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THE CELEBRATION

At little after II O'clock the cars arrived at the
Depot, near the grove where the celebration was to
take place, from tall pole which national dag
was flying An immense concourse of people had
assembled to see US arrive. A handsome military
company, the ELACKsBUBG BLUES, commanded by
Captain RshERT NEwLEE, was drawn up TO receive
US. Wesoon marched over to the ground where
The ceremonies had already begun. Mr.. WALLER R.
STAPLES. the orator of the day, was making his ad
dress, which was Listened to with much attention
and which was an effort worthy of him. After re-
counting the chief points in the history of American
Independence, and euiogising the institutions be-
queathed US by our ancestors he dwelt for some
time upon the difficulties and dang ers with which
they are beast by the ianaticism of the North. He
conteuded and maintained his arguments by facts,
that the North had derived the chief benefits from
the Union; and 1t the assaults upon the Constitution,
and the rights of the South continued to come from
that section, the time would come when the South
would calculate the value OF Union with 1t. Mr.
S. considered the Internal improvement cause at
the South the more important Ia view OF these cir
cumstances and the prosecution OF our great works
connecting with the west more seriously demanding
our energies and our means. He impressed upon
his audience the importance OF endeavoring 10 es-
tablsh our independence fthe North by our sy stem
of internal improvements He reioiced tn the occa.
sion and cong atulated his hearers upon the ausp
cious event which put them in connection with the
chief markets OF Eastern Virginia-which opened q
way from the West to the seaport OF Virginia
Norfolk-and which indicated an early fulhlment
of the long promised connection through the roade
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
WrAK. neryons denress.d n .n;

WAX, nervous, depressed in spirits, and
Prsy 70 innuersble mental well - physical evils
tne vicfim Of dyspepsia is indeed an object of com
miseraHon. Yet 1t 10 absurd for him to despair. We
care not how low, weak. nervous and irritable he
may ee, the cordial properties Of HooFLANp's GER
MAX BITrEss, prepared bv DR.. C. M Jackson Phil
ade phla- are stronger than the many headed mon
ster which is preyng upon his body and mind aad il
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$50 "noiesale a gents, Richmond.
And BY Druggists and Merchants generally through.
out Virginia. S.t.iy S-dA sIat

"UNcLE NED HAD NO HAIR ON THE Tor
OF MS HEAD, IN the PLACE WHERE THE HAIR
OUGHT TO CROW" but he lived previous the dis.
not only preserves and beauties, but restores the
hair at any period of life. Only those who will not
unpleasant hair
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From tha HoIna Inurnal N VI

rom the home Journal N. III
mo article ever acquired so rapid celebrity and
universal appreciation as Lyons Kathairon. Po
those who have used it land who has not) the reason
s obvious as its nvigoratng and beautifying effects
ticle of the toilet"
Sold the old price of Is cents in large bottlss
by all dealers, everywhere.
D. S. BARNES, Proprietor,
iy S-dIm ISL Rroadw,u NJ Vork
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FLEToHER's HAIR ToNIo. prepared !

GENERAL AGENCY, FOR THE SALE AND
PURCHASE OF LANDs.-FRANK g. RUFFIN, Score
tdrv Of the Pirginia State Agricultural Society," and
N. AUGUST offer their services to the public a.
GENERAL AGENTS for the sale and purchase Of
LANDS In pUginia and the Southern and Wsstsyn
States.
Ofice-et the office of the Tiyginia State AgyisuA
tGrat Society, No. lis Main street.
N. AUGUST, Notary PUBLIC AND ACCOUNTANT
Office--as above. fs8-tS
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III SHARES Monroe Building Associa.
III ton stock; IA do. Homestesd do, for sale BY
jy26 PEM6ERT0N BRO.
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H SHIP.-The CO-PaTtnership heretofore exist
III under the firm OF GURCH L SHAFER is this
day, By mutual consent, dissolved
SAML. s. BURCH.
FRANK SHAFER.
RICHMOND, April e6, 1854.
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BATHS! Baths! BATHsm!-HOt, Cold and
Shower Baths can be had daily at the Hair Dressing,
Shaving and Shampooning Saloon, under the AmsEi
can Hotel-entrance on 11th street
Single Bath Is cents, or five tickets for 81.
to
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CO-PARTNERSHlp NOTICE-ge

Or CO-PARTNER-
- SUIP-The Co-Pstner.hip heretofore exist
ing under the sty!e and iirEI of ALEX. MOTT l. co.
i. This day dissol. ed by mutual consent.
The name Of the firm vii! be used ia tho settle
7:eut OF all claims due TO aod By the couce-n.
ALEX. MOTT
JAMES n. SHINE.
Richmond, July lst, 1894.
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CHOLERA, in its incipient stages, readily
yields to the force and viItue of BAKERS PREMIUM
BITTERs. A few years since, when this fatal cpl
dernic was sweeping over the land, those families
who used the Bitters constantly escaped the pssti-
lence, while many of their neighbors fell a prey to
its devastating touch. In Spring ard Summer every
body should them freely and thereby escape dis
ease. Price, so cts. per bottle. To be bad OF the
Druggists generally throughout the city. Orders
promptly filled by addressing
je Is f. BAKER, Richmond, Va.
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eoatary betacecn Lynch6urg and CkristtaHs6urg-
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prore TIC Race Of Maa.
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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26
Practical Democracy.

