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THE LEGIsLATuRE


Saturday inst passed n Resolution. proposing
to the Senate to rescind the Joint resolution
providing for the adjournment sine die Of the
General Assembly, on Thursday the 22d inst
and proposing instead, that the Assembly take
recess from Thursday the 22L to the Let Mo,I-
day in May next. The necessity of the meas
! urc. was said TO he the great accumulation oi
business. According to tho statement Of tho
Speaker. there were 5s7 matters on the calen
dnr, including those afready printed. Ofthcse
about 900 bills have been passed upon, and
sent to the Senate; 81 matters on the calendar
are con,inucd from list session; new matter.
| o3: residue ESQ and rcports-rnakins to-
! tai Of 3e7 untouched. In this proposition, tho
Senate has refused to concur.
| The Resolutions of Mr. MEMMrxGER. on tn,
subject Of Federal Relations we're unanimously
adopted in the House. They provid. that in
the Judgment Of the General Assembly, the
slavehoiding States. should Immediately meet
! I" take measures for united action that these
reso'ut tlons he communicated TO the slnvehol,l
ing States. with the request that they appoint
delegates to such meeting that special com
missioner he appointed to communicates to the
state of Virgin the cordial sympathy of Soutl,
Carolina; and that an appropriation Of 500,
400, be male for Military contingencies. The
Senate however. disagreed to the Resolutions
Of Mr.. MEMMrSotR, and adopted instead n
substitute proposed by Mr.. WAGNER by which
it is resolved Tint South Carolina, sti!l defer
ring to her Southern sisters nevertheless re.
spcctfullI N lonnces to them, that in her iulg.
mcnt The safely and honor Of the slav cI,old ing
States imPera,ively demand speedy separa
from the other States Of Tie Confederacy, and
earnestly invites tho slavehoding States Of the
South to innuguratc the movcm ent Of Southern
lv TO unite.
The Bill for the establishment Of a sepa rate
Court Of Appeals. has been ratified by both
Houses 1t makes quite nm important change
i'll our Judiciary system. The Law Bench is
reduced from to 5. the CLANCY Be nch from
tos and serarutc Cour. of Appeals con-
siituted consisting Of C';i"f Justice and two
Associate Judges, having appel ate Jurisdiction
ofal cases in Law aud Equity
The Bill for the Coli.ira;;on of the Statutes
has passed into Law. With respect to the
election of II Commissioner to perform the work
a correspondent of the -Mrcury writes:
Judg" Ior,s WARpLAw, it is said, has positive
" Withdrawn his name from cDnpett ion for
the Codifcation, and the name of Mr. PErIGKu
alone is before the Legislature for that wo, H.
With his great legal knowledge. fire scholar
ship and 1ersc. pointed English. III. choice mus,
prove happy one; and such is the general
impression.
With regard to the chances of The Blue Ridge
Road, he WI ties:
The Blue Rilye project for aid to walhalla
fingers in uncer;nin,y. Mr. Mnzyck's amend
ment III the senate is like the gilt Of Nessus
shirt. intended to kill it. It may pass the
House without this fatal nd,liS1en. and escape
the hostility Of the Senate Two Senator's,
however. Of those favorable to the road have
left Columbia. aud the prospects are not bright
even for this small! assistance within the Suite
How different the lame and milling policy Of
This State fr"'" tl" course Of Georgia, North
Cnreiina and Virginia. Here is what Cover
nor Wise snya. in his late message, Of n project
requiring sixteen millions of money, every
do]lm Vi which Is TO come from the treasury
Of V:rgina:
The CovINGroS AND OMoRAIIRoAp.--It ought
. to he completed in the shortest possible time
, 10 That enl recommend appropriation of
two millions per annum until the work is finish
e.' 20 the Ohio Argument j. idle on this poll
cy.
In the Senate to day the bill to afford aid to
the Greenvile and French Broad Railroad
was lost by vote Of IL yeas to 27 nnys
The bill granting aid to the Iaurens Rail.
road was passed by a vote of 2s years to Is
nays