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intelligence and virtue, and their report was worthy of great consideration. He saw no necessity for the people of this enlightened day carrying meal in one end of the bag and a rock in the other because our fathers were simple enough to do it. [Laughter.] Let this old fogy system of electing a Public Printer be done away with forever. It had proved a Pandora's box of corruption. He urged, with warmth and effect, the passage of the majority report of the committee.
Mr. McRae opposed the motion to lay upon the table, and in a speech of much ability urged the adoption of the report of the majority.
Mr. Bolling, at the instance of Senators, and with the consent of the House, withdrew his motion to lay upon the table.
The question then recurred upon the motion of Mr. Gilmer - to reject the majority report.
Upon this question Mr. Keen demanded the ayes and noes, which being sustained, the Clerk called the roll with the following effect:
AYES - Messrs. Bellow, Bolling, Crockett, Gilmer, Hannah, Keen, Lawson, Lee, Meade, Richmond, Strother, Tallaferro and Washington - 13.
NOES - Messrs. Alexander, Cabell, Carter, Coleman, Davis, Galt, Gray, Kello, Lomosy, McRae, Mercier, Mitchell, Peck, Powell, Robinson, Saunders and Trout - 17.
So the report of the committee was, in effect, adopted.
THE DIRECT TAX QUESTION
House bill for the assumption by the State of Virginia of the debt due by its citizens under the Act of Congress of 1861, now called up by Mr. Gray, who moved a suspension of the rules in order to put the bill upon its passage.
Mr. Keen opposed the passage of the bill. He wanted more time to consider its merits. He never would be his vote, consent to be taxed without representation in Congress. The tax may be collected by force, but he never would recognize its justice.
Mr. Gray urged the passage of the bill. His constituents, and the constituents of other Senators, were clamorous for relief. This bill, or some other like it, would have to be passed, and the sooner the better for the people.
Mr. Mercer advocated the passage of the bill. His county had already paid the tax. We would have to pass such a bill, and he saw no necessity for delay.
Mr. Gray, at the request of several Senators, withdrew his motion to suspend the rules. On motion of Mr. Strother, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The House met at 12 o'clock M.
Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Woodbridge, of the Episcopal Church.
HAVE THE OFFICES OF JUDGES AND OTHER OFFICERS EXPIRED?
Mr. Joynes, from the Committee on Courts of Justice, submitted the following report:
The Committee on Courts of Justice, in response to the resolution directing the committee to inquire whether or not the terms of office of the judges and other officers, appointed by the Governor of this Commonwealth, have expired by constitutional limitation, and report what action is necessary to be taken in the premises, beg leave to report that no action in the premises is necessary, inasmuch as the Constitution provides that the judges and all other officers, whether elected or appointed, shall continue to discharge the duties of their offices after their terms of service have expired until their successors are qualified; and this provision applied to the case of appointments to fill vacancies by commissions which expire at the end of thirty days after the commencement of the present session of the General Assembly, as provided by the fifth section of article five of the Constitution, and respectfully ask to be relieved from the further consideration of the same.
On motion of Mr. Turner, the report was laid on the table.
FERRY AT DUNKIRK.
Senate bill to authorize John. M. Fauntleroy to establish a ferry over the Mattaponi, reported back from the House Committee on Roads, &c., with an amendment by way of a substitute, was taken up, and the substitute being adopted, the bill was passed. The bill, as passed, legalizes the ferry at Dunkirk belonging to the late Benjamin Fleet.
BRIDGE ACROSS JAME RIVER AT RICHMOND.
Senate bill authorizing the trustees of the town of Manchester to construct a bridge across James river at Richmond, was taken up.
Mr. Grattan moved to lay the bill on the table that he might have an opportunity to examine into the subject. He though it likely the owners of the present bridge might have some legal rights which might be affected by this bill.
Mr. Hancock opposed the motion, and the House refused to lay on the table. Ayes, 32; noes, 42.
The bill was the passed.
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH.
Senate bill declaring the city of Portsmouth a part of the First Judicial Division, &c., was referred to the Committee on Courts of Justice.
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Mr. Lee had proposed to commit to expedite business, but withdrew it on learning that the chairman of the Committee on Courts of Justice was opposed to it.
The House then proceeded to consider the bill ad Mr. Dickenson offered an amendment by way of a substitute for the whole bill. The Speaker announced amendments to the text of the original bill in order, and the bill being read be sections, the amendments poured in.
On motion of Mr. Gibboney, the bill was re-committed to the Committee on Courts of Justice.
A number of resolution were offered and the House adjourned.

