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The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates, (search)
h goes unscathed, and pays not a cent to increase the receipts of the Treasury. If the East desires the fraternal feeling of the Western portion of Virginia, stop this thing ere it is too late. If you do not, the armed forces of the State may have to be turned upon the revolted colonies, because they cannot, and will not, stand this eternal increase of taxation. He hoped the bill would be returned to the Senate. The bill was finally laid on the table, on motion of Mr. Christian. Petition.--Mr. Ward presented the petition of John A. Russell, praying relief from taxes improperly imposed, in consequence of an erroneous assessment upon certain lands in Frederick county. Sale of James River and Kanawha Canal.--The engrossed bill for the sale and transfer of the James River and Kanawha Canal was taken up and passed — ayes 115, noes 2; and Mr. Anderson was requested to communicate the fact to the Senate, and request the concurrence of that body in the same. Adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our Minister to China. (search)
Our Minister to China. --A private letter, dated Florence, Italy, Feb. 17, says: Hon. John E. Ward, United States Minister to China, joined his family here a few days since, and will return home after a hurried visit to Rome and Naples. Mr. W. was brought from China to the Persian Gulf by the Niagara, and was about fifty days en route.