The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-12-29
The New State Of Colorado.

The New State Of Colorado.
ATcHIsoN, KANSAS, December e. Messrs
Chaffee and Evans, United States Senators
from Colorado, have arrived here and report
Uniform confidence among the people of Colo
RADIO in the prompt admission of that State
into the Union, every important condition OF
the enabling act having been complied with
The Legislature has passed joint resolution
requesting the President, if he did not deem
| himself authorized to proclaim the State in
the Union, to urge its early admission upon
Congress. resolution guaranteeing the rati
| fcatiOn of the anti-slavery amendment to the
Constitution was also passed.
| THE RIOT AT ALExANDR1A-OSCE MORE
We are assured by a clergyman who was
present at Alexandria when the negro riot
took place there on Christmas day last, that
the account which the Washington Chronicl.
gave of that bloody ARRAY, so far as charging
the blame upon young men who were formerly
| In the Confederate army is concerned, is en-
| tirely incorrect. Our informant furnishes us
with the following, which he represents to be
true statement of tho affair: The negroes
commenced parading the streets on Sunday
night. They were armed with pistols, knives
and clubs, and marched to the beating OF
drums. They kept up this demonstra tion
until Christmas morning. On Christmas day
they insulted a number of white persons in
various ways. They halted in front of several
houses, uttering threats at the inmates shout
ing at and cursing the inhabitants generally
and brandishing their knives and pistols
Finally these disgraceful scenes eliminated in
along the street. A general fight soon after
ensued between the whites and blacks, which
resulted in the killing of several persons, and
among them Mr.. Mitchell, who belonged to
the Second United States regiment of Dis
trict of Columbia volunteers. Our informa MT
states further that the white persons en-
known rs ''loyai. '-Baltimore Gazette
COOP HIT AT SCMNER.-The York Let,de,
gets o1fa good thing in the shape of an ad.
dress from Charles Sumner to the Negro
Brotherhood, from which we make the follow
ing extracts:
Brethren of Color,-A crisis has occurred to
the affairs Of the Negro Brotherhood. Com
binations OF perfdious white men have pros
tituted the government to the most ignoble
purposes against you
Be not deceived by the wiles of General
Grant, or any other agents of Mr.. johnson
who may appear among you. They tell you
that yonr freedom only means that you must
work. 1t is thus that they wish to degrade
you.
This truth now comes to us with great force.
since Andrew johnson has engaged in the
Whltewashing business. He has adopted the
great and peculiar profession of the brethren
of color, and there is no longer any hope for
us except to strike for our rights.
ENGLISH MATRIMONIAL LAVA case of
some interest with relation to the maria ge
law was heard recently before Vice Chancel-
lo6 SIR r.: kndersiey in London man and
cording to English law. They never lived
together. The lady went to Scotland, and, in
consequence of an arrangement between the
parties, the husband went to Scotland too,
resided there for forty days, and then they
were divorced by the Scotch law. The lady
married again and had children, and the ques-
tlon now was whether the children, as legiti-
mate, could inherit certain property left to the
legitimate children of the lady. The Vice
Chancellor held that foreign court could not
dissolve an English marriage, that the divorce
was null, the children illegitimate and the pro-
perty must 60 to other parties.
ATTEMPT OF A GENERAL TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Brigadier General Champion Vaughan, for
merly of Kansas, attempted to commit suicide
BY swallowing poison on Saturday morning in
st. Louis, but his life was saved by the prompt
administration of an antidOte. In the after
noon he again attempted to destroy his life by
chlOrOfOrm in the Mercantile Library
room, but was again saved by medical aid.
General Vaughan is a son of John c. Vaughan,
and served ON the staff of General Curtis and
General Blunt during the war. No reason is
assigned for his strange conduct.
+. Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan Il.
Anthony, all of them ardent advocates of wo-
mems rights. have addressed petition TO
tuition of the United States that shall prohibit
the States respectively from disfran-
chising any Of their citizens ON the ground of
SEX They claim that fifteen millions of white
women have quite as much right to be invested
with the suffrage as four millions of blacks.
T0s CHOLERA AND Rotten WHEAr.-Several
physicians Of our city have expressed them
selves, In the most decided terms, in favor Of
the proposition to keep back the damaged
in the opinion that there is no such prolific
cause Of cholera as fOdl grain, aud If cholera
Is not prevailing, it must produce other diseases
scarcely less fatal. One physician who lived
vailed. stated that the disease was worse among
the men employed about the grain elevators
and ships.-Roehester Union.
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Posr-orr tcxs.-The Theological Seminary
post-oflice il reopened near Alexandria, and
Rev William Sparrow appointed postmaster.
At Old Point Comfort, John b. Maher is post
master, vice Krebs, declined.
SENT on FOR TRIAL.-Dennis bearing, J: b.
Kennedy and Parker, charged with stealing
mules in Petersburg, had . pre-
!iminary hearing before the Provost Court on
Wednesday, and were recommitted to jail for
trial by military commission.
Rev. DR.. Stiles. lately achapldin in the Con-
REV. Mr.. Carroll.) at New Haven. last Sum
iay. He was once one Of the most popular
preachers In New Haven, and his church was
s! Ava, crowdsd sevsr.. ys.rs since e.r nr;
Church In this city Cincinnati Gasstfs.
They propose 10 hare I now State capitol u
Albany, costing three or four millions Of dol
lars. II viii b Of white marble. from Ver-
nont quarriss. ~