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Of legislative logrolling, individual appointments,
&c., but it will secure to the several Circuits eff
ciens, Industrious, and polite Judges.
The Justices, and Constables should receive
their appointments by majority of the voters in
their respective districtsin the several counties,
and for short term
Biennial sessions of the Legislature is also a
popular measure of reform. tending to diminish
the expenses of the government very much, as it
will also secure the services of able men in the
Legislature, and avoid much of the superfuons
legislation incident to annual sessions.
The permanency ofeur institutions, and all our
dearest interests depending upon the morality and
intelligence of the masses ofthe people, many Of
our best and wsest citizens are gerry much in favor
of ENGRAVING upon the new Constitution some
feasible Primary School System, which may be
commensurate with the necessity of general
diffusion of knowledge, and comport with the dig
nifty and primitive glory Of this Commonwealth
Yours, Respectfully,
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ITelepraphed for the Baltimore Sun.

WASHINGTON, July 23-9, T. M.
The Compromise Gaining St'ength-7hc 1eras
Amendment---A Compromise Caucus--Dfr.
Pearccs Successor, &c.
The compromise bill is gaining strength, and
the ultras are afraid of its passage. It is be-
leved it will pass, as there is better feeling in
regard to Mr.. Foote's amendment. The North
er Union men will do anything almost to OBJ
ge Mr. Foote The Texas amendment refer
ring the boundary dispute to commissioners, is
sure to carry. If these two amendments carry,
the bill will pass. If the South oppose them,
separate bills will pass by the aid OF Northern
Wing votes.
There is a CAUCUS of the friends of the bill
called for tomorrow, at half-past A. M.
Auditor Smith and the Commissioners OF Pub
lie Buildings, were to-day both confirmed
denomination has been made for MIR. Pearce's
SUCCESSOR Mr.. Bates it is rumored will not ac'
cept. This is doubtful, but he will be here to-
morrow.
Mr.. Pearce's successor will be taken from a
cotton State. n.
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THE DISCUSSION ON MONDAY.

We deem it only necessary to say that the
RockbIidge and Highland candidates for the
Convention, Mess. LETcHER, DAVID f. MooRE,
DOYLE, and STEPHENSON, addressed the people
of Augusta, on Monday last, and ''defned their
positions on the great questions of Constitution
al Reform. The speakers made a very favorable
impression upon our people, all being thorough
reformers, and that is what our citizens like to
hear--they want no halfway work this time
while Mr.. DOYLE claims to be thorough re-
former, the friends of Mess Niche and STUART
are warmly urging his election, and Mr.. DOYLE,
it is said, will support the eonse,uatige or anti
reformers, and is in correspondence with one of
them. We don't understand this-the thorough
reformers don't understand it, and we shall be
very much deceived il they suffer their 'ticket''
to be split. The thorough reformers of Augusta
are perfectly satisfied with SHEFFEY; FuLTz;
Moore, LETeHER and STEPHENsoN-they do
not mean to change the ticket and it is idle to
attempt to draw them off to the support OF ano-
ther candidate and by that means defeat their
own ticket. Take care, reformers, a false step
now may prove fatal to the success Of the cause
of reform-stanl by the tticket'-the reformers
of Augusta will do their duty. viii Roekbridge
ard Highland do likewise If so, the result is
certain. From all parts Of the county we have
the most cheering accounts and confidently an
ticipate glorious triumph.
We can hardly imagine how Messrs. NICHE
and STUART could complain of not being invit-
ed to speak on Monday. When they went to
Rock bridge the candidates for that county cour-
teously gave way to the Augusta candidates. and
one would have supposed the same courtesy
would be extended to the Rock bridge candidates
without complaining
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COMMUNICATION.
For THE VINDICAToR.

