Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-16

Christmas (Which has excited much ntereS) charg-
ed with murder, stands for trial during the present
week at Person Messrs Read, Venabe and Solici-
tor Rutlin appear for the State, and MeSsrs. Ran
som, Kerr, Eaton and Miller for the prisoner
The LEGISL AZURE OF MISsISSIPPI.-The leglSla-
ture of Mississippi met at jackson the 1St instant
Hon. James Drane was elected president of the
senate by acclamation, and Mr.. s. S. Calhoun
tary. The house organized by the election of
j. L. Antry as speaker, and Mr.. C. \. Brougher
clerk \ resolution introduced in the senate
by Mr.. Davis and made the special order for the
ensuing Thursday. declaring that the institution of
slavery, as held and practised in the southern
States, is neither legally morally wrong, and hence
the law of Congress making the slave trade piracy
should be repealed
The governors message was read in both branches
and number of extra copies ordered to be printed.
With reference to the levee system, project de-
signed to give security to the bottom and swamp
lands along the Mississippi river, the governor
commends that tax be levied on all the swamp
property sufficient to build up this protection. At:
ter careful reflection he could means for the
early completion of the railroads but by the inter-
position of State aid. He would, therefore, in aid
of these great and beneicent works. recommend
that tax of quarter of per cent. be levied
upon all the taxable property of the State outside
of that heretofore proposed to be taxed for levce
purposes. He had no hesitation in recommending
the State University of Oxford to the fostering
of the Legislature and to the of all the people
of the State with the expression of the hope that
every young man in the State who is DESTROYS of a
thorough education will seek it at Oxford and not
in other States.
In reference to the cOmnOnSchOOl system, he rec
ommends the appointment of superintendent
cheif whose duty it should be travel over the State
lecturng and advising and directing to those
and that he should annually report to the governor
<I,H r,& of OH fl,ro
mary resources of these schools in each county in
the State with the number of children being educa
in then and his views generally in reference to the
legislation necessary to give efficiency to the conf
mon-school system.
LIMITATION OF THE JUDICIAL OFFIcE-JuDGE NASH
Among the points involved in the proposed charge
in the election of Judges, is that of the period for
which they may hold the office-whether for life
term of years. whether it shall terminate at a
certain age. We do not propose to examine this
question at present. but aude to it, because refer
ence has been made in two or three papers to the
of Judge Nash Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, speaking of him as VIRTUALLY removed from
the bench by advancing age and physical infirmity"
This, we are happy to say, is entirely mistake
The health of Judge Nash at present is good it
before his late sickness, in part of which
his mind in anywise affected; and we believe him
now to be fully capable of performing the duties
of his high and responsible office he has been at
any period of his life. Though age may impair bod
lily strength and activity, do not admit that an
active mind in otherwise healthy body is ever OBJ
scured by age. Many of the best and most useful
statesmen of England have displayed their greatness
most eminently after they had passed the age of sew
enty years. Gen. Glass; our own distinguished and
able Secretary of State is considerably seventy
years of age; and Chancellor Kent, of New York,
for years after the laws of his State had excluded
him from the bench because of his age, displayed
abilities which raised him to eminence which few
can hope to attain. And so it is; an active mind,
| if not obscured by disease the intemperance Of
previous years, grows wiser by experience and
deepens in its power of judgment qualifications
essential to right performance of the judicial Of
| fce-Hillsboro' Recorder.
HoRRIp AccIDENT.-A friend informs us of shock
ing casualty which occurred last week in the upper
part of the county, near Hamilton, Martin county.
A young man by the name Of James M. Brown was
engaged in filling the tube of loaded gun, when a
| spark was communicated to the powder in the tube
and the gun unfortunately discharged. His Mother
was standing within few feet from the muzzle,
and received the charge of shot in her knees, from
which she died in about ten hours after. Thus is
another added to the long list of accidents result
ing from the careless use Of firearms. Wsltianston
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