Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.


obtain negro labor among the many idle OF that
element in our community, and offered ST per
month and Loard. We are informed that 1t
was impossible for him to get more than one
or i've hands, and yet there must be hundreds
of these people among Us spending their l1es
in miserable Incidence
Rob't P. Eubank, formerly deputy sheriff OF
Augusta county, but now residing in Clarke,
met with a painful and probably fatal accident,
on the goth ult. While attending a threshing
machine, the cornor of his overshirt wascaught
in the machine, and he whirled around at fear
full velocity, tearing off his clothes, dlslocatlng
his thigh and seriously injuring him internally.
The barn of Ir. Charles Brown, on Ivy
creek, about six miles from Charlottesville
Va, was struck by lightning on Thursday
evening, and instantly burned. It contained
some twelve or fifteen hundred bushels of oats
a wheat fan, and a Mccormick reaper, all Of
which were lost. There were also eight sheep
under the barn, which were also burned.
On Friday last, three citizens OF HlllsVlllc,
Carroll county, in this State, Noah Shockly,
Churchward Co0mbs aud Andrew j. Cooke,
were brought to Richmond under guard and
placed in confinement at Libby prison for trIa'
before a military commission. The charge
against them is that they killed three Uulon
men in Carroll county in 1865.
The Richmond Dispatch says I'VE learn
that since the recent visits OF Robinson, Van
Amburell, Dan Castillo & Co., with their gym.
nasyic exhibitions, six boys, in the eastern part
OF the city, have broken their arms in trying to
execute flying leaps and double somcrsaults.
1t is understood that the colorel voters IN
Richmond have agreed to run three white and
Two blacks for the Convention. Hunnicutt and
Wardwell arc two of the whites most proml-
nently named.
The Governor on Saturday pardoned Hedge
man Carney, convicted in the Circuit Court Of
Stafford county Of murder in the second degree,
and sentenced to five years in the penltentlary.
The Radical colored meeting at ~llenrlco on
Saturday nominated G. l.. Swami for the Con
%vention, throwing out an ez-Fedcral colone'
who was a candidate for nomination.
A violent hailstorm prevailed on Thursday
evening last, in the neighborhood OF Rockfsh
Depot, in Nelson county, which inflicted Sc
we're injury upon the tobacco crop.
Mrs. Anna Il. Kirby, who has been Oh tria
in Richmond for the murder Of her husband
was convicted on Saturday, and sentenced &c
seven years in the penitentiary.
Mr.. Davis trial will certainly take place ii
November. The counsel on both sides are
ready. lie is expected to arrive thcre abou,
the 18th ofOclobcr.
The listilleries around Richmond last ahontl
turned out twenty Thousand gallons OF wliskey
in July last they only distilled five THOUSAND
gallons,
General Schotield has ordered that the pay
OF all registering officers, excepting those who
are doing duty ut headquarters, he discontinued
after the 18th instant.
The First National Bank Of Norfolk, Va.
has voluntarily ceased to be 4 depository OF pub
lie moneys and financial agent of the u. $.
Rev. Thomas u. Dudley has arrived il
TIarrisonburg to take permanent charge a
Rector Of that Parish.
HABEAs CoRpUs.-The Attorney Genera
of the u. S. has given an opinion in the recent
habcas corpus case pending in Philadelphia:
in which he states that in his judgment the
court had authority to Issue the writ and sc
compel a return and production of the body
- !lnt .,,t,,,,t;o,. cho,,ll ho cont fo (Om
Selfridge, to answer the rule for an attachment,
and to produce the body of Gormley before tie
court and that the instructions heretofore
sent him to make resistance by force should be
revoked.
In conformity with this opinion, the Secre
tary of the Navy revoked his former order, and
instructed Com. Selfridge to produce the man
before the court.
CONTRACTION, OF Il CURRENCI.-The
public debt statement for September, shows
that Secretary McCulloch has awaited himself
of his power to contract the grccnback currency
to the full extent authorized by law, having
effected a reduction of $4,000, 600 within the
month. We understand that he hopes to be
able to continue this process until the amount
in circulation is so reduced that he can resume
specie paylICltS, dltlUuEH hC VIII HOI !uSH
the policy of contraction to an extent beyond
what the trade of the country can bear without
undue Inconvenience or arrangement. 1t is
said that he believes in the practicabi'ity of
rcsuming specie payments at no very distant
day. Washington Chronicle.
The PRIZE RING.-The Washington Chron-
ic!c says:-''It is understood that the authori-
tics ofVirginia arc about to adopt measures to
prevent further disgraccful exhibitions of pu-
gilistic skill, commonly termed mills" upon
the soil of that State. They should move in
the matter at once, as two fights are expected
to occur a short distance from the Long Bridge,
within two or three weeks"
WASHINGTON ITEMs.-Thcrc arc 100 pris-
oDers confined in the District Jail. Six Of the
number are charged with murder. The war
den has recently received fifteen sets of heavy
Loo irons nf an imnroved nattprn. and 81 made