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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pen-and-ink portraits of Major Mrs. Yelvrerton
Night session of the House of Delegates
--Wednesday,March 27--The Speaker called the House to order at 7½ o'clock.
Bills were reported, 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 o
Extra session U. S. Senate. Washington, March 27.
--A message was received from the President declining, for prudential reasons, to transmit to the Senate Maj. Anderson's dispatches to the War Department.
Mr. Breckinridge's resolution advising the withdrawal of U. S. troops from the Confederate States, was discussed, but with no result.
After an Executive session, adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
Confirmations by the Senate. Washington, March 27.
--George Sands, Postmaster at Abingdon; A. Judson Crane, Attorney for the Southern District of Virginia; Alexander McDonald, Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va.; Robert Wood, Surveyor for the Port of Hampton, Va.; Thomas J. Gardner, Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee; John McCormick, Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee; John S. Hopkins, Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee; Blackstone McDaniel, Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee; D. P. Holloway, Commissioner of Patents.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The lobby Slang. (search)
From Washington. Washington, March 27.
--Private accounts from New Mexico represent that the Texas Special Commissioner had met with but little success in his secession efforts in that Territory.
The prospect of an extra session of Congress is not encouraging.
Many of the Republican Senators are opposed to it. The subject has not seriously occupied the attention of the Administration.
The Light-House Bureau has almost entirely suspended operations, owing to the invalidity of the funds.
Col. Lamon has returned from his official errand to Fort Sumter.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Virginia mails. (search)
From Texas. New Orleans, March 27.
--The Texas Legislature has passed resolutions approving the Convention's act deposing Gov. Houston.
The bill to raise a regiment of Mounted Riflemen of 1,000 men, for the frontier, has passed.
The Indian depredations are increasing.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Major Anderson Newport Kentucky
Northern Markets.
Baltimore, March 27.
--Flour steady.
Howard Street $5.62; City Mills $5. Wheat firm — red $1.25@$1.30; white $1.40@1.65.
Corn steady — mixed 53@54 Provisions steady.
Coffee firm at 13 ¼c. Whiskey steady at 17
New York, March 27.
--Cotton steady.
Flour firm.
Wheat and Corn steady — Mixed 65 ½ new yellow Southern 68@70.
Whiskey firm at 17 ¼@17 ¾.
Sugar steady-- Muscovado 4 ¼@6 Coffee steady at 12 ½c. Turpentine firm, with sales of 2,000 bbls. a
Corn steady — mixed 53@54 Provisions steady.
Coffee firm at 13 ¼c. Whiskey steady at 17
New York, March 27.
--Cotton steady.
Flour firm.
Wheat and Corn steady — Mixed 65 ½ new yellow Southern 68@70.
Whiskey firm at 17 ¼@17 ¾.
Sugar steady-- Muscovado 4 ¼@6 Coffee steady at 12 ½c. Turpentine firm, with sales of 2,000 bbls. at 34 ½@36 ½.
Rosin firm, sales of 6,000 bbls. at 25.
Rice firm and sales of 1,400 tierces.--Stocks firmer and dull — N. Y. Ce