Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-09-09
The A1exandria Gazette
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 9.
VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Sanderson Thrift, of Loudoun, have recelVe0
during the past week, the pardon OF Presloen'
johnson The property of each OF these gen.
tlemen was among that published last week, as
having been confscated and assigned TO 'ne
Freedmen's Bureau. This releases their pro
perty. 49,
The attention of Mr.. David }. Saunders
the Provisional Manager Of the City OF hlch-
mond, having been called to the 1ac6 0na'
hucksters are in the habit OF overhaullng cS'i %
bringing produce to market when "l1nln six
miles of the city limits, and purchasing the same
to retail again in market, be has directed the
clerks Of both markets to report promptly every
sncb violation of the city ordinance to the
Chief of Police, who will see that offenders
are punished.
The County Court of Spotsylvania held its
regular session on Monday, the 4th instant, and
everything went off as usual in the good Ola
times. B. johnson Barbour, candidate Tor
Congress, addressed the people.
The Richmond Wing says: -"We under
stand that capitalists are already fixing their
ewes upon the coal lands Of Chesterfield and
Goochland. We would warn the holders OF
such lands not to suffer their lands to go Tor
what the surface may bring, for most assuredly
in the course of few years, the coal trade
will become very large, and the coal lands pro-
portionally valuable .
The Richmond Wing is warmly in favor OF
Governor Peirpoint, It says of him: III
has secured for himselfa hold on the good will
of the people of Virginia that neither the de-
famations OF malice nor the intrigues OF knavery
can disl odge''
The Congressional Convention proposed to
be held In Winchester on the It'll inst, did not
assemble-but those present passed resolutions
recommending Mr.. Conrad as candidate for
Congress.
General GUSTS Lee has been appointed Pro
fessor in the Virginia Military Institute to Ill
the place formerly occupied by Gen. (otone-
walD Jackson.
The two Winchester Presbyteries have uni
ted after separation of some 25 years.
The Burial of Latane,' painting by w.
D. Washington, which excited much admira-
ton is now on exhibition in Richmond.
Several hundred dollars, collected as fines by
the Provost Marshal of Lynchburg, have been
by order of General Curtis, turned over to
the city authorities there.
Mr. Amos McComas, of Baltimore has just
purchased the Richmond Hill plantation,
in Richmond county, Va, consisting OF JIG
.oroo r. 10 Situated between the RanDahan-
mock and Potomac rivers, large portion
bordering on the frst-named stream.
Some weeks ago an advertisement appeared
IN the Richmond Bulletin in which the adver-
tiser expressed wish to go into the newspaper
business with some one who had the material,
as his printing Office had been destroyed by
the public enemy A few days since Gen.
Terry attention was attracted to this express
sion, and Mr.. Bailey, the publisher, was sent
for to state who the author was. He proved
to be John j. Palmer, formerly editor OF a
paper in Winchester, which was taken pos
session of by the Federal troops, who lately
returned 10 that city having been absent since
the evacuation Mr.. Palmer was then sent
for and committed to Castle Thunder, from
whence, he has been removed to tho city jail.
Amongst our old exchanges from the North,
there is none we welcome more heartily than
we do the Boston Post. Opposed in old party
times, as we were to the politics OF the Post,
we always recognized it's worth and It's ability
and, now, we are pleased to see that 1t
labors earnestly IN the cause OF peace, concll1a-
ton, harmony, and opposes all ultraism, and
All measures calculated to excite prejudice,