Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-24

France has abandoned her demand for am
extension of her frontier.
Gov Isham G.. Harris was in Selma, on
the 4th, registering from Mexico.
A hotel for the especial accommodation of
freedmen has recently been opened in Nash
vile.
Philip Coons, formerly resident of Har-
per's Ferry, Va, died at St. Louis on the
9th instant
There will be an extra session of the
Legislature af Mississippi in October or No
vember next.
The Pamela (Miss. Star says that the rust
in cotton has made its appearance on sever
al plantations in that county.
There has been great popular agitation in
Vienna, and crowds in the streets have called
on the Emperor to abdicate.
Monterey has been evacuated by the
French. Tampico was occupied by the Lib
eralists on the LIST instant.
Generals Sweeney and Spear, of Fenian
notoriety, have returned to New York. They
are on bail for trial in Rutland, Vermont,
next October.
Every enc of the nine Congressman elected
in Kentucky are Democrats, save possibly
one (Randall's district.) Thus the Demo-
Gratis will gain three, if not four members.
The Franklin Miss. Journal says that
county "may be behind the rest of the world
in few things, but she can beat all creation
in the number of her pretty girls. %
A schoolmistress of Lenox, Mass, was
bound over to the Superior Court last week,
for an aggravated assault upon child three
years Of age, because he did not spell ''fox."
Major Heros Won Borcke, who was chief.
of-staff to General j. E. B. Stuart, and con-
tributed an account of his exploits to Black
rood is now on the staff of Prince Freder-
lex Charles, Of Prussia.
A quarry of superb variegated marble has
been discovered in Alabama, near the Chatta-
nooga railroad A specimen has been ex-
hibited in Nashville, and is found to sustain
a higher polish than the marble Of East Ten
neSsee.
The labor of the convicts in the Alabama
Penitentiary has been leased for six years to
company engaged in iron mining. The
State receives SIS, 900 for the contract.
A freedman was arrested at Richmond for
throwing bricks at his wfe's windows. He
had been denied admission by the inmates of
the house, and took that method of ''letting
her know who was dar."
The New Orleans Times records the fact
that United States troops were greeted with
cheers from the white citizens Of that city,
shortly after the recent riot, for the first time
since the secession of Louisiana.
A private letter from Bedford county,
Tenn, reports remarkable religious inter-
est at Salem, IN that county A union meet
ing of Baptlsts, Methodsts and Presbyteri-
ans was continued for two weeks, and re-
suited in ITO conversions.
There was tournament at Huntsville,
Ala, lately, and as the knight of the Grey
Jacket" was passing down the street, the
military cut off the Confederate buttons
This was truly feat which eclipses all the
exploits of Sherman and Grant.
Counterfeit One Dollar Notes are being
circulated, and our people will do well to be
on their guard against them. The note is
well calculated to deceive careless persons,
but will not bear critical examination. the
shading on the left side of the face of Mr..
Chase being darker than in the genuine, while
the WHOLE head j. rather roughly executed.
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