Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-03
Virginia News.

/ tersDurS freSs, speaking OF sermon denver
ed in Richmond on Sunday, by Rev. Henry
A. Wise, says:-"The young divine is fast
gaining fame and notoriety by his eloqnence
but regret to notice one circumstance here,
his voice is loosing power, becoming hollow,
chest contracting, and the hacking cough
shows buttwo plainly that the fell destroyer
consumption is doing its work He hasjust
returned from a trip South, where he has
been for the benefit of his health"
Rev. Mr. Peterkin, of ST. James's (Episco-
pal) Church, in Richmond, was absent from
his post Oh Sunday last, on trip of duty to
Norfolk, for the purpose of raising funds to
assist in building the ''Meade Hall" at the
Theological Seminary. We are gratifed to
learn that this worthy divine has so far been
successful in his appeals for aid to this Hall.
He collected in the county of Essex alone,
about $500.
The Charlestown esprit of Jefferson" says
that Margaret Evira Meriwether, negro.
woman of that county, aged 90 years. and
who was emancipated by the will of Joshua
Hedges, prefers slavery rather than to leave
the State. She will apply at the next term
of the circuit court to be enslaved to Thomas
G. Harper, and sets forth in her petition to
Judge Parker her belief that this will be bet
ter for her than to remain free.
Under an enactment by the late legislature
of Virginia, any free negro convicted of
tertiary, may be sold into slavery by order
Of the court This law, we presume, (says
the Petersburg Express,) will hereafter be
acted upon, so that very few, if any, free ne
groes will be sent to the States prison.
A correspondent of the Petersburg Express
says of the tobacco crop in Din widdie:-
"Owing to the ravages Of the fly, good
many farmers in this neighborhood will
plant corn where they intended to put tobac-
co. IF they are committing like depreda-
tions throughout the tobacco regions, small
crop will be made this year"
The Petersburg Express says that the
number of colored people baptized in the
river there on Sunday last, was l64. That
the whole number who have proved themse-
yes worthy of the rite, is 35S; and that one
thousand colored people have protested reli-
gion with the last six weeks.
A gentleman from Nelson county informs
US that the fly has proved very destructive to
the tobacco plants in that section, and that
it was doubtful whether plant could now
be found in the county. Accounts of the
ravages of the fly reach US from numerous
other quarters.
Mr.. Thomas Board, of Orange G. H., Va,
has received patent for an augcr to bore Il
square hole, which is a most ingenious and
useful invention. 1t bores with great exact
ness and certainty, and can be worked
with as much ease as the auger for boring
round holes.
On Wednesday and Thursday mornings of
last week the people of Southwestern Vir-
ginia were visited with blighting frosts.-
Growing vegetables were nipped in their
young pride, and we very much fear the
particularly peaches-was destroyed.
The Staunton Spectator says:-"We had
heavy frost in this region yesterday morning,
which nipped the tender buds and plants
considerably, and destroyed a good deal
of fruit The gardens also have suffered
severely"
In the Plan ofEpiscopal Visitation recent
ly agreed upon by the Bishops of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, we observe
that Bishop Paine is to attend the next SEES
sion of the Virginia Conference ut Alexan-
dra, Nov. 81.
At Norfolk, May l, Capt Land, the mas
ter and supercargo of the brig Virginia,
charged with being engaged in the slave
trade, were acquitted in the U. S. District
| Court.
The Medical Association of Virginia have
appointed Drs. F. Z. Stribling and J. Alex.
Waddell, delegates to the National Society,
which meets ut New Haven, Connecticut,
in June next.
Smith, held for the larceny of Capt. Ad
ans horse was examined in Fredericksburg
before Mayor Slaughter on Monday, and
sent on to the Examining Court, which meets
on the 10th ofthis month.
The new fredericksburg Woollen Factory
will be ready to go into operation about the
18th instant. Most of the machinery is in
place. The Company will put some fifty
hands to work right away.
Joseph D. Steel, esq, for many years past
the efficient U. S. Deputy Marshal of the
Eastern District of Virginia, died on Satur-
day night, being then in the seth year of his
age.
Butler, who is charged with wounding
Cox in an ARRAY some time since, had an ex-
animation before a Magistrate at White Oak
on Saturday, and was sent to the next term
of Stafford County Count.
In Fredericksburg, free woman named
Caroline Atkins, fell into the fire in
house on Water street on Monday whilst la
boring under a spasm, and was so burned
that it is thought she cannot recover.
The Norfolk Argus states that the damage
to vegetable crops in the vicinity Of that
city, by the recent frost is estimated at ten or
twelve thousand dollars
An individual attempting to leave Peters
burg hotel lately without paying his bill,
the landlord undertook to black his face with
a shoe-brush. Very appropriate.
Shipments of cotton continue to be made
from Alabama, by railroad and canal, to
Richmond.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has in
its new penal code, just assimllated the Of
fence of defamation of the dead to that of the
living, but limiting the number of descen-