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COLUMBUS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, l&W
The Election—To-day.
The time has again some for the people of this
city to choose their rulers,, or servants, for anoth
er year. The interests to he committed to their
care, at all times important, are now doubly so
from our peculiar condition. The city has a vast
amount of indebtedness, and, without oppressive
taxation, it will require the most economical,
careful and prudent management to enable her
to meet it. Besides taxation, she has but lew
sources whence she may draw her revenue. Some
she has, however, and these must contribute to
her wants. Necessity absolute, inexorable, de
mands that every available resource be employed
to enable her to pay the accruing interest on her
bonds and the expenses of the city government.
To this end the co-operation and harmonious
action of her Mayor and Board of Aldermen are
matters of essential importance—conditions pre
cedent. This result can be secured only by the
election to those offices of honest, discreet, tem
perate and intelligent men. We care not to what
party they belong. Politics should have no more
to do with the appointment of agents to manage a
city government, than it has with the selection of
a clerk by a merchant, or aboard of directors by
a railroad company. If they be men of integrity,
energy and intelligence, we care not who they arc
nor where they come from : we shall consider
their election an occasion for congratulation and
rejoicing, We exhort our fellow-citizens, there
fore, to discard all partisan or other unworthy
feeling and, for once, determine, in the election to
day, to act with exclusive reference to the public
good.
“Odchodkee” is tbc name of anew Post Office
recently established in Randolph county Georgia
and James M. Granbcrry Esq., appointed Post
master.
MILLEDGEVILLE CORRESPONDENCE.
Milledgeyille, Dec. 7.
Messrs. Editors : —The Legislature is draw
ing to a close and business is being dispatched
rapidly. It has been a stormy session to-day in
tbe Senate. The Supreme Court bills were before
the body and there was considerable excitement.
The bill of the House of Representatives making
all the decisions of the Supreme Court made by
a full bench the law-of the land elicited considera
ble discussion. It was passed by a vote of 61 to
41. It is the opinion of the writer that it is un
constitutional as it sets aside judgments made in
conformity to the law. A bill also passed sub
mitting the question to the people of the abolition
of the Court: also, a bill preventing Judges of
the Supreme Court from presiding in cases where
connections and relations were interested. As
Judge Beiming lias been hunted down and abused,
Presiding in tbe Bank eases, his friends advo
eatwi tke passage ..f ,i le last bill, which is thought
ridiculous by many, who have orr-nmd him.
Let the law be understood and let Judges wm,
have connexions interested retire from the Bench
and let the people see how the law will work.
A bill, alsp giving the Judges from term to term
to write out their decisions, passed the Senate.—
Nothing of much interest in the House to-day.
C *
Mr. Colquitt* Speech.
The question being upon tbe passage of a bill
declaring that, all docisions which may have been,
or which may hereafter be made by the Supreme
Court, and in which all three of the Judges have
or inay concur, shall be the law of the laud, and
not subject to reversal by said Court
Mr. COLQI'fTT said.
That the principles contained in the bill were
in his judgment violative of the spirit and mean
ing of the Constitution, and destructive to the
rights and interests of the people. What were
the propositions contained in the bill? Ist. That
all judgments pronounced heretofore by these
Judges shall be the law of the land, whether or
not they stand reversed by a majority of the
Court, at the periord of the passage of this Act.
2d. All decisions made by three Judges shall be
the law of the land, as fully and effectually as
though enacted in terms of the General Assembly.
Both propositions be regarded as opposed to the
spirit, if not to the letter, of the Constitution.—
The passage of the bill before the Senate would
set aside all the decrees of the Supreme Court
made by two Judges in con tile t with those made
by a full Court. The decision of two Judges were
as legal and binding as those of three, and were
made in conformity to the law and the Constitu
tion. Then no decision could be reversed by the
Legislature—that was the province of the Judi
ciary department of the Government. To pass an
Act assuming the power was to Usurp preroga
tives of the Judiciary. It would be a Judicial and
not a Legislative Act, or if a Legislative Act it
would come within the prohibition of the Con
stitution.
In looking over the Constitution of Geor
gia he could find no where to exist, a power to
grant, with respect to suits already adjudica
ted, new rights of reversal, not previously re
cognized and regulated by positive institutions
now acre to exist, tbe power of the Legislature to
exercise concurrent jurisdictions with the Supreme
Court in the reversal of its decrees—on the contra
ry, except in instances “expressly permitted,” as
the right to pardon and try cases of impeachment,
the power was forbidden. Our Legislative pow
ers are well defined, and limit and restrain u?
from acting in the double capacity, as a house of
legislation and also a Court of judicature. In
England it was true one department of the Gov
ernment the House of Lords, as a Court of derni
er resort took cognizance of suits at law and in
equity—but in Georgia the Supremo Court was
the Court of appeals and final judgment. It alone
could reverse its decisions and not the Legislature,
it would be as much a usurpation on the part of
the Legislature to pass an Act the effect of which
would be to declare null and void the decision of
the Supreme Court as it would be for the Judici
ary to pass an order repealing the laws made by
the Legislature, the decisions are merely the evi
dence of the laws—the Legislature makes and re
peals laws, not decisions, then this bill is simply
a ju<Hbial act. But suppose it is a Legislative Act,
then it comes within the prohibition of the Con
stitution. The Constitution says the “Legislative,
Executive and Judiciary Departments of Govern
ment shall be distinct and each department shall
be confided to of magistracy : and
or collection of person:* being one of
those departments shall exercise atiy power, prop
erly attached to either of the others, except in in
stances herein “expressly permitted.” Mark the
words, “herein expressly permitted.” Where is
the grant of power in the Constitution to reverse
a decision of the Supreme Court, solemnly made,
and in conformity to law ? It cannot be found,
and except in instances of granting pardons and
trying eases of impeachments, it is a usurpation
upon the prerogatives of the Judiciary', to inter
fere with its decrees.
The power is not expreß*ly permitted and
therefore as a matter of course it is denied and
withheld. Such was his (Mr. C’s) construction
of that clause in the constitution. The restraint
upon the Legislative power, Mr. Colquitt argued,
was just and right. If a government composed of
Legislative, Executive and Judical departments,
were established by a constitution which imposed
no limits on the Legislative power,the result would
be that, whatever the Legislative power chose to
enact, would be lawfully enacted, and the judi
cial power could never interpose to pronounce it
void. He repudiated the idea advanced by the
Senator from Harris (Mr. Hill) that the Legisla
ture was supreme and omnipotent: that it was
absolute and without control. He regarded the
Constitution as the supreme authority. To guard
against -o great an evil as giving to the Legisla
ture unlimited power, it has been the policy of
the States in framing their constitutions to define
with precision the object* of Legislative power,
and to restrain its exercise within marked and
settled boundaries.
Mr. Colquitt maintained that the operat ions of
the bill were retrospective, as well as prospective,
and dangerous in its consequences. It was of the
nature of an ex pout facto law, and contrary to the
genius and spirit of our State governments, the
general principles of law and reason. The rights
acquired under the last decision of the Supreme
Court, though made by two Judges, in reversing
a former decision, are rights legally acquired and
cannot be transferred by an act of the Legisla
ture. The organic and the Constitution, gave
the Judges the discretion and a liberty to differ
in the construction of the law.
Mr. Colquitt was proceeding to argue the se
cond proposition, that every decision of the Su
preme Court should be the law, thereby transfer
ring to the Judiciary the law making power when
the hammer fell,his eight minutes having expired.
JrDCF. Sensing—The Supreme Court. —We
have referred to the triumphant vindication of
Judge Henning, by John A. Jdnes Esq., of Colum
bus, from assaults made upon him, because of his
decision in the Bc.nk case, about which so much
excitement prevailed in Georgia, some time since.
We now publish that vindication, which appeared
originally in the Columbus Times. The reader
will see that it is an answer to an editorial article
of the Augusta Constitutionalist, and we have on
lv to ask all who feel interested to know the facts
of the case to read the article, that they may judge
for themselves if the w riter has not clearly estab
lished his position to be impregnable. It will be
found on the outside of to days paper. — Griffin
Empire State.
The Virginia Democratic Convention,—lts Refusal
to endorse Douglas Democracy.
