Alexandria Gazette

How Colored People are treated in Canada.
Training Day-A RIOT.—On Monday last the officers and men of the second battalion Lincoln Militia, met according to statute for muster and drill-there was a good attendance, and at a little after 10 the exercises commenced and were done up remarkably well for undiciplined men. The colored portion of the militia also turned out and acquitted themselves with much credit-in fact it was to them a gala day which they hailed with delight, that they might the better show they were ever ready to turn out at their Sovereign's call-and to protect her Crown and dignity against foreign foes as far as in them lay. There seemed to be but one feeling animating them all, and that was gratitude to the flag which had secured to them freedom in every quarter of the globe. The training over, each captain procured refreshments for his men, and after the refreshments were over, there followed a riot of a very serious nature. As to how that riot originated we will not pretend to say, as we know nothing further than hearsay: but dame rumour has it that while the whites and colored men were on drill some of the former hooted and blew at the latter, and that after it was over the officer in command highly complimented the colored men for their appearance and demeanor.—Some of the white men it is thought, were jealous of this, and again commenced blowing at the blacks, when one of them flung a stone at a white man, and this started the row-this took place near the negro village. The intruders were then driven off and they retired for a reinforcement. In the meantime another row commenced in a different part of the town, where it is said a white man hurled a negro from off the fence on which he was sitting; the negro here got some of his friends to assist him, and they followed, as they supposed, the offender, into Francis Stinson's tavern, but they mistook their man and fell upon persons not engaged in the affair at all, beating them badly. The negroes were soon repulsed from this, and they then retreated to their own village, where they assembled in full force to defend themselves in case of an attack. During this time some wily knave got up a report that two of the firemen had been killed by the blacks.—This bait took. for no sooner was the news heard in town than the firemen proceeded to the supposed scene of slaughter, and without making inquiry, it is said some of them commenced throwing stones at the negro domiciles. which was returned by the inmates, who had a quantity of missiles prepared for the occasion. In this way, we are told, the row was kept up until the colored people were obliged to take refuge in the woods-their houses were completely demolished, and the negro village is now one mass of ruin.-Canada Newspaper.