Governor Peirpoint and the land tax.
We learn that Governor Peirpoint will this morning proceed to Washington city for the purpose of making an arrangement with the Secretary of the Treasury where by the Legislature of Virginia may assume the payment of the taxes on land due to the General Government by the people of this State.
We embrace this opportunity --one not having previously offered itself — to unite with the people generally in ascribing to Governor Peirpoint a most commendable disposition to render the situation of our people as tolerable as circumstances will allow; to consult the general good, in his official acts, the public wishes in his appointments, and, in a word, to put a glove upon the mailed hand of war which now holds us in its grasp.
We can say of his administration, as General Grant says of the conduct of the people of the Southern States, that "it is much better than could reasonably have been expected."
conciliation which looks to any abatement of their demands.--Sun.
Reconstruction.
The Provisional Governor of Florida will be ordered to surrender his authority to the legally constituted government of that State when the Legislature meets and acts, if not before.
In Florida and Texas only the President now maintains the provisional government.
The government of the latter has not been re-organized, and consequently the provisional government is retained.
The Fenian.
In Washington, as elsewhere, the recent troubles are injuring the Fenian Societies.
Several meetings, without results, have lately been held here.
Arrest of thieves.
Michael Holland and Thomas Collier were arrested for entering the store of Mr. C. Herman.
About four hundred dollars' worth of the stolen goods were secured.
The prisoners were committed for court.
Sentenced.
In the Criminal Court, Hy. Hawkins and William Tyler, convicted to-day of larceny, were each sentenced one yea
