trict of Columbia, has reported favorably on the hill to regulate the elective franchise in tbe District, with certain amendments, in cluding one prescribing ability to read and write as a qualification for voting : a new sec tion imposes a line of five thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding one year for rejecting the vote of any person entitled to ex ercise the right of suffrage.

VIROIXIA FKEEn.MK.V.

General Howard's report states that iv Vir