Alexandria Gazette from Alexandria, Virginia • 2

ALEXANDRIA, VA7 PEIDAY, APRIL 21, 1871. The District election in the District of Columbia, in a Radical majority of about four thousand. Gen. Chinman was elected to Congress, and the Radicals have a large majority of the twenty-two delegates to the Territorial Legislature. Some ladies attempted to vote, and, on being refused, announced that they would carry their cases to court.

The election was comparatively peaceful throughout the District, but few incidents having occurred, requiring the interposition of the police. The result was not unexpected. Mr. Merrick had against him the entire colored vote, and nearly all the Government office holders. Total vote for Chipman 15,195 Total vote for Merrick 11.1U4 t'hipman's majority 4,091 The Legislative Assembly will cousist of fifteen Radicals and seven Democrats.

The Ku-Klux Bill, as it passed Congress is as stringent as when it was first reported to the House, and provides in brief for the trial of offences iull. S. courts, the administration of au oath to jurors that they arc not Ku-Klux sympathizers, (the test oath being dispensed with.) the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus till the end of the presidential election, and providing finally that all persons having knowledge of contemplated outrages, and who do not furnish information of the same, shall he deemed accessories before the fact, and liable as principals for damages to the outraged persons. The President signed the bill in five miuutes after receiving it. and said that immediately on his return from St.

Louis lie should proceed with its vigorous enforcement. It is thought that, having passed the KuKlux bill, the next move on the political chess board, in futherance of the almost avowed scheme of centralization and overthrow of State rights, will be what is called the "National School has been introduced into it at vougress uy noar, or Jinss. a jus mu Baltimore Gazette says, is "an extension of that lately defunct political machine, theFreedmen's Bureau. It proposes to levy a tax of fifty millions of dollars annually upon the States; to give the President the power of appointing the State Superintendents, and, indirectly, the School District Commissioners and teachers. Over their appointments the States, though taxed to pay the bills, would have no control.

The erection of school houses would be in the hands of the Federal Commissioners. They would choose the teachers, direct what books should be used, and where they, should be bought, and there is to be no Arbitration is a failure throughout the Pennsylvania anthracite regions, and the resumption will have (o be brought about in some other way than that now tried. Some predict that work will not be resumed until September, but it is hardly possible that the miners can hold out that long. Unless the men act independently of the "Working Men's Benevoleut will be much suffering and privation, aud bread riots and disturbances of every sort may be looked for. It is said that Vr, v.

vAnvljalnva nf cntun rn minny nrn hvinor extent, unu iiKvau-'uiug mui'ii We learn. from the last Shepherdstown (W. Register, that Judge Hall has decided that the act of the Legislature removing the county seat of Jefferson back to Charlestown. is unconstitutional. iug on new hands from New l'ork, composed of emigrants who have just arrived in this country Next probably will be the The address to the people of the U.

published in another column, is signed by all the Democratic and Conservative members of Congress. It is a strong and able document, and ought to be iead by the people of all parties. ft contains important truths expressed iu proper terms, with force and effect. Preside lit Grant, yesterday, issued a proclamation convening the Senate in special session on the loth of May. The President, accompanied by Senator Morton and Gen.

Howard, left Washington, yesterday, for St. Louis, where he will remain a week. The bill for compensation to Nicholas P. Trist for the negotiation of the treaty ofGauduloupe Hidalgo, finally passed Congress its adjournment, has been signed by the President, and is now a law. If.

as is said all the railroads around Paris are in the possession of the Versailles Government. it must be in their power to prevent supplies of provisions from reaching the city? aud the end must soon come. A very large, earnest, and enthusiastic mass meeting of Democrats and Conservatives was held in Baltimore last night, at which addresses were made by Messrs. Montgomery Blair, Thomas Swann, and Stevenson Archer. Horace Greeley has declined to act on the commit tee of reorganization of the Bcpublicau party in New York, aud Jackson S.

Schurtz has boon appointed instead. Mr. Forney delivered a speech at Washington last night, in which he renominated President Grant. This was it? he tiual vote in the House of Representatives ou the Ku Kius bill was to strict party Farnsworth not voting. Crevasses are reported on the Mississippi river, above New Orleans, of considerable i i.

i NEWS OF THE DAY. "ffi sJiowthc very age and body of (he Times." v' The conference committee on the Deficiency Appropriation bill struck out the House amendments in regard to the effect in U. S. Courts of pardons granted by President Lincoln under the Amnesty Proclamation of December, The law which debarsIhe holders of such pardons of standing in the Courts, therefore, still remains on the statute book. A resolution was recently introduced in the Massachusetts House of Representatives approving Mr.