SCENE IN A PASSENGER CAR. - The life of a conductor of a passenger care would probably furnish material enough to make a rich and spicy volume. Seated in one of the cars on the Second and Third streets line, an evening or two since, an impromptu entertainment, decidedly amusing, took place between the conductor and a fussy fat woman, to which we listened with profound attention:
"Fare," said the conductor.
Fussy woman finally relieved her pocket of a wallet, and tendered a badly torn currency not that looked as though it had the small-pox.
"Can't take this note, madam," said the conductor, pleasantly.
"Why not"? replied the dame, with the rich Irish brogue accent.
"Because it is torn, madam; the receiver will not take it from me," replied the conductor.
"Then ye won't take it"?
"No, madam."
"I guess the resaver don't resave all the money ye get," replied the beldame, waxing wrathy.
Conductor, preserving the equilibrium of his temper, replied, "I don't understand you."
"Ye don't want to understand. How much do ye knock down on the company"?
"Not much, now-a-days," replied the conductor, with Chesterfield suavity.
"Ye knock down all ye can"! replied the passenger, who seemed as though she was seated on nettles.
"Certainly"! replied the conductor; "just as much as I can"!
"Ye knock down many a five cent note, I'll warrant ye," responded the woman, getting more discontented than ever.
"Yes, indeed, madam, and many a ten cent note, too, much better than the kind you have!" replied the waggish conductor. "I'll have no objection to taking your fare."
The woman by this time had worked her temper up to the pitchy of frenzy almost, and, during the lucid interval of a moment, handed the conductor a one dollar note.
"I spose ye'll keep the change now, won't ye?" said the woman, almost gasping for breath.
"Certainly, madam, until I get it ready for you," replied the conductor.
"Give me me change, give me me change," shouted the woman, "or I'll call the perlice; ye want to knock-down on me as well as the company; I'll report ye, ye're no gentleman. Give me me change, I'll not stay in the car."
The change was handed to her, and she departed in high dudgeon, exclaiming that the conductor was "no gentleman."
He blandly replied, "You are a lady."
Whether she understood him or not is an unsolved problem. Upon stepping from the platform into a pile of snow and mud, she exclaimed, in shrill accents, "Ye're a liar."
The conductor pulled the bell, the car moved on, and the infuriated woman was soon lost to view. How true it is that a small spark may kindle a flame. - Phila. Press
DIVORCE MADE EASY. - The Senate of Missouri has before it a bill to facilitate the divorcement of such husbands and wives as find the bonds of hymen not easy to be borne. The bill as originally reported went very far in that latitudinarian policy which is rapidly undermining the sanctity of the marriage relation in this country; but it did not go far enough to suit the ideas of some of the Senators. Accordingly a motion was made to amend so as to make habitual intemperance for the space of one year a sufficient cause for divorce. An amendment was offered to the amendment providing that if the habit of intemperance was acquired before marriage a divorce should not be granted. It was argued that if the husband was intemperate before marriage, and the wife united her fortunes to his with a knowledge of his vice she ought not to be entitled to a divorce. But the Senate, animated by a double zeal for distressed wives and for the cause of temperance, voted down the amendment to the amendment.

