Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

EApIcss, iouI llltie DOyS, Tie elueSt Vi WnOIH
was about twelve years of age, took posses
sion Of Il small skiff at Pocahontas bridge
and started on IN expedition to Chesapeake
Bay, to see the Great Eastern. They arrived
that night at City Point, and having no
where to go, took up their quarters in u
large fishing boat, where they slept till day
light when they were aroused by the owner
OF the craft who was about to start on a fish
ing excursion They soon after got into
their boat and feeling very hungry deter
mined to return home, and on the way were
picked up hya steamer greatly fatigued.-
Their parents had given them up for lost.
naturally surprising that they were drowned"
A Lewisburg, Va, correspondent of the
Lynchburg Republican writes uader date of
August i: while | write, our town is in
great excitement A large crowd is i'll the
streets to welcome the three negro men who
left this place last week, endeavoring TO make
their way TO the free States. They were APP
pretended in Randolph county, Va, near
the county-seat. The negroes have just been
lodged i'll Jail, and, we presume will find
their way 10 the sunny South. The three
negroes who left in the country, it is said,
have reached Ohio, and cannot be reclaimed.
The Petersburg, Va, Express says:-"One
TO visit our tobacco warehouses now would
be astoniShed at the vast quantities with
which they are stored. The receipts have
been most extraordinary for the season, and
the fact that there is but little shipping, adds
greatly to the Inconvenience Of the inspectors
, in accommodating the heavy accessions
! which daily come in. The sales continue,
however, extensive, and good manufacturing
and shipping leaf realize very fair prices"
The last steamer brought news to the re-
lativeS Of the deceased in Richmond, that
! Mr. +. Y. Bargamin, son of A. Bargamin,
| died in Paris about the Dist of July. Mr..
b., after graduating with high honors at the
Virginia Military Institute and the Univer-
sity Of Virginia, left Richmond in May last
to complete his studies as a physician in
Paris, where he was soon after taken i'll of
scarlet fever, and after Il brief illness died
| among strangers.
The fredericksburg Herald, says "a
negro man named jeff Scott, in the service
Of Mr.. George Alcr, fell down and suddenly
expired in the streets on Tuesday last. He
was among the oldest drayman in the town,
and was buried on Wednesday evening with
draymen's honors-the drivers Of each at
| tending and walking in body-their hor-
scs attached to their vehicles to the burying
ground"
On the night of the 4th of July last, Mr..
Edwin NJ. Hartman, son of the Rev. c. Hart
man, formerly Of Warren county, was struck
by lightning, and Immediately expired. 1t
took place in the NJ. L. Church, at Roche
port, Mo, Immediately after service. Mr.
IL. was about Is years of age. and a young
man Of fair talents, and bid fair to become
Il useful and worthy citizen.
The Richmond correspondent of the Pc
tersburg Express, says 1.-THE old friends OF
Of that admirable Democratic paper, the
Richmond Enquirer, will regret to learn that
change in the management of that journal
is expected soon to take place, by which VIM.
+. Richie, esq, and Mr.. Dunnayant will re-
tire from the concern"
An Agricultural and Commercial FIX
change has been established in Fredercks-
burg. President, George Guest Vice Pre-
sident, Douglas II. Gordon, Secretary and
Treasurer, }. Warren Slaughter; Directors,
George B. Scott, VIM II. Hart, J. L. STAINS
bury, }. ii. Lacy, John Seldom and Hugh
Scott.
In the Supreme Court Of Virginia in the
snit Of Judge Purcell and others vs.. John
Of supersedeas from the court arresting the
decision made by the Judge of the Culpeper
Circuit Court. Judge Purcell and others
are plaintiffs in the suit, and claim sixty
thousand dollars.
Mr.. John johnson of Madison county, was
thrown from his horse on Monday last, while
on his way to his home, and seriously if not
fatally injured. He was picked up on the
road by 4 plsscr by in n state Of insensibility
and up to last accounts there had been no
change in his condition.
At Madison Circuit Court, last week, 4
man named Vowel, who had been arrested
charged with the utterance of incendiary
sentiments. was examined and discharged, it
having been proved that he was intoxicated
when he committed the offence.
During thunder storm last week, fodder
stack on the farm Of Mr. John r. Tucker of
Madison county, was struck by lightning,
killing cow that was standing near, setting
fire to the fodder and completely destroying
the whole stack.
Dir. Srangic and Mr.. J. J. Philips adj
dressed the citizens of Orange &. H.. on
Monday last, in explanation of the aims and
objects Of the X. q. C's., after which a
''CaStle" of the order was organized.
\ meeting Of the farmers of Culpeper
will be hello at the Court House, in that place,
1T August Court for the purpose of taking
some measures 10 break up illegal traffic
with negroes.
Wm. +. Cooper, esq, has purchased, at
public auction on the premises, near LOvotts-
VILE, in Lout!oun county, loo acres of the
farm of the late John Mann, at $685. per
acre.
The number Of visitors at the Fauquier
Springs exceeds 400 and still they COME
The proprietor, Mr.. Iiudgin, was recently
compelled to 90 to Richmond for the pur-
pose OF hiring more servants.
\ very pleasant and agreeable company
is at present Sgj)ining at RAwley, in Rock
lng:am county, numbering near one hun
dred, and some one hundred and fifty at
Orkney III Shenandoah.
The revival at McGaheysvlle, is still in
progress and the interest in the community
undated. There has been up to this time,
some % conversions
Felix llagee, of Wellsburg, Virginia, dur
ing the recent prevalence Of the diptheria
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