The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1852-04-08
Highly Interesting

Legislature may be put in nut. she'll
without the slightest damage TO the ker.
neil "WOrds. words, wOrdsl' One Of
The most difficult problems in political
ecuhomy, If it can be called economy,
when connected with the Legislature. 10
10 determine whether the present Gen.
eral Assembly is democratic or nothing.
The noIhings appear to have it By tie
sound" From the discussions you
would not suppose that any definite line
OF action was settled The bodies ap.
pear to be in favor Of nothing. 1t is all
u mia. No matter what question comes
up. it is the unucky fate of the present
Legislature toendeavor to surround it,"
without resolving to take any side. I,
is truly "all talk and no cider" "Chaos
is come again" 1t is no use TO disguise
the fact that the whole affair is an un.
miligated bore, with the point broken of
from the auger. This is very nearly
the universal opinion among friends,
foes, and that larger class, those who are
entirely Indifferent as TO what the assem-.
bly, may say or do Here is synopsis
of the proceedings of both Houses for
the last month, and advise you to set
the type composing it "n cool place"
so that you may use it at the end of the
session, II so desirable a thing should
happen in the teeth of four dollars per
day:
"What are we about2 Shall we pr;nt2
Shan't we printl Curse Sam Medary!
Where are we going tnl What are we
doing? Who'll be Pfesdentl Where's
the lax bill? Hear me speak! Mr.. Chair
man! Hang the banks! How's the City
Bank? What'lI we do with the peniten.
tiaryl We must have four dollars! Give
me my postage! High salaries! Dignity
of the people! My constituents! Cheat
the printers Go To the devil! Let's take
drink"
There you have it, and tyou can inn
agine this, "legislation." you will be a
remarkable vivid gentleman on dreams.
Such however is life. And the speaking
as general thing could be matched by
Baalarn's war horse. IL only spake once.
If this Legislature with the ears of that
animal only had his nodesty and moder-
alton sit might be happy yet" 81 SIC
Omnia! Here is a speech however, and
from the chip Judge ofthe block.
"Mr. Cheerman aint going for to
60 for this here bill. And warn the
gentleman who goes for it that they'll
catch it at the polls next lection. Why.
sir, Mr. Cheerman. the people aint to be
catched with no such humbug pol
iroonery asths here bill satisfactorial de.
mOnsfrates. No sir, Mr.. Cheerman! We
was sent here to see that no cupiditous
remorce kin catch The taint of Nessus'
shirt on the interests of the peoples wei
fare, and my conslilchuents don't go fr
to expect me to sit here and lay idle,
when such mountainous wrongs is being
to be heaped on the shoulders of honest
tax payers backs! M sir. Mr.. Cheer
mani"
have said that was chip. So it is.
though as a general thing, they are in
definitely longer, so much so indeed.
tha, you might easily carry out the whole
Legislature on a couple of them.
A sight of the House is comfortable.
Looking over the shoulders Of a shoal Of
Sergeants- arms, you see before you All
undistinguishabe mob. cutting up sand
boxes. tearing paper, throwing 'odds,
chewing ,obaccn, and shaking fists, legs
aud arms at the chairman. vino is sup
posed, from his equnaimity, to have his
ears stuffed with cotton. The room is
lolsrably well filed with members, the
uterslces being chucked with messenger
boys, aud the whole fringed with Ser.
geants at arms. AS for the Senare-but
we will go into that another day.
| am aware that should talk more Sc
riously ou so melancholy a subject as the
present General Assembly. Peter wept
because he denied his master, but we
have more abundant cause for tears, if
we must acknowledge our servants.--
Gnd bless the new Constitution. but
there is an awful set of boys hanging on
it. aud we must get the driver to cut be.
hinl.' THE wild goose has laid tame
egg"
But we will 60 into this subject moro
at length in future communications
Talking mildly will not do. and. unless
we a mean to go to the bottom togeth.
er, it is nearly time that there be little
insight for the people. They must see
that nothing is done, and all they want
to know is how the Legislature manage
to do ESQ much of it,"
The Canal Injunction case was argued
by counsel o. motions to dissolve injunc.
tion, at Mt. Vernon. on Thursday and
Friday last. 1t was the first battlefield
for the Board of Public Works, in their
warfare with the railroad companies Of
the State. The cause will not be decid.
ed until next week. am inclined to
think that the decision of the Court will
be kind of compromise between two
conlending claims.
The tax bill has passed the Senate, to
be nf course chewed over by the House,
and flung up in one of its usual dispeptic
fits. SIRIUS.
Coal IN NoRTm CARoLINA.-Prof. EN-
mons, State Geolugisi of North Carolina.
in letter to the Governor. expresses
the fullest confidence IT, at there is an al
most nexhaustble supply ofcoal IN that
State Preliminary examinations at sew
eral points establish the fact that the stra'
tum is seven feet thick, and the quantity