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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26
Gen. Hlarman's Speech.

The scene in the Town Hall last week
(Thursday) was the richest treat we have
enjoyed for many day Ploasure-seokers
pay so cents for going to play; ifthey will
bring Gen Hartman back here, and get aIr.
Leake and Mr. Stephen L. Parish in the au-
dience, and the same party on the platform.
they can spend an evening infinitely more
lively by going to the Douglas meeting =
Gen. Hartman is very smart fellow, and
made very strong speech, pouring it into
the Yaneey Democracy He presently es-
pied his old friend Lieut.. Gov. Leake, and
gave him volley. The Hon. gentleman,
always restless under FIRE, was brought to
his feet-and as he attempted to explain,
the discharge from the platform grew more
brisk. Tie shot fell around him in every
direction. He was at a disadvantage. He
looked like school boy, whom the School
master was thrashing-an when the latter
paused and asked him what made him such
a reprobate ?-and he attempted to answer
the master, without hearing the explana-
ton. let in upon him with redoubled fury
Mr.. Leake had to sit down. Gen. Hartman
said Douglas bad been endorsed over and
over again by the Southern Democracy -
He said Virginia had endorsed him in the
Petersburg Convention in 1858. after his
Freeport speech. He read the compliment
tary Resolution. He said it was offered by
0. Jennings Wise, and seconded by Roger
A. Pryor. He said you-you, the Abe
marie Democracy, voted for the Resolution
that all Of the Albemarle delegates voted
for it. Mr.. Leake cried out, Il did not ;"
Gen. H., with very energetic contortion of
the body, threw up his foot. and pointed his
finger at Mr.. Leake, and said Because
you aca'n't thar I" Mr.. Leake. Il was
there, and did not vote for the resolution :"
Gen Hartman vote was taken at
half past five in the morning, you were in
the city, but you reye nos az the C0muen-
tion." Mr. Leake vanished.
Gen. Hartman then directed the whole Of
his speech at Mr.. Leake. The house was in
commissions because the speaker was particu-
larly happy, and because they enjoyed Mr.
Leake's taking his own physic. The Hon.
gentleman has directed the yells Of the crowd
very often on his advarsaries and as the
shot riddled his own canvass, be had no
| friends.
There were some amusing episodes be-
tween the Speaker and Mr.. Stephen l.. Fa-
IRISH, an incorrigible old Democrat from Ken
lucky.
| G,n. Hartman then pitched into the rene
gades from the Wing party that were throw
ing up their caps for MIR. Breckenridge. He
did not know anything about it; but We all
saw the platform behind him lined with old
Wings, who twisted and blushed exceeding
ly divertingly.
The speech, as we have said, was very
strong one, and must have caused serious
6utter among TIE supporters Of Mr. Brock
inridge. They have had it all pretty much
their own way heretofore. -ReuieU.
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a Correction.

Gen. Hartman requests US to state, there
being no Douglas organ in this place, that
the statement in the Jefersomlan to the eff
feet that he treated Non Intervention and
Squatter Sovereignty as synonymous, in his
speech of last week, misrepresents his posi-
ton He regards the distinction between the
TWO as obvious; and he maintains that dis
tinction
All the South maintained Non Interven-
ton in 1854; but they did not maintain
Squatter Sovereignty. Non Intervention
prohibited Congress from legislating for OF
against Slavery iu the Territories, but left
the institution to the Constitution and the
Federal Courts. Squatter Sovereignty af
firms that the local legislatures can prohibit
or establish slavery. Non Intervention sub
mitted that question to the Supreme Court.
Under non intervention, there might be
Squatter Sovereignty or there might be a de-
cision that it was unconstitutional Gen.
Hartman contends that as get the point has
not been decided by the Courts-that in the
bred Scott case the question did not arise,
aud the illusions to it in the case were the
dtcta Of individual judges, and not the judg-
ment Of the Court. -Reuiem.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

ExpLosIoN OF DIAMOND MACnrNE.-The
Sacramento {Cal.) Union says that party
of gentlemen have been experimenting for
some months past in diamond making, and
for said purpose have caused to be put togeth
eF some sort of machinery of iron. bolted
and riveted together about as strong as ma
chimes can make such things. On Wcdnes-
day, about noon, the inventor was experi-
menting with his pet. which is to make dia-
monds as cheap as pebbles, the thing blew
up, and the experimenter barely escaped
with his life. The power Of the explosive
gas was so great as to tear asunder solid
iron three-fourths of all inch thick, as readi-
lY as one would tear up wet paper.
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Recsines an Answer.

IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION
FROM MIR. COLLIER AT LAST SUS-
SEX COURT, MAJOR LAMB AC-
KNOWLEDGED THAT He Fl A D
PROPOUNDED THE QUESTIONS TO
BRECkINRIDGE, A Nd HIS ONLY
RESPONSE WAS A COPY OF HIS
ASHLAND SPEECH. UNDER HIS
FRANK-THE ONLY FRANK THING
IN THE TRANSACTION
WILL VIRGINIA SUPPORT A MUM
CANDIDATE?
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r. r. COLLIER.

BRADY AGAINST FUsIoN.-The Republic
can papers are rejoicing over the fact that
Mr.. Bray, the Breckinridge-Y aneey can
elidate for Govern or of New York, made
speech on the 18th alt, at Albany. denounc-
ing Douglas and declaring against fusion
1t woald seem, from the following note tc
the N. Y. Eapress. that Brady was, on that
occasion, in the hands of the Republicans
and talking for their benefit:
ALBANY, SEPT 25. 1860.
I see that the Republicans in New York
have had telegraphed to them, that Hon j.
7. Brady, last night, addressed large
crowd This is so far true-but il should
be added: A call III Thurlow Weeds paper
got up the crowd, and the Republicans at
tended en- mosse There is not enough Of
Brcckinridg eism here fer seed.
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fudge Douglas, Chicago Speech.

Judge DOuSfNS CAACdSO SPccCHs
The reader will find this speech in to-days
Index, and will doubtless peruse it with in
terest. The Atlanta (Geo.) Confederacy,
(edited by DR.. j. P. Hambletou, late of
Virginia, who heard the speech,) has the
following in relation to it:
stWe saw Judge Douglas at Chicago on
the 9Th inst, and heard him address an as
samblage of untold numbers. It was con-
ceded to be the largest gathering ever wit
messed in the great Northwest. This i'm
mense multitude, Of over seventy-fve thou
saad persons, stood for hours. almost in
breatbless anxiety, around the stand, from
which the Little Giant poured forth words
of wisdom, truth and justice; and as his ell
oquent voice pealed in trumpet tones above
the heads of that sea of human beings. and
as its soft cadences were lost in the distance.
the shouts Of stalwart Democrats re echoed
back an acclaim of enthusiasm, that made
the welkin ring, and the gorgon head Of sec
tiona!sm culver in the breeze, and skulk
from the presence of the patriot.
From that stand in Chicago, the strong
hold of the Black Republican party of the
North west, we heard the great statesman
denounce Black Republicanism, Abolition
ism, Free Soilism aud Sectionalism. And
his dcnunciations Of the enemies Of the
South, and of the Constitution, were re-
ceivel with shouts of applause from those
sturdy North western Democrats, with a
degree Of approval we have never heard e.
qualled We heard Judge Douglas tell
the assembled thousands at Chicago, that
he had no sympathy with their warfare up
on the institutions Of the South, nor had he
any sympathy with those at the South who
are fer dissolution of the Union. He said
he would make any sacrifice to preserve the
Union, and that the maintenance of the
Constitution and the great principles of the
National Democratic party were the only
principles upon which all conservative men
could rely, aud thereby perpetuate this price
less legacy Of free government.
Judge Douglas will be in Atlanta on the
30th inst. and no mistake, when friends
and enemies can see and hear this great,
true, and sfandered patriot.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26
Ugec,szsas an Answer

IN REPLY TO THE QUESTION OF
GEN RLOW, AT THE DISCUSSION
ON FRIDAY NIGHT, MR.. LAMB SAID
THAT HE. FULFILLED HIS PROMISE
AND PROPOUNDED THE CUES
TIONS TO MIR. BRECKENRIDGE
WHICH HE HAD PUT TO JUDGE
DOUGLAS IN NORFOLK, BUT THAT
MR. BRECKENRIDGE HAD DECLlN-
ED NSWERING THEM. so, THEN,
WE MAY CONSIDER BRECKlN-
RIDGE AS THE MUM" CANDIDATE
---sNor5olh Hwssa.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

