Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-16
ODD FELLOWS. the Grand Lodge OF,
the Independent Order OddFellows, on Thurs

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day last, the following officers were elected:
Grand Master-H. G. Davidson, Lexington.
Deputy Grand Master-E. 81. Folkes, Lynch
| Danville Grand Secretary-W. j. Riddick,
Richmond Grand Treasurer-John " Fer
gusson, Richmond Grand Chaplain-J. B.
Blanks, Petersburg. Grand Representative to
the Grand Lodge Of United States-E II
Fitzhugh, Richmond. Grand -Conductor-J.
| r.. Redman, Norfolk. Grand Marsha,-R r.
| Prentiss, Charlottesville Grand Guardian
Alexander Grant, Richmond. Grand Herald
John B. Shaner, Lynchburg.
The following important resolution was
adopted:
That it shall be lawful for members Of ex-
tiDct or dormant Lodges within this juriSdic
| ton to submit in writing to the Grand Master
or Deputy Grand Master of the State such evil
dence as they can produce Of their good stand
| ing at the time Of the dissolution CT their
| Lodges And if the officer to whom it has
been submitted is OF opinion that it is satsfac
tory and sufficient, he shall forthwith certify
the same to the Grand Secretary, who shall
provided in said foltcth article, and which
certificate shall have the same effect as ce1tif-
Gates provided for in that article now have.
The Department of State has received a
dispatch from the u S. Consul at Funchal, in
the island of Madeira, stating that large
nunlber Of poor, but honest and hard working
laborers Of Madeira, who are skilled in the
raising Of cereals, the vine, sugar cane, &c,
and in gardening, are Gesrous Of going to the
u. S., but have not the means Of accomplish
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but one half of their passage money could be
advanced to them by parties sin this country
on contract, under the act to encourage imml-
grafton, 10 be paid in labor, at least 10000 OF
them would be prepared to leave Immediately
| These people from the land OF the Grape
would probably do better in our Southern eli
| mate than any other laborers we can ever pos
| sibly obtaip Their Knowledge of the cutlva-
ton of the Grape could be most prolitably
| awaited Of, in some portions OF the South. We
have in Alexandria, an excellent and worthy
citizen, native Of Madeira, who has been
here from early boyhood.
THE CHOLERA despatch from the Z. S.
Consul at Halifax dated the 18th inst, says
The city medical officer reports, up to last even
Ing one hundred and seventy deaths on board
the steamer England, including forty who died
on the passage from Liverpool He reports
the disease as probably severe form of ship
fever, with many of the prominent symptoms
of cholera 1t amounts to a regular plague.
The surviving passengers have been removed,
some to her Britannia Majesty's receiving ship
Pyramus, and Others to tents on shore at the
quarantine grounds There is a difference
the steamship ENGLAND. The number Of deaths
and sick are or. atty reduced to day. The di
sease is decidedly checked, and is confined to
the Storage passengers
| SwINDLNG NEGRoEs-A recent gloss
swindle Of the contiding freedmen OF Rich
mond by one Of their abolition friends, furn-
ishes the Times with the occasion Tor the
following commentary:
::Tbe business of cheating negroes seems TO
he rapidly reaching the dignity Of one OF the
fine arts, and none Of the leading professors
now opera ting among US are to The manner
bonn In former times, at the South, the man
who would detraud the poor ignorant black,
was regarded as the basest and most degraded
of wre'ches. Sheep stealing was esteemed
respectable business when compared with that
unpardonable sin. This fee ing is to-day as
strong among the late slave owners of the
| South as 1t was I'VE years ago.
''LocUsTs. "-Beecher says II should be
sorry to see any more Government agents
spreading out through the land. If the Presi-
dent would call home every treasury agent that
is disgraciog the North, and the government,
and humanity, and alternating the South, | for
one should be glad Here and there are no
doubt men that stand above bribery and spspi-
cion of corruption, noble men and true; but
all through the South, taking them compile
hensiyely, they are as locu>ts eating up the
land They are predatory nuiSances, and de,
grade the North, from which they come, and
the government under which they serve. J."
The famous violinist, Ole Bull, is said to have
died at Quebec on Tuesday morning last. A
day or two ago he was reported to be in Russia.
UANDSOME DRESS GOODS,