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(Limes Stntintl. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, NOV, 30, 1855. Military Education. There is a proposition now pending before the Le gislature to appropriate $25,000 to the Georgia Mili tary Institute. The advautages and disadvantages of military education are subjects proper to be considered in making op a judgment as to the propriety of ma king the appropriation. Every State needs military of ficers and no expenditu r e is too great to get them. — This position is too palpable to be made clearer by ar gument or illustration. Under our system of Gov ernment, however, the duty of national defence is impo sed upon the Federal Government, and this in a great degree weakens the argument in favor of State appro priation for military purposes. But it must nut be for gotten that in all great wars the Federal Government is compelled to resort to the militia of the States to supply the deficiency in the ranks of the Federal army, and that all officers from Colonel down to Lieutenant are commissioned by the States for the contingents furn'shed by the States either as volunteers or by draft. The healthfulness, safety and efficiency of this arin of the national defence depend, in a very great degree, upon the capacity of the officers appointed or chosen to command. It will be pardonable to illustrate this point by reference to personal observation. In a certain battalion in the Mexican war, one company lost, in six months,2s per cent, of its men, from disease while another lost not 5 per cent. Both companies underwent equal fatigue. The officers of one company had enoe in military life ; the others bad enjoyed the advan tages of a campaign. So much as to healthfulness.— By reference to the campaign in Mexico, one will be struck with the great disproportion of killed and wound ed in the volunteer force as compared with the regular army. Worth took the greater part of Monterey with but little loss, while the volunteers unuer Butler were decimated at the first onset of his division upon the en emy in a different part of the field. So it happened at Cerro Gordo and other battles of the campaign. So much for safety. We hardly think it necessary to en large upon the last point. All history proves that the efficiency of an army depends upon the skill of its ofii cerß. It is therefore a matter of great importance that there should be in every State a class ts citizens in structed in the art of war to take command of the State troops when mustered into the services of the United States. In another point of view, a military education is im portant to the State. The mathematical sciences are the basis of this sort of education. Thorough instruc tion in them cannot be attained in an ordinary college course. Yet a knowledge of them is as essential to architects and engineers as it is to soldiers. This elate is daily becoming more important to the State. They are needed in the construction of our railroads, canals, bridges, State Houses, and other public and private resi dences. But the other day the State of South Carolina lost thousands of dollars through the iucompetency of the architects employed to construct her new State House. We do not doubt but that Georgia has lost millions by the incompetency cf the Engineers em ployed on her various public works, a tithe of which invested in a school for instruction in the sciences would have saved her from heavy losses. If the University of Georgia is placed upon a proper foundation and tire sciences made a distinct department of instruction, the object to be attained by the establishment of a military school in this regard would be arrived at ; but if this is not done, the same end may be partially secured by giving efficient aid to the Georgia Military Institute. With these hasty thoughts, we leave the subject in the hands of the able Chairman of the Committee, Col. Milledge, whose zeal is as far beyond ours, as is his ca pacity to enlighten the Legislature and the public upon the subject of military education. Fatal Accident. —We are pained to learn that on the morning of Wednesday the 28th, a lad about 14 or 15 years of age, was accidentally thrown from his cart while in the act of unloading, and almost instantly kill ed. The accident occurred in the rear of Messrs. Hull & Bradley’s store, into which he was taken after his fall. He lived about three quarters of an hour after he was hurt, and died very easily. After his death an inquest was held over the body, and a verdict rendered in accordance with the above statement. We understand his parents, whose name is McDaniel, reside near Girard, Ala. Shot Dead. —A young man named Francis Ilyalt, was shot and instantly killed, in Savannah, on the night of the 271 h inst. The muzzle of the pistol was placed close to the unfortunate victim, and the load was heavy. The firing proceeded from a party of young men, and it was not known, certainly, who committed the rash deed. Mr. Hyatt was a Northern man by birth, peaceable and inoffensive. U” The two Houses of the Alabama Legislature went into an election on the 27ih inst., for