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SHARP Trick OF CHINESE IMPORTERS -
The Custom house authorities at San Fran
cisco discovered very ingenious Chiaese
t TX, which led to the seizure of another
lot Of snuggled opium. Among the cargo
of the bark Ceres were 400 tubs invoired
eggs, value stated at enc dollar each The
eggs were coated with peculiar kind Of
varBish to preserve them. One of tue off :
GERS. in examining the eggs. scraped of \
little varnsb ana disclosed metallic casa.
egg-shaped, filed with opium. SO far as
the examination has proceeded, 500 haeo
been found
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SCHEDULE OF PRICES FOR NORTH CAR
LINA.-The schedule Of prices for North
Carolina has just been fixed by the Board
of Commissioners. The prices adjujged
seem to give much dissatisfaction in the
State. The Raleigh Progress, speaking
Of the tariff of rates. Says
The fact that the price of brandy aud
whisky is put at twenty and twenty FIVE
dollars gallon, will hardly increase n
idence in the currency, for no stronger
argument can be used looking to repudia-
ton than such prices. Why corn meal
should be put at six dollars bushel. aud
flour at sixty dollars barrel, and apple
brandy at twenty dollars a gallon. mmoa
sense people will be puzzled to understand.
Atsuch prices one crop from two acre
orchard will yield more than the salary Of
a Major General in the field for year.
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What the Negro has cost the Country.
Some of the Northern papers are getting
tired of the war being waged for ''nisger
freedom" The New York Herald even
relieves itself II tie following on the sub
ject:
This war to free the niggers has now
ragged relentlessly for three years. and
what is the result? There were at the
commencement four millions of niggers in
slavery. 1t is estimated that the war has
made one million free. But even all Of
this million have not been able to stand the
ordeal Of their passage from slavery to
freedom. Two or three hundred thousand
have persisted meanwhile by famine. dis
ease and bulltes. But say that ia round
numbers, one quarter Of tue niggers have
been made free, what has it cost US, as
friends OF humanity, to free this million !?
North and South together have paid well
for it; for il the armies Of both sections
there have been killed or disabled. or have
died, not less than one million white men
Ia fair balance, man for man. A white
man dies for every niger that is made
free. But this is not all. The debts of
both sections make up the round sum of
five thousand millions Of dollars. THUS,
for every niger that has been made free,
in obedience to the clanours of the friends
Of humanity, the whole country has given
| ave thousand dollars and the life Of one
| white man. At this rate what will be left
of us when we have made free the whole
four millions? Will it not be like the
Kilkenny cat fight? Will there be any
mo re left than the tails
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Poetry.
(For the Vindicator.)
81 Know that my Mother Is Praying
Ger Me-

Cor the Vindicator.)
81 Know that my Mother Is Praying
SCR Me-
soldier in the southern army askeda courade
why he was always so cheerful and happy, and
in battle 20 calm and fearless. His reply wEs:
n know that my mother Is praying for me-"
Say, comrade, why art thou SO happy and light
Through the long, weary day; and thy slumbers
at night
Are so peaceful and quietly breathing SO
free p
II know that my uaether is praying for me-"
But tell me-when danger and CONFLICT draw near,
And thefoe are in sight-why hast thou go tear :?
OFT tell me. and let me learn courage from thee.
81 know thar my mother is praying for me"
Iut saw. when the storm Of the battle is aigh
WHY tremblest thou not, nor quaileth thine eye !
raou csr.sx not foretel what thine own fate
may be.
"Ahi know that nv mother is praying for me.
when the conflict is ended; the victory gained,
And the wounded and dead are strewed o'er the
plain,
W hat means.h the tear, Which sometimes see
81 t.h that my my mother ioas praying tor me-.
But dos's thou not fear, that, when death comes
at last,
Thy spirit Twill quail meath his whitening blast
Say, has thou no dread that soon it may Beg
"iknow that my mother is praying for me.
o. then, when thy mother is praying for thee,
Wilt thou ask her to add one petition .or me
4 mosherless boy-and fearless ri be,
When knvw that thy mother is praying for me
Rosemoat, 1854. AETA.
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sTAUNToN, VA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1864.

