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SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 1, X 855.
Omnibus Legislation.
These terms are applied when several subjects are
einbiaced in one bill. The objection to this sort of le
g'slation is that it unites differing and often opposing in
terests, and therebyjecures the passage of measures
which would have been voted down if they had rested
upon their own merits. There is, however, a still more
fatal objection to it. It is demoralizing. Every Legis
lator is bound by his official oath, to vote for every meas
ure which he approves,and to vote against every measure
which he condemns. Now when two subjects of
legislation are embraced in one bill, one of which meets
with the approbation of a member, and the other is, in
his judgment, injurious to the State, how can he vote
for the bill without violating his offioial oath ?
We were very sorry, therefore, to learn that the
friends of the various Railroad schemes in Georgia were
combining for the purpose of securing State aid to their
several companies, and that an effort will probably be
made to unite all interests into one bill, and thereby
force it through the Legislature. We hope the project,
if indeed it is entertained, will be abandoned. We have
no doubt but that an omnibus Railroad bill can be car
ried through the two Houses, if it is made comprehen
sive enough to embrace all the Railroad schemes now
on foot in the State ; but we are equally clear that the
project will bankrupt the treasury, impoverish the peo
pie and retard, instead of advancing, the Railroad in
terests of Ceorg’a.
The proposition, as we understand it, is, for each of
several companies, upon the completion of a certain
number of miles of their respective Railroads, to mort
gage them to the State, and then for the State to issue
bonds or endorse those of the several companies, at
the rate of from six to SIO,OOO per mile, for every ten
miles of road thereafter completed. This sectiou of
ten miles is again to be mortgaged and other bonds issu
ed or endorsed, and so on,until the whole Road i6 com
pleted.
Upon the supposition that the proposed Roads will all
be completed, and when completed, will be a profitable
investment of capital, there would be no danger of ul
timate loss to the State. But there’s the rub. Stim
ulated by the hope of obtaining Railroad facilities, and
confident in tho ability of the State to push through
any enterprise, the unsuspecting citizens along the line
of any of the proposed Railroods will strain their ored
it to raise money encugh to build the first section of the
Road, in order to place the Company in a position to
avail itself of the eredit of the State, The bonds of
the State, and the credit of the Company may, per
chance,si ffice to oomplete one or two more sections ; but
ultimately other and larger subscriptions will be requi
red of the original stockholders and, ten chances to one,
they will be uuable to respond, and the unfinished Road
will come to a dead halt. What then ? The State
will be compelled to foreclose her mortgages, the stock
holders will lose their investment, and the Road must
be sold at a ruinous loss, which the Treasury must
bear 5 or the State must keep the Road and make large
appropriations of the people’s money to complete it.—
Is the Legislature prepared to meet the people on such
an issue ? If not, we think they had better pause be
fore they commit themselves to an Omnibus Railroad
bill.
We would not have it understood, however, that wo
are opposed to State aid to all Railroads. We are al
ready committed to a grand trunk Road in southern
Georgia, and we are prepared to advooate a direct ap
propriation of money for this purpose, for the reasons
given in a previous article upon the subject of State
aid to Railroads whenever the question comes in a tan
gible shape before the Legislature. There may be oth
er Railroads in Georgia equally necessary to the
development of the resources of the State. We are
not now prepared to express a definite opinion on this
point.
Neither are we opposed to giving the credit of the
State to Railroad Companies under any and all circum
stances. Where a Road is well under way, and it is
clear that its completion will add to tho resources of
the State, and that the Company has abandant ability,
with the proposed State credit, to finish the work, we
can see no objection on thv score of economy to lend
ing the credit of the State to a limited extent. The
precedent, however, is a bad one, and ought not to be
set without a very cogent necessity is shown in favor of
it. Every case of this sort must be exceptional and pe
culiar, and can afford no argument in favor of a gene
ral policy. It is widely different from tho prop >sition
under consideration. That proposition is to lend the
eredit of the State to various Railroad schemes upon the
faith of mortgages upon sections of completed Roads.
No information is asked or given of the capacity of the
companies, of the amount of stock subscri
bed, or of the cost of the work when completed.—
The State is asked to “go it blind.” We are utterly and
irreconceivaably opposed to the whole scheme, and warn
our party friends in the Legislature that ‘they are tread
ing upon a Serbonian bog, in which, if they are not
cautious, they will not only swamp their own fortunes,
but the eredit of our noble State.