Sumner's opposition to the annexation of Santo Domingo. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, which has reported it back to the House unfavorably, strongly approving the President's policy. Among the works on exhibition in the stu dio of Horatio Stone, in New York, are a marble bust and model of the statue of Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of blood which the medical profession have ordered for the Central Park a statue of the Beatrice of Dante an ideal bust of Corinne, and the designs for the National Telegraph Monument. At the annual communication last evening of the Maryland Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, Joseph Vansant was elected Right Worthy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge Maryland. Mr.

Vansant is the son of Josliua Vansant, the Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of the U. S. In the trial of If. C. Black, at Frederick, yesterday, speeches for the defence were made b.v Messrs.

F. J. Nelson, W. 31. Price and A.

K. Syester. To-day it is expected that Mr. Voorhees will close for the defence and Mr. Whitney for the State, and that the case will be gived to the jury.

At a meeting, yesterday, of the Baltimore branch of the Christian Moral Science Association a resolution was adopted for the appointment of a committee to correspond with the representatives of movements for a Christian union in other cities, and at their discretion to call another meeting. Winaus, the New York Kepublicau Assembly has been charged with corruption because he voted with Democrats, has published a card denouncing the charge as slanderous and utterly unfounded. The were eighteen nominations that failed of confirmation by the Senate yesterday. The nominees must therefore be reappointed during the recess or else they cannot enter upon the discharge of their duties. The members of the Grand Army of the Kcpublic.

in Baltimore, are making extensive preparations for the observance of Decoration Day 011 the 30th of May. At Philadelphia, yesterday, the representatives of the Graud Lodge of Knights of Pythias of Maryland, of which Gen. John A. Stciueris Chancellor, were admitted as delegates. The register of records in New York city re ports to the board of health thirty-two deaths from small-pox for the past week.

Concluding Scene in the House of Representatives. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, again asked unanimous consent to make his "personal explanation." Mr. Arthur, of Kentucky, objected, aud Mr. Butler appealed to the Mouse, when the rules were suspended by a vote ol' yeas lib, nays 22, and permission was given for the "explanation." Mr.

Butler recounted the scene between himself and Senator Davis, of Kentucky, on the floor of the Senate. He said he had expended every dollar he had captured or raised by taxation in New Orleans for the wounded and the poor, and in feeding the hungry, in sustaining hospitals and asylums, and in protecting the city from disease. He'Vemarked that if he was ever placed in the same position again, his little finger would fall heavier than his whole hand i had fallen before. He then defended inmseii from the charges of' mismanagement of the military asylum, in regard to which an investigating committee had already exonerated him. In this connection, Mr.

Butler said that he should never deem anything from the tongue or pen of Mr. Farnsworth a libel or a slander. Mr. Farnsworth replied at length, in the course of his remarks saying that he had not spoken to or recognized Butler for months. He charged that Butler, under protenee of furnishing homes for the poor, was engaged in speculations and gorging himself with the public treasure.

He charged that the gentleman, as treasurer of the asylum, had drawn from the treasury over four and a half millions of monej'. and had retained the use of over a million and a half of dollars, speculating upon the money of the government. Mr. Butler objected to these remarks as unparliamentary, and the chair ruled that they were not admissible. Mr.

Farnsworth. in continuation of his remarks, said that, in regard to the site of the asylum, Butler and his brother-in-law, Hildreth, had sworn to opposite statements in relation to the ownership of the property; and further, that if he (Mr. Farnswortn) had ''the treasurer of that asylum before any petit jury he would convict him of embezzlemnt and perjury. Mr. Bock, of Kentucky, defended Senator Davis, and in the course of his remarks said several members of the House had seen the gentleman from Illinois (Mr.

Farnsworth) put his fist under the nose of the member from (Mr "RnfWl and jinnlv enithets to him which lie could not repeat here, but which had caused? members to remark that they did not suppose there was a white man liviug who would take that, and the blacks in his State would not take it. Mr. Butler, alluding to Mr. Farnsworth, said is not a white to which the latter made some derisive reply. Matters were now getting exciting, and the members had gathered to the centre of the hall, in vicinity of the three gentlemen, when the time allotted Mr.

Beck expired, and so the matter dropped. Canal whole number of boats reported at the Collector's office iu Georgetown for the ending yesterday was 2SG, of which 204 were laden with coal. For the same period, four boats laden with grain, fifteen with stone, and one with hoop-poles arrived. The coal trade for the week was brisk. The following are the transactions for that period at the different coal offices iu Georgetown.

