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(limes rntir Sfltfitwl. “COLUMBUS, GEORGIA." - 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 agontin.every town. novl6 —wfclw2w. Old Sores, Ulcers, and all eruptions and diseases ari sing from an impure or depraved state ot the blood. See the extraordinary cure of Wra. G. Harwood, a highly re* spectable citizen of Richmond, Va., by Carter's Spanish Mixture. He had ulcers and sores of the wor.-t descrip tion, and finally got so bad, be was unable to walk except on crutches. A lew bottles el Carter’s Spanish Mixture, the great blood purifier, cured him, as it has cured hund reds of others who have suffered with rheumatism, bad ef fects of mercury, and pains and ulcers ol the bonea and joints. For sale by. THOMAS M. TURNER & CO. JAS. H. CARTER, Savannah, Ga. BROOKS (fe CHAPMAN, DAN FORTH & NAGEL, bovl6 —w&twlm Columbus, Ga. Florbnce, Ala. Dec. 19, 1849. Dear Sir: —l take the present opportunity ol bearing testimony to the medical qualities of your Pulmonic Med icine. The Rev. B. B. Barker had a cough for about three or tour weeks. It not only was distressing to him self, but such was the severity of the paroxysms that all around hiru sympathised with him. I advised him to try your Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry and Wood Nap tha. He did so, aud took one bottle, and it stopped the cough almost immediately, and has not since returned, nor has he had any symptoms of it since. 1 have used manv eongb medicines, and have tried and seen used all the balsams and nostrums of the present day, and I verily believe that yours is superior to them all. I remain yours, T. J. KILPATRICK, Principal of the Florence Male Academy. GJF’Sold by all Druggists everywhere. See long ad vertisement in another column. novlS—im 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