List or Killed and Wounded in ColOne
Kenton Harper's Regiment of Reserves
in the Battle Of Piedmont, June 5th
1864.
Company A, Capt. Hardy commanding.
-Killed-Thomas Fallen.
Wounded -I.ieet. Steiabsck, 8. Z
Wright, d. IL. Snyder.
Company b. Capt Doyle colRmanding
--Killed-Capt. r.. L Doyle. 1ohn Mere.
dith.
Wounded -Sergt. Helms, GEogGR 4
MYERLEY, VIM. Cason.
Company G, Capt. j. NJ. Templeton
commanding. Killed-Capt. Templston
Wounded orpl. A. H. Lackey. JAS
WEIGH, A. H. Hanger, Jas. Matchet
Company D. Capt. Peck commanding
Killed
Wounded-Wm. J. Rush.
Captured Samuel Hunter.
Company E, Capt Opie commanding. -
Killed ;. -- McKamy.
Wounded- Mccormick.
Company +, Cspt. Rippetoe command
ing KILLED
Wounded Capt. Rippetoe, A. Stanbus
J. Brown.
Company g. Capt. Byrd commanding
Killed.
Wounded-Lieut Jas. A. Syms, Chas
Ridgeway, VIM L. Kyser.
Company FL, Capt Hilbertcommanding
Killed. oseph Granite.
Wounded -Robt. Birtreit. mertalfy.
since died; James Locker, VIM. Kerford
VIM Reswick, Harmon j. Lohr.
Company l Capt. Bacon commanding
Killed Orderly Scrgt. W. W. Moore
unded-Taylor Coffman, Joseph
Baldwin, Chas. Schendle, Thomas Walls,
John Smith.
Company K, Lieut.. Blue commanding.
Killed-Lieut. Blue.
Wounded-Sergt. Binford, captured
Serst. Taylor, Sergt. T.. Wilson, John
Roebuck, j. Williams, P. Mccormick,
John Henry, WIN. Evans, John Condor,
Thomas Bonworth, Thos. Kelly. james
Hackett, Henry Kress, 4. W. Goodman
VIM. Kenney, acting as orderly to the
Colonel, was wounded by the falling Of a
timber. cut firm a tree by she'll.
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A MORMON SETTLEMENT IN WESTERN
VIRGINIA. Wheeling (Val Inteligen-
Ger says:
We learn that there is ID the town OF
South Wheeling society of Mormons who
practice all the doctrines of that sect except
that OF polygamy We have had CONVEX
satlon with an Epglshman who belongs to
the society, and who firmly believes 10 all
the peculiar notions Of the Latter Bay Saints
He says he was converted to the faith since
his arrival in this country. In his opinion
all the churches to which Gentiles usually
attach themselves are wonderfully corrupt
He has not had physician in bis house for
i've or siz years Cases Of sickness are
cured BY amounting aud by laying on Of
hands, according to the customs Of the New
Testament
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But One WAY.-The Boston Cour,or
is Publishing series of letters, under the
head of A Ride to the Hoosiac Mountain :"
Tie writer says, among other good things:
As we sat in the barroom after dinner
We heard flo n an old fa,mar suggestion
worthy Of nots There ain,t but one way !"
said he, ito get a hole through this hero
mountain. and that is, to bury niggar in
it som ewhere and then Gov, Andrew will
set all M Massachusetts, to dig him out"
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A Regiment OF The Right Sort.

"A MA anOAt VI \ AAN
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, in bis letter Of 10Th
ult., says:
An effort was made to send off to Wash
ington the seth regiment New York State
Militia without success The regiment be-
longs to Brooklyn. When drawn up in
line, last evening, at Fort Green, many Of
them declared that they wonld not leave
the State. When they reached the arsenal
some broke raaks sandsran down Portland
avenue, hooting and yelling others who
had been driven into the building at the
point Of the bayonet jumped out Of the
windows and made good their escape. Sew.
eral fights took place between the officers
and men and altogether the scene was one
of the most disgrac full it is possible to i'm
agine. The regiment will probably be dis
banded altogether.
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NJ o Z G e
~ negro man supposed TO be
about Is years Of age, tolerabiy dark complexion,
about feet in height and Of pleasant countenance,
smiling shen spoken to, was wounded slightly
about the knee and is near Hisboa ough, Pocahon-
tas county, Va. When wounded he was armed
III seems to be very conversaEt with persons and
things about aud near Stanton, from which fact,
though protesting to be free is supposed to be the
propert. Of some in that locality. The owner
can get him by going to Hilsboro'. He is at the
house ofNr. HENDERSON, which is by no means in
safe locality. The owner is expected to pay for
this advertisement.
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From the Washington Correspondence Of
the Baltimore Sun, July %

