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The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
ed himself in favor of preserving the peace, and the Union, if possible. Mr. August declared that no man desired more earnestly than himself to preserve the peactay, its hand. Could any message be more productive of peace than that? Mr. August commented on the clause, "for the present," as indefinite, and indicated othet them. the vote was then taken with the following result: yeas.--Messrs. August, Brannon Bruce, Carson, Claiborne, Coghill, Dav, Douglass, Early, Finney, GStates. The substitute was adopted by the following vote: Yeas.--Messrs. August, Brannon, Bruce — Carson, Claiborne, Coghill, Day, Douglass, Early, Finney,ng the Circuit Courts of the city of Williamsburg and county of Henrico. Mr. August reported a bill to authorize the County Courts to arm the militia of their reock; by Mr. Lynch, of creating a magazine or arsenal at or near Lynchburg; by Mr. August, of extending the boundaries of the city of Richmond. --Several resolutions t
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
h they stand charged are as follows David S. Chilton, passing one counterfeit $10 note of the Bank of South Carolina to Joseph Stern, one of the same to Wm. Ira Smith, and having in his possession $1,500 of the same, knowing it to be counterfeit. Albert S. Riddell, passing $100 in counterfeit $10 notes of the Bank of South Carolina to Williams, Peters & Co., and one of the same to Godfrey Wemmel, knowing it to be counterfeit. The Mayor stated that he had subpœned witness from Lynchburg on the part of the Common wealth, and had also received the assurance of a witness from South Carolina--an officer of the Bank — whose presence was indispensable, and it would be necessary for him to postpone the investigation in consequence. After some conversation with the counsel, in which the matter of bringing a witness from a "foreign country" was jocosely alluded to by Gen. August, the Mayor designated Monday, the 21st inst, for the investigation, and the prisoners were remanded to jail