Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-11-18
Gold not Standard-- Convention o
States not Admissible.

] States not Admissible.
! In late speech at Mobile, which we end
reported in the Tribune Of that city, Sena-
FOR Semmes, of Louisiana, said:
The contrast Of our paper with gold is
not fair mode of ascertaining its value
Gold in the Confederate States to-day ii
much more valuable than it was at the com
meDcement of the war. L, like every 9TH
er article has risen 10 value among us. One
dollar in specie to-day is eqaiyalentto what
II.sWo collars and hail was before the war
You can board now for one dollar day
Negroes that were worth $1,000 in gold
would not now Drug mosree ..han $3.50 or
s 400 in gold He had sent to Nassau Tor
some articles for which be had to buy S24
in COLA Wien they were delivered in
Richmond he found that they could have
hecn purchased there for the same amount
as he had paid for the gold. without any ad
dltional expenses, and without the risk oil
running the blockade. Aud, in fact, while
we appear to be paying twenty for one for
gold, We are really paying only ten for one
We have had to conduct this war on credit,
and have been compelled to impose taxes
I to maintain that credit; and We shall have
t to impose more taxes. Yet we shall not
need as much as we have, because our ex
penses have greatly diminished; and we
have abundance of means to prosecute this
war al inJfnttnns. Why, then, should
There be any hesitation in persisting in this
war for our independence He saw none.
We are sure Of ultimate success.
Why then, shonld some persons occupy
ing prominent positions talk to us about a
convention Of the States? He desired peace
as much as anybody but he wanted an
honorable peace. Mcclellan says he could
not look his soldiers in tn. face AMI tell
them their efforts to save the Union had
been unavailing. Gould we look our SOL
diers in the face and tell them. that the
blood of their relations and friends, the vast
sacrifices that lave been made, the suffer-
ing that have been endured, and all the ef-
forts they had med. ..ao Is secure our indepen-
dence had been unavailng F? And if the SOL
diers now in the field should think otherwise
would not the, dead of the battle fields rise
and shake their CORY locks at the recrea nts?
This idea Of a convention of the States is
filled with danger. It is impracticAbe in
itself, and is nothing but an apple Of dis
cord thrown among US to divide US. It is
impracticoble because the proposition can
not be accepted, except upon the terms of
the annihllation the Confederate Govern
ment, because this is a separate aad indie
pendent government.
We have formed Constitution By which
the States are bound together and that de-
clares that no State shall make treaty or
alliance with any foreign power. ANY
State desiring to so into the Convention,
cannot do SO aud remain member of the
Confe9eracy. 1t can do so only by sece-
ding f,om the Confederacy, and assam ing
the attitude of sovereign and independent
power, The President and the Senate Of
the Confederate States as the treaty making
power, cannot accept the invitation to 60 in
to Convention with the United States be-
cause they have not the constitutional pow
err. The power reste solely with the PEG
pie, and they can do it only by seeding -
The proposition is one, therefore, made by
the United States Government, tn break up
the Confederate Government. and put us
where We were immediately. after secession
Married the Wrong Lady.
Love is very uncertain thing. end il is
not safe to be too certain Of the symptoms
until they are unmistakable. The follow
ing will ex plain our meaning.
Vieuna has been stirred up, lately, by
the com!cal result offs strange love story -
It seems that il the house Of one Herr Ku-
hue, a teacher Of languages, DR.. Kant a
young lawyer, happened to make the &C.
quaintance ola lady, burdened with some
property and thirty years. The. lady. being
unmarried, evidenced particular interest 10
the young, shy, aud rather abashed man Of
law. She made love to him, in fact, very
strongly, persuaded him 10 visit her at her
house. But, alas he loved another lady
One evening, while conversing with the
doctor, she said: '.Why, with your favor
able idea Of matrimony. may ask if you
ever thought of marrying YOURSELF" Dr..
Kant sighed, (and his eyes resting -. the
ground. J hesitatingy mutteses. in reply
I have already though. If marrying, aud
made my choice, out "But" the lady
hastily irsserposed But he continued
''the lady is rivhb, very rich. and ain poor,
[ am a.estaid could hardly aspire to her
Land, and, rather than allow myself to be
taxed with sordid designs, will bury my
passion in my breast, and leave it unavow-
ed forever"
At an early hour the following day she,
however, betook herself to solicitor, aud
in legal form, declared her wish to present
and baud over as his property the sum of
$50, 600 guilden (f15, 0O0) to Dr. Kant. =
When the document had been signed and
duly completed, she sat down in the Office,
and enclosing it in an elegant envelope.
added note to the following effect dear
Sir: have much pleasure in enclosing a
paper which hope will remove the ohsta-
Gle in the way Of your marriage. Believe
me. ETC.. Alice Martini"
DR. Kant, for he and nc tier was the
addressed, was the happiest maj in the
world on receiving this generous epistle =
Repairing at once to the parents of Frau.
lieu Fischel. the lady of his love, he pro-
posed for and e,eived the hanl of a girl
who had long been f altered by his delicate
though unavowed intentions. His reply to
Fraulein Martini, besides conveying his sin
! cere thanks, contained two cartes de vlsite,
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