,
the conflict between the two divisions of
the state, maybe pioductive of gu-at injuty
to the welfare of the people, and that a sepa
ration would be productive of much bles
sings to each divissiott, The counties to be
ceded, in oiclei to form the new state, to
he named “Fraitkland,” arc twenty six in
number. It is stated also in the bill that to
the new state may be added such portions of
ilie states of North Catolina, Virginia, and
n.., m \ n na i, iL. | —|
Luther Severance is elected to Congress
from the Kennebec District, Me. He is
the printer and Editor of the Kennebec
Journal. A few years ego he was a Prin
ter’s devil aud afterwards a journeyman
Printer in the City of Washington. The
Indies of tbo city turned up their noses at
him as a mechanic, and the clerks in the pub
lic offices tried hard to look down upon
him. He is now going back to Washing
ton as an Hon. M. C. and the ladies will in
vite him to their patties, and the Clerks will
look up to him, and he will get his eight
dollars a day and the perquisities, and make
speeches, ami w rite letters, aud hear on his
individual shoulders one 223d part of the
destinies of the counliy. We have no
doubt that he will acquit himself well, and
show the world that a “ self-made man” is
as good as a man made by others.— Exeter
ixeics loftier.
A man may marry his wife's davghter. —
Though n man can’t marry his grandmoth
er, yet it has been decided that he car l mar
ry his wife's daughter. A man named Wm.
\\ ilson, was convicted last August before
-the Hartford (Conn.) County Court of the
crime of incest. The charge was founded
on the fact that he married the daughter of
a deceased wife by a former husband—the
same being, as charged by the Judge, in vio
lation of law ; and the jury returned a ver
dict accordingly. The case was carried up
on a writ of error to the Supreme Court
where the decision of the lower Court was
a few days since reversed. The Court de
cided that the affinity between the plaintiff
in et mr and his wife’s daughter, ceased on
the death of his wife.
(KrMr. Snifler w rites to a Yankee editor
thus :
Mistur Edutur; As you perfess to giv
keirect informusliun on evry subject, I wood
begg leave to state that 1 lele voiy unwell,
and wood like to know vvhat kindoof fizzick
is bc>t for nice to tak.
Y urs Solomon Snifler.
To which the editor replies :
* Swolier Minn's Gmniuer in Pils nnd
woh it down with a decockshun of Wor
kers Dixsliunury.’
‘‘Suppose a feller, what has nothing, mar
ry* tt gal vvliul lias nothing: is her tilings
liis’n. or i* hi* her’n; oris his’n and her’*
her'n
Let's see—add 0 to 0 nnd tlio amount is 0.
Take 0 from 0 and 0 team ins. She has cer
tainly a right to her'n , Hnd lie is unquestiona
bly entitled to his'n. That is exactly ac
cording to the rule of two.
Appointments by the Governor. —John S.
Thomas, Esq. Director Cent ml Bank;
Anderson Heading, Prin. Keep. Penitenti
ary ; Dr. Thomas F. Green, Physician;
Col. Abner Hammond, Inspector; Charles
W. Choate. Book Keeper; Rev. Jesse H.
Campbell, Commissioner for the Deaf and
Dumb ; Capt. Hamilton Garmony, of Gwin
nett, has been appointed by the Prin. Keep
er, Assistant. *
S<D 31J2 ill it St la
From the “ Southern Recorder.”
LAWS OF 1843.
The public mind has been directed with j
far more than ordinary interest tothelegis- |
lation of 1843. And as the Acts of the Ge
neral Assembly will not he ready fur distri- ;
button in less than two or three months, and
even the newspaper publication of those of
a general character must extend through
several weeks, we present a synopsis of their
prominent enactments. It com pi ises, in con
densed foim, the leading prwisions of eveiy
law of the session, important in its character
or general in its operation, digested from
a mass of two hundred and twenty-three ]
acts, public, private and heal.
CONSTITUTION.
