Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-09-22
VIRGINIA NEWS

A gentleman of Petersburg is authorized by
northern association to employ southern
teachers, male or female, to organize and take
charge of colored schools in Petersburg and the
vicinity, in preference 10 continuing the pupils
under the instruction of the presentsnorthern
teachers. .---e-~v~-
( A party of gentlemen digging in the noun
tains of Brooks Gap, have discovered bed OF
paint. whose outcroppiugs are OF d7llca'e
bluish tint The material has been ground up
10 mortar ty Dr. Homan, worked IN OIL, and
ann];ed TO wood, aud is foun! to be a most cap
ital paint. ~....
An election for officers of the Central Rail
Rad will be held next month. Col Fortalne,
who so long filed the Office Of President Of the
road, will be candidate, and we presume that
Gen Wickham, the present incumbent, will
also be in the field.
A negro man, said to be crazy, placed several
logs of wood on the track Of the Frederlcks
burg & Richmond Railroad, on Thursday, but
the distractions were seen in time, and the
man arrested and carried to Richmond
The Directors Of tie Exchange Bank OF Flr.
GINA have made deed Of trust to 6. w.
Camp, ESQ.,, of Norfolk the former cashier, OF
all the assets Of the Bank, for the purpose OF
liquidation. s.,.. ... ....-
The Fredericksburg News says that st the
last Stafford Court, a big deed of trust by the
Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railroad was
recorded, to enable them to sell their bonds.
The cholera in Richmond is subsidiDg. There
were no new eases Or the Goth. ..
When Il religious newspaper once goes into
the business Of Justification it out Herods Herod
and puts to shame and confusion ordinary Sc
cular liars The following ''reigious' item
from the New York Christian Advocate Of
Aug. 23d will speak for itself:
1T is believed that at least ten thousand
colored people in the South have been murder
ed by rebel sympathizers since the declaration
OF peace by The President, and that none Of
the murderers have been brought to justice by
the local authorities O Lord, how long?'
The Charlottesville Chronicle, comments
upon the above after this fashion:
This paragraph contains about nine thou
sand nine hundred lies-and we leave this
margin to cover the New Orleans riot 1t is
by such SANDERS that the Northern people are
worked up 10 their present pitch OF frenzy
against the Southland thus they get what
they want--an apology to strip US OF all power.
We sometimes think it would be better II there
were no newspapers published our own. "
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The Richmond Wing, speaking Of The pro-
prosed Virginia Agricultural Fair, at Richmond,
says 1.-THE soil is pretty much all that is
left to US. From that must come the food
that is to sustain and the apparel that Is to
negroes and securities were biotted out of ex-
iStence by the stern edict Of war. We are DOW
thrown upon cur naturals--upon the rudi-
meuts-upon land and labor, which, in pro-
cess of time, if we are permitted to hold the
one and regulate the other, will, with proper
management, re create what was destroyed
and restore to Us what We lost. 1t is to agrl-
culture. and to agriculture alone, that we must
look Tor their recovery. In saying this, we by
no means intend to underratc commerce and
manufactures They are the sequences OF ag-
ricnlturc. That supplies the raw material
which the manufacturer maMpuia!es and puts
in shape and which commerce transports to
the markets OF the world Our first care,
therefore, is to place our agriculture upon a
good, sound, stable footing"
The National Bank Of Commerce, George
town, D. c., has been designated by the United
States Treasurer as a depository of public
moneys
Major General Couch has been appointed,
by the President, Collector Of the Port of Bos-
ton, vice ex-Vice President Ham!in, resigned
The election in Montana Territory is report
ed to have resulted in signal victory for the
Democrats. ... ....
Queen Emma arrived at Panama on the 9th,
and sailed for the Sandwich Islands the same
evening.
John Minor Bolts addressed a republican
meeting at Patterson, n. j., on Wednesday
night.