Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-02
sYIRGINIA.sF news.


Philadelphia Inquirer, Governor Peirpoint
Waited on Generals Terry and Turner, in rela-
ton to. the suppressed elections, and was CURLY
advised not to NEEDLE with what did not con-
Germ him. y The Union men in Richmond have
held meeting at which ticket was prepared,
to be submitted to the people at the new
election. All the candidates thus proposed
are said to be uncompromising Union men.
It is thought that Francis J. Smith, of
Richmond, will be appointed State Treasurer
of Virginia, vice Wing resigned.
The First Baptist Church in Petersburg,
was struck by lightning on the night OF the
29th ult., and totally destroyed.
Governor Peirpoint has declined public
reception at Norfolk.
The Norfolk Post states that the magnl1l
cent steamer River Queen has been purchased
by the old Bay Line, to run in connection
with its other boats She is to be placed on
the line to Cherry Store and Yorktown.
j. H. Uhlhorn, who has held the position
Of cashier of the Southern Express Company,
and recently Of the Adams Express Company,
has resigned his position, for the purpose OF
connecting himself with the wholesale estab-
lishment of Armstrong, Gator & Co., Bait.
At the close Of service at Dr. Duncan $
Church, in Richmond on Sunday, the Rev.
Mr.. Motley, pastor of the African Methodist
Church, announced that the military had
taken possession Of his church, which was now
being used by ministers Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, North. He said he did
not know for what length Of time the church
would be held by them, but declared his m
tention OF bringing the subject before the
State, and claiming property as belonging to
the M. g. Church South. He extended
cordial invitation to the colored members OF
his old church to identify themselves Il they
think proper to do so, with the interests OF the
NJ E. Church, South.
The Shepherdstown Register says - e
learn that the ministers IN charge OF the Berke
ley Circuit of the NJ. b. Church South had
excluded from the church those members that
sympathized with the South, except on certain
very degrading conditions, and this thing
coming to the knowledge OF the Presiding
Elder he visited the Circuit and closed the
C0uTCu against IIC ululStC1; buC uiISCICN I1lo
laity to assemble and hold prayer meetings,
whereupon the Sheriff Of the county arose and
gave notice that the preacher in charge would
hold services as usual. The Presiding Elder
then threatened him with arrest tor violating
the peace that he, a conservator OF the peace,
was doing all he could to violate the peace Of
the community and to divide the church OF
which he was member.
The National InteIligencer combats, with
ability, some OF the views ia ken by Mr.. Horace
Maynard, in his late speech at Nashville,
Tenn. The Inteugencer thinks the philoso-
Dbv Of the n. Y. Post: which regards ''as
matters giving no great anxiety, the heavlngs
Of the ocean which the tempest has tossed;
after the storm is over; as far preferable to
the 1nenaces, assumptions, and inferences' OF
Mr.. Maynard. In other words, now that there
is peace, there ought to be peace.
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Mr. Forney, in his last letter, states that 1T
is only waste Of time in the South to elect
doubtful or reasonable men to the next Con-
gress, - for, he says, if Mr.. Mcpherson, the
Clerk of the House of Representatives, were
to put their names on the roll-which he never
dreamed Of doing,-the House would at once
repel the attempt.
The Washington Chronicle says, the sus-
pension of the writ Of habeas corpus will be
continued, as long as President johnson
thinks such suspension lis required by due