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General Assembly of Virginia.
Senate. Thursday, March 6th, 1862.
The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock, and opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Jeter.
The execution of the joint order, having for its object the election of certain State officers on the 6th of March, was postponed until the 20th inst.
A message was received from the House of Delegates, by Mr. Anderson, of Botetourt, who informed the Senate that the House had passed a bill entitled "an act to suspend the work on the Kanawha river, and to authorize the application of a part of the loan made for that improvement, to keep open the navigation of the James river Canal, and to improve the sluices upon a part of the river." Referred to the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation.
The Senate were also informed that the House had agreed to a joint resolution of request to the Secretary of War in relation to the acceptance of new regiments, battalions, and companies from Virginia, and to a joint r
[Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, March 6, 1862
Captain Chubb, of the Confederate privateer Royal Yacht, captured off Galveston in November, arrived here yesterday by flag of truce from Fort Monroe.
The Day Book has an account of the capture of the Royal Yacht, from which I take the following paragraph:
"The Royal Yacht was commissioned on the 9th of September, 1862, and was attacked by the enemy on the 8th of November following.
She was lying at the time at Galveston, and was acting as a picket or guard boat. --The attack was made at about 2½ o'clock in the morning by two launches of the United States vessel Santee, each containing forty men, and a cutter with twenty men — making a total of one hundred.
The crew of the Yacht, notwithstanding the statement of the enemy to the contrary, numbered only thirteen; and when they say they killed all excepting the thirteen they made prisoners, they only take a roundabout way of saying that they killed none
Richmond Markets, March 6, 1862.
there is nothing new of interest in commercial matters, have a little better feeling with a shade advance in the Tobacco market.
Stocks of all descriptions are very tight and prices continue high, especially in cigars, owing to the difficulty of getting transportation.
The improvement in Tobacco though slight, is an indication that in the opinions of some persons, the last European news is not so unfavorable to the idea of the exportation of our sta t.
The notes of the Wheeling Banks, Bank of Berkeley, and Bank of Philippi, are taken by Brokers at par. Bank of Fairmont per cent.
discount.
Sales of stocks in Richmond.
--Reported by John A Lancaster & Son, for the week ending March 6, 1862.
Confederate States Bonds--$5,000,000--sales at $99.
Confederate States bonds--$100,000,000 issue — sales 98.
Tennessee State bonds--(interest suspended,) last sales, 60.
Virginia 6 per cent. Registered Bonds, sales at 92½.
From Norfolk.
Norfolk March 6, 1862.
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