Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.


On Friday ming last Mike &. Hartman,
IT., son of Maj John A. Iarmai:, got into a
difficulty with John Criizer, about ,ome hay,
in Staurt0n. CritZcr attacked thurman In
he house and Harnian fred M him. without
effect. with pistol, when CrilZcr went out
and, getting stone, dared Harlnan out. lie
came out. fired two shots one taking effect III
Crlt2crs arm near tic wrist, and the other
striking him III the forehead and glanclng. The
magistrate did not arrest ilarmau. Crltz2r Is
up and walking about
The Lynchburg Virgirian says 1.-The con-
tnucd rains of the last week, and warm sun
shine which followed has greatly revived the
lrnopug spirits and hopes of the farmers
ihroughout the southwestern counties OF pir.
giiia. and frcmc many sections the cheering
news cones that fair ciop Of wheat is cxpec' ed,
polwi,l standing the severity of the winter and
the b.ckwarIness of the spring. The News
says = The oat crop in this section Is report
| ed TO 5e vcry backward, and the farmers do not
anticipate 4 full yield.
The Governor has appointed the following
Board Of Visitors to the Western Lunatic A>y-
lun Mcssrs. Thomas J. Niche N X. Trout,
II. u. Bel, Asher w Hartman, W. ~ Burke,
\ Is. Ligh,nnr an! Rohert llarnsbcrger. OF
Augusta; s. Ii. Mufli!, of llarrsonhurg; Fl.
| II. Robertson, Of Coying,on; W. i. Poague, Of
| i, xin~t3u; aud g. D. Fishburn, of Charlotes-
! Vile This Board is appointed TO serve three
years from the lst Of November 1873.
W. learn from the Richmond Enquirer that
! Metawy wounded in the late Richmond duel
| i: dong as well as could be expected, but he
suffers = great deal from rcsllcsSncss and lnah-
| liz 10 sleep comfortably, as is common IN cases
OF wounds like his. The probability of his con-
yalucucc in few weeks is very strong, and
there is 10 likelihood that he will be perna
nent!y famed.
:, cologcd man named Taylor, IA hand on
board schooner trading between Richmond
and New York, was found drowned in the
river at he former place. yesterday. It's sup
po cd he was murdered by another colored
sailor III whose company he was last seen and
between whom there had been some ill.feeling.
j dispatch to the Richmond Enquirer from
Chris,iansburg says -" Attorney General Tay-
lar is improving slowly though still confined to
his bed. His physicians are hopeful of his re-
covcry. lie issutfering principally from deblli
~ and prostration of the nervous system.
The Allan Line steamer ''Arcl' arrived at
Portsmouth from Liverpool on Monday, with
seven Immigrants for Virginia and twenty Ger
mans Tor The Vest, together with POO tons as
sorted cargo the bulk Of it salt, for Portsmouth.
! RTruKTED INTERVIEW WITH Col. MOsBY.
The following from correspondent OF the Chi
c:g0 Tribune, is. we presume, to be read with
some doubt or. At least, with some grains Of
allowance, IA to the accuracy Of the report
"Alaklg visit to Richmond last week,
fell in with Col. Alosby, the celebrated partisan
ranger. w!o was just returning to Narrenton,
| bis place Of abode, from visit to the White
! ii0n-c. where he had been soliciting offices Tor
bis friends. lie said that he had obtained
NOR" patronage for Fanquicr county than 1t had
even had before from all administrations. Ooe
Of lis las. prizes was the conSuiship to La Koch:
clio for Z young artist. Ofcourse Mosby favored
three terms lor Grant, and said that the South
did not want either local self government or State
rights, but protection against negro licentious
ness a"l c;lYpct-hag prohigacy, from the Fed
cral power. There is South Carolina, he
said, possessing local self-government and
State rights. but what protection have the bet
| ter proplr?' Mosby thought that Gilbert
Walker would 60 out Of public life at the end
| Of his term, never to recover position 10 VIr-
gaia He said that it was not true that Gen
cra G!aut had offered him the cfice of United
States Attorney, but that he had intimatcd that
he would live it to Colonel N1o>by, and at the
some time remarked, that to solicit the office
would get him evil inputaIion at home. Mos
by SAID that he had found it much harder
,rk to frht for Grant than to fight against
him. lie is supporter Of Tom SCOTS rail
way ambition III Virginia, and expressed the
| hope that Scott would gobblc up the Fredericks-
,,,,. ,,1 ,,ni-o oil biS oonnnofippS soufh.
,sard Nlosby said that he had worked for
Scott to the hest Of his ability. He was by no
means complimentary to Gen. Grants Radical
supporters, however, and said that ex- Governor
Wells was povsacuting him (Mo>by) long after
the war closed, and that the last vol!cy fired
vas one Year after the war was done when Yam
| kee colonel at Lccsburg ordered him to take off
blue ovcrcoat, which was the only cover he could
get for his nakedness, and had then ordered his
men to fire a vollcy at Mosby retreating. He
was so much harassed in this way that
his wife went first to johnson to get him
protection, and failing in this, obtained it
| from Grant as Secretary of War. 1t appeared
also that when Mr.. Stanton excepted hlosbDy
from the provisions of the parole OF Lees
army, Grant issued a special order extending
clcmcncy to him. Mosby says that he was
never out of uniform during all the war,
never malrcatcd his prisoners, and never came
inside the Union lines He thinks j. Il. b;
Stuart was the greatest master of tactics and
strategy that the war produced, being, unlike
Forrest and others, an educated military man,
who knew how to employ the cavalry arm in
conjunction with Infantry artillery, topogra-
ply, ETC. OF Harry Gilmore, Mosby speaks
quite nouchalantly, saying that be never knew
the gentleman. Of Sheridan he says the
same. Mosby is an entertaining man, with
iincly-cut, aquiline profile, and severe, blush
gray eye.
LorDovy COUNTY ITEMS. - From the Lou
loun Enterprise. June will come and ind
much Of the corn crop in Loudoun still unplan-
ted. Probably this may be for the best, as
much of the work done in planting will have
to be done over again. The cut worm is said