The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-12-11
An Extra Session.

WI have,h sd li.ik ,Ssay Il regard the
propositise 10, al extra SESSION, fdrsth'
reasot11E6t tho peasurcpissepe which shas
nott56g tok comm pd it ta4hc favqtble
consideration of e Goycsnor, or ~ thy
people of Iowa. .--.,.
There is no change in the condition OF
tsaairsfn ohr State sincssth &hst aaebA sss
thcsGeneral Assembly. Individual cmbar-
,rassmcnts were Just as greqa. and aas pressing
! then as ssw, and oar Railroads needed an
, then ~ maeh- as-new.~~Fhc subjeessf re!isf,-
stay naturalization laws was before the
General Assembly, and both branches, bya
large majority, decided against the policy As
well as against the constitutionallsy OF any
laws operating on existing indebtedness
We have heard of no change in the senti-
mcnts Of members of the Legislature on this
subject, and have seen no considerable
manifestation of desire by the people for
an extra session in this behalf. The project
for furnishing State aid to Railroads is
scarcely month old, Is not yet perfected,
and has been received with very little favor,
as far as we are able to judge Of public
sentiment. If any constitutional, safe anu
feasible plan can be adopted to accomplish
that end, which we deem exceedingly doubt
full, the interests of the Railroads rs well as
the interests of the State would seem to
require that its consideration should be de-
ferred to the regular session Of the General
Assembly. - 'sss, 10 I'd .''"'"
The expense of an extra session OF the
General Assembly is far more than most
persons seem to have any idea of, and many
of our own readers. whom VIC presume to
be well informed, will be astonished to hear
that an extra session will cost the people Of
the State about 100000. But if they will
take the pains to consult the public docu-
mcnts Of the State, they will find that it is
even 50. We have not the documents at
hand to show the expenses Of the last session,
but the Auditor estimated that expense, in
advance, at $4,000, and he estimates the
expense of printing and binding, publication
of laws in newspapers and stationery for the
State at ;S7l 900. Wepresume that at least
$780, 900 of this sum is applicable to the
printing of journals, laws, documents, re-
ports, &C., (and the paper used for them,)
resulting from the sitting OF the Legislature.
1t would seem then that II regular session
of the Legislature costs the State about
$4,000. We presume tina. SO, 900 would
be liberal allowance for the difference
between q regular and an extra session,
leaving 100000 as the probable cost OF
calling tho Legislature together in extra
session this winter.
There is no money in the Treasury be-
cause the people are SO hard up Tint they
DO not pay their taxes, and it will be re-
membcred that the Legislature, at its last
session, was compelled TO borrow two
hundred thousand dollars for the same
reason.
| Now we ask, in view of the two or three
CONSlucTullOUS HiiiCtu Nv dpONSs IL
honest and candid man can press Governor
Lowe to call an extra session Of the Lcgls-
luture this winter. Recall the facts. The
Governor called the attention Of the Legis-
laturc to the subject of relief laws last
winter, and both branches of that body
decided against the cxpcdicncy and consti-
tutionality of such legislation, and there is
no evidence that the members have changed
their views. The Railroad pro ect is IL new
one, Just sprung upon the people, and not
ut all perfected, and is received with almost
universal distrust and di>fnvor, and can we'll
~wai. tho regular soss. on Car a b"ttor nnler-
standing of its merits. And, finally, the
the expense Of an extra session will amout
to near Il hundred thusand dollars, and there
is no money in the Treasury, because tho
people are so hard up that they can't pay
their taxes. So says the keokuk Gate
( City.
! The Negroes Sent Back to Africa by tho L. :.
ship Niagara.
! The London Times has II letter from St.
Vincent, Cape dc Verde, stating that the Nj
agara put in there on the 52d of October.
/ ltappears that Of the 5Sl which the Niagara
took on board at Charleston, 81 had died
before the ship reached the Cape de Verde
Islands. DIR. Rancv, the Agent, describes
! the condition of the negroes MS follows:
"Thcy are extremely filthy, and much
prefcr..nudity to dress. We have adopted
4 the plan Of having Il largo hose turned on
them twice per week, with strong men at
the engine. They appear well enough sat
isfcd with the bath, but cannot, even by the
lash, which we are compelled to employ
freely, be made to observe any other snni-
,ary or decent habit. 1t requires a good
large crew of men to keep the spar deck,
where they are located, clean. When cloth
ing was put on them in Charleston, of which
the negro slaves in the city contributed sew
eral drav loads, they Immediately tore it
/ off, and rolled in the sand and baskcd in the
sun.
( know but few cases in which they mani
fest any sympathy for one another, except
to help scratch each others back. They gave
no attention or sympathy whatsoever to the
sick and dying. When one is dead the body
may lie for hours among them in immediate
contact, vet unnoticcd. But as soon as the
soul has fed, they steal the blanket of the
deceased, and most unccrcnonlously proceed
to appropriate his brend, spoon and bag
During the process of burial they never
manifest the slightest concern. A more sto-
lid, brutalized, pitiablc set of beings never
bcheld.
! All of them take medicine without word
of objection, yet whenever one sckcns he is
almost certain to die. We found them with
scurvy, diarrh"a, and optha!mia, and reliev-
ed very much of the former and of the Int
ter. They now have also catarrh, influenza,
seurvy and chronic diarrhna. We have
given them all the aid that money, literally
expended and directed by intelligent Christ
ian sympathies, could dictate. But they are
a set of poor, miserable beings, who will