The Constitution of the State has been J
amended, by the second passage of acts in
conformity to its requirements, in three of
its features : Ist, by a reduction of the num
ber of the General Assembly ; 2d, by ma
king the General Officers of the Militia elect
ive by the people; 3d, by providing that
indorsers, like joint obligois, may be sued in
the same county with the maker or drawer.
A fuither amendment relative to represen
tation in the General Assembly, is proposed
by an act which had its first passage, and is
intended to supply an omission in the late
amendment, l>y providing for tbo represen
tation of new counties which may be here
after foimed. By it, the liinitatoa of tlie
House of Representatives to 130 members
is removed—the 37 largest counties are to
be entitled to two representatives,and every
other county to out*.
CENTRAL ASSEMBLY.
Senate. —The arrangement of senatorial
Districts, under the amended CoiiMitulinu,
we have already published. The elections
pie to be held nnd returns made as hereto
fore, to the Governor, who shall have the te-
Vurns consolidated, and declare, by procla
mation, the Senator elected.
House (f Representatives. —The 37 coun
ties having the largest iiumhei of represen
tative population, viz : Chatham, Talbot,
Troup, Monroe, Meriwether, Harris, Slew
art, Henry, Newton. Gwirmette, Muscogee,
Buike. DeKalb, Richmond,Coweta, Elbeit,
Franklin, Gieene, Washington, Walton, Jas-,
per, Cass, Claik, Columbia, Oglethorpe,
I’ike, Bibb, Warren, Upson, Jones, Hnus
tmi. Putnam, Habersham, Wilkes, Jackson,
Hall and Ha ncock, shall elect two represen
tatives each, and the remaining 50 counties
one representative each.
JUDICIARY ACTS.
Accounts —“ Physicians, blacksmiths, and
all others exercising any regular craft,” aie
declared to lie authorized to move their ac
counts by exhibition of their books, in the
same manner as merchants and traders.
Appeals —A declaratory act affirms that
appeals aie allowable from the first verdict
of a special jury in equity cases, in the same
manner as from decisions in cares at com
mon law. Another act provides an exten
sion of the right of appeal, itr the case of
the death of either party between the trial
of a cause nnd the expiiation of the four
days allowed for entering an appeal. The
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within four days after his qualification, and
to revive the suit without a scie efacias,u pon
giving 30 days notice to the adverse party.
If the appeal is on the part of the defend
ant, the case shall stand for trial at the next
term of the court after the expiration of 12
months from the date of administration or
qualification of executor.
Ca Sa —Plaintiffs may discharge defind
ants from arrest under ca sa without its op
erating a satisfaction of the judcnien—and
by another Act, when the defendant escapes
after arrest, and the officer is competed to
pay the debt in consequence tliereo:’, con
trol of the ca sa is to be given, by order of
court, to the said officer, with all the rights
and authority in the premises which lelong
cd to the plaintiff.
Commencement <f Action —for remedy of
conflicting decisions, is declared to no the
filing of the writ in the clerk’s office ; for
the correct ascertainment of which, it is
made the duty of the clerk t endorse the
date thereof on the writ, wi ll his official
signature.
Dismissal of Suits —may be made in va
cation, on the same terms as during the ces
sion of the court.
Distribution of intestates’ estates —The
proviso to the Ist section of an act of 1804,
touching this subject, which declares that
the mother, after intermarriage, ."hall not bo
entitled to any portion of the estate of a de
ceased child dying intestate, is repealed ;
and it is now provided that she shall not so
inherit, unless it he the last or only child.
Executors, Administ/atois, ip:. —lf dismis
sed before final administration, suit may be
instituted against the succeeding Executor
or Administrator, for any cause of action
against the testator or intestate, at anv time
after the expiration of 12 months from the
qualification of the fiist executor or date of
the first letters of Administration- Another
act declares that executors are not compel
led to give security, o:i the removal of the
settlement of art estate from one county to
another. The returns of an executor, ad
ministrator or guardian, if beyond the limits
of the State, may he verified by the out li of
one of the securities on his hnrul.
