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GREAT SOUTHERN CLOTHING HOUSE
ESTABLISHED 1888.

n o
5H KEEN, BALDWIN g. WILLIAMS,
HAVE now in Store and ready for exhibition the
1 Il largest, best selected and cheapest stock OF
Spring Clothing seen in the South. They
have taken great pains in the manufacture of this
stock and offer unusual inducements in both styles
and workmanship. a~
= Our Mr.. KEEN has been In Europe for several
months, and from our own increased advantages in
the purchase of goods. extensive operations and
long experience in the manufacture and sale of CLIO
THING, we fatter ourselves that we can offer as
great inducement as those of any house in any mar
ket in this country. Purchasers will consult their
own interests by an examination of our Stock styles
and prices before buying elsewhere. 9gsss<.a
KEEN, BALDWIN & WILLIAMS.
Richmond, Feb. u, 1861.
1860. SPRING TRADE. 1860.
EELETT g. WEISIGER,
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
HATS. GAPS, AND STRAW GOODS,
No. 167 Main ST., Opposite Exchange Bank ,
RICHMOND, VA,
HAVING made extensive preparations are now Of
Ii ferng to the Merchants of Virginia, North Car
DINA and Tennessee at prices which cannot fail to
ensure a sale, the largest and most complete n
stock of Spring and Summer Goods ever ~
gotten up In this market-whlch for variety and
elegance cannot be excelled. All they ask is a look
before purchasing elsewhere.
- ORDERS strictly attended to.
Mr.. J. L.. Hutchinson, formerly of Union, Monroe
county, Va is interested in business and will de-
vote to it his valuable services
Feb. IA, l86G-ly. Elicit & WEISIGER.
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THE FARMERS GUIDE TO
SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL
RTGTLTTRE.

AGRICULTURE.
By HENRY STEPHENS, F. r. S., of Edinburgh, and the
late j. P. NoRroN, Professor of Scientific Agrlcul-
ture in Yale College, New Haven. 2Vols. Ro. al
Octave. 1900 pages, and numerous Engravings.
This is, confessedly, the most complete work on
Agriculture published, and in order to give it
wider circulation the publishers have resolved to
duce the price to
SIS For the Two Volumes!
When sent by mail (post-paid) to California and
Oregon the price will be st. To every other part OF
the Union and to Canada (postpaid), Sc, ~ This
sOork is NOT the old ssBook of the Fdrma.''
Remittances for any of the above publications
should always be addressed postpaid to the publish
ers, I'LL &t LEONARD SCOTT Il co.
Dec. 81. No. 81 Gold ST., New York.
GTOVES! STOVESll STOVES H!-I have
y on hand the most approved styles of COOKING
STOVES, also Alright and Parlor Stoves of various
patterns Tenders, Andirons, &C., &C. would espe-
cially call attention to the OLD DOMINION COOK
STOVE, which after ten years in this county, de-
servedy ranks as the very best Stove for family use
yet introduced GEO. E. PRICE. !
Nov. %, 1852
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SIS For the Two Volumes !!

CTRAW and CORN STALK CUTTERS
- We have on hand some of Cummings Straw and
Corn Stalk Cutters said to be superior to any Gutter
now in use in this county.
References be made to l. J. Parklns VIM. M.
Tate, John s. Byers, Henry B. Seig and COL William
D. Anderson, all of whom have them in use Sd
Staunton, Feb z. WOODS Il GILKESON
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DISIOLS.-We have just received by Express.
direct from the manufacturers, supply of "Cot's
Reyolvers" also Pistols of other patterns We will
also receive by Express tomorrow the regular Armo
ry and Navy Revolver with belts attached Those in
want OF such articles will please call and examine our
stock. WOODS & GILKESON
Staunton. Nov % 1850
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-04-03

