The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Legislature.

In the Senate, yesterday, the Committee on Federal Relations was announced. A bill for holding a State Convention was reported.--Resolutions relative to the "National Crisis" were introduced; also, several reprobating any attempt on the part of Virginians to take possession of the Federal property in the limits of the State or marching on Washington.--The Governor was requested to furnish a plan for reconstructing the Militia Brigades. Resolutions of inquiry were offered as to the expediency of creating a Military Bureau, of legislating in reference to the suspension of specie payments, and of enacting a law for staying executions.

In the House a committee was appointed on the part of that body to consider and report what action should be taken by the State in the present crisis. The secession of the State of Mississippi was announced in a communication from the Governor. A bill was reported for amending the charter of the city of Richmond. Resolutions were adopted asking the President of the United States, and the authorities of the several Southern States, to refrain from perpetrating any acts liable to bring on a collision between the General Government and the State authorities, unless the same be done by either party "to repel any actual aggressive attempts." The first section of the bill providing for a State Convention, was further debated and amended.