Bids for Furnishing the United States
Subsistence Department with -four wers L
pened at Captain Green's Office. No. 222 &
street, yesterday. All tho bids received
were for No. 2. -four, and the number OF
barrels accepted was 4. 9S7. The follow :
ing is list Of the bids accepted: A Ross
Ray & Co., Georgetown. 1000 barrels.
at SIS IS per barrel George W. Mears.
1 500 barrels. at Sl3,48 per barrel Them
as Fl Donohue. .207 at SIS 40; 200 at
SI3 % per barrel.
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sUppLIEsT3asoLoiEas

A CAR will leave Stanton every Friday morn.
N ing, to convey such supple. persons may
charge of reliable person, who will see to theii
delivery at convenient point. Packages should
be delivered (piainly markedly Thur sday
evening Those Who wish can deliver packages n,
Fishersviile and Waynesboro' which will also be
taken II. NJ. BELL,
Nov. 70, '6e--tf Mai. 6 @. NJ.
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Captain Muta This renowned CON-
mapder OF tha Confederate states msn-of.
war Florida, isnow in Fayetteville. North
Carolina. He will 5000 take command of
the Albemarle and ofhee vessels on the
North Carolina coast.
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q o o I'D .TE II r e III II &
T have removed my FRICTION MATCH MAN
4 U FACTORY, to the corner known as !" Bckle'
Corner" on Augusta street, opposite the dr.
goods store of Mr.. Owen C. Morris, where shall
be prepared to furnish Matches by the Gross or
Box. These matches are extensively used in
Sta unton and Richmond and thought to be fully
equal TO any sold in this market. | shall al
ways have supply on hand, as the nufactory
is kept constantly in operation.
Jan z6-lyr D. r. BLACKBURN.
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An Apgeal to the People Of the CoEfed-
er ae Gia.Gs

Tga Directors Of tie Dung Mems Christian As
ISOLATION OF klchuiond respectfully but. earnestly
submit to the benevolent and the patriotic through
ont The C7@nfe4erata States appeal in behalf OF
ia -oIdier's Families in this city Since the
,oencene nt of the war Richmond has been a refuge
FOR those who have been driven from their homes
nv our ruthless enemies. Thousands OF helpless
women and children, not from the devastated
courties of Virginia alone, but from nearly every
State of the CoAtederacy, have sought an asyiam
in our midst. Cur citizens have been appealed to
/ n numb erleas Instances toftlleve the SICK ana
wounded soldiers to furnish shoes and clothing
for soldiers in the field and hospital, and t aHord
food and shelter for their suffering famlaes ana
n6by have they, in the great majority OF. Fustan-
ces Responded to every appeal.
The supnlies of provisions in the CITY az ms GID
,ra So reduced and the difficulties OF obtaining
others nv ordinary means so numerous ana great,
tbst the funds contributed for the relief OF the poor
can accomplish but little in purchasing the neces
In written report from the Clothing Bureau,
Il nnea RS thrt there more than three Thousand
females in this city who are seesiu employ hcs.
from the Government in vain, ana tnaL hnose WIZ
obtain work are not fully employed. Ihe wages
.ared for their work viii not enable these peer
wa,nen 70 procure eufciency OF the plain leea
far themselves and children. Withous assistance
I then from the city and country genefaiiy' inal
;nstauces Of actua starvation must bave occuffeo
Onr CITY Council has made most liberal appFopria-
fans for the purchase of supplies. beth for eraIu-
tons distribution and for sale at COST put the
imnlo, ed for the purpose have not been abe TO
procure The quantity of provisions required.
under these circumstances we feel that IT Is our
6nty to appeal 70 our fellow citizens throughout fhe
Confederate States to forward, without delay, con
tributions of money ana supplies to tae Al my Gem
no;ttee Of this A Association. Since the coMMefce-
mcnt of the war this Committee has Tailored zeai.
oussy aeae 'asithuv for the temporal ana spIttea.
welfare of our soldiers and their famses, ana 'ar
the success Of glorious cause. Let thosa SOL
diers not be discouraged now, upon the eve q our
seyerest. and as we trust, our last and most lori
GUS campaign, for want of tle generous sympathy
and SUPPORT of their friends ar home.
Shipments made TO Roger Martin. Superintend-
-nt or VIM P Munford, Chairman Of the Army
COMMITTEES, will be promptly attended TO- And in
accord ancc with a special agreement made with the
Superin tendent Of the Southern Express Company.
all express charges wall De paid by them 1t RIGA
mond.
these gentlemen.
WI WILLIS, JH., President.
j. u SLs!aHr, Secretary.
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EYT Tile Indiana Banner relates the cass
Of mother in tina neighborhood of Terrs
Haute, who while hog son was asleep upon
a sofa, put out his eyes With burning coal.
in order that he might be exempted FROM
the CONSUMPTION
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EW G O o D S !!

