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MILLED GETILLE, GEORGIA, M A R C H 17, 1868.
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E. W. COLE, General Superintend^.
Augusta. Jan. 7, ISOS. 24 tf.
oil'Ms: •
“An old man, tall, rough and rag^pd,
but a true hearted Virginian, from the
mountains, called at the residence of
the General, and speaking low said:
‘Ginral, 1 have come down here to
take you and your wife and darter up
to our place hi the mountains—the
Yankees has cotcbed President Davis,
and they will be arter you sure—they
hates you, Ginral, kase you licked
’em so. i liaint no niggers to wait on
you, but me arid the old woman will
do it ; aud lowering his voice to a
whisper, he continued, “Ginral, there’s
a place up thar where yon can hide,,;
and nary Yankee can findye.”—“But,”
said the General, “you would not have
me, your General, hide away from the
Yankees /” “But, Ginral,’taint no fair
tight now. They will sneak up unbe
knownst, and it they cotch you they
will hang you sure.”
“The General satisfied the old fellow
that there was no danger of his hang
ing, and said, looking pitifully at the
stockingless feet and tattered clothes.
“Wait my friend, while I go up stairs.”
lie went up and returned with a pack
age which he gave to the old man,
saying, “Seine kind Baltimore ladies
have sent me some nice clothing—
more than I need. I have put up
here a part of it for you. you will ac
cept it and wear it ‘or the sake of your
old commander and friend ? The old
man held the package at arms length
tor a moment or two, then pressing it
to his bosom and folding his arms over
it, he held it there. Big tears rolled
down his furrowed cheeks. Soon as
he could speak, he said: i l Me wear
these clothes, Ginral! No—not while
1 live, but I’ll keep them till I die, and
they’ll put them on the old man when
his work is done and they lay him in
his coffin. I’ll sleep sweet in them,
Ginral, sure !” He went out sobbing
and holding the bundle to his breast
as he would have done an infant. 1
believe my father was crying too—I
know’ that I was.
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TSIFIiKR.
There is nothing on the earth go
small that it may not produce some
good; nothing so insignificant but will
bring forth one beautiful flower; no
pearl so little thr t it will not sparkle
if brought to the. light. Little things
make up life, and our every day expe
rience tells us so. All nature sprung
from a seed; the m jestic oak was once
a slender twig, and the grains of sand
upon the seashore are valueless if taken
separate. But the bulk furmsa footing
to view the mighty ocean, yet, vast
as it is, drops have made it vast. The
petty trial, the small thorns, are more
difficult to overcome, worse to pluck
out than those greater obstacles that
we encounter. Every day we are call
ed upon to bear burdens; not an hour
passes but it brings some fresh trial,
threatening to beat down patience un
der our feet, but which are not deem
ed great enough to ask another’s sym
pathy. Yet, let a heavy affliction or
grief fall, and friends will crowd with
kind words and gentle looks of sym
pathy, that mitigate the grief and
lift half the load from the sufferer’s
breast.
The propensities of noble minds do
nothavefull scope until they have
been used. Gradually, by degrees, they
arrive at their meridian. Not at one
birth are their masterpieces produced,
but thought after thought is grafted
on, and, by gathering together the
scraps, one grand idea is formed. We
cannot plunge into philosophy and
theology before we have mastered the
more simple branches.
So with character. Those little,
tiny faults and errors that
the soul must be overcome before ex
cellence can hope to he gained. Small
as they are, they keep us from the
right path, and prevent us from lead
ing a virtuous life.
Though we would not he guilty of
committing any atrocious crime, or
disgraceful thing, yet the little sins are
persisted in, knowing not that they
are as offensive in the sight of God.
