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in the chair.
the bill incorporating the
offered a substitute for the bill, which was adopted, read
" Resolved.That theCommittee on Courts of Justice inquire into the expediency of altering and amending the sections fromone tofourteen , inclusive, of chapterone hundred and ninety-eight of theCode of, and report by bill or otherwise. 1860 Agreed to.
from the
" Resolved,That theCommittee on Finance inquire into the expediency of increasing the fees allowed to clerks, sheriffs, jailors, &c."
" Resolved,That theCommittee on Courts of Justice be instructed to inquire into the expediency of taking the county ofBland from theSixteenth Judicial Circuit, and making it a part of theFifteenth Judicial Circuit." Adopted.
" Resolved,That a committee ofthree be appointed to wait on theGovernor and ascertain whether any arrangement has been made with theFederal authorities by which a delay has been secured in the collection of taxes under the act of Congress until theLegislature shall dispose of the subject." Agreed to.
of
" Resolved,That, theHouse of Delegates consenting, a jointcommittee of conference , composed offive members on the part of theSenate andnine on the part of theHouse , be appointed to confer on the subject of thePublic Printing ; theSenate having refused to concur in the vote of theHouse thereon." Agreed to.
" Resolved,That legislation on this subject is deemed inexpedient, and we ask the discharge of further consideration on the subject." Agreed to.
of
was made the order of the day for Tuesday at , and continued as such on each day thereafter until finished, by a vote of
reported a bill for the incorporation of the
Also an act to incorporate the
Resolutions of inquiry were offered, and agreed to by the
--That the
--That in view of the extinction of slavery in this State by a provision of the
--That the
--That the
--That the
of
of
--That the
the
For the Defence.--
vs. vs. vs.
vs.
vs.
sine die, took occasion to spread upon its records its acknowledgments to
Dispatch is published at Dispatch counting room.
Dispatch.--The arrangement of routes for carriers, the finding out the residences of subscribers, and, above all, the securing of faithful carriers to deliver the paper to them, involve a great deal of difficulty and trouble.
Dispatch. Wherever the mail, the Dispatch shall be found, cost what it may of capital, energy and labor.
of the
Our thanks are due to
Tobacco.--No change since our last report.
Apples.--per barrel,
Peaches.--Dried, per lb, peeled,
Cherries.--Seeded,
Flour.--Virginia Family,
Buckwheat.--
Corn Meal.--Bolted,
Corn.--
--No quotations.
--
Whisky.--Common,
Holland Gin.--
Wine.--Port,
--
Brandy.--
Rum.--
Kerosine Oil--
--Sides,
Lard.--Prime,
Salt.--
Butter.--
Molasses.--Common syrup, which is a good name applied to a bad article,
Cheese.--Northern and Western,
Irish Potatoes.--
Coffee.--
Sugar.--
Teas.--Black,
--
Candles.--Adamantine, light weight,
Soap.--Common,
Powder.--
Shot.--
Vinegar.--Cider,
Cider.--Apple,
--Herrings,
Leather.--Sole leather, oak,
--Unwashed,
Venison.--
Beef.--From store,
Pork.--From store,
Peas.--Black-eyed,
Minister to the
cannot back out if he would.
and the
There were a
"because it was her duty to implore blessings, "and not to pronounce execrations. " Nor in any species of eloquence does invective add to the influence of an oration, save when exerted against wrong, wickedness, and folly, and then it must be justly proportioned to the object of its reprehension.
who could lay claim to none of the impassioned declamation of his Whig opponents, kept his ground in debate.
"The doctrine seems to bethis: there is no andGod ,is his prophet."Harriet
once justified an assault on a man of moderate abilities, whose purposes he considered as mischievous as they were well meant. "I do not attack him," said he, "for love of glory, but from a love of utility, as a burgomaster hunts a rat in a Dutch dike for fear it will flood a province."
was a great master of lofty contemptuousness.
the effect of the contemptuous method.
"I shall make no other remark on the personalities of the honorable member who has just spoken than merely to say that, as he rose without a friend, so he has certainly sat down without having made an enemy."
with
to the taunt of the
that it makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no. It was his personal manhood which gave peculiar energy to the invective of
have laid upon our table a copy of a monthly Masonic magazine bearing the above title, published at
Sun's correspondence says:
Washington ,December 17. --A prominent Western RepublicanCongressman will this week introduce a series of resolutions in favor of admitting all theSouthern representatives who can take the test oath and whose States have abolished slavery and repudiated the rebel war debt; also declaring that the right of suffrage should be regulated by theStates themselves.
In the minds of all the foremost subject of thought — the policy of reconstruction — requires some attention. I would say, as was written by the great dramatist.
Chronicle.
lb.
Washington Chronicle.
"The accounts of the exploits of the troops are just like the accounts of sportsmen popping away at pheasants in a preserve, and when, after a month of it, on the , the new pit dug at 7th ultimo Morant Bay for negro bodies was filled without any, the general opinion of the disappointedEnglish settlers is reported by theJamaica reporter as a universal verdict of 'too soon,' in which he himself heartily concurred.Stanard The says that, if a thousandth part of the tales narrated with heartiest applause by theDaily News Jamaica papers are true, then 'hell itself has broke loose in that wretched island.But the demons are not the blacks, who burst into the sudden fury of a single day, and never afterward offered the remotest show of resistance. ' It is said that fifty lives have been taken for every white person killed or wounded in theemeute."
The
Round Table calls tin, wooden and glass weddings, benefit nights for married beggars.
coup d'etat to head off radicalism.
via Havana from Dispatch.]
Dispatch.]
via Queenstown on the
London, December 9--Evening. --Consols for money,
Senate,
House,
Resolved, That no representatives from the
News, who was arrested and brought here on
A Long Absent Petersburg Heard From.
Express.
World"The great lion in the path of Southern industry at this moment is Federal legislation.
Washington Chronicles.