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Senator Hunter become a tariff man. --Forney, in a late letter to his Press, says: "I learn from a gentleman who had a recent conversation with R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia,--one of the leading free-traders and authors of the rebellion — that he frankly admits that the American policy must be a protective one for many years to come, and that the South is directly interested in having it so." Senator Hunter become a tariff man. --Forney, in a late letter to his Press, says: "I learn from a gentleman who had a recent conversation with R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia,--one of the leading free-traders and authors of the rebellion — that he frankly admits that the American policy must be a protective one for many years to come, and that the South is directly interested in having it so.
Court of Conciliation. --The following cases occupied the attention of this Court yesterday: The cases of J. R. Smith vs. Proskaur. Christian & Lea vs. Proskaur; Chiles & Chenery vs. C. De Bar, C. Crystal (actresses) and W. A. Mountcastle; Claggett vs. Blum, Dutrow & Powell vs. Myers, and Hunter vs. Baker, were dismissed. In the cases of Hess, Blum & Company vs. Joseph Myers, Strauss & Company vs. P. Levy, and F. Cullman and wife vs. J. Scrotte, the evidence was heard and decisions were reserved. Judgment for thirty dollars was rendered for plaintiff in the case of Brauer vs. Grubbs, and defendant ordered to deliver up the premises now occupied by him by the 1st of January.
--The Herald's Richmond correspondent says there is a strong feeling among the "pure Virginians" in the Legislature in favor of going into an election of United States Senators. But the majority fear the powers at Washington. J. R. Tucker, R. M. T. Hunter, Governor Peirpoint, General Strother, John M. Botts, C. H. Lewis, A. H. H. Stuart, J. B. Baldwin and L. C. P. Cowper are, according to this correspondent, the candidates. Mr. Grattan, ("the leader of the House,") Mr. Sewell and Mr. Garnett are for Hunter and Tucker; Mercier, Stearns and Lemosy for Botts; Gilmer for Peirpoint.-- "Messrs. Segar and Underwood do not seem to have any friends in either House, though they deserve many." [We give this gossip for what it is worth. It is surely new to us.] The correspondent of the New York Times writes that a growing sentiment exists here in favor of so altering the Constitution of Virginia as to make the possession of a certain amount of property and a knowledge of the arts of
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