Let every Railroad bill stand on its own merits. If
it is safe, proper, and neosesary to detelope the resour
ces of the State, let it pass, and give the Company such
aid as can be justified by a sound economy. But by
all means vote down every omnibus bill that is offered
for your consideration. Private interests, loonl prefer
ences and the disposition to grab while the publio money
is being squandered, will unfit you to judge wisely and
well of the merits of an omnibus bill. The only safety
is in a stern opposition on principle to this sort of Le
gislation.
It li3s cost us a pang or so to indite this article 5 we
will probably make enemies by it ; but we have been
impelled to do so by a stern sense of duty to our party
and State, and may not shrink from the responsibility it
imposes upon us. It is hardly necessary for us to add
that we have no hostility to any of the Railroads which
will probably be embraced in an omnibus bill.if, indeed,
such a bill sha'l ever be offered in either branch of the
General Assembly.
A captain ot a unii aryccosi f s out West, upon
receiving a note from a lady requesiing the pleasure of h s
company, understood it as a compliment to those under
h.s command, and accordingly marched them all down to
the lady’s house.
O” Rachel, the actress, is very i’l. Her physicians
have advised her to visit Cuba for her health, and she
intends accordingly to leave the United States for Ha
tana in a few davs.
Committed. —Nathaniel Lewis, charged with the
murder of young Hyatt, in Savannah, on the 27th ult,
was, on Wednesday last, in accordance with the testi
mony, committed for trial at the next (January) Term
of Chatham Superior Court.
The Supreme Court—lmportant Reforms Needed.
We heretofore intimated that it was bad policy to in*
crease the salary attached to an office for the purpose
of making it worthy of the acceptance of any individ
ual, no matter how worthy or distinguished that indi
vidual might be of the honor proposed to be conferred
upon him. We have no idea of retreating from this
position. But now that all the offices of the Supreme
Court are filled, we are clearly of the opinion that im
portant reforms ought to be made in its organization.
Too mush riding is required of the Judges. It is a
waste of time and physical power for them to perambu
late the State from one end to the other for the peor
purpose of accommodating the members of the bar.—
No doubt the leading idea with the framers of the Con
stitution in making the Court perambulatory was to
make it convenient to suitors. But we all know that
clients hardly ever enter its portals. Why then keep
up this useless farce ? We hope the present Legisla
ture will alter tho act organizing the Court, and re
quire the judges to visit as few plaoes as possible under
and that they will take the initiatory
step to locate the Court permanently at the seat of
Government. Another important reform and one muoh
needed is, that more time be given to the judges to pro
nounce their decisions. It is an intolerable burthen to
require the judges to hold courts at plaoes destitute of
law libraries and yet compel them to pronounce the
law upon the most intricate questions which may arise
under our artificial and complicated system of laws du
ring the term at which it is argued. When these re
forms are completed, a very slight increase of salary
will make the office of Judge of the Supreme Court
worthy of the acceptance of our most distinguished
lawyers. We place no reliance upon the exaggerated
reports we hear of the annual income of members of
the bar. A lawyer in full practice and at the head of
the profession in the most favorable localities in Geor
gia may average $5,000 a year ; but we incline to think
they more frequently fall below, than rise above this fig
ure. These men, however, are not always the pro
foundest lawyers ; they are mere advocates, and make
their largest fees in criminal cases. We do not want
such men on the bench. The solid men of the profes
sion rarely ever realize more than $3,000, and at that
figure we would place the salaries of the Judges of the
Supreme Court. If, however, the reforms first indica
ted in this article are not made, a larger salary „ught to
be given.
With these changes, we have no doubt but that the
Supreme Court will realize the brightest expectations of
its friends, and give stability and certainty to the law.
For the Times if Sentinel.
Hints and Hits No. 2.
Messrs. Editors: The union of the South and her co
operation with a sound National Democracy, would save
our rights ; preserve us from the aggressions of Northern
fanaticism ; establish the constitution ; preserve the Union,
and eatry forward this great model Republic in her career
ol prosperity This consummation would render our ex
ample of self government potential in Europe ; inspire hope
in the hearts of the stiuggling masses of our fellow men,
who for ages have groaned in the dungeons of despotism.
The practical difficulty in the way of this, is the prejudice
of our Know Nothing orators and editors against the De
mecracy—their ignorance of the true status of the Democ
racy on the s 1 a very question. They seem to be ignorant
of the tact that Democratic principles lead naturally and
irresistibly to these results. They do not perceive that our
fundamental axiom'is strict construction of the constitution,
and that abolitionism can have ne hope of inducing Con
gress to trespass upon our rights and interests in the States
or Territories as long as this axiom prevails in the coun
cils of the dominant party. They do not therefore see, a
priori , that the Democratic party is, as Mr. Jefferson char
acterized it, “the natural ally ot the South.” Their igno
rance is se gross, their party rage so distracting, that they
have entirely overlooked the Southern character of the
present administration. They said General Pierce was an
abolitionist—their shameless slander, like the witness who
swore the horse was sixteen feet high, they “stick to,” in
spite of their own convictions to the contrary. They do
not remember that General Pierce and Judge Douglass
with the approbation of all the leaders of the IN orthern De
mocracy and the assistance ot a majority of them in the
National Legislature, repealed tho degrading restriction of
the Missouri Compromise and opened by the establishment
of the Nebraska Kansas act all the Territories of the
United States to the occupancy of Southern institutions; so
restoring our constitutional equality in the Union and es
tablishing upon principle the fraternity of the sections
The violated constitution was received from the hands of
the abolitionists—the precedent of aggression was blotted
out. This was the patriotic work of the Northern Democ
racy ; the Southern Democracy and the Anti-Know Noth
ing Southern Whigs, Douglass and Stephens, Cass and
Dixon, Pierce and Hunter, Toucey and Butler, stood to
gether nobly battling for the rights, for the constitution, lor
the union, for the South, for humanity.
Nobly our gallant Northern Democratic friends breasted
the dark and mingling tides of the fanaticisms ; they were
swept over the rapids ; lost in the whirlpool of “fusion.”
Wilson, Gardner, Hale, Trumbull and Chase were elevated
to offices, State and Federal, Governorships and Senator
ships, and so ignorant were our Know Nothing orators
and editors that they joined the jubilant, blatant shout of
the “lusionists,” and re-echoed among these Southern hills
and grave yards, the yelp of the hounds of abolitionism
that hung upon the heels of Franklin Pierce, Stephen A.
Douglass and General Shields, and the “freesoil” (shame!
shame!; “Northern Democracy !” Nay, Mr. Editor, they
even accused you and me, and Jefferson Davis and the
South Carolina chivalry, and the Virginia Democracy and
the Southern Rights party, of alliance with Northern Free
soilism—“Reeder Democracy” they called it. Was igno
rance ever more rampant ? impudent ? insufferable ?
This then, is the “count” I rely on, in my indictments.—
These orators and editors deny that we have any hope Irom
the justice and sound constitutional conservatism ol the
Northern Democracy. They say it is freesoil, aggressive,
unreliable. This is a question of fact. I refer to a tew
only, and turn them over to the Democratic newspapers
for further information. It is a great work to elevate a
whole party above its prejudices and educate it into princi
ples and teach it the facts of history and the proper sphere
and art of observation—a work ot time. I can only do my
part of it; spell it a lesson at “crucifix,” and leave it to
work its way on through “changeability” to “Pro Bono
Publico,” as best it may by the help of other teachers.
But 1 must not deljy. The case of our Know Nothing !
editors and orators is an urgent one. I begin then with a
letter (shade your eyes, gentlemen, while I uncover it, or 1
shali not be responsible for the effect of too much light
suddenly poured upon your weak optics,) from one Frank
lin Pierce, an indifferent sort of New Hampshire (“aboli
tion”) Democrat, that by some hocus pocus has managed to
have his name bruited among men as the President of the
United States of North America. Seriously, gentle- |
men, there is no denying that he is the President—that he
is a Northern Democrat of some little character and influ
ence in New Hampshire at least. Being President and a
Northern Democrat, let us see his letter written to lion.
J. J. Taylor, Oswego, N. Y\, from Washington City, D. C , j
August 26, 1854, more than a whole year ago. “1 he priu- ‘
ciple of ‘non-inteivention’ which constitutes the ieadiog
features of the .Nebraska and Kansas bill, received the sanc
tion ot the Democracy of the Republic in 1852.” (Did you
know’ that, gentlemen ?) “It was reaffirmed by more than
seven-tenths of the Democracy of the House and Senate
upon the passage of the bill referred to (strange that you
should have forgotten it,.’ “and will, within eighteen months,
furnish from its inherent soundness the strongest issue we
{ can tender to .our opponents;” (what is this? Franklin
Pierce a Northern Democrat speaking for the Reeder De
mocracy North and South, tendering to you, geutlemen,
1> n the name ot the National “Democracy” from “its inhe
rent soundness,” the “issue of non intervention,” to which
; this same “Democracy” is doubly pledged! Perhaps you
are ignorant ot the meaning of “non-intervention.” It
means then, that Congress has 110 power to step in between
ns and the Perritores and prevent us from carrying our
slaves there—to any of them. Did you know that ?
