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Usmy.-Stcp by step are the absur ditles Of our forcfathers retiring before the increasing light of the age. It is but a few years since there was, in this State, a heavy penalty annexed to the taking of more that sssS ssSS for for the use 0ii $l00 for ono year. Now, though the rule is far from reasonable, it is less ab- surd that before. Now we can Tecoys CT the principal and interest at the legal rate only on q usurious contract.

 A like improvement, we are glad to see, has been made in the law of South Carolina, though in making it that State stopped short of Georgia-there, the principal alone is recoverable.

 Surely t is time that all these foolish laws should be expunged from our st;if- ute book, ard every man left to make ms ean bargains, iii his own way, Pi07i;;SS- ed it be clear of fraud, ) in lending or borrowing money as well as in buylng and selling corn, cotton, land, or any thing else. Government should never meddle with these things, farther tpa' to punish fraud, and to oenforce 2 cons pliance with contracts. Georgia Jour-

 