Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-18
By Yesterday Evenings nlaiis.
Letter from, M,ddieburg.


plying toward the camp-sround. The attend
ance has been good each day since its com
msncement. On Sunday the attendance was
very large. The best idea that can be given
by me is, that the meeting, in the opinion oil
some of the old attenders at Loudoun Camps,
is fully an average one. There are ia tents
as nearly as could coun. them. Services
commenced on Friday night by prayer, and
the order Of services since, has been prayer at
o'clock in the morning, preaching at ii
O'Clock, at 3 and7a O'Clock, p. N. The inter
mediate time is occupied in prayer-meetiDgS
at various tents.
The rules and regulations of the camp are
good. 1t is to be hoped that the committee
will be fully sustained in carrying them out.
The number of preachers in attendance is 10.
On Monday night there were some 20 per-
sons at the mourner's bench, but the interest
in the meeting seems only beginning.
On Sunday morning, just as preaching was
about to commence, the report OF pistol vas
heard not far from the circle. Ga repairing
to the spot it was ascertained that the con-
tents of pistol had been lodged in the face
Of negro belonging to Mrs. White, of Hills
borough. Something very mysterious seems
to hang about the affair, as the negro man
receiving the wound, and two others sitting
with him in his mistress carriage at the
time, denied, upon examination before Lud-
we'll Luckett, esq, j. P, seeing pistol IN
the hands of any one, or knowing by whom
the shot was fired. From a conversation with
Mr.. Luckett, believe that it seems to be tho
impression that the accident was caused by q
pistol in the hands of the negro himself.
P.S. Since writing the above, l understand
that negro man belonging to Mr.. Gibson
Gregg, states that at the time of the accident,
the negro receiving the wound and another
in Mrs. Whites carriage ut the time, were
engaged 10 trading pistols. lOIA.
HAIL SroRM.-We learn that on Sunday
evening there was Hail storm in Dinwid-
die, about six miles South of the City, which
damaged the Tobacco and orn blades. We
are not informed as to the extent of injury
and hope that it was not serious.
1t gives US much qualification to state that
in the last few days there have been copious
rains in various districts of country which
were suffering severely under the drought
The probability now is that with tolerably
seasorable weather for week or two, the
Weld of corn will be at least an average one,
and that the Tobacco fields will turn out fair.
ly as to guantity--FeterSGurg Int.
A SHAMEFUL TRIcK.-A few days since
some person at the Red Sulphur Sprin ss,
Va, amused himself by slipping notes under
the doors of visitors stating that the typhoid
fever had "broken out" there. The trick
caused stampede among the more nervous,
and general circulation of the report that
typhoid fever existed at that watering place.
From 200 visitors the number was reduced
to 40. A letter from there says, however,
that the panic is over, and abcuts0 OF the visl-
tors have returned. No clue has been ascer-
tanned to the identity of the joker.--h'ch-
mond Dispatch.
EXTRAORDINARY LoNGErITE.--There IS
very remarkable case of longevity in one
family in Nelson county. There are five
married sisters whose aggregate ages amount
to 434 years-on the lst Of January last the
eldest was %; the second 81, the third IS, the
fourth 80 and the fifth 50.
VALUABLE TRAIN.--On Saturday last the
largest train Of we'll freishtcd cars that ever
passed over any road in Virginia, arrived
At the depot of the Central railroad in this
oity. The train was made up OF thirty eight
wheel cars containing two hundred and fifty
tons of produce Richmond Dispatch.
Bishop McGill, of Richmond, has received
from Archbishop Hughes, Of New York. pre-
sent of magnificent pair Of carriage horses,
as beautifulin action as they are to lock uron.
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