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pro-occupied by another road. The require- I meat of the charter, however, wa so posi- ’ tive that we eould not call for the State’* < ■ubeeription without obtaining from the Bruntwick Company that release for which i we otberwiae had no need, to enable us to ezercisell onr corporate power* This is not the occasion to discuss our le gal rights under the charter, nor the forms necessary to make the release of the Bruns wick Company binding upon all tho corpora tor*. Bt we feel entirely satisfied that we have neither lost nor violated any of tho for mer, Dor feiled to secure the latter with such solemnities as wilLstand the test before the proper tribunals Tl* insinnstions and par tial threats thrown out on this snbject are euly intended to affect the public mind tem porarily before the truth can be ascertained, and are as ungenerous as they are without foundation in fact. One more objection raised will be noticed, and this hasty reply will be brought to a •lose. It is claimed that this Company ja not carrying out the objects of its creation, and is acting “in defiance of public senti ments” by “skirting tho Florida line.” To thoae who witnessed the earnest debates in the Legislature of 1855-'6, when the bill in corporating this Company was on its passage, k sounds strange to hear it now asserted that snob a Hue was not contemplated in the act. Why, the opponents of the bill took their stand at this very position. They asked, •bow can you coll this a Main Trunk Hail road of the State of Georgia when it is to be located at the Southern extremity of the State, skirting tbe Florida line 1” And these abjections were not then and there answered by denying that such a location was probable under tbe charter, but by insisting that such a location would not deprive It of its charac ter of a “Main Trunk Bailroad.” in rofercnce to tbe great connection contemplated between tbe Atlantic and the Gulf across the territo ry of Georgia. The majority of both Hou ses endorsed the sentiment, and it became a part of our charter. Let it not now be sail. that a pledge to build a Geotgia road has not been redeemed by such a location. Such are some of the many reasons which induced the Board to adopt tbe lower line os “tbe most practicable route to tbo West ern boundary of the State.” With tbe lights before them, and in the conscientious dis charge of their duties, could they have done otherwise t In deference to tho wishes oi even a small minority of the stockholders, however, we ore unwilling to take the final step, without an attempt to procure more light. When tbe able and experienced en gineer, to whom we now commit the exami nation and revision of all the work already done, shall he prepared to give advice and moke suggestions, this’Board will act prompt ly in tbe premises, without any retard to the {art, for the best interests of all tire stock oldets, and with an earnest effort to be gui ded by the true spirit of the charter. Hav ing done this, they will trust to an intellectu al public to do them justice. . . Very respectfully yours, J. P. Scrbvbn, Pres’t. TO DR. J. PTSOREVEN, President of thi Atlantic if Gulf Railroad Company. The character of your reply of the 19th inst. to the address of the committee appoint ed to communicate through you with the Board es Directors, in regard to the location of tbe line of the Atlantic 6c Gulf Road, requires a brief answer from me, especially the ques tion put by you thus: “lias your Chairman then been insisting so vehemently from the inception of this enterprise that the road should run through Thomasvillo, no matter what Hue was adopted, when he ws confi dent that the charter would’ be violated by auch a course?” The Chairman of the com mittee, when the Brunswick charter by tho survey then made, covered the line to Thom nsvillc, did insist that Thomasville should not be disregarded in any compromise. Tbe Chairman of tho Committee did doubt whe ther the chartqj: of tiie Atlantic 6c Gulf Road Company, was drawn to protect tbq interest of Tnomasville, and this was doubted by men of legal ability; and Thomasville, as 1 have understood and believed, was mentioned in the original draflf of the amended charter, and was stricken out at your instance, that thia point would be protected upon the adjust ment of the pending controversy between the Savanuah Albany dt-Gulf and the Brun swick 6c Florida Railroad Companies. 13id yon not insist, and do you Dot now insist, that upon a liberal construction of the cliar ter Thomasvillo may bo reached without Vio lating tho provisions thereof} Os this you and your advisers are confident. Then this is your decision, and by the same liberal construction you could reach Mill Town.