Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-01-16

with the ample endowment placed """ihHS
=, ch. immediate atnniiun should he given
"a the establishment of Seminary OF learn
iny upon a large and liberal scale.
have also frequently pressed the import
ance @; the various schemes OF in'erna' I'M
provcmen,, and the pr"prIcty OF Their SPECIFY
eo,nplc.,on. particularly the lsiil loads
NV IN proures.: as tending moro dircctiv
- aid our commercial transactions and 10
establish the internal policy, TO when pun
r.. sentiment now seems 10 be 50 tally hi-
rec,ed. deem it unnecessary here 10 EN-
Iarse upon these subjects; and therefore
beg le,ve Ia refer yOi to these co''h.''''"
tons, and to be understood as renewing ''o
Recommendations.
Ia conformity with a resolution "' inc &c
ois!aturc ,,thorizng the Executive % "P,
! point three Commissioners TO ascertain anu
run, the divitlin, line between the o'ies o'
Mississippi and Tennessee, commissioner
| ID. A. Ludlow, ID. w. C,nely, and w. fe'f'e'
who proceeded under the auth 'ri,y S'sei'
in conjunction with the commissioners APP
poin.e ed or the p ,rt of Tennessee, operiorm
the duties required. The report OF the
commissioners, with other ;c'iincnts fur-
nished by them, will accompany this Cum
mlnicalion. :.
hive. also, received a letter from his
cxcellencv Governor Cannon, enclosing II
copy of the act passed by the legislature OF
that State, establishing the line lately run
by the Commissioners as the boundary "i
The two States, and requesting TO be furnish
ed with the evidence of the ratification oil
said line, by this State, as early as may be
convenient, which is also Submitted.
To remedy the evil and Inconvenience
experienced to the dcrincnt OF the public
service, bv the great delay in receiving the
returns of elections, as wei! military as civil,
again advert to the sublec', and suggest a
revision of the law regulating elections
Experience proves that fifteen days, the
time prescribed in which returns shall be
made to the Office of the Secretary OF State
is too short, unless the m vile of conveyance
be changeJ-that not half the returns are
received W thin that period. and that the
| highest candidate on the list would often be
defeated (taking into the estimate the VIII dc
vOtc) it commissions were to issue agreca-
BILE TO the returns received within the time
prescribed.
The 18th section Of the act provides that
in each senatorial district which shall be
composed of more than one county. and IN
the district for the election of the Judges OF
the High Court of Errors and Appeals, the
sheriff Of the country first named in the dis
lrct shall be returning officer in all cleo
tons for said Judges and senators, and tine
sherifs or returning officers of the latter
mentioned counties shall, within five days
after an election for said judges and senators
shall have been held. make a return to the
sheriff or returning officer of the first nam
ed county, the number of votes given to each
candidate in his county; and the returning
e:licer of the district shall compare the polls
respectively taken in the several counties
aud the ss..ssd.a.As h~S;sa.x tho L;1host .....,
Der Of votes in the district, shall he entitled
10 certificate that he was duly elected, from
the returning officer of said district" The
direction here given, that the returns sh Ill
be made in five days cannot be complied with
and the law defeats ITSELF 1t was evidently
intended that all the returns should be re-
ceivcd by the returning officer of the dis
trict, and upon which his certificate should
be predicated. Ii the letter of the law is
strictly To be adhered to, then all the re-
turns not re ceived within the five days are
to be precluded, and the votes of one or two
counties would in all probability determine
the election.
}. The constitution saws, "rcturns of all cleo
tons by the people shall be made to the Sc
cretary of State, in such manner IA may be
prescribed 10y laws The sixteeth section
Of the act providing tor the election of the
judges prescribes no mode by which the re-
F turns are to he made to the secretary of
state; this omission. however, is supplied
by the returning officers of the RESPECTIVE e
counties. Under the impression that IN e
intention of the constitution is complied
with, whenever the returns are received by
the secretary of State, the practice Of the
department has been TO commission the
highest candidate on the list, as ascertaincd
by such returns. believing that they affor-
ded the highest evidence as to the general
or aggregate result of the bills.
: These suggestions, with the previous re-
Communications referred tn, are the result,
OF much reflection, bestowed with deem
and anxious solcitu!e for the interest and
well being of the community and are Civ
en- with canaor, and without reserve. under
the hope that they may be useful as hints
to Call INTO action the greater wisdom OF
your body in adopting measures to advance
that whichis nearest the heart Of every nat.
riot, the welfare and progress of our State,
CHARLES LYNCH.
a correspondent. of the Globe, praises the
oub-treasury scheme under the very proper
J title of Iadcren1eot Yr,, D.i, az,