Exemptions from Leri/ —The act which
exempts from levy 20 acres land for the
head of a family, anti 5 aci es for every child
under 15 years of age, is amended l>y sub
stituting in their stead 50 acres, the home of
the family, liable for no contract hereafter
to he made, except for the jniichase of the
same. And all property exempt from levy
under f fa, is declared exempt from levy
under process of attachment.
Liabilities of Rail-Road Companies. —
The act of 1840, relative to stock killed or
wounded by cars, and other injuries to prop- |
erty, is amended in its details ; but as the
subject is not geneial in its interest, and the
details not sufficiently susceptible of con
densation for this synopsis, we mast refer
those interested to the act when published.
Justices’ Courts. —The act of 1812, chang
ing the times to once in every four months,
is repealed; with a provision that tire Courts
of January, 1844, may he held, as under the
law repealed, for two days.
PENAL CODE.
Oath rs Jurors.— The oath of jurors on 1
their roir dire, shall be : “ Have you, from
having seen the crime committed, or having
heard anv part of the evidence on oath,form
ed or expressed an opinion,” &c.—with the
fartliei oath as heretofore, as to prejudice
or bias.
Sintcnrrs —Convicts, for offences hereaf
ter committed, sre to be sentenced to labor
in the Penitentiary, “or elsewheie as the
Governor may direct.”
Embezzlement if County Funds —by a
clerk of the Infeiior Court or County Trea
surer, is declared a misdemeanor, punisha
ble by fine and imprisonment not exceeding
six months. Refusal or failure (except from
Providential cause) to make exhibits to the
Grand Jury, is made prima fucie evidence
against them. Any bill of indictment plain
ly setting fotth the offence,shall he held suf
ficient ; and no identification of the particu
lar species of funds embezzled, shall be held
necessary.
Importation of S/ares. —The act of 1842,
repealing all laws against the free introduc
tion of slaves into this State, for traffic or
otherwise, is repealed, and the former pen
alties revived.
Free Negroes. —Such ns have resided in
this Stale since the Ist Jure, 1536, are de
clared exonerated from any penalties in
curred by a failure to have the registry made
which is required by law, provided they
hereafter comply with the same ; and these
penalties are not to attach in any case to
such as ate under 14 years of age. A fail
ure hereafter shall not compel the offender
to leave the State, but only subject him to
at test and, upon conviction, to a fine, under
the 2d section of the act of 1536.
Attorneys. —After the election of an at
torney ns Judge, and before the commence
ment of his term of service, lie is forbidden
to practice in the coutts of the circuit over
which he is to preside, except in the cases
for which hs may alrcsdv have been retain
ed. A violation of this act is declared a
misdemeanor, punishable at the discretion
of the court. [This prohibition is made in
reference to cases, which may occur under
the amended system of biennial sessions,
where a successor is elected 12 months be
fore the expiration of the term of the pre
siding Judge.]
counts.
The rime of holding the January term of
the Courts ol Ordinary,and the Laud Courts,
in the several counties of the State, is chang
ed from \\iv first to the second Monday, from
and after January, 1845.
Alterations are made in regard to the Su
perior and Inferior Courts of the following
counties, and the times fixed as follows :
Superior Com ts.
I Muscogee : 4th Mondays in May & Nov’r.
Macon, Ist do April & October.
Crawford, Ist do Feb’y & August.
Upson, 2d do Feb’y & August.
Pike, 3d do Feb’y Sz August.
Monroe, Ist do March & Sept’r.
Inferior Courts.
Randolph : 2d Mondays in January & July.
Clatke, 4th do April & October
Decatur, Ist do Apr il & October
CORPORATIONS.
To disembarrass the General Assembly of
a lav.™ mass <}f local and orivate legislation,
authority is given to the Superior and Infe
rior Courts to incorporate Churches anil
CampGn)unds,Academies,Vo]uuteerCnrps,
Manufacturing, Trading, Ice, Theatre, Ho
tel, Fire, Bridge and Ferry Companies, and
to change the names of individuals, upon
applications by petition. No banking or in
surance piivileges can be conferred under
this act; the corporators are bound individ
ually, as in other cases of general partner
ship; and the chartered privileges (which
are those usually granted by the Legislature,
suclr as using a common name and seal, see
ing atid being sued, See.) shall not extend be
j yorid the period of 14 years, though they
I are renewable.
