The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1863-04-24
ABINGDON, FRIDAY, APRIL "a, 1868.

FRIDAY, A
freshments in a theatre during such perform
ances 1884. for each place of sale, and no enter
tainment shall be made if the privilege be ex-
ercised for period less than one year. For
a license permitting the sale of ardent spirits
in a theatre $3.50 for such place of sale.
On every license to manufacture porter,
ale. and beer, or either of them, $l25.
On every license 10 broker who deals in
stocks. bank notes, gold or silver coin, foreign
or domestic EXCHANGE, or in securities of any
kind. 81. 700: broker shall have the right to
sell stocks at auction or otherwise.
On every license 70 an agent or sub-agent
of any insurance company, not chartered by
this State, $64.
On every license 70 physician, surgeon,
or dentist, $l4; and On every license to an at
torney at law, $l4; and an additional tax Of
d per cent on all incomes exceeding $500
from such professions.
On every license 70 exercise the DAGUERREAN
art or such like profession, by whatever name
known or called, if in a city, or corporated
town of less than 5000 inhabitants, SO: if
more than five thousand. Sl00; if elsewhere
SIS.
On every license % sell. for others, on COM
mission, horses, mules, &C., $50.
On every license 70 sell carriages, buggies
and such like vehides manufactured cut of
this State, S125 in each county or corporation.
On every license to buy Or sell slaves on
commission or for profit, other than at public
auction, $35 in each county; and on the year.
ly income of such business in all the counties,
an additional tax of23 per cent. on such in
come.
On every license to keep barber shop $50,
and $40 for each person over one employed.
On every license to hawker or pedlar to
deal in goods, wares and merchandise, $50
Such hawker or pedlar is to obtain from the
county court within whose jurisdiction the Ii
cense is to be used, o certificate that he is a
loyal citizen of the Confederate States, and
has been a residentof this State for two years.
No license shall he granted to married
woman, unless She shall be living separate
from her husband, or unless her husband
would be entitled to take out a license in his
own name.
sar The following letter from Mr.. Robert
son to his constituents in the. city of Rich
mond, breathes the right spirit-neither to
seek nor decline Office:
To the Citizens of Richmond.
When, in 1910, withdrew from public
life, designed to quit it permanently. When
returning to this city after a long absence, to
educate my children amongst you, you gave
me the cordial greeting Of former years, and
again demanded my services, at a critical mo-
ment of our public affairs. l would not place
my personal wishes against so honoring a
call.
When that term Of service ended, the time
came, two years ago, to execute my long
cherished pprpose to decline further service.
shame-without, indeed, almost moral pol
troonery-environed as our States was, at that
moment, with doubts and dangers, execute
that purpose; and the general voice. of the CT
ty, again returning me to the Legislature,
bore with it the generous and grateful assu-
rance that my efforts to sustain the public
cause, under novel circumstances of grave diff
fculty, as well as to promote your local inter-
ests, had not been deemed wholly unworthy
Of your appreciation.
The time has again come when the many
enquiries addressed to me, require response.
My preference for private life remains un-
changed. But my own reflections, no less
than the opinions of some value, have de-
termined me not to consult that preference by
refusal Of my services. if thought by my
fellow-citizens worth retaining. In ordinary
times citizen may be excusable, perhaps,
for such course. But. in the presence of
great questions, and in the midst of great tri-
ais, know no line of duty for every good CT
tizen, except to hold himself ready to perform
any public service the people shall assign
him to. At such a time the trite phrase,
neither to seek nor to shun public place"
has, in my view, real meaning. 1t will go
vern my course. / do not seek place, because
my personal tastes incline me to prefer the
private walks of life but, far more because
the responsibilities and anxieties OF public
trust, at such a time rs this, are, In my view,
such as that no man who has felt, or is eapa-
BILE Of estimating, the magnitude and the
weight of them, should volunteer to assume
them. And will not shun them, becadse
when country has IT'S all at stake, it has a
right, in my opinion, to the services OF any
citizen in the place where they may deem he
would be- the most useful.
This, then, is my rule of conduct. shall
work wherever may be assigned to duty. l
shall seek no place, aud shun none. neither
high nor low. If left in private station, l
shall be unaffectedly pleased that my fellow
citizens shall have reposed theft trust IN
hands they deem more suitable than mine to
administer them. If placed in Office, ! will
cheerfully assume, and faithfully perform,
the duties of it, so as most to advance and