Day after day we yield to the same
temptations—hasty words spoken that
tall on the heart like hot coals of fire;
From the New York Tribune,
“It is of the utmost importance to
the peace and welfare of the country,
as well as to the credit of the republi
can institutions, that the trial of the
President should be rigidly just and
judicial in its character. Every one
will acknowledge, iu words at least,
that it would be a gross and flagrant
wrong to commit it in any degree to the
verdict of party resentment or to the
attainment of party ends. And yet
what else are the heated appeals of
party organs, the fervid exhortations
of party orators, the instructions of
party majorities in State Legislatures,
and the resolutions of party meetings,
but attempts to use the forms of the
most solemnjudicial proceeding known
to our Constitution, for the purpose of
accomplishing party ends, and antici
pating the result of next fall’s election?
If President Johnson may be thus
ejected from office—not because be is
guilty of the ‘crimes aud misdemean
ors’for which he has been impeached,
but because he is deemed ‘unfit’ for
the place, and because the ‘country
will be safer,’ iu the Senate’s judge
ment—so may his successor; so may
any President who shall come after
him. And, under such a precedent,
whenever the President shall belong to
one party and the Congress to another
the former may be removed, and the
Senate may appoipt one of their num
ber to take his place.
“It seems to be eminently desirable
that no warrant should be given in the
trial of President Johnson for practices
so dangerous to the fundamental prin-
, ! doles of constitutional republican gov-
so J.arra»»L r ' oment „
■lien CRIJIB* AND iVUSDKJIEANORM.
From all the labors of the Impeach
ment Committee, and the eloquence
of the Radicals in Congress, it appears
that the President did two things—
first, he “did issue an order” in regard
to the War Department; and, second,
in the course of conversation with Gen.
Emory he expressed an opinion. An
opinion and an order—these are his
high crimes and misdemeanors. For
trifles, but what do they amount to? these he is to be impeached under the
Aii£Ui*ta. Jan. 1868.
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Job! 31th, 1868. 9* 3m
TRIAL OF UI'KR FOR TREASON.
Aaron Burr was^ried for treason at
Richmond, commencing May 2ff, 1S07.
The Times of that city says :
The trial took place in the present
hall of the House of Delegates, and
the struggle for admission was terrible.
So great was the number of distin
guished persons claiming seats within
the bar, that lawyers oftwenty year’s
standing were excluded from their ac
customed seats. Among the young
men of the town who had succeeded
in forcing their way in was Winfield
Scott, who clammered up and stood
for many hours on the massive lock of
the door of the hall. Justice Marshall
presided at the trial, assisted by Cyrus
Griffin, Judge of the District Court
of Virginia. George nay was the Uni
ted States District Attorney, and with
him were associated Alexander McCrea
who at the time of the trial was Lieu
tenant-Governor, of Virginia. Ed
mund Randolph, John Wickham, Lu
ther Martin, Benj. Botts, and “Jack
Baker,” appeared tor Burr.
The grand juries of those days were
composed of the most eminent aod dis
tinguished men in the State, and we
find a United States Senator (Giles)
among the grand jurors, who was
withdrawn inconsequenceof his “prej
udice against the accused.” John
Randolph, the great orator of Roan
oke, was the foreman of the grand jury.
After the finding of a true bill, four
teen days were spent in getting an im-
i partial jury who had “neither formed
nor expressed an opinion as to the
guilt of the accused.” The trial lasted
1868. | ten days loHger, when the jury return
ed the qualified verdict of acquittal :
“We, of the jury, say that Aaron Burr
is not proved to be guilty, under the
indictment, by any evidence submit
ted to us.” This verdict was finally
changed to one of not guilty.
Geu'k Sept.
A mother’s life, perhaps, commisera
ted; a sister’s affection torn asunder
by yielding to them. A kind word—
wiiat influence it lias; it lets in a ray
of sunshine to the saddened heart; it
may strew one’s pathway with beau
tiful flowers, and impel one on to
higher achievements all through life.