FOX HE INDICATOR.
Mr. Editor Il have never been able to d.
vine how it is that, in this land of liberty free
dom of thought of the press and OF speech, that
there is still so much servile fawning manifest
ed by some of our citizens who claim the name
of Americans. Parasites of some would be-
great name, whose highest glory and ambition
is to perform their oath of fealty and homage to
their liege lord "openly and humbly kneeling,
being uneirt uncovered, and holding up their
hands both together between those of the lord,
who sits before them and there protesting. that
they do become his men, from that day forth, OF
life and limb and earthly honor; and then they
receive kiss from their lord" What transports
of Joy they feel in being honored! "And there
in the vassals swore to bear faith to his sovereign
lord, in opposition to all men; without any saw
ing or exception" Some of them remind me
very much of the little minnows which watch
with so much eagerness the vibrations of the
long suckers tail, in whose wake they love to
follow and catch the crumbs which escape his
gulping mouth. Not more than a few days
stree, heard one of these small satellites
express his willingness TO enirust his larger
planet with all his sovereignty, without any res
possibility, to do whatever in his discretion he
might think fit Whoever heard of such man
worships Where before did you see the sacrii-
cial FIRE of liberty kindled upon altar to man 2
Never in America. A monstrous idea What Z?
A man surrender TO another, his right, to think
and decide for him on things peculiarly within
his own sovereignty! Did Benjamin Franklin,
the printer-boy, humble and friendless as he
was, presume to think and act for himself, or
did he relnquish those sacred rights to some sa-
pient lord Of high-sounding name? No. He
felt 'that all men are by nature equally free and
independent" A nation of Patriots were born
breathing the same air of liberty. They were
not deferred from thinking and acting for them
selves by any leger influence or penny patronage
If men have been tied down by such considera-
tons from dire necessity,now is the time to strike
for freedom. And when once obtained must
be watched with Argus eyes for,the well known
tendency of power is to steal from the many into
the hands of the few. In the Revolution the ex-
clamation was elderly or Death" Now it
should be principles and not men. Anti-Repub-
licanism is making lis last desperate death strlg-
gle in the persons of few old Federal stocks
and the young shoots which are sprnging up
around the old hollow stumps; but they have
not deep roots, and will be Frustrated level
with the ground by the great and swelling tide
of public opinion.
A FREEMAN.
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A s,PARTIZAN" PRESIDENT.

The Washington correspondent of the N. Y,
Tribune says:
''My word for it, if the whg party in the State
of New York and throughout the Union is not
stronger than it has ever been before, the fault
will not be at the doer Of Mr.. Fimare''
To the same effect speaks the Republic of the
new Cabinet
This it will be conceded Ivy all, is Cabinet of
great ability, of large experience in the conduct
of public affairs, thoroughly Wing in its character,
and justly entitled to the confidence of the Wing
party and OF the country. The gentlemen COM
posing it will undoubtedly have many difficulties
to contend with, and encounter. almost from the
moment oftheir entrance into office, fierce, de.
termined , and powerful opposition. That they
will prove themselves equal to the occasion, their
unquestioned qualifications and known devotion to
Whig principles give confident hope and assu-
rance.
Here, then. falls the nimsy veil of emo party
lsm''so cunningly used by the Wings in 1S48.-
We were told that, by the election of Taylor and
Fillmore, we should put down parties, and should
elect "President of the people, and not of party.
The Wings now jump } i'm Crow, and boast that
they have lull-booded partiZan President, who
goes in for "making tho Wing party stronger"
Their "no- partyism" of S4S has not only result
ed in strictly par'izan adminisration--bu in
sectional array fparties which endangss the very
existence Of the Union.
We are glad, even at this late day, to see the
humbug trick of "no party" repudiated by the
authors.-Enqatirer.
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GRAYsoN HUNG BY A MOB AT CULPEpER Z. n.
We learn that the negro who murdered Mil
Ter was hung on Wednesday at O'Clock p. M.
by mob o! about zoos Grayson had been
twice granted a new trial by the court OF APP
peals, and the case had been ordered to the Cir
cult Court OF this County. But lawless mob
have taken it upon themselves to do this awful
thing. We learn that the magistrates offered
but feeble resistance; and the Jail was broken
open on the refusal of the jailor to yield the
keys. They bore the negro protesting limo,
to the last) TO grove near by and fixed a rail
across from one tree to another: they placed
him on horse, adjusted the rope and drove
the horse from under him. His ieet still touch
ing the ground one of the mob got up the tree
and lifted the rail to a higher limb on his
shoulder. He was cut down and remained ly-
ing on the spot until 10 o'clock yesterday
This whole affair would read better amongst
the Records of the Spanish Inquisition, or OF the
Feudal age of Britain, than by the light OF the
full noon of the 10Th Century.
*Oher reports say 7oo.
Flag Of '9s, July 20.
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o. To the malicious assault made upon us by
a writer in Monterey, over his own signature,
and published in the last Spectator, the organ
of the ant-reform party; we cannot deign re-
ply. In the estimation of honorable men, the
writer has done himself more harm than US, as
his production has been universally condemned;
this being so We will not add to his suffering,
though we might tell the people that this is the
same gentleman who was so badly beaten as a
candidate for the Legislature, last Spring-we
might tell the people that the most of the votes
he then received were from the county OF Pen
dleton, las we have UNDERSTOOD and not in the
county of Highland-we might tell the people
that he then endcavoured to persuade the Dem
ocras of Highland to support him, by telling
ahem if they would vote for him he would vote
for Democratic U. S. Senator, IF eleeted-we
might tell the people of his efforts lately in a
meeting in Pendleton (Which is not part OF the
District) to nominate candidate for the Con-
vention-we might tell the people that tho inn
preston was that he thought he might get the
nomination himself, if his proposition for Dr.
| NEWMAN and Mr. HINER 10th to withdraw had
met with any favor--we might tell the people
that Rumor says he was horough-going re-
former until he discovered there was no hope
for his nomination, when he set himself to work
to defeat the nomination of STEPHENSON, and by
ursnga District Convention would have dis
franchised the county of Highland, we nigh
tell the people these and other things i'll the pc
litica history of this nondeseript, but the "gamf
is not worth the CANDLE" and the Card has toll
enough. We ''simply' add that our account o
the Highland meeting is substantially correct
and will be corroborated by many witnesses, thu
special pleading of this defeated aspi'ant ant
.briehess attorney" to the contrary notwith
standing.
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THE NEW CABINET.
xNL L o'th
cotton State