TUST received Oh consignment lot of superior
q ENGLISH NADER PRINTS,
MOURNING ORGANIZES,
REPPD MUSL1NS,
LADIES FINE POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS,
LADIES FINE WHITE HOSE
&C., DC.
which we will sell low for cash.
JATLETT g. ABBY.
July l5-tf
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We had pleasant Interview last evening
with gentleman just arrived from the Uul-
ted States He gives most gratifying ae-
count of the change in public sentiment with
regard to the prosecution of the war
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Terms Of Peace.
& Herald has the following efthie SUBJ

The Herald has the following efthis SUBJ
jeot
Ins BIS ultimatum, addressed Ito whom
it mayiconcern," Mr. Lincoln lays down the
abolition Of slavery as one Of the terms OF
peace. Where did be get his authority for
this w hat section Of the constitution au-
thorizes it2 When was the war for the Union
transformed into crusade against slaverys
By what fright does Mr. Lincoln presume
toSsaf that the emancipation ofnegroes is as
lnuoH the object Of this war as the restora-
taiiansbf The Union ? What party sustalns
BIN Sn this view of the case2 If the South
Wish come back into the Uuion With
slavery. what party will dare oppose their
ret q usn : The Northern people care nothing
about slavery What they want is the
Union. Who will refuse 10 let them have
shat when the rebels offer to lay down THEN
farns
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Coon. General Hood is efectually and
radically changing the condition of things
in the horse department.. He dismounted
the command that sacked Atlanta. SONS
nights ago, and is executing lis stringsns
orders to dismount every horsemau and
lnuleman who is found absent from his
command
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-08-19

The Lynchbutg Fepnb 'ican 8 ys that
Col William E Peter of Jones' cavalry
brigade, was captured by the enemy in thu
fight at New Greek bridge last week. CAY
tain Shelley. of Col Peters regiment. also
fell into the enemy's hands.
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\ four per cent Certificate No. 1897, assumed 70 Q
II peter Miller, was picked up IN the streets OF
Staunton, and is now in the hands OF the Editor
of the yipdicator, who will deliver the same to the
ewnef upon his persons. aYplieation Tor It.
august b---tf.
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PUBLIC NOTICE.

v1,nE subscriber, hereby gives notice, that bere-
J. alter, he will enforce the law, against all per-
sons, found throwing down his fence, riding. or
driving their wagons, through his fields. haul1ng
off his rails robbing his orchard, or fields OF IN
any other manner, tfespassing upon him
ARCH. P. STUART
August 5-lmo.
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10 Pennsylvania the reaction in favor Of
peace is very great. and Ae is con6denr.
without some unforeseen occurrence arises.
tina, the peace candidate will be triumph
antly elected next fall
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VIoroRrA'a UftutrREs. Queen Victoria
has nine children aged respectively. % %,
20, 10. II, Is. IA. 10 and 6. Five gire
aud four boys. Three are married. The
eldest son, and two oldest girls.
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MOTIF fE

OFFICE SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH Conpsx1Fs
Richmond, March Gath 1864, I5
TINE Stockholders of the Washington and New
T. Orleans, Richmond, Charlottesville and
Stanton, Lvnchburg and Abingdon. and Easj
Tennessee Telegraph Companies, are hereby, mo
titled that the five per cent tax levied by the Ian
passed 18th February 1864, on the value OF al
shared h Id in telegraph other companies will s
paid by the undersigned at this office, and they viii
therefore omit the stock held in any OF these COM
panies in cir lists to assessors. sEs
&. MCCARTHY, Auditor f
Southern Telegraph Companies,
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yvI,AG OF TRUCE LETTERS

