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Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27
REORGANIZATION PRIZES
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Whole Tick cts BlO--dalvos 5--Cu'rs 2, 50


Pi4.MN CF TIE LOTTERY.
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clcd, are placed in another wheel.
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Prize is drawn from the other wheel. The ur-
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the first Prizes will be entitled to IS Approxim; :
ton Prizes. For example, if Ticket No. 1920
draws the S70, 900 prize. those Tickets numbered
1l2ts, 1929, !l25l, ll252, will be emitted to
500. If Ticket No. $50 ,ralys the so, 600 prize
those Tickets numbered 54S, $40 55l, ~ will
each be entitled to $500, and according to-
the above scheme.
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figure of the Number that draws the $50 000 Prize.
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t7o number ends in will be entitled to $40 III the
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the Numbt. ends i'll 2wili be cnti'-d to SO and sci
on to 0.
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Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27

.BE Our thanks are due to the young
ffscnd who discharged the duties Of editor,
SO satisfactorily, during our absence last
week We fully endorse his oouf4c.4
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27

The AGnnnha Hirer Tit rihoIi;c Of
Kanawha will be glad to hear Of the pas
sage of a bil} fse tfe, imlaoHrmci5 of the
kanawha river from its mouth to Loup
Creek shoals We shall publish the act in
day Or two, II amends several provisions
Of tic act Of the J., gislaturc for the same
purpose, and caHttsy some new aatl tapor-
tant ones, which We trust will accomplish
the great work. The act establishes two
boards; one to preside over the improve
mcnt Of the kanawha river, tie ether to
direct tic affairs If tie Hant,l The Prcsi-
dent Of the Jaiscs Ri.ser aHtl tsStnaw'!a Com
pany is the chief Of both boards The plelr-
Is upon which loans are to be effected. un-
'nr tlse az, viz; he revcnu $. cfi t4ie i'm
g'foyti,lcnt, and c.stc,l the works finanSel :es
in the last resort, arc amply sufficient, and
we can hardly doubt that the money will be
raised. The KanaWha improved sst'aesto b
safely navigablc from l.oup Creek Shoals to
the Ohio, great part Of the watarsnc from
the Chesapeake to The Ohio'willb be finished
anti tie gan hctsseef the Eastern and Yves
tern diyisloA: 80 ;.saeh diminished s.sto in
spire the friends Of the great wci+N with uea
hope and new zeal and energy.
The proposed improvement viii make the
mineral resources Of the kanawlla Valley
accessible, and add largely to the woalll
and enterprise Of iroina. pixPtt.h
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27
N,EEssN.

NHE partnership heretofore existing between .hc
II undersigned in the F0UNDk1 buSlNhso'
was dissolved on the Gosh instant by mutual con-
sent of parties. All persons having claims against
the Partnership concern, are requested to present
them % n. X. Trout, Esq, for settlement. az
'r5se indebted til us are requested to call a' TUG
Foundry and settle their accounts. o,,,D
A. j. CARRIER,
Feb. 81, 1858. HUGH CoNNAAL'
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27
FOR HIGHLAND COUNTY
FOR CLERK.

We are authorized to announce ADAM STE
rHENSON, as a Candidate for the Office ct Clerk
of the County ard Circuit Courts Of Highland
County
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27

NOTICE Having associated my IONS ,,;od T, o.,
by the undersigned, at tie old stand. where or
ders arc solicited and ID work viii be promptly, at
tended to. A. ). HARDEN w
Fec. 81 1888
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27
FOR SHERIFF..

We are authorized to announce ANDREW j.
BIRD, as Candidate for the Sherfalty OF High
land County.
COMMISSIONER OF THE REVENUE.
We are authorized to announce JOSEPH NJ.
CHEW, as a Candidate fer Commissioner OF the
Revenue in District No. l. Highland County.
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27

GLOVER. TIMoTHY AND ORCHARD GRASS
~ seed, N store and io lle Z, r,x / cpL
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Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27
The Entcrnrise OF Virginia,

