Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-04
CHE Alexandria Gazette
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4.
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Francis J. Smith, of Richmond mas
been appointed Treasurer of Virginia IN place
OF DR.. w. Wing, resigned. lie Will enter
upon the discharge of his duties next wees
Pic MICS, balls and tournaments are all the
go in some portions Of Virginia. Ihe atter
seem to be specially IN favor - =
The Rockingham Register says: 7 ron' al,
sections around us the corn crop IS represented
as very promising, and the crops OF oats anu
hay as very heavy.
At tie election in Page county, tor county
officers, Mai. P. B. Borst was elected Com
monwealth' s Attorney, }. II. Watson, CLERK
Of Circuit and County Courts, and Chatham
Robinson, Sheriff.
In the late election for comfy officers, IN
Greene and various other counties East OF the
Blue Ridge, the old officers have been generally
reelected.
The Norfolk Old Dominion learns that "a
movement is in progress of incipience IN Ports
mouth, organizing an emigration party who
wish to settle in Brazil. >
On the 18th ult the planters OF Franklin
county held meeting at the Court House to
discuss the question of wages and also the status
Of negroes as freedmen. On the 24th, the
General commanding that district ordered the
officer commanding the sub district OF Danvlle
to notify those present at the meeting alluded
to, that no pubic discussion of the status OF the
freedmen would be allowed, nor would the
planters be permitted to fix the standard OF
wages, that matter being in the hands OF the
Freedmen's Bureau.
Prof. Mccullough recently arrested in Flori-
da. and brought to Washington, where he was
imprisoned, to await trial, has been transferred
70 Richmond and confined in the penitentlary
building.
A meeting of the Conservative citizens OF
Winchester was held in that town on Saturday,
the 22d ult., VIM. B. Baker in the Chair, and
T. /. Moore, Secretary. Robt. Y. Conrad
was nominated for the Mayoralty Of the town,
and Joseph H. Sherrard for the Recordership.
Before the adjournment of the meeting the
following resolution was adopted:
ssResolved, That the Conservative voters
be, and are hereby requested, in all the counties
composing the 7th Congressional District Of
Virginia, to hold meetings IN their respective
precincts, for the purpose Of sending delegates
to a Congressional Convention to be held in
Winchester on the 18th of September next, to
nominate suitable person to represent this
District in the Congress of the United States. .
Mr.. Robert Tyler, publishesa Gard in the
Richmond papers, in which he says, that al
though he does not see what danger could pos.
sibly arise by allowing an absolute free choice of
representatives to the whole constituent body,
vet there are circumstances in the present state
of general and ational politics which make it
imperatively nee essary, IN his opinion, that
those citizens who were prominently Identified
with the cause of the Confederacy should ex.
ercise rigid political abstinence at this time. >
The Norfolk papers have chronicled several
very heavy burgalaries perretrated in that city
recently. The last was that Of the jewelry
store of Messrs. freeman & Son. It turns out
that they were perpetrated by gang of con-
victs from the penitentiary at Richmond, who
further contemplated raid on the Norfolk
merchants on much grander scale.
VIRGINIA.
The Richmond Times says. THE future
agricultural policy Of Virginia is, small farms
thoroughly cultivated-that policy which has
built up New York, Pennsylvania and other
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