The holders of the Confederate loan are to have another meeting in London on the 18th instant.
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[[illegible]] society might be as little felt as if it were among the stars."
A violent plunge of the barb put an end to my speculation. She exhibited the wildest signs of terror, snorted and strove to break from me; then, fixing her glance keenly on the thickets below, shook in every limb. But the scene was tranquility itself; the chamelion lay basking in the sun, and the only sound was that of the wild doves murmuring under the broad leaves of the palm trees.
But my mare still resisted every effort to lead her downwards; her ears were fluttering convulsively, her eyes were starting from their sockets. I grew pevish at the animal's unusual obstinacy, and was about to let her suffer for the day, when my senses were paralyzed by a tremendous roar. A lion stood on the summit which I had but just quitted. He was not a dozen yards above my head, and his first spring must have carried me to the bottom of the precipice. The barb burst away at once. I drew the only weapon I had - a dagger - and hopeless as escape was, grasping the tangled weeds to sustain my footing, awaited the plunge. But the lordly savage probably disdained so ignoble a prey, and continued on the summit, lashing his sides with his tail and tearing up the ground. He at length stopped suddenly, listened, as to some approaching foot, and then, with a hideous yell, sprang over me, and was in the thicket below at a single bound.
The whole thicket was instantly alive; the shade which I had fixed on as the abode of unearthly tranquility was an old haunt of lions, and the mighty herd were now aroused from the noon-day slumbers. Nothing could be grander or more terrible then the disturbed majesty of the forest kings. In every variety of savage passion, from terror to fury, they tore, and plunged, and yelled, darted through the lake, burst through the thicket, rushed up the hills, or stood baying and roaring defiance against the invader. The numbers were immense for the rareness of shade and water had gathered them from every quarter of the desert.
While I stood clinging to my perilous hold, and fearful of attracting their gaze by the slightest movement, the source of the commotion appeared in the shape of a Roman soldier issuing, spear in hand, through a ravine at the further side of the valley. He was palpably unconscious of the formidable place into which he was entering, and the gallant clamor of voices through the hills, showed that he was followed by others as bold and as unconscious of their danger as himself.
But his career was soon closed. His horse's feet had scarcely touched the turf, when a lion was fixed with fangs and claws on the creature's loins. The rider uttered a cry of horror, and for the instant, say helplessly gazing at the open jaws behind him. I saw the lion gathering up his flanks for a second bound, but the soldier, a figure of gigantic strength, grasping the nostrils of the monster with one hand, and with the other shortening his spear, drove the steel, with one resistless thrust, into the lion's forehead. Horse, lion and rider fell, and continued struggling together.
In the next moment, a mass of cavalry came thundering down the ravine They had broken off from their march through the accident of rousing a straggling lion, and followed him in the giddy ardor of the chase. The sight now before them was enough to appal the boldest intrepidity. The valley was filled with the vast herd; retreat was impossible, for the troopers came, still pouring in by the only pass; and from the sudden descent of the glen, horse and man were rolled head foremost among the lions; neither man nor monster could retreat. The conflict was horrible, and the heavy spears of the legionaries plunged through bone and brain. The lions, made more furious by wounds, sprang upon the powerful horses and bore them to the ground, or flew at the troopers' throats, and crushed or dragged away cuirass and buckler. The valley was a struggling heap of human and savage battle; man, lion, and charger, writhing and rolling in agonies, till their forms were undistinguishable. The groans and cries of the legionaries, the screams of the mangled horses, and the roars and howlings of the lions, bleeding with the sword and spear, tearing the dead, darting up the sides of the hills in terror, and rushing down again with a fresh thirst of gore, baffled all conceptions of fury and horror.
But man was the conqueror at least; the savages, seared by the spear, and thinned in their numbers, made a rush in one body towards the ravine, overthrew everything in their way, and burst from the valley, awaking the desert for many a league with their roar.

The estimates for the new court-house in New York city were $800,000, and $1,250,000 have already been expended. It is expected that the whole expenditure will be $3,000,000. The architect receives $25,000 per year for his services, and the superintendent was paid $20,265 for service during the past six months.
A patent has been taken out for propelling boats with oars in such a manner that the rower faces in the direction in which he is going. It is claimed that the rowing is easier, and that it is more easily steered.
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[[illegible]] interest to do so, and it was their natural disposition. They will be kind to you now if you preserve your characters for honesty, temperance, and industry. "Will you let liquor alone?" "We will." Remember that severe laws have been enacted to keep you in your place; but the laws are for bad men; try to live so properly that the laws will not hurt you. You have been polite heretofore; it will profit you be polite still. "Will you be respectful to all persons?" "We will." Education, as it is commonly spoken of in your case, means learning to read and write. Try to learn to rea the Bible, where you will read what makes respectable people, It teaches you how to live and how to die.
A majority of you have now promised to be honest, temperate, polite and industrious. You say that you will go to work on the second day of every January and these things will make you prosperous.
Mr. Viney also spoke in terms adapted to the understanding of the audience and his advice was received with satisfaction.
The portico was occupied during the addresses by many citizens, who closely watched the proceedings and the effect of the advice on the blacks. They were gratified to see the hope of getting land completely dissipated from the minds of the blacks, and they expressed their surprise and satisfaction to see the thousands quietly disperse to their homes after the speeches had been made. At dark, it was said, there were not a hundred colored persons in the streets.

Since the 30th of June, 1863, there have been confined in the Old Capitol prison at Washington thirty-eight thousand prisoners, of whom six thousand five hundred were prisoners of war. This does not include the deserters and refugees, which will swell the number to over one hundred thousand.

The total number of paupers in England and Wales on the 1st of last July was 891,291, or 1 in 22 of the population. On the 1st of July last year the corresponding number was 911,877. Of the former number 233,538 were able-bodied persons, exclusive of "vagrants."

