Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-02-25
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL CON-
VENTION

Inc following additional gentlemen appear
led in the Convention and took their seats !:
CARoLINE-E. T. Morris.
| HANovER-G. w. Bassett.
HENRIco-Dr. J. R. Garnet.
| RocKINGHAM-N. Bare and H. Martz.
Several other gentlemen appeared, but w
nave not their names, as some one took the pa
per containing them from the Secretary's Ia
| BILE.
mr.. Kutfin called Mr. Newton to the Chair
Mr. T. Ruffin from the Committee to prepare
business, made areport.
| Inc question was taken on the adoption O
the resolutions seraatim, and they were agreed
to.
Mr.. F. G. Ruffin, from the Committee OF
that subject, reported an address, which wa
adopted by the Convention.
Mr.. VIM. Nelson of Hanover, made mn ;nef
lectual motion to reconsider the vote by which
| the address was adopted.
MIR. Morris of Amherst. from the con,,n;ttoe
on the inspection of Guano and Plaster. made
the following report which was ordered 70 bf
laid on table: W ~
Inc committee appointed to enquire into the
expectancy OF amending or abolisng the inspec.
tlon OF Guano and Plaster, have had the subiec,
under consideration and advise that memorial
be presented to the Legislature, prayinp tbs,
said inspection be abolished.
On motion of Mr.. Morson-Resolyed. Thu,
the Convention proceed at O'Clock to ORGAN.
lze the Society by the election of the officers
OF the Society. And that forthwith the Con
ventlon will begin that duty by electing the
Treasurer. WIZ
Resolved, That so soon as elected the Treasu.
rer may receive any contributions to the Society
from members, and that all members present he
requested to entertheir names in the Treasurer,s
book. u
Resolved, That the members present be re-
quested to authorize the signature of thei.
names to the petition to the Legislature.
The Society then proceeded to the election
of Treasurer. ''0''
Mr.. Grattan of Rockingham nominated Gen.
B. Peyton.
MIR. A. Robinson Jr., of Henrico. nom;nat-
ed MIR. L.. ID. Crenshaw of Henrico.
The ballots were then counted, and resulted :.
For Peyton, SIS; for Crenshaw 10. So Gem
Peyton was declared elected.
Mr.. Edmund Ruffin offered the following "a
solutions, which were unanimously adopted:
''Resolved, as the sense of this Convention.
That the State of Virginia, and especially the
cause OF agriculture, has sustained, in the la
mented death OF Gen. Corbin Braxton. a loss
that cannot soon be repaired.
"Resoved, That with full sense of his emf
nent merits, and of the loss which we deplore.
these resolutions be entered on the minutes Of
the Convention, and copy thereof be transmits
ted to his family as feeble though sincere tri
butte to the memory of one the most useful and
estimable men that Virginia has produced.o
The following resolution, offered by Gen.
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this Convention most earn
esty recommend to the Farmers, Mechanics and
other householders of Virginia that each one of
them exert himself to extend the circulation of
the Southern Planter. the only agricultural pa
per published in Virginia, more than any other
adapted to our people, conducted with signal
ability, and In every respect entitled to our yea
lous support. While thousands of dollars are
annually paid in subscription to papers pub
hshed in other States and of far less value to
ouragricuturists; our own modest and unpreten
ding journal, edited and printed by Virginians,
laborlng with untiring industry and persever-
ance for our bestinterests, has hitherto been left
by our own people to struggle for bare subsis-
tence. Let this Indifference to those interests
and to the sterling merits of the Southern Plan
ter be instantly shaken off; let every man do
what he can, and the paper will speedily be
found where it ought to be, a ireside companion
of every family"
The Convention then proceeded to the election
OF the officers of the Society, as noticed in ves-
terday's paper.
The Convention then adjourned as Conyen-
ton, but to meet again the next morning as n
Society.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
At a meeting of the Virginia State Agricul
tural Society, in the Room over the Methodist
Book Concern, held agreeably to appointment of
the Convention on Friday, the Goth February.
at u o'clock, P. M.-Edmund Ruffin, ST., Presi.
dent in the Chair.
The report of the committee on the inspec-
ton of Guano and Plaster, laid on the table bv
the Convention, was, on motion of Gen. Rich
ardson, taken up, adopted and committed to R.
G. Morris, ESQ.,, with instructions to prepare
to the Legislature, expressive of the
opinion entertained by the Convention, that the
of those articles ought to be abolish
ed.
On motion of T. J. Randolph, Esa.-Re-
solved, That committees be now appointed for
the cities of Richmond and Petersburg. and
hereafter by the Executive committee in their
discretion for the other cities and COMMITTEES Of
the State, to call on the citizens and urge them
to become members Of the Society.
Committee for Richmond-Messrs. Huoh
w. Fry, Edwin Workman, J. Fl. Claiborne.
Committee for Petersburg-R. B. Boiling,
Thomas Branch, Quinn Morton.
Mr.. Morson moved Il reconsideration of the
question on the adoption of the report of the
committee to prepare an address to the Farmers
of Virginia, which after some progress in dis
cusslon, was laid on the table, on the motion of
L. }. Randolph, Esq, on whose motion also
the following resolutionwas adopted:
o1uoI IL.
adjourn to meet at this place tomorrow morn
ing, at 9 O'Clock.
Adjourned. CHI. B. WILLIAMS,
Corresponding Secretary.
SATURDAY MORNING EER 81