The Boston Times in late number,
gives us the following anecdote, and we
pass it over TO our readers with more gra-
LITIGATION, inasmuch as it goes to prove
that the charge of favoritism to his rela-
tons cannot be laid at the door of the
President.
One day last week, a number of wor-
thy and substantial farmers and drovers
who had been attending the Cambridge
Cattle Market, congregated in the tempo
rary depot at Porter's station, and CONVEX
sation turned on politics. Some Of the
assembly were wings or freesoilers, and
the way the Nebraska bill, the President,
Judge Douglas, ETC., were handled was a
caution to the friends of non-intervention.
Presently, sturdy looking farmer, with
clear pair of eyes and an honest face,
put question to the most violent of the
declaimers-an out-and-out abolitionist
which Immediately attracted the atten-
ton Of whole company to himself. The
conversation then proceeded, but had not
progressed very far before the sophistries
of the abClitionist were exposed and refu-
ted by the plain common sense arguments
of the farmer. This was acknowledged
on all sides, except, Of course, by his OPP
ponent; and, satisfied with his victory,
the farmer modesly retired from the
place. leaving the company at liberty to
scan his arguments and guess about him
self at their leisure. " He talked like a
book >" said one. "Yes-I hardly thought
he was so we'll posted up" remarked an
other. " He looked rough but talked
like lawyer" observed the third. "But
who is he ?" was the quuestion generally
put. At this moment, Murray, the::depot
master, who had been quietly listening to
their speculations, stepped forward and,
in his quiet and peculiar way, said -
" Gentlemen, that is Mr.. Henry Pierce Of
Hillsborough county, New Hampshire
brother ofhe Present of the United States
And that was true. We learn that Mr..
Pierce regularly attends the Cambridge
Cattle market every week, with the pro-
ducts OF his farm in New Hampshire, and
is everywhere esteemed as an honest high
minded, intelligent and patriotic Ameri-
citizen. What an interesting spectacle
does this present? Here was the broth
er of the Chief Magistrate of one of the
greatest nations on the face of The globe
"A person qualified to fill many respon-
sibIe posts, yielding handsome Pecuniary
Notwithstanding the hard and hum
BILE, but enobling calling of an American
farmer, while word from his brother in
Office could place him where his purse
might be easily and lawfully gorged with
the glittering cash Of the public treasury
This among one Of the many instances of
the single heartedness and unsel6shness
of the President of the United States
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
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some youth Of Lync1Jurg, dressed in his sis
ter's clothes. 1t was even SO. Two of
our sprightliest bellies. unable by reason
of clerical Introduction to attend the hall,
determined to have their own fun
out Of it, and accordingly dressed up
their brother in full suit of female gear,
painted his cheeks, crowned himiwith a
garland of flowers, instructed him in the
mysterious art of managing his strange
attire. and gave him letter of introduce
ton to one of the managers, put him into
hack and bid him God speed The gal
liant manager, proud of his fair charge,
displayed miraculous energy in intro
ducing her to everybody: the young Ia
dy-boy played his part so admirable that
the Devil himself would never have sus-
pected him, and the trick passed off SO
successfully that it is now universally and
Justly accounted the best thing that ever
happened in Lynchburg.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26


NEWSPAPER PosTAoR.---The following
information, which was. obtained from the
Post Office Department by the Howard,
county Gazette, will be interesting to
postmasters and others. IL will be seen
that persons living in this county are enti-
tied to receive the Register free of post
age, although they receive it at an Office
located in another county. The postmas-
ter gets ten cents and four mills per an
mum for his trouble, or two mills for eve
ry nglecopy he deliyers-to be paid at
the Department:
LIST. You ask whether a subscriber
TO 40eekly newspaper, residing in the
county in which said paper is published,
is entitled to receive such paper from the
nearest post Office in an adjoining coun-
ty, free of postage? l answer in the at.
firmative. He is, provided such paper. is
printed as we'll as published in the afore-
said county and also. provided that the
Office is that at which such subscriber
usually receives his other mail matter
See sec. Cd of the act of 1852, which says:
" Publishers of weekly newspapers may
send to each actual subscriber within the
counties where their papers are printed
and published, one copy thereof free Of
postage"
Cd. You ask are not postmasters who
distribute such papers, entitled to a GER
tain amount, and what that amount is ?
1 answer that postmasters are entitled to
two mills for the delivery of each paper
of this description to actual subscribers.
Sd. You ask, is not that sum paid by
the Post office Department ? 1t is, pro-
vided the papers are properly entered up
on the transcript, as required by the in
structions ofthe Auditor for the Post Of
fee Department.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26