The following public works show that the
Virginians are catching tho general spirit
Of cnterpaise, and already have accemalsh-
ed what is highly credtablc to the State, and
far above what is generally believed at the
North. James River and Kanawha canal
200 miles, at an expense Of SIS, 600 600 +;
Dismal SWANS Canal, % nl'les, s., 1l2,-
600; Norfolk and North Carolina Railroad
20 mikes, ST. 500, 600; Petersburg and n.
carolina Raiitoatl Ga' miles, $1,000 900 !;
Petersburg & Richmond Railroad, -. - miles,
81, $50, 900; Petersburg and Lynchburg
Raiiroad, rs miles, $2,975, 900; Rich
and Roanoke Railroad, l43 miles, S4,0O0,-
600; Richmond and Tennessee Railroad
204 miles, S., 800 900; Richmond & Fred
es;ckshur'.1s road, - miles, STD, 600 ::
Central road. $50 miles, s. $50 geo; York
River road, 50 miles, 81 goo, oeG; road
from Richmond to coal mines, 81 miles,
81 900 900; Alexandria and Orange
road IS miles, $2.775 sos; and thence to
lynchbr+ss 80 miles, ST, 200 600; Alex
andria and Harrisburg road $50 miles. 49,
500, 900; Wheeling and Baltimore road,
3e2 miles, $4,000, 900; parhcrshurg
branch seal lo3 nrilcs, ST. 500 0o9.: #Hls,,s
Virginia has an aggregate Of 2.2,*3 miles Of
canal, aud $40 miles Of railroad at a to-
tai cost Of nearly aea1y seesHg maitons Of
do|larSt The great object before the pub
lie mind at present is the conncctibtl Ct tie
Nhio lf1aor with the Atlantic by canal. :
10 do this the backbone of the State must
be travcrscd, distance between 100 and
200 miles from the feot of Blu Ridge to
the Dls;o while a summit level must bc
overcome Of alasis 1000 feet, :siii t,.fiiti
after tunnel III co,it:#ri:cted at short inter
yals. - DC Eor's Weekly Press.
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27

We are authorized to announce JOHN ID. M
BODEN, ESQ.,, as Candidate for the Office OF
Clerk of the County Court Of Augusta.
III. L.. NJ q q mo tho GraurffY Of AuUiSfa
Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27

What theme What a scene for men
and angels Nay our God in whose Bosom
he rests, who Guarded him incur country $
battles and who guided him in our country
councils. vouchsafc taat his spirit may con-
tinue to hover over the land he saved, and
pcrpctuatc it peaceful, powerful, plentiful
and free, through all yicissitudcs Of storm
and sunshine, until earthly monuments
shall mogtlderifto dust, and Humanity shall
triumph over the Probation Of Time, or
Time itself shall lie nemorc.
Many are here, but one is absent The
A4tiss- Crawford has been CALLED -as=sr !
He worked cat Of the clay.., Al,s.. his own
form has gone back to it and ,te modelled
..Rcvolution'' HE Hcnrs, and '.indcpcn-
dencc' the Jefferson; and he cast ire j.
qucstrian Statue and mounted the Wash
ington on the War Horse and laid down
his chiscl. II was finished was enough,
and he was called from his work to lneetthe
great original, the hero and the sage"
himself, ira land Of spirits where images
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-11
DR.. Livingstone's Story of a Lion.

1t is well known that if one in troop of IL
ons is killed, the others take the hint and leave
that part of the country. So the next time the
herds were attacked went with the people
in order to encourage them to rid themselves of
the annoyance by destroying one of the maraud-
ers. We found the lions on a small hill abouta
quarter of a mile in length, and covered with
trees. A circle Of men were formed round it,
and they gradually closed up, ascending pretty
near to each other Being down on the plain
below with native schoolmaster, named Mebal-
we, most excellent man, saw one of the Ii
ons sitting on piece of rock within the now
closed circle of men. Mebalwe fred at him be-
fore could, and the ball struck the rock on
which the animal was sitting. He bit at the
spot struck, as dog does at stick or stone
thrown it him; then leaping away, broke
through the opening circle, and escaped unhurt.
The men were afraid to attack him perhaps on
account of their belief in wtchcraft. When
the circle was reformed, we saw two other lions
in it, but we were afraid to fire lest we should
strike the men, and they allowed the beasts to
burst through also If the Bakatla had acted
according to the custom of the country, they
would have speared the lions in their attempt to
get out. Seeing we could not get them to kill
one of the lions, we bent our footsteps toward
the village; in going round the end of the hill
however, saw one of the beasts sitting on a
piece of rock as before, but this time he had
little bush in front. Being about thirty yards
off, took good aim at his body through the
bush, and fred both barrels into it. The men
then cried out. " He is shot, he is shot %
Others cried, {" He has been shot by another
man, too; let us go to him - did not see any
one else shoot at him, but saw the lions tail
erected in anger behind the bush, and, turning
to the people, said, $, stop a little till I load
again" When in the act of ramming down
the bullets heard shout. Starting and look
ing half round, saw the lion just in the act of
springing upon me, | was upon a little hight /;
he caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we
both came to the ground below together. Growl-
ing horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a
terrier dog does rat. The shock produced a
stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by
a mouse after the first shake of the cat. 1t
caused sort of dreaminess, in which there was
no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though
quite conscious of all that was happening. 1t
was what patients partially under the influence
of chloriform describe, who see all the opera
tions, but feel not the knife. This singular con-
dition was not the resultof any mental process.
The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no
sense of horror in looking round on the beast.
This peculiar state is probably produced in all
animals killed by the carnivora ; and if SO, is q
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-11

