Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-12

is to be presented to the legislature in Janu-
airy, and we ere surprised at the amount of
labor it has required. Four numbers of ele-
ven hundred and twenty eight pages are al
ready completed and in print, and one hun.
dred pages more, now going through the
press will complete the work. The arrange
ment is simple and clear, and great improve
ment on the old volume, every subject in each
chapter being arranged under proper head.
In many instances half dozen lines embrace
three or tour pages of different statutes
While the old statutes number about twenty.
five hundred pages, the new will hardly ex-
coed thirteen hundred pages. The old lam
guage is preserved IN all cases. as far as pos
slole, but many alterations are recommended
where the combining OF SO many statutes,
passed at different times seem to render it
absolutely necessary.
Over three thousand decisions are cited in
the margins, each one of which has been
carefully examined by the commissioners, it.
self work of years Every one will readily
see that this will be of immenss value
In the old Revised Statutes, it is said a
Gloss examiner will find three distinct styles of
language, and a great amount of repetition,
leading one to infer that the old commission
ers performed their work for the most part
separately. This Is avoided in the new work.
ers was well calculated to secured uniformity
of expression, and avoid repetition They
commenced, we are informed, by asst gning to
each other by years the statutes passed since
the Revised Statutes, and each commissioner
then made up careful written report, where
each subject of his years should be incorporat-
ed into the Revised Statutes, which of course
required complete and patient examination
OF every line and word of statutes, old and
new, and, to a great extent, of the resolves
and private acts. Each then furnished to tina
other copy OF his work, aud each made his
written comments on the work of the other.
Then together all differences of opinion were
discussed and settled.
with this preparation, which necessarily
extended over considerable length of time,
each commissioner then wrote out the several
subjects assigned to him, and then in conven-
ton they discussed, improved and arranged
every sentence word by word and they again
discussed the proof, as they corrected it from
the printer. We think the work itself will
show that it has been work of great labor.
but the amount of labor expended upon it
can hardly be realized, except by the mem
bers OF the legal profession, who alone can
know the difficulties of combining and con-
densing the mass of laws which were laid be.
tore the commissioners.
We were not aware that the work was so
nearly completed until we were favored with
the loan of the numbers already printed
We have read them with great care, and we
do no hesitate to give our decided opinion
that the new work will be tae most perfect
and finished work OF the kind ever published
We believe that the approaching Legislature
after a careful examination, instead of spend.
ing much time in making alterations, will at
once adopt the whole work substantially as
the commissioners report it LoaoeU Journal
PoLITIos IN CITY ELECTIONS. The demo-
Gratis of Boston have determined to make re-
guar party nominations throughout. The
reason the leaders give for abandoning the
"Citizens' plan of operations, s that their
party having at the last state election for the
tlrst time in this generation cast plurality of
the gubernatorial votes of the city, they now
have prospect OF carrying the municipal
election. This is exactly the democratic
polcy-urge the improperly and utter abom-
inableness of party elections while the demo-
Gratis are in a minority. but go to the death for
straight party ticket when there is pros
peet of success. In Springfield, also, where
there was a majority against Banks, the
democrats are sternly opposing any sort of
union on the municipal ticket with the Re-
puOHCdhs' anu the case IN Otler places where
they hope to seize the whole loaf.
The Boston Journal takes ground strongly
in favor of a return to party organizations as
well in city as in state elections. 1t saws of
'ctizens" and peoples" parties:
The experiment has been a failure. The
government of the city has lapsed from the
control of party into that of committees and
cliques, who, however honest and disnterest-
ed they may claim to be, are irresponsible. -
LoaoeH Citizen.
IHE ILLINOIS ELEorIoN.-. In seems to us
that those who take the Illinois election as
settling the Democratic nomination for 1860,
who suppose that the other candidates will
quietly back down, and allow Mr.. Douglas to
claim it, as a matter of course, because he has
carried his own State, commit great error.
The triumph of Mr.. Douglas has been very
great, yet it is to be remark ed that Illinois
has always been Democratic State, and that
when the people revolted from MIR. Buchan-
ans test of Democracy and repudiated with
them Had he attemted to carry the State
on the Buchanan platform, although he
would not probably have come out with so
miserable vote as that which measured the
strength of the administration, it is not DOS
sible that he could have succeeded. To sup
pose that the friends of Breckenridge, and
Davis, and Hunter, and Wise. and all the
Others who have been proposed for the nomi-
nation, will quietly yield to Douglas, because
in gallant struggle, and by almost superhu-
man efforts, ana by the reputation of the
leading measure of the party, he has escaped
defeat in his own State, one of the very
strongest States in the Union, strikes us as
jumping at a conclusion very readily. He
will doubtless be a formidable candidate.
greatly strengthened by his recent victory
indeed, without that he could hardly enter
the field, it was a struggle for political exist
ence. But he will not be the only candidate
of the party. Nor is it yet centaln that Mr..
Douglas will be reelected. The administra-
ton, which is more bitter towards him than
towards the Republicans themselves, counts
upon three members of the Senate as anti
Douglas Democrats. The way that the adj
ministration has of Strengthening its friends
and of winning over the doubtful in the party
is well known, and the Legislature of illinois
would be swamped under contracts and post
offices, and land offices, and consuiships and
foreign missions if this could secure the defeat
of the man against whom more than any other
the hostility of Mr. Buchanan is excited. There
can be no doubt that the administration would
greatly prefer even Lincoln to Douglas, and
the administration is far from poweress in
close Legislature - PrOUidence Journal,
The CHINESE SUGAR CANE AT THE WEST
A travelling correspondent of the Portland
AdUertiSer says:
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