The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-10

oety. Virtue and vice are found In
s,oul equal proportions everywhere. TIE
kasmFw must be very malignant 10
is hate of the unfortunate Yankees,
when 1t cannot even, ovt of cou esy,
spsrs the women of that sestion. Our
chivalry must be dsgenerating when it can
| assail the women Of an entire country, DO
cause thsss are few, who, by ,thei
| conduct, have shown themselves unworthy
| of respect or consideration. Are there no
| women in Richmond or the South, MIR.
Enquirer, who act unwomanly2 or do
| they only become evil in their ways when
We cross the Potomac or Ohio2
The Whig reviews the proceedings in
the General Assembly yesterday. The
principal question under discussion in the
House was the jury bill. A motion was
made to reconsider the vote whereby the
bill substituting . board, consisting OF the
Judge the clerk and the Commemorative
attorney. for the judge as the jury select
lag power. After considerable debate 1t
prevailed, and thsn the proposition OF Mr..
Thomas, making the board to consist OF
these three officers, was voted down and
the whole matter of selecting jurors left 10
the keeping of the Judge. OF course, as the
other was Republican measure, there was
no chance for it after the Conservative
whip was cracked. In its review OF the
debate on this question the Wing says:
It was agreed among the speakers fsvoring
reconsideration that the object should be to |
select honest, intelligent and competent jurors,
no matter what their color, and 1t seemed to |
be thought by them that the purpose OF the |
opposition in advocating board was to enable
carpet bag clerks and sheriffs to form juries of |
ignorant, prejudiced and incompetent men just
because they are black.
Indeed; and we suppose partisan judges
will not pack juries, with view to still
further filing our penitentary with unfor-
tunate Republicans.
In an article on "Highways aud By
ways" in which, after philosophizing at
some length upon the mutability of earthly
things, and satirizing the general tendency
IF mankind to do nothing, the Wing comes
lown to its text, aud has the following
about Intending our ways"
One of the pressing duties addressing itself
o individuals and communities is that OF i'm
'roviDg the wretched condition of their public
oads-of having the ordinary highways and
yways of the State properly located, well
.raded and pat In such condition that the far-
ner can readily haul his hundred bushels OF
'heat, or the planter his three hogheads OF
obacco, TO market without dread of baulk,"
stalP' or " break down"-three words of |
nfortunate prevalence and patness in the
gricultural vocabulary ofVirginia. We pro- =
ose from time to time to press upon our peo-
lie the vital Importance of some speedy and
fectual remedy for the " error in our ways !
1t is good suggestion. We never
'avelled far on public roads in Vir " a.
OF farther than from Sbockoe Hill the c
Id Market, by way of the Franklin turn /,
ike-and have always found that high.
ay and its numerous by-ways in "most s
orrid" condition-quite impossible, even b
18th the aid of Hercules. We trust that
| our highways aud other ways may bs
approved at once ii