Comptroller, Secretary of State and Treasurer, lonfirming the Dem ocratic nominations formerly made, which resulted as follows : Willtam Graham, Treasurer , James H. Weaver, Secretary of State , Wm. J. Greene, Comptroller Public Accounts. Death of a State Senator. — Col. N. 11. Clanton, Senator to the Legislature of Alabama from Macon county, died in Montgomery on the 27th inst., of eon g stive chills. O” The lion. W. P. Chilton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, has resigned. The Savannah Republican of Monday appears in a new and beautiful dress. We congratulate Messrs. Al exander & Sneed oa this evidence of the prosperity of t ieir valuable jourm l. Austria Preparing for a Rupture toith the Allies. —The Austrian Government, outraged by the language held towards it iD England on the suPjfCt of occupation ol the Principalities, has ordered 25,0UU additional troops to rein force the army of occupation. Congressional Names. —'l hero are in the Congress wh oh will assemble on Monday, the 3d prox., 3 Smiths, the same number of Wrights, ot (Jan pbells, of Pells, of Jouests, of Washburns and of Millers, aud fourteen oil;- o n tines of which thtre are two meinLeis bearing each the s line name. Feminine Revolver. —The Northern papers publish an ace unt of a young married woman who presented her husband with a bouncing baby, at the usual period, aud w ithin three months afterwards added another of a difflr- j ent sex. For the Times Sentinel. Hints and Hits. Messrs. Editors: —lgnorance is the child of Sin, and well docs it wear the revolting features ot its dark paterni ty— well does it do the work of its foul parent; most ef fectually does it blind the mind and harden the heart; with what a fostering hand doe 9 it nourish the serpent brood of our depraved passions!—with what an infernal skill it com bines the bitter elements ot deception, fraud and prejudice! with u, hat a fiendish delight it revels in the spoils of its un holy war upon human happiness ! how strong and cunning arid bloodv a hand it lays upon the social altar of human virtue! Truth is its antagonistic principle ; her eve is full of light, and with what a radiant rainbow of virtues she encinctures her gleaming brow ! ‘The gloomy superstitions of Egypt, with her brute gods, peering through the shadows which invested the sacred Nile, converting the very voice of song into a funeral dirge and the smile ot beauty into an eclipse of love, accepting the wildest a-trologieal mysticism lor science—the grossest idolatry for religion, and the basest and most despotic priestcraft for government, attest the power of Ignorance in the remote-t antiquity to crush the human heart—to blast the earth and darken heaven. Nearly 4000 years ago the morning star of knowledge rose upon the savage tribes which inhabited the little penin sula in Europe, north of the Mediterranean, about the size ot the State of Georgia—the peninsula and “the isles of Greece.” Long ages elapsed before the light of that star touched the rugged heart of Greece. At length a few ot the beams from the ot Righteousness were re flected from the land of holy vision, and prophetic song upon her mountains and beautihil valleys. Her science, her art-, the wisdom of her statesmanship, her patriotism, her national grandeur and individual happiness sprang into being. Ir istruethe songs of her Pantheistic idolatry mix ed with the music of her limpid rivers, as they rolled to the ocean, but it is true too that her idolatrous altars ceased to command the devotions of the national heart, which went freighted with the burning hope of immortality to the tem ple ot “the Unknown God.” Her Mathematicians were not in advance ot her renowned Philosophers and Moral ists ; tier p< ets and orators were among her most illustri ous statesmen. They have come down to after ages a gol den chain of equal links, bound together by historic asso ciation—more perfectly united by that harmony of sciences and interests, which God has established as the expression of the unity of his design in the creation. Who that has read Homer and Socrates, Xenophon and Isocrates, De mosthenes and Plato, —that remembers the lessons of So lon and Lycurgus, does not understand at once what 1 mean when 1 assert that Truth was the secret of Grecian power and prosperity—that it was the inspiration ot her heroes, and the light of her history ? Leonidas felt the power of Truth at Thermopylae, and so did Solon when he fixed the measure of happiness—“to live in love and die in peace.” If there is any truth in what 1 have been saying, how close is the connection between Religion and Politics? Al most entirely dissociated in the popular mind, they do, in fact, exist in the closest and most dependent relations. A politician, without the guidance of the principles of true religion is a wandering light, and a Christian without patri otism has no sympathies with Paul or Clnist. If this be true, the political world ought to re-organize the moralities of the Bible. The press ought to elevate its standard of argument, and appeal to pure principles—prin ciples of truth —sincerity and unselfish devotion to the