The Legislature.
A resolution was introduced in the Senate yesterday for the more uniform distribution of the public arms in the
Western counties of the
State.
The
Adjutant General was requested to inform the Senate what proportion of the cavalry force of
Virginia were unsupplied with pistols, and as to the probability of obtaining the requisite arms.
The report of the
Select Committee on the "Preservation of the
Public Peace" was returned, and, on motion, was amended by a resolution declaring that unless Congress and the non-slaveholding States give speedy indication of an intention to amend the
Constitution of the United States, so as to guard and protect the rights of any of the States against future invasions by Federal or State authority, that
Virginia should dissolve her connection with the non-slaveholding States, and cast her lot with her sister Southern States.
Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Notice was given that the
Alabama Commissioners would address both branches of the General Assembly, in the
Hall of the House of Delegates, this day at 1 o'clock P. M.
In the
House, Senate amendments to the bill for a State Convention were concurred in. A number of bills were reported, among them one to authorize the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad to construct a branch of the road to some point on the
North Carolina line; one to create an Ordnance Department, and one to increase the capital stock of the Danville Railroad Company.
Among the resolutions was one for continuing the organization of the Special Court of Appeals.
A petition from
Wood county, in favor of the
Union, was presented; also, one asking that Pittsylvania Academy be converted into a military school, and for an appropriation therefore; also, a remonstrance of 101 citizens of
Henrico county against extending the corporation limits of the city of
Richmond.
A resolution was adopted, deprecating the strengthening of any
United States forts within the limits of this State, or removing munitions of war therefrom, and pledging the faith of
Virginia, if they be delivered into her custody, to restore them intact, in the event of a peaceful solution of the present difficulties, or account for them in an equitable division of the public property.--The Joint Committee on State and Federal Relations presented a report, in which they say that unless the present difficulties are adjusted a dissolution of the
Union is inevitable.
They extend an invitation to all States desirous of preserving the public peace to appoint Commissioners to meet at
Washington, D. C., February 4th, to consider and resolve on some plan for an equitable adjustment.
It provides for the selection of five Commissioners on the part of this State, and directs that they shall submit the plan to Congress for ratification, and send the same also to the Virginia Convention and General Assembly.--The report favors the propositions embraced in
Hon. J. J.
Crittenden's resolutions, introduced in the United States Senate, as containing the basis of an equitable adjustment.
It was ordered to be printed.
