Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-11-26
Affairs in Dixie.

fals In Dixie.
Thus, we learn that John Jannsy, OF Loudon,
has resigned the presidency Of that shameless
revolutionary body, the Virginia constitutional
convention, which is again in session; having as
serted tie right to perpetuste Its own existence
He states no reason for his resignation other than
that he was tired Of the (unenviable) Office
On motion of James Barbour Of Culpeper
(whOse unexpected apostacy last spring gave the
ascendancy to the revolutionary element in the
body and thus PreciPtated the state into seces-
sion) Robert l. Montague, of Middlesex coun-
", secSsh, Lieutenant Governor Of the state was
electsd president Of the convention ION the 10Th
inst ) In Janney's stead; beating Cox, of Ches-
terneld, by a vote Of IS to IS with one vote fer
VIM. l.. Googgin. The conservatives tsucb as
they are) voted for Cox
sandy Stuart, OF Augusta, (whilom United
States Secretary OF the Interior) As chairman NJ
the conventions committee on constitutional re-
forms, has made sjori,y reporf, strongly urs-
Ing sweeping ch-hg.s ia the principles Of the
safes MISUNDERSTANDING popular suffrspe
and the popular s-ection Of mos, Of the pubiic
functionariss, high ana low The committee.
'nrougn him, urge that p, pular government, as
pfacticed In the United States, has proved a
idheltaole failure; and while contending that II
Is but the duty Of all able bodied men TO ne,for
C0lfp6SrafP
states, urge that it il only the legitimate rgbt NJ
tng property holder and tax payer, to vote.
By way Of reconciling the peopIe IN tho mn
Posed change, the committee urge the adontIon
OF an amendment to the states constitution nv
which only those who have paid the preceding
years taxes sixty days before the election shall
hereafter be allowed TO vote. The terribly de-
moraliTed condition Of our north ~, the alleged
rapid tendency Of affairs there to agrarianism ny
and the fact that best men are not ALWAYS elected
oy the people G. - Of the United States to office
are the principal pleas on which Sandy urge, his
proposed reactory "reformr in this connection
The report recommends that hereafter only men,
oers Of the Legislature shall be elected by the
restricted popular voters; and that all other Off
GERS county "a well as state shall either be chosen
oy the legislature or appointed by new appoint
ing powers.
On the whole, this singularly rich report bears
out to the letter our position taken at the conn.,
mencement Ct the embroglio, that secession was
Out a cloak for the purpose Of stealing from the
white masses Of the south their distinctive Amer
lean Liberties.
A quarterm aster advertIses for three hundred
able bodied negro slaves to labor on military
roads In the army Of the Potomac, Offering $40
per month and one ration
Henry w. Thomas and VIM L. Edwards fof
Fairfax Court House, advertise that they will
prosecute claims against the state and confeder.
ae governments for indemnity for negroes es
capped to the union army or who have otherwise
run away through the facilities of the war and
for all other damages any secesh may have su.-
nined by the war, &c. Thomas and Edwards
have evidently gone TO seed-tbe former at Rich
mond, ana the latter at the Court House
dealer in Richmond advertises pianos TO,
sale, adding the hint, that purchasers had better
be In hurry, as such things are not to be here
after ob,ainable In Secessia. We should have
stated above, that one OF the reasons why ANDY
Stuart urges his proposed restriction Of suffrage
Is because Ii is not improbable that Virginia will
soon be comparatively without negro labor, "a
significant admission Of an inevitable result OF
secession, as we long since demonstrated In the
"StoT, % and northern labor may be expected 10
flock to supply its place.
He holds that 1t is necessary to guard In adj.
vance against slch changes in Virginia prestiges
and vested lights, he believes the northerners
may seek to effect at the ballot boxes unless they
are disfranchised now, while sectsh influences
NAV be able to do that thing.
The hospitals in Richmond are shockingIy
managed, II that city's papers may be believed |
A soldier recently discharged from a Culpepper
Court House hospital, praises their comparative |
better arrangement, which he attributes az much
10 the care of the ladies, who do the nursing
there, and provide the sick and wounded with |
all conceivable little comforts and luxures out of
their own private means, as 10 the constant su-
peryison Of the surgeon general at that point, |
Or. Green. late Of the U. ). Navy, who, by the |
by, was proverbially one Of the best medical OH.
GERS In our service. /
United States Senator waitman T WILEY ha, |
49,. alF.1f t. e..
vention by unanimous vote, bis name having
been called daily until the 19!h inst |
In place Of the unionists lately In the conyen-
tion who have "vamosed the ranch ;" they have
improvised the following constituent-Iess new
members, viz: Joseph II. Pendleton, for Ohio
county, Joseph ID. Pickett, for Brooke county;
JefeIsou T. Martin, for Marshall county, Stephen
A. Morgan, for Marion; Jonathan H. Heck for
aonoBgsia; ROb.. Z. Cowan and G. J PrindaII
Esop, for Preston; John A. Robinson, for TAYLOR;
VIM p Cooper, for Harrison; Edward ID Nc
CURE, for Wood, and Jacob Marshall, for Ran
dolph and Tucker counties.
Albert g. Jenkins, (s=ceded member Of the u
>. Congress) has bern elected to the secesh Con-
gress from the 18th tx iDawha) disricto Of Virginia.
Commander Edward b. Boutwell,, u. g. ~,
who has for some time been In Jail In Richmond,
under susPiaion Of being inimical to secesh, has
been unsoRdsionslly discharged by JEFF Davis's |
order
Preference 10 given on all the Virginia railroads
70 military and other government freight.
The demand for paper Of every description is
immense In Richmond, there being none 10 speak
OF on hand, and hardly any prospects of getting
any. Ink (printing) 10 quite az scarce.
The smah Pox 10 making terrible work with
the rebel troops on Muldraugh's Hin, KY. Large
numbers are dying daily Of it, says dispatch in |
the Richmond Enquirer
On the 18Th inst, Parramore was appointed |
receiver under their sequestrstion act) for the
counties Of Accomsc and Northampton. In view
at The fact that secesh now sings wonderfully |
small In those counties, II Mr.. Parrsmore wishes |
to preserve whole skin he will hardly venture
to accept that honor 49, /
ssmPson Jones agent urges the farmers Of
Nhginia TO make butter fer the south now that