The Consolidated Coal Company received 540 tons, and shipped 5,020 tons. At Agnew's Dock tons were received, and 2.8O0 tons sent away. The Borden xMining and Coal Company received 2,090 tons, and shipped 2,71 tons. The receipts of the Maryland Coal Company were 8.0G1 tons, and 8,001 tons sent off. The Midlothian Coal Company was in receipt of 1,508 tons, and sent away 1,080 tons.

Total receipts lor the week, 20,859 tons; shipments, 20,288 tons. Thirty-nine boats left Cumberland Wednesday, carrying 4,275.17 tons of coal, as follows: NTame of Company. No. of Boats. Tons.

Consolidation. 11 1,202.14 Maryland, 1" 1.0S6.01 American, 0 059.09 Borden, 5 507.03 Hampshire and Baltimore. 3 331.14 George's Creek, 1 114.01 Midlothian, 3 314.15 Total 4,275,17 There was a heavy rain aud gale in Richmond. yesterday, which was general throughout that section of the State. UA GAZETTE AN AddresN of the Democratic of Congress.

To the people of. the United States: Our pre'sence aud official duties at Washington have enaBledllsTo become fully acquainted with the actions and desires of those who con- trol the Radioal party, and we feel called upon to utter a few words of warning against the 1 alarming strides theyhave made towards cen- tralization of power in the hands of Congress and the Executive. The time and attention of 1 the Radical leaders have been almost wholly 1 directed to devising such legislation as will, in 1 their view, best preserve their ascendancy, and 1 no regard for the wise restraints imposed by the Constitution has checked their reckless and desperate career. The President of the United States has been formally announced as a candidate for re-election. The declarations of his 1 selfish supporters have been re-echoed by a subsidized press, and the discipline of party has already made adhesion to his personal for- 1 tunes the supreme test of political fealty.

The partisan legislation to which we refer was de- creed and shaped in secret caucus where the 1 extremest counsels always dominated and was he snhsprvienf rrminritv if nnt with the intent, certainly with the effect to place in the hands of the President power to command his own renomination, and to emnloy the army, navy and militia at his sole discretion as a means of subserving his personal ambition. When the sad experience of the last two years, so disappointing to the hopes and generous confidence of the country, is considered, in connection with the violent utterances and rash purposes of those who control the President's policj', it is not surpising that the gravest apprehension for the future peace of the nation should be entertained. At a time when labor is depressed and every material interest is palsied by oppressive taxation, the public offices have been multiplied beyond all precedent to serve as instruments in the perpetuation of power. Partizanship is the only test applied to the distribution of this vast patronage. Honesty, fitness and moral werth are openly discarded in favor of truckling submission and dishonorable compliance.

Hence enormous defalcations and wide-snread corruption have followed as the natural consequence of this pernicious system. By the official report of the Secretary of the Treasury it appears that after the deduction of all proper credits many millions of dollars remain due from ex-Collectors of the Internal It. 1 iteveuue. ana mat no proper umgenee nas ever been used to collect them. Reforms in the revenue and fiscal systems, which all experience demonstrates to be necessary to a frugal administration of the Government, as well as a measure of relief to an over-burdened people, have been persistently postponed or wilfully neglected.

Congress now adjourns without having even attempted to reduce taxation or to repeal the glaring impositions by which industry is crushed and impoverished. The Treasury is overflowing, an excess of eighty millions of revenue is admitted, and yet instead of some measure of present relief, a barren and delusive resolution is passed by the Senate to consider the tariff and excise systems hereafter, as if the history of broken pledges and pretended remedies furnished any better assurance for future legislation than experience has done in the past. Shipbuilding and the carrying trade, once sources of national pride and prosperity, now languish under a crushing load of taxation, and nearly every other business interest is struggling without profit to maintain itself. Our agriculturists, while paying heavy taxes for what they consume, either to the Government i it or to monopolists, nnu ine prices lor ineir own products so reduced that houast labor is denied its just reward, and industry is prostrated by invidious discrimination. Nearly 200.000,000 acres of public lands, which should have been reserved for the benefit of the people, have been voted away to giant corporations, neglecting our soldiers anu enriching a handful of greedy speculators and lobbyists, who are thereby enabled to exercise a most dangerous and corrupting influence over State and Federal legislation.

If the career of these conspirators be not checked the downfall of free government is inevitable, and with it the elevation of a military dictator on the ruins of the Republic. Under the pretence of passing laws to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment, and for other purposes, Congress has conferred the most despotic power upon the Executive, and provided an official machinery by which the liberties of the people are menaced, and the sacred right of local self-government in the States is ignored, if not totally overthrown. Modelled upon to the sedition laws, so odious in history, they are at variance with all the sanctified theories of our institutions, and the construction given by these 1 Radical interpreters of the Fourteenth Amend- mcnt is, to use the language of an eminent 1 Senator, Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, an "annihilation of the States." Under the last en- 1 forcemcnt bill "the Executive may, in his discretion, thrust aside the (Government of any State, suspend the writ of habeas arrest its Governor, imprison or disperse the Legislature, silence its Judges, and trample down its people under the armed heel of his 1 troops. Nothing is left to the citizen or State 1 which can any longer be called a is changed into more sufferance.

Our hopes for redress arc in the calui good sense, the "sober second thought" of the 1 American people. We call upon them to be true to themselves ana to their posterity, and. disregarding party names and minor differences, to insist upon a decentralization of power and 1 the restriction of Federal authority within its just and proper limits, leaving to the States 1 that control over domestic affairs which is esseutial to their happiness and tranquility and 1 good government. Everything that malicious ingenuity could suggest has Been done to irritate the people of the Middle and Southern States. Gross and 1 exaggerated charges of disorder owe their ori- 1 gin'to the mischievous minds of potential managers in the Senate and House of Rcpresenta- tives.

to which the Executive has, we regret to say, lent his aid, and thus helped to inflame the popular feeling. In all this course of hos- tile legislation aud harsh treatment, no word of conciliation, of kind encouragement or fra- ternal friendship has ever been spoken by the President or by Congress to the people of the Southern States. They have been addressed only in the language of proscription. We earnestly entreat our fellow-citizens in all parts of the Union to spare no effort to main- tain peace and order, to carefully protect the rights of every citizen, to preserve kindly re- lations among all men, and to discountenance and discourage any violation of the rights of any portion of the people secured under the Constitution, or any of its amendments. Let us, in conclusion, earnestly beg of you not to aid the present attempts of Radical par- tisans to stir up strife in the land, to renew the issues of the war.

or to obstruct the return of peace and prosperity to the Southern States, because it is thus that they seek to divide the attention of the country from the corruption 1 and extravagence in their administration of 1 public affairs, and the dangerous audjprofligate attempts they are making towards the creation of a centralized military Government. In the five years of peace following the war the Radical Administrations have expended $1,200,000,000 for ordinary expenses alone, being within of the aggregate amount spent for the same purposes, in war and in peace, during the seventy-one years preceding Juue 30, including, in either case, The sum paid upon principal or interest of the public debt. It is trifling with the intelligence of the pen pie for the Radical leaders to pretend that this vast sum has been, honestly expended. Hundreds of millions of it have been wantonly squandered. expenditures of the Gov- 1 eminent for the fiscal year ending June 30, i 1 SO 1.were only while For precisely VIBGDfIA AD same list, army, navy, pensions and were expended during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1 Xo indignation can be too stern and no scorn too severe for the assertions by unscrupulousRadical leaders that the great Democratic party of the Union has or can have sympathy ivith disorders orviolcnce in any part of the country, or in the deprivation of any "man his rights under the Constitution, tt to protect and perpetuate the rights which every freeman cherishes, to revive in all hearts the feelings of friendship, affection and harmony which are the best guarantees of law and order, and to throw around the humblest citizen, wherever he may be, the protecting aegis of' those safe-1 guards of personal noerty which ihb iuuuuuiuhtal laws of the land assure, that we invoke the aid of all good men in the work of peace and reconciliation.

"We invite generous co-operation, irrespective of all former differences of opinion, so that the harsh voice of discord may be silenced that a new and dangerous sectional agitation may be checked; that the burdens of taxation, direct and indirect, may be reduced to the lowest point consistent with good faith to every just national obligation, and with a strictly economical administration of the Government. and that the States may be restored in their integrity and true relation to our Federal Union. VIRGINIA NEWS. The Valley Mining and Manufacturing Company was organized in Harrisonburg on Monday evening last. This Company proposes at once to commence active operations in working a mine of specular ore, out of which is manufactured a very fine metallic paint of different shades and colors, recently discovered in the North Mountain region, about 10 miles West of Harrisonburg.

Rush Burgess, U. S. internal revenue collector for the Richmond district, being accused by the IT. S. collector for that port, Jos.

