The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1854-02-15
Correspondence Of the Ohio Unios.l
FROM
fCotuMBus, Feb. IL, 1854.

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fore the readers of your excellen, paper
During the present week, Mr.. LAwKRScl
introduced a bill TO authorize Free Bank
ipg IN the siaiepf Ohio. The bills sim
liar in its provisions to Bills heretofore IN
lroduced on that subject, and defeated
Ii viii NEE, with lislle favor with lh'
democratic members of both branches o
The Legislature. It was probably intro
pueed for buneomb by It's author, in otdel
10 enable him to make a few fine speeches
to illustrate the good tendencies Of al
banking institutions think The bill will
be nippad in The bud. I'VE undoubtedly
have more worthless trash afloat now, ia
Ohio, Than the public interests demand
without giving birth to a new progeny o.
a more hateful family, that will be able IL
transmit more ruin and degradation to fu'
ture generations.
Mr.. JEwETT. from The Judiciary Com
millee, introduced a bill proposing the ap
poinlment Of Commissioners 10. revise the
Criminal Code, and Laws relating 10
criminal matters in this State. The object
for which The bill was framed is a good
one. Uniformity in criminal proceedings
is certainly very desirable, in order thai
Justice may be done 10 all. The crimi.
nal laws Of Ohio, are by no means uni.
form in their operation, many Of them be-
ing local, and the whole scattered through
many Statutes thereby rendering il exceed.
ingly difficult 10 determine what laws are
in force and what repealed. This bill
proposes 10 appoint three Commissioners
Of the first legal talent 10 the Stale, whose
daily shall be 10 collect, coIlaie and revise
al the laws touching criminal matters; and
also 10 revise, arrange and set in order Grim.
inal pleadings, so that, hereafter there will
be no difficulty in constituting the laws in
relation TO that subject. II also provides
that said Commissioners shall report dur.
ing The presen, session Of The Legislature.
Q lite an interesting discussion sprang
up between Messrs. UpsoN, JgwErT,
LAWRENCE and SMlrn, Of Madison, on
calling up Mr.. UPsoN's Nebraska Resolu-
lions on Tuesday /; when their further
discussion was postponed a few days.
They will probably ONT up again o. the
FIRST Of tie week. These resolutions con-
template requesting our Senators, and in
slrucling our Representatives in Congress,
10 oppose the passage of the Nebraska
bill, as introduced by Senator DOUGLASS.
The DOUGLASS bill will doubtless furnish
new food for fanatics, or that species Of
kRoElieisps who always live and thrive
under The excitement Of agitation. Cut
Of these opportunities, and they will quick
ly expire for want Of their peculiar food.
The select Committee, to whom was
referred the charges relating to G.. D FLooD,
tie lormer and present Chiel Clerk Of The
Senate, after a full and fair investigation Of
The whole subject. have reported upon the
same, exoneraling FLOOD from all charges
Of delaIcllion or transportation Of the
Public funds, or any intentional fraud
whatever in regard 10 his duties as Clerk /;
50 much SO, that in said investigation they
found tina, The STATE vel ones him some
S30r for services as Chief Clerk! Ills to
be hoped (since a Committee, composed Of
one Democrat, one Free Soiler and one
Wing, have exoneraied him from blame,)
that this will forever put at rest those vile
SANDERS agains, the private character Of G..
d, FLOOD. Will the Staiesman hold up
We had on Tuesday evening, a lecture
from Horace GREELEr, 10 the Uni,ersalisl
Church, on the is,ns and progress Of the
day. He is queer Notwithstanding OF a,
a tangent on all progressive topics, espe,
cially Woman's Fights, Socialism, lem,
perance and Emancipation. He Is an
unpleasant speaker, with manners and ap.
p%earahce quite as uncaptiVatiDg, but al.
ways Astounding 10 language almos, classic,
aud composition of the finest class, per
haps not excelled by any other writer OF
editor in the Union. His dress was I'm.
tidy, his manners eccentric and his whole
appearance far different from what was
expected by all. b lisy :. auo
SAKE the New England Bard, also lee.
lured at The Athenium ibis week, and had
a large audience 10 hear him. He is a
ine speaker-abOundins in poetic a~llusion,
and finished prose illustrations. His
subject was Poets and POe'ry.' lie
Ned the subject elegantly stating ia
puiset that next TO prose. poetry was
most important branch Of literature,
The Distinction, 10 me, was an odd one
one that hardly would have been thought
Of by any other person save lis author
10 speaking I've deals largely in comic
poetry, aud hence there is a world Of mirtl
TO be found in his lectures. Heleayes The