A word of encouragement spoken in
due time may save years of trouble,
and waft the soul in true feelings of
thankfulIness. What opportunities,
then, have we for making others hap
py; for it lays in the power of all, not
o'ne is deprived of the great privi
lege- _ •*
How to Tkll the Length of Your
Life.—Last evening Dr. T. S. Lam
bert lectured before a large audience
m Steinway Hall upon “ Longevity
and Brevevity,” the latter word being
rather unlawfully coined by him as an
tithetic to the former The Doctor
maintained that the age to which any
man could arrive, even with the ut
most care, was determined within
very narrow limits by that to which j at the worst in doubt—and this be-
his ancestors had arrived. He treated I tween the most learned men of. the
vitality throughout as a quantitative I country; and of a. doubt the accused
force. Each person inherited a cer- must have such benefit as the occa-
tain amount, which was spenIPin a cer-jsion admits. Can impeachment, then,
tain time, and this time might be] rest on such a point? Can it rest any
short although health was good anti better on distorting into a crime the
Constitution, which classes the im
peachable high crimes and misdemean
ors with bribery and treason. No
corrupt act is alledged. No bribe is
shown as offered—not even that re
motely constructive bribe—the prom
ise of an office. No act of turpitude
is hinted—no immorality even ; but
the offences are that he issued an order
and that he spoke his mind. His or
der was to another than Stanton to
occupy Stanton’s office. Some law
yers declare that this violated an act
of Congress. They are generally law
yers expecting advancement in the
Radical pafty, or lawyers with eyes
so trained to look at small points that
they cannot see large ones. It is their
opinion that the order is inconsistent
with the stability of the solar system.
There are other lawyer* who hold that
the order was authorized by the Con
stitution, and djd not even offend this
new law. Thus the offensive charac
ter ofthe order, and the guilt or inno
cence of issuing it are ai together matters
of opinion among the lawyers—points
strength great. The natural period of
life, however, could, of course, be
shortened by inattention to the laws .
of life, lie claimed, furthermore, that Itork Herald.
there was personal indications by
which one could deteimine whether
lie was probably long lived or short
saying that a law was unconstitution
al? Since when was this muzzling
principle the law of the land.—Ntxv
Declines.—By the following from
the Columbus Times, it will be seen
Life.—The best sup-
serene and dignified
The True
ported, most
earthly life is that which draws its
principal motives and delights from
God and eternity. A man immersed
all the year long in worldly affairs,
full of ambition and care, planning,
striving and doing whatsoever he does
with his eyes set on things here never
once raising his thoughts in revereuce
and religious trust and prayer to the
! over all, never once pausing upon
thn momentous fact that after his
course here is ended there comes an
other for him more noteworthy than
this,- That man is, well, the plain
spoken old Bible would say, he is a
fool. So he is. It seems a little harsh
and uncivil to say that just now, but
bye-and-bve, when we have all emer
ged from the ferment and delusion of
this urgent and noisy life, and are
able to 6ee temporal matters about as
they are, being no longer imposed on
by their nearness to us and the din of
them, the probability is we shall agree
that fool was pietty nearly the word.
[Rev. X. J. Burton.
—A young woman at the West was
run away with by a calf, whose horns
became caught in her crinoline. Not
the first young woman who has run
away with a calf, and found herself
badly caught.
lived, in the absence of knowledge °f j tb a t Gen Benning declines to run for
bis inheritance in that respect, or as (j overnor .
To the Editor Sun Sf Times : Sir—I
fully appreciate the regard which
moved your correspondent, “Marion,”
and yourself, to suggest mein terms of
high commendation, as a suitable per
son for Governor. But I must beg
leave to say to you that should the
office be voted to me, I could not ac
cept it, flattering as it would be. Im
perative personal considerations leave
me no choice. I must therefore, ask
you and any other friends to excuse me
for saying plainly, that I cannot be a
candidate for Governor.
Very respectfnlly,
Your obedient serv’t,
Henry L. Benning.
confirmatory of such knowledge.—
These indications he did not consider
to be as well ascertained and defined
as they might be and would be—the
science was as yet in its infancy—but
Irom observations in thousands of cases
he bad discovered a portion of them.
