The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-18
Grettiitg State Snitrna1.
CAPITOL NOTES.

Apetitiou was pTeSenteu 10 tne GOVer
nor to-day asking him to release Sally Pc
gram from the city Jail. Sally, who j
aged and Of the colored race, despite |
long preserved and very good character
effected a Judgment in said institution abou
month ago, on strong suspicion Of being
the moving spirit in well defined case O.
petit larceny. Her sentence located hei
fleshly tenement "under the hill" for the
period Of three calendar months. The
Governors determination in the premises
has yet to be announced.
The bill to dispose OF the penitentiary,
which came up in the Senate yesterday as
the order Of the day, was, at the adjourn
ment of that body, not much farther adj
vanced towards its engrossment than when
first taken hold of. The bill was intro
duced as the product Of the labors of o
joint committee Of both houses, and we
may reasonably assume that they gave the
I subject due attention. However DESTROYS
some honorable members may be that the
state shall always manage that penal insti-
tute through her own officers, it cannot be
denied that a respectable majority of the
inhabitants of this commonwealth are
more than willing to see this costly old
blister, not to speak of others, removed
from the fair shoulders of Virginia. An
amendment was adopted to the bill under
consideration, at the suggestion of Mr..
Holiday. Of Henrico, whereby the lessee
Should there ever be one) cannot object to
removal of the prison when the Legisla-
ture shall so order.
There is proposition pending before
the House committee on roads and inter
nal navigation, which will be argued Fri
day, to require General VIM. Malone at
once TO invest any surplus funds in his
possession in the connection and elucida.
ton of the Cumberland Gap railroad pro-
ject. The General will no doubt be on
hand-he generally is.
The military bill now before the House
proposes to organize the militia of the
commonwealth into five divisions, twenty
five brigades and about one hundred and
thirty.six regiments. The county Of Hen
rico and city of Richmond will compose
the twenty-first brigade. Within the last
named halowed precincts are embraced
the valiant warriors of the First Virginia
regiment, the Attuck and Carney Guards, .
and Richmond Howitzers.
Na 1t would be very good thing to remove
the state library if there was any place
suitable for its reception to be found. A
committee of engineers and architects hav-
ing pronounced the present place of de-
posit the strongest and safest in the city,
Of course the hasty and foolish resolve Of
the House and Senate to have the books
moved will now fall to the ground. IF the
matter is further pushed Governor Kem-
per will be called upon in the exercise of
q wise discretion to repress theInonsensical
action of his legislative co-laborers and
colleagues. }il.e
The joint committee Of the General
Assembly to investigate the Coleman de-
falcation will sit during the hours Of the
session. rJt#
~ The Governor to-day offered reward
of fifty dollars for the apprehension of
Thomas Campbell, alias Tom Sundy. who
is under indictment in Brunswick county
for felony, and has eluded arrest.
Cords of female folks were engaged to-
day in gyrating around the interstices of
the state library and parts adjacent. Some
Of these Virginia girls are as sweet as
peaches and cream, and from the singu-
larly felictous way in which they can sling
around costly clothing most of them must
be terror to parents of a saving DISPOSE
ton. II
J. L. Williams, esq, of this city, was
commissioned notary public by the Gov
ernor to-day.
m To Sunday liquor law was returned from
the Senate to the House to-day with the dis
sent of the former TO the House amendment
exempting from the operations of the bill
such cities and towns as had police regula-
tons on the subject. 1t gave rise to a
lively debate, participated in by Messrs.
Dooley and Lovenstein. Mr.. Gilman, of
Richmond, has the floor for tomorrow.
qu The House to-day passed the bill trans
ferring the duties heretofore performed by
The superintendent of public buildings to
the register OF the general land office. Cap
tain Kellam, who oficiates in the latter
office, is not insensible to the honor con-
ferred in doubling his titles, but would
not have objected to an adequate allowance
(say 500 per annum) for performing the
additional duty involved. 3te4
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.