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Latest news by mail.the Alexandria riot.
This affair was not so important as the telegrams would have induced the public to believe.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun gives the particulars as follows:
"Christmas day in Alexandria was spent in a very noisy, and, in some respects, riotous manner.
A disturbance, originating in the alleged defiant bearing of the negroes, a squad of whom, early in the day, paraded the streets with drums and arms, shouting and asserting their equality with the whites, aroused the indignation of one or two parties of young men of the town.
A fight with the negroes was the result.
One bar-room, frequented only by colored people, was torn out by the whites, and a pretty smart skirmish was fought, in which fire-arms were used on both sides, and some very hard blows administered.
Several persons were wounded by fire-arms and beaten, and two negroes are reported killed.
A very goodly number on both sides have bruised faces, and bear other ev
Riot in Portsmouth.
--Our sister city, Portsmouth, was the scene of a serious riot on Christmas morning about 10 o'clock. The fight commenced on the corner of Crawford and High streets, between a lot of white boys and the colored people.
Stones, brick and missiles darkened the air, and several persons were seriously injured.
After awhile, the row became general, and fire-arms were used freely.
A boy by the name of Richard Donegan was shot through the left breast with a pistol ball, and a man named Duffy was shot in the arm. Officer Harrison, of the police, was hit with a brick, and a negro man, said to be the ringleader in the riot on the part of the colored people, was shot severely in several places.
At last accounts there was no hope for his recovery.
The riot was suppressed by the military and city police.
A number of colored men were arrested by the military for persistently refusing to leave the street.
It was rumored that several persons were killed, but we could n
"Baby" Bates, the biggest man out of doors, left this place for his home, on Big Sandy, on Wednesday last.
He is twenty-eight years old, seven feet high, weighs three hundred and fourteen pounds, and has a foot fourteen inches long.
He was in the Confederate service during the war, and although as easy to hit as a barn door, escaped, we believe, without a scratch.--Virginian.
Abingdon, Va.
The child of Watchman Miller was accidentally shot on Christmas morning, by a little negro boy, with a pistol.
The little darkey was almost frightened to death at the horror of being hung.
The wound of the child, though serious, is not considered dangerous.--Norfolk Day Book.
William H. McCafferty, Esq., Superintendent of the Orange and Alexandria railroad, has resigned.
It is also said that the road on the part of the State of Virginia is to pass into new hands.
General Curtis addressed the freedmen of Lynchburg last Sunday night, giving them the usual good advice which th
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The railroad projected by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company in the Valley of Virginia . (search)
The riot in Alexandria. Washington, December 27.
--The enemies of the colored people yesterday circulated a report of a negro riot in Alexandria on Christmas day.
The exact facts have now been ascertained, and it proves that a number of ex-Confederate soldiers paraded the streets, hurrahing for Jeff. Davis and General Lee.
They then proceeded to attack such negroes as came in their way, and, but for the intervention of the military, scenes similar to those in the New York drafting riot would have ensued.
[Two other dispatches concerning this riot accompanied the above; but inasmuch as we have the facts already in our news column, as given by the Washington papers, we deem it unnecessary to re-publish the sensation stories of the correspondent of the New York Tribune .]
Benefit at the Mobile theatre for Mrs. Stonewall Jackson.
--General De Russy having given permission, the people of Mobile caused a performance at the theatre in that place, on Christmas night, for the benefit of the widow of "Stonewall Jackson."