Indications of longevity were to be
iouiid in depth of brain between the
eye brows and the opening of the ear,
in a long oval face, in a large nose, in
hazel eyes, in a long body relatively to
the limbs, in moderately drooping
shoulders, and moderately long neckf
‘ brevevity,’ in shallowness of the brain
in the region mentioned, in limbs dis
proportionately long to the body,in
too long or too short neck, and a pecu
liar light blue circle to be seen round
the pupils of some persons’ eyes. The
audience was evidentlymuch interest
ed in the theories of the lecturer.
[Xeu> York World.
A Suggestive Incident.—The
Nashville Union & Dispatch says:
“A few days ago, the locomotive
W. G. Brownlow, of the Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad, jumped
the track at Hollow Rock station, and
stuck in the mud until- the Andrew
Johnson came up from Nashville, was
hitched on and drew the old Browniow
back to its place again. The job was
neatly and quickly done, and was wit
nessed by a crowd of deepJy interest
ed spectators.”
—Now that Thad. Steven* calls the
Radicals -‘contemptible cowards, they
begin to say that old age has shaken
his temper.” So long as he fulminated
against Johnson, no shake was discov
ered.
From tho New York Commercial Advertiser.
“The tenor of our intelligence
from Washington is to the effect that
the excitement and apprehensions
which have prevailed for the past
week have materially subsided, and
that cooler and wiser counsels are be
ginning to prevail. We are specially
gratified to learn that it has been con
cluded in the Senate to abandon the
scheme of deposing the President
pending trial. We are now informed
that the subject has been actively can
vassed in both houses, but that a very
gratifying determination was elicited
against it. Congress is now fairly
committed on the subject of impeach
ment, and the wisest course it can pur
sue is to push it to a final decision,
temperately, dignifiedly, aud with a
careful regard for justice and impar
tiality. The prestige is now with
Congress, and it will not do for that
body to lose that advantage unneces
sarily. It had far better have avoided
the matter altogether than to conduct
it now with unfairness, or in a spirit
of mere partisan technicality. “Fair
play is a jewel,” even in politics, and
most certainly in a State trial of the
importance of the one now impending.
“We were sorry to see an evideut
sign of pettifogging manifested by
Judge Carter, of the District Supreme
Court, on the examination of General
Lorenzo Thomas. It was fairly an
nounced by the prisoner and his friends,
acting in the interests of the President,
that General Thomas was surrendered
into custody with a view of suing out
a writ of habeas corpus, and thus
bringing all the legal questions involv
ed in the case to a speedy decision.
Judge Carter, who, by t ie way, is a
very decided and unscrupulous parti
san, frustrated this very desirable ac
complishment by a bit of judicial
strategy which would have been dis
graceful to a justice of the peace. He
refused to hold General Thomas in
custody, and smiled exultingly at what
be evidently considered an exhibition
of smartness.
“ We submit that this sort of strat
egy is not the entertainment to which
Congres° has invited the people. There
should be no attempt to avoid a fuli
and fair determination of all the ques
tions at issue between Congress and
the President. If the latter desires a
the work, and' flames are drowned
very quickly, unless they are in a the
atre or other place with inflammatory
material*.
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to refnove the President, and in autre**
pation of its action under the opCTU-
tiori of the previous question without
debate, in violation uf an expres* njle,
new, special and most extraordinary
rules for the conduct of this proceed
ing, changing without grevions notice,
srandiug rules of the House, were
adopted to- further liniit debate apd
more completely td place the miner\-
ty in the powPr and afcgsthe mercy oi
the majority. Thus while the minori
ty of Congress are warring upon the
other co-ordinate departments, the ^
executive and judicial, endeavoring to-
subjugate and bring them both under
the will and control of Congtes*, the
minority of the House of Representa
tives are steadily and surely being
stripped of all power, and their con- 4
stituents deprived of all representation
in the councils ot the- republic. We
do, therefore, most solemnly proteat
against the indecorous and undignifled
haste with which the majority of this
House inaugurated, presented and
ruslied through by a strict party vote,
in plain and palpable violation of one
of the standing rules of tlie House, the
resolution demanding the impeach
ment -of the chief magistrate of the
people for alleged high primes abd
misdemeanors in office, when the
gravity of the charge, the character of
the high office against which the
attack was directed, and the unfore
seen .and tremendous consequence*
which might result therefrom, to the
peace and prosperity of the people,
culled for the exercise of the calmeit
and wisest judgment, the most unpre
judiced and impartial deliberation on
the part ot those who had such pro
ceedings in charge.
