Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-13
FROM RICHMOND.
, Tcorrespondence of the IntolIigoncer.l


FRoM RICHMOND.
:; Correspondence of the IntelIgencsr.l
l'regrlss of Legislation this far Another
S1aa;or roles for the U1ce'jag BiY-BU
Consolidatiag the North H.ssern EIrginio
and Baltimore i. Ohio Roads-7ae Du-
sNtng Amasssy a rice point-Another mes
p6iai Interesting to he Wheeling Eli-
tdFy.
RICHMOND Feb. sth 1860.
The sun has belted the world sixty-siX
times, since the peoples servants have here
met in legislative conrocatiou, yet during
all this time, but some half dozen meas
ures have become laws. From the tardi-
ness with which business progresses, one
would suppose that they constantly keep
before their eyes, the old maxim that ''the
world is governed too much" To-day,
however, both Houses have passed resOlu-
tions to meet hereafterat II o'clock, instead
of l2 o'clock, as heretofore, This they
can now very easily do, as the committee
business, which has heretofore taken mp the
early hours of the mornings, has pretty
much been got through with.
On Monday, Mr.. Brannon, Senator from
Lewis county, rose from his desk, and
stating that lie was casually absent from
his seat, on Saturday when the vote WAS
taken upon Mr.. Caldwell's Bill for the State
to purchase the city of Whecling's stock
in the Baltimore Il Ohio Rail Road Com
pany, and he desired to make it known
that, h he been present, he would have
voted in favor of the bill.
On Tuesday the Senate, bya vote of ayes
3S, noes 6, passed the bill authorizing the
consolidation of the North Western with
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company
I observed that it received the support of
the Senator from your city. 1t provides
that the consolidated Company shall pay
the Sl6,O 600 ofinterest an the city Of 'Thee-
ling's bonds, which fell due Ist January,
| 1858, and to meet which, there was no div
idcnd made by the Baltimore & Ohio road
for the half year then ending. -,
! On the same day, the "Finnnce Commit
tee oE the House, reported the Senate bill
for the purchase of Wheeiing's STOCK, with
ont amendment, and with ii recommcnda-
ton that it should pass. twill be reached
in its proper time, and will meet with some
| opposition, but it is thought will get through
| without much doubt.
| On the same day, the Senate passed a
| bill appropriating, in addition to its regu-
lar annuity of $4,000 to the University of
| Virginia, the further sum of $4,000 in
-four yearly payments of S25,OOO each, for
! extending the buildings, increasing the
number and salaries of the Professors, and
I other purposes of the school. The vote
was % in favor of the bill, and but G
against it-among the latter was your
Senator. This bill passed the Senate last
/ session, by about the same vote, but was
defeated in the House-it is to be hoped it
! will now encounter the same fate. 1t is
! school for the education of only rich mems
I I.nr &Ho nv
And it has not heen fortnight, since one
of its professors. instead of staying at the
+ University, teaching the students of phiIos-
> oplly, was itincrating over Eastern Virginia,
lccturing in behalf Of Secession and Dis
union, and in favor of Southern conven-
! ton and confederacy.
The Legislature having last week passed
! IL bill of amnesty, removing the disabilities
funder he anti-dueling law, as to all persons
I WHO had incurred its penalties previous to
! the 10th Of December, 1859, on Tuesday,
I Beverly B. Douglas, who had at the last
spring election, while laboring under such
/ disability, been elected to represent the
King William Senatorial District, appeared
! in the Senate. and took his seat as mem
bcr. Immediately Mr.. Rivcs, of Albemarle
county, offered a resolution that it be re-
ferrcd to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections to ascertain and report whether
or not Mr. Douglas was entitled to q scat
in that body. Mr. Rlves conteuded that
the vcrT words of the Constitution, and the
laws passed pursuant thereto, declared that
no one lahoring under such disability at
the time of his election, ''should be c1Pa-
BILE of being elected" In this view OF the
Constitution, and oS the law, he was sus-
tained by Mr.. Stuart, of Augusta, and oth-
ers, and opposed by Mr.. August, of Rich
DDnpd md otbarc who commanded that the