The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-22
Coluulbus Correspondence

| COLUMBUS Feb. 16, 1860.
Editors Portage Co. Democrat:
| The announcement that the brilliant and
facetious Lola Mentez. Countess of Landsfelt,
would deliver her celebrated lecture on Fash.
isn.' at the Odeon, on last Monday evening.
filled that spacious Hall with the 'elitt and
beauty Of the city, at an early hour. Thro'.
out the city. there was the greatest curiosity
to see the wonderful woman who. either in
public or private life, had acted SO eonspicu-
GUS part in the political aud intellectual his
tory of the times.
Her subject was one suited to her powers,
in which she mingled wit and wisdom to good
advantage, and held the audience in breathless
suspense to the end of her lecture. She
drew, in her spicy and eloquent style, pic
| ture. truthful and pleasing. Of the whims and
conceits of the votaries of fashion, and in
cluded US all in that category-men change
their principles as often as women their bon
nets. or the size of their erinoine.
She is of medium heishth-sharp and irreg
ular features, that in her earlier day were
handsome. if not bewitehiug. The twinkle of
her eye and the dimples that dance about her
face, give something of an idea Of her char.
acter in her more pafmy days.
Last night she had large sudience at tie
same Hall, to hear her lecture on iJshn Bull
at home
Yesterday the joint resolution of the Senate
to adjourn on the 9th of March, stag die,
which had been referred to a select committee
in the House, was reported back with an
amendment to adjourn on the 18th dav of
March, to meet on the 1st day of Feb. 1860,
when motion was made to strike out all
that part of the resolution that provides for
an adjourned session. An earnest and spirited
discussion arose on this motion. The argu
ments on the side of an adjourned session,
were
1st. The difficulty of making appropria.
items for two years.
I'd. The duty Of this Legislature to dis
trict the State into Congressional districts
after the census shall be taken next summer.
Sd. The danger of leaving the public
treasury without examination. fearing another
defalcation might occur. as the former 'Bres
lin defalcotion' did, during the year in which
there was no session Of Legislatures
Those opposed to an adjourned session
seemed willing to admit, that there might be
difficulty in making the necessary appropria.
tions, but it was a duty to make them, as the
best judgment should dictate, for the peopIc'
had three several times within the past ten
years, expressed themselves unequivocally in
favor Of biennial sessions.
1st. In the adoption of the Constitution.
and then again in the two several attempts
that have been made to alter the Constitution,
and if the appropriations cannot be made, the
fault lies with the people, not with their rep
resentatives. They argue that had the Legis
lature met in 1856, they would not have been
able to discover the deficiency in the Treasury
any better than the Legislature of 1856. by
their Committee, were able to discover the
defalcation, then existing to near million OF
dollars.
/ And lastly, that it was contrary to the
spirit as we'll as the letter of the Constitution.
The motion to striko ont prevailed-yeas 81,
nays SO.
The Supreme Oourt on Tuesday declared
/ the law of last winter prohibiting persons
having any visible admixture Of African blood,
from exercising the elective franchise uncon
stitutional. Judge Gholson delivered the
opinion Of the Court. Among the Judges
there was no difference Of opinion.
/ They held that the word 'inhabitant' in the
old and citizen in the new Constitution, have
the same meaning, and read from the debates
to show that the Convention 80 intended. ]
will send you the opinion in full (if possible)
This arrument used by Republican,, Is exceedingly
i complimentary 10 Republican officials i-Eps DEM