We do most solemnly protest against
this thrice repeated attempt to degrade
and break down one of the great co-or*
dinate branches ot the Government
through the spirit of party hatred and
vengeance against the person who, by
the Constitution, is in the rightful and
conscientious discharge ot its functions,
thus consuming the precious time
which ought to be faithfully devoted
to an earnest effort to relieve the press
ing wants ofthe people^the restoration
of a torn and distracted country to
union and to good order, and to light
ening the burden ot taxation which i*
pressing down the energies of trade and
commerce to the point of bankruptcy
and ruin. We do again most solemn- *
ly protest and most profoundly depre
ciate all attempts to array in hostile
antagonism against each other of the
departments oil the Government, upon
the mere question of the constitution
ality -or construction of a law of Con
gress, the proper judisdiction and final
adjudication which fieThng exclusively
to the judicial tribunal, and we horeby
warn’ the people of the United State*
that the public liberty and the
existence of free institutions are
invqlved in this. suicidal struggle,
and that they are in imminent peril
of utter overthrow.
We do further most solemnly pro
test that the wild and radical spirit of
innovation upon the early and well
settled practice of the Government, a
practice established by men who fram
ed the Constitution, and who best un
derstood its spirit and mercy, which
puts the Chief Magistrate of the Re
public, the representative of the coun
try and power of the people, at the
mercy of one of his subordinates, as
suming to be Secretary of War in vi
olation of his own pronounced convic
tion of the law who has the unblushing
effrontery to to place himself in the
same unwarranted position of commu
nicating directly with Congress in ut
ter contempt of the authority of hi*
superior and with the deliberate pur
pose of resisting his authority.
The undersigned, therefore, in the
character of representatives of the peo
ple, being deprived, by the desperate
power ot an inexorable majority, of
the high privileges of debate, that
great instrument in the discovery of
truth aud most cherished heritage of a
free people, do hereby solemnly and
earnestly protest against these infrac
tions against the right of the people,
and respectfully ask that this, their
protest, may be spread upon the jour
nal of the House.
Chas A Eldridge, P H Van Tramp,
Geo Woodward, W Mungen, Stephen
Tabor, G Adams, G Morgan, S S
Marshall, D M Van Auken, Thomas
Lawrence, Jones, W H Barnum, Jdo
A Nicholson, E Halbrook, F Stone,
Charles E Phelps, James M Ctvenaugh,
Chas Haught, Lewis W Ross, L S
Trumble, RD Hubbard, J 8 Golladay.
J K Jones, W Chanler, J Hotchkiss,
S Axtell, W E Nyblack, W Halrnan
Demos Barnes, A Glossbrenner, Law
rence Getz, B M Boyer, Stevenson,
Archer, A Burr, Jas Johnson, Jas
Beck, A Grover, J L Mdrphey, John
Nox, J Pruyn, S J Randall, J Brook*.
McCullough, J P Knott, C Sitgreave*,
M C Keer James 11 McCormick.
PROTEST OF THE MINORITY OF
COMiUED AGAINST IJiPK ACHJIKUT
-DU.EDOI'T l NDER THKGAG LAW.
On Tuesday, the lower House of
Congress being in session, Mr. Eld
ridge (Dem), of Wisconsin, rose and
said, I am instructed by forty-five
members of the House of Representa
tives to present a communication from
them to the House and ask that it be
read. It is respectful in terms and is,
in my opinion, privileged^
The Speaker said the gentleman
may consider that a protest is privi
leged, but a digest shows it is not
so considered in parliamentary usage.
Mr. Eldridge—Then I ask unani
mous consent to present this commu
nication from 45 members of the
House, and on that I propose to sub
mit a motion.
Numerous objections were made on
the Republican side.
Mr. Eldridge—Then I ask consent
to have the communication printed in
the Globe.
Numerous objections were made.
Mr. Farnsworth made a point of
order, that under the rules of the
House no proposition eould be enter
tained, but that the House proceed to
vote on the articles of impeachment.
The Speaker sustained the point.
The following is the protest sought
to be presented:
The undersigned members of the
Fortieth Congress of the United States,
representing directly or in principle
more than one-half, of the whole peo
ple of the United States, do hereby, in
the name of law aud justice and in be
half of those they represent, most sol
emnly protest against the tyranny and
injustice practiced by the majority of
the House, in violating the sacred
right of free debate, and unrestrained
deliberation upon the greatest ques
tion ever brought before an American
Congress.
The rules of the House made for the
protection of the minority, and by a
strict adherence to which the weaker
party can only be protected from those
irregularities and abuses which the
wontonness of power is too often apt
tu suggest to large and successful tna-
decision of the Federal Supreme Court - ^ have beenr during this entire
in regard to the constitutionality of Congress, in violation of their true
,SIWR - < WrpR * tn ftvfirv pirit and interest, wontonly and un
laws, Congress ought to afford every
facility in that direction, rather than
to throw any obstacles in his way.
The conduct of Judge Cartter—evi
dently based upon previous consulta
tion—was not only disgraceful, but it
was an implied admission that Con
gress dare not submit its acts to a ju
dicial interpretation, but that it is ap
prehensive that even so partial a judge
as Mr. Chase would be compelled to
decide the tenure of-office bill to be
unconstitutional. The people care
very little about the merely partisan
aspects of the impeachment business.
They desire to get at the real gist of
the case as speedily and as fairly as
possible. If the law is unconstitu
tional, let it be so decided, evenjf it in
volves the justification of the Presi
dent. By all means that point should
be decided, if possible, before any de
finite action is taken in regard to im
peachment, provided that impeach
ment is to be based ou the President’s
acts, assuming the law to be a nullity.
So far from opposing any efforts to
procure a regular adjudication of the
controlling point in the case, Congress
should co-operate to secure it.
“We notice by our morning des
patches that it it is thought in certain
quarters that impeachment will not
pass the Senate, aud the names of Re
publican Senators are given who will
oppose it. This, of course, is all idle
speculation, for no Senator would now
do so improper a thing as to prejudge
the case before the trial has begun.
From the New York Evening Post.
“The point resolved upon the Sen
ate is not the point to be decided by
the Court. The one was the expres
sion of an opinion as to the interpre
tation of a law, the other will be the
solemn adjudication of the President’s
criminality in acting upon his view of
the law. The President may have
been wrong in construing the nature
and extent of his powers, and even in
And What Would You Do?—We
heard, incidentally, yesterday, that a
lady residing in East Macon had pre
sented her husband with no less than
three pledges of her affection(?) of the
female persuasion, at one pop. Mothe/
aud gals doing well.
We heard the question asked of sev
eral “old stagers,” as to what they
would do under similar circumstances,
aud their unanimous opinion was
that they could not “stand the pres
sure, but should cut out.”
We never believed in too nruch of a
good thing, and"should muchly prefer
our infantilife treasure in “one package,”
and at extended periodical seasons.
Any such conduct as the above, on the
part ofthe female portion of the firm
matrimonial, should form the strong
est ground of divorce.— Tclegraph,29lht
* ■—f ■ 1
—Utah has seventeen thousand chil
dren in ita public school*.
precedentedly suspended and set aside
not upon particular and pressing mat
ter, but upon all pending subjects of
legislation, so that by this reckless and
arbitrary suspension of the rules and
the wanton abuse of the previous ques
tion, the rights of the minority have
been utterly disregarded.