“But,” continues this “unreliable” Northern soft—this
double dealing Norihern Democratic President, “even if it
were otherwise, ’ (that is, if this were not the issue, <fcc,)
are we to abandon the right, or manifest our want of faith
in the intelligence and patriotism of the people by signiri
| cant silence ? “If we, of the Northern and Middle Slates
are unable to sustain ourselves upon the ground of main
j taining for and securing to the people of every State and i
j I eriitory, of this Union, all their constitutional rights and
immunities;” (what then ? Gen. Pierce says, writing to a
Northern Democrat—what does he say? Listen!; “Our :
nominal ascendency would cease to he either honorable
to ourselves or useful to the country. Besides, so far as the
Democratic party is concerned, ail experience proves that i
every apparent advantage gained by a temporizing policy, !
or by concessions to error and fanaticism, have only result- !
ed in ultimate distraction and weakness.” (Gen. Pierce it
seems, has no favoritism for a ‘ temporizing policy,” or for
concessions to error and fanaticism, either on the score
of principle or policy.”) “Individuals,” he continues,
“who desire to retain nominally, a position in the
Democratic ranks, but who are unwilling to stand upon a
National Platform,should understand that while the masses
can well dispense with their co-operation, they eannot by
silence occupy a doubtful postion upon fundamental ques
tions, affecting the cordial and permanent union of these
States, without losing public confidence, and with it self
respect.
I am, with high esteem, your friend.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Hon. J. J. Taylor Oswego, N. Y ”
I have quoted every significant word of this letter. Do
you ever expect to read a sounder,stronger one? Let me
tell you that in the whole course of a long and distinguished
political career in a free State, this Franklin Pierce has
never uttered a word inconsistent with this letter ; and that
all the complications of his executive duties as Chief Mag
istrate, have failed to involve him in a single act that dis
credits his entire sincerity.
But this is not all, the Attorney General, his principal
law officer, the legal adviser of his administration —a Nor
thern Democrat, agrees with the President about enforcing
the fugitive slave law’, even in the Territories, approves the
Nebraska-Kansas act, and said some strong things in favor
of State Rights and State remedies, and about “crushing
out” the spirit of fanatical abolition at the North, for the
particulars of all which, vide Democratic newspapers.
I have not mentioned Gen. Pierce and Gen. Cushing, be
cause they are exceptions to the body of the Northern
Democratic leaders ; any sounder or more influential than
others. The truth is, there is not one single Democratic
leader in the North who does not agree with these distin
guished officers. They are all sound upon the practical
issues ol slavery. I will write here a few of their Hames
and get you to try your hand, and it is a skillful one, at
making out a case against any one of them vou may sup
pose most easily attained—Stephen A. Douglass, Richard
son of Illinois, Lane, Toucey of Connecticut, Jafaes Buch
anan, George M. Dallas, Daniel S. Dickinson, Broadhead
of Pennsylvania, Gen. Cass. You are doubtless ignorant of
the fact, but that does not alter the tael, that the Demo
cratic party North and South, would slough offin an hour,
as a gangrenous excrescence, any man in the United States
or commonwealth, that should oppose the Kansas-Nebras
ka bill, or advocate the restoration of tne Missouri Re
striction.
This does not make up my case against you. Charity
compels me to assume that you are moßt grossly ignorant
of the fact, that, while every Whig newspaper and every
Whig member of Congress, north of Mason and Dixon’s
line, approved the Kansas-Nebraska act, a majority of the
Democratic members of Congress voted for the act, and
three-fourths, at least, of the Democratic newspapers advo- 1
cated it and continue to approve it. 1 am bound to sup
pose that not one of you know of the existence of such a
Northern Democratic newspaper as “the Boston Statesman
and Weekly Post,” published w’eekly by Beals, Greene &
C0.,21 Water Street,Boston, at $2.00 per year, payable in
advance.” I wish one Know Nothing paper South, were
as sound on the slavery question, a9 this newspaper. If they
w'ould read the address of“the Democracy of Boston and
Suffolk,” from the pen of Beil F. Hallett, and the thousand
and one similar addresses which are now pealing the senti
ments of truth and patriotism on the awakening judgements
and conscience of the Northern States ; if our Know Noth
ing Editors and Orators but knew tne truth and can com
prehend it, the difficulties which now threaten the South,
and the perpetuity of the Union, would find their solution
in the United action of the South and co-operation with
the sound, conservative, patriotic, noble Democracy of the
North. Here they are, then’Gentlemen, Northern Demo
cratic leaders —to a man with us —President, Cabinet offi
cers, Senatois, Representatives, Editors, Orators, what re
mains of your slanderous charges that the Northern Demo
cracy is free soil and unreliable ?
