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The French have carried the science of cookery to its perfection, and teach the ability of all human substances. With them, it is a proverb: "Pit more et n'aur fw maacer, ji It dirai ce yue tu e*." Tell me what you see, and I will tell you what you are, by the way, would be quite pleasant to the senses of some of our first-class Hotels, just about this time; the variety and indescribability of many of the conditions believed no, to be vastly to prevent the difficulties of agriculture. But now, now, the French, in perfecting their vaunted science of cooking, have had to explain and analyze the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms. The elements of every substance had to be ascertained, and their strength and capacity as articles of food subjected to chemical tests. That certain animals should be eaten in their infancy, as beef, pork, and other meats in their maturity, as mutton and beef; while others again, such as pheasants and pigeons, should be kept before cooking, until decomposition has progressed to the point, that the feathers should be off, and others again. Like the birds and all aquatic birds, should be cocked as soon as caught—are a few of the principal insects eliminated by their eccentric experiences. For many ages, the human game were the earliest of the gourmand, because their taste was so delicate, that they could distinguish both the two bridges from those caught below. West St. Louis, Paris boasted, that he came of a discriminating race, because two of his verses, in drinking from a keg of wine, one detected the flicker of leather and the other of iron, and a key with a leather string was found to it, he considered little better than an egg of indigestion, of which it rested, when last seen, to tell the most interesting tales in which a diamond wine was  by figures demonstrated the existence of the planet Neptune, and decided its very place in the regions of space, and when Gilie took his telescope and found it, where his calculations placed it, his telescope cocked his hat, and there was a shout of surprise and joy throughout the learned world. But the day on that occasion was not so auspicious to what it will be, when the next reach of Paris, that the Yankees have eaten the leek, and that it is true in fact as in theory, that codfish and pumas are not at all. The French Academy, assisted by all the states of the French republic, will forthwith hold an extraordinary session, the important fact, so highly flattering to Gavronumic science, will be formally entered on the minutes, and constituted to all posterity. Every author, who has written a book on the food of nations, and demonstrated the connection between poor fools and poor fighting, will issue a new and enlarged edition, illustrated with the contents. It will be amusing to see the Great Yankee Nation, planning the theme of the French philosopher, and taking their place side by side with the Chinese in a category of blunders. Suffering and dastardly nations. This is an example of the best apology for the cowardice of the Yinkre, that the case of the people of the United States is not a mere example of the force of circumstances, over which they have no control. They eat their help, the meager food, in the midst of which they are deprived of the means of subsistence, with which their dreary regime supplies them. They nourish the law of their being. When it is remembered that the Prime Minister inebriates himself with those outstanding averages—gin and champagne, it is only the more appropriate thing that they did not adopt the white tea her as their national badge, from the beginning. Herr ok for the Teek. See, I, 61a’ellt f Old Mr. A Northern paper reports, by authority, that this mass of vanity and putrefaction did not come back the bearer of any message from abroad. He became alarmed, thought war between England and Yatkcedom imminent and inevitable, and he feared he might be cut off from his ground, and reduced to starvation in a foreign land. It is true that he and Bishop Hughes, and some three or four snobbish, nasal-twanging Yankees, made arrangements for an interview with the Emperor of the French. But they reckoned without their host. The principal personal, the Emperor, came on missing. It was the pity of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet left out. The omission was significant. He admonished old Hott that he had as little to go from France as from England. He took the hint, and horrified his rotten carcass more rapidly back than he did forward across the Atlantic. The Furies of Greek tragedy are pursuing him, and they never give up a cause. We shall see him yet in an iron cage, and show him round the land, a monument and a warning. A fortress for a how will Great Britain. The Rio Grande is a neutral stream, the boundary between Mexico and the Confederate States. This river says the New Orleans Delta, has been blockaded by the United States navy, and is now closed to the commerce of the world. The