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NUMBER 19 (,ll,l:'IE XXXVI.] MI I, LEDGE V ILL E, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12. (865. i-tiHTON, MSBKT, BA RN E- & MOORE ( publishers and Proprietors. J0’ i[in(J»rf»>' £ k II. NINiC M. > Jilorx. a teiicuf Pinion r. m ljHshed Weekly* in Milledgevi lie, Go., - r u --/■ -V- IVilkinson Sts., fjpi'-r of Hancock 4' $3 a year rr debfois or criminals, report to stratagen and demand continuances as a matter ot right, which are usually allowed, or ai least often allowed, upon a slight and trivial showing. The trial should be Tail and impartial ; but, in human govern ments, judgment against an evil deed should be speedily executed, that “the hearts of the children of men should not be set iu them to do evil." The trial is economy these paired. 1 he public grounds should be enlarged, improved and ornamented, the Halls ot desolations may be re- ] be byjtLat of any of the late slave States f of law. 1 * abilities, of great integrity of character, ; r> - n u r , . i Also that no bill of attainder or tjov. li olden, the most tolerant of the | ex post facto law shall be passed. Provisional Governors, a man of splendid ) This law deprives a manof his property in that it takes away a valuable franchise. advertising. , ,.f ’respect. Resolutions l*v Societies, (Oblt- 1 .'rxeeedinjj six hues. Nominations lor office Coni- ' icstiousor Editorial notices lor individual benefit,) i Mtranuenl advertising. Legal AnvitRTisiKo.' ■ tfs sales, per levy ot ten lines, or less, Mortgage fi fa sales per square. I Te Collector's Sales, per square, * ’ for Letters of Administration, .. Guardianship, ofapulination fordism'n from Adm’n ‘ Guard'n I n ;’ n for leave Lo sell land, * to Debtors and Creditors, ’ 'lj of land, 4-c., per square, pciishable property, 10 doys.'per square gjtrsy X forecM Legislation ought to imprcs#the spectator : known to b« a favorite of the President, | his profession, without that intervention with the power of the State, and her , and fully committed to his policy of re i of the courts which constitutes due process courts of justice with the ‘Jlajesty of the ! construction, personally popular, and able j ,,f law. It interferes wiih the functions law. Annually, improvements should he j iu concentrate in himself the full strength j of the judiciary, it thereby added to improvements until the name ! of the Union element in the State, was j Constitution. functioi violates the of the capital shall become a praise to the J, nominated was legard for Governor ■d as a certainty. His election and as a ra in A flvnrU'P i ^ Ia< ^ f° r the purpose of ascertaining the whole people 111 A(l\ dllCv. j truth ; and the testimony of witnesses, On the first of February last, the Oon- though uncertain, fallible, and often false, gress of the United States, by a joint is the best and only moans given to us, resolution, proposed to the Legislatures ol v-.Esr-One D jllar per square of tea iinee for j arr j vo »t wil1 *>e borne in mind, the several Stale? of the. Union an amend- T r ',.,r-ion. 1 . ! that the tendency of the age in all civi- ment to the Constitution of the United , n««,]n!n,ns bv Societies (Obit- lized governments is, not to limit arbitrari- States, declaring that, hereafter, neither, ly the range of examination, but to enlarge slavery or involuntary servitude, except if; not to increase the class of persons for crime, ishall exist iu the United States, made incompetent to testify by the rules or in any place subject to their juiisdic- f-2 50 of -the common law, but to allow even tion ; and that Congress should have pow- 5 00 , parties to the cause to be beard ; to sub- er to enforce the proposed articles by ap- •> 00 ! rn jt the character and the credibility of propriate legislation. A copy of the pro file witnesses to the judgment and discre- J posed amendment is attached, and it is tion of an enlightened Court and jury, to submitted to the consideration of the Leg- be by them, under the rules and sanctions j islature with the hope and desire that it of law, considered and adjudged. The j may be adopted and ratified. A very visitation of punishment on offenders l common objection is made to it oil the should not only he speedy and certain, ; ground that it may confer, by implication, but it should be proportioned to the'na- i on Congress the power of regulating, gen- ture and character of the offence. It ! erally, the internal policy of the State.— should be sufficiently severe to deter per- j Such a construction ^is believed to Oe er- j sons from its repetition, and of a nature to roueous and unfounded and unwarranted, j reform, if possible, the offender himself.