ECLECTIC MEDICAL INFIRMARY,
NEAR SCOTTSVILLE,
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
nR. HENRY NJ. PRICE, formerly Professor in
IL s. B. Medical College of Georgia. is prepared
receive and treat patients afflicted with the follow
ing chronic and supposed incurabe forms of diseases.
He uses concentrated vegetable remedies baths, &c.
rc Cancer, Ees Neuralgia Affections,
Scrofua, Diseases OF Kidneys, &c.,
- Ulcers, Liver Complaint, ~-
Fistula, i'@ Dr0pscal AfectAHs
Piles, .flisSr Gravel, ~ 81
Rheumatism, Bronchitis, ID t.s0
Sciatica, Asthma, -.,
Dyspepsia, Epilepsy,
Chronic Female Complaints.
- fair value will be paid for all negroes aflict-
ed when not too old.
few young men will be taken Office Students
at 5000 per annum for Board and Instruction, paw.
BILE in advance.
TERMS Medical a tendance Board, Medicines, sl5
per week, payable in advance
- Extra charge for Cancer.
Oct. II, 1859-1y.
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DRICK FOR SALE The undersigned having
ID associated themselves together in the BRICK
MAKING AND LAYING BUSINESS, take this
method of informing the public that they have now
on hand and will keep constantly hand an assort-
ment of GOOD BRICK. which they will sell
as low as they can be bought elsewhere Brick
furnished and laid on the shortest notice. One of us
can always be found at ouryard the first toll
gate. on the Winchester roa about ne-fourth of a
mile from town.
Always good LIME on hand at the yard.
Staunton, July IL, 1852 BAGBY WOOD.
THO THE PUBLIC.-hes ubscriberrespectful
i ly informs the public thst he is in the occu-
pancy of the House occupied by John B. Scherer and
that hereafter will be opened It his house RESTAU-
RANT, and that persons fronlthe country and other
places can at all times be accommodated with PRO-
VISIONS, for themselves andHorses, &c.
Mr. j. B. Scherer Wal give lis personal attention to
customers. VIM. WHOLLY.
Staunton, Ap. %, So. So
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TRON.-I have just received large lot of the bes
Il English refined Iron, comprising all sorts of Rods
Band, Tire, Oval, Strap, &C., &C., to which the atten
ton of Smiths is requested GEO. E. PRICE. /
Stanton Nov. 90, 1859.
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The Wall of China.

This stupendous monument OF human art ant
industry exceeds everything that We read OF il
ancient or modern history. The pyramids o
Egypt are little when compared with wal
which is conducted over high mountains, some
Of which rise to the height of five thousand TIVE
hundred and twenty five feet, across the deepes
wales, over wide rivers by means OF arches, and
in many parts is doubled or trebled, TO command
important passes at the distance OF almost ev
cry hundred yards is tower or massy bastion
The extent is computed at fifteen hundred miles
aud is such enormous thickness that SIX horse
men may ride abreast upon it.
Sir George StauntOn, who accompanied LORD
Mccartney in bis embassy to China, considers
this great barrier to have been erected at least
two thousand years. Du Hale also says this
prodigious work was constructed two hundred
aud fifteen years before the birth of Christ, by
the order of the first emperor of the family OF
Tsin, to protect three large provinces from the
irrupton of the Tartars. One-third part of the
able bodied men of China were employed in
constructing this wall, and the workmen were
ordered, under pain of death, to place the mate
rials of which it is composed SO closely that the
least entrance might not be left for any instru
rnent of pointed iron. The labor in its con.
struction must have been immense, as the mate
rials must have been carried over a desert coun
trv to eminences inaccessible to hor or carria
ges. This "wonder of the world" was complet
ed in the short space of five years, and it is re
ported that the laborers stood so close for many
miles that they could hand the material from ont
to another
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

