Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-01-05
FROM RICHMOND.
CiTCUSES.

RICHMOND, JAN l. AT the caucus OF the
Conservative members of the Senate last night
a resolution was passed rcafirming that plank
in the party platform declaring that the people
Of Virginia mean to offer no capitous oppos-
lion to Grants administration, but deprecaung
the passage OF the civil rights bill as INJURIOUS,
! uuwlse aud likely to prove hurtul to both
races. 1t was also resolved to support an
! amendment to the rules requiring the clerk 10
| selecting his assistants to appoint not more
than one from each congressional district. :,
\ CAUCUS Of the Conservative III :mbers OF
both Houses will be held on Monday night.
when nominations will bc made Tor Auditor OF
Public Accounts, Superintendent of Public In
srruction, Superintendent Of Penitentary, and
Gcueral Agent and Storckeeper OF the Penl-
tertiary. The matter OF the proposed abolish
ment of the Office of Superintendent OF Public
| Buildings, it is not Improbable, may then De
considered
The Radical members will meet 10 caucus on
Monday morning at II o'clock. at the last
meeting the caucus Nominated Candidates TOR
all the Offices to be filled except that OF Super
iutendent of Public Inlrucion, when it was
said that as DR.. Rutfner had filled the office in
manner perfectly acceptable to the Radical
Marty, no nomination would be made Tor that
office.
| LEGISLATIVE.
The Senate was not 10 session on Saturday.
| To the House Of Delegates, after the grant
ing Of several ''leaVcs Of absence, the rules
were amended so as to reduce the number OF
| door keepers to three, who shall be elected by
| the House, and committee on Federal rela-
tious added to the list of standing committees.
Among the resolutions Introduced were the
following: 10 encourage and protect the rear
ing Of sheep; to suppress new mode OF gamo,
ling by means Of wheel of chance at fairs and
places of public resort; iu relation to the inter.
est on money; amending the act authorizing IA!
certain commissioners to sell lot OF land IN Wln-
chester belonging to the Winchester Academy;
and to authorize the Common Council OF WHO
chester to borrow money.
An act to render valid the charter OF lncor-
poratou Of the Peoples Savings Bank, OF
| Lvnchbure, Va, aud to egalizs all acts done
under and in accordance with the original char
ter was passed.
A Joint resolution extending the time for the
collection of taxes and county and township
levies for the year 1873, Was ordered to its en-
grossment. MIR. O'Neal, from Alexandria,
spoke on the resolution, taking the ground that
the Legislature having fixed a definite time
when the taxes should be collected, ought not
to alter such time His speech WAS TO the point,
delivered without any effort at oratory and was
well received.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION.
! DR.. Ruffner, in his third annual report to
| the Legislature, makes the following exhibit:
School Population White, 253,4ll, colorcd
| 10, GOO, total 424, lU7
Number of Schools in Operation--ln Cities,
white, ll3; colored, &c; total, 10; 10 countless
white; 2,G74; colored, S42; total, 3,5l7.
Number OF teachers-White males, ,, lS3;
white females 1875; total, 3,37S; coored males,
23l; colored females Us; total. 3I9
Salaries Average in cities, $3.50; average
in counties, $40 -; average IN State. s32.
Number OF SCHOLARSHIP cities, white, I, 354;
cUlorcd, SOL; total Is. 2G5; IN counties, white,
Iu5. 9u9 coIored, ,GS5 total, I47 494; in State
white, Ii 3 263: colored, 1886; total, 1908
| Average Length Of Sessions-lu cities, JAG
months; in couuiics, / 90; IL State, 5 -.
! Percentage of school population euroiled--
| White, ii 5, colored. - !.
Number of School Huuses-L,g, 1914;
frame, ,329; brick, l43; stone, IS; whole pum-
Der used, "a IT; number owned by Districts,
ia; value Of school property Owned by dis
tricts, 1924 633S.
Cost of Tui;ion-Each scholar per month,
rs cents.
Resources Whole amount Of State funds
available for lS72-73, $464, 7U4 9l from local
taxation, $434, .oS: Peabody and other funds,
Sq2,152 C7 total, $3.50, 4l9.O5. Expenses, $780,
| 4l9.O5.
| TIE CIVIL RI0RTS BILL.
The civil rights bill to be brought up before
Congress on Tuesday, creates some stir here,
aud should it pass without being amended, the
Legislature will at once, it liz thought, call a
convention to amend The constitution, and in
the inserem reduce the pay of SupcTiutendents
and teachers SO as to make the positions Jude.
srable There is quite a respectable number Of
gentlemen 10 the Legislature who desire to call
convention at once, but there is not majority
10 favor of it unless this bill passes Congress,
10 which event he cllI would, it is thought, be
no longer delayed, aud the University, Military
Institute, and other State institutions would he
at once turned over to private corporations
! DECLINES.
Gov Kemper, has declined the present of a
fine pair OF horses and carriage which his ad-
miring friends desired to present him.
OCCASIONAL.