Here is the way the Valley Virginian puts it: "If ever a man had just cause to pray to be delivered from his fool friends, that man is the President of this nation. In the first place, in addition to the unprecedented trouble and responsibility, he has been harassed and worried by Democratic members of Congress, almost to the limit of even his wonderful endurance. But we are glad to say that no member from Virginia has taken part in that disgraceful and unwarranted proceeding."

News of Fifty Years Ago
(From the Richmond Dispatch, May 1, 1866.)
All of the buildings of the Virginia Penitentiary that were burned something over a year ago in the evacuation excitement have been rebuilt. The military authorities have restored the management of the State prison to the State authorities, and all things are working well on the "white-house" hill. The superintendent of the institution thinks he can get the place on a paying basis in a short while. If the military crowd will just keep hands off.
Rev. A. E. Dickinson, for the past nine years superintendent of colportage of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has tendered his resignation as such official, and Rev. William E. Hatcher, of Manchester, has been elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Hatcher has not yet accepted the appointment, and there are intimations that, because of other important church duties in sight, he may not take the office.  The subscribers to the capital stock of the Union Bank of Richmond are expected to meet in the hall of the House of Representatives tomorrow morning to regularly and properly organize. 