The deliberations of this body have resulted in
the nomination of th% Hon. John Letcher, for the
office of Governor. Robert L. Montague, Esq., for
that of Lieutenant Governor, and John B. Tucker,
Esq., for the Attorney Generalship. We annex
from the Virginia papers, the following account of
the closing proceedings of the convention, touch
ing federal politics :
Mr. Wise said be was unwilling the convention
should adjourn without passing a resolution en
dorsing the administration of Mr. Buchanan He
had conferred with members of both the parties—
Letcher and anti-Letcher —that were riot and are
in this convention, and the resolutions he was
about to offer bad been approved of by both. He
read them as follows :
1. Resolved , That trusting to the patriotism,
wisdom and fidelity of the present Chief Magis
trate of the Union, and in view of the conduct
which has hitherto characterized his direction of
public affairs, we recognise it as a duty, binding
on every true democrat, whatever honest differ
ences may have arisen on isolated questions of
public policy, ‘to rally to the support of the ad
ministration. in the name of. and for the sake of,
the party whose best interests must remain identi
fied with its own.
2. Resolved , That we rejoice unfeignedly in
the late victory, so gloriously achieved by tbe
loyal democracy of Illinois, brethren in the same
political faith, we recognize their success as our
triumph, and, in common with patriotic men of all
sections and all parties, we find a special cause for
congratulation in the defeat of a dangerous sec
tional organization.
Mr. Pryor seconded the resolutions', ami urged
upon the eonvention*the adoption of them.
The resolutions were passed wjth a few dissent
ing voices.
Mr. B. B. Vaughan, of Petersburg, then made
a short address, saying that he saw plainly that
Mr. Moutagpe was the favorite of Eastern Vir
ginia for lieutenant governor, and would support
him.
Mr. R. 11. Glass, of Lynchburg, wished to state
that the resolution just passed—the last particu
larly—wanot approved by a considerable por
tion” of the convention. He wished to offer a series
of resolutions as a substitute for them it they were
reconsidered. Mr. G. did not obtain the floor at
that time.
At a late hour, Mr. Brannon, of Lewis, rose to
propose a reconsideretion of Mr. Wise’s second
resolution. He did not oppose the action of the
democrats—so-called —of Illinois, but he did not
endorse their platform, or see anything ‘glorious*
in their triumph.
Mr. Wise defied any true democrat to find fault
with a single word in the resolution. He read it
again.
Mr. Pryor said thntjie had been shown the
resolution before coming in the hall, and had ad
vocated it. merely as an expression of sympathy
with the Illinois democracy in their unparalled
victory over the blace-repnblicans. But as some
peesent seemed to see something more pregnant
in it than he did. he would move a reconsideration
of the vote bv which it was adopted.
Mr. Wise said that, to satisfy even the most par
ticular, he would append to the resolution one
imhodying the following assertions :
That the citizens of each State of the Union are
entitled to equal rights with citizens of other
States in the Territories. That every citizen may
hold every species of property in the Territories
authorized lv the laws of any oi the States, and
that this right cannot be affected by the action or
of the territorial authorities. That it is
the imperative 0 f the general government to
protect toe rights of cni*„,,„ p, cver y species of
property in the Territories.
A vote was taken, and-the resolution reconsid
ered.
Mr. Brannon said he knew of some of the de
mocracy of Virginia who did not sympathise with
the democrats of Illinois in their struggle, nor
endorse their platform. Nor did some of the Vir
ginia democracy believe it was neocssary to pro
tect slavery in tbe Territories by congressional
legislation : for they believed that it existed, anti
was protected under the constitution. The right
to maintain slave property was a natural right,
and the property itself would be protected under
that right. lie feared that the victory of the de
mocracy of Illinois would prove the ultimate
ruin of that democracy. Its position he under
stood to be the necessity of congressional legisla
tion to protect slavery in the Territories. Now,
the democracy of Virginia believe that slavery can
exist under the constitution, and does not require
federal legislation to aid it. He moved to post
pone the question indefinitely.
Mr. Wise proceeded to answer the argument of
Mr. Brannon at length. He contended that while
Congress could not create or extinguish slavery
in a Territory, yet it could and should protect
the right to hold slaves there. Suppose a man in
Kansas stole a slave, an ran him off to Canada,
and was afterwards arrested in Kansas, could he
be punished for the offence if there was no law to
protect the right of property in slaves? And if
he could not be punished, how could slavery ex
ist ? llow could the institution stand the assaults
of kidnappers, unpunished and unpunishable by
law? lie said that? this resolution was intended
to congratulate our noble democratic brethren of
Illinois on their glorious victory. Could the de
mocracy of Virginia refuse this to the largest body
of northern democrats which had withstood the
assaults of black-republicanism ? He did not wish
the resolution laid on the table. He wanted it ad
opted or rejected, and he warned the convention
that if one or the other was not done, he would
appeal from them to the democracy of Virginia,
and let it judge between them and him. [A Voice.
So let it be !]
Mr. Clay brook moved to lay the resolution on
the table.
Mr. Skinner, of Augusta, was confident that
the lateness of the hour would prevent proper
consideration being given to the resolution, and
appealed to the gentleman from Richmond to
withdraw it.
Mr. Wise declined to withdraw it, and a vote
on Mr. Claybrook’s resolution to lay it upon the
table resulted in its being disposed of in that way,
only three or four members voting no.
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The greater portion of the report of the Secre
tary of the Treasury is devoted to the operation
of the tariff of 1857, and to a discussion of the
best means of so revising the tariff that the requir
ed revenue may be raised by imposing on the peo
ple at large the smallest and most equal burdens.
It is considered a subject of regret that a pub
lic necessity requires a revision of the tariff of
3857, before a sufficient time has elapsed to test
its legitimate effects upon the business of the
country, as well as the revenues of the Govern
ment.
The proposition of a high protective tariff is
net favorably considered by the Secretary.
Adhering to the principles of the present tariff
act, the Secretary recommends such changes as
will, in lb ; opinion, produce the amount of reve
nue required lor the public service. It is sugges
ted that schedules C. D, F, G, II be raised res
pectively to 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5 per cent. This
change will, it is believed, increase the receipts by
$1,800,000. To raise the additional amount need
ed will not require an increase of till the rates of
duty of the present tariff; it will become neces
sary to select certain articles to be transferred
from lower to higher schedules.
The public debt on the Ist of July, 1857, was
$29,060,386,90. During the last fiscal year there
was paid of that debt the sum of $3,001,409 24.
leaving the sum of $25,155,977 66 outstanding on
the Ist July, 1858: To this amount must be ad
ded ihe sum of $10,000,000 negotiated during the
present fiscal year, of the loan authorized by the
act of June 14. 1858. There was issued under
the provisions of the act of December 23, 1857,
during the Inst fiscal year, Treasury notes to the
amount of $23,716,300, of which there was re
deemed during the same period, $3,961,500, leav
ing the sum of $19,754,800 outstanding on the Ist
July, ISSB. As these notes will become due and
payable during the next fiscal year, some provis
ion therefore Is recommended to be made.
The Secretary is opposed to the policy of add
ing this amount to the permanent public debt by
funding the notes. On the otherjjliaml; their en
tire redemption in one year would call for an in
crease of the tariff to a point which would render
necessary another revision of it in the succeeding
year. In the opinion of the Secretary, the true
policy would be to look, in the present revision of
the tariff, to their gradual redemption, commen
cing with the next fiscal year. To carry out this
policy, it is recommended that Congress should
provide lor the raising of such an amount of reve
nue as will enable the Secretary to redeem a por
tion of them, and, at the same time, extend for
one year the provisions of the act of December
23. I*Bs7,’ authorizing the reissue of such portion
of them as the means of the Government are not
sufficient to redeem.
The operations of the independent treasury sys
tem have been conducted during the last fiscal
year with the usual success. The Secretary is
well satisfied that the wholesome restraint which
the collection of the Government dues in specie
exerts over the operation of our present banking
system, contributed in no small degree to mitigate
the disasters of the late revulsion.