M.Humphreys, of having bought his political influence with money, knocked the latter off the Richmond custom-house porch, on Wednesday. A combat ensued which was ended by the interference of the U. S. marshal. The woods 011 the Fort and Massauutteu Mountains have been 011 a lire for the last ten days.

The tire extended about eight or ten miles. In several instances the property along the foot of the mountains wa.s'eudaugered, but by prompt efforts of the people the lire was checked and little damage done. The Ladies' Memorial Association of Richmond are making arrangements lor laying the corner-stone of a monument in Oakwood Cemetery, ou Memorial day. The various Masonic Lodges will unite in the ceremonies of the occasion. and addvesscs will be delivered by Rev.

Drs. Iiogu and Edwards. David D. 31. Digge.s, land agent at Gordonsville has just sold to Thomas L.

Henley, of England. six hundred and forty-one acres ol'Jand, belonging to John P. Cowherd, known as "Cauaan," near Cordonsville, adjoining the lands of the Messrs. Easton, Brisco. (other Englishmen located by said Piggcs.) At a meeting of Kcpublicans from different parts of the State, held in Harrisonburg.

Tlios. Wood, of Charlottesville, was selected to act as a committee for Albemarle county to secure the organization of the Republicans in the different townships of that county. The American Hotel, in New Market. was sold at public auction, on Saturday, April In. for $1,028, Col.

C. T. Ferrall becoming the purchaser. The farmers in the valley arc generally engaged in planting corn. A large crop will be put out this season.

The colored people in Richmond, yesterday, celebrated the Fifteenth Amendment anniversary by a procession. John E. Kodgcrs, sheriff ol' King Goerge, has paid into, the State taxes for ISTo. KnIuHTS OF PvTiiiA.s.?11'orrespuudeuee the Alexandria Gazette. April that a brief notice ol' the proceedings of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias may prove interesting to some of your readers in town and country.

I send you this note. This is a young Order and has increased unparalleled in the history of secret organizations. Unfortunately fur its peace and harmony, there lias arisen a question during the past year, which has caused a scvinns division in some four or live iuris dictions. There appears to be at this time a Feeling to harmonize and conciliate all parties if it can be done without stultifying the Supreme Lodge or compromising its honor or dignity. Every rand Lodge has Representatives on the floor except Maryland.

The propriety of the admission of Representatives From certain jurisdictions is seriously questioned. It is said that favoritism and prejudice have unfortunately been allowed to enter licre and there are certain persons, in all associations, who have not the back-bone to permit themselves to he found in the minority. Some will vote their sentiments without waiting to see which side is the most popular, rhe Supreme Lodge has considered the Maryland contestants and both sets of claimants are ruled out; this is considered an act of irrcat injustice. An effort was made to reler the winile subject back to all the subordinate Lodges with power of holding a convention for the purpose of organizing a new Grand Lodge of Maryland under the immediate supervision of the Supreme Chancellor. 5J p.

have just commenced business in earnest; committees are now receiving much work. Terrible Saturday la-t. the 1.0th. Mr. J.

Melvin Moore, of this county, md Martin Hnnks, of Carroll, met other in the road about three miles from Max Meadows depot. Both of these gentlemen happened to he riding Stallions, and unsuspecting of any danger halted to engage in conversation. Suddenly the horses pitched ferociously at each other, throwing both riders from their seats and lighting over their I prostrate bodies. Mr. Moore was struck during the.

struggle and knocked into the corner if a fence near by, while Mr. Hanks was to unfortunate as to have his thigh fractured, md. being otherwise badly injured, he was unable to escape from the vicinity of the infuriated Quadrupeds. Mr. Moore's injuries are regarded as slight, while Mr.

Hanks, as stated lbove, is seriously hurt. Dr. R. Sanders, being called in, promptly appeared upon the 1 -cene, and afforded all necessary attention to unfortunate F.ntnOl'lSi'. of the Lost Cause tells now "Roe, of "our company." used to stammer fearfully, and while having a judicious ulmixture of prudence in his valor, was still jne of the.

best and pluckiest of' all. One if the guns had been captured the ed and the next morning the order came lown to recapture it if possible. It a earful task; and as we stood drawn up, iwaitiug the word to move forward at the louble quick, we fell instinctively that many if us would stay around the spot where the est gun was. It scarcely seemed Worth the! price we were about to pay. and doe seemed to be more thoroughly impressed this idea than any one else.

