The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-12-02
Correspondents Of the Lancaster Ganett..,

Columns, o., Nov, %, 1852.
EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE: The machine
ry Of legislation is once more fairly in mo-
ton. The adjourned session of the fiftieth
General Assembly, and the first under our
present most progressive democratic and bi-
ennial constitution, convened on the 18th
instant. The House OF Representatives oc-
cupy the Odeon Hall, and the Senate is die
putting with the bats, spiders and mice for
the possession Of the old brick edifce where
in, Of yore, the United States Court was
wont 70 inhabit.
AS yet, but little has been accomplished.
The Senate, during the past week, exhibited
commendable degree Of activity, and if
their knowledgehad been equal TO their zeal,
their labors might, by possibility, have been
worth what they have cost. We wish we
could say as much for their capacity & ability
as we can for their attention and assiduity.
Unfortunately for the State, their ability is
such as to render their industry hardly vir-
tue. Very little can be said in respect to
that kind Of industry that is assiduous with
ont being intelligent, that does wrong by in
stinct, and does right by accident, and that
manifests distempered vigor in the work.
ing of the public ruin quite as often as it is
exhibited in the promotion of the public well
fare. But the Senate has thus far been in
dustrous. The old matter pending at the
dissolution last spring, and laid upon the ta-
BILE by the adjournment, has nearly all been
taken up and referred to the appropriate COM
mittees, who are now digesting and arrang-
ing it for the final action Of the Senate.
A bill has been introduced, and is now in
the hands of the committee on Finance, pro-
viding for the establishment of sinking
fund to pay off the public debt of the State.
A bill to fix the rate Of interest and to pre-
vent usury, has been introduced by Gen.
Wilson, and was read the second time yes
terday. The fate Of either of these, it is
! impossible now to conjecture. The far
famed Militia bill passed yesterday by vote
of "a, to g. 1t met with much opposition
and ridicule last winter, and was SO radically
amended, in committee Of the whole, that,
on its final passage, it barely secured the
support of its original friends, and its char
acter, at present, is understood by nobody.
You will Know what its provisions are after
you have read it. The Senate spent yester-
day in committee of the whole, in the bill
to provide for the reorganization, supervis-
ion and maintenance Of common schools.
but at length adjourned without coming to
any conclusion. We certainly hope that
| the Senate will hold out faithful to the end
that it will continue as it has brgun-und
that it will do something to retrieve the
character Of Legislature that has been
voted imbecle by the universal public sen
timent of the State.
The House " is q horse of another color
They consumed the last week in ooing posi-
lively nothing, They have scarcely held O
session that lasted an hour. The Wings
] there are pOwcress, and the Lacofucos ndo'
Z lent, Nothing has redeemed their unrejiev-
| ed stupidity but the excitement Of a sava. g
! fight that has ragged with all the tirr?cnesS
of Loo ofoco virulence and rancor. Ofcourse
! it was over the distribution Of the spoils.
The caucus attempted to settle the difficulty
/ by prescribing the law Of Inheritance, bnt
the hungry refused to be cumIorted hy the
! dicta,ioR Of mcagre maj aud il was
currently rumorrd tn 1t MEpARY and RoRlx-
SON would both be compelled to vacate but
the bunker sPrvit0rs were ut length disposed
Of without a resort TO that extremity, and
Young America triumphant, is left in the
Tranquil enjoyment Of the field. The spruce
and sprightly young Locofucos, who, in the
p0OC tluc tnaL was, LWlfleu tnelr canes Will
such domestic grace, and smoked their cigars
with such democratic nonckaLlnce, in the
commodious parlors Of Seventh street, and
in the spacious saloons Of the American, land
who, some ten days since, came up to Co
lumbus rampant and rubicund, to the pros
pective enjoyment of four dollars per diem
aud who, up to the developments of the
18th inst. mountaineering fidelity to the Lo'
cofoco instinct and the Locofoco appetite
all these gentlemen, with feas in their ears
have, with many regrets,retraced their steps
and their places have been supplied by,
horde Of hungry successors, whose eyes ar,
\ yet dilating at the tempting array of public
plumber and political bottle tcats. But dc
not think that the State has been benefited
by the change. I" Far otherwise" 1t only
affords living exemplifcation Of that ole
fable of Esop, wherein the fox preferred the
full swarm to the swarm that wasn't full
with this difference, that Esop's flies howev
er voracious they might have been, do. no
appear to have had stomachs susceptible o
an indefinite extension whereas, the di
gestive organs Of a Locofoco placeman are
amply competent to the Qualification of
whole State Treasury, buildings, bricks an
all. .,..,. Yours truly, ....t
| ENCoTUEFS