The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-02-20

/ N THURSDAY, Feb. 10.
| Hsase Of Delesates.
| a communication was received from the
Senate, Informing the House. Of the passage
| by that body Of the joint resolution for the
erection Of Statue 20 Th0nns Jefferson, al
the University Of Virginia.
Amongst the bills reported to-day from the
several Standing Committees, were the follow
| ing:
A bill concerning the Richmond and Peters.
burg Railroad. (lt authorizes the Company
| to sell in such mode as they may deem advisa.
bic, and for such prices as they may deem il
| as many additional shares Of capital stock az
may be requisite to meet the liabilities of the
Company, provided the shares shall not be
sold for less than $50 per share.
/ A bill auihorising the establishment of a
Branch Bank in the town of Moorefeld in the
county of Hardy.
To Incorporate the Merchants and Farmers
Bank of Clarksbug.
/ Reducing the capital stock OF the Farmers
Bank in Botetourt. 5 ~ 8,
To incorporate the Banks at Lexington and
Mt Wytheville, and the Savings Banks al
Ervans, Williamsburg, and Pearsburg.
Reports adverse to the petition of the Mer-
chants and Mechanics Bank at Norfolk, to is.
| sue small notes-and against the expediency
Of amending Chapter SO of theCode Of Vir.
| ginia.
Mr.. Burdett offered the following resolution,
and assigned his reason for presenting il. Ru.
mors are abroad that there has been misap-
plIcation Of the public property and funds on
the part of those engaged in the construction
of the monument; and he conceived it due to
| the commonwealth and to the parties implica-
| ted, that an investigation should be made
He did not desire, however, to be placed on the
| Committee.
Resolred, That special Committee of five
| be appointed, to be named by the Speaker,
| whose duty it shall be to examine into and re-
| port to the House the cost of the Washington
| Monument on the Public Square, so far as
| its construction has progressed-whether any,
and it any, what abuses have been practsed
| by those engaged in Its construction, in regard
| to tools, the State qnarries, powder, &c. And
| to report upon such other matters as may be
deemed pertinent in relation to said Monument.
And that said Committee have power to send
for persons and papers.
| The resolution was adopted.
| Ga motion of Mr.. Ward, the Committee on
the Penitentiary were instructed to inquire into
the expediency of increasing the Interior guard
of the Penitentary.
Mr.. Robinson, of Richmond city, presented
petition from Joseph c. Wipgfeld, of Rich
| mOnd, asking for an increase of compensation
| as Superintendent of weights and measures.
| The House, in Committee of the Whole, re-
sumed the order of the day, the bill relating to
the property which shall be subject to taxation,
| and after two hours and half consideration
thereof, rose, and asked leave to sit again. And
then the House adjourned.
ABSTRACT OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
COLONIZATION SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA.
The Report traces the idea of African Colonization
from its first suggestion in the Legislature of rs
through all It's notifications in the Gsnera1 Assem-
bes of 1900 1902 and 1904 until its full development
in the American Colonization Society in 1916 1t re-
fers to the opinions of Jefferson, Madison Monroe
and Marshall, IN Its favor, and to the action of the
Leg satures at the sssions of 1929 1925 1882 1897
and 1850, stamping the scheme with the broad seal
of the Commonwealth.
The Tirginia" Society was founded in 1929
Judge Marshall was its first President; he was sue.
ceeded by Gov. Tyler-he by Gov. Mcdowell and the
latter by Gov. Floyd. The first e,ngrants to Liberia
sailed in 1920. Since that time, about $500 have
gone, OF whom about 500 went from Virginia, and
only one individual from Massachusetts, The Pres.
ident and nearly all the principal officers of the Re.
public are Virginians In 1851 there were upwards
of 700 emigrants from the United States of those,
l45 were from Virginia. Of the whole number of
emigrants, more than 5000 are from the South and
less than 500 from the free States. This singular
result is ascrbed to the opposition of the Abolition.
lists The cost of the las emigrants from Virginia,
in 1881, was $3.50 of which the State paid only
3d. leaving the balance to be paid from private
donations The State only pays SOS for adults and
SIS for infants under ten years of age, while the
erage cost of Transporting and subsistng during
cimation, both infants and adults is fifty dol
lars each The State bears part of the expense of
finding and embarking the eanigrauts, which, on ac-
OF the ignorance and preudices Of the negroes
is iaborious and expensive work The report sug-
costs divers important notifications Of the law,
increase its efficiency 1t is great problem to the
solution of which they have addressed themselves,
and it cannot be solved without an expenditure of
time, labor and money. The whole cost Of African
Colonization, far has only been 81 $50 600; with
this they have purchased territory extending more
than five hundred miles along the coast of Africa
transported more than 1000 emigrants-but houses
| for them-subsisted them for some monfhs-pro.
yided medical attendance-sided in erecting church.
es schools, &c, and incurred all the expense incl
dent to such vast enterprises feat unparalleled in
the annals of colonization. The expenditures the
morality and disasters attending the settlement OF
Liberia have been far less than those OF the Colony
OF Virginia, or Plymouth But the chief difficulties
| have been overcome, and the way is prepared As
the Legislation of the Southern States presses upon
| the free negroes, the Northern States shutting
the door in their faces. Soon there will be way
open to them but the way OF the sea.
The comparative merits of Liberia, the West In
| dies and the Valley of the Amazon are discussed
and the preference given to Liberia-because it is
the native seat OF the Afrcan-the land of his faith
| ers &c.-because the climate interdicts il to the
sis, and because so many people believe it be Gods
plan ofcvilizing and christianzine Africa Ac ord
ns to the last sensus there are $1,000 free negroes
in Virginia The praetlcibility of removing them il
discussed. Their natural increase is said to be
per cent per annum, which. upon 5000, is 1000
One dollar head for the whole free colored popu
lation, is fifty dollars head for the natural increase
from whichit follows fifty three thousand dollars
would transport to Liberia, the natural increase Of
| this people.
judicious discrimination between the old and
intirm and the young and producing class, &c, it il
supposed would soon reduce them to an inappropri
| ate fraction The Society trusts that any measure
which the State may deem it wise to adopt may be
| tempered with the mercy which the great alway
show to the weak, &c.
Mr.. WHlTsEY.-rhisg gentleman is delight
ing ell who visit Odd-Fellows' Hall. Thi
morning, at 10 o'clock, he exhibits for ladies