Gov. Letcher arrived in Wheeling, Va. :,
Friday night, on tour over the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. A Union procession
repaired to his hotel and called him out by a
serenade. The Union says:
"Governor Letcher, introduced by Mayor
Wilson, responded briefly, thanking his
friends for the compliment paid him, and
then. discarding for the time all partizan
feeling. alluded briefly to the state Of the
Union, the ''impending crisis" and the duty
Of Virginians should tie time arrive when
they should be called upon to defend their
State. He was loudly applauded by his
hearers, particularly III bis concluding re-
marks, wherein he expressed himself highly
gratifed with his first visit to Wheeling"
The speech is not published, but from the
remarks Of the Intel'igencer, the Black Re :
publican organ in Wheeling, i, appears to
have nettled the Republicans very badly
1t says:
THE major portion of Gov. Letcher 3
brief speech was of a most outrageously ul-
ira and reasonable character, and was dis
graceful to him as citizen, and doubly so
as the chief executive officer of the Common
wealth. Some one in the crowd said
"Amen,' and another "God grant it," at
the end of one of the speakers sentences
when the Governor, supposing the Interrupt
zion to come from some reasonable source,
remarked, in view Of recent events, that he
might yet find it necessary to bring his au-
thorty to bear upon some persons IN man
ner to which they would not be so willing
to respond "Amen."
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LITTLE WILLIE.

He came awhile, on earth to smile,
Then sweetly passed away,
Like early flowers, in sunny bowers
"Just blossoming in May"
Bat ah no more his spirit pure,
Can bloom on earth again;
The little dove, has flown above,
10 sing nobler strain.
The angels came, and breathed his name,
Then sweetly On him smild;
Now, brightly 'meng that Heavenly throng
Art thou, my angel child.
All yes, they wove wreath Of love,
To decorate his brow
A crown made bright with holy light,
Is resting on him now.
Though Ger his tomb, in silent gloom,
We drop burning tear,
Oh he is blest, and is at rest,
While we are mourners here
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A SONG.

In the bright hour Of morning
The dark night of rest,
My wild thoughts shall wander
To her | love best;
will not forget thee,
Thou daughter of song,
And the heart in my bosom
Shall sigh for thee long.
They'll ever be near thee,
Those stray thoughts of mine,
And whisper their meaning,
Dear spirit to thine
The low words thus spoken
When woven in song
Are maiden dear maidenI
III sigh for thee long.
A face gently besming-
A meek, loving eye,
With intellect cleaning,
Shall ever be nigh;
AS gaze ON the vision,
III sing that wild song
Dear maiden! dear maidenf
III sigh for thee long.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

SoNNAMBuL1sM A sickly girl, in Ply
mouth, N. H., somnambulist, with a
strong propensity to run of with things and
hide them where they could rot be found
nor she herself remember. so that at last it
was found necessary to lock her securely at
hight, naade of.a few weeks since with a
valuable watch. Then the family gave her
liberty, and watched her mo 7ements. in hope
that the same somnambulism that carried it
off would again find it. The other night she
started out, followed by her brother. She
walked places that he dare not follow, but
the moonlight helped to show her course,
and he kept along. Finally she walked Up
the trunk Of an old tree that hung at an an :
gle of forty-6ve degrees over brook, stood
firmly at the end. while the tree swayed be-
meath her, and, STOPPING down. brought out
that watch. Returning to terra Rrn1a, the
brother walked her, took the property, and
then hurried home.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

EXTRAORDINARY SUIcIDE-The son of
Mr.. Bradbury, of the eminent firm of Brad
bury & Evans, Of london, printers, and
proprietors of Punch and other well-known
publications, bias recently committed suicide
in remarkable manner. He went to Gre
morne Gardens, and spent the evening in
the amusements of that celebrated place -
Towards the close of the entertainment he
procured silver for ten pound note, and
going to the front of the dancing platform,
scattered it amongst the crowd. He then
called for glass of grog, and having emp
tied into it phial of prussic acid, made a
speech, proposed the health ofthe company
drank off his glass, and alas fell dead in
the midst Of that scene Of wild riot and con-
fusion. He was young man of greet abil-
ity and promise, and was very recently pre-
scented with gold watch by the Emperor
of the French. in Acknowledgements Of the val
ue of an improvement he had made in print
lnr
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A cave. five feet wide and from 81

