Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-05-05
By Yesterday Evening". Mails.


KIDNAPPING About the Goth of April
last, msn calling himself A. Burke, and
hailing from Oaio, arrived 10 this city, ha'-
ing in charge a mulatto woman which he
claimed rs bis slave. Alter remaining lew
days he applied ut the office Of the RICHMOND
and fredericksburg company for tickets to
Washington, but failed to get them because
be was Dot prepared to give the requisite Sc
curity for taking q servant North. Nothing
daunted, he got on board the cars, with the
woman, as they were about starting, but the
Conductor discovered him, after he had gone
few miles, and put him and the woman of
Burke then returned to this city, put the wo
man into negro jail, and left for Washing
ton city. 10 a day or two thereafter he re-
turned with q letter to Mr.. F. w. Roster,
dated och of April, from b. B. French
and E. l.. Stevens, endorsing him as an hon
est, upright gentleman, who had purchased a
slave 10 n Jrtb Caruliua, aud was taking her
to Ohio to emancipare her, and asking Mr..
K to aid him in getting tickets, the writer's
promising to become responsible for an7 dam
age that be mightinour. Knowing Mr.. French
we'll, Mr.. Roster rendered Burke all he as
sistance in his power, and even wcnt with him
to the railroad Office, to eoter into bonds and
get the tickets. Officer Seal, who had been
apprised Of what had taken place, showed
the letter alluded to, to several Justices, and
by their advice, was about to allow the ne
gro to 20, when Burke took fright at some
imaginary danger and run of, leaving the
negro benind. Finding that she was deser'
ted, the negro woman then gave her name as
Marnda. stated that she belonged to Mr.
Alfred Moore, near Kingston, n. c., and sd-
mitted that she had been a runaway for more
than two years. Mr.. Moore was at once
written to, aud on arriving here called to see
the woman, who readily recognised him and
claimed him as her master. Yesterday
morning she was turned over to her owner,
who readily proved his right of property
Rich. Dis.
THE BIRTHPLACE OF WAsHINGToN.-Gov.
Wise, during his recent visit to the county
of Westmorelaud, completed the negotiations
for the transfer, to the State, of the birth spot
| of Washington aud the burial-plac of the
Washington family. Mr.. Wilson, the pro.
prjstor Of the Wakefield estate, consents to
give up an acre Of ground, comprising the
site of the house in which Washington was
born. This area will be enclosed with an
iron fence, sod On appropriate monument
erected ON the spot. Inc negotiation IN
cludes the right Of way across the plantation
to the road and to the vault; and this latter
place is also to be enclosed and improved.
A man named Pruden, living near Meads-
Vile, in Mecklenburg county, has been ar
rested and committed to Jail on the charge Of
having murdered negro woman some
months ago. His repeated whippings bad
caused the woman to run away several
times, and when last brought back to him,
he uttered the threat that she should cause
him no further expense. The woman was
not again heard OF, and the only explanation
of her disappearance given by Pruden, was
that he bad punished her, and sent her to
the field, and, that she had probably abscon-
dsd again. Recently about twenty-five per.
sops assembled, with spades, and proceed d
TO search in a gulley a short distance from
Pruden's dwelling. They at length exhumed
q corpss which proved to be that of the mis-
sing woman. Pauden was arrested.
The gun store of Mr.. Sutherland in Rich
mond, was broken into between l o'clock on
Saturday night last, aud six o'clock on
Monday morning, and property consisting
of fne pistols, cutlery, &C., to the amount OF
between $500 and $500 taken theretrom.
True bills have been found against the
CAPTAIN and I'd mate Of the bark Ottawa, in
the II 8 Court. at Richmond, who stand in