— either by the language employed, or the ! al element is, by these accounts, more ac- Cruel and unusual punishments are con-objects sought to bo attained. j tive, more bitter, and more intractable demned bv our fundamental law ; and re- ! The Constitution of tl.e Lnitud States j there than in A bill of attainder is a legislative judg ment, known to the Parliament, of Eng tt neat ion by the people of North Carolina j laud where such laws weie passed to puu- of the policy and prospect it afforded of a isli traitors, but expressly prohibited to 3 00 3 00 .4 50 3 00 5 00 3 00 5 00 1 50 3 00 I 00 utici-s. 3 ) Jays, ire of Mortgage, per »q . each tim legal advertisements. if Land bv Administrators, Executors or M '., uri > required by law to be held on the first ' ,hp rlonth : between the hours ot 10 in the I forrno ju Tuesday in the month ; between 1 ' and three in the atternoon. altbe Court house millv in which the property is situated. I v „t„. e ,/these sales must be given iu a public ^a- „ it- 40 dar* previous to the day of sale, v . . „ ti.r iIip sale of personal property .Vatic > i r* previous to me uay «>i »««>-. V , tl cc<- tor the sale of personal property must no I like manner 10 days previous tomle day 1 Notices to the debtors ami creditors of an estate ,,-,t itiso be punished 40 days. . „ , , V , that application wilt be made to the Court of I lV 7,ary tor leave to sell Laud, &e., must be publish- ' * letters of Administration Guardianship. . , Mt he published 30 days-for dismission frot.« j,tration, monthly it* months—for dismission 1 uardiauship, 40 'la; s. , ,„ r foreclosure ot iiortgage must be published t , r t iur months—hn establishing lost papers, I 'mil spore oj three months— for compelling Idles j ,r admini it raters, where bond has ] tinement and civilization require that the j confers, among other tilings, upon Con- bumau body should be neither marked or i gress the power to regulate commerce with mutilated. Such penalties for crime should ! foreign nations and among the States, to ... . — —pressly prohibited to I speedy resumption of civil r'glits; and es- Congress by the framers of the Constitu- ; cape from the rigors of military rule. tion. But this law in effect, undertakes ills defeat, therefore, is an e\cnt for to fix,a punishment for an offence without which we were totally unprepared, and the int- rvention of a court, without n trial will tend, probably, more than any bingle or conviction. It is in the nature of a bill event that has occurred since the cessa- of ittainder and therefore unconstitutional, lion of hos.ilities^to letard the vtorii oi . It is not denied that Congress may say lestoration. ^ j that a man shall be liable to a certain pun- “Elsewfiare we publish the comments ishinrut for an offence—but it is not for of the Raleigh press on the result of the . Congress to inflict that punishment. The election.—They present a very^ gloomy ! Court must inflict it after due course of view nf the present condition of political law. afiairs in the .State, and a more cheerless i The law makes a man try bis own case, prospect for the future.—It is to Ik; hoped i But Congress has na fight to make a man they have somewhat overcolored the pic- J come into Colfrrt and sw r ear in his own tore. But if it. is a fair representation of; case, A refusal to swear is indirect evi- the condition,of things, there can he. but j dence of guilt, and in thus requiring a man very little doubt that a provisional gov- ! to sw'ear, Congress violates . the Constitu- eiTnnrait will be maintained iu North Oar- ! tion. olina for a lone time to come. The disloy- j The Constitution confers far less pow ers upon Congress than are given by the Constitution of Alabama to its Legisla- of the cotton States, ; ture, yet the duelling test oath prescribed aid wiii have to he restrained by the ; by the Legislature of Alabama, similar in strong hand of power.” | many respects to this te6t oath, was de- It seems from *lie above, which is only | dared by the courts to be uncoustitution- A Second AndersonvilU.—A corres pondent of the Chicago Times, writing from Davenport, Iowa, gives an ac count of a visit to Camp McClellau, some two miles from Davenport, in which he says: Within are confined what is left of one thousand Indians, who were re moved hither from Minnesota after the massacre of 1862. They are Sioux, were sent here originally to be md any be prescribed and iuflicted as will meet the j declare war, to raise and support armies, ! a specemin of the many notices we daily ■ al. All test oaths are unconstitutional approbation of the merciful and humane; j and to provide for caliingforth the militia i eee in the Northern press, that because Mr. ! shrink from the duty of prompt convic tion on testimony excluding reasonable A m kx vutors deceased, the lull space .1 tlirei be continued according to Watts then spoke of the pardon ing power of the President, which he said was co extensive with thelegislative powd er to impose penalties. He cannot be deprived of this powder or restricted in it by any act of Congress, for it is confer- „ . ied by the Constitution. But the effect invested with the right to abolish State j tlie loyalty of the South, and they would j of the test oath is to retain and enforce ' punishment for offences after the Preei- a such as will not, by their severity and i It is further provided, that Congress shall barbarity, cause enlightened juries to have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to carry into exe cution these enumerated powers; but it the people of Noitli Carolina have seen piope.r, in their wisdom, to defeat Mr. Holden for Governor, the grext work of retarded. A suspi- Pilili.