It is just the truth, maugre your ignorance in the premises,
that the Conventions, State aud county, in City and country,
Mass meetings, popular Assemblages of all sorts, of the
Northern Section of the Democratic Party, are adopting
platforms, resolutions and addresses unexceptionally sound
on the Kansas-Nebraska act and the slavery question. You
do not know it. That is the reason lam telling you It
is impossible that I should do more than give you a mere
reference to their platform.
I have before mentioned the “Democracy of Boston and
Suffolk,” and the “Statesman and Post” newspaper, Hal
lett’s address, &c. If you, gentlemen, will trouble your
selves to procure a copy of the resolutions of the State Con
vent on of Massachusetts, you will find that the masses of
the Northern democracy in the old Bay State are eager to
meet the “Fusionists” on that issue of “non-intervention,”
while, in their behalf, President Pierce tendered “our oppo
nents,” fifteen months ago, an “issue” while you have to
accept or to co-operate with “the Northern Democracy.”—
There is no alternative, and your ignorance at this point,
amusing as it may be at others, is tragical; it is just pre
cisely iu its effects treason to the South, treason to the Un
ion, treason to the cause of human progress, of liberty, of
civilization, of happiness.
If you choose to know it, there is a fire in the green moun
tains ot Vermont, at which you might warm up the frozen
currents of your blood. See the resolutions of the State
convention of the Democracy of Vermont.
Incredible as it may seem to our dark-lantern gentry, (the
lantern they walk by, is very dnfk,) New V ork—the New
York Democracy I mean—is moving in the right direction,
and her masses in old Tammany, and her State convention
declare for Congressional “non intervention” on the subject
of Slavery. And then, gentlemen, were you not awake
“between midnight and an hour before day,” when the
thunder of the old Keystone shook the republic ? Read the
resolutions of the State convention of Pennsylvania—witness
the result! The masses of the Northern Democracy are
true to the Constitution* true to us iu our struggle to main
tain our equal sovereignties on the basis of the revolution
ary ideas and compacts of our fathers, and you ought to
know it, and knowing it, ought to conquer your prejudices
and boldly avow the truth, and noblv stand for the right.
I want us to demand a Southern Presid, nt, not because I
doubt the fidelity of the Northern Democracy, but because
his election would more thoroughly demolish fanaticism,
Abolitionism, Fusionism and Know Nothingism ; because
it is our time.becaase we of the South have won the distinc
tion, by first arresting the downward tendency of our for
tunes by defeating Know Nothingism. Whether we got
him or not, I think we shall do well to contend for him.—
If we secure his nomination, there is not a particle of doubt
of his election. Our Northern friend-* will come up, to a
man. Who not see the rising of the popular whirl
wind in the North that will scatter ‘ Fusionism” like aututn
leaves ?
It we fail to get him, by contending for him to the last,
we shall get a better platform, stronger guarantees for the
future. The more we ask the more we shall get. Our
Northern friends are willing to do whatever we require, and
it has been the folly of the South to expect the northern
Democracy to be sounder on slaverylissues than their South
ern opponents —at this moment, however, that miracle
exists! Gen’l Pierce has been leading the Northern Demo
cracy to the defense of the Constitutional rights of the South,
iu the face of Southern opposition!
“How steady in the storm he sat!”
All this seems to be unknown to our Southern Know
Nothings, fditors and Orators, who continue to abuse
Franklin Pierce and the Northern, aye and the Southern
Democracy too. Are they ignorant, as I have most chari
tably argued, or are they attempting to deceive the South ?
Do they hope to outdazzlethe lamp of truth, with the strag
gling rays of their dant-lantern ? Do they
“Hope to obscure that latent spark
Destined to shine when Suns are dark ?”
Vain and silly “hope!” Delusive hope! Wicked, and
vtle hope! Truth will triumph ! Her decrees will stand fast!
It is the compact of Lycurgus and the oracle, it is moie,
it is the order of Providence, the God above us, answering
to the God within us! ZENO
Nov. 3J, 1855.
