Alexandria Gazette

Letter from Prince William Co.

[Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]

An enthusiastic meeting was held at Trenis Store, in this county, day before yesterday, in the evening. Messrs. Nicol and Clark addressed the meeting.

Harvey Hyde, of whom I have made previous mention, gave a colored man a certificate the other day to register and vote in Loudoun county, and also said to the man "I want to give you a piece of advice--if you vote the "rebel" (meaning the Walker ticket) ticket, the rebels will have you in slavery again in less than two years." Mr. Hyde told a falsehood when he said that, and he knows it. He knows that the Southern people have no disposition to enslave the colored race and wouldn't own slaves if those who originated slavery were to reopen the African slave trade and try to sell them to us. But Hyde, although a "messenger of peace," so-called, is utterly at war with everything like correctness and truth.

There is to be a political meeting at Belleplain Mills, Stafford county, on next Saturday, commencing at 10 a. m. Colonel Evans, of Richmond, Charles Herndon, of Fredericksburg, and A. Nicol and J. F. Clark, of Prince William, are expected to be present and address the meeting. A large attendance and a "big time" are expected.