APPROPRIATIONS.
For the Governor and other officers of the
State, the salaries fixed bylaw; members
and officers of the General Assembly, the
compensation we have already published ;
Contingent fund, 815,000 for ni rearages and
820,000 for each of the years 1844 and ’45;
Printing fund, SIB,OOO for 1844 and $5,000
for’4s; Military fund, $6,000 for ar rear
ages and for 1544. atid $3,000 for ’45; for
the Penitentiary, $50,000, viz : $32,000 for
its debts, and SIS,OOO for rebuilding and
support for two years ; Lunatic Asylum,
$4,000 for two years ; to James L. Daniel,
for Indian spoliations at Roanoke, about sl,-
600; with sundry other appropriations for
attorneys’ fees, See. An appropriation of
IS3B in bonds, to the State Road, suspend
ed by the act of 1841, is revived by the re
peal of said act—the unexpended balance
of which is about $270,000.
TAXES.
The tax act of 1542 is continued iri force
for the next two yeais. A separate act im
poses a tax of $25 on every billiard table
kept for public use. The act 0f1542 amend
atory ofthe act of IS4O, imposing addition
al duties on tax collectors and the Comptrol
ler General, relative to lands returned fry in
dividuals in other counties than that of their
residence, is repealed.
FINANCE.
All payments from the Treasury, are di
rected to be made in specie or its equivalent;
for which purpose the Governor is author
ized to borrow $150,000 at 7 per cent, in
terest payable semi-annually in New-York.
An equal amount of OYntial Bank bills to
ho withdrawn from the Treasury and burn
ed.
The Treasurer is directed to submit to
each session of the General Assembly, de
tailed estimates of the probable receipts and
expenditures, the probable sources of reven
ue, &c. and to suggest new items of taxation
in case of a probable deficiency. He is to
report also the amount of public debt, with
its interest, paid and unpaid ; aid also quar
terly reports to the Governor, of all receipts
into the Treasury. Committees are to he
-appointed by the Governor, in the years in
which the Legislatur e does not sit, to exam
ine the state ofthe Treasury,the public debt,
&c. The Comptroller General is to audit
quarterly the accounts of the Engineer of
the State Road, and report to the Governor.
All unexpended balances of general appro
priations are to revert and be merged in the
Treasury, after the expiration of six months
from the end of the political year for which
they are made. All the stocks belonging to
the Treasury are set apait for the payment
of the public debt, to be disposed of by the
Governor as the interest of tire State may
require. Coupons for interest may be en
dorsed by the Treasurer, and theieafter paid
without the exhibition of bonds to which
they belong; and the Governor may order
the payment of Coupons thus endorsed to be
made in Savannah or Augusta, for conveni
ence of public creditors, when it can be done
without detriment to the public interests.
Public Debt. — ’l ire Governor is authoriz
ed to fund the debt to Reid, Irving & Cos.
arid provision is made for its regular annual
reduction. He is also authorized to substi
tute bonds payable in the State for 6 perct.
bonds elsewhere payable, upon such terms
as he may deem advisable. Provision is
made for renewing mutilated bonds and cou
pons, and establishing copies of such as may
be lost.
REVERTED LANDS.
The act of 1842 is repealed, tire time for
taking out grunts extended to Ist October
1841, and provisions made for the disposi
tion t.f such lands as revert to the State.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAIL ROAD.
The act of 1841, suspending operations
&c. is repealed, which revives the unex
pended balance of former appropriations
tor the work, (about $270,000.) The work
is to progress gradually and economically,
first to the point where the Rome branch is
r<> unite. When either ofthe branch roads,
she Monroe or Georgia, shall reach the
South Eastern terminus, the road is to be
equipped with cars, &c. to the extent that
its business and the public interest may re
quire. In the mean time, the road Is to be
offered for sale, at a sum not less than 81,-
000,000, w ith the addition of whatever sum
may be expended on it from this time to
the sale; and whenever this sum can be
obtained, all further expenditures on the
part of the State are to cease, and the Gov
ernor to make the sale on such terms as he
may deem advantageous to the State. He
is authorized, in the farther’ progress of the
work, to place upon it such of the convicts
of the Penitentiary as can be so employed
in conformity to their sentences.
