The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-09-15
DOMESTIC MISCELLANY.


DOMESTIC MISCELLANY.
The Proclamation General CANDY officially an.
nOunceS the result of the elections held in this
State on the 9th Of July last Under the law the
Legislature Is required 70 assemble in this city on
the fourth Tuesday after the appearance of this
proclamation; which viii be the 9Th of October
next
The General announces the appointment of Gil
bert O. Walker TO be Governor of Virginia on and
after the Dist Of this month, to an the vacancy Oc-
caSiOned by the resignation OF III. II. Wells
John +. Lewis Is appointed Lieutenant Gov
ernOr Of the State 70 ll the vacancy to take effect
upOn the assembling of the Legislature October
5th
James c. Taylor. elected Attorney-Genera is
not appointed aud therefore is considered by Gen.
eral Candy ineligible, not being able to take the
teSt-Oath. He draws distinction between the
members Of the Legislature and the State officers.
Congress has directed that the Legislature may do
certain thing, and that is the authority for their
meeting and qualifying to do that thing under the
constitution Just adopted, Not so with the State
officers, Of whom the law requires nothing. and
who it is considered can only hold office provisional
" prior to the admission of the State into the
Union, and must therefore take the teSt-Oath
Dispatch.
The Fifteenth Amea6ment--The New York Times
puOllcut> carefully prepared ilSC or OlaleS t00C
have ratified the Fifteenth Amendment, what
States have rejected it, and what States have taken
no action on 1t. In the list there are thirtyseven
States aud the ratification of twenty eight is thus
necessary TO constitute the amendment part of
the Constitution. By the list it appears that nine
teen States have already ratified it. Nine more
are, therefore, necessary to render the ratification
complete. By the requirements Of Congress, Mis-
SlSSlppl, Texas and Virginia must ratify the amend
ment before their reconstruction can be completed
These three States, added to the nineteen which
have already ratified it. would make twenty-five
States leaving six yet required to render the action
complete And the States from which these six
must be obtained are Alabama, California, Della
ware, Georgia, iowa. Kentucky, Maryland, Mime.
sofa, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode
Island, Tennessee and Vermont.
Death of John Bell-This eminent statesman
departed this life at his residence In Tennessee,
on the 10th inst, aged y years. He was long in
public life and occupied places of high trust and
was in great esteem az man Of superior integrity
and dignity Of character. Three or four years ago
he made public profession Of religion in the COM
muniOn OF the Presbyterian church.
The Annual Catalogue Of Washington and Jeffer-
son College, shows the number of Que hundred and
twenty-eight students for the past year.
Professor R. T Jesse, formerly of Caroline couu
Z
my, in Mason county, KY Virginia is supplying
the West with educators. Fredericksburg Led
ger.
Virginia Military Institute.--The session of this
institute commenced on Monday last. Over two
hundred cadets were present, of whom ninety are
new.
The result of the California election is thorough
and most satisfactory Democratic victory with the
exception Of half on the ticket in San Francisco.
The fifteenth amendment will meet with no fav-
or at the hands Of the newly chosen Legislature.
Resignation of Governor Wells Accepted. Gene
raj Candy has issued the following special order:
The resignation of his Excellency Henry II.
Wells, as Governor of the State of Virginia, is
hereby accepted, to take effect September 2l,
1869.
Charles William Clemmitt, son of William II.
Clemmitt, Of this city, has been selected by the
Typographical Union, No. 80, Of Richmond, to fill
the scholarship in Washington College set apart
for mertOrlOuS youth desiring to qualify himself
for the profession Of journalism.
Randolph Macon COuege.---We are pleased to hear
that the session of Randolph Macon College, soon
to begin at Ashland promises to be one OF the
most prosperous IN the history OF that excellent
institution of learning.
General shermans appointment as Secretary of
War, al interim, reads " to end Of the next ses-
sion of Congress.
John B. Cough is writing the "reminiscences of his
tours through Britain. The volume, partly autobi-
Ographieal, will contain matter of much interest.
A correspondent proposes the introduction to the
Southern States Of the tepalm, the sugar palm,
and the -palm-thOSe palms furnishing
fruit sugar oil, fibre, etc. He argues in favor of
trying at least the experiment of introducing these
Indian palms and he holds that if properly plant
ed and cared for, they viii flourish and become
profitable to the South. Scientific Amercan.
Notable Concentrates The year lS69ison of some
notable centenuarieS. 1t is the hundredth from
the birth of Humboldt, Of Cuvier of the first Bru
mel, of Wellington, of SOult and Ney, and Sir
Thomas Lawrence. In inventions it is that of
Arkwright's Spinning Jenny, which gave such a
spring to all the cotton business Of the world. A
still greater, perhaps, is Watts Steam Engine
the birth Of his son James, aud the 6fteth since
he himself died.
Washington Opinion of POpery,-The address to
the people of Great Britain from the Delegates
appointed by the General Congress held at Phila.
delphia in l774 to represent the grievances of the
American Colonies, contains the following remark
able paragraph representing their opinion of the
dangerous principles of the Church of Rome. The
number Of Delegates was 6fty.twO, and included
the names Of Washington, Lee, Chase, Living
Ston, &c.
After complaining of being deprived Of trial by
Jury, of their ports being bloekaded, their charters
being destroyed, and of an Act being passed to
protect aud indemnify such as might be guilty even
of murder in endeayorng to carry their oppressive
edcts into execution the address goes on to state
And by another Act the dominion Of Canada is
TO be extended, modelled, and governed, as that
by being disunited from US and detached from our
interests BY civil as well as religious prejudiees,
that by their members daily travelling with CathO-
lie emigrants from Europe, and by their devotion
to an administration so friendly to their religion
they might become formidable to us, and on oeca-
sion, be fit instruments in the hands of power to
reduce the ancient free Protestant colonies to the
same state Of slavery as themselves. n
They are now the subjects Of an arbitrary Govern
ment, deprived of trial by jury, and when impris-
oned cannot claim the Habeas Corpus Act, the
great bulwark and palladium Of English liberty /:
nor can we suppress our astOniShment that Brit
ish Parliament should ever consent to establish in
that country religion that has deluged your is
land in blood, and dispensed impiety, bigOtry per-
secution, murder and rebellion through every part
of the world, The Political Censor, or Monthly
ReCjag. PblQdeLphi1 1876.
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