Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.


VIRGINIA NEWS.
The store of John II. Thomas, OF King
George, Zone of the Radical candidates for the
Convention was destroyed by. fire, some time
during the last summer, and was insured at the
time We learn from the Fredericksburg
News that $500 reward has been offered by the
insurance company for the apprehension of
Thomas, &c. We know nothing of the case.
j Major T. j. Skunk died suddenly 10 Rich
mond on Monday Hc was chief of ordnance
on Gen. Schofeld's staff. Being graduate CT
West Point, and an old army officer for mum
Der of years, he was we'll known and highly re-
spected by all his brother officers. He was
son Of Elk Governor Skunk, of Pennsylvania.
Hunnicutt met the Editor Of the Frederlcks-
burg News in January 1862, in Fredericksburg,
aud in the course OF conversation said that she
would like to cut the heart out Of the malig
nant fend who questioned his fidelity to the
Southern Confederacy.' ~
The reporter Of the Convention proceedings,
of the Richmond Wing, commenced the report
of one days proceedings last week thus
tMcVeigh's tenant in Alexandria took the
Chair. " .....
The coiorcd prisoners in the Jail at Peters
burg attempted to break out last Sunday
night The plot was frustrated, and the ring
leader seized, after desperate attempt to es-
cape. ..:5 ss'..a
Sergeant Theodore Baptist, of the police
force of Richmond. died Sunday light last. =
Baptist has been for about twenty years one Of
the guardians of the peace.
The Reconstruction Convention has given
the printing of the letter heads and envc-
lopes" to Hunnicutt .s-
/ LYNCHBURG AND DANv[LLE R. R-MEMo-
RIAL TO CONGRESS- will be remembered
that at the meeting of the friends of the Lynch
burg & Danvil!e r. R., held in Lynchburg in
October last, II resolution was adopted for the
appointment Of a committee to petition Con
gress for donation of public land to aid in the
construction Of the road, on the plan heretofore
pursued towards other roads. The committee
have performed the work assigned them, and
have forwarded their memorial to Congress-
1t asks for the appropriation of the sum OF two
millions Of dollars, in lands for the purpose
specified aud after setting forth the claims of
the road at length offers the following specific
reasons for the grant:
81. Because the work proposed is really not
a local i'm provement, but from its national i'm
portance, beneftting oil sections of the country,
the North as we'll as the South, IS to all in
tents and purposes a national work OF the very
first importance. .a-
90 Because the completion Of this work
will render the nation more independent and
selfsustaIning in war and In peace.
80 Because it will unite the Northern por-
ton Of our country with the Southern portion,
in q, community Of interest and by cords Of af
lection stronger and more enduring than hooks
Of steel. .s YAK, En-.
"a. Because it will open up the shortest,
safest and cheapest line for the transmission of
the mails, as well as of treights, between the
tween all intermediate points, and in wars with
foreign nations, to which all nations are expos
ed, it will be found the best line Of intercom-
munication between the States, and for moving
troops and munitions of war.
5. Because Congress has heretofore, with
a munifcient hand, fostered and aided works
of Internal improvement in the States of this
Union. And we believe that this work, at the
present time, does and should commend itself to
the patronage, aid and support of Congress
and the people of the United States, the uni
versal constituency of the country, as great ma
tiona work, more strongly than any railroad of
the same length and cost ever projected within
the limits Of the United States.
sc. Because greater number of the popu-
lation of the United States, and greater vari
ETY. and diversity of interest, demafd the speedy
completion of this work, than any other projec- !
ted in the United States.
81. Because Virginia does, in an especial
have claims on the United States, in
of the munifcent donation made |
to the General Government, in the formation
Of the Federal compact, of her magnificent do, |
main west Of the Ohio. x
. We, therefore, humbly pray Congrass to
pass the law making the appropriation of Two
Millions of Dollars above asked for, and, as 10
duty bound, we will ever pray. "-Lgachbmg
Vsrginsa7a.
Two New Orleans merchants named Moses |
Frank and his son, who are charged with de-
frauding firms in that city Of amo ,nts ranging |
as high as S15O,OOO, were brought to New
York Yesterday by detectives, who finding
themselves likely to be detained by writ of
habeas corpus in New Orleans, spirited their
away, notwithstanding the efforts of