best interest of the country and of humanity. Parties need to be purified ; Truth mutt be acknowledged; her sceptre must bear sway ; prejudice must be controlled ; the voice of rea son must be heeded ; justice must be accorded to others. How humiliating the contrast between this picture of politics dejure and politics dc facto ? What an immeas urable gulf yawns between the character of a low, profli gate, lying, peilidious demagogue —a sly,cunning, slippery trader in politics, and that of a lofty, pure-minded,sincere, true hearted Christian patriot— toto prof undo do they difier! And a newspaper that floats a banner of Truth on the stormy sea oi political controversy —a glowing ensign ol justice, honor, purity and patriotism ; how sublimely does it w'ave under God’s broad, bright heavens, as high above the black flag of slander, peiveision and selfish partizan ship, as the glorious ,Stars and Stripes of free America, above the piratical flag of the desperate and degraded out laws You are ready to ask what does all this come to? I wiil tell you and the country. We are making iiere in A merica a grand experiment of self-government. God has girded us about with mountains and seas, and planted us in a land ot fertile valleys and noble rivers—(We are strong and prosperous “United States’') We enjoy a free con stitution, equal laws, and unparalleled prosperity. We have a glorious destiny, attainable by intelligence, virtue and patriotism. We are a Tower in the earth, a light to nations, a beacon of hope to the oppressed of other climes. Into tiiis paradise of possession, this heaven of promise, the Setpent has entered. Here discord, hatred, falsehood, slan der, demagogism have established their dark and bloody rites —their profane, infamous altars. Here Ignorance, wide spread, criminal, astounding Ignorance, holds her pandemonium. Demagogues pay court to her power!— People—alas! alas! blind, thoughtless, besotted people, drink down her intoxicating poisons like they were the wa ters of lite, and run riot after the shadowy phantoms which mislead and betray the deluded victims of her altars of s n and death. 1 will not stop, Mr. Editor, to catalogue the follies and enormities of Northern fanaticism—the treason, perjuries, and malignant demonism of her “higher law” saints, and abandoned political desperadoes—her Wilsons, Hales, Sumners, Sewards —who would lire the temple of Lioeity, and butcher their brethren as an offering at the shrine of Abolitionism, and do it all in the name of a God who dis regards oaths and covenants ; in the name of a patriotism too fervent to be restrained by written constitutions, and too subtle to be appreciated by the founders of the Con stitution —our Pat res Patriae. This is not our danger. — Our real danger is nearer home. Southern prejudices are intense. Our Southern partisanship is inveterate. — This day nothing remains to perfect the Union of the South, but to dispel the prejudices from the minus of old whig leaders, editors and orators, against one word, and that one word is “ Democracy /” What thick darkness covers the minds of our Southern enemies! What bitter, unforgiving, unpatriotic prejudices do they entertain against the Democracy! Do they hate the Democracy more than they love the South ? Surely not; this cannot, cannot be. Then what are we to say to that ignorance, deep as Egyp tian darkness, which seems to veil their minds and hearts ? Why cannot they perceive facts? Why is it impossible for them to receive the Truth ? Are they incompetent to weign evidence ? Are they too proud to say like Sir Jas. Graham —“i have changed my opinion?” Are they too unjust to admit our patriotism, truthfulness, protestations of candor and fraternal sentiments ? Had they rather de.-troy the Constitution, dissolve the Union,sacrifice the South it self —their own altars and interests, than co operate with us in preserving them ? lias Know-Notii ngism bewitched them of their senses ? I give them the most charitable construction ol their obstinate position in error and injus tice to us— -ignorance, gross, unpardonable ignorance. I tender the issue to the old Whig leaders, who a e lighting “the Democracy,” in the lace of the country. 1 dtly any man on earth to find a better solution of the mystery of their madness. It is useless to mince words. Either we or they are profoundly ignorant, and 1 proceed to the speci fication and proof. They are ignorant alike of principles and facts: Os principles. Is it not a sht er impossibility that men, acquainted with principles—Republicans, Southern men, full ot the instincts of patriotism; Southern Rights men* ready to lay their lives down in defence of fciouihern equal* ity, as these men profess to be, and as our charity prompts us to admit them to be —is it not an impossibility that they should have given their adhesion to the ridiculous, absurd, illogical, federal doctrines of the Phil. Platform ? Most of these men did so —“gloried in their shame.” All honor to your Toomßes and Stephenses, who in the hour of your per il —the darkest hour of the Republic, conquered their prej u tices ; spurned the bribe of party ; conquered your demo cratic prejudices; stood boldly for the Truth, the Rights, ; the Constitution, the Country, and so standing met the j shock of an unscrupulous opposition, and bore the banner | of Religious liberty and Constitutional supremacy, over the crumbling altars and demolished temples of party idol atry, and placed it high above the reach oi faction and fu sion, in the popular heart an i popular intelligence. rid their old Southern associates greet them as true, moral heroes, Knights of Truth, champions ot groat principles— or in their ignorance of these principles, did they subject , them to a guerilla warfare, denounce them for iraitors—not | to the country, its constitution and liberties- but traitors ; to party; and by the most shameless personal defamation attempt to weaken the confidence of the Southern heart in the purity of the r private lives, and the patriotism of their public course? Shame! shame! upon the Ignorance that patronizes such traitorous political infamy ; such slan/ derous a;ui outrageous injustice to private charac e ! Were your ears stunned, Mr. Editor, by tie clamor of these people—these Southern, Southern Rights orators and j presses, for the hypocritical and absurd defences ol the Philadelphia Syllabus of federalism and despotism, or did yora hear with your ears the silly platitudes, the gross per versions, the pompous declamation, bitter, proscriptive slanders, which made up the arguments of Southern state men, in defence of that system of compromises, which dispenses with the organic law, and puts the Constitution on the rack of the. Federal “judiciary 1” Think you men who understood the genius of our Constitution, would ever dream of approving the Catholic proscription in that Plat form— the oatli bound secrecy, the war upon foreign citi zenship, the establishment of parties I No, no ! Uur peo ple are not Jacobin; they are not bigots; they were de ceived ; their orators and p esses are shamefully ignorant! They need to read our Colonial history ; the thrilling story of the Revolution ; the old monuments of civil and reli gious liberty; the Magna Charta ; the Biiis of Rights ; the Articles of the Confederation ; the Constitution ot our go- I vemments —State and Federal ; the “Federalistthe de- < bates iu the Convention that adopted our National Con- ( stitution ; the works of Jefferson and Madison ; the histo ry of our past administrations. The Know Nothing lead- I ers and presses need light. They are disgracefully igno- , rant —blind by prejudice, mad with party rage, furious with greed of the spoils. Show them the documents ! By all 1 means give them the means of a wider range of observa tion than they seem to have enjoyed. Is this harsh ? The more pertinent enquiry is, is it true ? It is not malicious ; and if I thought myself today as ignorant, as I deem our modern political illuminati, I should not attempt to instruct anybody, but would be obliged to any one to tell me ot it, and to teach me the'Truth. °I give not only my “opinion” but the “reason for it,” and the law makes it good evidence: it is competent—the country must judge. lam myself an humble member of the great popular Areopagus, and ready to yield to the baton. If it should be judged to be my ignorance, and not that of the Know Nothing orators and presses, I will submit to the ostracism which will fol low, but Ido not promise not to draw consolation from the companionship of Aristides, of Timotheus, and glorious old Theniistocles. The people may err; so might the two Kings of Sparta, or Mr. Calhoun’s double-headed Executive. It is not the worst fate that can befal a man to die a martyr to Truth. It is better to drink hemlock with S -crates, than fatten on the bribes of Thillip, of Mac edon. In my next article, 1 shall present the gravamen of my indictment against the Know Nothing editors and orators for Ignorance. In the meantime, believe me just an hum ble man, in this poor world of ours, fighting with perfect abandon for the Truth, and willing to sacrifice all things for the liberties of my country, and the proteefion and equality of my native South. ZENO. November 2d, 1855. Georgia Legislature. SENATE. Millepgeville, Nov. 27. The Senate met at 10 o'clock A. M. The journals were read and approved. Allred of Pickens: A bill to compensate the Grand and Petit Jurors of Pickens county. Beasley of Troup : A private bill to make null the grant ofland to Mr. Casey of Merriwether, for No. 524, and to authorize anew grant for the same to issue to the heir of— Wisdom. Calhoun of Fulton : A bill to allow bills of sale of ne groes to be recorded under circumstances, though there are no witnes-es to its execution. Crowder of Monroe: A hill to repeal the act of Februa ry 18, 1854 ; and to organize a board for each county for the purpose of ascertaining the number of poor children en titled to the poor school fund. Dixon of Merri wether: A bill to change the time ofhold ing the Superior Courts of Merriwether county to Mon day in February and August. Gibson ot Pike, as chairman of the Judiciary committee, reported an amendment to the bill to protect planters of oyster