Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-17
MASSACHUSETTS LEGIsLATuRE.

<AuJOurneu Ilik MONDAY.
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
SATURDAY, March 10.
SENATE. : Report Of Committee : Public
Charitable Institutions--By Mr. Sutton of Es-
sex-A new draft of bill relative to the care
of Idiots and Insane persons Laid on the
table for printing.
Surrey Of Boston HGr6or-Ihe resolves rel
alive to a scientific survey Of Boston harbor
were passed to be engrossed.
MaUerick BaRk--The House bill in addition
to an act to incorporate the President, Direc-
tors, and Company of the Maverick Bank in
East Boston, was debated, and rejected, II
to 6.
House, ORDERLY Mr.. Taft of Worcester,
as to the expediency of amending the law OF
1854 chap. l67, relating 70 the lists of jurors.
Pl,pdertRg the State Tre0Syy.-The orc er
offered by Mr.. Weeks of Lowell, yesterday,
providing that the members may have copies
of the Old Colony Records, and the five vol
umes of journals of the House. at the expense
of the State, was taken up, and was defended
by Messrs Weeks of Lowell, and Titcomb of
Lynnheld, and opposed by Messrs Robinson
of Lexington, Goldman, Williams, Austin,
and 9. Hale of Boston, Fessenden of West
Cambridge, and others. Considerable con-
troversy ensued as to the probable cost of the
books.
Mir. Burbank prorosed to amend the amend
ment, by providing that no member who had
received the books, should be entitled to re-
ceive them under this order. Mr.. Devereux
moved the previous question, which was car.
RED So the order stood as originally pre-
sented, and was agreed to, 106 to 81. So the
grab was consummated Mr.. johnson Of Low
ell, moved a reconsideration.
Passed to be EngroSSed-In addition to an
act to establish State ReformSchool for Girls;
ESSSnS66 fR 6r Girls in addition to an act to IN
corporate the Rural Cemetery in Worcester.
The resolves for amendment of the Consti-
ton, relating to eligibility to office, were as
signed for Thursday next Mt II o'clock.
The following ingenious article originally
appeared in the Boston Transcript, and was
proposed, we understand, by g. @. Cotton,
the associate of DR.. Boynlon, the lecturer
We may be allowed to doubt that the names
and illustrations were drawn indiscrimi-
nately =
Literary aud Political Lottery.
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 81. !
Mr.. Editor Il attended, few evenings
since, literary party, at which the poets be-
remark, that in the delineation of human
character and conduct, the world had never
produced rival to Shakespeare. There were
those present who differed from me, and as
hrmly maintained that Shakespeare had sue.
cesstul rivals. As one means of deciding the
question, we agreed upon the following ex-
periment My opponents were to write the
names of party noted individuals on separate
slips of paper, while 1 wrote on the other slips
the same number Of illustrations from Shakes
peare. The names were deposited in one hat
and the illustrations in another, and we then
drew out unfortunately name and an H.
lusration The following shows the result of
the experiment. Truly,
G. @. c.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
combination and a form indeed
where every god did seem to set his SEAL
10 give the world assurance Of a man.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
But treesons capital, confessed and proved, have
overthrown him"
DAVID r. ATcmsoN.
o. ii men were saved by merit, what hole in hell were
not enough for him"
WILSON SHANNON
"Why sir, do you chuk though we should have thrust
virtue out OF our hearts by the head and shoulders and
have given ourselves without scrupe to hell that ever the
devil could have made you our delight.n
!" lie hath borne himself b You'd the promise of his
ages doing In the figure or lamb, the feats Of hon."
HAIRY A WISE.
- II they will fight with u.s. bid them come down
0r void the htldi they do offend our sight
IL they'll DO neitler,'we will come TO themn
And so from hour to hour we ripe and rpe
ana tleh, from hour to hour, we rot and rot"
JOHN Q. ADAMS.
" Ills life was gentle and the elements
80 miXd In him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, This man."
HORACE epEBLEr.
lie reads much;
He is great observer, aul he looks
Quite through the deeds Of men,"
eEoRss LAW
60 forward, and be choked with thy ambition.n
GEORGE P. MARSH.
"Heis right noble. Let him be called for"
HENRY CLAY.
" He was man, take him for all,
shall not look upoo his like again."
JuDsE KANE
You seemed OF lae to make the law a tyrant,"
PAssMoRs WILLIAMSON.
"There Is a deYalish mercy la the Judge
l. you'll mplore H. that viii free your ife
But ieer you til death"
srRiSGPRLLow.
stlnct UPOH ''i-
VAN BuRES
" fellow Of no mark, nor likelihood
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
your wit ambles well goes easily"
WINFIELD SCOTT.
etouter champion never handled gworI
Long siuce we resolved Of your truth
Your faithful SERVICE and your toll in warp
HORACE MANN.
F" lie Is scholar, and a ripe good one
Exceeding WISE fair spoken, and persuading.o
JAMES GORDON BENNETT
may, had power, | should
Pour the sweet milk If concord into heil
uproar the universal peace, coniound
All unity On carhn
JEFFERSON DAVIS
"a soldier,
Full Of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard
Jealous In honor, sudden and quick In quarrel.
Seeking the bibbe reputation
Evpn iu f.Aru a.ta