A New Doctrine

Senator Fowlek, in a leugthy and exhaustive (exhaustive of common sense) report in favor of a bilí enablingsoldiers in service out of the State to vote, makes the füllowing statement : ''Many of the opposers of the rnoasure have fallen into the error of considering the constitution of a State a granting vistead of a limiting power," and then to this negative asssertion of eupreme power for the Legislalature, adds tho following affinaative declaration : "But it is believed to bo well established by all of the eleraentrary writers upon constilutional law, that all power vests in the people and tbat the canstitution of a State is a limiting, and nat a granting of power. And that the Legislaturo of a State, as a municipal organiaation, has a right to pass any law the publio iutercst may require whioh is not prohibited by the eonstitution." Well, admitting the truth of Senator Fowler's proposition, what then ? The "public interest" requires that the fc'enator and " all in authority " have brains, and with brains public and private integrity, and patriotism divested of partisanship ; the eonstitution neither prohibits thetn having these qualitics, nor the Legislature n.default of their having them, frotn grauting them ; theroforc, " the Legislature bas a right " to pass a law endowing Senator Fovvler, and all Lis copartisans, witb, abundant wisdem and integrity, both in an official a.nd private capacity Wül it do so ? ilnilli S3TThe Republicana have all along claimed to ba the " Simón puro " Jeffersonian Democraoy, biu it eeeras they are about to ent loose frotn tho grea.t leader. A writer in the last ntimber of the Continental Montkly, one of the radical organs has-- or imagines he has - proved Jefïeraon a knave, a demagogue, and a fooi, ar.d of courso hereafter his name vvill be tabooed in Rcpublican ciroles. All right, having svvung clear of the habeas corpus and other land-marks of national and individual liberty advocated by Jefferson, it is limo that they swjng oloar of his name. IQp'Both the Senate and Hntiao have passed a bilí making an appropriation in aid of the National Cumetery at Getly8burg, We have not seen the bill, but judging by the report of tho Committee bringing it in it appropriates $2,500 towardu purchaso oí grounds, enclosings, buria! expenses, monument, &c, and tho further suin of S1000 to defray tho expense oí a special Commissioner to represent tho State, and make improvements oq the grounds set apart to Michigan. L3 lirig. Gen. Stkpiibn ü. Chamblim, late commandant of the conecript camp at Grand llupids, died in that city, pn Tten'i)) r.:';fn,ccr kl,