ships of foreign nations bound for Matamoros and other Mexican ports are forbidden entrance into the river. The first vessel which was ordered off happened to be an English ship with a freight for an English house at Matamoros. No better illustration could be given of the forbearance or imbecility of the British government in relation to this blockade than would be their acquiescence in such an exclusion of the merchant vessels from the port of a nation not engaged in this war. They have already abundant proofs of the ineffectiveness of the blockade in regard to Confederate ports. Neither Great Britain, France nor the United States have any claim to the protection of the commerce of the United States. Sates ever before recognized or permitted such a blockade as that which the United States have attempted to maintain, or one so destructive to the interests of their people. But if they choose to submit to it, we do not know that it becomes us to object, whatever we may think of their consistency or manhood. But when the audacious government of Lincoln attempts to extend their blockade to the ports of other independent nations, it appears to us that there are no limits to the impudence and insolence of that government, or to the forbearance and submission of the great commercial powers of Europe. A Truly Publication. The London "Herald," of December 5th, says: "This day is published, price $1. The South, its Products, Commerce and Resources, by Colonel Thomas Jordan, Adjutant General to Major General Beauregard, 1st Corps, Confederate Army of the Potomac. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, and 57 Paternoster-row, London." Col. Jordan is among the most intelligent and accomplished officers in the Confederate service, and we have no doubt that, in this pamphlet, he has done his work well. Nothing could be more timely than its publication. Citizenship is the Ashby.— The Charleston Mercury gives a list of the Companies furnished by that city for the war. They number thirty-six companies of infantry and men, seven batteries of light artillery, with about 50 pieces. 1st five mounted corps. In all companies, which, at the minimum number of 64 allowed by law, makes 3-72 men. But besiles these, says the Mercury, "we have the regiment of Reserves, consisting of eight companies, and ten companies of Firemen, who have been drilling for the past twelve months; besides the Sixteenth Regiment, consisting of eight Beat Companies, which were lately in active service, and which have just been disbanded, preliminary to being reorganized under the provisions of the recent Military law. When we remember hundreds of our most reliable citizens, who are working night and day in the preparation of war material, and who are, for this reason, kept from service in the field, it cannot be questioned that our city has done her share in the good work." As the News is the News, the following is an extract from a letter received from a town in Iowa, by a gentleman in Memphis, which the Memphis Appeal is allowed to publish. The writer says: "There is a very large party throughout the North that would be glad to have peace as soon as possible; In any way and upon any terms. A good many are beginning to go to their set, now that it is too late, only to find that the war is going to ruin us all throughout the North, while its welfare appears to be only to put the North and South further apart than ever before. Business here is at a perfect standstill—everything has stopped, there is no money; the produce of the country is not bought at any price, and all here have about arrived." At the conclusion that we are all going to ruin as last as possible. The policy of every one is to contract, to wit, up its affairs generally as soon as possible. The Northern Pacific says that the captain of the Iroquois is to be court-martialed, and will probably be punished in consequence of his failure to capture the Summer at Martinique. The inquiry suggests itself, why do not the Lieutenants court-martial and punish the commanders of blockading vessels on our Southern coast for permitting rebel vessels to "scape," almost every week, from "secession ports" into the broad expanse of water? Is the commander of the Iroquois to be treated for the wounded pride and ambition of the weak Government? A Northern despatch says the federal government has information of much suffering and destitution in Richmond. And we have information of much suffering and destitution in Richmond—a suffering from loss of character and destitution of honor on the part of the government. Poverty and rugs in Richmond were preferable to the degraded “purple and fine linen" of the United States. A new military law has been passed by the Texas Legislature, in which the word “militia” has been entirely ignored, and the term “State troops” adopted, placing the entire force of the State on a war footing. This law has been drawn with great care. Shelby county, Trun. with but seven thousand voters, has sent fifty companies to the war, and will