-atioiis will always __ Jc- itie legal requirement!., utilei-s otherwise Book and work, of all kinds, promptly and neatly executed at tiiin office* rv When H subscriber finds a cross mark on *-® .... .1 A L I.1T1 lifts restoration must be retarded. A doubt. Our financial condition and our : has never been contended that, because of I cious and jealous spirit is displayed by the deranged social relations require a new i such authority. Congress w as thereby' j “staj’-at homes” at the North concerning code. One which shall have incorporated in it the principles and maxims alluded to. j Courts, to prescribe the qualification of i have us make still further sacrifices in or- Soiitary confinement in the Penitentiary I jurors, or to declare who shall exercise the j '‘P 1 ’ to appease their insatiable and blood- j is to be succeeded by penalties more ade- ; right of suffrage. Moreover this amend- i thirsty appetites. Like the eagle, after qunte to the suppression of crime, and ment is strictly cumulative, audit is not j devouring their prey, they still hunger for iutended by it, cither to repeal or modify °thcr victims. How insatiable I how any of the existing provisions of tfie Con stitution ; and, tbercfore.it will still be for the several States to prescribe, each for itself, who shall Le electors for the more effectua danger. 1 in protecting society from 1 trust that in a few days I shall be able to lay before you a report from the Super intendent of the Western & Atlantic hung, but as the Federal Government does a good deal more hanging in the ory than in practice, they have been allowed to remain here until of the original number there is left only about two hundred. Of these, per haps, one-third are men, and the rest squaws and papooses. The remaind er have died, with the exception of a few who have been sent to a reserva tion in Missouri. Here, in a few words of unction and suavity, the correspondent of the Chic ago Times gives the outlines of an event more shocking and ghastly than the two years of Andersonville. Out of one thousand prisoners who were removed to Camp McClellan, in 1862, barely two hundred.aie now left alive! It cannot be—the writer must he one of the correspondents of the New York. Tribune or the Philadelphia Enquirer, who are regularly employed to fabri cate such stories about the Southern people; and, being up in the North west from necessity unavoidable, “was keeping his hand in” for the win ter’s campaign in the South. To think too, that the greater portion of these poor, red wretches are “squaws and papooses!” Ye gods! if they were _ only the descendants of Ham, instead dent has pardoned them, and it thereby ! ^ ie a horiginal and rightful owners restricts his pardoning power, and is there- | land where they were impris- The Constitution ! oned, what floods of oratory and edi torial bosh we should have pouring in upon us from Beecher and Greeley. par- Hailroad, showing the receipts and dis-: most numerous branch of their assemblies . vs , . . h biirseinents ficrn the period it was turned and, as a consequence, who shall be quali- 11.>paper be ^'.ut toVxpire 'and'inuVtbe'renew- over to the State to the present time; show- i fied electors for members of Congress. | K?f he °Dhes the paper continued. j ing also the progress made in the con-i The Congress passing it, the different st met ion of the bridges, art id all other ica- j Department of the Government, and most j tcrial details therewith connected, of geu- , of the Legislatures of the several .States eral interest. The operations for the pe- I ratifying it, construe the amendment to riod of time stated, under the management j be nothing more or less than a declaration Superintendent and j against involuntary servitude, conferring fore unconstitutional of Alabama prohibits the pardon of nffen- cruel ! Cannot the long train of suffering ders urtil after the trial and conviction, endured by r the South appeal to their but there is no such limitation of the sympathy’, and stay the radical hand that doning power of the President, would coutinue to make such unreasonable Finally M. Watts urged that the con- exaetions. j stitntional liberty must be secuied and . . , In singular contrast with the above it protected by the Courts, and that that j se ^ thltner to be bung, but were re- is a praiseworthy fact, that the brave men , liberty depended upon keeping each de- ! prkved to undergo a thousand deaths of the North who were in the Federal ar- part ment of