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se for the pick-axe, and with the shovel I have seen the slave work all round the white man and then turn round and grin at what he had done. Among the passengers in our cabin was Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia. This gentleman has been in the South since the commencement of the secession movement. I noticed his venerable face in the Sovereign Convention almost every day. Since the adjournment of that body he has been through Florida and Alabama, and I believe remained in Tallahassee and Montgomery until after the passage of the Ordinance of Secession. By way of recreation he visited the fortifications of the harbor on this occasion. As a companion and pleasant talker, I have met with few men I like better than Mr. Ruffin. He is full of information and ready to impart it. He is withal quite a secessionist, and as a matter of course readily finds congeniality of sentiment in this latitude. He seems to take quite an interest in the excitements of the day, and is hated everywher
allowing J. F. White pay for tuition of indigent children in school district No. 3, of Richmond county; by Mr. Seddon, of providing for the extension of the time in which the Sheriffs are required to pay the taxes into the State Treasury; by Mr. Montgomery, of increasing the allowance of Peyton Morton, late Commissioner of the Revenue of Fayette county, for services rendered the State; by Mr. Segar, of repealing the provision of the Code of 1860, in relation to the marking of Western tobacco; b--The Committee on Claims asked that the petition of Robert H. Grey, attorney, &c., be referred to the Committee of Courts of Justice. Referred. The same committee reported against a resolution for the relief of Floyd Smith, late sheriff of Montgomery. Report received. The Committee on Finance asked that the resolution for allowing compensation to Jas. Carskdan and Wm. F. Davis, for services rendered the 77th Regiment Virginia Militia, be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs,