VOL. XX.

Poetry.

The Love of Later Years.

BY BERNARD BARTON.

They err who deem Love's brightest hour in blooming youth is known.

Its purest, tenderest, holiest power, in after life is shown, When passions, chastened and subdued, to riper years are given,

And earth and earthly things are viewed in light that breaks from heaven.

It is not in the flush of youth, or days of cloudless mirth, We feel the tenderness and truth of Love's devoted worth; Life then is like a tranquil stream which flows in sunshine bright,

And objects mirrored in it seem to share its sparkling light.

'Tis when the howling winds arise, and life is like the ocean, Whose mountain billows brave the skies, lashed by the storm's commotion;

When lightning cleaves the murky cloud, and thunderbolts astound us,

'Tis then we feel our spirits bowed by loneliness around us.

O! then, as to the seaman's sight the beacon's twinkling ray Surpasses far the lustre bright of summer's cloudless day, Een such, to tried and wounded hearts in manhood's dark. er years,

The gentle light true Love imparts 'mid sorrows, cares and

tears.

Its beams on minds of joy bereft, their freshning brightness fling, And show that life has somewhat left to which their hopes may eling:

It steals upon the sick at heart, the desolate in soul, To bid their doubts and fears de part, and point a brighter goal.

If such be Love's triumphant power o'er spirits touched by time,

0: who shall doubt its loveliest hour of happiness sublime? In youth, 'tis like the meteor's gleam which dazzles and sweeps by;

In after life, its splendors seem linked with eternity!

Good Night.

Good night! a word so often said,

The heedless mind forgets its meaning; "Tis only when some heart lies dead On which our own was leaning, We hear in maddening music roll That last "good night" along the sbul. "Good night"-in tones that never die It peals along the quickening ear; And tender gales of memory

Forever waft it near,

When stilled the voice-O crush of pain !--
That ne'er shall breathe "good night" again.

Good night! it mocks us from the grave-
It overleaps that strange world's bound
From whence there flows no backward wave-
It calls from out the ground,
On every side, around, above,
"Good night," "good night," to life and love!

Good night! O, wherefore fades away
The light that lived in that dear word?
Why follows that good night no day?
Why are our souls so stirred?
O, rather say, dull brain, once more,
"Good night! thy time of toil is o'er !"

Good night!-now cometh gentle sleep,
And tears that fall like gentle rain.
Good night! O, holy, blest and deep,
The rest that follows pain!
How should we reach God's upper light
If life's long day had no "good night."
Chambers' Journal.

TO, ON A LATE LOSS. I know your grief,-for Death has walked Through all the chambers of my heart, And I have sat, like you, and watched My idols, one by one, depart. We come not of that crowd, my friend, Who tell their sorrows far and near,Who name aloud, with frequent sigh, The loved one laid upon the bier. Take my warm tears! I may not speak When next I grasp your trembling hand;What need of words, heart-brother dear ? My silence you can understand.

HARTFORD, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1855.

Original.

Governors of Connecticut.

As it is becoming every day more apparent that Connecticut has a history full of associations that ought to inspire the veneration of her sons, it becomes interesting to enquire into the traits of character of the men whom she has placed at the head of her affairs during the critical periods of her existence. Of these men the Governors are prominent. Winthrop, Wells, Webster, Wyllys, Haynes, Talcott, Treat, Saltonstall, Trumbull, Wolcott, John Cotton Smith, and other great names, are seen from a distance, like the tops of high mountains, and are distinguishable across the whole continent.

In the hurry attending the settlement of a new country, and defending it from the aggression of deadly enemies, external appearances were much neglected, and few of the great men of the colony thought of transmitting their features to that posterity whose liberties they were so strongly fortifying. Hence many of them, and some of our Governors are of the number, have left no portraits save their noble deeds. Fortunately, however, there exists original authentic portraits of several of our early colonial Governors; and since the revolution, almost all of them have left portraits.Strange to say, however, no steps have hitherto been taken to present to the world a gallery of the GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT.

In visiting the studio of Mr. George F. Wright, the other day, at Hartford, we found ourselves in the midst of a circle of grave personages, in powdered wigs and antique costume, whose presence made us feel at first a little awkward. We felt for a moment as if we had been ushered into another world unprepared for the change. Leaning against the wall, with his keen eyes fixed on us, was John Winthrop, who procured the charter of 1662; Saltonstall was there, as dignified as he used to be when he sat at his table revising the Saybrook Platform, or when he walked from his dwelling to the meeting house, on Sunday, with his wife by his side, and his handsome sons and daughters in couples behind him. There was the elder Trumbull, too, (the brother Jonathan of the West,) his face full of calm resolve, and his glance steady as a sunbeam, looking as little like the "rebel" that he really was, as if he had sat for one of those loyal angels who resisted the revolt in Heaven. There were two of his representatives near by, and not far from them stood Gen. Oliver Wolcott, who signed the Declaration of Independence and superintended the melting of the King's Statue. Near by was his son of the same name. There was John Cotton Smith, the courtly and the elegant, and others of more modern days-some still living.

This is as it should be. Other States have had the forethought to employ Artists to paint their Governors, half of whom were the minions of royalty and the enemies of the people, while the only State whose Governors from the first, represented the sentiments of the commonwealth over which they presided, has left it to the enterprise of a pri

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vate citizen to do what the public ought long ago to have done.