beds. Also, an amendment to the bill to regulate the practice in the Supreme Court, and recommended their passage. Hays of Early: A private bill. Head of Macon: A private bill. King of Sumter: A bill to allow Jame3 B. Mcßea to practice Medicine without diploma or license. Also,a bill for private relief of George W. Thomas, a minor. Lawson of Burke : A bill to extend the time of making returns to the Tax Collector of Burke county. Peebles of Clarke: A the time of meet ing and adjourning at 9i A. M. and 3 P. M. Siins of Decatur: A bill to amend the claim laws. Spalding of Mclntosh, report from the committee to take testimony in the case of Jacob Mercer. Siudsill of Telfair: A bill requiring all persons who own GOO acres ofland in said county to pay taxes on the same in said county. Swinney of Kinchafoonee: A hill to sell all free negroes who are found in the State after a certain time. A message was received from the Governor informing the Senate that he had approved the Dougherty county Railroad bill, and also a communication in writing. On motion of Miller of Richmond, the rules were sus pended, and the b'll passed at the last session striking out the words “sea port town or port of entry,” from the Ist section of the 3d article of the constitution. The resolution of Cone of Greene, to appoint a commit tee to ascertain the weight of grain and other commodities sold by the bushel. Also, the resolution to print 125 copies of the census ofGeorgia, were adopted. The balance of the morning was consumed in the di.-cus sion of amendments to the Athens Banking company, and pending the same, on motion of Miller ot Richmond, the subject was deferred and made the special order for Friday next, and the amendments ordered to be printed. The bill to change the line between Fayette and Camp bell counties was read a third time, the report of the com mittee of the whole agreed to, and the bill passed. It seems that Nathan Kemp, ot the county of Fayette, got into a lawsuit and was unsuccessful before the Juries of Fayette. At the last session of the Legislature, an act was passed to change the line between the counties of Camp bell and Fayette, so as to include the residence of Nathan Kemp in the county of Campbell. The object of this act was to transfer the case, above referred to, to the county of Campbell. We give the facts as stated in the Senate, as a specimen of bills so often referred to as “private and local.” Such legislation is indispensable. After disposing of this little matter, the Senate adjourned to 3 o’clock P. M. AFTERNOON SESSION. The bill to repeal the act of the last Legislature “to al ter, amend and explain the 4th section of the act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries,” whereby a part perfor mance of a contract is made to take a contiact out of the reach of the statute of frauds and perjuries, was taken up, considered and passed. The bill of Dabney of Gordon, to repeal the proviso of the act of 1826, exempting bank paper from the provisions of the act which places endorsers on a level with sureties, was lost. Tne bill to limit the time in which suits may be brought and indictments may be found, offered by Cone of Greene, was amended and made the special order for to morrow. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mjlledgeville, Nov. 27. The House met at 10 o’clock A. M. The rules were suspended to allow of the reading of the bill commuting the punishment ol John T. Boyd. The following bills were passed : The bill to reduce the number necessary to form a Coro ner’s juiy in Savannah. The bill for the relief of Sami. J. Walker. The bill to appropriate three thousand dollars to remove obstructions from Satilla river. The bill to incorporate the Georgia White Path Gold and Copper Mining company. The bill to allow Trustees to make returns to the same officers and under the same restrictions as Administra tors, &,c. The bill to permit the owners of lands on rivers and creeks to ditch and embank them. The House adopted a resolution requesting the Governor to prolong the respite of John T. Boyd The bill of Jones of Muscogee to cooler on Superinten dents of elections the power to compel foreign horn per sons to exhibit their naturalization papers, elicited some dis cussion, in which Jones of Muscogee, Milledge of Rich mond, and Dawson ol Greene, supported the bill, and Law ton ofCli atham and Ward of Butts, opposed it; but before much ill blood was gotten up, Phillips of Habersham mov ed to lay the bill on the table for the balance oi the session and called for the previous question, and the bill was tabled Dy a vote of yeas 74, nays 43. The death of this bill was as suddeu and unexpected as was that of the unfortunate Sam. The following bills” were introduced and read the first time: Watts of Campbell: A bill to organize anew county out of parts of Carroll and Campbell. Also, a bill to change the county line between Fayette and Campbell. Thornton of Muscogee : A resolution to allow the Gov ernor to insure the State House at li per cent. AFTERNOON SESSION. Jones of Muscogee, introduced a bill to legalize the ac tion of the Superior Court of Muscogee