EDUCATION OF THE POOR.
A bencficient system for thi.*, laudable ob
ject is provided by an act, in another col
umn, to wLicit we refer lire reader for de
tails.
CONGRESS!, NAL DISTRICTS.
Elections for members of Congress arc
hereafter to be made by districts [the ar
rangement of which we have already pub
lished.] Should the members elected by
general ticket to the present Congress, be
declared by that body not to be entitled to
their seats, anew election is to he ordered
under the district system. Voting out ofthe
disttict in which an individual resides, is de
flated a misdemeanor, punishable by fine
not less than SIOO, nor more than SSOO, at
the discretion of the Court.
ELECTION OF GENERALS.
By the amended constitution, there offi
cers aie made elective by the peoj le. Upon
the: occuneuce <f a vacancy, the Comman
der-in-Chiel shall issue orders to Comman
ders of Regiments, for an election to be
made by the peisons liable to do militia du
ty. Elections to he held at the several pre
cincts, and returns made to the Governor,
who shall make proclamation of the officer
elected, and issue his commission.
ELECTIONS OF PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT.
To accommodate this election to the sys
tem of biennial sessions, it is provided that
a majority of the Electors shall have au
thority to fill vacancies in their own body,
whether created by failure of the people to
elect the lull number by a majority of their
votes, or by the absence of one or more of
those so elected. In the event of the peo
ple not electing by a majority of their votes,
a mujotiiy of the number to w hich (lie State
isenti led, or in the event of a majority not
attending at the seat of Government, at the
appointed time, the Governor is direct* and to
convene tire General Assembly in extra ses
sion, to fill the vacancy or vacancies.
CLOSING OF POLLS.
The time of closing the polls in elections
at the several precincts in this State, is
changed from 6 o’clock, P. M. to 5 o’clock,
P. M.
CENSUS.
Provisions is made for taking the Census
of the State, in compliance with the re
quirements of the Constitution, in the year
1845. As the details are of little interest to
the reader, and the time yet far in prospec
tive, we omit the particulars.
small pox.
All laws requiring the expenses inclined
in cases of small pox and other pestilen
tial diseases, to be paid by the State, are
repealed. The Governor is directed to
procure at public expense, supplies of vac
cine matter for gratuitous public use.
STATE HOUSE oi-riCERS.
Certain specific duties of the Treasurer
and Comptroller have been alluded to in
the item of “ Finance.” Bonds are to be
required of the several officers in the fol
lowing amounts; Treasurer, $200,000;
Comptroller, $20,000; Secretary of State
and Surveyor-General SIO,OOO each.
PENITENTIARY.
The system is continued, and the present
location retained. The appropriation for
its benefit, tbe change of sentences, and
the disposition of certain convicts on the
State Road, have been mentioned. Pqfctto
lice is amended, and the law forbidding job
woik, repealed,
BANKS.
Centred Ba k. —Tire Governor is anlbor
thmized to reduce the number of officers,
ami to fix the salary of those retained.
The Charter of the Marine and Firo In
surance Bank, Savannah, is extended 20
years. The Bank of Augusta is authoriz
ed to reduce its stock to not less than $600,-
000; the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company to puichase its own stock and
thus reduce its capital not below $2,000,-
000; lire Georgia Insurance and Trust
Company, t<> reduce its capital to not less
than $300,000; the name of the Bank of
Hnwkinsville is changed to ‘• The Mer
chants* Bank of Macon.” Certain Banks
in Augusta are relieved front Executions
auuinst them for taxes paid to a former trea
surer of the State, and not placed to their
credit. Certain assignments made by -Bunks
in Columbus ate confirmed. The several
Banks of tire state are required to publish
their semi-annual reports at their own ex
pense.
EXPENSES OF THE STATE.
