The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-18
AFFAIRS I'm VIRGINIA.

The Lynchburg Press {RadicaD Gays :
awe intend to support the Republican
cause, come what will; but we do not mo-
pose 10 blindly follow incompetent leaders or
be dictated to or influenced by men to act in
opposition to conscientious convictions of
what is right and proper. We are In favor
of allowing colored men every civil and
political right we enjoy ourselves, but in
doing so we do not consider that we Mace
ourselves under any obligations to put him
In office or to hold any intercourse with him
except we choose to do 80. This question of
liberty and equal rights is greatly nisun-
derstood BY both white and colored persons"
FREE STATE" ISDEEp.-The county
Of Amherst is decidedly q i" free State" az
after to-day there will not be single civil
officer in the county except the sheriff.
The old magistrates and constabies cease
their functions after to-day, under the order
of General stoneman, and the new ap-
pointees to these positions not having re-
ceived their official papers, cannot qualify.
has is reconstruction y in all its beauti-
full and magnificent proportions.-Lynch-
burg Ne,os, Eth. N'af
A DIABoLIcAL DEED.-We have hereto
fore mentioned that the passenger train on
the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad
ran Oft the track near Greenville on
Friday last, and that the engineer and fire.
man were badly scalded. The accident we
attributed to o broken rail but we learn
this was an error, some fend having driven
short piece of rail into cross tie with
the intention of throwing the train off.
The engineer, Mr.. McNab, saw the obstruc-
ton when within about seventy yards of it,
and promptly reversed the engine, but too
late to prevent the accident.
As heretofore stated, Mr.. McNab was
badly but not dangerously scalded. The
fireman, whose name we could not learn,
was horribly scalded, and fingered until
Sunday last, when death relieved him Of
his suffering. No other persons were in
jured; but the locomotive and three cars
were so badly broken up as to be worth
less. AS for as we have learned, the perpe-
traitor of the fendish deed, or the reason
for it, is not suspected.-Lynchburg Ne,os.
LARGE SALES OF LAND.-A citizen Of
this place has sold to gentleman from
Baltimore tract of land in Logan and ad-
jacent counties, in Western Virginia, con-
tanning $4,000 acres, for twenty-five cents
per acre. The land is Of the finest quality,
heavily wooded, and some Of it plain. A
short time since another citizen Of this
place disposed Of large tract Of land in
the same section, realizing some $50, O00.-
Alexandria Gazette.
Mr.. Christopher Hornsey, aged sixty-fve
years, was united in matrimony with Miss
Mary Adelaide Price daughter of DR..
Henry M. Price, president of the "Vene-
zuela Company,") aged only thirteen years,
on Tuesday morning last, in Fluyanna
county.-ScottSuilIe Register. -,0
A Two.LEGGED GoAT.-There is goat
belonging to man named O'Connor, living
near the canal basin, which, though born
with four legs, had the misfortune, when
very young, to lose two of them, and those
the hind two; but, strange to relate, the
mutilated animal, in short time after he
was bereft of Whist would seem to be the
most important parts of his locomotive ap-
paratus, learned to do without them, and
now roams the hills and valleys near his
owners house upon his two fore legs, ap-
parently, with as much ease as its compa-
Mons in the flock to which it belongs
Alexandria Gazette.