Year: 1861

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over this, as We have over many of the


witty Senator'S '.rare and racy'' utter
ances:


| Your committee to whom was referred
Assembly bill Ne. 234. known as the
Snipe Bill, have had the same under cor
sideration, and ask leave to make the fol-,
lowing Report:


Your committee wculd say in the outset,
that as this is the only busines they have,
bad before them, during the session, they
have been able to give it that attention its
magnitude and Importance required, and
for the enlighteuing this honorable body in
matters of Importance. your committee
would say, the snipe belongs to the spe-
cies SeolapOx Gallinago. 1t is migratory
IN its habits, therefore should not be class
ed with birds such as the Cupido or Pima
ted Grouse, or Tetrao, Umbellus, Ruff
Grouse or Peredix, Yer2inianus, Quail or
Partridge. The Galinago or snipe, makes
It's appearance In our latitude about the
trst day Of April, it stays here a few
weeks and then proceeds on to some place
unknown to your committee, to attend to
Its regular business, that is to propagate
and rear Its young. 1t is generally sup
posed they choose marshes or swamp land
for this purpose. Your committee, there
fore, hoped that the report Of the recent
swamp lands survey would throw some
light upon the matter of its nesting, and
rearing its young &c, but we are com
PEELED to say, so far as we have been able
to examine the survey it has not this mer-
it-f any nests were found, they were
probably robbed and charged to the State
as hens eggs. There has been much dis
pute about the manner in which the snipe
subsists, some affirming that it lives by
suction; it is said by introducing its bill in
certain places In the earth it can suck
nourishment. not only sufficient to subsist
but even to grow fat. If nhis be the fact,
your committee are compelled to ackrowl-
edge the great similarity betvixt the spe--
ciet under consideration and anot her spc-~
cies that hover around about this Capitol,
introducing their bills for the express pur-
pose of suction, as the vaults of our trea-
sury will attest, with perhaps this differ
ence, there is no evidence that the first
mentioned species has any outside press
ure brought to bear upon its bill, in the
way Of outside sucks. Again your COM
mittee find difference betwixt the snipe's
bill and some other bills that have been
by the Capitol species, while
the one makes a very small hole and the
suction is very slight, the other proposes
to make very large hole and very deep
one, even to the centre of ther earth, the
suction of which would be felt to the ut
most parts of the State. While on this
subject some Of your committee say, that
they have no particular objections to tax
ing suck themselves, if proposed by an
honorable member of this body in gen.
tlemanl way, at a proper time,


Your committee have had under serious
consideration the propriety of permitting
birds with Southern proclivities passing
through our State in these exciting times,
without a passing notice, although your
committee are compelled to admit that the
conciliatory tone of the Presidents mes
sage has somewhat modified feelings in that
respect; we have therefore concluded this
is matter that should more properly go
before the committee on Federal relations.


In conclusion your committee would say,
if there is any terms made use of in this
report which this honorable body do not
Git has not been done in
spirit of mockery, it seemed fitting on our
first appearance in the way of report
that we should make use of a few high
words, although we might not
understand them ourse!ves,) and would
say further that we make the passage of
this bill personal matter after this effort
and recommend the bill do pass.


DEVOTION NOT PIETY. = Henry Ward
Beecher says we must not mistake and
confound devotion with piety The one
is the means, the other the result The
one is the fire, the other is the food that it
cooks. Devotion is a measure by which
you endeavor to enkindle IN yourselves
spiritual life. It is not piety, it is the in
of it. A man may read his BIZ
Bile, the prayer book and deyous treatises,
and give much time and attention to rcli-
gious services, and yet be far from piety,
just as man may whirl a mill stene,
and have no grain, no -four. And there
he many persons who run the mill of piety
who grind nothing but bran,. who certainly
grind but very little -four for the bread of
life. There is hundred times more de-
votion in the world than piety. Many
men pray not so much for being better as
to furnish substitute for being better
They are not honest, they are not truth
full, they are not noble, they are not low
ing, they are not disinterested, they are
not industrious, and they know it, and they
pray hoping that their prayers will be put
against their deficiencies. They are con-
scious of doing wrong, and they have an
idea that they can make an ends for it by
praying. They seem to think that if they
praise god good deal and tell him what
they think of him and his government
good deal, and all that, he will accept
their devotion as an equivalent for right
conduct. Now the only earthly object Of
devotion is that it may afford means, in
strumentalities and fuel to enkindle in men
true spiritual life The life is something
separate from the causes that produced it.


AFTER DINNER. Nothing can more pow
erfully illustrate the deep-rooted character
Of intemperate habits in families than an
ancedote which was related to me as coming
from the late Mr. Mackenzie. author of the