The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-16

| Aho washing Vou correspondent of the
Herald gives the following Virginia
news:
/ TROUBLE WITH THE VIRGINIA NEGROES
/ Grave difficulties have arisen between
4 the citizens of Mecklenburg county.
| Virginia; and the freedmen heretofore
living as slaves in that county. The
presence of armed negro troops in the
county does not seem to operate to stay
the ravages of the free negroes, who,
cengregating at one or two or more
prominent points in the county, kill the
sheep, poultry and hogs, and devastate
the cornfields, melon and other patches
without stint. The white people are
represented as being paralyzed, refusing
TO protect themselves, fearing that the
military power will bear heavily upon
!nen should they interrupt the proceed
Ings OF tne negro marauders. Governor
Pelrpolnt and the State authorities, with
out exception, are very much exercised
upon the important subject of what is
70 70 !; pc uone Win the negroes of the State.
EXCITEMENT IN VIRGINIA ON THE FRANCO ,,pv,
CAN QUESTION,
A widespread and generally sccented
! rumor prevails in Richmond that n Or
der has reached that city from Washing
ton, forbidding the selling of any more
government property, and it is said and
believed that war with France relative
to the expulsion of Macmillan from
Mexico, and involving other European
POWERS, is imminent. These ruinors
have found their way throughout the
State, and great excitement everywhere
prevails upon the subject of a foreign
war llE-t ~
| ATTEMPT TO DROWN A CHILD.-Con-
siderable excitement was created on the
upward trip of the Young America from
Alexandria yesterday, by the attempts
OF a .young woman to drown her child,
an infant OF perhaps II months. She
tried nrst to push 1t over theguard ofthe
boat, but was stopped In the act by Cap
tain Ross, who caught the child lust as
it was going over. Soon after the wo.
man went below, and was detected in
the attempt to thrust her babe through
the window of the water-closet. The
mother and child We're then placed nm
der surveillance for the remainder of the
trip. The woman is not more than 20
years of age apparently, and had been to
Alexandria in search of her husband.
who, she said, had left her and had ioin-
ed the Sixteenth New York regiment
It is supposed that she comes from New
York. -Alerdndria Gazette.
SOUTHERN NEGROES GOING NORTH,
contractors from Cayuga, New York,
have been in Richmond for several days
past, engaging negroes to 90 to that
place for the purpose Of Telling timber.
The agents design employing two hum
dred in Richmond, over one-half of
which number they have already sue
ceeded in engaging. These negroes re-
ceive one dollar per day and their board.
The contractors pay their way to Ca
yuga, but deduct the amount from their
wages.
RELIGIoUs.-O Thursday last Mr..
Henry SatterWhite, of Henrico county,
was solemnly ordained to the work Of
the Gospel ministry at Berea Baptist
Church, in the presence of large con-
gregation. The exercises were participa-
ted in by Revs. A. E. Dickinson. A. B.
Smith and H. Nuckols.
After the ordination the meeting was
protracted from day to day. and over
thirty persons made profession of reli-
gion,
PERSONAL. - Hon. L. H. Chandler.
United States District Attorney for the
District of Virginia; Mr.. Barry, Clerk
OF the United States District Court; Mr..
Z. II: Buttz, candidate for Congress from
the Norfolk District and Generals Fes-
sender, Carroll and Harnden are at pre-
sent in Richmond, stopping at the Spots.
wood Hotel.
Gen. Edward johnson, of the late
Confederate service, has arrived in Rich |
mond.
"A SAD ACCIDENT.-As two brothers, |
named Godfrey, were hunting in Motto
way county, on Saturday last, one of
them, William, was killed by an acct.
dental discharge of his brothers gun.
This sad accident cast gloom over the |
neighborhood where the parties to 1t re-
sided.
THEATRICAL.-Th Richmond Thea
ire, under the management of r, d.
Ogden, will reopen for the fall season
on Saturday, the I'd of September.
There are two hundred and fortv-one
places in Richmond where cigars are
sold; in addition to this, it is said, there
are twenty saloons licensed to sell moth
ing but beer. ale, and porter, and proba-
bly, one hundred persons are engaged in
the traffic without license.
DR.. Martin W. Benton has been an
pointed by the Governor, Physician to
the State Penitentiary, and DR.. Edward
II. Smith, formerly of Dinwiddie.) has
received the appointment of Guano In
spector for the city of Richmond.
The Seventeenth annual Council of
the Protestant Episcopal Church is to
De held in Richmond, on the Goth of next
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The Leesburg Mirror announces, au-
that John Janney, Esq,
Will not be candidate for Congress.
Robert Ridgway, editor of the Rich
nond Wig, is out for Congress IN the
Iecklenburg district.
B. ]. Barbour, of Orange, declines be-
ng candidate for Congress. A
MARRIED.