The attention of Congress is again called to
the provisions of the act of March 3, 1557, on the
subject of deposits by the disbursing agents of
the Government. The objects which the act
sought to accomplish meet the entire approval of
the Secretary, and it has been carried out to the
utmost extent that was practicable, but a full exe
cution of the law is impossible as it now stands.
B} r the report of the Director of the Mint, it ap
pears that the amount of bullion received at the
several mint establishments during the fiscal year
I tnJing June 30. ISSS, was $31,404,311 29 in gold,
and $9,199,954 67 in silver, and that the coinage
during the same period amounted to $52,889,864) 29
in gold, anand
in cents.
The Director recommends that the law be so
amended as to make silver a legal tender to tbe
extent offifty or one hundred dollars; but the Sec
retary sees no urgent necessity for such a change.
Many of the various public buildings under the
direction of the Bureau of Construction have been
completed during the past year, and are ready to
be occupied for the purposes for which they were
intended. In the last report the attention of
Congress was called to the fact that owing to the
condition of the Treasury, the department had
postponed the building of a portion rtf the public
works authorized by previous enactments. The
Secretary considers the present condition of the
Treasury as not more favorable for their construc
tion.
The recommendations in the last report on tbe
subject of hospitals, are renewed.
It is deemed most important that the bill for the
consolidation and revision of the revenue luws
should receive the favorable action of Congress
during the present session.
On the Ist of July, 1857 being the
commencement of t he fiscal year
1858, the balance in the treasury
was : : : : $17,719,114 27
The receipts into the treasury du
ring the fiscal year 1858. were
*570,273,869 53; as follows :
Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1857
Customs, : $18,573,729 37
Public lands. : : 2,059,449 30
Mis’cls sources, : 290,641 05
Quarter ending Dec. 21, ’57 —
Customs, : : $6,237,723 69
Public lands, : 498,781 53
Mis’els sources, : : 356,159 78
Quarter ending March 31, *sß
Public lands, : : 480.936 88
Mis’cls sources, : : 393,600 78
Tres’v notes issued, 11,087.600 00
Quarter ending June 30. ’SB
Customs : : $9,850,267 21
Public lands, : : 474,548 07
Mis’cls sources, : : 207,741 15
Trs’y notes issued. 12,628.700 00
The aggregate means, therefore,
for the service of the fiscal year
ending June 30.1858, were : 87,983.983 86
The expenditures during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1858, were as follows :
Civil, foreign intercourse, and mis
cellaneous, : : : $26,287,822 20
Service in charge of Interior De
partment, : : : : 6.051,923 38
Service in charge of War Depart
ment, : : : : : 25.485,383 60
Service iu charge of Navy Depart
ment, : : : : : 13,976,00 ft 59
Public debt and redemption of
Treasury notes, : : : 9,684,537 99
During the first quarter of the current fiscal
year, from July l*t to Sept. 30, 1858. the receipts
into the Treasury were $25,230,879 46.
It is estimated that the receipts during the re
maining quarters of the current fiscal year to J line
30. 1858, will be $38,500,000 00.
The estimated ordinary means for the current
fiscal year are $70,129,195 56.
The expenditures of the first quarter of the cur
rentfiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1858, were $21,-
708,198 51.
It is estimated that the expenditures during the
remaining three quarters will be $52,357,698 IS.
The estimated total expenditures for the current
fiscal year are, therefore, $74,065,896 99.
Our Macon neighbors are awaiting with
impatience for a visit from the English Opera
Troupe. The Telegraph, noticing their appear
ance at Savannah, exclaims:
“The glorious Durand—the charming Hudson,
—the comical Lyster,—Trevor, Arnold and all the
rest of the excellent company arc to be there, and
wc noon to chronicle thoir advent on the
Mac-on Imam*. wi._ lhc u „ o,*racloaks,
white kids, rare boquets, aim will be all
the rage. The’Durand and Hudson will uu,
reason, we are sure, to regret a visit to Macon, if
they can bo<*atisfiod by the tribute of crowded
houses. So come on with your sweet notes lirid
gay dresses, Mr. Lyster.
Decision in the Echo Ease.
Columuia, S. C., Dec. 9.—Tbe decision of the
Federal Court on the application for habeas cor
pus on behalf of tbe crew of the Echo, was deliv
ered to-day. Judges Magrath and Wayne deci
ded that the act of 1820 is constitutional ; and
they remanded the Echo prisoners to jail to await
the action of the grand jury at the next regular
terra of the Court, on the charge of piracy.
Congressional.
Washington, Dec. 9.—ln the Senate to-day,*
Messrs. Crittenden, of Ivy., Toombs, of <a., and
Johnson, of Teen., appeared and took their seats,
Mr. Iverson, of Gu., gave notice of a motion to
substitute money as a compensation in the place
of the franking privilege.
In the House, the committees were announced.
The Watrous impeachment case was up.
Texas.
The San Antonio Herald states that Mr. Robin
son, of Boston, who intends to go into the busi
ness of sheep raising upon a pretty large scale,
has made his location iu Mr. Kendall’s neighbor
hood, on the Guadalupe, and received recently his
first drove of sheep from Mexico, some 1,500
head. There were several others who went to
Mexico at the same time for sheep, among t hem Mr
Judson, and the number brought on was 4,000 in
all. These gentlemen are now importing fine bucks
from the North.
The San Antonio the 23d says :
We learn from Mr. E. W. Stow that the grass
hoppers have appeared in large numbers on the
Salado, some twenty miles northeast of this city.
They are now laying their eggs in the ground,
which, upon examination, appear about the size
of ant eggs, and a large crop of these pests will, in
all probability, appear in the spring.
The Tyler Reporter, of the 20th, has the fol
lowing :
On Saturday night last, while Bishop Pierce
was preaching at the Methodist church, the cry
was raised that the house was falling, and immedi
ately a “stampede” ensued which baffles descrip
tion. The utmost consternation prevailed, as ev
ery person in the house made desperate struggles
to reach the places of exit. The church was
crowded to its utmost capacity with ladies and
gentlemen, and the screams of the former and
shouts of the latter were enough to appal the
stoutest. Pell-mell, over each other they rushed,
in their mad panic—the stoutest crushing the
weaker underfoot, until the house was cleared.—
Windows were dashed to pieces to afford ofltenings
for egress, and men, women and children came
through so promiscuously, so mixed up, that you
couldn't tell “t’other from which.” As soon as
all had gained the open air, it was discovered that
the alarm was a false one. and that no danger
whatever had existed. It is not known what
orignated the alarm. The services were not re
sumed on that evening. Singular to say, no per
son was seriously injured in the panic.
Chinese Labor.—lt is probably a part of the
“Sonora Mining and Emigration” movement- to
bring in laborers from China. It is said by per
sons who have studied the subject in California,
and who have since traversed the surpassingly rich
mineral regions about the head of the Gulf of Cal
ifornia, with a. view to their development, that
gangs of coolies could be obtained and worked in
the mines at a twelfth part of the sum the same
amount of negro labor would cost. The plan, as
we understand it, is to throw in a thousand work
ing men from New England, to give tone ami di
rection to the development of the Arizona mines ;
and on this basis of security Northern capitalists
can bring in coolies and have a “free State” in
name, with all the reality and profits of slave-hold
ing.— Wash. States.
Senator Douglas. —Judge Douglas, on his
way to New Orleans, stopped at Memphis, Tenn.,
and delivered a speech in the criminal Court Room*
on the evening of Nov., 29th. The Avalanche
says of it:
“Though not a great speech, it was more than
respectable for even such a man as J udge Doug
las. In its tone and temper we found nothing
objectionable. It was manly, dignified, and whol
ly free from crimination : otherwise it was almost
a repetition of his Freeport and other Illinois
speeches, and while there were many of its senti
ments and positions to which we, as Southern men
and Democrats, can heartily and cordially sub
scribe, there are yet others which we as heartily
and earnestly condemn.”
Chinese Wit. —A missionary in the Chinese
waters having distributed several copies of the
Ten Commandmeuts on shore, they were sent
back the next day, with the request that they
might be distributed among the Frcqch and En
glish, for the tracts contained admirable doctrines,
and these people evidently much needed them.