the Government within its!! Where is the Wert* who officiated ! at Camp McClellan ? And was it by ! direct orders thur, these Indians were subscri- tnow r^'Wedo not send receipts to new ;a s. I:’ tliev receive the paper they may tauwe have received the money • IT Subscribers wishing their papers changed •>„ m on « i.ost-otlice to another must state t, ; e mine of ike post-offlee troni which they w-bit y ar! ? e{ b - satisfactory, and will recommend the in-1 er to carry such declaration into execution j i° n t0 he restored until the South shows ; . i dustry and fidelity of the officers to a gen- I by necessary and proper laws. Such Is 1 more signs of loyalty'. my are liberal in their views, and dispo sed to be more, generous. The men who aided on the field of battle to restore the Union are willing to show some magnani mity, while the “home heroes” of the com mercial stripe are not willing for the Un own appropriate limits. ALABAMA LEGINLATLRE. Montgomery Nov. 29. »hr Dead. ays ihe Macon eral and unqualified approval. Appro- : the qatural import of the language cm-j priafe qualifications for the successful ; ployed, and such doubtless will be the f k 5 -«ov. and rttnse to r-.?por propitious time to “bury ail ^nikinuncss mile." If the people of both sections second the ->!,es of their gallant sons, a peace that can nev- trtw d. : .'tarb“d will soon bo firmly established.] From the New York Evening Post. boys, let 11s bnry oor dead together, Let us bury nur dead together : li- battle li* Id’s clear and the battles are over, Aad its beautiful sunshiny weather* and control of the subordinates will, it is believed, be highly i therewith on Congress the.restricted pow ‘ SENATE. Mr. Powell, of Macon, Presented a petition from various citizens to organize .. ,i the IfnconarliHiionality j a new county out of the counties of Mont- managemeut ot a road transacting so large ; construction given it by the different De- of n.e t««i o«ih. ! gomery Pike Barbour Ru«sell audMa- and so extensive a business, and the requi- J partments of tne Government in all con- con, described therein,’which was refer- _ - - L1 l ?° ver6 l ieS hereafter arise.. In- I he U. S. District Court is now in red to the committee on county bounda- ! the acceptable discharge or tho functions j der other circumstances, a proposition to ! sion at Montgomery. In behalf of the r ; es j of the Executive oflice can seldom be ratify such an amendment, would not be bar of Alabama—none of the lawyers j r found united in the person of any one in- : entertained by you. Although the “can- being able to take the oath prescribed—I- Mr. Barnes offered the following : dividual. Moreover, the ordinary’ duties j non's roar and the trumpet’s r-langor are Judge Busteed consented that the uncon Resolved, That the Governor be reques- pertaining to each position, arc sufficiently j no longer heard,” society still moves on stitutionality of the oath should be aigued * e d to inform the Senate as early as con- numerous and onerous to require the un- \ in its resistless way, and it is necessary J before him. The bar appointed Ex-Gov venient, what action has been had-under divided time and attention of any man to j that we should accommodate our actionjThos.il. Walts, Alexander H. White, of • tl»e act approved Feb. 6th, 1868, enti- whose charge such a trust may be com-j to the inexorable demands of inevitable ! Talladega, and Judgfc W T m. P. Chilton to tied an act in reference to school land, be- mitted. For these reasons and for a va- I results, that the poinianent welfare of our j argue the question on their side. We l lll| g'"S lo 'I' 6 mlisMbtits of cwtBintown* IThe following, says me macou Tclegrapfl, h.n been brought to our attention by an esteeni- ►d triend a Confederate officer, who bears upon hi, person, honorable marks of bis devotion to cause of the Confederacy during the teyib.e site capacity and attainments proper for, ivcr years which have just closed- No true sol dier of either of the late contending armies, wii id to the sentiment that now is th in awaiting their final punishment? [Alew O. True Delta. j Convicts Pouring in.—We learn from j Dr. Moere, the Warden of the State Peni- j tentiary, that since the commencement | of the fall cour*s, be has received into that prison twenty-four convicts, eighteen of them being negroeB, and six whites. If they continue to pour in at this rate, a Chinese wall will have to be built around our neighboring county of Coosa, with a considerable slice off nf that of Montgom ery, in order to make sufficient room for these pests of society’! This city is sure to send up a very strong delegation, unless the Legislature, at the coming session, should decide to abolish the institution. The Doctor informs us that one negro convict expressed himself as being glad of the opportunity of learning a trade there; while still another—a negress—in formed her husband who accompanied her Together they lie, like brothers asleep : Together like brothers asleep. Tin ini hardly distinguish the blue fiom EffcV, Iu ti.ia tiioody, immovable heap. Lock! h-re is a ‘ Yankee” and here is a ‘‘Reb,” With ttieir hands clasped closed in each other's.' '• m lot men they fought, it is certain i«; 1 In-v thought of each other as- brothers. riety of others that will be readily sug- people may be secured and our State re* | copy from the Montgomery Advertiser: | ships in this State, located in the States to the spot, that she was well pleased gested, I recommend that the control of ; stored to her former political rights and i We regret that our limited space pro-1 Arkansas aud Louisiana, and whether j with the internal arrangements of the in-' the road be taken out of the hands of the ! relations. j eludes us*from giving anything like a fair ai, - v a K ent lias ever been appointed, under j stitution, its fare, &c. We have no doubt Kxecutive and be placed under the direc- j Georgia has, in good faith abolished sin- I synopsis of the able effort with which ex- ! saitI aet ' aml wll °’ aI1(1 . M i liat ste P s * >f auy» j that if she could but have the privilege of tion and management of a Commissioner, j very. She could not revive it if she j G ov . Watts opened the argument as t0 I kave been taken by sai<» agents, and all | attending one funeral on each Sabbath whose duties shall be prescribed by law; j would; und the ratification of thisamend- ; the constitutionality of the test oatli.l *! 1C information to be found in the ixecu-j within its gloomy walls, she would be that he shall be elected by the people of j ment will make the people of the United i Gov. -Parsons and Gov. Patton sat on ei- t lie State, as is the Governor; that he i States homogeneous—will remove from ] t her side of the learned Judge; the space ffiath ! shall report directly’ to the Legislature, | among us that cause of bitterness and j within the bar was as full as it could p<i8- the Aidk-re is a “Yankee" aud here is a “Reb,” And between them a can ot stale water, Ai tuueha l been giving the other a drink. In the midst of the terrible slaughter.' A: war is a wonderful leveler, boys, No matter who's who, death outflanked him, A T now you poor fellow with head iu the ciich ' as £0(>d as them that outraaKed him. and shall be by them subject to removal ; sectional strife which have wasted onr > sib)} 7 he with the host learning of the. for malfeasance in office. j property and deluged our land in blood, j State, including all the able lawyers in Under the wasting and demoralizing I Furthermore, by yielding to this require- , the Legislature, and the court room influence of war onr schools and Colleges ment readily, w r e shall submit a nfo&t ef- without the bar was crowded to its utmost j have fallen into decay and our youth for a ! fectual argument, tending to open the ; capacity. : few years past have been called and trails-! Halls of the National Legislature, and! For more than two hours Mr. Watts l , ierred fiom the Academy to be exercised i the strongest plea that could be addressed j held tho unflagging attention of every-j and trained in the Camp. But peace has , to the clemency aqd magnanimity of the , body. He commenced by stating a case,; I returned and with its return the late Con- , Government. and all Execu tive office of this State, in relation there- j perfectly delighted with her new home! So. to, and whether any of said lands have j it cannot be very severe punishment to been sold, and* w’hat has become of the j this class, to confine them there.—itfoal- proceeds thereof. j gomery Mail. Mr. Baines offered a resolution, That, j • 1 — »— the House concurring, the present Gener* j Hon. Joshua Hill.—The Milledgeville al Assembly adjourn on Friday, the; correspondent of the New York News, Sth of December, until Monday, the Stb ; speaks thus of the Hon. Joshua Hill:, day of February next; the consideration! Hon. Joshua Hill is spoken of as a can- i'd war i* a wonderful thing any way, 9 And a curious method ol righting, A *ronff—to make peaceable fellows li!<e ns s 't;le '.nestions ol State by hard fighting. '■[ that's tho wr T?s, that's tlm ® *et us he lambs And go back to the fields and clever. • all the world over, my way all the world over; never mind, now, if you fought right wrong; ■Tank god we are once more together, -'untry between us, Rnd one flag .above, Anting free in the sunshiny weather. And be friends in this sunshiny weather, MESSAGE. ,{ V’emcn of the Senate and House of Representatives. vention not unmindful nf the obligations tbe Government is under to provide for the education of the people did ordain that the University of the State should be ade quately endowed. In carrying this in junction liberally and generously into now tho wool is well gorged— ! practice and operation you will only fol low the precepts and example of the en lightened and patriotic fathers of the Re public. I o the prompt discharge 6f this important