Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-01
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ALEX A.NDRIA.
FRIDAYgEYENING, NOVEMBER i.
8aC oNdREss. Although Congress meets on
the 2lst Of November, it is now stated by some
that tits not the intention of the President to
send his message nor that Of the Secretary of
the Treasury to send his report to Congress
! until the commencement Of the second session,
which will be Monday. December 2. The
meeting of November 81 is an adjournment Of
the frat session. Notwithstanding this state.
.ment, however, we think it is more than prob
able that the President aoill send in his message
at the opening Of the adjourned session this
6 month.
s: INcENDARIsM.Ad dispatch from Richmond
says: Information was received today from the
Chief of Police at Richmond, that a blackman
who was arrested there last night, told the Of
fcer who made the arrest that he was just from
meeting at Hunnicutt's s Hall; that Hunnicutt
made speech in which he told the negroes
that have been discharged by their employers
for having voted the Radical ticket, to demand
that they be reemployed, and if. they were re-.
fused, .toiapply thetorch TO the property Of any
9 person so refusing. y!
s1ag OFFICIAL V oTE- The official vote of Viz
ginia, cast at the recent election is as follows
Whites, Is, 924 :; blacks, 1856.
For Convention Whites, 1865; blacks,
92,5O7. 800, s: s.,
Against the Convention Whites, CT, ZIG;
blacks, $685. aEa asss1$. 80
ga General Schofeld, in view of the complaints
of.fraud, is about to order new census OF the
voting population Of the city Of Richmond.
3a..F BISHOP LEE, bishop of the Protestant Epis
copal Church of the, Diocese Of Iowa, in this
country previously to his leaving England re-
Gently, addressed aletter to the Bishop Of Lon
don, strongly protesting against the rituals
ii" movements, and declaring.that his unfa-
vorable impressions have Teen strengthened
and deepened by what he saw and heard in
England. = 1,5...>;s t...,zS.; d IN 1s
THE CONVENTION Richmond Wig
says, it states by authority, that the con
ivention willnot convene until thirty days at
least shall have elapsed after Gen. Scho6e!d
issues his proclamation announcing the names
ofthe5 members elected by The various cities
and counties ot the State. .4 ..s s, :.
IA letter signed r. f., from Rappahannock,
10 the Richmond Enquirer, proposes that a
number of the well known aad most respecta-
Bile gentlemen Of Richmond issue call for o
general meeting or convention Of the Conserva-
tive people Of the State, in Richmond on or
about the 18th of December; that day being
named because the annual commencement of
the Grand Lodge of Masons will commence on
the 9th of December. and delegates from all
portions Of State will be present.
The North American Review for October
contains an article on the Civil Service Of the
United States"e 1t describes the condition of
this service as deplorable, and as fitted to pro-
duce in all departments of the Government
the greatest possible amount Of responsibility
aud incapacity .s.t.
Mr.. Michael Gretter, an old and highly re.
spectacle citizen of Richmond, having rela-
tions and connections inSthis place, died on
Wednesday last He was in the S4th year of
his age. E. ssg 4Easa
1t is now said that General Scho6eld never
wrote the letter concerning the Ohio election,
which is credited to him by the newspapers.
1t was some other Schofeld. 4, Ii.
Bishop McGill and Bishop Johns preached
in Warrenton last week, and combinations
were held in the Catholic and Episcopal
churches there. y
40 order has been issued by Gen Grant
prohibiting the. practice, which prevails, of
giving to soldiers, whose term ofservice is near
ly out furloughs for the remainder of that term
The accounts recently telegraphcd North of
the tornado on the Rio Grande are now said TO
be greatly exaggerated and in some respects
untrue. People hardly know what TO believe.
All vacancies in the regular army have been
filled. and the President will send in the names
of his appointees, for continuation, to the Sen
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