Tennessee

lho Legislatura ot l ennessee are n tho present time, deeply engaged iri diacuësion on the lippling net. Mr. Ewing, ot Dividson, iolrpduced a bilí to provide fort the retailing of spirituous liquors. Provided ihatno person síinll be entitled toretail spiritnons liquors withouí first paying a tax of $250, an.d faking an oath not to sell liquor to slaves witbouj a permit fVom lho muster - nut to permit any {nminj; on the pretnincs, and to Ueop an orderly housu. Mr. Goodall.of Smith, mov-!J to strilc; out 150 and insert 75 dollars. Mr. Hill, of Warren, moved to strike out eaHi amount, and let the subject go beture a committee for their action. Mr. Dow, of Maury, moved to lay tho subject upon the tabíe. He had been ;i practisinir attorneyfever sinco tbc passnne of the proienl luw rclating to tipplibg, and for some time previous, n eeveral of the larger countie3 of the State, and he could safely and with prudénce sáy, ih-it the law, wherever it had been faítiifully executed, had the most Baïutary eíTicta upon the moráis of the people. Hé iaicw the profession to which he belonged had suiFered severely frorn the action of the law. Thcy had in mar.y couiuica suffe.red to the amount ofa hundrod per cent. in their criminal or penal practice. Thh he knew tole the tact, and it spoke volumes in favor of the coniinuance of the present law. He was well aware that wi.oro the law had been rigidly enforced, t had created quite an indignant expression of public sentiment u iirst, hut that ibelin had in a great measure suhsidtd, and tbc m wc the people saw of the benefiet! eflucts flnving from the execuiion of the law, the better reconcüeti were they becomiiiii t its rerriaining asona.ofthe statutes of tho