soon have ten more organized for home service. JIM LANE AGAIN ON THE STUMP. The notorious J. T. Line of Kansas, who is furiously for stealing a grove, as well as for Cameron’s policy of arming them, in a speech at Washington City the other day, illustrated his position as follows: "I won quite a reputation when I went to school, as a fighting boy. Every Saturday night we fought out." I was in this one of the head, but the champion, Joe Damb, was a great back of a fellow, weighing twice as much as I did, and as strong as an ox, and I couldn't whip him a fair play. Ours was the tough and tumble state. I knew I could whip him if I waited to show him, but my reputation demanded that I should go it then. So I watched for a shot to come, or something to happen that would give me an advantage over the day I heard that Joe had been in a swimming, and I said, "I did, and I got bitten to show me the exact spot. I kept quiet, and when Saturday came, I was ready to fight him." I struck out at me, I dodged his heavy blows, and went in and kicked him on the shin (Or at laughter.) He beat me like a calf and cried enough! (Laughter.) We are now at war with the South, and I am in to whip. I Voice—Alf A-m oh the A ruin! "Immoderate laughter" long continued) The Cincinnati Commercial publishes the above and then puts it to J. M. Line in the following pertinent style: But, Sena or Lane! is the Rebellion "a great hulk of a fellow, weighing twice as much" as the Government. Would you have kicked Joe upon the bruise if you had been "a great hulk of a fellow, twice as big as he was?" An Accommodation —It will be remembered that one of the unexpended shells found in the Navy Yard at Pensacola after the bombardment finally "went off" several days after and killed two of our men who were trying to remove the fuse. That account of blood was squandered, with a vengeance, it seems, by a similar performance of one of our shellwicks. If in Pickens. The officer of the Niagara who writes the narrative of the recent fight, in this paper. A sad accident happened at Fort Pickens this morning. As some of the men were removing the "fuses" and emptying the powder from the shells that fell inside the fort and did not explode, a spark of fire from the chiseled in removing the fuse caused the shell to explode, killing five men and wounding two. On the harbor, the scene was quite lively. Yesterday one of our city wharves presented quite an active scene, in consequence of a slight fire. Plays of merchants, which crowded the surrounding space and which was being discharged from a vessel lately from foreign parts. The cargo consisted of English Blankets, Confederate Cloths, Hardwares in casks, Coffee, Soap, Candles, Cudahy, Spool Cotton, English Paper and Bags, Butter, Arrowroot, Cheese, Lumber, Hosiery, Buttons, Needles, Spatish Segars, and various other articles of great value at this time — Charleston Courier of 'The. The Flag says that Vicksburg is turning out from eight to ten brass cannon per week. Some of them are rifled. In London, the Herald on Lincoln's Message (D.D. by the Senate), Dec. 14 At the commencement of the message, the President refers to foreign countries generally in terms which we cannot regard as dignified, and which appear to us in excusable. It is felt that the "dignified citizens of the Union may have invoked foreign aid and intervention. The term "dignified" is manifestly inappropriate to any of the members of a confederation of states. It begs the whole constitutional question at issue between North and South. We have next an official statement of the probable motives and conduct of foreign nations that might be thus invoked. "Nations have tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the councils of seeming expediency and ungenerous submission although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unavailing and injurious to those adopting them." Mr. Lincoln now makes a jump from the position that such acts as these may have been asked, to the statement that it has been asked. "The disloyal citizens of the United States, who have offered the ruin of our country in return for the aid and comfort which they have invoked abroad, have received less patronage and encouragement than they probably expected. And why not? No. Feeling of justness or sense of internation, obligations it seems, can possibly influence the decision of these foreign courts. All that they think of is their own immediate interest. To serve that they may expect to throw overboard all moral and social obligations. The government having already far more on its hand, than it can manage, seems sadly bent upon intriguing all the world, and driving it, whether it will or not, to ensure the Southern side in the quarrel. The subcommittees are incorrect, and these differences are unfair. We do not believe that the South has petitioned for the aid of any foreign nation. Mr. Divis has stated the contrary, and he knows that unless the North should determine on going to war with England or Prince any trust in either