President Fillmore sent into the Senate on
Saturday, the following nominations, which
were Immediately acted upon, and all the gen.
tlemen confirmed for the offices attached to
their names:
DANIEL WEBSTER, of Mass, Secretary OF State;
Tnos. CoRw1N, of Ohio, Secretary OF treasury
VIM. A. GRAHAM, OF North Carolina, Secretary
of the Navy
DAVID BATES, of Missouri, Secretary of War. :.
NATHAN X. HALL, of N. Y Postmaster General
JAS. A. PEARcE, OF Md, Secretary of Interior j.,
JOHN ]. CR1TTENDEN, of KY Attorney General
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

The papers are filled with accounts of disasters
by storm and flood on land, and by winds and
waves at sea. The Countess Ossoli, who with
her husband and son and five others was lost in
the wreck of the Elizabeth from Leghorn, is the
late Margaret Fuller, the aulhoress and brilliant
European correspondent Of the New York Tribune.
She was in Rome when the Revolution broke
out. and transmitted not only most captivating
sketches of the fine arts and eminent American
artists in Italy, but vivid pictures of the liberal
movements which had her deepest sympathy
She married in Italy and had one child. 1t is a
singular and melancholy coincidence, that Pow,
ers' fine statue of Calhoun, and one of the most
brilliant delineators of the great artist, should
while the living are lost, there is some hope that
the statue Of Calhoun may be saved, as the lower
timbers of the brig may hold together and the
statue was carefully packed at the bottom of the
vessel.-Enquirer.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

''Great age" this we live in. People don't
laugh -a-days-they indulge in meriment.
They don't walk-.hey promenade. They new
er eat any food-they masticate it. Nobody
has tooth pulled-it is extracted. No one
has his feelings hur:--lhey are lacerated.
Young men do not go a counting, they pay atten-
ton TO the young ladies. 1t is vulgar 10 visit
any one you mnst only make call. OF
course you would not think of going TO bed
you would retire to rest Nor would you build
house-you erect it. So we go!
" Congress has passed bill granting the
frank ing privilege 20 the widow of the late
President Taylor; also resolution oprint 100000
copies of the proceedings of the two Houses,
and the discourse Of DR.. Pyne, on the death
Of the President.
I5~The packages of census documents to be
distributed amongst the Marshals and assistants,
will weigh about 1000 pounds: The sched-
ules alone will consume several thousand reams'
of paper
PROFESSOR WEBsTER.-The Boston Evening
Transcript of the goth inst, says that this un-
fortunate man expressed a wish that if his exc
cution should be determined upon, an early day
might be fixed for it, and his family kept in ig-
uorance of the time. He is calm and resigned.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