Mr. Wright is an Artist not unknown to fame. When Hicks returned from Italy, about five years ago, the reputation of Elliott, as a portrait painter, was unrivalled. Since the death of Inman, no American artist had equaled him in that branch of the profession. He was not merely without an equal, he was not even approached by one of all the host of imitators who looked up to him as their master. A dashing bold adventurer, with tact enough to seize upon the right moment, the new comer had no difficulty in dazzling the eyes of the public. It soon began to be whispered abroad that "Elliott must have a care of his laurels."

Mr. Wright made his first exhibition that season, with a portrait of the venerable Bishop Brownell, and the head of a monk. The Bishop's portrait was placed in the centre of the large exhibition room, fronting the door, and the Monk in the second room, at the left of the door, as a companion of Elliott's best head.

During the exhibition, a gentleman happening to call upon Elliott at his studio, remarked to him that some thought he had reason to fear Hicks. Elliott replied, "that there was one head in the exhibition, by a young man from Hartford, whom he considered more formidable than Hicks; for, said he, this young artist not only possesses power, but there is an honest intention in his work that looks promising. He has the best head in the exhibition." This was the opinion of several other artists, among them, Mr. Durand, the President, and Mr. Jocelyn of New Haven.

One chief excellence of Mr. Wright's picces, is the entire absence of all mannerism and affectation. Nothing is done for display. In all his portraits he aims to paint the genius and character of the sitter, not to exhibit himself. In all his heads we find an honest rendering of individuality,-no airs and tricks of the art,-no dramatic attitudes, no dashing brilliancies, no paint without color,-no lights and shadows without truthfulness, disfigure his canvas. While looking at his Governors, we were forcibly struck with the remark of Cromwell to Sir Peter Oliver, "Paint me as I am. Is not God good enough to follow?" With these words ringing in his ears, the artist set about his task and accomplished it with a hand as untrembling as if he had been a captain in the Protector's army; and we have Cromwell still with us, face to face.

With this noble undertaking of Mr. Wright, we have a deep sympathy. That he will find many who share in his patriotic enthusiasm and manly efforts to re-produce the old heroic days of the republic, is our confident hope; and we shall be pleased to hear that our views are seconded by all who share in the laurels of the GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT.

Report of the Railroad Commissioners. The report of the three State Commissioners for the general examination of railroads, Messrs. Moses B. Harvey, John Gould, and Henry Hammond, has been made to the General Assembly. The Commissioners complain that some of the companies did not make their returns in the proper season, and that these returns, in some instances, are

not sufficiently complete to answer the requirements of the law.

The Commissioners complain that many of the roads were too cheaply built at first, and have required repairs at a great expense. They are opposed, likewise, to the use of the roads before completion.

The affairs of our railways, during the past year, have been conducted with unusual and almost unparalleled regard to the public safety. Out of more than three million passengers riding over these roads, but two have been injured.

The Commissioners recommend the passage of some law by which the obstinacy of some landed proprietors on the line of the road might be made to yield more quickly to the demands of the public, and that they should be induced to take more care of their cattle. Complaints have been made to the Commissioners of the want of suitable connections between rival lines for the accommodation of the traveling public; and, likewise, of the little care taken in the handling of trunks and articles of baggage.

Our railroad statistics are as follows: There are 15 chartered roads in the State, whose entire length is 908 miles, with a double track of 111 miles. The capital employed is $23,675,558, of which $18,589,173 has been paid in. The roads have cost $28,884,483. The greatest cost per mile is that of the N. Y. and N. Haven road, which was $80,329. The Hartford and New Haven cost $53,155 a mile, and the Hartford and Fishkill, $30,296. The Danbury and Norwalk cost only $16,000 a mile.

The gross earnings during the year were $3,527,225 and the expenses of working the roads, $2,354,291. Three roads have paid dividends-the Norwich and Worcester, the N. Y., Providence and Boston, and the Hartford, New Haven and Springfield. These dividends have amounted to $459,709, of which the Hartford road has paid more than half. The roads are in debt $10,785,156.

The persons carried in the cars have been 2,958,698, of which the N. Y. and N. Haven road have carried 1,111,031. Two passengers only have been killed, both on the New Haven road. Nineteen persons, not passengers, have been killed and eight others injured. The Report gives an account of all these disasters, the great majority of which arose from the carelessness of the victims.

The remainder of the Report is occupied in a detail of the separate reports of the different railways, including their answers to all the questions asked under the law. To the whole there is appended a valuable map of the railways of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

and its annual income will not vary much from $135,000.

The whole number of children the past year was 100,084, an increase over last year of 1314. With a stationary income, and an increasing population, the dividend per scholar must be diminished every year.

The Commissioner advises the immediate sale of the wild lands for whatever they will bring.

There are in Hartford 4390 children, an increase of 272, the past year. New Haven, if we leave out Fair Haven, has diminished 318. The fluctuations of increase and decrease the past year have been the greatest in the County of Fairfield. As a whole, New London County is the only one that shows a decrease.

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Report of the State Comptroller.

The Report of the Comptroller on the condition of the public accounts at the close of the fiscal year, March 31st, has been published. From it we learn the following facts.

The Balance in the Treasury at the commencement of the year was $56,229; the receipts including this $56,229 into the Treasury for the current year have been $216,264; the expenditures, $179,862; leaving a balance in the Treasury April 1st 1855, of $36,401.

The total amount of the Grand List of the State on the 1st of October, 1854, was $6,819,191-an increase of $287,756 over 1858.

One of the most important items of expenditure is the Judicial expenses which were $57,535.

The Comptroller estimates the receipts into the Treasury for the coming year at $198,971, and the expenditures at $155,000.

The State is free from debt, and owns some $400,000 of bank stock, independently of its school fund of $2,000,000.

Crows.