T he expenses of the late session amount
ed in the ncsretiate, to $76,954 76—which
is between $16,000 and 17,000 less than that
of 1842.
o®natllk(sm Mfecsollllsyayo
PUBLISHED EVERY F R I It D A Y MORNING AT
THE VERY LOW PRICE OF TWO DOLLARS
AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM —ONE DOL
LAR AND FIFTY CENTS FOR SIX MONTHS
j ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
MADISON, GI'O :
Friday Uloraiitg, January 5, 1844.
FOR PRISIIIST,
M£NKY GLAY-,
The Former <f Ashland” the Amniean
Patriot, Statesman and Orator.
THE NEW YEAR.
I
We have lead so many homilies on the
New Year, and so many good ones, and
lraveseeir nil the ideastlial we can muster on
■ the subject so much better handled than we
I arecapableof handling them, that hut for the
! veneration we feel for the old year that has
| just departed, and the good will vve hear
| the new year just commenced, vve would
j not venture a word on the subject. We sat
by a good fat light-wood chunk to hear the
| last pulse of the old year—we were alone
| by our own fireside—it was a still hour and
, we hail sat, chin in rest, f*r a lime, in deep
! meditation. U p thought a great deal, and
j wc might have imagined that
“ Wc lienril an old man's dying sigh—
And an infant’s idle lauyliter.”
r
i But we didn't. Wo only heard the old
| clock strike twelve, and as the lust faint
; tone died away in tire stillness of our apart
ment vve looked out for the stars. There
were none—the sky was ovenas', and vve
thought of nature’s magnificent mourning,
and remembered from Blrakspeare,
“ Hiing be the Heavens in black !”
There was something appropriate in that,
for the old year, full of sins, had gone down
to the oblivious grave. The fact is, our
thoughts were with the venerable deceased,
vve wanted daylight hv which to scan tiro
new comer, and vve resumed our reverie
just where vve lift off when vve rose to note
the stars. Well, vve thought, and thought,
and thought, about a great many things—
about ourself and our friends—their good
fortune and our ill luck—the disappoint
ments, tiials mid vexations vve have met in
our path of life—how vve have went round
some, jumped over some, and tripped up
over others—vvlrat errors und blunders vve
have committed, and how, if vve had only
known then vvlrat vve know now, how much
wiser vve would have been, anil how much
better vve would have managed. Well, vve
went on thinking—we thought vve would try
to profit by the experience of the past, and
endeavor to do better for the future—we
thought of new subscribers to the “ Mis
cellany,” of payments in advance, and how,
if people would pay us, vve would be able
to pay the people. These were practical
thoughts, and our past experience intima
ted to us that we were thinking against
hope—our thoughts grew less and less
pleasurable until we grew sad—vve thought
about the scores of Democratic discontinu
ances und the meagre account of new sub
scribers that had come in, and vve tried to
change tire current of i>'-> thoughts. Tut!
tut I thought wo—courage, courage—let
not the remembrance of ’43 cast a shadow
over the dawn of ’44—with it anew era
dawns—like ’76, tire natal year of our Na
tional Independence, ’44 will be hailed in
after time as the date of our National re
generation. As the genius of our illustrious
Washington then lose superior to the en
emies of civil liberty, and dispelled the dark
clouds that slnoudcd our nation’s birth, so
will the genius of our talented and patriotic
Clay rise superior to the machinations and
schemes of ilio conspiring factions under
whoso blighting r ule our beloved country
has too long wasted, and prosperity and
happiness willagain blt*ss the people. There
was consolation in that thought, and vve felt
belter after if, and vve followed out the train
of reflections naturally suggested by it,
thinking how cheerfully vve would devote
all our energies in aid o( the good Whig
cau°e, and how vve would exult over such 3
happy, such a glorious consummation of our
dearest hopes ! We would indeed exult,
thought wc, and just then the cocks began
to crow, a happy new year-r-r-r! and wu
thought it was “ high time to go to bed.”
And now, reader, we desire to wish you
indeed a happy New Year, which we can
not better do than by wishing success to thq
good Whig cause!