Backing OM.-Tt may be recollected by out readerI

 that about year since the legislature of Georgia pas

 sed an act disqualifng the Cherokee and Greek Tn dans from giving testimony againEt the white people of Georgia. 1t appears by the annexed extract from the message of GOvernor Gilmore to the legislature its session which commenced on the 18th uIt. that he recommends the abolition of thae law, and restora- tiOn to the Indians of ther Iormer rghts and prive. ges. The authorities O Georgia had learnt doubtless that the moral sense of that community was op- posed to the law.

 "It is due to Indian people that that provision

 in the law of 1899 should he repealed which prevents Indians, and the descendants of Indians from being competent witnesses in the of the Sfae in ca- ses where white man is party. The present law exposes them to great oppression, whilst its repeal would most probably injnro one. Attempts have been made 10 strip them of their property by forged contracts, because of the mpOssbility of defending their rights by the testimony of those who alone can know them. And although the moral feelings of Our frontier community has been too correct to hermit such infamous proceedings effect their enS yet the character Of legislation for justice requires that the rights of these department people should not be determine upon the competency of witnesses and our Juries to weigh their credbility."

 Thanksgiving, in the state ofNew-Yor is appoint- ed on the same day in Connecticut and in Massa- chusetts on Thursday the 2d day of December.

 Late papers announce the death of the Hon. John Mclean, one of the Senators in Congress from the state o IlIinois He died on the 1Ath of October at 