, 1861-02-05
"A Quaker Visitor,


The New York Hotel Keepers after
mr. Lincoln.
mis- CELLANEQCS
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune,1
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 4, 1861.
HILLS INTRODUCED.
In the Senate, after the usual morning bust
ness, some time was spent in going over Tic
stcreotyped debate concerning special and
general laws. Half dozen bills were intro.
duced: one by Iii: Mack Of Kankakee amend.
ing the General Banking law; another bs Mr..
Marshall providing for the payment and ex-
penses of the Commissioners to Washington.
The bill proposes to pay them IS per day, and
ten cents mile going and coming.
In the afternoon the special order for The
discussion Of the Wisconsin resolutions COM
ing up, 1t Was postponed By agreement until
two o'clock on Friday next
BILLS PASSED.
OF nineteen bills Of q local character, most oi
them, were passed; among them for an Act to
incorporate the Fort Dearborn Insurance
Company Of Chicago; for au Act to incorpor-
ate Benevolent 1nstitutlon within the city Of
Chicago; for an act to authorize the Chicago
sugar Refining Company to organize, etc.
Mr. Blodgett's bill for an Act to protect mar
ried women In their separate property was re-
ported Fl ON the Committee and discussed at
length by Messrs. Blodgett, Ogden, Higbce,
Bushnell, Applington and Bestor In favor, and
Underwood, Richmond and Oglesby against.
The bill passed BY rote Of fourteen to eight,
and being brief and Of great importanco-as Is
well, send 1t in full: That ell The
property, both real and personal, belonging to
any married woman as her sole and separate
property, and which any woman hereafter
married, OWNS ut the time OF her marriage, and
which any married woman during corc1ture
acquires in good faith from any person other
thau her husband By descent, devise or other
wise together With all the rents, issues, in
crease and profits thereof el,a1l, notw!thstana-
Ing her marriage, be and remain during covert
uze her solo and separate property, under her
sole control, and be held, owned, possessed
and enjoyed By her the same es though abe
Was sole and unmarried, and shall not be sub
ject to the disposal, control or interference Of
her husband; and shall be exempt from c1e-
cution Or attachment for tho debts Of her huE-
band.
The House came in at halfpast one this Of.
ternoon, md waa occupied principally in the
passage Of bills. Those Of general importance
were as follows: An act to provide for thep pub
lcation and distribution Of the third volume
of Freeman's Digest. The bill authorizes the
purchase Of five hundred copies thereof,
which arc to be distributed atter tho
manner Of Supreme Court Reports. An
act for the relief Of citizens of the Ameri-
can bottom in Madison comfy. This act pro-
vidcs that all State taxes collected on the
American bottom in said county for five years
be applied to making dyke for the purpose
ofprotecting it from high water. The bill for
an act to refund the interest Of the College or
University fund aud appropriate the same for
the use Of the State Normal University, was
debated By Messrs. Church, johnson, Hurlbut,
Hogg. Welden mud Scoield Of Clark IN favor,
md Aeesrs. Archer, Singleton aud Shaw
against, aud passed-50 to TO- Here it Is. Be
Ae'saeted, &C., That the Governor Of the statc
be and he Is hereby authorized and required
to Issue State bo1ds, authenticated in
the usual way, to the amount Of $4,000,
part Of the interest Of the University fund,
payable to the Beard of Education Of the State
of Illinois, for the use of the Normal Uniyer-
sity and In sums not less than 1000 each,
said bonds to be payable BY the State In TWEEN
ty years from their date, with per cent per
annurn, payable semiannually in the city Of
Nc" York Tint the balance of the interest
on the University Fund, namely, 81, ,9o6.so, be
md the same Is hereby added to the principal
Of the said University Fund, and is hereby de-
elazed to be part Of the came. making In all
int sum Of e150, ,55AS0. 4 Bill for IN act to
amend the Law concerning ejcctments wa. also
passed, making tie process more brief and
summary than ut present. Mr. Chu.ch's bill
TO amend the Law concerning Justices and
Constahles was laid on the table and ordered
10 De printed It provides that no appeal
shall be allowed from Justices of the Pence in
clTA actions, when the judgment, exclusive
Of costs, Is less thaa twenty dollars; but allows
all such Judgments to be taken to the Circuit
Court for resiew nad correction of errors with
ont trial de nou<. The bill also provides that
In au trials before Justices Courts, both pa1-
ties may be sworn as witnesses, the Court or
jury to be judges oftheir credibility. 1fthis
bill becomes Law, 1t will re1ieycth Clrcuit
Courts ofa great amount Of labor, md save to
the people much time and money.
There is an unusual disposition shownby
this General Assembly to amend the statute
laws, md the very intelligent body Of men
who compose 1t are equnl to tho work.
xa~ LINCOLN AND TIE OFFICE .sEEKERs
Mr.: Lincoln is 30 annoyed BY otlcerseekers
and others, that be has been obliged to give
notice that he viii receive calls At bis Office
daily between the hours Of sH and s P. n.
only.
TIE WASHINGTON ooAauss1oxERA
The Commissioners for Washington receiv-
I'd their credentials not until this afternoon,
and left on the evening train eastward. !.
:: HORACE GREELEY. -
. Ho1aee Greeley arrived In town this mo,n-
Ing, md received the news Of his defeat for the
United States SenAta..with good natured equa
nfmity; spent IN hour or two about the Court
House, started for Jacksonville ut noon, where
he lectures this evening, postponing his call
On Mr. Lincoln until tomorrow, when he re-
turns here and lectures IN the ereutng.
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