The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-10

\ s~sF - sss-ss III He.
A communicatIon was tSansnitto1 - ~
IIsefslssuss yesterday b ~ Goveenor, 60
EcIoetne letter froa JosIAn 11RnAMs Esq, 81
I8osson, Inviting ~ Governor, etaae omcegs
and nembers Of ~ Legislature Of Virginia,
to visit that city during the sssstpa Of tie
Massachusetts, Legislatufe. The invftation 10
ON behalf Of "citizens Of Boston and the vicin-
ity." The Senate passed the House bill appro-
priating O, 500 600 to the Covineton and Ohio
Railroad, House bill to increase the capital
stock Of the Richmond and DanvfIle h. b. Co.
BY e35o, 000, and House hill leaning eoo0 goo to
the Virginia Ceutral Railroad. In the House,
= resolution inquiring into the sxpediency Of
/ changing the Constitution relative to taxation
| on slavery, was isdefsiseIy postponed BY the
| decided vote Of ll3 toLO. A bill incorporating
| a company to construct railroad from point
| on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, in
| Bedford county, through Franklin and Henry
counties, to the North Carolina line. e
| Congress.
| The Speaker of the House yesterday APP
| pointed the committees Of that body. Mr.
| Sherman, the late candidate for Speaker, Is the
chairman of the Committee of Ways and
| Means. The Senate adopted an amendment to
| the Postal bill entirely abolishing the frankiDg
| privilege. Adispatch received last night, says
the construction Of the committees gives de-
cided dissatisfaction to a largo proportion of
the Republican members.
POSTAL DEcIsIoN.-The Postmaster Gene
raj, on a complaint recently laid before him,
has decided that
Under the Virginia statute where a single
copy of any particular paper contains matter
a. [al1 In &f0fn anti fync IN
diary in its character, it does not, therefore,
follow that any subsequent numbers of the
same papers are to he condemned tor that
cause, but every number of the paper must be
acted upon and disposed of separately.
WAYS AND MEANS CoxMIrTEE.-The Tri-
bune's Washington correspondent says:
1t is probable that the following gentlemen
will constitute the Committee of Ways and
Messrs. John Sherman, Thaddeus Stevens,
H. Winter Davis, J. S. Morrill,, j. s. Phelps,
Israel Washburn, Martin J. Crawford, E. G.
Spaulding and John s. Millson. This COM
mittee embraces the extreme opinions on the
tariff and free trade.
NAVAL MEDICAL BoARD-A Naval Medical
Board will meet at the Naval Asylum, Phila-
delphia, on the lst of March, for the examina-
tion OF Assistant Surgeons for promotion and
candidates for admission. The Board will
consist of the following officers: Surgeons
James M. Green, w. S. w. Ruschenberger,
and J. M. FOltZ. 1t would be well for those
who desire to appear before the Board, to make
immediate application to the Secretary Of the
Navy.
A VESSEL AsHORE.-The schooner reported
ashore Sd inst, below Indian river, Del; near
Lewes, proves to be the Frank Day, (of Cam
den, N: j. Warwick, from Petersburg, Va,
for Providence with a cargo Of G, 145 bushels |
wheat and Ill bales cotton. The wheat was |
insured for IS, 500, and 20 bales OF the cotton |
were insured at Petersburg
THE BERGEN IN. j. TUNNEL.-There are at |
present about SUO WOrkmen engaged upon the |
Bergen IN. J.) Tunnel, both night and day, |
and the work is rapidly approaching compile |
ton. 1t is expected that The rock, the en- tire |
length of the tunnel-abont 4 800 feet-Will be |
removed by the lst of April, and in two |
months after the work will be completed.
Loss OF LIFE ON THE COAST OF GREAT |
BRITAIN.-Duringf fifteen days of the months
OF October and Nvvembr last three hundred |
and twenty five vessels were wrecked on the |
coast of Great Britain, causing loss of seven
hundred aud forty lives. This includes thu
loss OF the Australian steamer Royal Char
ter.
FROZEN TO DEATH.-David Skillinger of
Sandyston township, N. H. went to fodder his
calves last Thursday evening, but, being rather
in liquor, he fell in small creek and had
some trouble to get ont. He then wandered a
short distance, and finally sank from exhaus-
ton and died.