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Virginia Life Guard.

--The meeting of this Company on Saturday night was largely attended. The election of officers was superintended by Col. John H. Richardson, and resulted as follows: Captain, John Stewart Walker; 1st Lieutenant, Charles P. Rady; 2d Lieutenant, Allen M. Lyon; Surgeon, Dr. W. W. Parker; 1st Sergeant, George W. Rady; 2d, Peter A. Franklin; 3d Wm. H. Allison; 4th, J. Melville Willis; 5th,Benj. B. Bates.

This Company is not a volunteer corps, but a uniformed company of the line, attached to the 179th Regiment. It is composed of young men, who are determined to prepare themselves, by a permanent organization, to aid in defending the rights of the State. As there will be no parades except when necessity demands, those who join the Company will not be subjected to any interference with their business engagements.

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