A Store Robbed. —The store of Messrs. Gordon &
Terrell, located some fourteen miles north of Cassville,
in this State, was forcibly entered on the night of the
21st ult., by a couple of young men, and several hund
red dollar*’ worth of ready made clothing, vartous kind*
of dry goods, and about ten dollars in money, were ab
i stracted therefrom. The perpetrators, who were pur
sued and overtaken, confessed their guilt, and have been
lodged in jail. They are brothers, one 12, the other
15 years of age, and named Wilson.
Hr Col. John A. Cobb, father of lion. Howell Ccbb.
we regret to learn, died on the 21st ult., at Athens, in
this State, at the advanced age of 72 years.
ES£F"The young woman who was driven to distraction.
now fears that she will have to walk back.
A young lady, found one day reading a novel,
was asked by a gentleimn how she liked the style ?
“The style ! the style ! why, sir, I am not come to tha
vet.”
The San Francisco Alta California state* as a fact, that
Edward Stanly, the noisy and violent member of Con
gress from North Carolina in years past, has become a
rampant freesoiler in California,
Georgia Legislature,
SENATE.
Milledseville, Nov. 30.
The Senate mot at 10 o'clock A. M.
President Bailey in the chair. The journal of Wednes
day was read and approved.
McMillan of Habersham, moved to reconsider the action
of the Senate sustaining the decision of the chair ruling out
the bill for the divorce of Elizabeth Martin as out of order.
The motion was lost by a vote of yeas 33, nays 41.
Brice of Crawford: A bill to prevent non-residents from
pedling hollow ware in Georgia.
Buchanan of Coweta: A bill to vest the pardoning pow
er in the Governor, in capital cases, and a council of one
member from each judicial district. Also, a bill repealing
all laws against carrying concealed weapons.
Calhoun of Fulton: A bill to incorporate the Georgia
Air Line Railroad company from Atlanta towards Ander
son C. H., South Carolina. Also, a bill to perpetuate tes
timony in certain cases.
Cantrell of Lumpkin: A bill giving Justices of the Peace
in Lumpkin county, jurisdiction over cases sounding in
damages when the amount claimed does net exceed S3O.
Carlton of Campbell: A bill allowing interest on open
accounts when the amount is ascertained.
Cone of Greene. A bill to make it penal to go through
the streets of a city, town or village, or near the dwelling
house of a citizen and halloo, curse, or use obscene lan
guage. .Also, a bill to make it penal to cut wood off of the
land of another with intent to appropriate it to his own use.
Also, a bill imposing a tax of SS,MO annually on Bank
Agencies of Banks not chartered by the Legislature of this
State, which shall put in circulation in Georgia the bills of
a bank of any other State; which was withdrawn because
doubts were suggested as to whether a bill in the nature of
an appropriation bill can originate in the Senate. It will
come op again.
Dabney of Gordon: A bill to change and fix the boun*
dary line between the counties of Gordon and .
Coffee of Rabun: A bill to establish anew Judicial Cir
cuit to be caMed the North Eastern Circuit, to he com
posed of the counties of Rabun; Union, Fannin, Gilmer,
Lumpkin and Habersham.
Gordon of Walker: A bill to add a part es Catoosa to
the county of Walker.
Hardeman of Bibb: A bill to incorporate the Bank of
Middle Georgia, to be located at Macon, with a capital of—
dollars. The Senate refused to print the bill.
Lawton of Dougherty: A local bill. Also, as chairman
of the committee on Finance, made a report giving impor
tant statistical information as to the financial condition of
the State ; which was ordered to be printed.
Moore of Cobb : By request; A bill to organize anew
county from parts of Cobb, Cherokee, Cass and Paulding
counties, to be called “Douglas.”
Pope of Wilkes: A resolution amending the rules of the
Senate limiting the number and duration of speeches of
Senators.
Rudisill of Washington ; A private bill.
Shropshire of Chattooga : A resolution instructing com
mittees to report as soon as convenient.
Sapp of Baker: A bill to compensate the Grand and
Petit Jurors of Baker county.
The resolution of Cone, of Greene, requesting the Gover
nor to transmit to the Senate a copy of all returns made by
the Bank of Atlanta to the Executive department was taken
up and agreed to.