We observe that a resolution has been introduced into the Legislature to give a bounty for the killing of crows. We recommend the following article from the Amherst Express to the Com. on Agriculture:

"Don't kill the Crows unless you wish for Worms to do greater mischief. A friend who was in South Deerfield, a few days since, informs us that he saw in a large pasture, acres of grass that were entirely destroyed last season by grub-worms. There were large spots that bore the resemblance of having been rooted over by hogs.. Upon enquiry it was ascertained that it was done by the crows in pursuit of worms. Let farmers who would exterminate these useful, though sometimes destructive birds, remember this."

Education in Michigan.

The Michigan Legislature, at its last session, passed the following acts: An act by which two copies of the Michigan Journal of Education are sent to each township; one copy in monthly numbers, by mail, and one in a bound volume, at the end of the year. An act by which Webster's Unabridged Quarto Dictionary is put into every public school in the State. An act by which the State Teachers' Association or County Associations may be incorporated; and an act by which $1800 is placed in the hands of the Superintendent to expend for Teachers' Institutes.

Queen Victoria's state coach is bullet-proof, and the glass of the windows is six inches thick. When George IV. was fired at the glass was only broken by the ball. In this coach, for some reason, and not as had been expected in an open one, Louis Napoleon proceeded on his late visit to the Guildhall to receive the address of the corporation of London.

Speech of Mr. Babcock.

The Senate, having, on the 31st ult.. on motion of Mr. Babcock, added to one of the resolutions of the Committee on Federal Relations the concluding words in brackets, Mr. Lee, of the 13th District, moved to reconsider the vote for the purpose of striking off the amendment. The following is the resolution and the amendment.

"Resolved, That Connecticut will never consent to the extension of slavery over the common domain of the United States; but on the contrary, believing that the free institutions which an experience, almost coeval with the life of the Republic, has proved to be good for her, are and will be good for all commonwealths, she will strive, to the best of her ability, to exclude the relation of human bondage from the National Territories-[and will oppose, by all constitutional means, the admission to the Union, of another Slave State."]

The motion to reconsider having been carried without opposition, Mr. Babcock moved a farther amendment, namely, to insert after the word territories the words " and from the District of Columbia," so that the resolution would read, "will strive, to the best of her ability, to exclude the relation of human bondage from the national territories, and from the District of Columbia-and will oppose, by all constitutional means, the admission to the Union of another Slave State."

Mr. Babcock said that the resolutions of the committee, without these amendments, lacked force and point. They did not come fully up to the true northern sentiment on the great issues between slavery and freedom-that the people of Connecticut were lovers of the constitution and of the Union-that they had no wish to invade the guaranteed rights of any portion of the country-but they hated slavery. It was in the nature of all men, not corrupted by its influence, to hate it, for it was an outrage upon nature. Yet it existed in the country, and we had become so accustomed to the evil, as to rest quietly under it, until aroused from time to time by some new and daring usurpation on the part of those who seem to have given all the energies of their lives to its extension and perpetuity, regardless of the feelings of the people of the free States, their rights under the constitution, the compromises under which that constitution was established, and the promises held out to us by the fathers of the republic, North and South, that in a little time the whole country would be relieved from the curse of human bondage. But the Senator from the 12th District (Mr. Ferry) is happy to believe that the day is not far off when slavery will be extinct in all the States. He (Mr. B.) was surprised at such a declaration, as much as he was at the assertion that the resolutions of the committee substantially covered the ground of the amendments. The people would no longer be deluded by the resolutions of politicians, or with declarations on such a momentous subject, that were at all ambiguous.

These resolutions avowed hostility to the introduction of slavery in the territories. The amendments asked for an additional avowal of opposition to the admission of another slave State to the Union, and for the removal of slavery from the District of Columbia. Is there anything unreasonable, improper, or unjust in this? Unless we take these positions, with a determination to maintain them at any and all hazards, slavery, which was once termed a "domestic institution of the South," will become so thoroughly nationalized that our responsibility in regard to it will be little less than that of those who seek to propagate it, without regard to means, or of the consequences to the country. It is worse than folly to talk of the speedy extinction of slavery, when it has grown from a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, until it has obscured one half of our political horizon; and it is a cloud freighted with desolation. The question now is whether we shall, like true men, seek to stay its progress, or permit it to belt us round, and finally enclose us in its palsying folds? The fathers of the republic believed that this small cloud would soon disappear; hence Madison said, in the convention that formed the constitution, "I think it wrong to admit the idea in the constitution that there can be property in man." Justice Ellsworth said that slavery, in time, will not be a speck in our country"-and Roger Sherman declared that "he was opposed to a tax on slaves because it implied that they were property." Col. Mason, of Virginia, ir

the same convention, said—"I hold it essential, in every point of view, that the general government should have power to prevent the increase of slavery."

These are only a few of the opinions uttered by the leading members of the convention. In the first Congress under the constitution similar views were expressed. The provision of that instrument, limiting the foreign slave trade to the year 1808, was regarded and intended as a death blow to the institution of slavery itself. But there are now fifteen slave States in the Union, while millions of square miles of territory, heretofore solemnly pledged to freedom, are threatened with desecration by this great curse of modern civilization.