— The people at Mill Town and vicinity were equally as strenuous in regard to their rights and insisted upon them at the Brunswick meeting in 1857, in the event that the Bruns wick Company should execute the release} required by law. Were you not present at that meeting, and was not the point of con nection and from thence the Brunswick line again and again designated as the line to he substantially observed, and did you deny or gainsay it 1 Then upon your liberal con struction of the* charter and upon your assur ances, Tbomasville is within the legitimate lino of survey. Because of your liberal construction of the charter, I have consented to make the best of the law, under the con struction which you and your Boprd gave it, and pledged as you say to act upon at Thom asville in September 1856. I ask where ‘i ■y inconsistency! ; The general understanding, as I conceiv ed at the Brunswick meeting, was equally obligatory upon the Board Us Directors to run the line of their read to Milltown. Yon justify yourselves now because yon havo de cided, by a liberal construction of the char ter of your company, you had..* right to run to Thomasvillo—that by a still greater lat itude you can commit an absolute breach of the charter, and ran below a direct line from the initial point to Thomasville. Why not, bv the same rule of construction, reach the Florida line opposite Hnuticcllo. where you would be within eight miles of the Florida roads The chairman of the committee is aware that at least three of the Directors of the Atlantic do Gulf Road are large proprie tors of resi estate in’ the vicinity of the low er line, and while I accord to those gentle men ail the charity due to human nature, may not their judgments have been insensi bly warped in favor of this liberal construc tion l All men’s views are exceedingly lib eral when they wish to do a particular thing, and agitation don’t suit them- Os motives 1 i save no desire to speak. The action of your I Board is the proper subject of review, and may be considered in a business point of view, without giving offence to the most aea ■itive. If the road i* built on tho lower line parallel with the Florida road, as you are determined to do, the future will det(ff mine the boasted intelligent action of vonr Board. Georgia, with her sea port, and bar injured commerce, will be unable to rebuke the unwise policy now being adopted/ Where doubts exist in regard to the powers of a corporate body, their action should be restricted within the narrowest possible lim its consistent with the public good and the objects of their creation—but should not be used for selfishness, oppression or tbe abuse of others rights. Very respectfully, Nov. 24. 1858. Jambs L. Seward. THK WIRE-GRASS REPORTER. THQMASVILIjE, GA: WEDNESDAY, PKC’BBIt 1, lIM. Agents for this Paper. The following gentlemen hove kindly consented to act u agents for the WirwOrass Reporter,whoso receipts will be acknowledged for any monies dur . this office: 8. M. I’F.TTEKou.i. & Cos., New York. , Joshua Griffin, Troopville, Lowndes Cos., Ga. B. H. Ransom e, Irwlnville, Ga. , Thos.Wii.cox, Jacksonville,Telfair Cos., Ga. i W. H Overstreet, Nashville, Berrien Cos., Ga. ) A. J. LII.ES, Milftnwn,Berrien Cos., o*. | W. J. Mabry, Griffin's Mills, Berrien Cos., Ga. I R. N. Parish, Ava, Berrien Cos , Ga. i John C. Nicholls, Waresboro, Ga. . ‘*P*‘ i X3T Tb* meeting of the Superior Court, i and County Convention, which will take ■ place In the first week of December inst., will bt an excellent time for delinquents, who have not paid, to come forward and set tle their subscriptions. We hope they will not omit it. A printing office requires much 1 money to keep it in action. We also hope • our friends, who have not yet favored ns with j tbeir names on onr subscription list, will . come forward and give them to ns, and those i who have will speak of our paper as it de- I serves ; and bring their friends forward.— I This is the way to patronize and Rustam a - paper, and insure its success. Call at the . office, where we shall bo pleased to see you. rr Gentlemen at Milledgeville owing I this office any money, are respectfully re . quested to pay the same to the Senator or i Representative of this county, or to Charles ’ J. Harris, Esq,, one of the Clerks of the Senate. EF Persons addressing letters to this of fice on business, are respectfully requested to address t “ Wire-Grass Reporter.” When so addressed tbe letters come immediately to the office, but when addressed to one of the i editors individually, it is put in his private box at the post-office, and if he happens to be absent, lies there until his return, i SAIN TRUNK STOCKHOLDERS. I It will be seen by an advertisement which * we have been publishing for the hist two or 1 three weeks, that A. T. Mclntyre, of Thom as county, and Col. J. R. Stapler, of Lowndes county, are authorized to receive the scc-md instalment of twenty per cent from the stock holders of tho Atlantic 6c Gulf Railroad. OUR NKW ADVERTISEMENTS. We call attention to the advertisement of J. H. Watson, of Albany,’ who koeps on hand Sewing Machines of every variety, from eighteen to tweuty dollars. C. H. Reming