duty, interest, honor and pa triotism all unite to invite you. Located in a healthy region, surrounded by a vir- I tuons and industrious population, and the - let us bury our dead together, ! j t j zens 0 f t h e town and immediate vicini- “ imry our dead together • i , . . . . , , • ■' ‘bill them we’ll burv nnkindness and strife.! ty devoted to science and learning, the j University of Georgia can and ought to j be made more than ever the cherished ob ject of the affections of her people, j The appropriations and donations wLich j havo heretofore been made, though most - j : ly lost or coururaed, have not been vain j ^iuce you last assembled great changes and fruitless expenditures. The bar, tbe j --”e taken place in our social and politi- bench and tl^^pulpit havo shared iu the n lcondition, and upon vou it is imposed rewards of suW libeiality. Science and delicate and arduous task of adapting learning through the agency of endowned '■•’laws and their administration to the professorship can and will accomplish new *«ts and demands of socie’ty. I’o effect and greater triumphs, and through your ' !l 3 purpose successfully, it will be readily j fostering care secure to you their patrons, 'Ujpsied to you, that it will not only be j a place in history as the benefactors of our 5t ces<ary that many of the existing stat- race* '-8 Lc repealed or modified, but that also j Discussion and experiment suggested ■-■aiiy :k‘\v provisions, defining crimes and 1 that tho Supreme court should hold its r “?ulating the administration of laws, be j sessions at the Capital. *j r Iite suggestion ’•Produced and adopted. In a communi-1 was adopted and carried into execution by r -ation of this character a specification of! the Convention. To complete tbe ^ork ! ‘ e proper alterations and amendments j 0 t good policy thus tardily begun, it is not be expected. In this connection ; proper and expedient that the Capital 1 w >il however remark that, from my ex-1 itself should be here declared and^consid- P^ience at the bar, I do not hesitate to . e red permanently located. Hereitoccu- a ; ; nn, that one of-the most seiious evils pies a central and accessible position in ^ "ao has heretofore-characterized tbe ad- the midst of a section once fertile and ^‘tfistratibu of civil and criminal justice, passing beautiful. Man impelled by ava- as ^«en the delay attending the trial of j rice and prodigality has partially de6trov- in the Circuit Courts. Hesitating j ed and wasted the lavish gifts of nature, and reluctant defendants, wheth- but through industry and a »oai*l Pardon in me a personal allusion. Iu my official acts, 1 have endeavored to avoid proscription, on account of farmer differences of opinion, and have sought to relieve the people from pain, penalties and forfeitures legally’‘imposed. <>h con dition that they- be reconciled to the Gov ernment. In turn, let me entreat you to bring for ward y’our prejudices and animosities and offer them a sacrifice on the altar of our common country 7 , that w e may once again present to mankind the spectacle—the pleasant, happy spectacle, of “brethren dwelling together in unity.” J. JOHNSON, Provisional Governor of Georgia. that of a gentleman who had been' admit ted to the practice iu the Court many! years ago and who had been pardoned for his participation in the rebellion, iu | names; locations and occupation of freed. August 1 ‘ 1 " “ • 'g of which, on motion, was postponed until Wednesday 7 , the C?th inst. HOUSE. Mr. Robinson, of Chambers, introduced a bill to authorize the registry of the last, by President Johnson. I Judge Busteed interrupted him to state; that lie. would not hear an argument upon any particular case, or give a decision from which an appeal might he taken on such a ease, but repeating again what he had said, he expressed his readiness lo hear any discussion of the general princi ples involved. that tlie Court had the power and it w'as its duty if convinced of its unconstitution ality, to so declare it, for the Constitution was the supreme law of the land, the fun- " I damental law, which must override every Not Satisfied-—-The tone of the j legislative enactment created by any body Radical press at the North is full of ven j under or subordinate to it. The constitu- om towards tho South, and betrays a • tional power is superior to the law ina- malignant and vindictive spirit. Not j king pow’er, and the oath of the Judge re- satisfied with the quiet acceptance by j quires him so to decide, when these con- tbe South of tho issues of the war, they ! f}j c t with each other. still clamor for the further degradation of our section, and would have us, after attending our State Constitutions abolish ing slavery, repudiating our debt, and doing everything else required by Presi dent Johnson—after doing all this, they would set themselves up as censors, and prescribe not only rules and regulations for the government of the rebels, but would select for us, as our