One of the amendments proposes the extinction of slavery in the District of Columbia. In this, we simply ask that the people of Connecticut need not be any longer responsible for the existence of an institution in a District which they own in part, in common with all the other States of the confederaey. They ask that slavery may remain a domestic or state institution, and be no longer nationalized under the flag of the republic. As to the authority of Congress to do this work, it is found in the constitution. The wishes of Virginia and Maryland, alluded to by the Senator, cannot override the charter of our government. Here are the very words— "Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive jurisdiction" over the District. I want no lawyers -no fathers-no commentators, or interpreters to tell me what "exclusive jurisdiction" means. It is a maxim or rule of law that "that is not to be interpreted which needs no interpretation." The words "exclusive jurisdiction," speak for themselves without an interpreter, and here I dismiss this part of the subject.

In regard to the other amendment, it is said that it is in conflict with the Joint Resolutions of the Congress of 1845, by which Texas was admitted into the Union. These resolutions provided that Texas might in some future time, disrobe herself of her sovereignty over a portion of her soil, which portion, south of the line of the latitude of 36 deg. 30 m. may be made into four new slave

states.

Mr. President, can it be seriously contended that the joint resolutions of the Congress referred to, have any force upon any subsequent Congress ? İ contend that they have none whatever, and would have none even if Texas had been admitted to the Union in a constitutional way. 1st. Because one Congress cannot bind another in a matter of that character-and second, because no obligations of good faith require it,-the repeal of the Missouri Compromise being a full repeal of the Texas Compromise if that could be called a compromise; but the joint resolutions admitting Texas, were a fraud upon the people-a palpable outrage upon the constitution, and of no force whatever. Texas is a member of the Union, rather by the acquiescence of the States than by any such action as was adopted by the Congress that annexed her. Texas was not merely foreign territory; but a foreign government. There is no power in the constitution to annex a foreign nation to our own. Had Texas been a mere territory to be purchased of some other government, we could not even then have obtained it but by the treaty power, in the way that the Louisiana purchase was made. The constitutonality even of that purchase was often doubted br Jefferson himself, who made it. The treaty power is vested in the President and two thirds of the Senate. Each State having two Senators, the small states are equal to the larger ones in the Senate, and two thirds of all the Senate being required to ratify a treaty, it is a safe power. It is a power that Connecticut and other states demanded should be in the constitution, otherwise they would not in the confederacy. Yet this power was utterly contemned when Texas was annexed. That deed was done by a simple legislative act, though by only one majority in one branch of Congress. We annot undo it. We do not propose any such thing. But I claim that the outrage was sufficient, without iding to it the audacious pretence that the simple int resolutions, illegal as they were, not only d us to admit Texas, but even four more Mates from her Territory at some future time, and ese to be Slave States, because, forsooth, the MisPari Compromise line was recognized in those res

olutions! The Missouri Compromise? Where is that compromise now? Ask the men who organized the Territories of Kanzas and Nebraska, and the armed hordes of barbarians who have taken possession of the former vi et armis.

Sir: The Senator from the 12th hugs the delusion, that Slavery will ere long be abolished throughout the land! I indulge in no such idle dream, though I trust that if we are true to ourselves, to God, and humanity, we shall be able to check its further progress among the States; and the way to do it, is to speak out as we feel, and to feel as we ought. Once there were even abolition societies in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, as well as in the free states-but the slave power now seeks for supremacy. It must be firmly resisted if we would not ourselves bear its burdens and wear its chains. Mr. Calhoun, while Secretary of State, informed the world in his letter to the British Minister, under date of April 27, 1844, that the annexation of Texas "was made necessary in order to preserve domestic institutions, placed under the guarantee of their respective constitutions and deemed essential to their safety and prosperity."

And during the progress of the war which followed annexation, and was a consequence of it, and which cost over twenty-thousand lives and a hundred millions of dollars-most of the sacrifice being of northern blood and northern treasure-we were told by an influential journal in Charleston, (the Patriot,) that "Southern representatives must remember that this is a Southern war." The Courier of the same city said,

"Every battle fought in Mexico and every dollar spent there, but insures the acquisition of territory, which must widen the field of Southern enterprise and power for the future, and the final result will be to adjust the whole balance of power in the confederacy so as to give us the control over the operations of government in all time to come."

Can we, in view of all these facts, hesitate an instant to speak out in the manly tones of freemen against any more slave states from any territory, and least of all from Texas? What occasion is there for such extraordinary tenderness about her preposterous claims, or rather our claims for her, for it is doubtful whether she will relinquish her territory for any new states to be cut from it. We tremble lest we may invade the constitution when we propose to do any thing for freedom; but we are tender of compromises when asked to check the usurpations or defeat the aims of the slave power. Why is all this? Why do we hesitate? Massachusetts has spoken-and Connecticut spoke as plainly in 1844. She spoke again as strongly in 1845, and two or three times since then. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise gives occasion for her to express her mind again in the most decisive terms. Let her speak now as the people feel, and the star that emblemizes her in the galaxy of States, will shine with increasing brilliancy. Why do we hesitate? Is it party that we fear? Where is the party at the North that can live a year without the support and confidence of those who think more of freedom than of finances. The new party that has lately sprung into life, and marched in victory through the land is not strong enough to live many months if it falters in a cause like this. Much of its strength has been derived from the ranks of the free, under the belief that American principles could not mean devotion to slavery, or a face for the North and a face for the South. I warn the Senator, if he acts as the guardian of the new party, that he does not have occasion to write its epitaph in the lines of the Poet:

"The infant woke life's cup to sip,
And bitter 'twas to drain-
He put it gently from his lip

And went to sleep again."