The House of Representatives ceas
ed to be a deliberative body, aud the
minority have been compelled to act
upon the most important questions,
without any proper or reasonable time
or debate, or consideration. To such
an extent lias this dangerous aud op
pressive practice obtained, that meas
ures affecting vitally the whole coun
try and the dearest interests of our
constituents, and, as we believe, to the
subversion of our republican form of
government in their very nature, de
manding of the people and representa
tives the most careful examination
and scrutiny, have been hurried
through forms of legislation without
being printed, without one word of
debate, or one moment of delibera
tion.
The undersigned protest against the
operating order enforced by the major
ity as the order of the House.
These alarming abuses of power
might not stem to demand this for
mal protest, if we were not forced to
the belief that a determined intention
exists with the majority to revolution
ize the Government, by destroying the
other co-ordinate branches and vest
ing all powers of the Government in
Congress. In the steps taken to de
pose the President of the United
.States we are admonished that there
is no end to these apprehensive meas
ures to cripple the power and silence
the voice of the minority.
The resolution was rushed through
the House under the operation of the
previous question, referring the mat
ter to the Committee on Reconstruc-
his method of enforcing that construe tion, the committee, in hot haste, sit-
tiou, without having been guilty of an Iting when the House was in session,
intent to subvert the law. He may in violation ot one of its express rules,
have been foolish to the last extent, considered, and by a stiict party vote
without having been eriminal. In : adopted, and presented it to the House
other words, the question which the ] for action, and there was exhibited one
Senate has pronounced upon is politi- of the most extraordinary spectacles
cal, while the question on which they I ever witnessed in a deliberative par-
are called to pronounce is judicial; ! liamentary body. Members were al
and though it is hard to separate the j lowed, Some thirty minutes, some
two as a matter of opinion, it is not ! twenty, some five, and some one min-
hard to separhtg them as ai matter of ute only, to discuss the most momen-
guilt. Because the Senate, therefore, j tous question ever presented,
has expressed itself politically, or in | Many could not even get one minute
its legislative capacity, it dees not fol-1 under the arbitrary rule of the major-
low that it is debarred from express- jitv, and more than half of those even
ing itself judicially, or in its capacity 'ot the party voting to enforee the pre-
as a court.” ! vious question who desired to be heard
- - j w ere-permitted only to print speeches
Fire Department of a Mighty'in the Globe after the question upon
City.—It may interest our firemen to i the resolution was decided, and were
know that in the vast city of London, ! never delivered in the House. No
which contains some three millions offcomments,can demonstrate more corn-
people, and covers closely an area of pletely than the facts themselves the
ten mile* by six, there is a fire brigade ] viciousness and illegality of such pro
of little more than three hundred ceedings.
members. The engines are worked j But this wonton Tind excessive use
by steam, and the firemen eat, drink of the power of the majority does not
and sleep in the engine room*. Three
or four men to each machine can do 1
stop here. While the committee were
iu session upon the further proceeding
Bulloch Executor's Sale.
W ILL be sold at Statesboro’ Bulloch County, on
the firjt Tnesday iu APRIL next, before the
Court Honse door, within the legal hour* at sale, the
following Lauus •
Lot No 293 in Irwin county, 6th dirt., 490 acre*;
U 4
• 31(1
Irwin “
13th “
490 -
U i
* 319
Fierce “
9lh “
490 “
u *
* 229
Lumpkin '*
6th “
3d Section 160
acres;
Lot No. 207 in Cherokee county, 8th District, 3d Sec
tion, 160 acres;
Lot No. 71 in Carroll county,-7th District, 5th Section,
202 1-2 acres;
Lot No. 31 in W hite county, 5th district 490 acre*, be
longing to the estate of General Peter Cone, deceased.
Sold under an oidei of the Court of Ordinary of *aid
county, for a dirision of said estate, on a credit of
twelve months with two approved seearitle*.
PETER C. RICHARDSON, R*’r
Fob. 19,1*6*. »•