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Walking Alone.
BY BARTON KEY BRIscoE.

cannot kill the past. Somehow
/ cannot shut the door
That hangs between what know now,
And what I knew before.
Adown the throughfares OF life,
While youth was on her throne,
made my way through worldly strife,
And never walked alone.
| walked with one and one with me
Through sunshine and through rain,
AS though what was would always be,
What had been, be again.
And with an angel by my side,
In air, in form, and tone,
I hoped to reach 1ife's eventide,
And never walk alone.
Twas bright, but still / try to throw
Around the past, a wall
'Tis hard to make what was as though
Itneyer was at all.
The one used to love is dead
The rest shall not be known;
Except, that with weary tread,
walk my way alone.
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a AVILLAIN.-Were we called
upon to paint q perfect devil,
we would not paint a horned
monster, red-hot from pande-
monium, Kissing and spurning
his 1ava-foam from eyes, mouth
and nostrils. We would not
linn a yelling, tattooed Indian,
with one hand grasping his
reekinge tomakaWk, and with
the other clutched in the long
tresses which he has Just torn
from the head of a defenseless
female. We would not paint
a sinister assassin, disguised
and bludgeoned, creeping with
stealthy, cat like tread into the
presence of his sleeping victim.
These are all horrid enough,
but they are blaeker devils than
they upon the earth.
This is how we should paint
him: He should be a man,
courted and petted in society,
a parlor favorite, handsome as
Adonis. We would throw long,
Wayy locks around his fne-pro-
portioned head. We would
clothe him in fine raiment. He
should move In brilliant halls,
and be the cynosure of admir-
ing eyes. Wise men should
seemingly be listeners to his
eloquence, and fair women
should applaud him with their
sweetest smiles.
But there should be a back
ground to the picture. 1t
| should be a girl, humble, but
fair as a lilly, whose heart is the
charneI-house wherein is en-
tombed her dead virtue, and
with slender, emaciated finger
should point out her seducer
the murderer Of her honor, hel
chastity, her sole heritage
Who would say we have moi
painted a perfect devil Fl At
lanta New Era.
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:" It Might Have Been ~

There is nothing in the Eng
lish language more suggestive
of wild regrets, passionate sor-
row, blighted hopes, and bafled
ambition, than the little SEN
tence we have just quoted. In
it the past, the present, and the
days to come, seem brooding
under a mighty shadow, which
is neverlifted.
We gather together old let
ters to burn them, for they have
accumulated until they are a
nuisance to ourselves and 9th
ers, but we reyerently lay aside
one, of which the faded ink
and faint tracery show the lapse
of many years. And yet it
seems but yesterday that she,
a beloved one, stood beside us,
with sunny CLEANS flashing
through the maple boughs on
her chestnut hair and innocent
eyes, in whose clear, truthful
depths we read, what we read,
perhaps, but once in life. Nor
did the language fail or grow
silent until the ANGEL of Death
laid its amaranthine crown up
on her brow, and we closed the
white lids over their dim blue,
land shut in with them the dear
est hopes and sunshine of a life,
that might have been rounded
into full completeness by love
and happiness. And we re-
member too, that beautiful
May morning, redolent with
light, and coloring, and per
fume, when we laid her under
! the violet bank, and went forth,
stunned and blinded, with the
noise of what seemed a thou
sand waters, in our ears. And
our heart, with one wild pro
test against destiny, cries out
now, even as it did tlen"0h.
my God, it might have been!'
/ Cursing and reeling through
the streets, staggers one from
4 whose vices all restraints haC
been broken and cast aside likt
so many wisps Of straw. Tht
height from which he has fallen
), only makes him crave q deepe
depth, where his degradation
may burrow, and hide itsel
from the eyes Of men. Hi
bleared eyes gaze at firs
vacantly, but then eagerly
through yonder window, Wher
a little child is lisping its eve
prayer beside a mother
e knee. Memory comes to MIN
not gently, as to others, bu
sweeps like the rush Of astorr
over his turbulent soul, and t
her summons he replies: BE
t, hold, L am here! the innoceT
! ! child whose nightly slumbei
6 were sanctified by blessing
Z Z and prayer; the youth wh
scaled the,heights of knovlede
/. with untiring step, but forge
+, his early faith, because the wa
was long, and the mists we
r heavy the matured manhoo'
disgraced and degraded belo
the semblance OF hunanlt
Give me one breath OF Il
fresh, pure air of childhoo
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HUMAN SELFIsHNEss.-Of a
truth there can be no meaner
type of human selfishness than
that afforded by him, who, un-
mindful of the world of sin and
suffering about him, occupies
himself in the pitiful business Of
saving his own soul in the very
spirit of the miser, watching
over his own private hoard,
while his neighbors starve for
the lack of bread.
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We must not degrade
religion to the position OF Q
mere passport to heaven. Tt is
to be lived. TT il mems hearts
and lives that need reforming,
not their death beds. 1t is how
to live that the Bible seeks to
teach us, not simply how to
die. Religion is designed to
lead rs to better thoughts,
words and deeds to pnreI
wishes to nobler enjoyments.
both III time and in eternity.
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UNsELFIsH Love THE SOURCE
OF MISUNDERSTANDING un-
selfish love is the handspring of
mems actions; wherever hap
piness is placed not on what we
can gain for ourselves, but on
what we can impart to others !;
wherever we place our highest
satisfaction in gratifying our
fathers and mothers, our broth
ers and sisters, our wives and
children, our neighbors and
friends-we are sure to attain
all the happiness the world can
bestoW.
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Sorrow connects the soul with
the invisible and everlasting;
and, therefore, all thing pro-
phesy it before it comes to us.
The babe weeps at the vail Of
music, though he is a stranger
to grief, and joyful hearts are
saddened by the brightness of
the moon.
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Thos. y. ReaEe.