Suddenly an dea entered his mind and stepping out of the auks, he stuttered, wildly, as he always did ivhen excited; "I say, kick-kick Captain. 1-1-1 et us gig-git get up a s-s-s-s-subscription md pip-pip pay for the damned old gnu. A.rchiI/!(/>: J'ljjrr. 'VERTISERf Virginia Claims. The following is a partial list of persons iu Virginia, who have so far filed claims before the Southern Claims Commis.siouon,the ground that they were loyal adherents of the cause and the Government of the U.

S. during the and that they were the owners of stores and supplies taken orfurnished in the State for the use of the Union army (jeorge R. Adams, Alexandria county A. W. F.

Carlin, Carl in Springs Richard Southern, Poplar Grove Robert L. Martin, Realton Lewis Bailey, Bailey's Roads Hugh Throckmorton, Upton's Hill Richard H. Bryan, Falmouth Samuel Feiiton. Fairfax count.v Richard Cruikshank, John (J Rrien, Langley Sir Lanslet Kamer, Areola Josiah I Millard, Vienna Harriet Tennent, Prospect Hill lliram Walter Read, Falls Church David L. Finch, Vienna Juhu Gilbert, Fairfax county James M.

Walker, Waterford Oliver Hodges, Langley Tlios. J. Pecock. Providence; Hiram L. Amiss, Culpeper county; Win.

H. Yaughau.Frederick Joseph Baldwin, Unison Gilbert Vandenberg, Alexandria county Theodore Bodinc, (administratrix of,) Manassas; George W. Mitchell Manassas Morris Montgomery, Fredericksburg Benjamin Pitts, Portsmou no. Febrey, Falls Church Fannie A. James Larry, Cold Harbor Pierce Butler, Fairfax county John Kelley, Norfolk; James Nokes, Nokesville Amos'Young, Fairfax county Benj.

J. Grubb, Lovettsvillc Louden Mitchell and Segismund Dangerfield, Berryville Jno. C. Chandler, no. Salmon, Peter Owou, J.

Bornar, Mt. Laurel; John Butler, Guilford Canada, Clover Deport R. Jennings, Whiteville Sallie A. Nichols, Scotlsburg Susan A. Moorefield.

Halifax James R. Wilborne, Thomas V. lliekmau. Charles F. Conner, Clover Depot Miss G.

A. S. Hooe, Fredericksburg; Mary Jane Little. Winchester James Barker, Harrisonburg; Charles F. Freuch, Alexandria county LeviParker, Seth and Cyrus Osboru, Falls Church Lewis P.

Griffith, Lewinsburg Geo. S. Cox. Fairfax county Lyman Broughton, Burke's Qfnfinn (l.xnnro () Wonder. Alexandria I county Edward Steers.

Alexandria Jane Crump, Fairfax county Samuel JO. Nichols, Joseph Nichols, Philomont; Oliver Cox, Nelson Conner, Alexaudria county Lydia Iloff, Hannah Updike. Daniel J. Updike, Washington Willis Madden, Stcphensburg Peyton. Phcbe A.

E. Dear. Washington; Jonathan Carpenter; Woodville, Smith H. Rixey. Culpeper; John W.

Bulman, Little Plymouth Hugh L. Gallagher, Wayuesburo Daniel Massey, Taylor Thornton, Berryville. Terrible Murder in Smrkveport. The correspondent of the New OrleansRepublicau writes from Shrcveport, under date of April as follows "Our usually quiet, very orderly and law abiding city was thrown into great excitement to-day, about dinner time, by the discharge oi'two shots from a double-barrelled shot-gun in the hands uf a wild young man, eighteen years of age, named Martin TalIcy, on Market street, about a square from the Brooks House. Coming IVoiu an alley, he approached very near without speaJcing a word to his victim.

Mr. Julias O'Neil. of Bossier parish, and fired one barrel into his killing him instantly hut alter Mr. 0 Neil fell, put the gun to his head and discharged the other barrel, charged with buckshot, completely tearing his head to By the first shot he, it is feared, also mortally wounded Dr. S.

Fisher, who was conversing with Mr. O'Neil. blowing out one eye and horribly disfiguring him. Fisher has recently moved here and is not as well known as Mr. O'Neil, who was about forty-live years of age and long a resident of the neighboring parish.

Mr. O'Neil last August, near the same place where he was murdered, killed the father of his murderer in a gambling difficulty, and tints' retribution has come to hiui. Young 1 i a 1 1'allcy attempted to escape, out was capturou at once and conveyed to prison. It is a sad event, viewed from any point, cither as it affects families of the parties or the community especially is it sad in regard to Dr. Fisher, who was innocent in every respect.

