The Legislature

Our time has not perniittcd our usual Ugislative digüst this week. The House has pussed since last report thc Senate bilí for au addition to the Insane Asyluiu. The same body has also passcd a bilí providing for the appointmcnt of two professors of homeopathy in thc Medical Department of the Universdty, to lectuve to tho same classis, and receivo their salarios from the University fund. The Senate had the good sense to kill thc bilí on AVodiuslay, striking out all after the enacting cluusc, by a vote of 16 to 1 i. Conoed n all that the fríen Ís of hon eOMitthy can possibly claim for it, and it is the sheerest folly, in our estiwatior, at loast, to tcaeh it in a "regular school." Better a sépante school or a distir ct oonrse after the March Medical Commencoiucnt. The Sonate has a bilí pending providing for a separate school. The Seríate, on Wednesday, passcd tho House " bilí to authorize thc election of a Township drain comuiissioner in each organizcd township," and abolishing, we suppose, the office of County Dram Commissioner. This.action israther late, after the countics have nominated the drain ((iiinnissioncrand parties printcd and put out their tickets, and after many of the towns in the State have also made their nominations. Such action should have Tl ie Flint asylum still hangs fire in the House. Tin: ilonroe Commercial says of Senator Sim.ner : " He has alienated his warmest friends by an insolence that had become almost intolerable. He is dictatorial, overbearing. His daily life in the Senato was ono of torture to his fellow Senators, and how they have endurod it so long is one of the mysteries of political affiliation. Tliere are gentlemen in this county who have sat in the gullery of the United States Senatc and heard this ' great man ' scold, and insult, and browbeat, and díctate, till their blood fairly tingled and their fists doubled up in indignation." It may not oxactly account for " the milk in the cocoa nut, but thon our friend of the Com merciul is postmastcr of " the independent state," and holds his office at the will of the Pivsident, and that truculent niajority in the Senate which just now has Sujixer, heretofore tho deini-god of the Eepublican party, down. The Pitteficld Democrats - few but gamey - have held a causus and nominated a full ticket, headed by GuovE SaunDEBS for Supervisor, with J. 8. Hendeusoït for Clerk. We aro " a feared" that Messrs Saunders and Hexijeeson and their worthy colleagues will lack a few votes when the polls close, but then as " a continual dropping wcurs away stones," persistent eLfoi"t - with an influx of Democrats and an out-moving of Republicans - will redeein "Pitt" one of these days. The Republican ticket in the same town IS hnildnrl iv T)AVTT1 WlT.SV.V. tlin nrocnnf J UWVAV4 J t ■■- 1 V AJJWAJ .4. } biiv I "i VO(.''l U Supervisor. - The Demócrata of Superior have a good ticket in the field headed by Williaïi Geer, and will strive to make a beter report than last year, when disaffecion produced - as it always will - defeat. - - -4 - i w-m - ► ■ - On the 24th tho President issuod a procamation against the insurrectionists of South parolina, finding full warrant in ho existing laws for so doing : thut is if ïo was oalled upon so to do by the legitímate authorities. And if the laws furnish he authority for such ijroclaination what he vise of the further legislation asked of Üongross in his special message of tho tay before? Armod insurrectionists - vhether Ku Klux, carpet-baggers or neUtoet - can be dealt with undor tho laws as ther are, and any further legislation is )roposed for paxtisan purjioses and not 'or tlie good of the whole people of tho South. Besides, what constitutional warant has Congress to pass any laws pont. shing any class of crimes, whieh are not general in their application and do not inludo Maine as well as Mississippi, Kanas as well as South Carolina 'r That's the uestion. The Rhode Island State election takes lace on Wednesday, April 5(h. TbeDiincrats havo made a nomination, but don't cem to havo much confidence in succuedHon. Luoius Patïehson, a prominent awyer and politician - Democratie - of rund Iïapids, died on the 231 inst., unieitsftlly resiectcd and regrutted by his cllow-oitiacns. Bauon Gehoi.t, l'russinn Minister at Vashington, haa boon re-called, at his wii requMt. J