Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-11-20
AIFYANDPIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.

II fllOUlNlAS AL ilCllDIIU'
V1Re1HIA ITEMS Il
B Ga, Turner h as detailed threeEzofheers to-
subject of epreda commit
ted Oh farmers in The vicinity OF Rlchmond,
with instructions to charge the amount OF dam
age to the guilty parties, or when the act is
traced to the regiment only the amount be
deducted pro rata, from the pay OF the othcers
and men Of the regiment present. Many OF
the farmers near the city have been stripped
of their provisions.
I A petition is in circulation among the ladies
|Iof Richmond, praying President johnson for
the pardon of Jefferson Davis. 1t is numer-
ously signed. A petition for the parole OF
James a. Seldom, Secretary Of War Of the
late Confederate States, is IN circulation among
the gentlemen OF Richmond. 1t has the sigma
lures Of quite a number of State and city tunc-
tionares.
The Richmond Republic makes the follow.
ing announcement A statement mas oeen
going the rounds of the press that the debt OF
VIRGINIA before the war was 100000. So
far from this being the case it is not one twenty
fifth of that sum. The debt Of Virginia before
the breaking out of the war was only $l,800'-
UUU, 8uu tVGIy uOia1 " IL "ioiA AoN0' 49,
be promptly paid
Major General Terry, commanding the De
partment of Virginia, has issued an order sus-
pending the issuing of Government ratlons to
destitute people in his department, except II
the district of Henrico.
| A whale, fifty feet long, appeared in Hamp-
ton Roads yesterday morning.
Views of Public Men Of the Republican Party
Mr.. Speaker Colax made speech in Wash
ington on Saturday night. The Washington
Chronicle says, che set forth the policy OF the
Government in a light which all could I'M
derstand he stated the propositions that
every man, alien and native, white and black,
should be protected-in the rig hts ct liberty =
that the amendments to the Southern State
constitutions should BE- ratified by a majority
of their people, and that the States recently IN
take the oath of 1862 to Congress. Mr.: Z.
proclaimed thata great deal more must be done
| by the South, than has yet been expressed or
/ foresh by the President The Nation
i al Intelligencer deprecates this speech by Mr..
|. Colfax. Its tone was anything but conciatory.
| Geo. W. Julian, member of Congress from
| Illinois, addressed large audience at Indian.
apolis on Friday night. "taking strong ground
| for the punishment OF rebel leaders, the con,
/ fscation of estates Of prominent rebels, and
their apportionment among loyal Southerners,
of whatever color, and the extension to the
Southern negroes of the right OF suffrage
His remarks ELECTED frequent applause
Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, in late
letter saws the entire State of Tennessee
abounds with thieves and robbers, who would
murder man for bis watch or a fve-dollar
bill. 'sHe has no faith in the rebel professions
of loyalty thinks the war ended at least two
years too soon for the good of the country, and
adiurcs the Republican majority not to admit
to Congress Unfortunately the representa-
tives from the lately rebellious States Those
States, he maintains, will not elect loyal men
to CONGRESS, nor can loyal men be elected Gov
errors of them. He believes that the political
leaders there have not abandoned their idea OF
separate Coufederacy, and that they are now
reorganizing to make another effort at rebel
lion
T. is mournful to read these exhibitions OF
the ultraism which is still at work stirring up
discord and strife, breathing vengeance and III
feeling calculated to keep alive strife, and
retard the restoration of the Union, as was
proposed at the close of the war.
A meeting of the stockholders Of the
Richmond Frederick sburg and Potomac Rail
road Company was held at Richmond Va,
or Wednesday, when the following officers
were reelected:
P. Y. Daniel, jr., president; J. B. Winston,
treasurer. Directors on the part OF the stock
holders-G. A. Myers, esq.,. DR.: r. W. Hax-
all, DR.. Charles S. Mills and Elihu Cbauncey,
esq On the part Of the Commonwealth