A RUSSIAN MIRAcLE.-The Russian pa
pers gravely relate miraculous appear
ance of the Blessed Virgin, during one of
the recent conflicts on the Asiatic from
tier of Turkey. She is said to have been
seen by the combatants on both sides, in
the attitude of blessing the Russian SOL
diers.
The consequence was, that they were
inspired with supernatural and irresistabl
valor; and that, (still more wonderfully
a number of inidel Moslems were con-
verted TO "the orthodox faith"
The blessings of the Blessed Virgin
can't be worth much. as the Russians
have almost invariably been badly lick
ed.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26

again under way for the purpose, as was
supposed, of seizing upon the Island Of AL
and. Kicege Bay was named asthe place
of rendezvous. E
4 The British ministers at Berlin had
sent The announcement of the declaration
of war to Sir Charles Napier, with in
structions to commence hostilities.
The Russians were making great pre-
parations for the conflict in the Baltic
All the lighthouses and buoys have been
reviewed and formidable fleets of gun
boats are collected in shallow water at all
the principal points. Attempts are being
made to block up intricate parts of the
channel with rocks. All the houses at
Crons;adt incapable of defence are be-
ing pulled down. New batteries are eve
rywhere in course of erection, and two hun
bred additional gun-boats have been or
dered. ...
The Gear and his son were personally
experimenting these preparations.
Considerable discomfort prevails in Fin
land towards Russia, and some arrests had
been made.
ENGLAND.-It was rumored that Lord
Aberdeen was about to resign, but the
Globe contradicts the report.
The London papers are full of procla-
nations regulating the details of the war.
In the House Of Commons the Attor-
ney General stated that England does not
and cannot forego the right Of search of
neutral vessels for articles contraband of
war.
The bill TO double the income tax had
noccaI tho Hnusn IF
LATEST.
No battle had yet occurred on the Bal
tic. The Russian, anticipating an attack,
were dismantling their fortressing on the
island of Aland, of the coast of Finland.
The fleet of Sir Charles Napier was still
in Beycos Bay, short distance below
Copenhagen.
AS soon as hostilities commence in the
Baltic, the Emperor and the Russian Court
will remove to Moscow Navigation was
open to st. Petersburg.
The allied fleets have entered the Black
Sea to effect movement in junction with
Omar Pacha, They have steered for Var
ma.
The Russians were razing all the for
tresses in the Dolmsha to the ground,
while the Turks were falling back'i good
order upon the Wall of Trajan. The po-
sition Of the Russians was exceedingly
critical, and they were were calling for
reinforcements.
Another report says that the Turks
have gained victory over the Russians.
The Turks have beaten Gen. Uschakoff
in Bessarabia, and forced him to beat a
rapid retreat.
The Turks have also crossed the Dan
ube between Metropolis and Ratschunk.
1t is now rumored that Austria will
make the Russians passage of the Bal
kRns cause of war.
The English and French governments
entirely reject the proposals Of the Gar,
founded on his letter to the King of Prus-
STA.
AUSTRIA AND PRUss1A.-A despatch
from Berlin states that negotiations be-
tween Austria and Prussia had resulted
in their joining in the protocol signed at
Vienna on the Sd of April between Great
Britain, France and Austria.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26
Advertising Again,

Last week we took occasion to say some
thing on the Importance of ADVERTISING
This week we will offer somethinr as to
the best plan of doing so. Something, BY
the way, which does not seem entirely un
derstood by many who advertise a good
deal. In the first place at least half the
advertisements one seesin a paper are
made too long. This is no great reason
for complaint on the printers part, to be
sure, for we charge by the square, and
the longer the advertisement, the more.
of course, our bill for its insertion. Mel
Their is 1t matter Of particular advantage
for us to fill our columns up with such
long advertisements, for each one crowds
out one or more shorter ones, that would
pay for its proportion of room. But while
the matter of length or brevity is thus
made indifferent to the printer, it is not
so to either readers or advertisers. These
last want their advertisements to be read.
By making them too long they defeat
this purpose, in nine cnses out OF ten. be-
cause people will not bother over LENGTHY
advertisements, any more than man on
a journey would stop at the mile posts
along his road to read the country's his
tory, if that of every mile were carved
upon the stone at its end. The number
of miles past or before the traveller he
would read at glance, if so inscribed to
catch his eye at once. With nothing else
on the stone or finger board he would
think the distance inscription enough for
this would be all he desired to know
These sought for facts would alone be
read, if put at the beginning, middle, or
end of an hours reading of other matter
provided these facts were by any means
50 distinguished as to be got right at with
out wasting time to pick them out from
the other and uncafed for matter. If not.
except in case of extreme doubt. not
one traveller in fifty would be be likely
to stop to read word but would give
just the information he wanted. So With
the readers of advertisements. Those
who look at them all, mostly look to find
some particular thing advertised, and do
not like to pore, by the half hour, over
.bungiing attempts to thank the commuui-
ty for past favors, or to ask continuance
of the same, before they can find out
whether you can supply them with a key
OF nails, a summr hat or pair of boots.
1t you have anything to sell, say SO at
once, in and the fewest words. If six, or at
most dozen lines, will not state all you
can offer, cut it all off at that and put the
rest IN another column. Don't fool away
time and money in telling the public how
much you are obliged to them Tor ~ for
past patronage, and how much You desire
its continuance. You are under no obli-
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26
LATE AND INTERESTING FROM Cu1SA.,