would be hopeless, or our selves we early decided our neutral position, and if in fact, we have departed from our programme it has been in favor of the North. We have recognized an effective blockade, which has crippled Southern commerce — a recognition at variance with the law of nations. Immense quantities of ridges and munitions of war have been shipped from England to the North, while similar supplies to the South have been sailed upon by federal enlistments. We have not recognized the government of the southern States, although at a distant government that had fair claim to our allegiance. The Southern might argue that we have departed from our neutrality in case where it was difficult to maintain it. Generally, it was not in the case of the James Adger, who had been allowed to relit in our ports, so in its turn has the Nashville. If the Confederacy were captured, General Booth, while a passenger in the Dover packet, of course, we should have demanded his immediate release. No other course was open to us when we heard that four Southern gentlemen had been forcibly abducted from the mail steamer. Newspaper articles, votes of Congress and reports of the Navy Department, now show that Mr. Lined will have to choose between a prompt surrender of his captives and the alternative of a war, which will annihilate America on the sea and do her some mischief on the land, and at the same time settle the question of the great secession. From the Dublin Freeman, Dec. 5. SMITH O'BRIEN ON A WAR WITH ENGLAND. In a letter addressed by Mr. Win. Smith O'Brien to Mr. Reward Secretary of State of the United States, we find the following admonitions to recent events: By the recent seizure of the Confederate Commissioners on board of a British mail steamer, the Government was designed as a bold and defiant answer to the insolence which has been directed against the American nation by every organ of British opinion ever since the civil war broke out in the United States. However, it may be, it is assuredly an act which is fraught with consequence that may hereafter become most disastrous to both parties who are now contending with each other. Unless England's consent to fire out all claims to man or national honor, she must resent this severe, had, if the South be disposed to accept her cooperation, the successors of Washington must be prepared to encounter hardships more dangerous than have ever menaced the Western Republic. The United States of America might defy the world; but, while they are divided, the interposition of a powerful military rule their demands. The navy of England, issuing from the ports of Halifax, St. Johns, Bermuda, and of the West Indies, and cooperating with a land force which appears to be in the short of half a million of men, will not only raise the blockade of every Southern part, but will sweep the Americas. Fast from New Brunswick to the Potomac, burning every town and city within reach of the formidable project of modern artillery, and capturing every commercial vessel that may feature to the protection of a Federal fortress. As for Canada, the modern statesmen of England can see little whether it calls itself British or American; but if an attempt be made by the Federal States to force the Canadians into an incorporation with the Northern section of the republic, they will simply bring upon themselves an additional foe. They will be attacked on the Northern as well as their Southern frontier, and, therefore, they will be compelled to yield to the dictates of necessity and submit to an ignominious peace. This is the course of events which British opinion now anticipates. Scarcely a single Englishman or Irish West in the war broke out in America, because the English people have been made to feel that the United States were being a Power with whom they could not cope. For the same reason, I am convinced that they would now prefer to obtain an opportunity of destroying the Northern section of the republic by firm alliance with the Southern. They would thus acquire, without impediment, the cotton and other raw materials all with which the Southern States have been accustomed to supply them, whilst they would extinguish the political and commercial greatness of a formidable rival. In view of these contingencies, do I ask you to lower the "Stars and Stripes," and to humble yourself to England? By no means; but I earnestly entreat you to renew relations of amity, if not of affection, with those who are your natural friends, who ought to be your brothers in affection as they are your brothers by the relation of kindred. Answer the British demands in the language of diplomacy, your authorities and precedents to show that you are justified by the law of nations, and speak also by the example of England, in the sense of these Commissioners. Such discussions will give you time for deliberation and for preparation; but lose not an hour in liberating the Commissioners. Send them to the Foreign Office, headquarters, and tell them to return to Washington as plebeian