Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-10
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA
LOCAL ITEMS

| LOCAL ITEMS.
MEETING LAST NIonT.lar and en-.
thusiastic meeting of the Wing and Ameri,
can party. was held at Liberty Hall, last
night, c. L. Lee in the Chair, and W. A.
Harper and +. w. Ashhy Secretaries.
Resolutions were adopted opposing any
participation by the State of Virginia in the
proposed Southern Notwithstanding
that the General Assembly in at all enter
tanning or considering such proposition,
transcends its powers-that nothing in re-
cent occurrences renders disunion expedi-
ent-that the present troubles in the coun-
try grow out Of the determination OF the
Democratic party to appropriate the agita-
ton of the slavery question TO party purpo-
ses-adopted and endorsed the resolutions
of ii. w. Thomas, recently offered in the
State Senate on the subject Of the Union
declaring that our Delegate, Lewis Nc
Kenzie, had perfect right to call upon
Hon John Nj. Bolts for an expression of
his sentiments, endorsing in the main,
the letter of Hon. John NJ. Botts-resolv-
ing that return to the former days OF the
Republic when Federal Office holders were not
expected to influence or control political
meetingsis highly desirable declaring like
opposition to all sectional parties, and adop-
ing the conservative, Union resolutions, re-
Gently passed by meeting III Richmond
county, n. G..
w. ID. Massey, being called out, addressed
the meeting in an able speech which was
warmly applauded- The meeting then ad-
journed A full report of the meeting will
appear in our next.
THE CHESAPEAKE AND ONO CANAL.-The
canal board at their meeting last week,
contracted with Messrs. HasSett and Herr
to repair the breach at Dam No. ), created
BY the late freshet The Hagerstown Herald
says:-"We learn that there is no doubt but
that the canal will be in good order as soon
as the water becomes low enough to eua-
BILE the work to be done. The contrac-
tor for the work at No. 4 was ordered to com
plete it with the greatest possible dispatch.
| The New York Coal Companies refused to
give the least aid unless the canal board
would authorize their agent to let the work
| and permit him to give $50, 900 for the re-
pairs at both dams. The board refused to
| transfer their powers to the agent Of the
coal companies, prelerring to let the work TO
our own citizens, especially as they have
agreed to do it for one half the amount ask
by the New Workers"
ExCITEEENT IN Observation-Disclosures
bic excitement was created in Berryville on
last Monday evening, upon the.receipt OF the
news that Governor Letcher had committed
the sentence of negro Jerry, who has been
convicted of incendiarism, &c, and was
sentenced to be hung on the 18th inst
This excitement was increased by the arr-
val of couple Of gentlemen in carriage
later in the evening, as it was generally be-
lieyed that they had come for the purpose OF
conveying Jerry out of town during the
night Upon being Intercepted about their
destination, &C., by some of the ant-com-
mutists, we learn that their replies were
deemed sufficiently evasive to confirm the
suspicion of their errand, andssit was at once
resolved by some of the citizens that Jerry
should not be taken out of the Jail that night
alive.
We have heard various rumors about what
will be done in case an attempt should be
made to carry Jerry out of the Jail before the
day fixed upon for his execution, but it is
hoped that they are only rumors. Doubt
less the attempt to carry him away on Mon
day night, would have been attended with
serious results Clarke Co., CoHSeyator
METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURcH.-The
thirty-second annual conference of the Meth
odist Protestant church for the Maryland
district, will take place in East Baltimore
mission station on the second Monday III
March A year since the 10rty-iye cir
cults and stations of that respectable body
of christians reported 7,l49 members, Oil
probationers, IS ministers, Il preachers,
churches l494, and % parsonages valued
at 1901 $50; colored members 723, Sabbath
schools 81, teachers $50, scholars 1927, and
volumes in library 1851. The membership
of Alexandria, Va, was l5C; church and
parsonage worth $4,000. Georgetown, d..
C.-members, Ill; church and parsonage,
Sl1,6O0. Ninth street, Washington, d. C.,
$50 members; church and parsonage SILL
600. East Washington misson--l2O mem
bers; church and parsonage, s., 900. Sun
day schools of these three cities all IN fine
condition. The current year has been char
acterised by gradual prosperity and great
harmony--so that the membership in cities
may be set down at eight hundred.
PRINCE WILLIAM lTEMs.-A Democratic
meeting was held mt Brentsville, on the 9th.
Delegates were appointed to the Richmond
Convention. A reso luton offered by Gen.
Eppa Hunton, fayoring Senator Hunter
as a candidate for the Presidency, was voted
down-and no choice was expressed. Judge
Sinclair, Gen. Hunton, and Messrs. Aylett
Nicoll, B. Il. Harrison and others, partcipa-
ted in the discussion. \ resolution was
passed, on motion Of Gen. Hunton, urging
the Representatives of the County in the Sen
ate and House of Delegates to use their best
efforts to secure the passage of bill for the
extension of the Richmond and Frederlcks-
burg and Potomac Railroad from some point
between fredericksburg and Aqua, to some
point at or near Manassas Junction A re-
solution was passed in favor Of the Southern
Convention.
Mr.. VIM. Brawner, has erected an ex-
celent house of entertainment at Manassas
Junction
WINCHESTER IrEMs-The County Court
for February, commenced on Monday last.
Nearly the entire day was occupied with