ton is his Agent at Thomasville. We also call attention to the advertise ment of D. D. Hodgkins 6c Son, of Macon. Their Sporting Apparatus aro all of oxcellcut material, as we can say with confidence from having tried a number of the articles. Tho stocks of tho merchants of this place speak for themselves. We advertise for none but tbo best, ns will be sceu by tbeir several advertisements. We have not room to note them individually, but every reader should note carefully tho advertisements. , THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION. It will soon be time for tho citizens of Tbo masville to be casting nbout again for a May or and Council for the ensuing year. With out tho slightest wish to dictate, and with nil due defcrenco to public opinion, we will take the liberty to premise, that never before has the town of Tliomasville been more orderly, quiot, or under better municipal control and sound government. We are willing to let good enough alone. The present Mayor and Board of Aldermen could not bo improvod, and we should be pleased to see the whole .Board retained another year. THE REV. A. GRAHAM. This gentleman, who has been acting as pastor of the Methodist Church of this town for the last two years, has delivered his last regular sermon in this community, and will take bis departure from among us in a very short time. Mr. Graham is an able minister, and a man of unquestioned and unquestiona ble piety. He has but one business in this life, and that is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. To do this in its purity seems to be his only object, and his-highest ambition. It is only through the example of Mr. Grahnm and such men as be is, that we are able, at all, to comprehend the meaning of the ex pression “ the beanty of holiness.” There is a lofty grandeur in the position ot the man who has truly cut himself loose from this world and all its entangling ties, and “ separated himself to the preaching of the word,” which in our judgment attaches to no other on the face of this earth. There ia a self-sacrifice in it for the good of others, which, in spite'of us, calls forth ogr admira tion, our veneration and our respect. llow many men of intellect and wealth arc there ia this country, who would rejoice ;in tbe reception of a commission from this government to aet as minister at any of the eonrta of the powerful governments of Eu rope T He wonld have a splendid outfit, a salary of many tbousanda of dollars, and all the worldly enjoyments consequent upon such a position. And yet how immeasurably higher is the position of him who is the min ister of the kingdom of heaven to all the nation* of tbe earth 1 True, he has no com mission bnt the noiseless command of the Almighty, no outfit but the Bible, no salary but food and raiment, no enjoyment but such as arises from a consciencious dis charge of duty, and yet his reward in the end, is worth in one moment, more than all the wealth and honors of this world put to gether. For when “the end cometh,” when his work is done and bis “ course finished,” he feels that he has a certain and unfailing claim to that fadeless crown, which will be tbe nltimate reward of all those who “have fought the good fight, and have kept tbe faith.” Wherever Mr. Graham may go, he will carry With him tbe kind wishes of many who were never intimate with him, bat who, for tbe past two years have frequently been instructed if .not benefitted by bis preaching, and who have silently admired and approved his Christian walk and conversation. We are ho member of Mr. Graham’s church, and never expect to be, and what we here say of him, is only what we believe to be tbe -due of a pious and a good man. REPLY TO THE ADDRESS. On tbe first page of to-day’s paper will be found the reply of the Committee of the Di rectors of tbe Savannah and Gulf Railroad to the Address of the Tallokas meeting to Dr. J. P. Screven. As we have published the Address, it is but fair and just tbat we should lay before our readers the reply, that they may see both sides of the question. For ourselves, we feel no disposition to say one word more on the subject. With all Southern Georgia, we want to see this garden spot of the State and its Urge capacities developed— we want to see an outlet for the rich and abundant products of tbe country —and to this end wo want to see the road advancing to completion. Sometimes it is better to suf fer a temporary wrong, than to be always contending. Tbe revision of the surveys, which is promised by tbe Board, may bring all matters right. Fatience is a great virtue. After tbe reply above spoken of was put in type, we received a rejoinder by Hon. J. L. Seward. This follows the reply to day’s paper. We submit it as we do the oth er, to the candid perusal of our readers, and leave them to make up there own unbiased judgment. ( It may be proper, in this place, to remark that Mr. Herriott has resigned the office of Chief Engineer of tbe Road