county in incorpo rating the Columbus Building and Loan and the Muscogee Building and Loan Associations. The balance of the afternoon was consumed in reading bills the second time. SENATE. Mili.edgevh.le, Nov. 28. The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. M. The journal of yesterday was read and approved. On motion of Wales of Muscogee, the resolution of the House requesting the Governor to extend the respite of John T. Boyd, was taken up and concurred in. Upon a call ol counties the following bills and resolu tions were introduced : Adams of Clay : A bill to continue in force for two years the section of the act of last session organizing the county of Clay, empowering the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county to levy a tax of 100 per cent upon the State tax for county purposes. Atkinson of Camden : A resolution instructing our Sena tors and requesting'our Representatives in Congress to urge upon the Federal Government the importance and neces sity ol making the port of Brunswick a naval depot. Cantrell of Lumpkin: A local bill. Cone of Greene: A bill authorizing patties to submit matters in controversy to arbitration, and prescribing the manner in which the same may be done. Also, a resolu tion requesting the Governor to transmit to the Senate the returns made by the Atlanta Bank since the same went in to operation. Harris of Worth : A private bill. Pharr of Newton: A bill to punish agents on the Wes tern and Atlantic Railroad for giving preterence in the ship ment of grain on said Road. Patterson of Jefferson: Abill to change the county line be tween Jefferson and Emanuel counties. Sims of Decatur: A bill to change the 10th section of the 13th division of the penal code, making it penal to take a slave out of the State which belongs to another person, anil to punish the offence by 10 years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Wellborn of Whitfield : A bill to repeal the act amend ing the act of JBl3, so far as it authorizes the Governor to appoint agents to sell the reverted lands of the State. The special order, being the bill of Cone of Greene to alter and amend the Statutes of limitation, was taken up, recommitted and referred to the Judiciary committee. The bill to consolidate the Gainsville and Chattahoochee Ridge Railroad companies, upon the consent of the majori ty ot stockholders of said companies, was taken up. McMillan of Habersham, moved to amend the bill by making provision lor State aid in the shape of endorsements upon the companies, bonds to the consolidated Road ; and supported his amendment in a labored speech of some length, in which he exhibited much ingenuity, and was lis tened to with marked attention by the Senate. Peebles of Clark, offered additional amendments, the ob ject of which is to divert the Southern terminus of the RoacUrom Stone Mountain to Athens He also addressed the Senate at length, in which he gave important informa tion upon Railroad subjects as connected with the Rabun Gap. Upon consultation, the amendments of McMillan and Peebles were withdrawn, the bill recommitted and referred to the committee on Internal Improvements. A bill for divorce ot Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, ol the coun ty of Habersham, because of the imprisonment ot her hus band for life in the Penitentiary ; and to make imprison ment for life in the Penitentiary operate as a divorce, a vinculo malrimorns, was ruled out ot order by the Presi dent, Miller of Richmond, was temporarily in the chair, on the ground that the power to grant divorces had been con ferred upon the Courts. Cone of Greene, dissented from the decision ot the chair. He admitted that the power to grant divorces had been conferred upon the courts, but con tended that it was not taken away front the General As sembly whose powers extended to all rightful subjects of Legislation, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, and might, therefore, be exercised and ought to be exercis ed in extraordinary cases. McMillan and Murp.'.y express ed concurrence in the views of the Senator from Greene. Dabney of Gordon, contended on the other hand that the power to grant divorces had been given to the courts, and that it would be a violation of that clause of the constitution which prevents one department- of the Government from interfering with those powers conferred upon another de partment, for the Legislature to exercise the power to grant divorces. McMillan of Habersham argued in reply that by the con stitution, the power to grant divorces was a Legislative power, and was conceded by the General Assembly to tho Courts to relieve that body from the excessive annoyances of applications for divorces. The President explained. For 21 years the ruling of the chair had been sustained by the practice of the General Assembly. The position of the senator from Gordon hail always had much influence upon him. He differed with the Senator from Greene as to the power of the General Assembly. He did not think it necessary for the constitu tion expressly to prohibit the exercise of a power to take it away from the General Assembly ; it was sufficient it the power were conferred upon anothei department of the Gov ernment, and instanced the clause which provided lor tho election of the Governor by the people as a case in point. Murphy of DeKalb, agreed with the President as to the g neral piinciple announced, but contended that the power to grant divorces was not conferred on the Courts, but that the constitution simply prescribed that divorces should be final when certain action was had on them by the Courts. Calhoun of Fulton, concurred in the view's ol the Senator from l/’eKalb. A motion to refer the'bill to the committee on the Judi ciary, made by Cone of Greene, was lost. An appeal from the decision of the President ruling that the bill was out ol order, was taken up, and the decision of the chair was sustained by yeas 56, nays 30. Long of was added to the committee to report upon the number of clerks necessary to do the business of the Senate. The Senate adjourned to 3 o’clock P. M. AFTERNOON SESSION. The Senate re assembled at 3 o’clock P. M. Wale 9of Muscogee, in the chair, and spent some hours in reading bills the second time. Seuate adjourned to 10 o’clock Friday morning. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Milledgeville, Nov. 28. The House met at 10 o’clock A. M. The Speaker was absent from indisposition. On motion of Phillips of Habersham, Milledge of Richmond, was made Speaker pro tem On inouou oi Haynie of Floyd, the resolution fixing the hour of meeting at Hi A. M , and the hour of adjournment at 14 P. M., was taken up and adopted. Upon a call of couuties, the following bills were introduced and read the first time: Lawton of Chatham : A hill to change ihe name of the Augusta and Waynesboro Railroad company to that of the Augusta and Savannah Railroad company. Also, a bill to amend the judiciary act ot 17y9,50 as to allow plaintiffs in suits against copartners or joint contractors who reside in different counties to institute suit in any one of said counties. Barrett of Gordon : A bill to repeal the first section of the act of Jan. 22, 1852, granting exemption to cavalry corps, so far as Gordon county is concerned. Pofford of Coflee: A bill to reduce the Sheriff ’s bond in the county of Coffee. Dorming of Irwin : A hill to exempt all blind persons owning property of less amount than §SOO, from taxation. Phillips of Habersham : A geueral appropriation bill for the years 1856 and 1857. Phinizy of Oglethorpe : A bill to amend the several acts relative to itinerant traders jThe bill provides that ail persons who apply lor license shall not obta'n the same unle-s they pay annually to the Clerk ot the Superior Court the sum of §SO. and prove residence in the State of one year This is an important bill, as it will stop travelling abolitionists from circulating in Georgia. We hope it will pass. Rumph ol Wayne: A bill to authorize Justices ol the In ferior Court of said county to levy a tax not exceding 50 per cent on the State tax for tl e support ol common schools in Wavoe county. The committee on Privileges and Elections, reported tha they considered Horace VV. Cauuou the only elected Rep resentative ol Rabun county. BILLS PASSED. The following bills w'ere road the third time and passed. The bill to add an additional section to the penal code providing that when the President, Chairman, or oth er officers of any body corporate, shall make, or cause to be made, a fraudulent issue of stock, they shall be liable to a fine of SIOOO and imprisonment in the Penitentiary for not less than one, nor more than seven years. The bill to authorize Justices ot tue Inferior Court of Catoosa county, power to lew an extra tax for county pur poses. Tho bill to exempt all persons over 45 years of age from Patrol duty, and to render the time ot Patrol duty Irom six to three months. . , . . , The bill to extend the jurisdiction ol Justices of the Peace to SSO in civil cases in the county ol Fulton. The bill to repeal the act ot the last session of the Leg islature making Faro Dealing a Penitentiary offence, was amended so as to exempt all persons prosecuted under the present law from its pains and penalties, and passed. The bill to incorporate the BiDb County Orphan Asylum BILLS LOST. The following bills were lost. The bill to prevent cattle from being driven through the counties ol Gilmer, Pickens, &.C., during certain seasons of the year. The bill lor the protection of wool growers in the State. NEW BILLS. Causey, of Kinchafoonee: A bill providing for the sale o free negroes who remain in the State alter 25th Dec. JSS6 The House adjourned to 9s o’clock, Friday morning. To-morrow is set apart by the as a day ol thanksgiving. There will be no meeting of the Generat Assembly on that day. _ _ Further by the Canada. Progress of the War. From tho Crimea there is absolutely nothing to re port. The armies are building huts for the winter, and have occasional military parades and exchanges oflong shots with the Cossack piequets. Letters from Sebastopol say that the Russian pro* jectiles from the North side reach almost every part of the oity, and that a desultory fire is kept up on both sides. The