LATE AND INTERESTING FROM CHINA.-
By way Of San Francisco, we have dates
from Hong Kong to Jan. 20. The British
ship of war Hermes had had several en-
gagements on the coasts with pirates
On the 25th of November, she captured
% pirate junks, 19 of which were filled
with guns, spears, powder and stink-pots.
All these vessels were Immediately set
on fire and destroyed. Subsequently Sc
veral severe fights occurred between the
pirates and the Hermes, but the latter
came off victorious, and in ten days demo-
lished formidable feet of 40 junks, man
ned with 1900 men, and carrying one
hundred and fifty-fve guns, forty eight
of which were twelve Founders. and Sc
venteen eighteen Founders.
The China Mail says that notwithstan-
ding the revolution. the exports of tea
were several millions of pounds more this
year than last. while the total export of
silk has been more than double that OF
any previous half year--the disturbances
being now found to augment the stock of
"Thysams" (sllk) offered for sale.
At the end Of October the rebels were
only six miles from Peking. and every
bridge they crossed was Immediately de-
stroyed by them, so that there was no
turning back. The government had re
moved the capital to Moukden.
There was a large gathering Of unru-
ly spirits at Canton, and fight was dali
ly expected to take place between them
and the MANDARIN so!diery.
The British Envoy had notified English
residents in China to abstain from all acts
calculated to create even a suspicion in
the minds of the Chinese that they have
violated strict neutrality.
Sir George further says. he will, if me-
cessity requires it, unhesitatingIy pass
any ordinance for the deportation of any
British subjects who may be convicted Of
trafhicking in munitions Of war With either
of the beligerent parties.
Marking presents more the appearance
of vast camp than city-t6e houses
within the walls have not been DESTROYED
but bear traces of having been violently
broken open The disposition of the
Kwang-se revolutionists towards foreign.
ers is decidedly friendly-the term ..bfo-
Their" being universally applied by them
in addressing them.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26

PosT-OFF1CE AFFA1Rs.-The site of the
office at French town, Lewis county, Va,
is changed. Joseph Groves appointed
postmaster vice, Samuel T. Tolbert, re-
signed.
APPo1NrMENrs.-Wm L. Stolnaker,
postmaster at Ke Kalb, Gilmer county,
Va, vice David D. Wilson resigned, Ro-
bert w. Lowther. postmaster at Oxford,
Richie county, Va, vice John Shannon
resigned. Marquis G. Patton, postmas-
ter at West Milford, Harrison county, Va,
vice Eppa II. Bartlett.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26

EXTENT OF THE PUBLIC DoMA1N.-A re-
port made by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office to the Secretary of
the Interior shows that the public domain
of the United States consists Of 1891 AGO.
$50 acres, or ego. 7O4, 500 acres less than
exhibited in former report. This dis
crepancy occurs in consequence of the ex-
tent of the public lands in Oregon, Ne
braska and the Indian territories being
ascertained to be less than was supposed.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-26

BUFFALoEs.- an item of news we
give an account, as ralated to us by Col.
Vaughan, ofthe number ofbutfaloes kill
ed annually within the bounds of his agen-
cy, where the American Fur Company
are operating and trading with the Indi-
ans. He says he has taken some pains
to ascertain, and from the best informa-
ton he can get. he intimates that the
number will not fall short of four hun
dred thousand He says that not less
than 100, 900 robes have been shipped by
the two companies trading within his
agency, within the last year. 10000
are destroyed, and number of the hides
are used by the Indians to make their
lodges. Large numbers of the buffaloe
freeze or starre to dcath.in winter, in the
snow banks which for months are found
in drifts Of from live to ten feet in depth,
and numbers of them are drowned in
crossing the Missouri in large herds, by
.crowding upon one another.