Mr. President, I have taken up more of the time of the Senate than I intended. But the importance of the subject and the interest I feel in it justifies me. It is a subject of momentous consequence to us and our posterity, to say nothing of the unfortunate race that have so long been the victims of a cruel destiny. And although from what I have seen in the past few days, I have reason to apprehend that my amendments will be lost, I shall feel at least the consciousness that in my humble way, I have sought to do my duty-and in this I know I have the approbation of my conscience-of the

great mass of the people whose opinions I most regard, and more than all of the Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth. It is not proposed to interfere with any of the guaranteed rights of the States; but to oppose "by constitutional means"-such is the language the admission to the Union of another slave state." Let this be our attitude, while we labor to give freedom to the Territories and to the District of Columbia. Then indeed we shall feel as our flag floats over the capitol of the nation, that it is freed from the stain of National slaveryand that we have on all the domains of the Union, "Freedom's soil beneath our feet, and Freedom's banner waving o'er us."

CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURE.

SENATE.

Friday Morning, June 8.

Senate met at nine. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Patton. On motion of Mr. Prentis, the res. incorporating the new town of South Lyme, was taken up, explained by Mr. Prentis, and advocated by Mr. Jennings. Yeas and Nays ordered. Mr. Beecher opposed the bill on account of the increase of representation. Mr. Taylor favored the bill. Res. passed, Ayes 18, Noes one,-Mr. Beecher.

Senate concurred with the House in the reference of their business.

Mr. Ferry, from com. on Judiciary, reported favorably on a bill relating to libel suits. Ordered printed.

Mr. Dorchester introduced a res. allowing the members of the Norwich Joint Stock Gas Co. to use their own gas through their own pipes. Mr. Ferry moved an indefinite postponement. Motion opposed by Messrs. Beecher, Jennings and Dorchester, and advocated by Messrs. Prentis, Ferry and Babcock. Yeas and Nays ordered. Motion for postponement carried, Ayes 11, Nays 10.

The order of the day-the alteration of the Judiciary System, was taken up on motion of Mr. Ferry, who explained the provisions of the bill at length.

Mr. Taylor objected to the bill on account of the abolition of the County Court.

Mr. Ferry replied to the objections.

Mr. Taylor objected to the provision which limited the counsel to a speech of one hour, and to the penalty inflicted upon an unsuccessful appeal.— Bill laid upon the table until two this afternoon.

Mr. Rose, from Com. on State Prison, on the petition to transfer Betsey Reynolds to State Prison, reported adversely. Report accepted.

Senate concurred with the House in their amendments to a bill respecting the Limitation of Actions.

The amendments to the incorporation of the New Haven or Humphreyville Copper Company made by the House were laid on the table.

Com. on State Prison reported favorably on the petition of Lucy Gorman for release from State Prison. Resolution passed.

Resolution, allowing Thaddeus Welles as guardian to sell land of wards, amended by the House, was passed.

Petition of jailor of Litchfield Co. for remuneration for support of prisoners, was reported against by a majority of the Com. on Claims. Majority and minority reports both read. Resolution reported by the minority of the committee, allowing compensation to the jailor, was opposed by Mr. Buckingham, chairman of the Com., on the ground that proper relief could be obtained from the County Commissioners. Laid on table on motion of Mr. Belden.

Mr. Dorchester, from com. on School Fund, on a petition from a school district in New Canaan, reported that the subject belonged to the Commissioner of the School Fund. Report accepted.

Same com. on the petition of a North Fairfield school district, reported favorably. Resolution granting them their school money passed.

Mr. Buckingham from com. on Claims, reported a resolution granting $150 each to Selah Strong, Frederick Croswell and John Dunham, for their services as committee in the investigation of the Judicial Expenses.

Same com. reported a resolution allowing Joseph Pratt and Wm. H. Gilbert $12 as Auditors of the Quarter Master General's account.

Resolution respecting Norwich and Preston Bridge Company continued to next General Assembly.

Mr. Babcock, from Com. on Education, reported on acceptance of the report of the State Normal School. Accepted, and 300 copies ordered printed. Same Com. reported favorably on the union of three school districts in Danbury. Resolution recommitted.

The Judiciary Bill was then taken up. Mr. Taylor moved the bill lie on the table until Wednesday morning next. Motion opposed by Messrs. Ferry, Babcock, Prentis, Alsop and Belden, and advocated by Messrs. Taylor and Buckingham, and lost. Bill passed.

Mr. Babcock moved a reconsideration of the vote recommitting the bill respecting the school districts of Danbury. Reconsideration ordered and bill laid on the table to be printed.

Com. on Education, on a bill concerning Education, reported favorably. Laid on the table to be printed.

Senate did not concur with the House in the proposed visit to the State Reform School, by a vote of 3 to 10.

Res. allowing Walter D. Sperry $34.72, for expenses in serving a criminal process, passed.

Res. amending the charter of the Home Bank of Meriden, passed.

Mr. Ferry, from Com. on Judiciary, reported a resolution respecting the Western Boundary of Connecticut, appointing Wm. H. Holley of Stamford and Jason Whiting of Litchfield, Commissioners to settle this boundary line. Laid on the table. Same Com. reported a substitute for an act relating to the compensation of jailors. Ordered printed.

Same Com. on the resolution concerning the probate of the will of James Penfield, reported favorably. Resolution passed.

Same Com. reported a substitute for a bill relating to civil actions. Ordered printed.

Same Com. reported adversely on a bill regulating the settlement of estates. Bill rejected.

Same Com. reported adversely on a bill with the same title. Bill rejected.

Senate then went into executive session and soon after adjourned.

Adjourned until Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Monday, June 11.

Senate met at 2 o'clock. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Diossy.

Senate concurred with the House in the reference of several resolutions, reports, remonstrances and bills for public acts.

Com. on Judiciary reported adversely on a bill relating to births, &c., granting certain fees for registration. Bill rejected.

