Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-15
FROM RICHMOND.
IEGf~ I..ATiNE T..

RICHMOND, Feb. l4-ln tie Senate, today,
bills were reported 10 authorize the trustees OF
Hamilton Lodge, H. +. l. \ H., to borrow
money for the purros. of erecting Masonic
Hail. to Incorporate the trustees OF the Prcsby-
terrain Committee Of Publication, and to inc,rpo-
rate the OH Dominion cheese an butter CON-
pany.
Bills were Introduced 10 amend the act in re-
! atiuu to the Investment Of the proceeds arising
| fiom the sale OF the land scrip Gopated BY Cou-
sress to Virginia, and to provide for payment
of Interest on the public debt.
\ bill to regulate aud define the jurisdiction
of the County and Circuit Courts, TO prescribe
the number of terms of the Circuit Courts and
TO fix the pay OF county JUDGES. was laid on the
table and made the continuing order OF the day
for Tuesday next.
The bill TO Incorporate the United States
gold and silver amalgamating company, Was or
dered to its cngrosslncut.
Bills were passed to prevent the seduction
Of females aud amending an act IN relation to
the abduction of females; and to amend certain
scctous of al act prescribing the duties aud
compensation Of township officers
The bill for the lease OF the pcnitentiary was
taken up amended aud ordered to It's cugross
| mcnt.
Tn the House OF Delegates the Committee
on Courts reported 1t lneXpedlent to legislate
50 as 70 require tenant holding over without
legal notice, to give security for the next ersu-
iur year, or yacate the premises; also that it
was inespedient to provide that no member of
the General Assembly shall be entitled to re-
cciye per diem upon leave ofabseuce hereafter
granted, except for sickness at the capital, or
protracted illness at home both of which re-
ports were concurred 10.
Resolutions were introduced as to the c1-
pediency of allowing only four terms year for
the trial OF misdcmeanors and civil cases and
as to the expediency of 50 amending the free
school law as to provide for the admission into
white sch oo!s OF all children who have white
fathers
The interest bill and the bill to protect farm
erS from cmbcZZemcnt &c., were further con-
Sidcrcd.
THE COURT BILL.
\ bill, similar in It's features to the one de-
f.ated in the House Of Delegates, defining the
Jurisdiction Of the County aud Circuit Courts,
has been introduced in the Senate, with, 1t Is
said, a fair chance OF passing that body.
NEW CODE.
The committee of the House Of Delegates
have reported in favor of the purchase of the
new cole prepared by COL George ". Mum
ford, for the sum of $4,000. Col. Mumtord
prepared the code Of 1860. aud his recent work
is said by those who have examined it, to meet
all the requirements of the barand the people.
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION Col. Clinton G.
Colgate repre.cntiug the New York Stock tx
change was sworn before the Ways aud
Means Committee on Wednesday regarding Il
newspaper paragraph. which asserted that the
Stock Exchange had spent large sum vi
money 10 SECURE the las>ag' OF an amendment
in last years tax bill declaring borrowed money
in tic hands OF br, kers not yiile lis capital
Colgate sworc that he did not pay, promise
TO pay. nor hint at paying any money to any
Government official in Washington or else
where to help him, except Mr.. Ralph Wo d,
Of New York who ac;ed a. his legal counsel
Blu, he added tha; Judge Shcruan, judge of
the L. :. District { urt tnr the northern dis
t,ict of Ohio. brother of Senator and General
| Sherman. has presented Il bill Ut $4,000,
| which he claims is due Tor arguments and bret
by whici was secured the aid Of Senator Shcr-
man aud Gen. Garfield Col gate says he don I
know and never saw judge Sherman ; Yer
! knew # his assistance il he gave any. Oen.
Garfield utterly diSc:ains ali knowledge that
Sherman made argument or brc IN the case.
In fact, he had nothing to do with it. The
amendment was put on at Senator Fcnton : re-
quest, in the Finance Committee. and was
agreed to in conference committee without Ge-
butive action 10 the House.
Colgate is to produce before tie committee
Judge Sherman's letter accompanying his bill;
also, his own report to the Stock Exchange,
wherein he charges that George \. BaS>ett,
the clerk of the Committee on Ways aud
Means, submitted to him a proposition to take
care of the matter in that committee for $3.50
per mouth until the bill became law, when
$1,000 cash was to be paid. This offer Colgate,
after reporting it to the president OF the Stock
Exchange, alleges that he preremptorly re-
jected.
THE VIRGINIA RAILROADS. We append
as a matter OF Information the names and length
of the different Virginia railroads now IN op
Grafton:
Atlantic, Mississippi AMI Ohio Railroad,
(Consolidaton of Norfolk and Petersburg
Southside Railroad and Virginia and Tonnes
see Railroad) Length, n. y F., 81 miles;
Sou,hside l23; Va 4 Tennessee 2O4.
So miles
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Length
427.
Lynclburg and Danvc. Length 6j! miles.
Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Length,
Main Line Ill, Manassas Branch ~; War
renton Branch 10.
Petersburg Railroad Length 50 miles.
Piedmont Branch Of Richmond and Danvlle.
Length 80.
Richmoud and Danvie. Length l42 miles.
Richmond and York River Length 50
miles.
Richmond and Petersburg Length 25 miles.
Richmond, Frcdericks burg and Potomac
Railroad Length, SO miles.
Washington and Ohio Length, II miles,
completed.
Scaboard and Roanoke. Length, 50 miles.
THE MONTICELLO Gong FOR A FIRE ALARM
BELL.-At the City Council of Stauutou,
Mouday night Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, ex-Sec-
Rotary of the Interior, who is a member, in dis.