YvIAG OF TRUCE LETTERS
T coSFEDERArB STATES OF AMERICA,
war Danattment Buraau OF Fxchemge.
Rici mord Va July | 1864.
l. All letters to go NORTH by Gag oftrece mast
pt sent to this office.
O Each letter must be enclosed in senarate cfs-
vel,pe and addressed to me, bureau OF Exchange,
Richmond. Va.
5 No letter must exceed in length one page Of
artiary sized letter paper and its contents be con
sIn@a strictly to personal or family matters. No
letter abiding to the movements @s localities OF
troops vii be permitted to pass.
l. Each letter must contain a u s. postage
stamp, or it's equivalent IN silver or g. s. curren-
rw
These regulations will he rgidly enforced. and
letter tr,slaittea in Which they are net strict
In o,,sel we'd RIO fssJZss
Agent Of Exchange.
8tllesai:
@.
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The London Times" OF Ju ls 81 regards
Graut's last moveme 1t as practical aduis-
sion of failure. and sub uits various couaid-
sra.ioas to show that his task is as dificuls.
as evor
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;.syE.v e SEE. % O.s y ,
L4n[ES ND Gn.ArGrrE.i.lEz.Y.
CENTRAL HCTEL.

GRARLO TTEST1LLE. III.
rEvIIE Proprietor Of this convenient HOTEL re
T. spectfu.ly call tie attention Of the
fTrT aveIl1hg Pu1oIac
70 the situation # his House, seEg immediately or
the Railroad aud thereby avoiding all chances Of
s,ang left b. the trains. Ills table. supplied with
the best the markets afford, aad his well ventilated
rooms, furnished with
CLEAN BED DING,
afford comfortable entertainment to the WEAR,
III sgsli,se He respectfully eoiicits the patronage
of the public.
Il. ". BAILEY.
March 6, l86s.-esa
~ P. CATLETr. ], Abby
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Notice to Dealers

The taxes sales for the quarter ending June
Both 1864, owing to the invasion OF the enemy have
not been able to be assessed at earlier period.
Dealers can meet all the Assessors in Stanton on
Monday and Tuesday. July 25th and 2eth, when
they can return and pay said taxes on sales, 9th
erwise they must see the Assessor and pay the tax
within 30 days from this date, or double tax will
be requireI
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HARTMAN & BELL.
Attorneys at Gav

STAUNTO va.
VTT H. HARTMAN may be found at the Ofio
w formerly occupied by James L. Skinner
Esq, aud will give prompt attention to business
entrusted to the firm.
February 20, 1858,
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4 Yankee O;,il,on OF Grant.

The following, from the Hartford Times.
shows that some people n the Norm are
capable of judging inlpartially ct orants
campaien-the mos. stupeo lols failure OF
/. modern times:
Lieut.. General Grant has shown more of
! the qualifications of prudent aud able
general in his campaign against Richmoad
TTe has given up The lives Of brave and
noble men witk 6 degree of rodigality, if
not of downright rceklesncss, quite un-
paralleled in the annals Of war. Not the
bloodiest campaigns Of Bonaparte can vie
| in bloody horror with Grants disastrous
record Of two briet months The whole
sale butchery has shocked aud astoun ded
the civilized world. Until the battle of
the Wilderness, followed by the still
bloodicr grouad Of Spotsylvania, with its
butchery of forty thousand, the people of
! Europe had not begun to realize the terri
BILE character of this war.
What, indeed, can be said of campaign
Of two months !. which. while it has gained
for US no advantage, has sacrificed ~, O0O
men, of whom fearful proportion is slain !?
The attempt to establish fer him the claim
to generalship is simply idle sad utterly
empty. as the tale Of his successes, or hts
speedy capture Of Richmond. Leaving
Washington and the great railways run
ming to it entirely exposed. and showing
no military skill or prudence, bat merely
ordering brave men to dash out their lives
against impregnable defences and frowning
batteries. Gen. Grant now telegaaphs that
all is WELL
Are the fools all dead. or are there none
but fools living to swallow down gigantic
humbugs? Have the people lost their
senses ? Are they blind, that they cannot
see mountain when it rises up, grim and
frowning before them, with its juttlng
rocks dashing III their skulls as they rush
madly on7 At no time has the weak head
of this nation comprehended the magni-
tude of this war, nor does he understan nd
the situation Of the nation over which be
presides. Groveling in the disgusting
frivalitg of obscene anecdotes. he is lost to
all sense alike Of the real sitaation of his
bleeding country and of the ordinary pro-
prieties Of his ofhc;al position.
The dignity of the Executive chair Off
great and proud nation has been trampled
in the mire. This mans election was
sore calamity to the nation; but what is
surprising now is. that so many of his
partisans will shut their eyes aud cry
hallelpiah when be foolishly deposes our
abiest Generals and conducts this terrible
war for selfish, personal aud political OBJ
1jecs. Under the policy of this weak man,
not only military ruin, bat financial de-
struction, mast inevitably como upon
great and gallant psople.