Same com. reported adversely on a bill confirming the fees of sheriffs in certain cases. Bill rejec

ted.

Bills reported upon favorably by com. on Judiciary were laid on the table to be printed. The same was done with substitutes.

Same com. reported adversely on a bill relating to State Reform School. Bill rejected. It allowed Justices to commit boys for the whole period of their minority.

Mr. Buckingham appointed com. of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the visit to the Reform School.

On motion of Mr. Ferry, the bill respecting the payment of the committee appointed to revise the statutes was taken up and passed.

On motion of Mr. Ferry, the bill in alteration of the act respecting Savings Banks was taken up and referred to com, on Finance.

Mr. Buckingham, from com. on conference, on the visit to Meriden, reported that the House wished to adjourn for that purpose at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Senate re-considered and concurred with the House.

Mr. Buckingham from com. on claims, reported favorably on the claim of Meriden Bank of $37 80 for over payment of tax for a non-resident. Resolution passed.

Same com. on the petition of Capt. Hamilton reported adversely. Report accepted.

Same com. reported favorably on the claim of Thomas B. Osborne for revising the pauper laws.Resolution allowing $225 passed.

On motion of Mr. Peabody, the act relating to the Pequot Indians was taken up and passed. Adjourned.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Friday Morning, June 8.

House met at nine. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Patton. Mr. North introduced a res. ordering 500 extra copies of the Bank and Railroad Commissioners Report, for the use of the House, and that the Messenger be instructed to distribute two copies to each member. Mr. Coe thought the present number sufficient: he did not believe half the members read them. Mr. Root had not been able to get hold of one, and hoped the res. would pass; res. passed. Res. appointing John D. Park State Director of the Merchants' Bank of Norwich; referred. Res. in regard to Humphreysville Copper Co.; referred to Com. on Incor. other than Banks.

Report of Hitchcocksville Savings Bank and Building Association; referred to Com. on Banks. Bill repealing an Act relating to Railroads; referred to Com. on Railroads.

Res. allowing $74 20 to the 2d School District of the Wapping School Society of South Windsor; referred to Com. on School Fund.

The res. ordering 500 extra copies of the Bank and Railroad Commissioners report was reconsidered. Mr. Coe stated that the printing would occupy so long a time, that the members would get tired of waiting for them, as they would probably have to sit much longer than they expected, if they should get them during the session.

Mr. Tiffany stated the expense of the Bank report would cost $400 or $500; the railroad report would occupy less time and cost less; he suggested that the map should be left out.

Res. laid on table; taken up and indefinitely postponed.

Res. ordering Clerk to procure and distribute one copy of the revised statutes to each member; indefinitely postponed.

Report of Com. on Railroads in favor of petition of N. London, Willimantic & Palmer Railroad, with res. repealing a section of their charter. Mr. Park stated that this section required the Co. to build a bridge in an inconvenient location. Res. passed and report accepted.

Report of Com. on Education, with bill relating to the enumeration of children; laid on table.

Com. on Judiciary reported favorably to House Bill 68, for the protection of Indians and the preservation of their property, appointing overseers; came from Senate amended. Mr. Perkins stated the reasons for the bill. House concurred in amendment, and bill as amended passed, and report of com. accepted.

Mr. Tiffany presented the Report of Com. on Banks in favor of petition of Chauncy Winchell of Rockville, with res.; laid on table.

Report of Com. on Judiciary in favor of petition of Benj. W. Rogers, with accompanying res., instructing the court of probate of Stamford to take cognizance of a will; res. passed and report accepted.

Report of Com. on New Towns and Probate Districts in favor of petition for a new town to be called South Lyme, with accompanying resolution.

Mr. Park, chairman of the com. exhibited a map and explained the geographical relations and divisions of the surrounding towns, and said it appeared to the com. that it would be for the benefit of all concerned that the new town should be incorporated. Laid on table.

Report of com. on Education with accompanying bill, providing that the interest of the School Fund be distributed rateably, was called up.

Mr. Train supported the bill at length.

Mr. Bissell of South Windsor, moved to amend, by striking out the third section requiring the money to be distributed pro rata.

Mr. Judd thought the provisions of the bill would operate disastrously upon the smaller districts which are now allowed $35.

Mr. Miner supported the amendment.

Mr. Coe opposed it; thought there was no justice in the present distribution, which gives a district having twelve scholars $20 more than one having eleven scholars; legislation should not be for the accommodation of a few small districts, but for the benefit of education generally.

Mr. Miner thought it required as much time and expense to sustain a school of ten children as one of twenty.

Mr. Roberts of Torrington said it was supposed when the law was passed that when there were less than 12 scholars there would be no school.

Mr. Phelps regretted this taking up the school law by piecemeal; he favored the amendment, as otherwise the rising generation in the mountain towns, out towns, and back towns, and mountain, out, and back districts in said towns would be deprived of the means of education in a great meas

ure.

Mr. Brooks thought the capacity of the district to support a school should be measured; many wealthy districts had a small number of scholars; this was their own fault, and could not be aided by legislation. (Laughter.) He opposed the amendment; the common fund was a common inheritance, and equity required that it should be equally distributed.

Mr. Phelps moved an amendment striking out the words "pro rata." After a scattering debate by Mr. Tiffany and others,

On motion of Mr. Maddox, the whole matter was recommitted to the Committee. Motion that 500 copies of bill be printed; carried.

Resolution that the clerk be instructed to procure two copies of the Statutes from the side desks for the use of the members, and that they be chained to said desks, and that "State property" be written thereon.