rulers, the most odious men to be found in tbe South. men m all incorporated towns or cities, which was referred to the committee on corporations. Mr. Whitfield introduced the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, that a select committee of members bo appointed by tho speaker to enquire whether there are any existing records or memoranda concerning Alabama Afier reading the law, Mr. Watts said soldiers; in whose hands they may be, and by what authority; whether they can be made available to, or arc worthy to be preserved by the State; and what dispo sition ought to be made of them and re port by bill or otherwise, j Mr. Moore, of Coffee, offered a bill on | the same subject, which was referred. Mr. Bethea introduced a joint resolution ! that a select committeof three be appoin- ' ted by each House, to wai* on the Gov- i ernor elect, Hon. R. M." Patton, and as- Tlie Constitution is made by the States, j certain at what time it will suit his conve- and ratified by them; it is a written in- j nience to be inaugurated; which was adop strument giving to the Government only ted, and Messrs. Bethea, Cox, and Good- certain powers laid down therein. These ! win were appointed as the Committee on are expressed powers, not implied, except j the part of the House, in one instance, in which certain powers The joint resolution of the House au are impliedly given in order to carry into thoiifiiug the Governor to contract for a effect those previously expressly given, j temporary loan of $100,000, having been Executive, Legislative and Judicial func- amended by tbe Senate by inserting the They glory in the promotion of such men j j 1{l8 power to exercise the functions as Holden, Brownlow, it ed omne genus, j other. In requiring tne*taking of the oath ! jailors in this State having been amended igrcss, the legis- by the Senate, by fixing the fees for vic- abd their plaintive wailings over the hand some defeat of the formw is sufficient evi dence of their true feelings. Listen to the CincinDatti Commercial of a recent date : The people of the loyal States have •been more greviously disappointed by tbe action of North Corolina, since the eollapaa of the rebellion, than they can tions ate prescribed by the Constitution, and neither branch of the Government of the requiring under consideration, Congress lative body, exercises the Judicial func tions, transcends its powers, and thereby violates the Constitution. The Constitution of thd* United States provides that no person shall bo compel led in any criminal case to be a w'itbess against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, N without due process word “Provisional” before the word “Gov ernor,” the House concurred in the same. The Ilonse hill in relation to the fees ol tualling white persons at fifty cents, and black ones at forty cents a day; the House concurred in the same. By Mr. McCoy of Russell—A bill to transfer the administration of the estate of Patrick Calhoun of Russell to Montgom erp county. Referred to Committee on Loeal Legislation. didate for the United States tenaie, and if his being for a lifetime, an uncomprising Union mau, be a recommendation, he should certainly he elected, lie disclaims, and 1 doubt not in truth, any connection whatever with tho late war. In a speech in the convention a few days since, when alluding to the bloodshed, roin and calami ties which had befallen us, he quoted those famous words of Mcbetb. 4‘Thou can’st not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me.” I do not k«ow that Air. Hill ever occupied auy pnblic position, but that of Representative from Georgia in the United States Congress. It will be recollected that he Was the last one of the Georgia delegation to leave Con gress, which he did with emotions of feel- ing highly characteristic of him as a man, and which were an index of his 6trong Union proclivities. He has not mnch reputation as a. statesman, but occupies a high position at the bar. The relations between him and President Johnson are said to be of the most amicable character. He would make a good Senator being of conservative and patriotic inclinations.— He is about fifty years old, has a fine figure and elegant carriage, and his suavity of manners and gentlemanly deportment are proverbial. — — Immigration Moving South.—Among the newly arrived immigration in the At lantic cities, considerable numbers are bound to the States lately at war. This is a matter of importance as well as nov elty. Heretofore immigrants have avoi ded the States where the slave laber sys tem prevailed. This hardy class of stran gers has added immensely to the produ cing labor of the Northern States and consequently to its great wealth; and their presence will have the same effect, in the South, where they should be warm ly welcomed. It is said that these southerly bound immigrants are belter provided with means than the average of those who oome to seefe better fortaoe la this country.