The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1866-10-17

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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER Il. 1860.
TIE NEWS.
Two hundred and eighty acres Of land
10 Georgia sold for s25.
Great religious revival among the ne
groes at Weldon, NC.
A Chamber Of Commerce is to be estab-
hshed at Houston, Texas.
Colonel Henry Fitzhugh, Of Virginia,
has arrived in London from Mexico.
It is announced that Tom Thumbs
daughter is dead.
Iowa has gone Republican by an in
creased majority. probably over $4,000,
The Confederation delegation are pre-
pairing to leave Canada for England.
The steiner Dufamme has arrived from
Columbia river with 1921 900 in treasure.
Jos Janney, well-known citizen OF
Loudouu county, Va, died on the 9th
nit.
The blind have been robbing each other
at a blind mans boarding house in New
York.
Ague and fever is prevailing in Lynch
burg, Va. A very unusual disease in
that city.
A Paris chiropedist has sued the pretty
actress Lablance for 600fr. for cutting her
corns.
Philip Fl. n. Morgan has been appoint
ed United States District Attorney for
Louisiana.
A block of frame dwellings, in New Or
leans we're burned on Friday night. Loss
$4,000.
Large quantities Of goods are being
Struggled into Texas on the Mexican
border.
The estimate Of tobacco crop Of Virginia
and North Carolina the present season is
10000 hogsheads.
In Baltimore, on Sunday night, one man
was killed and two other were wounded in
political ARRAY.
Ayigorous effort is being made in Phila-
delphia to stop the running Of the horse
cars on Sunday.
.l Five hundred emigrants from North
Carolina took passage at Fortress Monroe
for Baltimore last Friday, ogo West.
-, Edward Macalister, one Of the Oldest
and richest citizens Of Lexington, Ken
lucky died there on Tuesday.
Intelligence from Mexico is contradic-
tory, Imperialist and Republican successes
are both literally reported.
The Radical party pay Gen. Butler $3.50
per day and travelling expenses for his
services in abusing the South.
A crevasse in the Mississippi, 8 few
miles above New Orleans, is apprehended.
Should it occur, the city may be flooded.
Lieutenant Wagner, native Of Rich
nnond, who held commission in Mosby's
command, lately died Of cholera in Mis-
sissippi.
In the Republican Congressional Con-
vention in the Sixth District B. F. Butler
was nominaned for Congress on the first
ballot.
Wells refuses to call the Legislature Of
Louisiana in extra session for the purpose
Of repairing levees. He fears impeach.
ment
The largest Government depot in the
country is at Jacksonville, Ind, where
over $50, ooo,0oo worth Of goods is said
to be stored.
It is again rumored that Secretary Stan
ton is about to resign, and that Senator
Cowan, Of Pennsylvania, will be his sue
cessor.
General Beauregard and Gilmore Of the
Confsdate army, are the guests Of Mr.. Cor
coran, the prominent banker Of Washing
ton.
The Texas Legislature has appointed a
Joint committee to proceed to New Orleans
and remove the remains of Albert Sidney
johnson to Austin.
Russian papers say that grain to the a.
mount Of 100000 Of roubles has been
destroyed an that country, by an insect cal
led the .'marmot."
A letter from Port au Prince states
that that city has been nearly destroyed BY
the explosion Of the arsenal. Many
lives were lost and vessels burnt.
Nathan Floyd, late Of Leavenworth, was
recently killed, together with several COM
panions, by a party Of Indians, while
en- route to Ontana.
The Delaware Gazette gives the full
vote Of the elections in that State on
Tuesday for inspectors. The conservative
majority in the State is 1886.
The steamer Evening Star, bound from
New York to New Orleans, foundered one
hundred and eighty miles east Of Tybee
and nearly all the passengers and crew, con
sisting of three hundred persons, were
lost.
The Memphis Appeal calls for conven.
ton of delegates from all the States Of the
South to meet at some central point, to