Hon. John E. Ward. —The New York Journal
of Commerce , in a recent reference to this gentle
man, says : “From our knowledge of the Hon.
John E. Ward’s character as a public man. and
our information regarding his merits a3 a private
citizen, we are of opinion that the President has
made a good selection for the China mission. He
is highly esteemed in Georgia, and although he
has never held any Federal office he enjoys a rep
utation extending far beyond the borders of his
own State.
COLUMBUS, MONDAY, DECEMBER J3. 1858.
CITY ELECTION.
At the election on Saturday, tjic following gen
tlemen were elected.
Mayor. F. G. WILKINS.
Ist Ward—J J McKEXDREE,
EDW’D CROFT.
2d Ward—J W KING;
J. A. URQUIIART,
3d Ward—TUGS. 0 DOUGLAS,
A C KTVLIX.
4th Ward—M BARSHALL.
C C CODE!'.
sth Ward—D B THOMPSON,
JOHN QUIN.
6th Ward—S OGLETREE.
JOHN DURKIN.
Marshal. HUGHES.
Deputy Marshal. HAINES.
Clerk. STRATTON.
Treas. MITCHELL.
Sexton. NIX.
A Bill in Relation to the Supreme Court.
Re it enacted from and after the passage of this
A ct. —
That decisions of the Supreme Court of this
State, which may have been heretofore or which
may hereafter be made by a full Court, and in
which all three of the Judges have or may con
cur, shall not be reversed, overruled or changed,
but the same is hereby declared to be. and shall be
considered, regarded and observed by all of the
Courts of this State, as the law of this State, w hen
it has not been changed by legislative enactment,
as fully, and to have the same effect as if the same
had been enacted in terms by tbe General Assem
bly.
All law's conflicting are hereby repealed.
A bill, of which the above is asubstantial copy,
has passed both branches of the General Assembly
and only awaits the sanction of the Governor to
become the law of the land. The Legislature has,
at length, pvt something through, in relation to
the Supreme Court, and if the result will have the
effect to relieve the itch for legislative tinkering
with that subject, which seems to haye pervaded
that body and a portion of the people, the passage
of the bill is a subject for congratulation. With
regard to the Act itself, an intelligent mind would
have predicted some such result from all the
wish-wash and slush which passion and folly have
evoked in the profane attempt to discredit the in
tegrity and wisdom of that tribunal. Much labor
has been expended, much money wasted and no
thing done, It was in regard to a like dispropor
tion between effort and effect that the great Ro
man satirist said, Parturiunt monies ; nuscitur
ridiculus mu*. The bill is, to our mind, clearly un
constitutional. Our reasons for this opinion are
briefly these: In section I, article I IT, of the
Constitution, there is contained the following
clause: “the said (Supreme) Court shall, at each
session in each district, dispose of and finally de
termine each and every case on the docket of
such Court, at the first term after such writ of
error brought.” Here then, is not only the au
thority, but an express command to the Court to
bear and decide every question which may come
before it for review from the inferiorjudicutory. At
tbe time this Constitution was framed, and imrne
morially antecedent thereto, courts of justice ex
ercised the power of reviewing their decisions and
correcting their own errors, and as the constitu
tion imposed no restriction upon the exercise of
this power, we. unavoidably, infer that that instru
ment intended to convey such authority. Hence,
whilst a denial of this license to the Court would,
in many cases, be a denial of justice, it would be
an abria rt .„„ n f 0 f t ], t . Constitutional power of the
Court and the Conatu*. ll#l right of the eitizen.
Again, in regard to what, in the nic.,-:.,,, 0 f tbe
constitution, is a decision of the Court, it is equally
clear. On this point we need no support from the
analogies of precedent and cotemporancous prac
tice. The Supreme Court, itself, the sole arbiter of
the question—the authorized interpreter of the
constitution, has determined that the concurrent
opinions of a majority of tbe Judges are the decis
ion of the Court—as much so, as if said opinion
were unanimous. This is true, also, without re
gard to the subject matter of the decision —wheth-
er it be a previous judgment, or a question foun
ded upon a record dug up from the ruins of Her
culaneum or Pompeii. An act, therefore, which so
changes the constitution and functions of the
court as to make the concurrent opinions of all three
of the Judges necessary to a decision, violatets the
fundamental law, and can take effect only as an
amendment to the constitution. If the Legisla
ture had the power in question, it had, also, the
power to declare that the opinion of one of the
Judges shall be the law (w’hich would necessarily
involve the power to say which one :) or it would
have the power to say that the concurrence of all
three is necessary to decide any question ; or it
might, in its limitless discretion, make any other
regulation, and say, for instance, that one could
decide a question involving a right to land: two,
a question involving a right to hogs and sheep,
while the whole faculty of the court must be ex
erted in a case involving the right to recover in a
suit upon bank bills.
But conceding the act to be constitutional, it
has still this glaring imperfection—it is wholly
impracticable. It deprives the Court of the pow
er to reverse a former decision in which all of tbe
Judges have concurred, but leaves it to that tribu
nal to determine token such previous decision has
been reversed, and what shall amount to a rever
sal thereof. Such submission is necessary from
the nature of the question and the nature of the
judicial and legislative functions. It is eminent
ly a judicial question and the legislature could not
assume to decide it without usurping a jurisdic
tion expressly marked out for another depart
ment of the government. To illustrate the imbe
cility of the act —its’utter want of practical effect,
we need only to cite the very decision in the hank
case which has elicited such an expenditure of
breath. It is contended that the decision in the
case of Robison vs. Beall, overrules a previous
judgment: indeed, this assumption is the ground
work of all the clamor against the Court, and
must be the provoking cause of this legislation.
Now the Court, (which even under this act must
determine the question whether there has been a
reversal) say, that the decision in this case reverses
nothing,but that it is in affirmance of a decision
in the only case that ever involved the same
question—the ease of Moultrie vs. Hoge. That
was the first case in which the question was ever
made before our Supreme Court, whether the ex
piration of a charter, by its own limitation, opera
ted an extinguishment of the liabilities of a cor
poration: and it was there decided affirmatively.
We think, therefore, that, in order to the bene-
Jiient and harmonious working of this Act, the
Legislature should have gome one step farther,
and appointed a eomittee to supervise the judg
ments of the Court and determine when it has en
croached upon the domain of its own authority.
As it is, unless Governor Brown shall return it
without his sanction, it will encumber our statute
books, until some Legislature, having a more in
telligent appreciation of its duty, shall repeal it.
A curious experiment of making music
by electricity was recently tried at one of the thea
tres at Pesth. by a Hungarian named Hamel.
Five pianos were placed in view of the audience,
and the electric battery being duly disposed in an
adjoining room, Mr. Hamel seated himself at one
of the pianos, and, connecting the others with the
one on which he was playing, they were brought
into communication, with this one, and immediate
ly, to the great excitement of the spectators, the
keys of the other four pianos were seen to move
in exact unison with the one at which the musi
cian was seated, every note being produced simul
taneously, and with perfect clearness and precis
ion, by each instrument. It was as though a sin
gle instrument of five-fold power were being pluy
ed upon, and the audience was so enchanted with
the success of this most remarkable experiment
that their shouts of applause almost drowned the
music. The possibility, therefore, of a performer
being heard at once at any and every point of tho
earth's surface with which he can bring himself
into electric rapport, is ascertained to be no longer
a dream, but is demonstrated as perfectly feasible
—if tho report of Mr. Mantel's success be reliable.
Mr. R. Ten Broeck is now iu New Y T ork, and
it about to leave for the South,
MILLEDGEVILLE CORRESPONDENCE.
Mii.ledgevii.le, Dec. lftth 1858.
Messrs. Editors :
By a joint resolution oi thetwo branches of the
General Assembly, an election took place to-day
for commissioners to codify tbe laws of the State.
The salary is $4,000 each, for the twenty months
allowed for the completion of the work. Last night
under an understanding between the two parties,
the American party assembled in the Senate cham
ber and tbe Democratic party in the hall of the
House to nominate candidates—the termer one
and the latter two candidates. The Americans
nominated Hon. David Irwin of Marietta on the
second ballot. The contest was between him and
Hon. James Johnson of Columbus—the latter be
ing defeated 5 votes on the second count. The
Democrats put a host of names in the nomination.