A VALUABLE IMPROVEN1ENT.--W I'M
lerstand that Mr.. PETER ORCHARD, has obtain
ed the contract for Matchmaking that part OF
the Staunton and Parkersburg road, leading from
the Post Office, westward. Being one of the
worst roads in the county, in winter this will be
great mprovement--besides the hill at the ex-
treme West end of town, is to be graded to a
proper level.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29
RELEASE OF THE CoNToY PRIsoNERs.-The

RELEASE OF THE CoNToY PRIsoNERs.-The
National Intelligencer, of the oath inst, says:
awe understand, and take great pleasure in
announcing the fact that the prisoners taken at
Contoy, and in whose behalf our Government
ha interposed, have been released by the
Spanish authorities from their prisons in Havana,
and that they may be soon expected in the U.
States. This intelligence will be gratifying to
good men in both countries, inasmuch as it will
remove the cloud which hung for While over
their amicable relations.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

1t is said the guns fired over the grave of
President Taylor belonged to Sedgwick7s Flying
Battery They were used in the war with
Mexico. Three Of them opened the battle of
Palo Alto, and the other toul were the last fred
at Buena Vista.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

70 Mr.. john F. L. BOSWELL, of Covington
is an authorized agent for the Vindicator.
70 Mr.. VIM. III. McCUrcHEN of Augusta
is an authorized agent for the Vindicato, for the
counties of Augusta, Bath, Pendleton, Highland
and Pocahontas.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

SCOTTSVILLE PLANK ROAD-The Stock
holders of the Staunton and James River Turn
pike Company, at a meeting held in this place
on Friday the Goth, elected w. A. KupER, Esq
Engineer for the Road, ard the work will now
be completed.
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THE SIAMEsE Tw1Ns.-A paragraph haa gone
the rounds announcing the death of the Siamese'
Twins in England. The following from the NJ
Y. Tribune gives ii a flat contradiction:
We saw yesterdays letter from the Twins
dated June 18th, at their residence in N. Carroll
ma, which said they were both in good health
and spirits, each having just received an addi-
ton to his family, making Chang the father Of
five children and Eng OF four. This is pretty
good evidence that they are still in the land Of
the living.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

SrNeuLaR.-At Augusta, Me-, the powder u
sed III firing the funeral salute in honor OF the
late president was Mexican powder, done up an
The original Mcnican bags, being part of large
quantity taken by our troops at the city OF Mex !,
leo, aud sent to Augusta for deposit in the U 3
Arsenal there.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-07-29

Mr. Pearce has declined the department Of the
Interior, doubtless to prevent his seat in the U. 5.
Senate, for five years being filled by Democrat.
despatch to the N. Y: Express says, Mr.
Conrad, representative Of Louisiana, has been APP
pointed in his place.
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THE CABINET AND PENNsYLyANIA.-The N.
York Tribune, in the course of some sensible re-
marks on the new Cabinet, says, in reference
to the omission of Pennsylvania:
''The nomination of Nathan X. Hall, of Buff
falo, for Post Master General, is serious blum
der politically, though he will make good s.
efficient officer. MIR. Hall is still a young man,
was but two years in Congress declined a re-
election) and is scarcely known to the country,
though he was an industrious and efficient
member But it is always mistake for
President to take member of the Cabinet from
his own State, unless that member be a states
man of such exalted and conceded qualifications
that the Cabinet would have looked hollow
without him. True, the Virginia Presidents al
ways made such choice, but in their palmy
time it was hardly suspected that any body but
a Virginian would do for an eminent position
John Tyler repeated the error, he was only
saved from general apprehension by the all.ab-
sorbing hatred and contempt he had invoked
by more serious misdemeanors When Mr..
Polk chose his friend and neighbor, Cave
johnson, for Postmaster General, he made
blunder which weakened him to the close of his
administration. The State which has the Pre-
sident has its full share and should not have
one of the Heads of Departments. Pennsylva-
MIA is on the verge of one of her most important
elections, with U. S. Senator, and House Del
egation depending, and her best man should
have been called into the Cabinet, whoever
should be left out in consequence"
There is as much good sense as generosity in
these remarks; and we commend them to con-
sideration.
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PRODUCTS OF INDUSTRY.