der-bolts, just within the door of McDermot's
hut, they met the shock. A mortal hatred for
all mankind impelled the father ;-raving mad
ness urged these
Locked in each others arms they rolled upon the
floor of McDermot's hut each smeared in the
others blood and each making ghastly wounds,
as if that blood, though ebbing fast flowed too
sluggishly from filial, and paternal, veins.
Neither spoke, uor uttered aught of audible
sound, save as one dealt the other what seemed
a mortal blow then, a suppressed groan
admonished the adversary that his blow had
told. Thus they struggled and it seemed doubt
full which had the gaining, and which the losing
hand till the father slightly relaxed his grasp,
when< Herbert seized the temporary vantage;
sprang on one knee regained his feet and for
the moment, concentrating all his strength ;
hurled the ponderous form of his father, as if
the latter were an infant, against the roof of
McDermot's hut, whence he fell quivering, and
apparently lifeless, to the floor. With his eye
glaring wildly, and still intent upon his adver-
sary, Herbert rushed forward with an uplifted
bludgeon to dash out his fathers brains.
Alice, who, like Judith, had been 50 terror
stricken during the strife that her tongue and
limbs refused to do their Office; now that the
combatants were separated. saw that her broth
er's life remained, and his adversary was power
less; and suddenly regaining strength, she
sprang before Herbert when the latter had near
ly reached his victim, and frantically throwing
her arms around his neck, in the softest and
most gentle accents, she said, My brother "
and the fierce tumult of his passions was lulled,
as the stormy sea was sunk to repose by the
words, "Peace, be still "
With the abatement of his frenzy, the almost
superhuman strength Herbert had employed
subsided too; and as he settled down upon q
chair near by, Alice, fearing he had slaughtered
one of the gang, approached the motionless form
of the Snagger. Awaiting herself of some Of
Mistress McDermot's cordials, she moistencd
the lips, and bathed the face, and temples, oi
the PROSTATE man, till under the influence O.
her kindly Office he revived. The look he cast
upon her when he opened his eyes was anything
but grateful; and if she had been actuated il
her conduct in any degree by a sympathy fol-
our common nature, the self-gratulation sht
indulgod at her partial success, was due, less tC
spirit of benevolence, than to a fear of con
sequences to herself and Herbert, if her effort
had failed. The latter was an incentive sufi
GENTLY powerful 10 secure all her good Office
for the physical improvement Of the more wound
ed man while kindly regard for Herbert, ant
a sort of respectful awe, with which his recen
effort had inspired Mistress McDermot, insu rec
the attentions of the latter for him. By the aid
the greater, and the lesser, of these two Samari
tans the one more skilled, the other more dis
posed, in their Office; the wounds of the TIVE
combatants were dressed, and subjected to heal
ing process, with what haste they could be.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-11

|of the brutal treatment Alice would receive from
Rolph if they should meet, was anxious for that
reason, that she should encounter him, yet no
persuasion could induce him to enter McDer-
mot's hut to see ,ooman. The answer he re-
ceived to the letter addressed to his wife had
tinged his mind with bitterness and destroyed
his faith in all the sex. Since that period no
forms of civiity, none of the ordinary restraints
of society influenced him. When, in thecourse
of the day, he met McDermot and Herbert, and
his attention was attempted to be drawn by the
most that could be extracted from him was
cold recognition of Herbert as stranger in the
Camp. His words were few, abrupt, and frigd,
and after y brief and indiFegeht conference,
Hartman, or as we know him at the Retreat,
Rolph, passed on.
When they had separated, Herbert, whose
object was to discover his father, enquired of
McDermot, as he had done in reference to sew
eral other Snaggers he had met, his name, his
tory, the time of his initiation, &C., and re-
ceived for answer generally the name by which
the several persons enquired about were known
at the Retreat, but in most other particulars the
answers of the Scot were vague and calculated
to misead. Herbert, therefore, although he
had not met large number of the Gang, re-
paired to McDermot's hut on the second
night of his arrival; indulging vexatious doubts
and fears of success. Pellet had gone to ap-
praise Musgrave of their presence, and of the
use they had made of his name to secure an in
PRODUCTION. The arrival of that parsonage
would surely defeat their purpose, and might
result in some terrible calamity to himself and
Alice. With her he had but very little oppor.
tunity for secret conference, and there was nc
other reliable person in whom either could re-
pose confidence sufficient to warrant disclosure
of the terrible secret with which their minds
were teeming.
Herbert passed sleepless night in devisine
expedents. Alice, like pure spirit, sought
communion with the pure She prayed in Sc
ftful dreams she would start up, and finging
her arms about the neck of Judith, cry to hel
father to "save her from those frightful men, ;
again fairer visions would display themselve
to her mental sight, and she would sob, ant
utter exelamatons Of joy at the recovery of he
long lost father.
Hartman, like an isolated being, was wander
ing in some of these midnight hoars past th
hut Of McDermot and through its frail wall
he heard the voice of his own beautiful daugh
ter rejoicing in her dreamy trance, "witls jo,
unspGakable," at the discovery of her Father
The frigid channels in his heart relaxed jus
long enough and just sufficient, for him to sa,
to himself,
go, had l a daughter who would thus wei
come her Father, how swiftly would I fly to he
arms" " and straightway those channels wer
congealed again.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-11
CHAPTER TX.
SEARCH FOR A FATHER.