A cave, FIVE feet wide and from six to
eight feet high, which is Enthusiastically ar
tifcial, has been discovered in the side of
Lookout Mountain. Georgia, and explored
for the distance fits feet. Stone pestiles,
small pieces Of iron. Ratchet handles, and
nameless Indian relics are found scattered
all the way, and it is thought to have been
seene refugs for tbs 4adisps in time Of
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Tke Uinditator,
BY .. MI. YOST.

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To REMOVE DIcoLoRAr1oN OocAsroNEp BIZ
BRUISES. Should the eye or any ether part
be blackened by fall OF blow, apply cloth
wrung out Of very warm water, and renew it
until the pain ceases The moisture AMI heat
liquefv the blood, and send it back to its
proper channel. Nevsr use cold water to .
txuiss.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

REMAINS OF COLUMBUS. There Is TO be
a new cemetery at Havana, with, s. superb
arch at the entrance 1t is pnaposed to
place the venerated remains OF Columbus
within the arch, in an urn, VITA silver
cover, upon which will be Inscribed in let
tiers of gold the results of his successful en-
terprise. A bronze statue Of Columbus il
to be erected near BY
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26
A feast Well EsaktteFed.

A few weeks since, at Blissfield, Michi-
gan, an old lady, one Of the mothers in
Democratic Isreal, whose father was SOL
der in the Revolution, presented to the
Democratic club Of the village Douglas
banner with her own hands, accompanied by
the. following toast:
Our NATION !-Begotten amid the storms
of the sixteenth century, its infantiIe move
ments were dim and indistinetfy seeu on
board the IMayfouer, on the rocks OF Ply
mouth, at jamestown, GU the plains OF No
nongahela, and on the nights Of Abraham
The capricious squalls of its infancy were
heard in the tea party in Boston, III tanelnl
Hall, on the plains Of Concord, Lexington
and Bunker Hill. In his boyhood he ran
bareheaded and barefooted over the plains OF
Saratoga, Trenton, Princeton. Monmouth
and Yorktown, whipped his mother and turn
ed her out of doors. In his youth he strobe
over the prairies of the boundless West aud
called them his own; paid tribute to the de-
spots of Barbary in powder balls; spit
in his fathers face from behind the cotton
bales at New Orleans; whipped the mistress
Of the ocean: revealed in the halls of Monte
yuma: straddled the Rocky Mountains. and
with one foot upon the golden sand and the
other upon Goldfish and lumber, defsd the
world In manhood, clothed in purple and
fine linen he rides over continent in cush-
iooed cars: rides over the ocean in palace
steamers; sends his thoughts on wings OF
Gohtn;no to the world around; thunders at
tba door Of the Celestial Empire and at the
nortals Of distant Japan; slaps his poor old
decsepia father IL the face and tells hun I, to
be careful how he pecks into any of HIS pick
aroons, and threatens to make sheep pas
tnre Of all the land that joins him. What
he,}j do in his old age God only knows
Nav he live ten thousand years, and his sha-
dow never be less.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

Two Occasions IN LIFE TIME.-Josiah
O,;ncav Sr.. in his note to the Executive
Committee Of the Renfrew ball IN Boston
permitting the use Of bis name as one OF the
committee, Of management Of the ball, says ;:
ct is now nearly. if not quite, seventy
Years since had the honor ofjoining at Con-
cert Hall. Boston, couatry dance with the
Duke Of Kent, the Princes grandfather. -
T should esteem it like honor to unite. on
a like occasion, with his grandson. But
nature prohibits, and / saemits
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

To CLEAN BLACK SILK GLOVES. KID
Boogs AND SuoEs.-To three parts of white
Of egg. add one part Of ink Mix it wells
then damp = sponge with it, and rub itMee
the gloves, &E.
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Business Caros.
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r. w. PIERCE & CO,
Commission & Forwarding Merchants
Corner of Cary and 18Th Streets,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,

Commission 4 Forwarding Merchants,
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Rockingham.--Josiah 5. Roller. Erasmus SoR-
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Amherst.-Wm. Mosby.
Nelson.-C. B. Claiborne.
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! All advertising for aless time tnan three months
will be charged for at the usua! rates-SI 90 pse
square for the first Insertion. and twenty five cents
| for each subsequent issue.
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o h& Uinditatar,
NATION Il DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
FOR PRESIDENT,
S. A. DOUGLAS,
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
II. Y. JOHNSON,
OF GEORGIA..

DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL TICKET
LIST Dist GEORGE BLOW. Norfolk City.
I'd Dist-H. L. HOPKINS, Petersburg.
Sd Dist. B. STOVALL, Halifax.
4th Dist.-JAMES GARLAND, Lynchburg.
S til Dist.-BENJ RANDOLPH, Albemarle.
9Th Dist.-JAMES H. COX. Chesterfield.
7th Dist. B. ELLSWORTH, Accomac.
eth Diss.-G. H. G. ROWE, Spottsyvania.
9th Dist.-GEO. w. BRENT. Alexandria.
10th Dist-ISRAEL ROBINSON. Berkeley.
1lth Dist. N. LIGGETT, Rockingham.
18th Dist.-D. H. HOGE, Montgomery.
18th Dist.-GEO. w. HOPKINS, Washington,
18th Dist-C. J STUART, Doddridge.
18th Dist.-WM. G. BROWN, Preston.
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Dental Notice.

WIN: CHAPMAN has removed his Office to the
w old Bell Tavern, the Virginia Hotel
and opposite 'tBrandebnrg'a Corner" and adioin-
ing Rankn's Daguerrean Gallery, where he Will be
pleased to gee his friends and customers.
Stanton, Fep. 3. 1880.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

TFHE founder Of this celebrated Institution, the
Il only regularly Educated Physician adverti-
sing, offers the most certain speedy and only ef-
fectuai remedy in The world for
e
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

Who have injured themselves by certain practice
INDUCED in when aoue-s habit frequently learned
which are nightly telt, when asleep, and if
not cured renders marriage impossible, and des-
trovs both mind and body-should apply lmmedl-
ateiy.
country, aud the darling of bis parents, should be
snatched from all prospects and enoyments OF life.
by the consequences of deviating from the path OF
nature, and INDUCING in certain secret ha0's-
Such persons before contemplating
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;ure Warranted in two days.
OJe EnEF GT,nN

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London
Graduate from Of the most eminent Colleges of
the United States, and the greater part of whose
life has been spent in the Hospitals of London Par
is. PHILADELPHIA and elsewhere, has effected some
ofthe most astonishing that were ever known.
Manv troubled with ringing in the ears and head
when asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at
sudden sounds, and bashfulness. with frequent
biusbine attended sometimes with arrangement OF
mind were cured Immediately.
CERV,AIN DTSFASE
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03
6eneral Misfellanu.
Girl Health.

The matter most him-portant yet most
miss managed, IS the health of the mothers
of the next generation-young girls for the
present. Will the mamma" or papa" whose
eye rests upon this paragraph, oblige US by
reading tuice the following brief thoughts
upon the subject:
"It will be an immense advantage when
the day comes for boys and girls learning
and playing together as children of several
foreign countries do. Climbing trees is ad-
mirable exercise for everybody and so is
cricket, and trapball, and ball-play of all
kinds !; and racing and jumping. Instead of
this, we see not few schools where the girls,
after sitting and standing all day, are taken
out for a walk in the twilight, to save light
ing candles. They seldom feel the sun ; they
have chilblains and other ailments from bad
circulation and in such schools nearl ly every
girl has more or less distortion of the spine
when she has been there more than two
years. In the last century people knew no
better. Little girls were put upon hard
benches without backs, and so high that the
feet hung in the air and so perched, they
were required to sit bolt upright and sew for
hours together. The. consequence was the
deformed shoulder, the humpback, the wea'
ry, aching spine, which many thousands OF
Englishwomen have carried TO the grave
There is more reason for women being
crooked than any other creature born with
proper backbone and this is better under