AN HONEST GRowL.-I am sick of politics.
| am sick OF torchlight fzzles. am sick of
1.-THE Prince" am sick of men who never talk
sense to women. | am sick of boys of seven
smoking cigars. | am sick of gloomy pharisees,
and wordy, idealess sermons, and narrow creeds
| am sick OF lawless Sabbatarians and.female in.
fidels and free lovers. l am sick of unhealthy,
diseased books, full of mysti6cations and trans
cendental bosh. | am sick of ''chaste ribbons
and ''ravishing lace" l am sick, in an age that
produced a Bronte and Browning, of the prate
of men who assert that every woman should be
perfect housekeeper, and Jail to add, that ey-
cry man should be perfect carpenter. l am
sick of women, seif-styled 'sliterary," who think
it a proof OF genius to despise everyday house
hold duties. [ am sick OF schools for the manu.
facture of bent spines. | am sick of parents.
the cofins of whose children are already being
made, asking teachers to add "another branch1
to the already suicidal pile of lessons. | am
sick of over-worked, ill-paid female operatives.
am sick OF seeing tracts distributed where
soup and bread should go. l am sick of seeing
noodles in high places, and intelligence and re-
finement sitrlng in inglorious ease by their own
fresides.
am sick of the encouragement held out to
women by the other sex to remain pretty idols.
followed by long moral essays upon the enormi-
ty of being such. am sick of fummery and
nonsense and humbug and pretension OF every
kind. am sick of this everlasting scrabiinr
and crowding, and pushing, and jostlng, on the
edge of the five feet of earth which is all any
one of Us can have at last, after all our pains.
Now, don't lay this growl to indigestion. for
never had it. or to biliousness, for feel as if
were just made, or long arrears of unpaid bills
because pay as 60. No, sir-as the Episco
pals have 1t, ''all this do steadfastly believe. y
There-now l feel better. FANNY FERN.
-Bonner's Ledger.
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POETR Y.
Rock me to Sleep.