/. State name of Corporation, company or In
dividual owner. 2. Name Of business, manu-
facture Or product. 8. Capital invested in real
and personal estate in the business. 4. Raw
material used, including fuel, list, quantities,
I'd, kinds, Sd, value.l 5. Kind of motive pow
er, machinery or resources. 6. Average No. OF
hands employed list male, I'd females 7. Wa
ges-average monthly cost of male labor-ave-
rage cost of female labor. 8. Annual produc-
tons, list, quantities, I'd, kinds, Sd, value.
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UF We make the following extract from the
Lynchburg Republican, and commend it to the
attention of the friends of thorough reform:
We warn the friends of Reform to be upon
their guard-to be proof against all sophstical
and hypocritical appeals, and to shun as they
would rattlesnake in August, all political
trimnlers. dodgers and doubtsrs. You may re-
" upon it that all who come before you with
doubts upon this point and upon that poin:-
who see this difficulty and that difficulty in the
who are nevertheless inclined to GO with the
people upon those points-you may depend up
on it, we repeat, that such characters are mere
trimnaers for popular favor, are anti-reform al
heart, and will assllredly deceive you, if posi-
HE,
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THE OLDEST tNHABITANT.-- Mr.. Ii

RENO HoupEsHELL, who resides near Mount
Scion, in this county, is io4 years of age and is,
without doubt, the oldes, inhabitant. We have
not learned whether this venerable citizen was
born and reared in Augusta, but he has resided
Tor a long time at his present residence. Ten
years ago, the Assistant Marshal, in taking the
census, registered his name, and age, s4--now
he finds the old man at the same place and re-
cords his age lo4 years An old man, truly.
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To the Citizens of Augusta.

At the request of the Assistant Marshals for
taking the census of this County, we publish the
following queries applicable to this section of
the country, which will be propounded to every
Farmer and owner of Mill, Blacksmith Shop
or other manufacturing establishment, produc-
ing articles to the annual value of $500.
Such persons, by preparing at their earliest
leisure, answers to such of these heterogeneous
as are applicable to themselves and leaving
them with some member of their families to be
furnished when called for, will save themselves
much trouble, facilitate the work of the Assist
ants, and secure greater degree of accuracy.
The other information sought for, can be OBJ
tanned from any member of the family without
difficulty, and the ether questions applicable to
those branches are, therefore, omitted here.
PRODUCTIONS OF AGRICULTURE.
I. State name owner, agent OF manager of
farm. @ No. of acres of cleared land. 8. No
of acres unimproved, A. Cash value of Farm
This can be obtained by the Assistants from
the Assessors books.] S. Value of farming i'm
plements and machinery. 6. No. of horses. 7.
Mules. 8. Mich cows. 9. Oxen. 10. Other
cattle lone year old and upwards.l Il, Sheep.
10. Hogs. l3. Value of this live stock. ID
No. bushels of Wheat. u.s. Rye. 16, Corn.
II. Oats 10. No. of pounds OF wool 10.
Bushels of Irish Potatoes. 90. Sweet Potatoes
21. Barley, %. Buckwheat %. Value OF or
chard products. "a. Gallons Of Wine. 25.
Value of produce of market gardens. 26. Pounds
of Butter. 81 Cheese. %. Tons of Hay. 20.
Bushels of Clover-seed. 3d. Other Grass seeds.
81 Pounds of Hops. 80. Flax. 33. Bushels
of Flax-seed. 81. Pounds of Beeswax and
Honey. 35. Value of animals slaughtered
within the year. The year embraced by the
census is from list June, lS49, to June, 1850,
aud the crops are, of course, the crops OF last