The first ballot stood, Hon. Hiram Warner of Mer
iwether 58 votes ; Alexander M. Speer, Esq., of
Bibb 55 votes; Hon. H. V. Johnson 53 votes; T.
R. it. Cobb 4S votes ; Iverson L. Harris Esq., of
Baldwin 38 votes —on the second ballot Hon. Hi
ram Warner’s name was withdrawn and Mr. Har
ris ran one vote ahead of Messrs. Speer and Cobb,
lion 11 V Johnson running behind. Honb’ls Iver
son L. Harris and H. V. Johnson were then nomi
nated by [acclamation. To-day, tho nominees of
the two parties—Messrs. Irwin, Johnson and Har
ris, were elected. The Legislature is despatching
business rapidly--defeating more bills than pass
ing them. The General education bill, appropri
ating $200,000 for the education of poor children,
is hnng between the two Houses. A Committee
of conference has been appointed. The Legisla
ture cannot finish the business to adjourn to-mor
row sine die. C.
Di: u>. —Peter D. Cartwright, known more fa
milliarly as “Cart,” died early on Friday morn
ing. He was u native. wo believe, of Ohio, but
for several years a re :dent of this State, and more
particularly of this -ity. By profession he was
a printer: but fortbo last five or six years he had
not worked at the business. His age we suppose
was about 35. He was buried yesterday evening
—a number of printers [attending his funeral. —
Mont. Adv. _
Masonic.— On Wednesday evening, Stb iust.,
the Grand Lodge F. A. M. of Alabama, held its
annual election for officers. The following gen
tlemen were elected.
R. H. Erin in. of Wilcox, G.M.
S. F. Hale of Greene, D. G. M.
H. S. Shelton, of Pickens, G. Sr. Warden.
J. A. Whitaker of,Russell, G. Jr.
Thus. Welch, of Montgomery, G. Treasurer.
Daniel Sayre, “ U. Secy.
Thus. McDougald, G. Tyler.
The Grand Lodge adjourned on Friday.
Religious.
The New York Express says :- -The Prayer
Meetings do not abate in interest, though their
novelty is passed. The relation of incidents by
visitors from abroad, as well as by the pastors and
laymen at home, continue as thrilling as ever.—
The events of each week would furnish a volume
of themselves. Some days a visitor from New
Hampshire details the progress of the movement
in bis section : and. on another occasion, a South
Carolinian contributes the experience from anoth
er point. Every age and profession have swolen
the number of eon verts, and still the march is on
ward. The local centre of the whole movement is
the Fulton street meeting, audfroin thence to ev
ery part of the country the radiating influence of
the prayer circle has extended, with the most be
nign effect upon the whole land. The reformed
“Awful Gardners” are unmistakable and uncon
trovertible evidences of their healthy results.
Strange Phenomenon. — A Man hires Three
Days with the Top of his Head rut offi.—An acci
dent occurred in a pottery in the lower end of
Fort street, in the outskirts of Detroit, some days
since resulting in the death of an employee of the
‘■'Mixljinont. which furnishes a most singular
instance or n.v> *racit v with which life clings at
times to the human frame. The man whose name
we have been unable to ascertain, was tn gttKe( j Gi
the room where the machinery employed in cut
ting and pulverizing the clay is situated. This
machine is a large wheel, with heavy knives or
cutters placed at equal distance on its circumfer
ence. Some disarrangement, of this wheel at
tracted the attention of the unfortunate man, who
attempted to reach into the wheel and adjust it
while it was still revolving. Iu this, however, he
miscalulated the speed at which the machinery
was running, and before be could withdraw* him
self from under the knife, it struck him on the
hack of the head, low down in the nook.complete
ly severing the back portion of the skull on aline
close to the top of the ears, and cutting through
and removing a considerable portion of the brain.
The unfortunate man was a German, between
22 and 25 years of age. Dr. Zina Pitcher dress
ed the wounds as well us the circumstances would
admit. The parietal bone, which had been car
ried entirely away, had been crushed to atoms in
the machinery, and of course could not be repla
ced. The dura mater, or membrane that enclos
es the brain, had also been torn off. and several
ounces of the brain itself were gone. In this hor
ribly,* mutilated and wounded condition, the man
was able to walk and converse, and his senses
were unimpaired. We learn that he lived three
days after the accident.
We are informed by the physician who attended
him, that in dressing the wound, he took occasion
to linger the brain, and that while so doing the
man was insensible to pain, there being apparent
ly no feeling in it, but that upon touching the
dura mater the man instantly expressed the most
acute sensitiveness. Had this membrane been
uninjured the man would probably have surviv
ed the accident.
We doubt if another ease of such ex
traordinary tenacity of life can be found in the
records of accidents, but the actual occurrence
of the above circumstance is vouched for by com
petent authorities, and is beyond a doubt.—De
troit Free Press.
Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The Commissioner states that the whole num
ber of Indians within our limits is estimated at
about 350,090. The whole number of tribes and
separate bands is 175, with 44 of which we have
treaty engagements. The number of ratified In
dian treaties, since the adoption of the Constitu
tion is 393, nearly all of which contain provis
ions still in force. The quantity of land acquir
ed by these treaties, is about 581,163,186. The
entire cost of fulfilling these treaties will be $49,-
816.344. From apart of these lunds the Govern
ment received no pecuniary advantages, because
they were ceded to the respective States within
whose limits they were situated. From those
sold, the Federal treasury received not only the
whole expense incurred for their acquisition, sur
vey and sale, but a surplus of at least $100,000,-
000.
The amount applicable for the fulfillment of the
treaties, and other objects connected with the In
dian policy for the present fiscal year was $4,852,-
407, of which sum $204,062, was derived from
investments in trust funds. The whole amount of
trust funds held on Indian account is $10,590,-
649, of which $3,502,241 has been invested in
stocks of various States and the United States; the
remainder, viz: $7,088,407, is retained in the trea
sury, and the interest thereon annually appropri
ated by Congress. The Commissioner thinks it
worthy-of consideration, whether it will not be
advisable, when the national Treasury shall be
in a condition to admit of it, also, to invest the
above amount of in like manner with
the other Indian trust funds.
The Commissioner points out three fatal errors
which have marked our policy towards the Indians
from the very beginning, viz: Ist. Their removal
from place to place, as our population advances;
2d, The assignment of too great an extent of ter
ritory to be held by them in common; 3d. The
allowance of large sums of money as annuities.
He recommends that the tribes should be per
manently located upon reservations embracing
not more than is necessary [for actual occupancy;to
divide the land among them in severalty: to re
quire that they should live upon and cultivate the
land thus assigned; to give them in lieu of money
annuities, stock animals, agricultural implements,
mechanic shops, manual labor schools. fce. He
recommends the ratification of the treaties made
in 1855 with the Indians of Washington and Ore
gon territories, as a means of preventing the re
currence of hostilities. He gives a general state
ment of the condition of the Indians, and calls
attention to the urgent necessity for a complete
and through revision of the laws relating to In
dian Affairs.
Gov. Denver, though not having time, since the
resumption of his duties to examine closely the
facts stated in the report, concurs generally in the
recommendations of Mr. Ming, his temporary
predecessor.
[New York Journal of Commerce.]
Abolishing a Supreme Court.
One way to got rid of unpalatable Court decis
ions, is to abolish the Court itself—kill the hen
that lays the eggs. Many persons, to whom the
Dred Scott decision was obnoxious, were eager to
abolish the U. S. Supreme Court. Judge Denio,
of this State, brought down upon his head the
reprehensions of a large part of the community,
because he gave his decision in accordance with
his convictions. More recently, in Georgia, a de
cision was rendered in a certain bank ease, ad
versely to the popular opinion, which has resulted
iu the arraignment of the delinquents before the
Legislature of the State. A resolution was intro
duced into the Senate, advising and requesting the
Judges to resign their seats, on the ground that
their decision was not in accordance with the policy
of the State, and was adverse to the popular opin
ion. It caused considerable excitement, but was
at length tabled by a considerable majority.