In the procession at the installation of the King of the Belgians, one veteran general, more than ninety years old, was thrown from his horse twice, and then went gaily to the palace in a carriage, none the worse for his accidents.

It being proved, on a trial at Guildhall, that a man's name was really Inch, who pretended that it was Lynch - "I see," said the judge, "the old proverb is verified in this man, who, being allowed an Inch, has taken an L."

The expenses of a paid fire department in different cities are as follows: Baltimore, $66,058.09; Cincinnati, $141,209.73; Bolston, $129,211.95; Cleveland, $45,027.22.

The receipts of tobacco at St. Louis for 1865 were 16,407 hogsheads, against 42,673 hogsheads for 1864l The total estimate crop of the State for 1865, however, only falls short of that for 1864 about two million pounds, and is generally of a better quality.

Mdlle. Stella Colas, the celebrated Juliet, who is such a favorite in London, has left St. Petersburg, where she has been fulfilling an engagement, on account of the unpopularity excited against her because of the suicide of one of her admirers.

A Stuyvesent (New York) paper states that a cow in the village lately committed deliberate suicide. She walked into a brook, and, after three attempts, held her head under water till she was drowned.

Major-General James H. Wilson was married on Wednesday to miss Eliza Andrews, second daughter of Brigadier-General John W. Andrews, of Wilmington, Delaware.

M. Robinet, a Parisian engineer, proposes to consume all the noxious air in the sewers and underground places in Paris, by drawing it into the furnaces of the different manufactories of Paris.

The Chicago papers report a "gross insult to Mr. Wehli, the great pianist." It seems that somebody spready a thick coat of tallow over the key-board of the piano, just before a concert began.

The ice in the Missouri river is so strong opposite Atchison that the Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad Company are crossing cars and locomotives upon rails aid upon it for the purpose.

An Arctic expedition is being organized in Prussia. Three vessels will be fitted out, their crews to consist of scientific men from the Prussian schools.

The Commissioner of Agriculture recently received nine different varieties of what from Glasgow, Scotland.

It is reported that the Indians in New Mexico are determined on an outbreak.

William C. McCarthy, Republican, has been elected mayor of Pittsburgh.
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-publican Government with which we have so long and so constantly maintained relations of amity and friendship.
Mr. Bigelow, under date of November 14th, reports reading the dispatch to M. Drouyn de L'Huys, who thanked him, though he felt obliged to say that he derived neither pleasure not satisfaction from its contents.
Mr. Seward, on December 16th, says it is the President's purpose that France be respectfully informed upon two points:
1st. That the United States earnestly desire to cultivate sincere friendship with that Government.
2d. That this policy would be brought into immediate jeopardy unless France could deem it consistent with her interests to desist from the prosecution of armed intervention in Mexico to overthrow the domestic Republican Government existing there and establish upon its ruins the foreign monarchy which has been attempted to be inaugurated in the capital of that country; and in conclusion, he says, that the United States will not recognize Maximilian even if the French troops should be withdrawn from Mexico.
The paper submitted include a confidential letter from M. Drouyn de L'Huys to Marquis Montholon, dated Paris, October, 1865, saying that the French Government would withdraw the auxiliary troops as soon as circumstances would allow it, and the best guarantee the French Government would have that the Federal Government would not impede the consolidation of the new order of things in Mexico would be the recognition by it of the Emperor Maximilian.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

WASHINGTON, January 9. - SENATE. - Mr. Sumner offered the following:
Whereas it is reported that persons declared free by the proclamation of the President and constitutional amendment are now being kidnapped and transported to Cuba and Brazil, and there held as slaves.
Resolved, That the Committee of the Judiciary be directed to inquire if any further legislation is necessary to prevent this revival of the slave trade on the Southern coast.
He rea a letter from a person in Alabama relative to the subject, and states the Federal officers were among the guilty parties.
Mr. Davis said he had no doubt the Yankees were endeavoring to open the slave trade. He knew they would do so if they could make money.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. Wade called up the bill to give the consent of Congress to the annexation of the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, of the State of Virginia, to the State of West Virginia. The bill was postponed until to-morrow.
HOUSE. - Mr. Vorhees, in support of the resolutions heretofore offered by him, endorsing the President's policy, made a speech, contending that the war having ceased, obedience to the laws should be the only requirement for representation.
Mr. Bingham replied, controverting the opinions expressed by Mr. Vorhees, and declared that such sentiments as he uttered were those that gave life to the rebellion. He also maintained that the President was in accord with Congress Mr. Bingham, in conclusion, offered the following as a substitute for Mr. Vorhees' resolution.
Resolved, That this House has abiding confidence in the President, and believes, that in the future, as in the past, he will co-operate with Congress in restoring to an equal position and rights with the other States in the Union, the States lately in rebellion.
The House, by a vote of one hundred and seventeen against thirty-two, referred both resolutions to the Committee on Reconstruction. Adjourned.