and Mr. Hol combe been appointed in his place. Mr. Holcombe is an old and practical engineer, of large capacity and experience, and we shall look forward with much interest to bis revision of the surveys heretofore made, and ids final determination of tho line. The following is tho preamble and resolu tions referred to in Dr. J. P. Scriven’s let tor. Whereas, an address has been received from the Hod. J. L. Seward, H. E. Rosser, J. J. Pike, James McDonald, N. Reddick, and W. Holloway, a committee appointed at a public meeting held at Tallokas on tbe 18th September to remonstrate against tho adop tion of the lower line to Thotnasville, and to ask a re-survey ; and whereas, it is the de sire of this Board to select the.most practica ble line ; and although they believe that they have adopted the line wbich is in this respect, in compliance with tbe charter; yet in view of tbo importance of selecting tbe best line, and to correct errorfe if any have occured in deciding the question of location, there fore Resolved, That tho surveys, profiles and entire work of the company’s engineers be submitted to another competent engineer for examination and revision. JUDGE DOUGLAS FOR HARMONY. The Washington correspondent of the New York Courier Sc Enquirer, writing on the 10th ult., says : “It is stated upon credible authority, that J tulge Douglas has written toono of his friends in this city, expressing his desire for the union of all democrats upon the basis of the Cincinnati Platform, the Compromise of 1850, and the Dred Scott decision. The letter was considered on Monday last in a select council, composed of personal friends of Mr. Douglas nud the special adherents of tho ad ministration. What docision, if any, was ar rived at, lias not been promulgated, but no doubt exists that the prestige of success and the ascendency of character which belongs to Mr. Douglas will effect the union which is anxiously sought by his friends.” The people, the sovereignty of the Demo cratic party—the outsiders from Washing ton—ought to take this matter iuto their own bauds, and make every man at the seat of the Gcueral Government—great or small— who attempts to interrupt or frustrate this harmony, wbothor if- has been directly pro posed by Judge Douglas or not. Gentle men should be taught that the people of this country, and their best interests, aro not mere play-things, to be tossed about by poli tical gamblers at their will, either to subserve their private and selfish purposes or to thwart some aspirant whom they may deem to be in their way. Such men should be made to retire, and taught that they are tho servants of the people and not their master*. Few persons understand these things. There is always at Washington a set of hangers on seeking for office, who make it their business to kecpjbc.political elements iu motion; in tbe hope that something may .torn up to throw the “ina” out and the “outs” in. These gentlemen are always at work—to benefit < themselves. The statesman and politician < who suffers himself to be guided and control- i led by them, is little better than they are, 1 and should bo stripped of public confidence , Tbo great interests of the country have cost too much blood and treasure to be laid at tbo j feet of any man, and he who attempts to make them thus subservient, should be made to feci the public indignation wbich should follow such presumption. SOUTHERN RIGHTS. The Daily Federal Union of the 24th ult. says—“ Mr. Tucker’s bill, to authorize the issuing of garnishments in this State in favor of persons who have slave property in a free State, which refuses to deliver them up, 6c c. is one of tbe most important- bills before tbe Senate. It is intended to protect tbe rights and property of Southern men, and com mends itself to the approval of the people.”— This has been our doctrine for years. We have ngain and again recommended reprisals upon tbe North. When the Bostonians made tbeir notorious demonstration in favor of To ney Burns, the people of the South should have made a counter demonstration that would have lasted them one generation at least. It will be recollected by many what a tremendous dust was raised on that occa sion—that the General Government bad to call out the U. S. troops and escort Toney to the steamer, nnd thus carry out an undispu ted constitutional law, amidst the groans and hisses, insult and degradation of a vagabond city mob, at an expense to the General Go vernment of more than a million of dollars; and which is now footed np by tho Republi cans and Americans and paraded forth iu their newspapers as the extravagance of a Democratic administration. We then strong ly counselled tbat a law should be passed by each of tbe Southern States, tbat Dot a Southern debt should be paid to a citizen of ’ tbe state of Massachusetts, Or to the State, until every dollar of that expenditure was not only assumed but paid by that Stato, and tbe payment avouched by the U. S. Treasu rer. Tbe suggestion never commanded the least attention; and yet, to this complexion we will have to come ! at last; and as soon as we do come to it, abolitionism will boas dead as a door nail.’ As long as such po liticians ns Seward, Banks, Haile, and others can make the negro at the South a hobby, with impunity to the Northern people, they will not fail to do it; but touch Jonathan's “ pocket nerve” and Le winces like an old stage horse touched on the ■* raw.” He would then, soon put an end to abolitionism. There will be no need for the Southern peo ple to interfere further. Tbe Northern pco • pie will do all tho work themselves. Mr. Tucker’s bill, therefore, has our hearty ap probation. Wo can assure tho timid, if any such there be, amongst tbe members of tbe Legislature, that there is no danger iu the experiment whatever. All they have to do is, to show the Northern people, by passing tbe bill, tbat they are in cool earnest. ACROSTIC. All that’s Rood, all that’s great, My thoughts on thee yet linger still; On you alone will depend iny fate, Subject to thy sovereign will-. Let tue wander where I may.” O’er tbe laud or o’er the sea ; ——— Vagrant thoughts now bid uie say, Emblem of my destinee. B. DEATH OF EX-GOVEBNOB . SCHLEY. ■ ( Tbo Augusta papers announce tbe-death of Ex-Governor Schley, who died at his re sidence in that city on Saturday the 20th ult. Full of years and full of honors he has pass ed away. Gov. Schley had been Judge of the Supe rior Court, Representative in Congress, Go vernor of the State, Grand Master of Grand Lodge of Georgia, and at the time of his death was President of the Medical Col lege of Georgia. On Monday the 22d ult. his death was an nounced in both houses of tho Legislature, and suitable resolutions passed commemora tive of his worth. In Senate, Hon. Peter Cone, from a select committee appointed for that purpose, made the following report: Mr. President, the committee submit the following preamble and resolutions: Wherea6 the GenerahAssembly have re ceived the painful intelligence of the death of Ex-Governor Win. Schley: Be it therefore resolved, That in the death of Ex-Gov. Wm. Schley the State of Geor- 4 gia has lost one of her most faithful, honest, efficient and distinguished sons; one who has served her honorably and, satisfactorily ns Governor, and also as a member of Congress of the United States; and one who, on his re tirement from public life, received from the entire body of his fellow citizens the plaudit, “ Well done thou good and faithful servant*” Resolved, That as a token of respect to bis memory, the General Assembly do adjourn until half past nine o’clock to-morrow morn ing. llesolved, That the Secretary of the Se nate is hereby instructed to transmit a copy of the above resolutions to the widow and fa mily of the deceased. (Sigued) Pktkr Cone, Chair’n. ) • L. H. Briscoe, C Com. J. A. Billups, ) The report of the committee was unani mously agreed to, and the Senate adjourned. The same resolutions wero taken up in the House, and also passod by a unanimous vote, aud the House then adjourned. An Augusta, Me., paper tells a story about a dance between a chap named SnelliDgs and a Rnckensnck gal called Big Sis. They dancod seventeen hours and fifty-seven min utes. when Big Sis caved in and took a seat in the chimney corner, fanning herself with the bread tray. THE ENTERPRISE BOLUS. Our neighbor of the Enterprise is a queer one. He will have n\ say on any thing and every thing, whether be knows aught about it or not; and be says so much of what he knows so little, that he is continually butting his head against tbe wall, There is no sub ject that he thinks himself incompetent to j handle; none so deep as to be above his com prehension, or so shallow as to be beneath his notice. He can furnish you a respect able sized document on any thing, relevant or irrelevant; and wo are looking with some interest when be 6hall finish Sterne’s/tele brated chapter on buttonholes, and complete Tristram Shandy. He can supply a column of twaddle on the virtues of oakum, and ano ther of philosophy to show tbe mysteries of a wheelbarrow. We Lave no doubt he could write equally well on goose yokes, as no thing comes amiss to his prolific brain. Facts aro of no consequence; when be has them not, he has but to insinuate them in bis fa mous catechetical style, by simply neking if such is not the fact, and tbat answers bis eve ry purpose—bo is able to build a column at any time upon one of bis simple or absurd queries. Iu bis lastnumbeT lie undertakes to casti gate the Grand Jury of Berrieu county for presuming CO recommend to the Sheriff of tbat county to have bis sales published in tbe Wire Grass Reporter, for tbe reason, as that body stated, that “ that paper has the largest circulation in tbe county.” Now the editor of tbe Enterprise knows that, as well as the Grand did. Yet, instead of frankly admitting it, he drags iu his everlasting que ry, and comes out as follows ; “ We should like to know if tbe Grand Jury of Berrien county sutisfied themselves of tbe truth of this assertion by investigating the matter 1 If they did not, they must have possessed great confidence ijpitheir speculative judg ment, to assert a fact without knowing it tfi be true or false. We eertainly give them no credit for tbe truth ofi their speculation,” &c. We do not suppose the Grand Jury of Ber rien county will get exceedingly ahfrmed at this grave insinuation, and trust they will not grieve too deeply over their naughtiness. We have not beard that any one of them has shot or hung himself for the act, and Lope they will not. Nor does it appear that the Sheriff has been seriously affected, for by re ferring to our advertising columns it will be seen that be has just been “ fool” enough, to use tho elegant language of the Enterprise, to do as tbe Grand Jury has requested him; and the insinuation of a want of truth on tbe part of the Grand Jury reverts back with double force upon tbe editor of tbe Enter prise. But tho editor of the Enterprise does not stop there. By the time be had written thus far, “ nursing bis wrath to keep it warm,” he seems to have gotten np to fever beat, and intimates that Grand Juries are quite presumptuous to makoany. such request, and the Sheriff tbat gives them any attention, “Jpill prove himself what ho deserves to bo called—-a fool.” This, and a large portion more of arrogant assertion, the editor does not hesitate to make, but tbe Grand Jury, in his sage opinion, must keep mum. They must not tread on his toes. PARENTS AND CHILDREN. to church last Sabbath morning and there heard, amongst other remarks from the pulpit, that the last age of the world had always been complaining of the precc , ding one, from the days of Moses down to the present time. The preacher intimated that this was all the mere croakingsof discontent ed old age, that the world was improving and not retrograding. Well, the minister is not . to be gainsaid, of course. A few days later in the week we took up the Daily Federal , Union, and there we found an animated dc f bate, in Senate, on the bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to minors, under a penalty of a fine of three hundred dollars, or sixty days imprisonment in jail. We did , not pretend to say, when we read it, that the minister was wrong, but we could not help thinking that such a law would have been considered a most singular one in our boy , hood, and not only singular but wholly and entirely un'c ailed for. Then a parent would , simply tell his son not to go about, the liquor, and if he disobeyed he received a reprimand from papa, usually in the way of corporal punishment, to keep him in remembrance of the injunction. The old Governor was boss those times, and the boys knew he would be, and very seldom dared to disobey him.— But how is it now! Most children of the present day are petted, and indulged, and humored, until they are completely spoiled, before they escape from the arms of the nurse. When this discovery is made by the simple parent, tho first stop is to send the child to school, in the hope that the teacher can eradi cate in a few months what they have been years in inculcating, to wit: a disobedience to all moral injunction. Finding that that cannot be, they aro now taking up the, time of the Legislature and spending the people’s money in the hope that Legislative action will be able to do that wherein they and the school master have failed. The one is just about as hopeless as the other. If parents want good children, they must be good parents, and the very first lesson a parent has to learn ! his child as the foundation of all goodness, is obedience; and until this is taught them,! backed by Moral precept and example, the ; ptfrent need not expdet to have moral chil- 1 dren, unless by accident, and all legislation on the subject is nonsense. Tho debate!’ above referred to occupied the Senate a large! 1 portion of the day. Tho bill was finally lost 1 by a vote of 47 to 52. , of % legislature. In our two preceding papers we gate pret. ty copious reports of matter introduced by the members of the Legislature. We omitted nothing of a general character. All tbe mat ter has now been presented, and it only re mains for us briefly to record tho fate of the numerous bills presented, as they are called up tor a third reading. IN SENATE. To make uniform the rules of criming practice jtjthis State. Passed. To regulate the order in which criminal cases shall be brought np. Passed. ‘ To prescribe the mode of perfecting servic* on non-residents in scire facias. Public no tice in a public gazette for thirty davs Passed. To amend the divorce laws in this State allowing parties against whom any verdict a vinculo matrimonii may have been obtained to marry again. Passed. To regulate the law in tegard to writs of certiorari in justice’s court, limiting the time of application to three instead of six months. Passed. To alter the law in regard to taking cases up to tbe Supreme Court. Passed. To alter tbe law in regard to damages on a breach of warranty in the sale of slaves.