Newark. and New York. Bay "'Central Construction Company of Iowa, has taken hold of the Newark and New York Bay Ship Canal project, and intends to commence its construction within a few weeks. Many are unaware of the stupendous character of the undertaking. The canal is to be loot enough to float the largest merchantmen, and will commence at Dawson street, Newark, and follow the line laid out for Thomas street direetly to Newark Bay.

Commissioners are now engage in the work of assessing damages for opening Bay avenue and South street which were ordered to he opened by the Common Council of Newark. KM) feet wide from Dawson street to Newark Bay, and these two streets will furnish each, 100 feet for business purposes on either side of the canal. The probable cost of the canal will be $3,283,420. The charter empowers the company to collect tolls on all boats and vessels passing through said canal, and for towing all boats and vessels upon the same and to charge at pleasure such tolls. The work of excavation to Newark Bay will not probably require more than a year, but cutting through Bergen Point, between Newark Bay and New York Bay, will be a work of great magnitude, and will probably require at least two years to complete.

Ibrahl. Tiik Tf.i.khraph.?The line of telegraph connecting this place with the outside world, was completed and the batteries and wires put to use 011 Wednesday afternoon last. This line, const meted bv the Virginia Telegraph Com- puny, has its terminus at Manassas at which point connections are made.as stated, with every point in which this wonderful invention is employed. This line was built under the personal supervision and care of Ceo. Bingham, of New York, an intelligent gentleman thoroughly acquainted with tonography in all its departments.

It has been completed with dispatch, the whole line of 112 miles, having been completed within the short space ol less than six weeks. The President of the Company, is Robert Beverley, of Plains Station. Fauquier the Secretary and Treasurer, Ceo. C. Weddcrburn, of Alex andria.

The enterprise lias been urged to completion under numerous, and imposing imj pediments and difficulties by Messrs. W'odderI burn and Bingham with activity and hi k. Five German gentlemen, under the Presideiiey of Herman Schmidt, have bceu iurorporated as a company here for the manufacture of ieo. The capital stock is to be not less than more than and the company is to hold not more than liJU acres of land in tlie country nor more than aerc.s in the city. The directors are well to do.

and j.ractieal business men. and ought to know what they are ahout. The ahuudanee of ice gathered around Kichmond last season, and the great stock at the -North makes it. it seems to me. a perilous undertaking.

We pay i cts. for ice, but they say they can make it at 1 of a et. a pound. Ijvttrr from Baptist Baptist Ceneral Association of Virginia will meet in JVtershurg May 1 sT 1. The Baptist State Convention of Virginia (colored) will meet in Lynchburg May loth.

1S7I. The Baptist Convention will meet in Louis Mo. May lltli 1871. The Aiiieriean Baptist Society will hold its annual; meeting in Chicago, 111., May Lvnciiklrg Danyii.le meeting of the Directors of this road completed the.business before- them and adjourned yesterday evening. Contracts were awarded for the building of the road.as follows: The section from Lynchburg to Staunton river, to Co.

The section frOm Danville to a point twenty miles north, to John Lyons Co. The section from Staunton river the remainder of the distance, with the exception of seven miles not determined upon, to Braxton, Mason Co. We learn that several route have been sur veyed for the seven miles not yet decided upon, and that the principal difficulty in locating it is owing to the amount of land damages claimed. Republican. An Exciting ago, a collection was about to be taken up in one of our churches and, in the absence of one of the regular collectors, a trisky young man liic cnvrioAC ivhlltlh id 1 (Ill CU A1IO rtl IV.t.1 (U1VI uuuuwu Ml hut with great industry and success.

When lie got near the door, he was about to go out. with tlie hat full of money ou his head, wheu the minister said, solemnly, man, if you leave here with that money, you'll be damned." The young man, however, left in a hurry, and as he shut the door behind him, a worthy old brother, with a voice on F. sharp, who had put a dollar in the hat, piped out to the minister," "Well, if he aint gone with it I'll he Recmd. Thk Bond bond cases in which this city is interested, to the extent of were decided on Tuesday, bv the Court of Ap peals, in favor of the city. This suit was for bonds issued by our corporate authorities in and purchased by sundry parties, being paid for in Confederate currency at the rate of about per cent premium.

These bonds arthow held, we believe, by Messrs. .1. F. Slaughter and Alexander Pamplin, of Lynchbur? I.Vl 1 VT 11 1.1 J'iUWmu ui D.IUIJJIUII.-. uu i.iuu? Karnes, of Tennessee.

