Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-06
Letter from Prince William Co.

day. and the business usually coming before
that tribuna! at it; May term was transacted,
such as granting licenses to ordinary keepers
and liquor merchants.
H. w. Cunningham, the ncw'y appointed
sheriff, qualified
Commissioners were appointed TO examine
and report upon the best site to erect bridges
on Broad Run and the Occoquan, necessity
for which has long been felt. -.
The Court also appropriated $50 to aid 10
| the building of bridge across Kettle hun, at
| the ford between Brentsville and Bristoe Sta
ton. two-thlrds of the amount necessary hav-
| ing been already provided by private subscrip-
ton. j. F. Clark and w. W. Thornton were
| appointed commissioners 10 let out the contract.
| Several administrators and guardians to
wards were also appointed by the Court.
But I've saved the most important feature
| for the last. From District No. l, in which
Harvey Hyde has been lately appointed mag
istrate there we're six colored men returned BY
| HYDE as Jurors for the ensuing year. trop1
District No. there have been five colored
men, chosen by the justice from that district
and from district No. 4 there have been three
colored selected. In this last district Mr..
Fairbanks, the justice who sent IN the white
names, it seems did not send IN the names OF
these blacks, but the latter were inserted py
some other person. =, -.
am not in political utilization With this
| Court or its out door conductors. With 1t IN
political character | am utterly at war,
and its action | shall not criticise, except
in so far as it has warped the performance OF
its judicial duties with political passion and
prejudice. :,
The laws Of this Commonwealth, when
| these magistrates swore, in my hearing, to ad.
minister, establish the juries, that are qualheo
| to act, upon an exclusively white basis. All
free white male citizens, who are twenty one
wears of age, and not over sixty, shall be liable
to serve as Jurors except as hereinafter ,proVl-
ded,' is the language Of the statute, and When
these magistrates say that blacks ARE OF sound
Judgment, and free from legal exception, ana
return them as competent, under the laws OF
this Commonwealth, to sit as jurors 10 the
Courts of this State they either act under the
| inspiration and teaching OF higher law, or II
| thew pretend to act under the statute OF If
GINA they are either ignorant OF Its REQUIRE
meuts, or they dom know the sanctlty OF their
official oaths. -,
Prince William county never did thls deeu:
The Radical party in the county have brougnt
| their produce from atar, and the llrst 10 SET
on foot such state of affairs here, and the
man who returned, as this article states SIX
colored men names as Jurors is OF outside ex-
traction. lie followed during the war IN Sher-
| mans army. and his son was lieutenant 10
colored company. After the war he bought o
piece of wilderness in this county. The whole
thing would be simply farce were It not That the
| interests Of us all are thus imperllled. Mr. a.
| +. Dunn and Mr.. Fairbanks, two justices, de-
serve credit for being able to lind white men 10
sufficient number in their districts to enable
Ia -. tbo 0f white nI0np
as the.law, which they conscientiously took an
oath 10 administer, cmphaticaly requires.
They deser We the thanks of our people, and
when men, in these days of political corruption,
are seen to stand firm in the discharge OF their
official duties, feel like saying OF them as did
Demetrius of Cato-"It must be q pleasure
to Jupiter himself to look down from Heaven
and see Cato amidst the ruins OF his country
preserving his integrity.
The names of the blacks from the first mag
isterial district selected as jurors are: Henry
| Cole, Daniel Cole, Albert Colo, Jesse Bates,
Robert and John Williams; from tho third dis
trict they are, Howson Pierce, ST., Hampton f.
Pierce, VIM Chinn, Alexander Harris, and YIN.
Lomax; from the fourth district, james Rob
inSou, Is. l.. Gaskins, and Joseph Thomas ;.
trict, but they we're added to the list by man
| W.lO CdluC W lDC COuuty oOIbN ~" ~S~'
and forgot his trunk.
am no longer ''rectus in curla," for the
Court has ceased to be intimately acquainted
with herself "God save the Commonwealth y"
TYRONE.
BRENsTvlILE May 4, 1869.
IMPORTANT LITIGATION were on
yesterday issued from the Circuit Court of the
Z. s. processes in six most important suits in
equity, as follows:
Hovey Terry, a citizen of Pennsylvania rs.
the President, Directors and Company OF the
Central Bank OF Virginia. Same rs. the Presi-
dent, Directors and Company of Monticello
Bank. Same as. the President, Directors and
COMPANY of Howardsville Bank. Same Us.
the President, Directors and Company of Bank
of Phippi. Same u.s. the President, Direo-
tors and Company of Bank of Scottsville
Same as. the President, Directors and Company
of Bank of Pittsylvania.
The process is made rcturnablc on the 25th
of this month, when motion will be made Tor
q regular Injunction, and the appointment OF
receiver 10 each of the cases. The aggregate
amount OF notes held by the plaintiff is $72, O0O
1t will be sought to subject the stockholders to
the value of their individual stock, in the failure
OF other assets.
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bills, it is alleged that the protection and juris
diction of the U. S. court is invoked specially,
because Of the non-existence of any legal State
courts that Confederate depositors have been
paid off, while the holders of original notes are
unpaid that each and all OF the said banks
loaned and advanced gold during the late war
to aid in the purposes Of the said war; that
the stockholders are responsible TO this extent
for all notes, registered or unregistered, issued
previous to such transactions
On each and all of these points the counsel
| for the plaintiff, j. III. Gimer 4 Son, express
the confident opinion that a recovery will be
had, and payment enforced to the full par value
of the outstanding notes, thought NAV be ne
cessary to resort to the private property of the
individual stockholders, though, as We under
stand Mr. Gilmer, not for other debts or liablli'
ties than the original no,es.
The public will look forward with no little
anxiety to the decisions in these cases, as the
issues involved are novel and the liabilities very
heavy.-Rich. Enquirer.
A LADY LAwYER.-At recent meeting of