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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reported capture of a whale. (search)
ate States every facility that appeared to them admissible.-- "With the return of peace, we may hope for revived and enlarged prosperity. But whether peace be far off, or near at hand, the board and the stockholders must feel that the depressed condition of the company is but a portion of that sacrifice of treasure and comfort and life which the people of the South are making, with a zeal and unanimity perhaps never before equalled among those who appealed to arms, in self-defence." Mr. Grattan offered a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the General Assembly to extend the time for the acceptance of the charter of the James River Canal, by the French company, until the 29th of January, 1863. Mr. R. G. Morriss offered a resolution reducing the salary of the President from $3,000 to $2,000, and the salary of the Secretary from $2,500 to $2,000, and requesting the Board of Directors to consider the propriety of a general reduction of the salaries of officers and agents