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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
rd county, having been reported back from the House Committee on Banks with an adverse recommendation, Mr. McKenzie moved that the same be not concurred in. Mr. Wingfield opposed Mr. McKenzie's motion, which was finally defeated. Washington and Alexandria Railroad.--House bill amending an act incorporating a company to construct a railroad from Alexandria to Washington on the plan of James S. French being on its second reading, was debated on its merits in favor of by Messrs. Tomlin and Segar, and in opposition to by Messrs. Myers and McKenzie, and, on motion, was finally laid on the table. Proposed Change of Hour of Meeting, &c.--Mr. Keen asked the indulgence of the House to read a resolution which he proposed to offer, granting the use of the Hall to the members of the State Convention till the hour of 4 o'clock each day, and which proposed that at the hour named the House should assemble for the transaction of business until otherwise ordered. Mr. K. urged as the chief m
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terribly cold. (search)
Fortress Monroe. A number of the leading citizens of Hampton have published a reply to a letter of J. Segar, Esq., who had characterized "public rumors" touching recent movements at that fort as mere "leather and prunella." In their answer, these gentlemen say that many of them, in most instances, without preconcerted agreemntry, and can be directed at the "bosom of Virginia," at a moment's notice. These guns are thirty-two pounders, and are exclusive of the "flank" pieces of which Mr. Segar speaks. It was further observed that but five platforms on the land side were vacant, whilst there is a much larger number vacant towards the water. It may a time, and on the same platform, and not to remove them to distant portions of the parapet. These facts, they observe, are stated with no design to charge Mr. Segar with an intentional suppression of the truth, or to add to the prevalent excitement, but simply to correct important errors which are well calculated to mislead,