Such a procedure is tantamount to a declaration
that Court decisions, in matters of controversy,
should be given iu accordance with the popular
Clamor of the day, and not in conformity to the
behests of the law ; but it is a dangerous prece
dent. Tbe Supreme Court is the great bulwark
of our safety, and the attempt to overrule its de
cisions, is a revolutionary step towards subverting
the great principle# of our government.
£From Galiguani's Messenger, Nov. 19.]
No (ireat Power to Hold (he American Isthmus.
The non-interference doctrine of the United
States, asset forth by Mr. Monroe, seems of late
to have become more than usually obnoxious to
various organs of the Paris press. The Pa trie, in
reference to the canal which it is intended to cut
through Nicaragua, across the isthmus connecting
thetwo American continents, calls attention to the
manner in which the above doctrine, if permitted
to prevail, would interfere with that useful work.
The writer accuses tho Cabinet of Washington of
a strong desire to seize on the Nicaragua territory
without any just cause in order to establish a mo
nopoly on the proposed line of international com
munication. After directing attention to the lan
guage of Gen. Cass and other American citi
zens of note as bearing on tbe subject, the article
says:—
It is known that Monroe maintained that no
European nation could be permitted by the Amer
icans to possess any portion whatever of the new
continent. But has this strange doctrine—with
out value in international right, and generally
more easy to be appealed to than acted on—ever
been able to signify that the Independent States
existing on that continent were blit a prey destin
ed for tbe insatiable appetite of the United States?
It must, besides be admitted that it is not fnrihe
purpose of remaining faithful to the views . 7 Mon
roe that the Americans wish to get a footing in the
Central American it is perhaps above all
because, at a time more less distant, an inter
oceanic route must be opened to the commerce of
the world across these countries. But it would
accord with the ambition of tbe United States that
this new route should he over their own soil, that
U should become their exclusive property—that,
iu a word, they might secure to themselves the
monopoly of the transit between the Atlantic and
the Pacific. Such is the end pursued by the U. S.
when, in the name of Monroe’s doctrine, they ca
ress the idea of seizing the Isthmus, consumma
ting by themselves the work commenced by
Walker’s filibusters. That object cannot be
attained. We have already sufficiently shown
that it was irreconcilable with the right of
nations, with treaties, and with the interests of
Europe. The two States of Nicaragua and Costa
Rica have concluded with a French company a
convention, the execution of which will assure the
neutrality of the canal which is to unite the Atlan
tic and the Pacific. This neutrality guarantees
all interests—-those of America as well as those of
Europe—and it is impossible that it can he sucri
lis.ed to any pretension. In effect, if this intero
ceanie passage were placed under the dependence
of the United States, the commerce of the world
would become tributary to that nation. Where
interests of so universal a character are at stake,
such a supremacy cannot in any way be admitted.
The routes of transit through the Isthmus, whether
of Suez or Nicaragua, ought to be opened on terri
tories belonginig to nations which , being constitu
ted sole guardians of the route, should never of their
own interdict free aeces. Evidently as we have
already said, there is on the part of the United
States a desire to assure itself of an entire monop
oly of the Nicaragua canal—an act perfectly im
possible in itself.
A posteript to the article points with great sat
isfaction to the news brought by electric telegraph
of a conjoin note from England and France to tin
government of ike l ulled States, Insisting on the
maintenance of the. Clayton-Uulwer treaty. Wo
should imagine that Mr. Buchanan will at once
pronounce in favor of its being enforced, since the
same telegraphic despatch announces that that
high dignitary has responded to the general feel
ing of indignation lately expressed dy issuing a
proclamation against the now expedition which
Walker was avowedly preparing.
Doings of Hie Negro Kmpcror.
The Phroniqve Parisicnne contains the follow
ing facetious story: “The Emperor Faust in 1,
who imitates France in all things, and has, like
her, princes, marshals, dukes, counts, colleges and
universities, recently resolved to establish an
academy of forty members, like the world re
nowned French Academy. But it was not easy
to select the forty, every inhabitant of the empire
who could write his own name thinking himself
•j'odificd. So his Majesty decreed that 3,000 of
his subjects who possessed the reputation, of be
ing the most lettered of all, should on a given day
assemble at his palace and be subjected to a liter
ary test. When they were collected, he announ
eed that the test was the writing of the word cit
ron, and that those who made no error in the spel
ling, should he members of the Academy, Pens,
ink and paper were brought; each of the 3,000
people wrote the word, and the judges of the land
and of the bench of bishops were charged to ex
amine the 3,000 papers. They proclaimed that
39 only of the candidates had written the word
correctly—that is, with a C, the remaining 2.961
having used an S. “Only thirty-nine,” cried tin*
Emperor, “and we want forty. Well, I will be
the fortieth member myself.” “Sire,” cried the
judges, ‘.‘your Majesty will no doubt deign to sub
mit to the test ?” “Os course,” exclaimed Faus
tin, and in a large bold hand he wrote Nitron,
with an X. The judges looked puzzled fora mo
ment. and then, after glancing at each other, pro
claimed that his Majesty had passed triumphantly
through the ordeal. The Emperor was thereupon
proclaimed, amidst the enthusiasm of the assem
blage, a member of the Academy. “And I will
be perpetual secretary, t-oo,” added hi. Imperial
Majesty, with pardonable vanity.
Sewing Machine* in Europe.
At the recent meeting of the Association for the
Advancement of Social Science, held at Liver
pool. England, Dr. Strang, statistician of the city
of Glasgow, read a paper on the above subject, in
which he described several kinds of these useful
machines, and stated that there were nine hundred
of them now in operation in the city to which he
belonged. He passed a high encomium on their
usefulness, and the benefits which had accrued
from their introduction. They had been the means
of increasing the production of sewed work, and
while they had done this, the most unprofitable
kinds of hand-needlework had been displaced, and
they had tended to increase rather than diminish
the wages of those engaged in this sphere of la
bor. These machines, in the city of Glasgow, af
forded proof of benefits conferred upon those whose
hand labor they had superseded, because the girls
who attended them are able to earn twice the
amount of wages they had previously been able to
make by hand-sewing. —Scientific American.
A Caution to Young Men.—A young medical
student from Michigan, who had been attending
lectures in New York for some time, and consider
ed himselffexceedingly good looking and fasci
inatng, made a deadly onset on the heart and for
tune of a blooming young lady who was boarding
in the house with him. Alter a prolonged siege
the lady surrendered. They were married on
Wednesday morning. The same afternoon the
“young wife” sent for and exhibited to the
astonished student a “beautiful little daughter,”
three ami a half years of age.
••Good Heavens ! then you were a widow,” ex
claimed the astonished student.
“Yes, my dear and this is Amelin, my youngest;
to-morrow, Augustus, James and Reuben will ar
rive from the country, and then I shall have all
my children together once more.”
The unhappy student replied not a word: his
feelings were too deep for utterance. Reuben was
six years old, James nine, and Augustus a saucy
boy of twelve. They were delighted to hear they
had a “new papa,” because they could now live
at home and have all the playthings they wanted!
The “new papa,” as soon as he could speak, re
marked that Augustus and James did not much
resemble Reuben and Amelia.
“Well, no,” said the happy mother, “my first
husband was quite a different style of man from
my second—complexion, temperament, color of
hair and eyes—all different.”
This was too much. He had not only married
a widow, but was her third husband, and the as
tounded step-father of four children.
“But her fortune,” thought he, “that will make
amends.” He spoke of her fortune.
“These arc my treasures,” says she. in the Ro
man matron style, pointing to her children.
The conceit was now quite taken out of the
Michigander, who, finding that he had made a
complete goose of himself, at once retired to a farm
in his native State, where he could have a chance
to render his “boys” useful, and make amends for
the deceit practiced upon him by their mother.
? The Championship of Savannah.— -For the
second time within the present year has our city
been disgraced by a priz.o fight. On yesterday
morning, John Manning and Enoch Robinson met
in “the ring,” on a green just south of the Gulf
Road depot, and fought seven rounds. Both
were badly bruised, but which was victorious we
did not feel sufficiently interested to learn. There
was considerable betting, and a large crowd col
lected to witness the disgusting combat. It is an
unpleasant duty to lay before our readers the fact
that such an affair had been perpetrated in a city
where there is so little of the bravado as we claim
for our own, and we do it with feelings of the deep
est repugnance. We look upon such displays of
mere brute force and obstinacy as revolting to
every sense of humanity, and we hope the partic
ipants will meet with such punishment as their
crime agaiust good order and society deserves.—
Republican, 9 th.