— Lost. To make all contracts of minora, except for necessaries, void. Passed. To require the clerks of the Superior and Inferior courts to Settle with said courts.— Passed. Mr. Paine, of Telfair, moved to suspend the rules, so as to take up a bill to allow the sale of certain scattered lands at private sale. He offered a substituteifor the original, which was accepted, and tbe bill passed. The special order in Senate, on the 22d ult. was a bill to strike out the eleventh sec tion of the fonrth article of tbe constitution— as follows: No slaves shall be, after October next, imported into this state. The whole of was consumed in debate. Tbe bill was lost—yeas 46 nays 48. A motion for reconsideration, on tba next day, was also lost by a larger vote. A bill to appoint persons to take a census of tbe state was passed in Senate. IN THE HOUSE. To refer the question of abolishing the Penitentiary to the legal voters of the state. Lost. To empower the grand jurors of Appling county to decide what children in said coun ty are entii.ed ’to the beuefit of tbe poor school fund. Passed. To amend the act to carry into effect the ninth section of the third article of the con stitution, relative to dividing property be tween the parties when divorces are obtained. Lost yeas 18 nays 101. To repeal all acts relative to tho Supreme Court. This bill contemplates the entire abolition of the Supreme Court. Postponed indefinitely, by an overwhelming majority. Yeas 72 nays 12. To appropriate money to the “ Metrical College of Georgia,” at Augusta. Lost, ycaa 54 nays 65. Next day this bill was reconsidered. On Monday the 22t1, Mr. McDonald, of Berrien, introduced a bill to remove tbe seat of government from its present location to some more convenient anil accessible place. Harrison, of Chatham: To impose a tax of § 1,000 upon each drawing of a scheme in any lottery in this state. Lazenby, of Columbia: To authorize tbs state to’ pay all owners of slaves tbe full val ue of the came, when 6uch slaves arc execu ted by tbe laws of this state. Mr. Fulmore, of Cass: To repeal so much of the tax laws as exempts from taxation two hundred dollars worth of property, so far as relates to non residents. Graham, of Appling: >To change tbe line between Appling and Coffee counties. Milledge. of Richmond: To authorize the Governor to pay tbe delegates to the Nash ville Convention. The bill forYhe abolition of the Georgia Penitentiary was taken up And lost. To vest life estates. Lost. To nlter-and amend an act for the perfec tion of titles in case of the death of tbe par ties. Passed. To compensate the Senate’s committee for examining into the affairs of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Amended, and by adding the name of Mr. Terkuno and the word mile age, was passed. To punish persons for violating tho Sab bath. Passed. The bill to authorize the Governor to ap point a committee to examine into tbe pro priety of establishing a University for tbit State was lost, after .a long debate. , Tlie bill to lay out anew county from the counties of Scriven, Burk, Emanuel and Bul loch was taken up, aud after discussion the bill was lost. , T. he k'M idin the construction of the Ellijay Railroad was lost—so to 77. A. WORTHY COMPLIMENT FROM A WORTHY KAN. Gov. Brown hns had the good fortune to receive many high compliments for his ad ministration of the affairs of tho State ; but none, perhaps, has surpassed iu earnestnesa of expression, and in high terms of praise, that paid him by Judge Jos. 11. Lumpkin during the recent session of the Scnatus Academicus. Refering to the Governor’s Message he said: -‘Sir you have had the moral nerve to bring forward in your Mes sage a plan calculated to afford the advanta ges of education to all tho children of Geor gia. You have done a noble work for your State; and if this generation does not do you justice tho next generation will!” Again in discussing the question of the practicability of raising the funds necessary to support the system, looking at Governor Brown with that earnestness of manner which is so characteristic of the Judge, ho said : “Sir if you remain Governor we shall have the money. You will make it for us out of the State Road. With your able manage ment of it all parties are satisfied. And I predict that he who follows after you, and fails to make it pay, will be a one term man.— Federal Union, 7th inti. STATS HOAD AFFAIRS. We stated somo days ago that the inquiry proposed in the House had been rejected by that body. On Tuesday the vote was recon sidered, and the resolution was adopted, call ing on the Governor for a statement of the gross income of the State road, the sum* paid Attorneys, and the amount paid into the Treasury during certain years, to include Gov, Johnson’s administration. — Jiccordcr.