and to treat respecting the terms of an immediate suspension of a military and respecting an early adjustment of the questions at issue he were the Northern and Southern States. If it be the language of common sense, do not despise it because it comes from an island which has for ages been the victim of his government. I believe that the language which I now hold speaks the sentiments of a large majority of my fellow countrymen; and there is not among the nations of the earth a people who entertain towards the United States of America so much affection as is fit by the Irish. They have not forgotten that they were received and fostered by the Americans at a time when they were driven from their homes by English misgovernments, and when their death, protection, and extinction were hailed by England with a shock of satisfaction which was not confined to the premeditated causes for whom were written the memorable words, "The Cels are gone. Tank God! the Cels are gone—one with a vengeance." They are even still reminded of this exultation was shared, and is shated, by the leaders of England—by ministers and viceroys who are still in the habit of finding in every decrease of the population of Ireland a subject of congratulation. If you make peace with the South, there will be no war with England. Some convenient and plausible pretext will be discovered for forbidding to resent the affront which has been offered to the British flag. And would not hesitate to assail you as she has been led by the Chinese, if you were unable to defend yourselves; but when she shall find that the shores of America are to be defended by a million of armed men, who have pushed by the exportation of at least one camigre; when she shall find that every hat and every other, from the frontier of Maine to the extremity of the sea, is about to sail out privateers which will intercept even in Australia the gold-laden vessels of England; when she collects that if she places a flag on the border, of Canada a flag port, her government will direct to the United States; when she goes to war with armed America, she will be met by two hundred thousand Irish soldiers, who, by her side, will be met by two hundred thousand Irish soldiers, who, by her side, will be able to defend themselves rather than with England in such a struggle—when she forebodes with gloomy forebodings, that the glory of England will forever pass away and become matter of history, if ever France and America. Ball unite in hostility to her—when he knows that the ruler of France is watching, like an eagle, for an opportunity to pounce upon his prey, and that France supported by the sympathy of Spain, and France of Italy, she will be now to encounter these hardships, even in defense of the flag that “has braved a thousand years the battle and the breezes.” FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST—THE LATE MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY. From the Chronicle too Courier of the 8th. The anxiety to hear yesterday from our troops now directly facing the enemy at Port Royal Ferry was intense. It appears now that the report of a renewal of the fight on Thursday was unfounded. First attempted a landing being driven to their gunboats were afterward, reinforced and succeeded in effecting a landing. Under cover of their gunboats they took possession of the ferry and the battery erected at its head. The guns, however, with the exception of one, which was accidentally thrown from a carriage and afterward, were safely removed by our troops. A report from some of the pickets that the enemy were marching on the Combehee road, endeavoring to outflank our troops, caused them to fall back about three miles and take up a position out of the reach of the fire from the skirmishers, we learn, extend as far as Garden's Corner and Bridge Church. The enemy have commenced entrenching at the Ferry. Their gunboats, the most of the rest, were engaged in shelling the wood, and plantations in the neighborhood of Port Royal, several buildings at Page's Point, in striking distance, were riddled with shells. It is believed that these movements, of the enemy in running up the small creek, and inlets are with a view of testing the most advantageous point to throw a large attacking force upon the line of the railroad. They will find it a 'hard road to travel,' however, should they ever gain confidence enough to advance to meet our troops on anything like mutual not be prudent to speak of the preparations that have been made for their reception, but we feel as we need that their movements will not be so rapid nor so pleasant as those which have been made upon a element where no opposition could well be made to their progress. For the Courier of the 6th. Capt. S. Elliot, Jr., of the Beaufort Artillery, with a detachment of his own company and a number of men from Capt. Radcliffe's command, at Red Bluff, went on a scouting expedition Thursday and returned home Saturday morning, with seventy-four beef cattle, a large quantity of force, provisions, etc., from