The case was argued before the Court of Appeals, for the city, by Judge Robert Ould. do not now remeiu berwlio represented the XrlCs. Stafford land sales have recently been made in this county, bringing very good prices, Mrs. tract of acres for $10,000, to a gentleman in Alexan dria. Mrs.

Frances Towson disposed of 1 acres ling on Aquia Creek for to Mr. Taylor of Alexandria, also. The wheat looks well though rain is greatly needed. For the Legislature, candidates are multiply ing, as we hear that Col. II.

Browne, Geo. V. Moncure, Dr. Ball, and Mr. Montague arc in the field.

T. T. Gaskins is also named for the same IL rald. Holts Steam stealing seems to be the fashion of the day. An unusually large number of instances have been lately recorded in our exchanges.

It seems to he confined to no locality, but to be of wide spread prevalence In this State it has broken out with considerable violence. People not only value their horses as property, but they feel an attachment tln? Inn-si- thief is regarded with peculiar bitterness. Our fanners, says the I Richmond Whig, can less afford to lo.se their horses now than ever before, and nothing exa.perates them mure than to know that horse thieves are ubout in their neighborhoods. Fred Herald. Who Did South is indebted ex to General Grant for the present effort in Congress to destroy the authority of the States over their own territory and put heSouth under a military despotism.

Congress had turned its back upon all unfriendly legisla tion, had even kicked Butler's infamous bill under the table, and was ready to adjourn and leave the country in peace, when the "Let-u-i have-Peace' President sent in a message manding a renewal of the war upon the South It important to bear this fact in mind burn A Profit Apple apple ithe great standard among fruits as wheat iamong grains, or potatoes among vegetables. Some localities, ofeour.se. give better return than others, hut everywhere the apple is loot ed to lor a crop as is the potato, aud much on the cultivator's skill in managing and selecting varieties as to the amount of returns. Niagara county, N. is put down this year at 180,000 barrels, and in that county one tract of apple orchard produced tor sale Goo barrels of fruit, which sold at per barrel.

One tree of Khode Island Greenings produced twenty- six barrels. U.mjali.ant Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune. speaking of Miss Vennie Ileum's statue of jfcjve, says: Miss Reams'idea is correct. we can account for Adam's imprudent mar riage hy the fact only that he had no second choice." in St. Church, Richmond, on "Wed- nesduy, April bv Rev.

J. Peterkin, la. IJ Dr. J. SUMMSRFlfcLD CONRAD, of Ruin more, to VIRGINIA daughter of th? Into S.

S. Kind, of Georgetown, D. C. SEA LED PROPOSALS will be received b.v the of the Gorman Co-operative Building Association, until the 21st instant, foi one row houses be build on Columbia street, north of Cameron street. Each bram-h of trade to be sepurute, as follows: I.

Excavating and digging wells 2. Brick work and a. Carpenters work 4. Mill i Tin roof.gultering Plastering i 7. Painting i this litting 2 Plumbing I 10.

Iron heads Jcsills i Plans and specifications for the above buil l- ingfl can be seen at all hours of the day, at tie- othce of Emanuel ranch, lower end of King Bonds will be required for the faithful an punctual fulfillment of contract. The time for the receipt of proposals cx 3 tended until WEDNESDAY, the '20th instant. at p. m. .1.

SCHNEIDER, 3 up Secretary, R-VJ. Hy L. I). Harrison. Auctioneer.

Extensive sale of household AND KITCHEN FU RN ITU be sobl, on TU ESDA April 25th, 1871. at tie- residence of the late Samuel Hurnes, on Wolfe I stieet, between Pitt and St. a large HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FUKNI I TURE, consisting of Bedsteads, Feather Bed-. Sofas, (rarpets, Cooking ami other Stoves, Am. Also, a complete set of C.YKPKNI EKS i.

iO'-iJurv nun; wiiinmi i oan "ii III" I "til April, Gold Hunting Ca- WATCH, having a fewd-nt in the upper The linder will receive tin- above reward leaving it al X. LINDSKY'S Grocery Store. i Union np IS lw KING. Cl'TTI NG AND KIT TING and DHKSS TKI I NGS. erv description, at I ('.

L. SIMPSON'S. No. I'Sj King street, 2" Near Q1 CAKKK CITY SHIRTS! 1 QL'AKKR CITY SHIRTS' Call he had onlv at I CHAS. W.

GRKKN'S. Hp -I T'i King -ti'fi't. "TTEUY SCPKRIoK old SCOTCH Will- Y. ju-l received and for sale by up 1" GKC. Me SoN.