Backward; turn backward, o. Time. in youl fight,
Make me child again, just for tonight!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart, as of yore-
KISS from my forehead the burrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep!
Backward. flow backward, O tide of years
am so weary of toll and of teals-
Toll without trecompense-tears all in vain
Take them and give back my childhood again
have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of finglng my soul-wealth away
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep
Tired of the base, the hollow, the untrue,
Mother, o, mother, my heart calls for you!
Many summer the grass has grown green,
BIossomed and faded-our faces between
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long l, tonight. for your presence again;
Come from the silence so long and so deep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep!
Over my heart, in days that are flown,
No love like mother-love ever has shone-
No other worship abides and endures.
Faithful, unselfsh and patient like yours
None like mother can charm away pain
From the sick soul, and the world-weary brain;
Sumbers soft calm DER my heavy lids creep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rOck me to sleep!
Come, let your brown hair. just lighted with gold
Fall on your shoulders again as of Old
Let it fall DER my forehead tonight,
Shading my faint eyes away from the light
For, with its sunny edged shadows once more,
Happily throng the sweet visions Of yore,
Lovingly. softly, its bright billows sweep
Rock me sleep. mother-rock me to sleep!
Mother, dear mother, the years have been long
Since last listened to your lullaby song
Sing, then, and unto my soul it shall seem
Womanhood's years have been only dream;
Clasped to your heart in loving embrace,
With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep
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how much you admired the pair I worked fol
"a pair of slippers. Don't you remember
you, oh ! ever so long agos"
81 remember; black velvet with flowers or
them, used to put my feet on the fender. and
dream of blue eyes and bright curls, and wish
time would move faster to the day when I could
bring my bonnie wee wife home, to make music
in my house.
Lizzie's face saddened for moment. as she
thought of the last two years, and how little
music she had made for this loving heart, grad
ually weaving it from its allegiance; then she
said: M
81 wonder if you love music as much as you
did then 2"
"Of course l do often drop in at Miss
Smiths for nothing else than to hear the mu-
sic."
Il can play and sing better than Miss Smith,
said Lizzie, half pouting.
"But you always say you are out 81 practice
when / ask YOU"
II had the piano tuned this morning. Now.
open it, and we will see how it sounds"
William obeyed joyfully, and tossing eside her
sewing, Lizzie took the piano-stool. She had a
very sweet voice, not powerful, but most music
al, and was very fair performer on the piano.
"Ballads, Lizzie"
"Oh! yes, know you dislike opera music in
q parlor."
One song after another, with an overture or
lively instrumental piece, occasionally between
| them, filled up another hour pleasantly.
The little mantle clock struck eleven
Eleven! l thought it was about nine. !
ought to apologize, Lizzie, as used to do, for
| staying SO long and can truly say, as did
| then, that the time has passed so pleasantly
can scarcely believe it is so late"
The piano was closed, Lizzie's work put in the
basket, aud William was ready to go up stairs,
but gancing back, he saw his little wife near the
tire place, her hands clasped, her head bent, and
large tears falling from her eyes. He was be
side her in an Instant
Lizzie, darling, are you ill9 What is the
| natter2"
"Oh! William, have been such bad wife
heard you tell Mr. Moore last evening how l
had disappointed you but will try to make
your home pleasant, indeed l will, if you will
only forgive and love me.''
"Love you! Oh! Lizzie, you cannot guess
how dearly love you'll"
As the little wife lay down that night, she
thought:
81 have won him back againl Better than
that, have learned THE WAY To KEEP HIM ~
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WATERLOO TIE Day AFTER THE BATTLE
On a surface OF two square miles, it was ascer-
tanned that fifty Thousand men and horses were
living The luxurious crop of ripe grain which
had covered the field of battle, was reduced to
litter, and beaten into the earth and the surface
trodden down by the cavalry, and furrowed
deeply by the cannon Wheels strewed with many
a relic of the fight. Helmets and cuirasses,
sha- tered firearms and broken swords; all the
variety OF military ornaments, lancer caps and
Highland bonDets; uniforms of every color,
plume and pennon, musical instruments, the ap
paratus of artillery, drums, bugles-but good
God why dwell on the narrowing picture OF a
foughten feld2 Each and every ruinous display
bore mute testimony to the misery of such q
battle. x Gould the melancholy ap-
pearance of this scene of death be heightened, it
wonld be by witnessing the researches of the liv
ing, amid it's desOlatiOn, for the objects of their
Mothers and wives, and children, four days were
occupied in that mournful duty; and the confu-
sion of the corpses-triends and foes intermin-
Cling as they were often rendered the attempt at
recognizing individuals difficult, and in some
cases impossible. y In many places the
dead lay tour deep upon each other, marking the
spot which some Britis. square had occupied,
exposed for hours to the murderous fire of a
French battery. Outside, lancer and cuirasser
WeFo SC1ttoIcu tu1CAty cu tuo eaEGH. Mduiy az
tempting to force the serried bayonets of the
British, they had fallen in the bootless essay by
the lnusketry of the inner files. Farther on, you
trace the spot where France and England had
encountered; chasseur and hussar were inter-
mingled, and the heavy Norman horse of the
| Imperial Guard were interspersed with the grey
chargers which had carried Albion's chivalry.
Here the Highlander and traileur lay, side by
side, together; and the heavy dragooD, with
green Erin's badge upon his helmet, was Crap
| ling in death with the Polish lancer. =
On the summit of the ridge, where the ground
was numbered with the dead, and trodden fet
lock deep in mud and gore, by the frequent rush
of rival cavalry, the thick-strewn corpses of the
| Imperial Guard pointed out the spot where Ma
poleon had been defeated. Here, in column,
that favored corps, on whom his last chances
rested had been annihilated and the advance
and repulse of the Guard was traceable by a
mass of fallen Frenchmen. In the hollow below,
the last struggle of France had been vainlv made,
for there the Old Guard attempted to meet the
British, and afford time to their disorganized
companions to rally.
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QUEEN VICToRIAs HEALTH.-Queen Victo-
ria's departure from Brussels, on her return to
England, was delayed for two days by cold
which she caught in Germany. 1t is striking
proof of the excellence of the constitution of
Queen Victoria, and of her physical training and
regularity of habit, that dnring the twenty
three years she has been on the British throne,
she has never been confined to her room from
sickness for single day, excepting upon the oc-
casions when she has added to the number Of
the Guelph olive branches.
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NO. XIX.
For the Spectator.
By JAMES FIrZ.