The special order, being the bill to incorporate the Bank
of Athens, was taken up and considered. The original bill
made the stockholders liable for three times the value of
their stock in the event of failnre of the bank. The com
mittee on Banks proposed, and the Senate adopted an
amendment limiting the liability of stockholders to the
amount of their stock. Cone, of Greene, proposed to
strike out the section as amended and insert in lieu thereof,
a section making a judgment against the bank operate as a
judgment against each and all the stockholders, and au
thorizing a levy upon the private property of any of the
stockholders, if sufficient property of the corporation can*
not be found to satisfy the execution, and giving a stock
holder who has satisfied a judgment against the bank, the
right to collect a rateable proportion of the amount paid by
him from his co-corporators.
The amendment of Cone, of Greene, was supported by
himself and Murphy of DeKalb, and was opposed by Mil
ler of Richmond, Calhoun of Fulton, and Peebles of Clark.
During the discussion of the amendments, the Senate ad
journed to 3 o’clock P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill to incor-
I porate the Bank of Athens. The discussion was continued
by Pope of Wilkes, Peebles of Clark, and Cone of Greene
The motion to strike out was decided in the affirmative by
a vote ol yeas 53, nays 30. Cone of Greene, then moved
to amend by substituting his amendment. On motion of
Miller of Richmond, the bill and amendments were laid on
the table for the present.
The bill to out the words “sea port town or port of
entry,” from the Ist section of the 3d article of the consti
tution, which forbids the exercise of any criminal jurisdic
tion by any but Superior Courts, except in sea port towns or
ports of entry, was taken up and passed by a vote of yeas
55, nays 27, the President voting in the affirmative.
The last named bill was passed by the last Legislature,
and is now the law of the land. The Senate adjourned to
10 o’clock A. M.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Milledgbville, Nov. 30.
The 110-ise spent to me time in the rccontideration (/
J ocal bills.
Upon the call of counties t te following bills were intro*
dneed and read the first time :
Crook of Chattooga : A bill giving to jurie* the power
to affix puJtsbmeut to crime, and making it penal for so
licitors to settle criminal cases alter a bill of indictment
lound.
Brown of Camden : A bill to establish the right of per
sons claiming an undivided interest in lands to maintain
a separate action of ejectment for the same.
Hudson of Gwinnett: A bill to incorporate the Warsaw
Navigating eompauy. The bill gives the company the
exclusive r.ght es n&vigatiug the Chattahoochee River
wherever they remove all obstructions from the channel
above the piac* where the Western and Atlantic Railroad
crosses the same.
Lewis of Hancock : A bill to compel the judges of the
Superior Courts to assemble at the capital once a }e*r for
the purpose of establishing rules of practice. Also a bih
to provide for the education of all the youth of Georgia
in tile elements of au English Education.
This bill lor the education ot the people, is the most im
portant which has )et been introduced te the considera
tion of the General Assembly. The bill offered by Mr.
Lewis proposed to tahe all schools in Georgia, under the
patronage ot the State, and to pay out of the Tteasury, the
.uiliou lees of all children in the State, in the branches o
reading, writing, Arithmetic, Grammar aud Geography.!
vVe believe the plan suggested by Lewis of Hancock, is
lie only feasible one that has yet been proposed for the
t£ducuiion of the youth of Georgia.
Mr. : A resolution refusing leave of absence
except by unanimous consent.
Lawton of Chatham : A nill to charter the Mechanics’
Bank in the city of Savannah.
The House then proceeded to the regular order. The
committee on education reported a bill in substitution in
■evefal tills authorizing the payment of tuition fees for
teaching poor children who have failtd to comply with the
requirements of the law. After much discussion, the bill
was referred back to the committee with instructions to
report a general bill.
BILLS PASSES.
The bill to incorporate Randolph College.
The bill for the relief of insolvent debtors in prison
bounds.
The bill restricting sales against the Brunswick Railroad
company to be brought in the city of Brunswick.
MISCELLANY.
The House adopted a resolution that they would be
ready to adjourn by the 20th December. ‘lbis waa done
ae a jibe at the Senate for the tardiness of its proceedings.
We understand the Senate will retaliate by resolving to
adjourn by the 15th December. Nothing will come of
either resolution.
The bill for the pardon of John T. Boyd, is made the
special order for Thursday next.
The Governor sent to the House a message giving the
1 opinion that the charter of the Hjwasaee Railroad com
pany, repeals the charter es the Cress Plains anil Red Clay
Railroad chartered eomefyears ago, and that the corpora
tors of the last named companies ate entitled to reclam--
tious. The House laid en the table, a resolution offered
by Phillips, of Habersham, that bo aew business should
be entertained after Friday next.
NSW BILL.