An extraordinary trial lias been opened ip the
first civil chamber in Paris. Twelve homoeopa
thic doctors have commenced an action for 50,-
OOOf damages from an allopathic medical journal
for an attack upon their system of medicine. It is
the virtues of that system which they desire t<?
establish, and not a pecuniary claim, for they
promise to give the money to the poor. |
Central Pacific Rail Ro ad.- —The bill which
was introduced by Mr. Curtis, of lowa, in the
House of Representatives; on to secure
the construction of a Central Pacific Rail Road,
provided for branches from two points on the navi
gable waters of the Missouri river: one opposite
to lowa, and the other opposite to the Missouri;
the two branches so converge and unite within two
hundred miles of the Missouri river, and thence
run to the navigable waters of Fhcramento. The,
usual appropriation of the alternate sections with
in six miles are to be appropriated to the contrac
tors at twelve thousand dollars a mile, to be reim
bursed to the Government in transportation of
mails and military stores. The construction to
be offered by the President to the lowest bidder,
as proposed by Senator Gwin’s bill. This plan
starts at the outer rim of our present rail road
connections, and terminates on the navigable wa
ters in the centre of the California population. It
is claimed that it would be equally convenient to
slave and free States, and for connections with all
our Pacific Territories. It would follow the emi
grant route up the Platte, through Utah, and be
about sixteen or eighteen hundred miles long.
The bill was referred to the Select Committee on
the subject of the Pacific Rail Road, which was
revived for the purpose of its consideration.
House Standing Committees. — Washington,
December 7.—The standing committees of the
House will be announced on Thursday, to which
time the adjournment took place, to enable the
Speaker meanwhile to arrange them. According
to usage, the committees of the first session are
continued during t lie second, with such altera
tions as may he necessary to fill vacancies.
A placard in the window of a patent
medicine vender in the Rue Saint Honore, Paris,
reads as follows: “The public are requested not
to mistake this shop for that of another quack
just opposite.”
Con gross tonal.
Washington, Dec. 10.—The Senate has ad
journed until Monday
- Ih the House the Arizona territorial bill was
up but undecided. The Watrous impeachment
case was up and two speeches were delivered;
five more will be made on the same subject The
House adjourned until to-morrow.
United Mates .Treasury
Washington, Dec. 10. Tbc balance on hand
in the United States Treasury is four million, one
hundred thousand dollars. 1
ffidP” A lady, who admits to fifty three years
of age, advertises in a New York paper lor a hus
band. She is w illing to accept a man of sixty ;
but says, as a warning to all such gay fellows,
“the lady, being sincere, requests there may be no
trifling.”
LABOR.
Toil swings the axe, and forests bow :
The seeds break out in radient bloom :
Rich harvests smile behind the plow.
And cities cluster round the loom :
Where tottering domes and tapering spires,
Adorn the vale and crown the hill,
Stout Labor lights its beacon fires,
And plumes with smoke the forge and mill.
The monarch oak, tho woodland’s pride.
Whose trunk is seamed withlightningscars,
Toil launches on the restless tide.
And there unrolls the flag of stars:
The engine with its lungs of flame.
And ribs of brass and joints of steel,
From Labor’s plastic fingers came,
With gobbing valve and whirling wheel.
’Tis Labor works the magic press,
And turns the crank in hives of toil,
And beckons angels down to bless
Industrious bands on sea and soil.
Here sunbrowned Toil with shining spade.
Links lake to lake with silver ties.
Strung thick with palaces of trade.
And temples towering to the skies.
Our Idol.
Close the door lightly,
Bridle the breath,*
Our little earth-angel
Is talking with death.
Gently he woos her.
She w ishes to stay.
His arms about her—
He bears her away !
Music comes floating
Down from tho dome,
An gels are eh an ting
The sweet welcome!
t ome to the bed.
Gaze on the sleeper -
Our idol is dead r*
Smooth out the ringlets.
Close the blue eye
Now wonder such beauty
Was claimed in the sky ;
Cross the hands gently
O’er the white breast,
So like a wild spirit
Strayed from the blest :
Bear her out softlv.
This idol of ours.
Let her gra slumber
Be mid the sweet flowers.
Brilliants.
MY MOTHER.
I know not if my mother’s eyes
Would find me changed in slighter thing? :
I’ve wandered beneath many skies.
And tasted of some bitter springs;
And many leaves, once fair and gay,
From youth’s full flower have dropp’d away—
But as those looser leaves depart.
The lessen’d flower gets near the core,
And, when deserted quite, the heart
Takes closer what was dear of yore,
And yearns to those who loved it first
The sunshine and the dew by which its biul was
Dear mother ! dost t hou love me yet ?
Am I remember’d in my home ?
When those I love for joy are met.
Does someone wish that I would come?
Thou dost—l am beloved of these!
But, as the schoolboy numbers o’er,
Night after night, the Pleiades,
And finds the stars he found before—
As turns the maiden off her token—
As counts the miser aye his gold—
So, till life’s silver cord is broken
Would I of thy fond love be told.
My heart is full, mine eyes are wet—
Dear mother! dost thou love thy long-lost
wanderer yet?
X. P. WILLIS.
TELEGRAMS fHBVOK
REPORTED FOR THE DAILY TIMES.
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CITY OF WASHINGTON.
Arc rsTA, Dec. B. —The Steamship City of
Washington arrived off Cape Race thie after
noon.
Liverpool Cotton Markei, —Sales of three
days 19,000 bales, of which Speculators took I.ooft
and Exporteas 2,000 bales, leaving 16,000 bales
to the trade.
Market generally dull and unchanged.
Manchester advices wvre savorable.
Market quiet but steady.
Consols 9SJ4 to 98%.
STEMAHSIP PERSIA.
DECLINE IN COTTON.
Augusta, Dec. 12.—The Steamship Persia
has arrived ar New York with Liverpool advices
to the 27th ult.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —Sales of the week
40,000 bales of which speculators took 500 and
exporters 2500 bales, leaving 37,000 bales to the
trade. There was a decline, for the week ol‘%d
on Middling and %and on Inferior grades. The
market closed dull.
Advices from Manchester were favorable.
London Money Market. —Consols have declined
and were quoted at 98.
New Orleans, Dec 12—lion. Stephen A Doug
las left this city to-day in steamship for N. \\>rk.
There were great demonstrations in his favor.
Excitement in Washington.
Washington, Dec. If.—The escape of the Mo
bileTi 11 iblisters has created intense excitement in
official quarters here. It is feared the schooner
will be seized by r the “British, and the country
aroused to send powerful reinforcements to the
rescue. The Pnion says that the peace of tins
world is involved.
While Prince Alfred was asleep in his
berth on board the Euryalus, two of his brother
middies blacked his face. He made no complaint
about the joke, but the next morning he got
square on the offenders, by cutting their ham
mock strings, and letting them down on the
run.
COLUMBUS TIMES.
COMMERCIAL RECORD.
roTTOXV ]>(-■. week
till’ dullest experienced dnriii s t i,e eotti.n
The market inis been at a perfect,
good cottons, whilst the lower grades nil... i
sold at a decline generally of >7 to ’ , e f (ir
week. The market closed .yesterday, in j.
o-f buyers, we quote middlings to good rnitbr,
at from 111 to 10? Jr. miduliuS fair 11? 4
Receipts 623. Sales 331.
Sivanmh, Dee. In. isis.
COTTON—SaIes to-day DS2 hah-. .\| ,
firm and prices unchanged.
I'HAm.KkTOS. December In
COTTON—SaIes of rollon to-day 2,t00 1,,;,
at prices ranging from HI?, to II 7 .. in,,, •j
----market closed firm.
Moiulk, Dee Hi
COTTON—SaIes of eotton to. lay i,
at unchanged prices. Sales for the week •>•>
bales, and reeipts during the-at|e rim.. 20 mm
against 17,730 bate* last y ear. J Is. ji„. rta B( .
this port is 1 13.300 bales : and iht -t k u~ y,,,,
hales.