Mr. Brooks opposed the res., as it carried an imputation that the members were "light fingered." That part "chaining" the books was withdrawn, and the res. was then passed.

The res. incorporating the new town of South Lyme was made the order of the day this afternoon at two o'clock.

Report of Com. on Federal Relations was made the order of the day on Thursday morning next, at nine o'clock.

Res. making an appropriation to Lewis B. Hart for services as armorer and arsenal keeper, and to N. S. Webb for services as Quarter Master General; referred to Com. on Claims.

Mr. Tiffany introduced a bill for forming and conducting the military force; referred to Com. on Military Affairs.

Joint res. appointing James Phelps State Director of Saybrook Bank; referred.

Res. instructing the Com. on Printing to inquire into the distribution of some railroad reports; passed.

Res. appointing Seth Talcott State Director of City Bank, and S. A. White and W. A. House State Directors of State Bank, and Stowell Lincoln State Director of Windham Bank; referred to Com. on Banks.

Report of Com. on Judiciary adverse to bill for the regulation of civil actions; bill rejected and report accepted.

Report of same com. adverse to res. restoring forfeited rights to Timothy D. Goff; laid on table. Bill providing the number of jurymen for town of Putnam; referred to Com. on Judiciary. Res. incorporating the school society of Putnam; referred to Com. on Education.

Adjourned to two o'clock this afternoon.

House met at two.

Afternoon.

The order of the day was called for, being the consideration of the res, incorporating the new town of South Lyme, as reported by the com. on new towns and probate districts.

Mr. English said that he had taken some trouble to inform himself upon the subject of new towns,

Increase of Representatives since 1818-21.

Mr. Selden of Lyme opposed the resolution: the whole northern portion of the town were unanimously opposed to the change-the southern portion were not so generally in favor of it.

Mr. Parks said there was no opposition from the southern portion of the town; it was all from the Borthern portion.

Mr. North opposed the res. on the ground of the increase of representation. We should have due regard to the proportion of representation. He offered an amendment that the old town should relinquish the right to but one representative.— Amendment carried. Reconsidered on the ground that it was not understood.

Mr. Train opposed the amendment; he saw no reason for restricting this town in this manner; it defeated the whole object of the res. It was unjust to make this town an exception to all others.

Mr. Spencer thought it better to reject the res. wholly than to colorably receive it under such a retriction.

Mr. Root favored the amendment; he had been constantly button-holed on this question by those in favor of the new town.

Mr. Roberts opposed it; he was willing the representation should be increased.

Mr. North then withdrew his amendment. Yeas and Nays ordered.

The question was then taken on the original res. as reported by the com. (Mr. Perkins asked to be excused from voting, as he was not well acquainted with the facts. House refused to excuse him; he then voted with the com.) The res. was carried, yeas 107; nays 42. Prayer of petitioners granted, report accepted, and remonstrants had leave to withdraw.

Motion that when the house adjourn it adjourn to meet on Monday next at 2 o'clock P. M.; motion carried.

Bill in addition to an Act relating to courts; referred to Com. on New Towns and Probate Districts. Bes. instructing the Com. on Judiciary to procure copies of the bill relating to judicial reform for the use of the House; passed.

Bes. authorizing the Clerk to write " State Propety on the Statutes in possession of the House; sed.

Report of Com. on Judiciary on judicial reform *th bill, made the order of the day on Friday Lening next, at 9 o'clock.

Report of Com. on Banks with res. amending the Marter of the Home Bank; res. passed and report cepted.

Remonstrance of South Ridge against a new town; erred to Com. on new towns and probate districts. Adjourned to Monday, at 2 o'clock P. M.

Monday Afternoon, June 11.

The House came to order at two. Prayer by Mr. Diossy.

Report of com. on visiting the State Reform Mol, with res. came from Senate, who adhered Le vote appointing June 11th for the visit. The se insisted on its vote appointing Tuesday, and 1 of conference appointed, consisting of Messrs. Ks and Strong.

authorizing the executors of Aaron Turner erform their duties under certain conditions; 166 com, on Judiciary.

ctual report of Westport Savings Bank and Ang Association; ref. to com. on Banks. set of com. on State Prison adverse to the a for the removal of Betsey Wadhams, an inperson, from Litchfield County Jail; report el and petitioners had leave to withdraw.

resolutions appointing Augustus N. Leroy has. C. Burt, State Directors of Hartford *George Sexton, State Director of Exchange

J. G. Litchfield and 0. D. Griswold, of

Farmers & Mechanics Bank; ref. to com, on Banks.

Res. making an appropriation to Timothy Andrews, for expenses in arrest of criminal; ref. to com. on Claims.

Bill relating to Aliens; ref. to com. on Judiciary. Report of com. on Roads and Bridges on the petition of Norwich and Preston Bridge Co., continuing the same to the next session of the General Assembly. Mr. Marple of Plainfield, explained the circumstances of the case and the reasons which governed the com. in their decision. Report accepted and pet. and res. continued to next General Assembly.

Report of com. on Claims in favor of res. allowing $12 to Joseph Pratt and Wm. H. Gilbert, for services as Auditors of the Quarter Master General's report; res. passed and report accepted.

Report of same com. in favor of res, allowing to John Dunham, $150, Selah Strong, $150, and Frederick Croswell, $160, for services as Com. on Judicial Expenses; res. passed and report accepted.

Report of Com. on School Fund, on the petition of Ponas School District in New Canaan, for school money, referring the same to the Superintendent of Common Schools, and giving the petitioners leave to withdraw; laid on table. Afterwards called up and report accepted.