Paris, of Dade, by special leave, introduced a bill incor
porating the Nicojack Railroad and Mining Company.
The object of the bill is to develop the coal interest of the
county of Dade.
The House adjourned to Monday morning, 10 A. M.
Steamboat Collision.
Natcuez, Nov. 24.
The steamers Switzerland and Uncle Sam came in col
lision aad the Switzerland sunk, opposite Natchez. No
lives were lost.
An Irish woman, observing the great display of
shining instruments at a largo musical establishment in
New York, stepped into the store and inquired of a clerk,
“How do you sell your new beer pumps V ’
A Yankee *poet thus describes the excess of bia
devotion to his true love :
I sing her praise in poetry,
From early morn to dewy ero ;
I cries whole pints of bitter tears,
And wipe them with my sleeve.
Brigham Young, it is said, has now seventy
wives. mmmm
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON STATEMENTS.
I £ g* Stock
-a. ® 9 % 2 <2! -o'H on
5 S <B. 02.! ?■ i * j O‘S 3 £ hand
week p-8 <S £ S | ; | So- ~ this
ending *■*’*•? \ | • f day.
1854. 12771 4170119314|23564 i 2401 8763! 11164 15171
JNov. 24,{ 1 ; : : j
1855. ! 524 5471:43156 48627 1717>36569;28286,22204
Columbus, Dec. 1.
COTTON—The ruarktet is easier to-day. Buyers and
sellers both disposed to await steamers’ advices now about
due. The sales effected to-day have indicated a slight
concession on previous rates. Middlings to 8, Strict
Middlings Si to 84, Good Middlings 8t to 8£ cents.
Liver Complaint.
The only remedy aver offered to the public that baa sa
ver failed to enrs, when directions are followed, is Mc-
Laae’s Liver Pill. It bas been several years before the
public, and has been introduoed iu all sections of the Ua
ioa. Where it has been used, it bus bad tbe most triurn
pbaut success, aud has actuully driven out ot use all other
medicines. It has beau tried uuder all the different phases
ot Repatis, and bas bees found equally efficacious iu all.
Purchasers will please be careful to ask for Dr. M’Lare's
Celebrates Liver Pills, and take none else. There are
other Pills, purporting to be Liver Pills, now before the
public. Dr. M’Lane’s Liver Pills, also his Celebrated Ver
mifuge, can now be had at all respectable Drug Stores in
the United States and Caiada.
tysold by all the Druggist# in Columbus, and by one
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tion, and finally got so bad, be was unable to walk except
on crutches. A lew bottles el Carter’s Spanish Mixture,
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JAS. H. CARTER,
Savannah, Ga.
BROOKS (fe CHAPMAN,
DAN FORTH & NAGEL,
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Florbnce, Ala. Dec. 19, 1849.
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around hiru sympathised with him. I advised him to try
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FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.
Mcs*r*. Editors:— We beg jto have the following
names announced as an “Independent Ticket” for the city
offices at the election on Saturday next.
Their selection has been made in consultation, and by
the advice of a number of most worthy citizens. Though
unsustained and unannounced,by the influence of any po
litical organization, we trust that the substantial merits of
the men themselves, will commend them to the hearty
support of the people. Some of them have already done
well in the public service, and the present crisis of munic
ipal affairs requires that we should call into service well
tried and faithful officers. Many Citizens.
Mayor —John Johnson.
Aldermen Ist Ward— W. W. Robison,
“ Beoj. F. Coleman.
2d. “ William Perry,
“ “ Wm. F. Plane.
3d. “ John Munn,
“ “ Thos. K. Wynne.
“ 4th “ C. C. Codey,
“ “ H. H. Harris.
sth “ Wm. Douglass,
” “ I-rael F. Brown.
“ 6th “ Wm. Mattheson,
“ “ John Hunley.
Marshal —Georg* Gullen.
Dept. “ E. Morrell.
Clerk — J. L. Howell.
Treasurer —E. H. Musgrove.
Sexton —Jas. H.Cook.
WE are authorized to announce WM. MAHAFFEY
a candidate for re-election to the office of City Marshal,
for the ensuing year. Election 2d Saturday in December.
nov2B twtde*
WE announce I3AAC MITCHELL a candidate for
re-election to the office of city Treasurer.
Nov. 16,1855.—td MAN Y VO I'ERS.
5-T?”WE are authorized to announce the name of F. G.
WILKINS as a candidate for the office of Mayor, at the
ensurng eleetion in December uext. nuvlO—td