Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Radical nominations are being made all over
the State. In:Caroline county a meeting NOM
mated Hawxhurst for Governor, and one white
and one black member Of the Legislature. In
Hanover county VIM. James was nominated
for Congress, and ono black and one white
member of the Legislature. 1t is said that
Baync may be candidate for Congress-. = !
The store-house together with all its contents'
at the Wilderness in Spotsylvania county, was
DESTROYED by fire on Friday night at half past
twelve o'clock. The store belonged to Mr.. }:
| J, STEPHENS. The stock on hand is estimated
ut sc, 600, on which there is an insurance OF
81, 800. 1t is believed to have been the work
of an inccndiary.
On Saturday last, Jos. Adkins and Charles
r. Gilbert, charged with the murder Of Chris
tophcr Slower, recently in Augusta county,:
were released, there not being sufficient evil
dence against them to send them on Tor trial.
Both, we understand, proved that they were
elsewhere at the time the decd was committed.
It is intimated that about 100000 bush
els of oysters arc now annually taken from the
| Chesapeake Bay and tributaries. More than
two~thirds of them go to Baltimore; about
1000, 900 go elsewhere. There are 10 regular
| packing houses in Baltimore engaged in the
| business. -:...~.. r... ... i....... ...l
Ninety five colored persons were baptized at
| Lynchburg last Sunday ,.-.''' ...,
TIE New ENGLAND METHODIST CONFER
ENcE.-This body, it will be recollected, lately
passed brilliant" and christian !" resolutions
about Congress, impeachment, the reconstruc-
ton policy, &c.-subjects highly edifying to a
qious assemblagc! One Of the resolutions
adopted, Also was in favor OF ''the equal and
fraternal oneness of man." Now listen to the
| sequel "addendum superadded, las given
by the Baltimore Gazette: ..;.
: "Thc "fraternal oneness of man. seems to
have inspired Bishop Amcs, who presided at
| the Conference, with the determination to
prove to the world that with these Mctho-
4! dist Episcopalians Of New England, precept and
| practice went hand in hand He therefore
rose and in accordance with the spirit of tho
resolution We have just quoted, stated that he
| intended to transfer q number OF colored
preachers to the New England Conference. !"
If bombshell had suddenly descended into
their midst, the delegates to the Conference
could not have look moro aghast than at this
declaration of their Bishop. But when q rcso-
luton of approval was introduced they threw
off the mask Of brotherly affection for the negro
and denounced the proposed innovation in the
strongest possible language. What! put ne
gro preacher over IL white congregation 1t
was monstrous. 1t was impracticable. 1t was
most unheard Of proposition. The Mcthodists
of New England would never consent to have
their pulpits filled by negroes. As the discus
- dad 1pf Ihn hon
intensely excited and declared, with emphasis,
that "not one church in all New England could
be found willing to accept cOlOred men as pas.
tors" a few others thought differently. But
the final result was that 1.-The whole mailer was
referred to the Quarterly Conferences, who arc
to recognise or ignore colorcd preachers 1T their
pleasure. 1t was the easiest method of get
ting rid Of il dstatclul subject.
ErorEMENT OF A YOUTHFUL PA1R--A resi-
dent Of Hanover county reached this city one
day last week in pursuit OF an only daug htcr,
who, on Thursday evening last, about twilight,
left the parental roof with the object of her
alteration, 4 youth only eighteen years of age.
The young lady will be sixteen next month.
| All efforts to discover the whereabouts Of the
truant lovers in Richmond were lrultcss, and
the conclusion is that they passed through the
city and probably took the Southern train at
Petersburg IT is known in the neghborhood
where the parties reside that their destination
is some point in the Caroinas, where the nup-
tial knot is to be tied The young man in
tcnlions arc believed to be entirely honorable,
but the chief objection with the parents is the
. extreme youth Of both parties. The young
lady has not completed her education, and is
described as being very beautiful in lace and
graceful in figure The father left the city for
his home last evening, seemingly satisfied that
young people will love, and that when they do
love marriage is inevitable. Parental restraint
in many cases only hastcns matters. -Rtchm0nd
Enquirer. ......., ...
a MESS OF PoTTAGE.-There was great JOY
and cxultaton among the Radicals in the con-
vcntion when they passed the iefmcasure,"
as they call the ordinance exempting certain
amount Of property from certain debts, and Sc
curing homestead. This joy and exultation
grew out of the prcpostcrous idea that they
had put enough into the constitution to win
over a sufficient number of white people to Sc
grievously mistaken. The birthright of the
people of Virginia may be taken from them,
but they will never sell it for mess OF pottagc.
They see the Northern States all voting one
after another against negro suffrage merely
on account of the disgrace of the thing, and
will they vote for negro suffrage, when it will
not only entail the same disgrace, butalso their
| subjugation to negro doulinancy? But further:
Will they impose this degradation and ruin
upon themselves, when the prospect is that in
due time the North itself willoppose Southern
Africanization? We opine not.-Rac7Smona
| Why. .:...- r.. ...
In the Virginia Convention, on Monday,
"Mr. W. Fl. Robertson arose to a privileged
question" He had been called by some Re-
publican, and by others a Conservative. He
had not allied himself with any party. Hc was
| here to endeavor to get proper terms of restor
| atinn IL he could get these he would be