Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA NEWS
A desperate attempt was made yesterday by
a large gang Of negro conviots to escape from
the guard, which was conducting them on the
Central Railroad to some point on the Chesa-
peakc and Ohio Road, where they had been
hired to work The attack was made upon
the guard whilst the train was in rapid motion,
between Lindsey's Turnout and aordonsVllle.
Three of the eonvcts, IN jumping from the
train, were mortally wounded and one was
Killed outright. Twenty of them succeeded IN
making their escape.
P. r. Grafton, the Richmond City Attorney
yesterday gave an opinion to the city council
that the city small notes issued during the war,
amounting to quarter of million, cannot be
paid while the Alexandria constitution IS IN
force, as it forbids the paying Of any debts IN
Cured to carry on the war.
The schooner Ida L.. with cargo of coal,
from Philadelp hia bound to Richmond, which
sprung alcak near the mouth of the Potomac
river and was run on tho beach, as before re-
ported, and has gone to pieces with but little
of her material saved.
| Saturday afternoon about o'clock the New
York steamer Z. c. knight, OF I. A. Will
lams & Co. 8 line. ran into sloop Kaloola, load
| ed with corn and other produce lying at Row
| land wharf at Norfolk, and sunk her.
/ Mrs. Elizabeth Hodge, wife Of the Rev. A.
A. Hodge, for some years pastor of the Pres
bvterian Church in Fredericksburg died at the
residence Of her husband in Allegheny City,
Pa, on the night of the 9th ultlmo.
The First National Bank of Danvie is clos
ing up it's affairs All note holders and other
creditors of said association are notided to pre-
sent the notes and other claims against the as
ISOLATION for payment.
The revival in the Methodist church at Dan
! vile still Continues. Up to this time the to-
| tai number who have made profession il little
over one hundred and fifty.
| The Rappahannock Canal, now valuless
! internal improvement was sold at auction on
! Saturday, and purchased by DR.. W. >. Scott
| for 81, 500.
There are now four first rate Touring mills in
and about Fredericksburg. Ficklin's, McKen-
ney's Myers,& BruilIc's and Slaughter & Cor
don's.
| A SpECIMEN.--A man named Everett, one
Of the "troollest loil, living in CASTOR, N. c.,
and one of the 'squirea" ofthe old sGcessionlst,
| Holden, went up to his EScellency and declar-
ed that he had been often shot at and that his
| life was in danger. Thereupon, the man that
suggested the assassination OF Lincoln sent
| down a posse Of seventy five colored militia
awaiting the orders of this Everett, who next
| day arrived from Raleigh with the Attorney
| General Of the State, who, under the protection
of the black militia, was to prosecute those who
had put the esquire into bodily danger, :.
The sheriff OF Northampton county, Radl-
cal, spoilt all their chance for getting up
scene, and possibly riot, by declaring that he
| would find no difficulty in bringing forward the
| twelve persons accused to stand their trial,
without militia aid. The militia were then dis
| banded, the twelve gentlemen appeared, stood
their trial under Holden's own officials, and
| we're cleared there being not title Of evil
dence against them
Thus has the State of North Carolina been
| put to probably sthousand dollars expense up
on the false accusation of a Radical magistrate,
who, either from timidity or from wish to
| make himself out victim to the Ku KluZ,
| has had the blacks called out.-NortoM Jour-
ESTAYLAw-We predicted not longsince
that very strong effort would be made to in
duce Gen. Stoneman to extend the operation
of the Stay Law The law expires, as is general
ly known, with the end of the present year.
Tho first action that has met our eye is that
of the people of Fauquier, who met at War
| renton on the 18th ult While we abate moth
| ing Of the views heretofore expressed in regard
| to the constitutionality Of the stay law as an
abstract question-nor Of the impolicy and IL
legality of the usurpative action OF the military
authorities in the South-yet, with our con-
temporary of the Rockingham Register, I'VE
are constrained to admit, as a case OF absolute
necessity, that some interp0slng power should
| be exercised to perpetuate the operation OF the
stay law for given period OF time. The COM
parativc!y impoverished condition of the peo-
pie Of Virginia has been produced by no dere-
| LECTION, no want Of industry and enterprise on
their part. "-FIed Herald.
THE PUBLIC DEBT-An official statement
of the condition Of the public debt for the
month ending on the first of September is pub
lshcd The debt has decreased over 5000, 900,
leaving the National debt about So, 534, 000 000
instead of So 535, 900 000 as on the first OF Sep
TENDER last. The cash balance on hand in the
vaults of the Treasury is $l3 300, 600 in cur
rency, and $97, 600, 900 in coin, including about
$50, 900, 900 in coin certificates. Secretary
McCulloch anticipates that the expenditures
during the month of October will be light, and
the next statement will show a decrease,
though about $50, 900, 900 will be taken from the
vaults on the first of November to pay the in-
terest on the 5-2Os which falls due on that date
and this will run up the debt again to high
er figure than it is now. The expenditures
during the month we're very heavy-one item
alone being over 81 ,00O,0 900 issued to the Pa
cifc Railroad.
TOBACCO AND CoRN.-An observer who has
been travelling on horseback for the last month,
informs the Richmond Dispatch that the crops
Of corn and tobacco in the counties Of Orange,
Culpeper, Louisa, and Fluvanna, are the most