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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
cision; on which the yeas and nays were called, and resulted — yeas 13, nays 18. The Senate refusing to sustain the Chair, the amendment of Mr. Armstrong was considered and rejected — yeas 17, nays 18. The vote on the passage of the bill was recorded as follows: Yeas.--Messrs. Brannon, Bruce, Carson, Carraway, Claiborne, Coghill, Day, Dickinson of Price Edward, Douglass, Finney, French, Hubbard, Johnson, Lynch, Marshall, McKenney, Nash, Newman, Pate, Pennybacker, Quesenberry, Smith, and Thompson--28. Nays.--Messrs. Armstrong, August, Dickenson of Grayson, Gatewood, Greever, Layne, Logan, Neeson, Newton, Paxton, Stuart, Townes, and Wickham--13. Belmont Bridge Company.--The bill suspending the levying of taxes by the State on the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company for six years, was next called up and passed. Virginia Canal Bill.--On motion of Mr. Neeson, the House bill to incorporate the Virginia Canal Company and to transfer the rights and franchises o
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pen-and-ink portraits of Major and Mrs. Yelvrerton. (search)
eported, authorizing County Courts to establish water courses lawful fences within their respective limits; incorporating the Tobacco Savings Bank of Richmond City; authorizing the Board of Public Works to estimate and report losses sustained by Wm. W. King, in the construction of the 14th section of the Ohio River and Maryland Turnpike Road; authorizing the trustees of Easterns' Meeting-House, in Morgan county, to sell and convey the same. On motion of Mr. Phelps, the House proceeded to consider Senate bill entitled "an act to amend the 1st section of chapter 149 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the limitation of suits, so as to limit the right to make an entry or bring an action, to recover land West of the Alleghany mountains." The bill being on its passage, it was advocated by Messrs. Phelps, McCamant, Crane, Anderson, and Hoffman, and opposed by Messrs. Smith, of Kanawha, and Caperton, and the House voting the question on its passage, was determined in the affirmative.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. the times — the flag-ship Cumberland in the Roads — no troops yet arrived at Old Point — Norfolk has Missed her Chance — who's responsible?--Dr. Wm. A. Smith--Mr. John B. Cury's Academy--Chesapeake Female College--the Fruits and weather. Hampton, Va., March 25th, 1861. Times are really dull — the general complaint is "dull times and a tardy Convention. "--"What shall we do? What will the members of the Convention do? " etc. Such qor other ships, go, under the advantage of the Southern tariff, to the Southern States, and there discharge, their cargoes. Will Norfolk ever awake from her profound slumber? We sincerely hope she will, and the day is not far distant. Dr. Wm. A. Smith, of Randolph Macon College, is expected to deliver several lectures is this place at an early day on the subject of slavery. Mr. John B. Cary's Military Academy is in a prosperous condition. This school has taken a high stand, and w