u, that, in a consultation with General Terry and Colonel Brown, they received assurances that the most rigorous measures have been taken to preserve the peace and afford ample protection to the citizens.
The committee have considered the removal of the negroes from the city of Williamsburg and the counties of York, Warwick, Elizabeth City, and the county of Carroll, and believe the object can be obtained by the same bills now under consideration in the General Assembly.
On motion of Mr. Gilmer, a memorial from the James River and Kanawha Canal Company was ordered to be printed.
House bill authorizing the York River Railroad Company to borrow money was passed almost unanimously.
The Senate adjourned.
House of Delegates.
The House met at the usual hour.
Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Taylor.
Public arms.
Senate bill authorizing the collection of public arms was read a first and second times.
Subsequently taken up and passed.
State specie.
Mr. Joynes,
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 reading and writing necessary qualifications in every voter.
So that
