Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-09-27
Col. Mosby on Hughes, Record.

Correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer.
ALEXANDRIA, Sept al met Col. John
S. Mostly in this city last pight, and send you
the following extract of our conversation, which
may not be uninteres,ing
Reporter: Does the Fnuqucr Senatorial nom
ination give satisfaction?
Colonel Mosby: think it does.
keporter: Will he be elected over Bayley?
Colonel Mosby: think so.
Reporter: VIII Fauquer go for Bayley .--
Colonel MI shy: No; it will give 1910 MAORI
ty against him.
The conversation then turned on the canvass
in tho Southwest when Colonel Mosby said ::
You can tell kemper that in regard to Hughes
statement that he was Douglass Democra. in
1860, that he can on my authority state that it is
all damned lie
Reporter: You lived in the Southwest in 1860 ?
Colonel NJ Yes, at Bristol, and was one OF
the county canvassers for Washington county
on the Douglass ticket; DR.. Strother was the
other, and Judge Hopkins was the Senatorial
cNnvaSser.
R: Were there many Douglass men in the
county?
Colonel NJ: Not many; probably not over 30,
and could name every one of them. A man
was prosecuted then for going for Uougla lass like
not likely to forget it.
K; How about Hughes voting against Gov
ernor Floyd?
Colonel M He would have as soon cut off bis
arm! The ides of his voting tor Judge Camp
bell is preposterous. The records will show how
he voted
r: The records were I'll destroyed during the
war. What was Hughes doing ut that time?
Colonel u saw him frequently when he
was the President of the Virginia ana Tennessee
Railroad afterwards he edited the Dispstch.
K: Hughes says he WAS anti-secessionist
al A. ~ hr,t, FnIyn
of breaking up the Union, and wrote an lnham-
matory article for the Examiner, signed 4. w.
Il. Mr.. VIM. Guild, the editor, wrote an edito-
rial differing with their CORES ondent K. W Il.
R: Do you remember anything about the DEL
gates to Charleston?
ell were the delegates. They voted for Henry
A. Wise. favored Mr.. Hunter, and Hughes
wrote me, stating he wished to be Sent dele
gate from Marion where the Convention for our
district was heidi to support Mr. Hunter. L
could not go myself but sent delegate from
Bristol who voted for Hughes and Fayette Nc
Mullen IS Hunter men; but Wise was the
strongest in the district, and they were Defeated
K: You say ne was q straig ht.Out secesslonlst
in 1861. DO you remem Der sny incident Of the
canvass going to prove Thu
Colonel NJ He entertained VIM. Yancey at
his home who was the great champion Of Seces
sion. ! and James Fields, from Bristol, went to
his house to make an arrangement for 1anccy
to divide time with -.
K: Did 1ancey agree2
Colonel Nj: - did not arrive in time, but
spoke at uipht in Abingdon.
K: I understood in Abingdon that Hughes
was not Housekeeping but staying At the house
Of his friend, Governor Floyd, aid it was there
Yancey WIS entertained.
Colonel Mosby: 80 they try to get out of it
that way, do they? The facts are that it was
Hughes house, although it belonged to Govern
or Floyd, because he Floyd Was then Secreta"y
Of War, and living in Washington, and Hughes
lived in his house IN Abingdon.
K: You have no objection TO my publishing
this conversation in the Enquirer?
would also publish speech made by Il. Il.
Wells before the reconstruction committee q.
Washin gton in favor Of DISTINGUISHING the peo-
pie of Virginia, to show what kind OF man
Hughes supported for Governor OF Virginia in
1869.
Colonel NJ also informed me that Dick Carter
and Platt rad gone to New York to raise funds
to carry on the campaign, and that q. T. Beard
would address the people Of Fauquer next week
in opposition to Hughes. A. j. w.
A TERRIBLE MURDER The road leading
from Shadowsburg to the Bethlehem church
was, on Saturday evening last, the sceGe OF i
most brutal murder. A colurcd man named
Henry Evans. who was returning with an OK
team lTOlu TdrlDFlllt, Was dSsdlicu ny dDOliltl
colored man by the name Of Edmund Wilkes,
with fence rail, and beaten until his head wa
literally crushed to an almost shapelc>s mass
Not content with his work of death, the muir
derer stripped the body OF his victim. put his
cloths upon himself, aud continued TO beat the
body. - j: 70 make his bloody work dOubiy
sure.
When tie alteration frs, occurred, the cries
Of the murdered maa reached the ears OF Mr.
j. II Davis. at2u: half mile from whose
house the fatal dlei Was euacted He immu-
liately started IL in:erctp: the team. which he
turned back. aud followed on until lie camc III
sight of Wilkes. who brAudi>hsi 4 portinu OF
the rail still 10 his hands aud ordered him not TO
approach. Mr.. Davis. however, rushed upon
and secured him, with the assistance Of Mr.
Overton and others. aud on Sunday he was
conveyed to the jail in this village 1t WAS
with some difficulty that the colored people in
the vicinity Of the crime could be induced to
refrain from procuring rope and hanging HIM
on the spot.-Chdrlohe Gu-ette
R. P Faunteroy son Of DR.. }. F. FauDt!croy
of Petersburg has Dassea Il successful cyamna-