Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-05
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1. SOUTHERN NEWS.

SOUTHERN NEWS.
Ouite stir has been raised IN Peterspufg'
by. the arrival Of the government agent ,oiS
confscating property He is taking GOWN 'n I,
names Of those who are supposed to be worth
$4,000. soa 1 =
The issue of rations to needy people ~
Raleigh has been stopped. I..ro.
Bishop Soule is In feeble health = :. oesl'es
the election Of delegates to the general confer
ence in 1866. ga" H. -
The County Court of Shenandoah was organ
lied on the 10th. ult. George Rye esq, was
elected presiding justice, ...
There are two candidates out to represent
the First district in this State-Messrs. Joseph
Christian, of Middlesex, and Robert Mayo, OF
Westnloreland. Mr.. Christian was tormerly
member of the Virginia State Senate, which
Office he thinks will not disquahfy him for
seat in Congress. In the Third district, there
are four candidates-B. Johnson Barbour, OF
Orange, (who has not yet announced himself
but will do so, his friends say, in few days.;
DR.. Uriel Terrill, of the same county hon.
Johns. Pendleton, Of Culpeper; and A.Judson
Crane. of Richmond In the Fifth district,
Robert Ridgway is candidate. @
The Fredericksburg Era in announcing the
death Of the late W. Roy Mason, Of King
George county, says he was the father IN law
Of Major Genls .Dabney Maury and Field,
Brig. Generals Stevens and Alexander, also, OF
Colonel Collins-all ez officers of the late Con
federate army besides having three sons him
self there ~
TIE Petersburg Express under the lead of
mot so bad, after ALL, says * Confederate
notes were in demand yesterday at fifty cents
for a thousand dollars The enterprising
individuals who were hunting up the Confede-
rate promises to pay, are supposed to have been
agents for paper.nlllls. r.
Messrs. Winans, Of Bait, have entered into
another contract with the Russian Govern
ment to work the railroad line from Peters
burg to Moscow. Mr.. Thomas Winans offers
very liberal wages to those who will go tor
term of three years agreeing also to pay their
EXPENSES out and back, and leaving fund of
$500 for the support Of their families Large
numbers of persons from Baltimore have
accepted, and will GO.
The National Intelligencer says, that, as
heretofore, it aims to be, as its name imports,
national paper, maintaining the just consti
tutionaI powers of the General Government on
the one hand, and the reserved rights of the
States on the other-conident that the Union
can only be maintained while the rights of
each shall be respected by both and not trans.
cended by either. :
Asnumber of prominent Jewish citizens be-
longing to the Temple Emanuel of New
York, held meeting some evenings since for
the purpose Of considering the proposition to
establish theological seminary.
Mr.. Walden manufacturer in Philadelphia
lately bid away in a rubbish box $50, 900
worth of Government bonds. While be
was absent the workmen, in cleaning up,
burned up the rubbish, bonds ald all, in the
box. He has had several of the workmen ar
rested not being satisfied with their statement
about the burning. III
Z TIE negroes in St. Louis celebrated the an
] niversary Of emancipation in Che British West
Indies. The negroes on the levee were driven
away bya party Of discharged soldiers. Sew
era| of the former were beaten nearly to death.
The Glasgow makes the twenty-ninth steam
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