Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS. Large numbers {

WASHINGTON ITEMS. Large numbers OF
The clerks in the several executive departments
Of the city are perfectiDg their arrangements to
proceed to their respective States to vote at the
coming elections. The number Of public 0tl-
cials oerks and Government employees that
w;lI 90 10 Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana to
vote. is estimated at nearly l,00O moro than
half of whom are PennsylVanians. :,
The total amount of money received oy mr.
A. K, Perry, treasurer Of the funds raised tor
the relief of the sufferers by the late Hood IN
MARYLAND, is about $4,000. This amount has
been RENTED by Mr.. Perry to the treasurer Of
the relief fund in Maryland, Dir. Gibbons
Leonard Kean, Justice OF the Peace, VINO
resides in the Seventh Ward, was arrested on
Monday evening, charged, b5 his Wl gr with
drunkenness and disorderly conduct. lie was
locked I'D during the night, and released by
Justice Tucker yesterday morning upon the
payment OF fine.
REV RUFUS ". CLARK, JR., will probably
accept renewed call from St. John Parish,
Portsmouth, N. H. This ancient church has
high position and influence, and their call,
Offering $1,000 and rectory, IS alike credlta-
Bile to themselves and to the young clel gyman,
who will thus become resident OF bis native
place, where his father began his ministerial
career. He has lust graduated from the SEMI
nary. and has declined various calls, from
disinelination to renquish his present deslra-
BILE connection with DR.. Washburp, OF Calvary
church of N. Y. city.-Fronp q N. !. paper.
IRev. Rufus ". Clark, D. D., now OF
Albany N. Y. is we'll known to many citizens OF
! this place.
EXPENSES OF Courts remedy will
have to be provided in order to lessen the num-
Der of Jury trials for the colored people, Tor the
present system is costly affair for the white
race, who have to bear the brunt in the way
| of taxation in their support. A dozen blacks
are in Jail here for trial, and about the same
condition of affairs exists throughout the State.
| A correspondent writing from klng " lIiam
adYerts to the fact that as the freedmen realize
| more sensibly their altered condition, there
seems to be proportlonate increase IN crimes
committed by that class. At the last term OF
| the Quarterly Court, from twelve to fifteen IN
| dictmens were made by the grand jury OF that
county, against blacks. -F1cd HcraM.
J. Wills MENARD is q colorcd man, halls
| now from New Orleans, and Is the Radical
nominee in the I'd district in Louisina for the
upexpired term Of one COL Mann. His circular
| announcing himself candidate, says:--"The
| timo has fully come to test the profession and
| nrinciples of those who now control the Repub-
| ican party OF Iouisiana and it is sacred duty
| the colored people owe to themselves to see
| that the eoIored race is not sold out by few
| trading and treacherous white Republicans in
| Joi1iainDa rs II ha. bpen in tinOrgia.
Game, such as is common to this section Of
| country, is just now quite abundant, and VIII
| pigeons are as plenty as "blackberries in har-
vest" 1t is rare time for our freedmen, aud
nearly every one regards an old mlSkct, shot
gun, or revolver, with 4 dog or two to match,
| as necessary adjuncts to the 'neW situation.
Many are deserving their row in the corn held,
| to enjoy the liberty of roaming the forest. a
couple of lads, white, after an hours hunt on
| Saturday. near Rppon, bagged twenty 1--we
pigeons and seven sqlrrels. thd'lcSt01c"
| SplrH
R. II. PGGILAM's GOLD NINE, eighteen
| miles from Fredericksburg, called the Ran
dolph Mine" is worked by en- old negro,
| named Bob now in his Saith year. He uses
| tray and washes for gold five days in the
week and has brought Dir. 2. about half pint
| of gold in Jumps. The largest piece ever found,
weighed $40 - pwts. Another weighed IA
| -pWts. We nave seen them from 8 or 10 pWts.
| down. The whole section is rich in minerals
which need only to be developed TO make for
| tune Fred NeacS.
AMERICAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. -
| The report made to the last meeting OF the
Board shows the entire income OF the year as
| follows: Donations, $453,2GO Il; legacles,
S73. 9O3 fl, other sources, IS, G14 n. Total,
$685., S39 95, being the largest sum ever before
reported to any annual meeting OF the board
The expenditures we're $3.50, SS5 G5. The year
opened with balance of 81, 432 45 against the
treasury, and closed with balance Of $3.50 &c
in its favor.
CoNNEcTIcT ELEcrIoN.--A dispatch from
New Haven says 1.-THE general results are
more than satisfactory to the Democracy, and
Indicate that the State will cast her electoral
vote fer Seymour and Blair by an increased
voteIover E0glish majority of last spring. The
Radical presses are representing that the Radl-
Gals have gained-but it Is evident, they them
selves are in a state Of "dubiety" about Con
nectlcut.
Cuba talk" is increasing The bait is
tempting-and acquisitions are the order
of the day. As soon as the new government
is established in Spain-how long it will last
nobody knows-it will probably be sounded on
the subject But what sort of sound will be
issued in response to the touch, that's the
question
MARRIED.
On the 18th of September in Baltimore by
Rev. William s. Speak ROBERT L. RAN
DOLPH to Mrs. MARTHA A. TAYLOR, of
Md, formerly of Alexandra.
DIED.
In Norfolk. on Friday last, Miss VIRGIN,