Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-18
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
SPECIAL DisPA TONES TO THEGA2ETrE
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. December IL, 1861.
VIRGINIA..


! The Reconstruction Committee OF he llouse
| OF Representatives. had a meeting this morniur,
o. which there we're present Messrs. Butter,
WMttem0re Julian, Beck, Woodward, Law
renee, tyson, and Farasworlh.
Virginia affairs were under consideration
ani at the suggestion Of General Butler, G. {.
| Roual, u Manassas, gave his version o! affairs
| IL Prince William county. Of which he Is, By
| appointment o; G.n. rauby. Commonwealth
Attorney, whc! rclat to local political affair;
during the late canvas, AMI to the manner in
which justice j. administered in the courts in
which he practices: he coloring TO which was
hgh, aud the assertions not at all calculated to
inSpire the committee with favorable opinion
OF the progress Of reconstruction in Virginia
but many oil which were so pal ably at variance
with facts that they u.d have had but little
WEIGHT. la hi. cross examination he said that
he had been in Virginia but one year, and that
| there was now pending against him suit Ter
SANDER brought ty a colOred man, but, he be-
lived, at the iuS,icaton Of some white men, to
effect division in the Radical party of his
c5unty. lie stated that Gov. Wells only rep.
resented lew federal Office holders and that
he Round spoke for ninety nine hundreths OF
the Republican party Of the State, and did not
want the State admitted without the test oath
imposed upon the members OF the Legislature.
He was somewhat severe upon the appoint9es
OF Gen. Canbv and the Federal Office holders in
the State.
|. y. Buil, OF L)udoun county. by permits
sion, gave statement of affairs in Loudoun
county, aud Of the quiet aud order that he be
licvei prevailed throughout the State of his
belief IA the purpose OF the Legislature to
faithfully carry out the Constitution, especially
in regard to colored people, and expressed his
astonshmcnt at the statements Of Round.
Round produced handbill on which was
printed the letter OF r. T. Daniel, Chairman
OF the Conservative State Central Committee,
urging the cruldates OF the Conservatives to
remain in the neid, regardless Of the reports
about the test-oath hing required and asser
ted positively tina, 1t was sent out after the
publication Of Gen. Canty's letter, though the
proof that 1t wa not was IN the room at the
time
Auou. the spectators III the room who
made themselves conspicuous by prompting
questions, &c, were Porter and Downey.
The evidence, g., ordered to lie printed
has, from some unexplained cause, not been
completed.
Il is the opinion IL day that no deiinite sc-
ton will DC taken in reference to the admission
Of the State till after the holidays, and further.
that there will be alditional requirements.
The friends of admission are far less hopeful
to-day, and it is reported that the President
said to Porter AMI delegation OF Radicals
that waited upon him that ii he had known at
the time what he knows now, he would not
have made the recommendation in his message
that he did in reference to the State. This IS
doubtful but such is the rV0aor.
GEORGIA.
The b!d ior the admission Of Georgia. pass
cd by tie Senate last night, through the IN
strumcntality of Gov. Bullock, will it Is said
meet with opposition in the House.
FLORIDA.
Senator Wilson, with delegation from Flor
ida, called on the President to day, with bill
Of complaints from the "Loyalists" against that
State
CONGRESS
Neither house of Congress was il session to-