several of the lands exposed to the destruction of the enemy. They visited Port Royal Ferry, as far as the bulk lead, and report all that the enemy had been captured, and not a gunboat to be seen. Five men were also made grave, were discovered in the vicinity of the late conflict, showing the loss of the enemy to have been severe, as an eyewitness states that several of their men were borne off on the shoulders of their comrades. The result of the encounter on Wednesday was another brilliant achievement of the battle in the hands of the enemy with stubborn spirit. It furnishes additional evidence of the weak point of the few with whom we have to contend, and the superiority of Southern valor. This fight, however, was great, to state our troops, for if the enemy attempts an advance, his artillery can only be got forward with most enormous labor and by small-like approaches, through narrow defenses where every inch of ground will be hotly contested by our sharpshooters and The bayonets of an untrained We regret to learn that in the late encounter Lieut. Power, a gallant young officer in Col. Jones’ regiment, was killed by the same shell from the enemy which took off some seven or eight of our men at one stroke. The regiment was marching in column of four, when a bell on board of one of the enemy's gunboats was heard to ring and a moment after a she posted through the advancing column, knocking down in vices, and exploded at a distance of about forty yards from the ranks. Not one of our men was killed by a musket ball. The enemy fired one volley at four companies of Col. Punovant’s regiment who charged on them. Two of the companies were slightly wounded by this volley, and by different roads. One division was met by Col. Jones' men and the other by the four companies from Col. Donovan’s regiment, and both were driven back by the charge with the bayonet. We learn that after the fight was over, a long truce went over from our side with a proposition for time to remove the wounded. Doctors K. B. Turnipseed and Hough, while bringing them off and dressing the wound of those requiring immediate attention, were fired upon by the enemy. Comment is unnecessary. The Yankee prisoner, who was found on the field, was wounded, had been shot through the lung. When our men approached, he begged for his life, expecting to receive no quarter. When taken to the hospital, however, he became convinced what bolder, it is supposed from the delirium caused by his wound, and abused the South with a great deal of the coarse brusque language of the Northern people, saying that the South was about to cave in. He died about twelve o'clock, Thursday night. We omitted to mention in our former reports the important service rendered by a section of Captain Waller L. Lee's Virginia battery, which had taken up a strong position and fired several rounds at the enemy with good effect. On the 11th of December, 1851, or which he was a member of Captain B. M. Douglass Company of Virginia, he died in a melancholy manner. He was a devoted citizen, a devoted member of the peace, and a devoted citizen. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Church, a member of the Methodist Church, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. In his death, in Oliva county, Va., on the 31st of December, 1851, in the 24th year of his age, Christian Douglass, a true and faithful citizen, died. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Church, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Alncer. An true friend, a Kind husband, parent and natter, an excellent husband, a Kind husband, a great character; he leaves an excellent widow and a family of respectable children, and many friends to lament the death. On the 18th December, 1851, Mrs. JULIA A. TRABCR, wife of Macdonald, wife of Mr. Elith Howlet, of Chesterfield county. In the midst of the church, embraced the church, embraced the church, and united herself with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which the remains were a prominent member; especially, she was a member of the church, and her death was a great loss. For many years, the victim of disease and intense suffering, the bore her hard lot with the aim, fortitude, and Christian resignation. rot steed of to intelligent mind, gentle, inc'il, and affection, ate an cilice a degree, she drew to her in the closest bond, a they have insisted Charity, oeneverence, and hospitality, were among her chief characteristics. The Unmage erasure, of slander, or restraint was never so to escape her lips, but she ever manifested a resd nrn in pal l ie an 1 -xcusc the weaknesses and faults in her erring fellow beings; her w inn heart ever beat in sympathetic reap >ni ■ t<> Uie calms of poverty and a re:; and the cheerful soil, and c r.tlal land of welcome, ever great the friend.r stranger wh'ent red her husband's comfortable mansion A of the varied passions and distractions of wife, mother, daughter, sister, and niece, were this, and sustained by her with a flutter, a t»n ierre