The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-02-10
TCOrrospOndence Of the Lancaster Gazette.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 7, 1868.


Mr.. EpIroR;-.Ofcourse the expectation the
enjoyment and the effects OF the 'bender" on
which the Legislators went TO GAINESVILLE,
has had no very pcrceptible influence in
Fastening the progress Of business now pres
sing upon their attention. The bill for the
reorganization Of State Treasury has occu-
pied the deliberations of the Senate since
Thursday morning, and the question now
pending is the question that was pending
when the bill was laid upon the table W
" eeks ago. This BILLS the scheme got up
by Morgan, Trevett and Pugh, to head Mr..
Breslin, and the lines are drawn between the
several friendsof there respective gentlemen.
Mr.. Atkinson, a conceited, empty, silly and
b~rainless coxcomb from Carroll county, Is
made the catspaw by which the Fund Com
m~issioners operate in their schemes to get
possession OF the State Treasury, and the
bill is unanimously opposed by all the MEM
bers of the Finance Committee except him
self. The bill having been referred to them,
they struck the whole thing out and report
ed a new bill as an amendment, and the ques-
ton is, and for sometime has been, on a.
greeting to that report. Thursday was con-
sumed in discussing it and in settling the
merits Of the controversy between the State
officers last summer-a graceless task and
one rather difficult Of execution. On Friday
the whole body went on a"train" to Zanes-
vile and RECALLED themselves on oysters and
champaign at the public expense, and bar
ring a few who stopped to have a good time
at Newark, they again met and renewed the
fight on Saturday. The question elected u
good deal Of warmth and the purity of the
democracy" of several Senators was ORA WI
in question. elimination and recrimination
passed glibly on all sides, FURNISHED still more
proof, If more were desirable, that what calls
itself democracy at the present day is a most
gross and transparent sham. 1t would have
been a good thing for those who were de-
luded and duped by the cry of democracy"
if they could have heard the debate in the
Senate on Saturday. Such urrant knaves
and shallow demagogues, as have imposed
themselves on the people for democrats"
are a disgraceful and burning shame to the
State, and as utterly unfit for their daties
here as a hog is for a schoolmaster.
The House has done nothing for three OF
tour DAYS but read the Code, and the c'crE
did that 10 empty benches. There is scarce.
ly u quorum Ia the city and no sooner does
one delinquent return than another is off on
some private business or on no business al
all. The best members are becoming dis.
gusted with the course of things and many o.
them have already left for good. SO intol.
erably silly and ignorant do they exhibit
themselves on all occasions, that everything
t they touch is made ridiculous. The bitter
est enemy of popular institutions would glory
In such evidence of the weakness fan cleo
tive government as this unaccountable and
unprecedented collection of noodles presents
When will there be a time when the people
will de:est the villainies Of such stupid mer
cenaries! God grant that it may come be
fore we are ruined by lazy l%oufers AM
drunken imbeciles. ENcoTBNEs.