I've been roaming through the wales,
And among the mountains blue,
Where the sparkling rivers flow
Through the grassy meadows dew.
Beauteous prospects everywhere.
On the hill and in the vale;
And to bless my pilgrimage.
One sweet vision did prevail.
One bright day wandered forth,
Natures beauteous form to view;
Fairy landscapes then were lost,
Lady, when met with you.
ALI the charms of nature seemed
Concentrated in those eyes;
Eden's peerless beauty then,
Did before my vision rise.
Bat those dreamy scenes of bliss,
Soon did vanish into air
When the thought was brough! to view,
Prior claims secured the Fair.
Delighted thus to find you blest
With love, with honor, and in ease;
turned admiring as / went
Forgive your poet if you please.
PLEAS ANT VALLEY, VA.
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MIR. James says that the first mention of the
singular punishment of tar and feathers occur
red in one of the regulations formed by Richard
CHur de Leon for the government Of his troops,
when about to enter upon the second crusade,
that if any one should be discovered committing
a robbery he should be tarred and feathered
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NHISOELLANE0US.
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kAAA VEGETABLE

We dsc the attention OF the OlSOtSc " "StS
long tested and 1nTivaHed
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shouting this Medicine to be an almost
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Sudden Colds, Coughs, F'eDer and 54gue,
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on sea and land, and no one should
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Sold by dealers every where
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Give man the necessaries of life, and be
wants the conveniences. Give him the conve-
riences, and he Graves the Injuries. Grant him
the luxuries, and be sighs for the elegances.-
Let him have the elegances, and he yearns for
the foles. Give him altogether and he COM
plains that he has been cheated both in the
price and quality of the articles.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

But for the sorrows of the heart where would
the affections find their strength2 Our virtues,
like the aromatic shrubs of the forest, only give
out their sweets when their leaves are bruised
and trampled. He who has not felt of sorrow
may be scarcely said to have known love since
the most precious joys of the soul arise from
sympathies that are seldom known till they are
sought, and never sought till they are necessary
to soothe an infrmity or satisfy need.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

IF there is any person on earth who deserves
the appellation Of fool it is he who continually
frets and snarls, and never sees moments peace
while he is surrounded with every thing, which
If nronerlv used. would make him happy.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

It has been ascertained by experiment that
good fresh yeast, taken internally, is sovereign
remedy for putrid sore throat. 1t gives almost
instant relief
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

The triumph of woman lies not in the ad-
miration of her lover, but in the respect Of her
husband and that can only be gained by con.
slant cultivation of those qualities which she
knows he most values.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

Some one has beautifully said 1.-THE water
that hows from spring does not CONCEAL in
Winter. and those sentiments of friendship which
fow from the heart cannot be frozen in sdver-
sity."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

There is a man out west whose memory is so
short it only reaches to his knees, consequently
he never pays for his boots.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27

Old anglers say, that if you wish to catch a
fine fish, you must not throw your bait directly
at him. Young ladies, take notice.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-11-27
Ayers Ague Cure.
DE FORREST ARMSTRONG. 4 co.
DRY GOODS MERCHANTS,

rs, n, 70, 81, SO and as Duane Street,
-. NEW YORK. -ss
Would notify the Trade that they are opening
Wamsuta Prints, also the Amoskeag, New Print
which exces every Print in the Country for perfec
ton of execution and design in full Madder Colors
Our Prints cheaper than any in market and meet
to.
Jan. 81, 18f0-1y
CYRUP.-2O bbls. Molasses and Syrup.
- TAYLOR 4 HOGE.
Staunton, Oct. 9, 1860.