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Legislature of Virginia, Senate. Friday, Dec. 20, 1861.
The Senate was called to order at the usual hour.
Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Read, of the Presbyterian Church.
A communication was received from the House of Delegates announcing the passage of certain bills, which were read and referred to the appropriate committees.
Bills reported.
The following bills were reported from standing committees:
To amend and re-enact the 13th section of chapter 42 of the Code of 1860 so as to more effectually regulate the sales of real estate under executions in favor of the Commonwealth.
To amend the 2d and 5th sections of an act entitled "an act incorporating the James River Insurance Company at Howardsvillee, in the county of Albemarle," passed 31st January, 1860.
To amend the fifth section of chapter 13 of the Code in realtion to administering the oaths to be taken by the members of the General Assembly.
The salt supply.
Mr. H. W. Thomas, from the joint
From Lynchburg.
the news from England — Robberies — escape foom Prison — Fatal accident — Amusements.
[special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 20, 1861.
The late foreign news has created quite a flutter in this community, and every one seems well pleased at the idea of a rupture and probable war between England and the Yankee nation.
Soon after the arrival of the mail bringing the Richmond papers, which contained the news, groups of persons could be seen about every where perusing the papers and earnestly discussing the important intelligence contained therein.
For some time past this city has been infested by gangs of robbers, and notwithstanding that several have been sent to the penitentiary, others still manage to keep up their trade with considerable success.
Their victims are generally soldiers who have been recently discharged and paid off. Some of their acts are of the most daring character, being perpetrated in open day in a
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Testaments and Tracts for the army in Missouri and Kentucky . (search)
Testaments and Tracts for the army in Missouri and Kentucky. Richmond, Va., Dec. 20, 1861.
Editors Dispatch--I have made an arrangement with a publishing house in Nashville, Tennessee, by which the Confederate forces in the West may be supplied with religious reading.
In no division of the Southern army is the destitution so appalling as in this — many regiments being almost entirely destitute of God's inspired word.
The Colportage Board, at its recent meeting, directed me to make an appeal for funds with which to supply our brave men in the West.
I expect to spend January and February in visiting some of the prominent points in the South, and the amounts which may be contributed will be used for this purpose, unless the donors wish them to be appropriated in some other way. Almost every day brings us some new instance in which the printed page has been of service to our soldiers.
Thus far, more than three millions of pages have been published and distributed; but the fie