Lynchburg Virginian

The following letter from a friend in Richmond, dated 3rd April, 1831, furnishes us with Legislative proceedings one day later than those received by the public prints of that place.

Extract to the Editors of the Virginian.

"Yesterday, two bills, in which your citizens are more immediately interested, were called up, and both indefinitely postponed; viz: the bill authorizing the erection of a bridge across James River, from the lands of Benjamin Schoolfield in Amherst to the town of Salem. and the bill directing the appropriation of the tolls on the Lynchburg and Salem Turnpike to the extension of the road to the town of Salem."

The Senate will send in the Judiciary Bill to-morrow, and I learn, propose the single judge system, changing the details of our bill to suit that system; laying off the State into 18 or 20 districts and assigning one judge to each.

If the bill should be presented in this shape, I calculate on its finally passing, although I am confident, powerful efforts will be made to retain "the double horse power," as it is jocosely called here.

You will see from the public prints our daily proceedings—I may be disappointed, but I shall calculate on the adjournment of the Legislature about the 14th or 15th.

The General Election Bill has passed—the elections for this year to be held in August. Hereafter in April, on the respective court days."