Report of Com. on Education, accepting the sixth annual report of the State Normal School, and ordering 300 copies printed; report accepted.

Report of Com. on Sale of Lands, in favor of petition of Murray S. Baldwin, for leave to sell laud, with accompanying res; laid on table.

Report of Com. on School Fund, in favor of the petition of the fifth School District of North Fairfield, for school money, with res. allowing $58 75, payable from the interest of School Fund; res. passed and report accepted.

Report of Com. on Sale of Lands, in favor of the petition of Asa Comstock, for confirmation of sale of lands, with res.; res. passed, report accepted and prayer of petition granted.

Report of Com. on Judiciary, granting the prayer of the petition of Wm. W. Ellsworth, with res. appointing Henry White, Attorney of Louisa Webster, to make certain contracts concerning the copy rights of her father's books; res.passed and report accepted.

The res. concerning the visit to the State Reform School, came from Senate, who concurred in the amendment of the House, appointing Tuesday next, at 3 o'clock P. M.; res. passed. Motion that Mr. Brooks be appointed Com. of the Whole, to provide for the return of the Members of the House at such time as he shall think proper; carried.

Res. that 1000 copies of the report and catalogue of the State Reform School be printed; passed.

Report of Mount Carmel Savings Bank and Building Association; referred to Com. on Banks. Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Miscellaneous.

From Beecher's "Star Papers."
Trouting.

A

We put into the brook just below a smart foamy fall. We have on cowhide shoes and other rig suitable. Selecting an entrance we step in, and the swift stream attacks our legs with immense earnestness, threatening to take us off from them. few minutes will settle all that and make us quite at home. The bottom of the brook is not sand or gravel, but rocks of every shape, every position, of all sizes, bare or moss-covered. The stream goes over them at the rate of ten miles an hour. The descent is great. At every few rods cascades break over ledges and boil up in miniature pools below. The trees on either side shut out all direct rays of the sun, and for the most part the bushes line the banks so closely and cast their arms over so widely that they create a twilight-not a gray twilight losing its lustre, but a transparently black twilight which softens nothing, but gives more ruggedness to the rocks, and a sombre aspect even to the shrubs and fairest flowers.

It is a great matter to take a trout early in your trial. It gives one more heart. It serves to keep

one about his business. Otherwise you are apt to fall off into an unprofitable reverie; u wake up and find yourself standing in a dream, half-seeing, half-imagining, under some covert of over-arching branches, where the stream fiows black and broad among the rocks, with moss green above the water and dark below it.

But let us begin. Standing in the middle of the stream, your short rod in your hand, let out twelve to twenty feet of line, varying its length according to the nature of the stream, and, as far as it can be done, keeping its position and general conduct under anxious scrutiny. Just here the water is midleg deep. Experimenting at each forward reach for a firm foothold, slipping, stumbling over some uncouth stone, sliding on the moss of another, reeling and staggering, you will have a fine opportunity of testing the old philosophical dictum that you can think of but one thing at a time. You must think of half a dozen; of your feet or you will be sprawling in the brook; of your eyes and face, or the branches will scratch them; of your line, or it will tangle at every step; of your far distant hook and dimly seen bait, or you will lose the end of all your fishing. At first it is a puzzliug business. A little practice sets things all right.

Do you see that reach of shallow water gathered to a head by a cross bar of sunken rocks? The water splits in going over upon a slab of rock below and forms an eddy to the right and one to the left. Let us try a grasshopper there. Casting it in above and guiding it by a motion of your rod over it goes and whirls out of the myriad bubbles into the edge of the eddy, when, quick as a wink, the water breaks open, a tail flashes in the air and disappears, but reappears to the instant backward motion of your hand, and the victim comes sklittering up the stream, whirling over and over, till your hand grasps him, extricates the hook and slips him into the basket. Poor fellow! you want to be sorry for him, but every time you try you are glad instead. Standing still you bait and try the other side of the stream, where the water, wiping off the bubbles from its face, is taken toward that deep spot under a side rock. There you've got him! Still tempting these two shores you take five in all, and then the tribes below grow cautious. Letting your line run before you, you wade along, holding on by one branch and another, fumbling with your feet along the jagged channel, changing hands to a bough on the left side, leaning on this rock, stepping over that stranded log. Ripping a generous hole in your skirt as you leave it, you come to the edge of the petty fall. You step down, thinking only how to keep your balance, and not at all of the probable depth of the water, till you splash and plunge down into a basin waist deep. The first sensations of a man up to his vest pockets in water are peculiarly foolish, and his first laugh rather faint. He is afterward a little ashamed of the alacrity with which he scrambles for the bank. A step or two brings him to a sand bank. But while you are in a scrape at one end of your line, a trout has got into a worse one at the other. A little flurried with surprise at both experiences, you come near losing him in the injudicious haste with which you overhaul him.

FEMALE EXTRAVAGANCE.-' -The editor of the Saturday Evening Union, a lady, is down upon the complaints of extravagance among the ladies. She says:

"The root of all the extravagance among the ladies is their dependence on the men, and the real or supposed necessity which exists of making themselves attractive to them, and which is accomplished by show and dress. The majority of men are less afraid of an extravagant wife than they are of an independent 'know something' character. It lies. with men to reform the extravagance of the ladies, not by scolding about every first of January, but by educating their daughters for some honorable pursuit, by which they can remain independent through life, if they please; and by showing their respect for women who are able to stand alone, instead of reserving their admiration for over dressed dolls, which they worship while the money lasts, and abuse when these same dolls' dresses have to be paid for."