s, and a consciousness of her life Living in daily a d tamlltar Interectuio with the neighbors of the deceased, the writer of this ar i le has never heard an unkind or mail. 1 ue word uttered in reply to her. By the very largu ige of practice of ad'l Ratlon hai been universally bestowed upon this truly exemplary and lovely character. She has left a dead husband, and a son, who did everything in their power to make a loss, which they feel to be irreparable. Mat this sad bereavement be a great loss to the family and to the community. Fellow spirit reigned from the lips and pains incident to morality, though often within the reach of the city of Jerusalem, where through the vast multitude united with all the redeemed host, through ages, in bringing the praises of God and of the Lord. M. PATRIOTIC ROTHS. TOP, stolen or mislaid, on Tuesday, the 7th of January, 1981, a package consisting of funds and papers and a large number of bonds or negroes, for $18, payable to E. D. Each, Agent. If turned to me, as E. D. Each's office, the bearer will receive hearty thanks, and be suitably regarded. At J. A. ROLAND. HOLIDAY HARKER'S FIRST FLOOR TEW, for sale by R. A. E. DAWSON, Corner of Tint and Broad streets. R. T. FILLER & CO. Richmond, January 9, 1881. We are agents for the Bank of Wilmington, at Dalton, Georgia, and will, for the present, redeem in bankable funds. Bank sign by L. Fulle over Preddent. NOTICE. HAV. NO qualified as executor of Mrs. Mary Jones, deceased, late of the city, all persons having claims against the estate are requested to present them, duly authenticated to me for payment. J48 DUNLOP, )al Ml Ex son to- of Mrs. Mary Jones, deceased. Ist RENT. A Brick Warehouse, 115 feet front, on 15th Street, between Cary Street and the Dock. A Q B. DAVENPORT. DIVIDEND, President and Directors of the Bank of Virginia have declared a dividend of three and one-half percent, for the last quarter, subject to a reduction of one quarter percent bonus to the rate, leaving three and one-half percent, payable in the stockholders' fund, for $15 per share. WANTED. BONDS of the Colonial Bank of Virginia Loan, Wanted by J. B. BONNARD & BARKERVILLE GENERAL AMESBURY. SENATE. Widened, January 8th, 1862. The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock M.—Mr. Jones, of Bedford, in the Chair. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Woodbridge, of the Episcopal Church. ILLS REPORTS. Mr. CHRISTIAN presented a bill incorporating the Virginia Anthracite Coal and Iron Company. Several Senate bills heretofore referred to standing committees were presented without amendment. Mr. THOMAS, of Fairfax, by leave, presented a bill to authorize payment for horses taken by the enemy, or taken from the owners by Impressment for the public service. BILLS PASSED. A Senate bill to amend section 18 chapter (2 of the Code (new edition) so as more effectually to regulate the sale of real estate under executions in favor of the State. Of the Commonwealth. A Senate bill to amend the 5th section of the 18th chapter of the Code, in relation to administering oaths to be taken by members of the two Houses of the General Assembly. A House bill to compel turnpike and plank roads to keep their roads in order. (Provided with amendments.) WESTERN VIRGINIA. The joint resolution submitted yesterday, by Mr. Christian, of Augusta, providing for a joint committee to cooperate with the Confederate authorities relative to the general defense of Western Virginia, was taken up, passed, and communicated to the House of Delegates. The Phases announced the following committee on the part of the Senate; Messrs. Christian of Augusta, Niahom, Docolas, Thomas of Fairfax, and Faaztini. THE STATE LAW. On motion of Mr. COGHILL, the bill generally known as the "Stay Law" was taken up, and made the order of the day for Tuesday next. RESOLUTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT, The appropriate committees were instructed to inquire into the expediency of the following propositions: By Mr. SPITLER—Of requiring the county courts to make provision for the support of families of soldiers who are in a destitute condition. By Mr. CHRISTIAN, of M.—Of refunding to Lewis Jones a certain sum of money. Several other resolutions of a private character were adopted. By Mr. NEE;ON—Of inquiring what legislation may be expedient to redress loyal citizens who have been or may be injured by any usurped power, or pretended authority under it. On motion of Mr. THOMAS, of Henry, the Senate adjourned. THE FLOUR CONTRACTS. To the Editor of the Whig: Your editorial of yesterday gives my name as that of the officer in the Commissary Department who had turned the former over, "bound hand." and foot, to the tender mercies of the Messrs. Crenshaw. I do not complain of your strictures in the slightest. As the conductor of a free press, you have a perfect right, most cheerfully admitted, to arraign any official at the bar of public judgment, and to comment in touch severer terms than you have employed in my case on his malefactions. 