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aken, (the lowest candidate having been dropped by the rules,) with the following result: Leake 79, Welch 24, Jeter 42. Necessary to a choice 73. So Mr. W. J. Leake was declared elected second Doorkeeper. The Southern Commissioners. Mr. Preston, from the committee appointed to wait on the Southern Commissioners, submitted the following report: "The Committee appointed by the Convention to wait upon the Commissioners from the States of South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi, tofloor, (which they now occupy,) and said that, if it should suit the convenience of the Convention, they desired to address it orally on Monday next — all which they requested the Committee to communicate to the Convention." On motion of Mr. Preston, it was resolved to receive the Commissioners at the hour of 12 o'clock on Monday next. The Press. On motion of Mr. Tredway, it was resolved that the editors and reporters of newspapers in the city of Richmond be admitted to seats in
Petty larceny. --A female darkey with the baptismal prefix of Charlotte, was punished by order of the Recorder yesterday, for unlawfully possessing herself of an overcoat worth $5, the property of Preston, slave of Jacob Woodson. Her design in taking the overcoat did not appear, but her doing so was in consequence of the bad practice which has come in vogue of allowing negroes to go at large and hire themselves out — which she had been in the habit of doing.