allies say that the Russians, although keeping up a oonfinual fire, are making preparations for a retieat. Gen. Le Vaillant has been appointed by the French, Governor of Sebastopol. Sir Colin Campbell, taking effeme at the appoint meat of Gen. Codrington, has asked leave to return to England. A despatch from Gen. Simpson of Oet. 27, says tho weather was magnificent, and the British troops were healthy. An Anglo-French force from Eupatoria, under Gen. D’Allonville, made a reconnoissanoe on the 22d, and fulling in with a large force of the enemy, offered battle, but the Russians retired after an exchange of a few rounds of arti.lery. The allies burned the villages of ShaddfFks, Karaqurt, Tuzela and the town of Sadki ; also many farms and ■tores along the route, and on the 24th returned to Eu patoria. Intelligence from Odessa of Oet. 27, soys that Todtle bt-n is fast rendering Nicolaieff’defensible below Passka, where the river is only 600 fathoms broad. Gun boats, manned by the crews of the former Black Sea fleet, are stationed, and batteries are being erected on both nid*s of the river. It is confirmed that the Czar and the Grand Duke Constantine witnessed the capture of Kiuburn from Ots chakofl’. St. Petersburg despatches say the Russian army in the Crimea has provisions fur eight months. A Vienna paper, the Premden Blatt, learns from Gortschakoff’s headquarters that the Russians in the Crimea now number two huudred thousand men. A grenadier oorps had arrived at Simphrropol, accompan ied by 8,000 wagons, drawn by oxen; so the army is provisioned for eight months. Gortsohakoff will not expect convoys after November, when the steppes, it is expected, will be covered with the snow. Latest. —A despatch from Vienua says that a mes sage had been received at the Turkish Embassy, stating that the bombardment of Nicolaieft* commenced on the 29th of October, and continued during the whole of the following day. The result is not known. It was added that the Emperor Alexander had been induced to leave the place before the bombardment began, but the Duke Constantine could not be prevailed upon to quit the town. LATER FROM MEXICO. ARRIVAL OF THE ORIZABA. New Orleans, Nov. 26. The steamer Orizaba lias arrived, bringing dates from the city of Mexico up to Nov. 18ili. Alvarez entered Mexico with 5,000 men. He was quietly received. The garrison hud previously evacuated the ci:y. The seat of government is to be permanently removed to Boleno de Hidalgo on the 17th of next February. ‘lhe best feeling exists between Alvarez and Vidauri.— Uraga has been appointed Minister to Prussia. Seieta has resigned the office ot Secretary of the Treasury. Russian Mediation between the United States and Den mark. Account-, dated Hamburg. Nov. 3d, state that there is j some reason to believe that Russia has accepted the office ! of mediator for the settlement of the difficulty between tho | U. S. Governnu tit and Denmark, in regard to the Sound i Dues. It is proposed that Denmai k shall cede the Island I of St. Thomas to ihe United States for five million dollars, and that American vessels shall be exempted lrem the payment of the Sound Dues. Our Relations with England. Washington, Nov. 27. Dispatches received at the State Department, from the British Government, are very pr.-fuse in their professions ot friendship. Lut the English Government is very dila tory in giving satisfactory replits in regard to the violation of the Neutrality Laws. Mr. Buchanan expresses tho opinion that procrastination is resorted to, in the hope that something will turn up to relievo the British Governmeut from their present dilemma. The new British Commander in the Crimea, Lieute nant General Sir \\ illiam Codrington, is the oldest sur viving son of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, the vic tor of Navarino. lie entered the Coldstream Guards in the year 1821, and was connected with them for thirty three years without seeing any war experience, yet he rose from rank to rank until he became a Major General in 1854, just at the commencement of the war with Rus sia. lie went to the East as an amatiur, but on the re turn of the Quartermaster General, Lord De Ros, on ac count of ill health, Brigadier General Airey was appoint ed to succeed hiru, and General Codrington was appoint ed over Aiiey’s brigade. He figured at Alma, lnker mann,and the last atia-k on the Redan. The latter was commanded by him. If that be a fair specimen of his generalship, the change in the command of the British forces can scarcely be regarded as an improvement. Bailed —The Atlanta Republican that J U Wright, the travelling Mail Agent, who was arrested some days since for robbing the mail, and of which of fence he confessed himself guilty, has been admitted to bail by the Inferior Court of DeKalb county on a bond of S4,O(H). If we mistake not, this is anew jurisdiction for county Justices. A Melancholy Truth. —A magazine report of tho fashions,” says, ‘'There is not much change m gen le men s pantaloons this month.” Tho Attorney General bas decided that Santa Anna's drafts for the three million dollars should be paid to American holders.