Year: 1859

EEThe Gazette honors us with mo- tice in it's usual style. First, as to Its per sonalities. Intending to be very severe It calls the junior here "a paid scriooler' We will take the supposed sting out oi that by telling him that we do scriople or write, and are fairly paid for it. We know that he scribbles and hope that he IS pald' He ought to be. Next he tells us that ne seldom declines to kick snarling cur. 1t does not pay. We have had them barking and snarling at us for long time, and find the better policy is to let them snarl. They never bite.

 We cannot but admire the quick lodging and evasions of the editor when he IS cor nered When he cannot answer he falls back on some stereotyped phrases ot his, such as "false quibbles and contemptible tecbnicalities, humbuggery too shallow and too transparent even for the True Dem ocrat." "a perversity which is inexcusable or an ignorance WHlCH io' Pi'

 ing uttered these sentences with oracular dignity, he then characterizes the adjourned soss;on as "the governors prorogued ses- sion which can be nothing more nor less than an extra session of the legislature At first he insisted that he governor should have called an extra session, and was very indignant because he did not do so. NoW' ba saws if was an extra session. Next week. if necessary, he will swear it was no session at all. Then he bubbles by saying that if the President should call an extra session of Congress, that no man ot sense would contend that they could take up the unfinished business of the last Congress. Certainly not. New members have been or are to be elected It is or would not be the same Congress- The simple question is whether legislative body may not ad- iourn or be adjourned over to time within the limits of its political existence, and resume business. No man with one idea in his head to hang another upon, would deny this if he was not influenced by inter est or prejudice. The legislature might set one week in every month for two years, and keep up current of business. All this smoke of prorogued sessions, extra sessions, and called sessions, is made to hide the facts of the case. School boys while reading, when they come to difficult word, cry "hard word," and pass 1t over. In like manner, the editor of the Gazette when he finds something he cannot comprehend or answer, dismisses 1t with wave of tho hand, meant to be dignifed, or a toss of the head meant to be contemptuous, and calls it a quibble-a technicality-a hum- bug or some like phrase.

 The Acts of the Last General Assembly.

 These are now printed and will be dis trbuted as fast as the mails can carry them.

 Notwithstanding the care required in ex- aminations of enrolled bills, the acts of the last session will be found to be full of CT rors These are most to be found ill those acts which originated in the House. W Words are omitted and in one case there was no title to the act. The numerous CT TOTS in the spelling of words have been corrected, but there are others which nei ther printer or proof reader had any autho rity to correct.

 Strictly speaking, the enrolling clerk was not to blame except for omissions, for he has merely to copy the bill as it passed.- But where he Is a grammarian, he might correct such apparent errors in the bill, as not to alter the meaning, and yet make 1t read correctly. Very few of the bills were the several bills came to be copied in or attached to them in the enrolled copy, they were not always placed where they were at first intended. It is to be regretted that in a matter requiring so much eXactness and correctness such carelessness should be exhibited. IL will be seen by the date of the approval of the acts that greater part of them passed at the heel of the ses- sion. At least hundred bills had to be enrolled, examined, compared, read again and approved on the last day. This being the case, the time for examination and comparison was so short that errors were overlooked.

 RIVER, ETC-About seven feet water in the channel and falling. There has been rise of about eight feet since our last re- port.

 Two Steamers Sunk

 The steamer Arkansas, one of the mail packets, was sunk about thirty miles below this point on her downward trip last week The boat Is a total loss, and we learn that the insurance upon her had run out we re- gret this, because Captain Haines, her com mander, is amongst one of our best river captains and citizens.

 The steamer Resolute, q regular packet