New Oft i.ha vs, Dee. in.
COTTON.—SaIes of Cotton toeia, B, into b ; ,| t ..
at an advance of ‘*<•. Sales dtrug the week
jib, 01)11 hales, and receipts .'dbaoti. ‘fbe increase
at (his port is 304,1100, and the konas,. at j|
ports .71)4.000 bales. The flock b dT.hoo. .
230,000 at the same time last year:
Sugar is dull, at a declined *„el
N.:w Yets, bee. 10.
Cotton—Saits of cotton l.nio i.ties. a;i
qualities had slightly improved, lidding I t
lands 11 - ,(n ll 7 ,e.
Mobile, Dee. 11. Sales of cotton l„-d.,y. l.iii'l
bales, ."keent advance. Middling liv” Th\
market closed with an advancing tendency.
New Oki.kass, Dee. 11. Sales „f Cotton to ,
day 2.300 bales at unchanged prices.
New \ok H. Dev. 11. ,-aic- of t ~in n t>,-.. y
3,300 hales, at advancing prices. Middling I p
lands 1 2 cents.
MARRIED.
At Spring Place. ba„ on the 26th ult., by tbe
Rev. Will. Brown. Dr. Or. O. Beil, of Alaeon eo.,
Ala., to Miss A. K. Beall, of the former place.
On December Ist, IS3S, at the residence of Col.
M. W. Stamper, the bride's grandfather, in Karh
county. On., by the Hon. Win. Griffin, J. I. (
Dr. Hope 11. Christian, of Blakely, to Mis Sue
Stamper of Talbot county.
In Macon on the3oth ult, by the llev. A. M.
Wynn of this city , the Rev. Thomas 11. Steward
of the Georgia Conference, and Miss Ella c..
daughter of Rev. Dr. Boring.
On the evening of tbe 30th nit., by the Rev.
( has. M. Irwin. .Mr. Andrew Dunn, of Forsvth.
Oa.. to Miss Lnnra Cope Dews, near Albany
Holi.owav's Pills cleanse tile blood of all de
generating particles, and render it a. pure and
healthy- fluid. Its action is gentle, hut sure and
reliable. Fever and ague and the jieriodical di
eases most prevelent on this continent are jire
vented by a timely use of this marvelous remed y.
and cured by a course of the same a, rdiug to
the directions that aceompuinv each b*>>:.
tc. Sold at the manufactory. No. SH Maiden
Bane, New York, and by all Druggist*, trt 23e„
h3c., and SI per Box. Dec fnlwlw
RHEUMATISM.
A cose „/• month, .ton,tiny curd.
0 EOttGE \\. llkmiehson, of Pittsburgh, says:
“After suffering for three mouths with Kheurna
tim, a part of the time so severely’ as to confine
me to my bed. 1 have been entirely cured by using
Bmrhave’s Holland Bitters. I have bad one at
tack since, hut found almost instantaneous relief
in the same medicine, it is in my q,inion. a sure
remedy for Rheumatism^
Sec Advertisement. Dec 6 —lwdw.
WOOD'S HAIR RESTORATIVE.
This Restorative for making the hair grew,
stopping its Calling out, restoring gray hair to ii
original color, is becoming m,,rc celebrated. All
liie quack etving way before it.-
Tbree fourths of the mixtures'n- .-e-toring and
beautifying the buir.do it more iujurv ihail good.
They burn it up, de>ir,v tbe lite.it its roots,
tbe hair fall oil*, and produce prematurehaldne- .
But Prof. Wood's Restorative may he relied upon
as eoutainmg uothiug which can iu any manner
be injurious to the hair, while its success iu ac
complishing what if pretends to do, has been ver
ified iu hundreds of eases. We advise gray heads
and heads getting bald, a!! who wish to save their
wool or obtain anew stool;, to get a bottle ot Prof.
Wood's Hair Restorative.- A. ). it. on).
Bold by id! Druggists in this city, and by deal
ers and druggists generally-throughout the I'uited
States and Canada*. nov24—wd2w.
DARBY’S
PROPHYLACTIC FS,UIB,
Tike Great Premium Dixinfectaiit !
\ MAGNIFICENT PITCHER was awarded ir at
l JL the Alabama Stale Fair at tin* recommendation of
a special sc.ientffie committee, who pronottuced it stipe
periortoany similar now in use. Besides ii*
strictly disiii/ecting uses, it may be most advantageous
ly applied as a therapeutic aaent iu the following cases:
Ail putrid diseases, salivation, sores, ulcers, burns,
fresh wounds, removing stains, destroying: bad breath,
curing stincs. softening and whitening the skin in bath
ing. and especially limestone countries, where the
water is hard, in making it soft, by pouring a few drops
into a basin full of water. Read what is said of it:
You would confer a general good by using means for
its general introduction and us. —More t/tun fifty citizens
of .tuburu.
The best and most efficient preventative of conta
gions diseases now in Gazette.
We advise our friends to trv it. by ail means Moni
gomcnj Mail.
No one who has used it once will consent to do
W ithout ir.— Tliskrirec Republican.
We have used it about our premises with entire satis
sac tio n. —Savannah ul/tr o n .
Superior to Labarraqiie's French Liquor.—Corn
jYrtiitnuii hitelliffciwer.
Has received tin* sanction of medical men iu tin*
leading cities of the Smith —Atlanta American.
These tilings Prof. Darby assures it has done, and we
believe he would not even think, much less say so,
were it not the case.— SmitJiem Christian Advocate
It is a most effective and powerful combination. It
should be used everywhere. It will not disappoint you
as a disinfecting agent,— Holmes Steele. M I)
Endorsed by iMiysicians in Charleston and Colum
bia. S. C.; New York. Augusta. .Savannah. Atlanta.
Macon and Colujuluhs. Montanuim. Selma and
Mobile Ala; and New Orleans, La.
Hospitals, corporations, shipmasters, manafactwrers.
planters, physicians, furnished by the gallon at reduced
For sale by ‘druggists and country merchants gener
ally. from whom orders are respectfully solicited.
try at least one bottle. Price 3o gents. Follow di-
IF7**Manufactured onh in the I.aioraiory of
.1, DARBY, Auburn 7 Aia.
FOR SALE IN COLUMBUS BY
DAN FORTH. NAGEL &. CO.
BROOKS & CHAPMAN.
J. S PEMBERTON 6l CO
decl—dwtf DAVID YOUNG
Yfsg|..We think it is hardly known even to the
most of our readers, how deep some ol’
the sciences are looking down into the mysteries
(if creation. We knew there were wonderful ißs
coveriesan these times, and wonderful uses made
of them, hut did not know the Chemists were imi
tating; in fcqeir crucibles and even surpassing the
most wonderful productions of organic life. Du
ring our visit to Lowell we were introduced byono
their prominent citizens to the laboratory of
Dr. Ayer, (inventor of (IIEUR Y PECTORAL
and CATHARTIC PILLS.) where we were
shown with generous frankness, bis processes and
his products. This master genius of his art is man
ufacturing the subtle essences of ttewers from tar
and other vegetable substances, nis essence of
Pine Apple. Strawberry, Chcekerberry, Quince.
Pear. Canella. Cinnamon &q., not only equal but.
they weed in purity of flavor, those vegetables
them sc! \ His oil of Winter- green is purer and
•of better ik.\ r than any that can Ik* gathered from
the plant—an- 1 yet is made by chemical composi
tion from the Hy dro-carbon in tar! His process
is, to analyze the substance and find the exact ul
timate atoms of which it is made, fcheu recompose
them in the same proportions which exist in na
ure.— Christ tan Ad cocat c.
The People’s Candidate.
The under signed having diacba'ged bis duty a*
Tax Receiver of Early county, to the best of his
ability, and to tbe satisfctcU.m of the citizens gener
ally,takes this method ot returning his sincere thanks
to the same for pa* lavor a, aud announces himself as
a candidate for re election to the same office on the
first Monday in January 18M>.
S. A. HOWELL.
Blakely, Ga. Aug. 24—wtd
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