The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-11-11

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.-On the 4th, the
two Houses assembled in Convention for
the purpose of making certain elections set
for the day. On motion the election of Judge
of the Sd Circuit was taken up, and Mr.. JSo.
c. GAUT was put in nomination. There be-
ing no other candidate, Mr.. Gaut was elected,
receiving 81 votes. Messrs. Travis, Cavitt,
Buford, Wynncs, and Wood of Cannon,
were excused from voting.
Mr. Reid then nominated Hon. N. BAXTER
for Judge of the 9th Circuit, and he was
elected without opposition, receiving 81 votes.
Mr. Hubbard then nominated the Hon. r.
H. HINDs for Judge of the 18th Circuit, and
he was elected without opposition, receiving
81 votes.
Mr.. Hebb then nominated Hon. A. ].
MARcHBANEs for Judge of the 18th Circuit
and he was elected without opposition, re-
ceivirg SO votes.
Mr.. Hyder then nominated Mr.. James T.
Carter for Attorney General of the lst Cir
cult, and he was elected without opposition,
receiving 81 votes. The Convention then
adjourned.
On the ID, A. DTBRELL was reelected
Treasurer, on the 29th ballot The vote
stood, Dibrell IS, Smiley IA, Moss 5, Tip
ton -, Scattering 2.
The bill to amend the general internal i'm
provement law of last session, as to give the
guaranteed aid of the State to railroads on
the completion of every section of ten miles
after the first thirty, has passed third read
ing in the Senate.
In the House on the 18th, the bill intro
duced by Mr. Brown Of Monroe, to incorpo-
rate the Tennessee, Western and Charleston
railroad company, passed first reading.
In the Senate, the bill authorizing Tax
Collectors to make deeds for land sold for
taxes heretofore or hereafter, passed third
reading.
In the House, the bills to amend the char
ter Of the turnpike from Tazewel to Knox
WIG, W lllO tNt lIlC NItu-
Gerry Court of Polk county; to amend the
18th and I'd sections of the act of 1929, CHI.
100; and the bill to repeal the last sentence
of the 9TH section of the act of 1852, Feb.
81, ch. l40, authorizing administrators to re-
sign, &c, severally passed third reading
The MARYLAND ELECTIoY.-A dispatch
from Baltimore states that Thomas Lyon,
the Democratic candidate, is elected Governor
of Maryland. His majority in the entire State
is about 1000, in Baltimore it was about 5000
"A year ago in that city the Democratic ma.
jority was 4447. The State is entitled to six
Representatives in Congress, of which the
Wings have elected two and the Democrats
four, viz: Alexander r. Sellers, 9th district,
and John X. Franklin, lst district, Wings;
Jacob Shower, I'd district, Joshua Vansant,
Sd district, Henry May, 4th district, and Will
liam T. Hamilton, 9th distrct--Democrat
In three of the districts the Wings presente,
no candidates. The Wings have a majority
VI OLA III tllC SSldbC 'llu III lilC llNuSC,
which will enable them to elect United
States Senator and State Treasurer.a.I th6.
present contest for the Legislature they W
gained four Senators and teh'members
House of Delegates. They Nominated
Legislative ticket in the city of BaltifAore. bl<
supported the ticket presented by the advo-
Gates Of the Maine Law, containing the names
of an equal number of Wings and Democrats
This ticket prevailed over the regular Demo-
cratic nominations by eight hundred majority.
New YORK POLITICIANS AND PARTIES
The Herald gives the following graphic de-
scrption of the condition of parties in New
York NJ this time:
"There is not, in the whole of this State, a
single one of the old parties that can boast
of vigorous corporate existence or sub
stantial organization. All are tottering, and
hOpelessly rotten. Their leaders are known
and admitted 10 be men of small minds and
narrow views; we can hardly mention one
on whom the people could rely, in an hour
of emergency, for enlarged statesmanke
opinions, and noble national course Of con-
duet. Bargaining and trading for offices,
compromising principle for a share of spoiIs,
and accustoming oneself to trade ones own
prejudircs against those of rival whose al
lance it is necessary to secure, have ere this
reduced Marcy and the rest of his cOnfrereS
to the condition of mere political pcdlars,
under whose direction, were it to last, the
destiny of this country would be obvious
ruin.
~ The Washington correspondent Of
the N. Y. Courier estimates that receipts from
customs for the fiscal year of 1853, will be
S73,s50,OCO, and the receipts from public
lands and other sources $6,200,000, thus
making the total revenue equal to $SO,05O,-
900. This is an enormous aggregate, and
will afford the government ample funds to-
wards reducing its debt. The amount Of
debt received and cancelled this week at the
treasury, it is said, will amount to over
million OF dollars.
THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN
The National lntcligencer of the 9Th inst,
in an able article, very properly rebukes the
tone of certain recent editorials, in the
Washington Union, relative to Great Britain
and her alleged Interference in Cuban affairs
There is, as yet, no evidence on the subject,
to warrant such language and imputaton, in
paper, generally recognised as the organ of