| "a
Conscious that all his actions were observed,
and that he was encompassed on every side by
unceasng effort to divine the thoughts and pur-
poses of his heart, and seriously doubling of
success, Herbert resolved, on what he conceived
to be mature reflection, to suspend further en-
quiry at the Retreat and return to the settle
ments. His father, he felt well assured, could
not be SO debased as to sort himself with such
society. To entertain other thoughts as prob
able, was to make his own life irksome to re-
gard them as certain, or even probable, was
more painful than the certainty of his fathers
death.
Accordingly on the following day he made
known his conclusions to Alice. She received
the declaration of his purpose with painful sur
prise To return to their mother, she said
with no tidings of their father, would be a
parricidal act. "The hope of seeing him again
is the only anchorage to which her spirit clings,
and for us to return now without him, were far
worse than if we had never set forth. Tidings
of great joy in anticipation, are the food she
lives on, for there is that within me by which
| am assured she yet lives but to go back
without him, and without news concerning
him is to go back like messengers of death,
to atix an rrevocable seal to our mothers
doom. Say, my BROTHER, she continued " can
we, shall we take the life of her who gave us
ours?" And she drooped her head upon his
lap and her tears flowed in silence, and unre-
strained.
Our adventures were now suffering terrible
intensity of anguish. Hundreds of miles from
home ;--many miles in the wilderness remote
from all in whom friendly nature dwelt =
constantly watched by suspicious eyes and
oppressed with painful forebodings of a fruit
less errand, and the fatal consequences of such
O result to their mother their thoughts,
their hopes, their prayers tended UPWARD for
aid, to the only Being to whom they dared
breathe them and backward for sympathy, to
Him, in whose language they said in blended
prayer, g Father, if thou be willing, remove
this cup from me-"
They experienced an overpowering sense Of
loneliness and desolation of heart. There was,
within the compass of their voices, no human
ear to which they dared unbosom their pur-
pose and within their reach no human hand
to which they dared appeal for aid. The con-
slant espionage to which they were subject as.
sured them of this and although Judith
McDermot, and Clovis seemed disposed to treat
them with external kindness, yet they did moi
fail to mark that such acts were invariably
sought to be bestowed when the benefaction
was sure to be unobseryed by others of the
gang. So much were all the Snaggers appa
rently subject to an iron rule, in regard tc
their conduct toward our adventurers, that the
latter felt an inward consciousness that they who
appeared to them most like ministoring angels
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NEW SERIES, NO. III.
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merciful provision by our benevolent Creator for
lessening the pain of death. Turning round to
relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw
en- the back of my head, saw his eyes directed
to Mebalwe, who was trying to shoot him at
distance of ten or fifteen yards. His gun,
flint one, missed fire in both barrels the lion
Immediately left me, and attacking Mebalwe,
bit his thigh. Another man whose life had
saved before, after he had been tossed by buff
falo, attempted to spear the lion while he was
biting Mebalwe. He left Mebalwe and caught
this man by the shoulder, but at that moment
the bullets he had received took effect, and he
fell down dead. The whole was the work of a
lew moments, and must have been his paroxysm
OF dying rage In order to take out the charm
from him, the Bakatla on the following
day made huge bonfire over the carcase,
which was declared to be that of the largest
lion they had ever seen. Besides craunching
the bone into splinters, he left eleven teeth
wounds on the upper part of my arm.
| A wound from this animals tooth resembles
a gun-shot wound it is generally followed by
q great deal of sloughing and discharge; and
pains are felt in the part periodically ever after
wards. II had on tartan jacket on the occa-
sion, and believe that it wiped off all the vi
rus from the teeth that pierced the flesh, for
my two companions in this afray have both suf-
fered from the peculiar pains, while have es-
capped with only a false joint in my limb. The
man whose shoulder was wounded showed me
his wound actually burst forth afresh on the
same month of the following year. This curl
GUS point deserves the attention of inquirers--
Lariagstone's Missionary Travels.