The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-17
CAPITOL NOTES.

NHsiuia ooyS VIII nave TO give up tn
cherished idols of their youthful imagins
tons, their sings, bows, arrows, rocks
death-dealing instruments generally
squirts, pop-guns, billy goats, and squt
duncks. We meanthe addolesent juvenil
OF such tender years as twelve and under
1t is on this more ornamental than usefu
class of fellow-citizens that the vengefu
eye Of our state Senate is turned. w,
say to our youthful readers of the NAL,
persuasion, with tears in our optics nearly
as big as marrowfat peas, "beware
Tor the enemy encompasseth thee
round about There is bill
pending in the Virginia Senate whose
intent, as declared by its title, is "to pre-.
vent boys under twelve years of age from
carrying firearms in cities and towns Of
this commonwealth" We fancy the dewy
g'istening of the youthful eye when this is
read. 1t may please aged male parties to
so say "oh would / were a boy again, I"
bat our youths cannot see it in the sheen
Ct those luminaries when their vested
rights to bear arms is about to be ruthless
ly snatched from their grasp.
There is bill pending in the Senate
which unpleasantly revives memories of
the late sectional war. 1t is the bill con-
corning the Richmond and Fair Oaks turn
pike company. Visions of Cold Harbor
and adjacent sanguinary precincts rise up
in memory. If Senators don't march to
its support with more alacrity than some of
the troops who vegetated towards Seven
Pines in May and June, 1862 the bill won't
pass, and then we shall be without our
rights in the territories" or at least that
portion of them lying in east Henrico on
the line of the Williamsburg road and Sto-
ny run. 'March to the battlefield, the
turnpikeeis now before u.s.
Colonel John W. Wall, sergeant-at-arms
of the House, has been detained for several
days from the active performance of his du-
ties by severe indisposition.
English sparrows and Virginia swallows
are roostlng under the roof Of the Capitol.
Some birds of larger stature, but not so
neat of plumage, roost lower down.
Though not known by the generic appella-
ton of swallows, some Of them are exten.
svely gifted in that line, and can skip out
side of gill of apple jack Or old rye with
celebrity of action that would astound
their leathered compatriots under the ewes.
General Williams, of Winchester, the
author of the movement in the Legislature
providing tl.at if at the third exposure of
lands, at judicial sale, unless two.thirds
its assessed value is bid, it shall be rented
out for the next twelve months, saws in a
letter to the Winchester News, that in sug-
costing this change in. the present law, he
twas acting in the interests of the creditor
class, If ofany class"
The Baltimore Sun, of Yesterday. says:
"The Legislature of Virginia in the action
which it took upon the death of ex-Presi-
dent Fillmore showed an intelligent and
patriotic appreciation of the public virtues
OF that distinguished man. Itplaced its
journals tribute to his character equally
honorable to him and to itself"
The New York Tribune propounds the
enquiry. "What is redundancy ?" Down
here it consists of those vocalairy nothings
one hears so often in the House of Dele.
gates from members relative to some
buncomoe bill they have gotten up to
tickle "my people" at home, They ham.
mer away with persevering industry,
worthy of better cause, on such stuff,
that our dear old mother has to
pay for it all. and by it some poor devil of |
a bondholder is prevented from receiving a
modicum of his interest.
If there is anything the average legisla.
tor delights in more than another it is to
amend the Code" No sooner is one of
these literary excerpts culled, at vast ex-
pense to the state, and put before the peo-
Pile, that incipient statesmen begin the
task of amendation. The two hundred
and sixty-third amendment to q code of |
the mature age of three months has al
ready passed the General Assembly, and
the work goes bravely on. If instead of
amending they would condense, there
would be some sense in such constant |
at the ponderous tome, which is
said to combine The combined legal wis
dom of this and several preceding gene
raiions of legislators.
The Legislature was seventy FIVE days
old this instant. The members need no
skilled Inner to sketch them. They can
draw themselves. Physically they look
we'll constitutionally they will expire In
fifteen more days.
Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart is
charged with the duty of impressing the
Legislature with sense of the necessity of |
early action on the tax bill. He COM
in brilliant, and it is hoped an eff
fective, manner yesterday The accomplish
ment of his allotted task as chairman of the |
finance committee. Some members would |
however higgle on the ninth part of hair,
and into the noodles of others it would be
as hard to slip in an idea as it would be to
bore through white oak board with a bar