LATER FROM EUROPE.
HALIFAX, January 9. - The steamship Canada, from Liverpool 23d ultimo, and Queenstown 24th, has arrived. The Stock Exchange and all the markets were closed on the 23d, that ay being observed as a Christmas holiday.
A correspondence between Minister Adams and
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[[illegible]] proved the wisdom of Messrs. Hale & Hallock. The Semaphoric Telegraph would report the "Journal of Commerce" in the offing, and business would be at once suspended to await her arrival. Crowds would soon surround the office, as in the days of modern war bulletins, and the news would soon appear in an extra. This was the commencement of New York extras. The success was such that the firm build and equipped another schooner, of ninety tons, calling her "The Evening Edition," and thus had two swift vessels constantly cruising for news. An association of other papers was then formed, and a pilot-boat hired to compete with the "Journal of Commerce" squadron. The association subsequently fitted out a small vessel, and the business of news-boats continued for some time a fixed fact with New York dailies.
These successes on water had given such strength and prestige to the establishment, that Messrs. Hale & Hallock determined to introduce their system on the land. Accordingly, in 1833, they established a horse expr3ess from Philadelphia to New York, with eight relays, and by this means published the proceedings of Congress and all other Southern news one day in advance of their contemporaries. The other papers established an opposition express, and the Government then commenced it and ran the express from Philadelphia to New York, whereupon the proprietors of the Journal of Commerce extended their relays to Washington, so that they regularly beat the Government express twenty four hours. In one instance the Norfolk Beacon (published two hundred and twenty-nine miles southeast of Washington) copied the Washington news on two successive days from the New York Journal of Commerce, which it received by sea before it had any advices from the capital. The Journal express employed twenty-four horses, and often made the whole instance of two hundred and twenty-seven miles inside of twenty hours. These news-boats and expresses were the origin of the whole system of expressing and telegraphing news, now brought to so much perfection by the New York Associated Press, of which Mr. Hallock was one of the founders. Nor would it be difficult to show how greatly the success of the magnetic telegraph is due to the new spirit infused into American and European journalism by David Hale and Gerard Hallock. For in this respect American newspapers have always been in advance of European. The Journal of Commerce prospered under its able management, and continued to grow in favor. The lamented death of Dave Hale occurred January 20, 1849. Mr. Hallock then assumed the sole management, and continued it with spirit, energy, and judgment until the year 1861, when he closed an editorial career of thirty-eight years' duration.
As an editor, Mr. Hallock won a far extended reputation. Nor was it undeserved, as his success abundantly testifies. Truth was always the object at which he aimed. He was not a man to be frightened out of any chosen course, nor one to enter rashly on any line of argument or the support of any new principle. He conducted the paper on thoroughly independent principles. He supported Taylor as heartily at one time as Polk at another. He was not a party man, never labored for party success, but always worked for principle. He sought to do good, and we believe he succeeded.

Charles Sumner has been elected President of the Lexington (Massachusetts) Monument Association, ass the successor of Edward Everett.

Four tribes of Indians have united with the whites, to aid in driving out the Apaches, now devastating Arizona.

Thirteen dead bodies, supposed to be wrecked seamen, have been washed ashore by the surf at Nantucket.

Unite States Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has given seventy-five thousand dollars to the Methodist Seminary of East Greenwich.

A bill will soon be introduced in Congress increasing the salaries of Cabinet Ministers to ten thousand dollars per annum.

Dr. Blackburn, of the yellow fever plot notoriety, is now writing a series of medical articles for the Toronto (C. W.) Leader.

The State census of New York for 1865 shows a population of 3,831,777. The Federal census for 1860 showed a population of 3,880,727. Decrease in five years of 48,950.

A full-length portrait of General Grant, which is pronounced the best likeness of the hero ever executed, has been hung in the rotunda of the Capitol.

The order mustering out general officers is expected to be issued before the 15th instant. It is thought that sixty generals will be discharged.

The General Land Office at Washington has forwarded to the Governor of Missouri a patent for 471,000 acr3es of swamp lands.

The Irish societies of Brooklyn, New York, intend to celebrate St. Patrick's day by a general parade.

The Naval Hospital Fund now in the United States Treasury amount to ten million dollars.
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