The constitutional union., 1861-01-25
HOU SEE.
THURSDAY, Janua'

HOUSE.
 THURSDAY, January 10.
 House met. The vote of yesterday, laying on the table the motion to attach Arkansas county to the second Congressional District under the re-distrlcting of the State, recommended ; and the bill and amendment made the special or der for tomorrow at 10 o'clock. P. NJ. A bill to amendment laws of this State," was passed.
 bill to incorporate the Brownsville (Prairie county) Male Academy, passed.
 The bill establishing nine Judicial Circuits in this State, reported from the Senate as passed It is therefore law. The first article of the 1 amendments to the Constitution ratified at the session of the Generally Assembly of 184S, " That the qualified voters of each Judicial Circuit in the State of Arkansas shall elect their Judges | Under the new law, several counties have been i thrown in the circuits of the present Judges in which the voters did not vote for the Judges who will administer the law until the next election for Judges For instance the Courts of Dallas and | Hot Springs which elected Judge Murray, are | by this law placed in the Circuit of Judge Glen denin whom the voters of those counties did not vote for. And so of nearly every other circuit in the State Some doubts are therefore entertained of the Constitutionality of the law and much and | serious trouble may grow out out of it, If it is suifercred to go to the people it stands The question of the Constitutionality of this law will doubtless be looked into before the Legsla- ture adjourns. Reporter
 House took recess until 2 o'clock, P. NJ. House met, ? clock, P. M bill ameudatory of the law concerning Schools and School Lands ln the counties ot Columbia and Prairie, passed.
 b.ll to provide for the election of tax Col lectOr and Clerk of the County and Probate Courts ln Chicott county, passed. Senate informed the House of having amended and assented to House bill to aid the foreclosure of stock and rtgages, etc., of the Real Estate Bank. These amendments which provide sub stantlaliy. that the lands shall be sold for one third cash. one-thrd in twelve months, and one | third i'll twenty y-fuur months, with good and ap- proved personal security, at per cent. interest, 1 and the lien on the land to remain in full force until the last note shall be paid, were subsequently, ! agreed to by the House. The bill is therefore law If the Governor approve it. bill to incorporate the Helena Agricultural and Mechanical Association; and bill to char ter the Arkansas State Telegraph Company, were | passed.
 A bill to authorize the School Commissioner of ! Washington county to sell the lGth section in | Township 14, and l3, Range 28 West, passed. l great deal of other business transacted to-day; many bills purely of personal and pri- l vate nature, passed House adjourned. l FRIDAY, Jan. II. House met A bill to authorize the Governor | to execute deeds or titles to lands in certain cases.
 1 bill supplementary to an act passed at the l present session of the General Assembly, untitled '' an act to incourage internal improvements were passed. The last named bill was passed to 1 enable the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad ! Company to draw the money appropriated to said road by the act to which it is supplementary. l resolution calling upon Congress to confirm all entries of lands under the guardian act made 1 since March, 1837 was adopted. The committee on Fedepal Relations reported resolution calling upon Congress to indemnify the ! survivors of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, for the property ost and stolen at the time of the | Massacre, adopted
 The bill to secure to the State of Arkansas her full Federal representation ill Congress, was taken | up. and after abOrtiye attempt 10 get amended, was passed TThe Reporter does not remember the counties comprising the several districts The | third district commences at Sevier, and passes up the western boundary line of The State to the Mis- l souri line. and then falls over so to include i Marion county-the second district commences at Hampstead, and includes all that portion of the Southeast part of the State South of the Ar kansas river (except Arkansas county up to Per ny, Conway and Van Buren, taking in Saline and Hot Spring; and the first district commences with Phillips, and includes all the Northeastern and central counties.
 ThO.bili to allow married women to convey real estate, and relinquish dover before they twenty -one years of age passed, and also the bill 10 amend the garnishment law. \ bill for the better protection of persons and their property on navigabe streams in this State, was passed.
 House took a recess until 23 o'clock F. NJ.
 House convened The bill to vndcate the rights of the citizens of this State against such States as have passed Personal Liberty bills, rejected by heavy vote. Several other bills of a private nature, were passed. House adjournad. SATURDAY, Jan. 12.
 joint resolution, authorizing the Governor to issue arms to all volunteer companies in all the counties bordering on the Indian llnc was adopted.
 A bill supplementary to the bill to elect tax collector in Phillips county, passed This bill provides for the election to be held i'll May next. The bill to authorize the county courts of Sebastian and Pulaski counties to levy road tax, was passed.
 Senate informed House of having passed House bill 10 subscribe stock in the Fort Smith and Little Rock Railroad Company, and in the North Western Border Company, the proceeds o1 the sales of the Swamp and Uveriowed lands Ill the CiarksvIlIe District
 The biil 10 amend the act 10 establish sopar- ate court ot CAancery al the seat of Government, etc., was substituted, by blll to be emitted an act to change the times of holding the chancery court of the State of Arkansas which read three times, and then rejected.
 A bill to provide for publishing runaway slaves in no one newspaper i'll the State, was laid on the table
 A bill to prevent trespass school lands in Pulaski, Tzard, Fulton, Marion Searcy, Bradley and Van Buren counties passed.
 A bill to attach portion of the county of De- sha to Drew, passed.
 A bill to increase the powers of School Trustees in the township, passed
 resolution to establish mail { horse route) from Carrollton, ill Arkansas, to Ozark, in Mis- souri, was adopted. House adjourned.
 THE Hartford Times says that the ire pressible conflict" has broken out in the Con- gregational Church at Southington Connecti-