ttorney at Law and Notary Public.
- Office at the Mayors office,
Shreveport. La. v4nl7
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Roland Jones. J. P. Harri
.Jomes 81 Harris,

A ttorneys and Counselofs at Law,
n Shreveport, La. Will practice
in the parishes of Caddo, DeSoto and
Bossier, and will attend to cases in the
District. Supreme and Federal Courts.
Office on Market street, near the
Bank. vi n3l
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Llucien ID. SandEelge.

A ttorney at Law. Address Shreveport,
n La Win practice in the Courts OF
Cadto, Claiborne and Bossier, and in the
United States and Supreme Courts OF the
State. All claims for collection in Northern
Texas. Arkansas, Louisiana or Mississippi
promptly attended to.
REFERBScEs.- -Wyche & Richardson, Spy
ker & Sandilge, Hays & Adams, Hon. II NJ
Stafford, New Orleans; DIR. Wm. Burt
Humphreys s. Dashiel, Harrison 81 Crusoe
Colnnbus, Miss; Sam. Mosley, Texas
Leading members of the Bar, IN Shreveport
and Bellevue, Louisiana YJnll
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INDUsTY-Eyery young man
should remember that the
world will always honor indus
try. The vulgar useless idler,
whose energies of body and
mind are rusting for want of
occupation, may look with
scorn upon the laborerengaged
at his toll: but his scorn is
praise, his. contempt honor.
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ERROR AND TRUTH.-It is
much easier to meet with error
than to find truth; error is on
the surface, and can be more
easily met with; truth is hid IN
great depths, the way to seek it
does not appear to all the world.
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TNLZeY .RNII2'ON0.
esa @ sE -
vEyO THE PEOPLE OF THE VALLEY


vHvO THE PEOPLE OF THE VALLEY.
OFFICE OF THE VALLEY RAILROAD
e Staunton, April 18th, 1856
We wish at once to push forward the Line of
Railroad which is to connect the Potomac with
the Virginia and Tennessee Road. To do this
we need to have stock taken in the Valley to the
extent of
ONE MILLION OF DOLLARS.
This we propose to have done on the following
terms: Two per cent of the amount subscribed,
to be paid in so soon as called for; thirteen per
cent. additional to be paid within the next three
years; the remaining eghty-fve per cent, to be
paid within the next ten years. a
If this amount Of Stock be promptly taken on
these easy terms we can effect negotiations which
will enable us to have its remainder taken abroad,
and which will enable us at the same time to
raise the money for the Stock taken at home up
on the Bonds of the company payable in ten
years.
1t is unnecessary to say anything in regard to
the vital importance of this great work Every
property holder within reach of the Road appre-
ciates it.
1t may be proper to state, however, that cir
cumstances are more favorable now to the con-
struction of this work than ever before, or prob
ably than they will be hereafter We have al
ready secureda IL
COMPETENT CORPS OF ENGINEERS
to locate the Road from Harrisonburg to Salem
They will commence operations early in May
Let our people aid, IN earnest, and we can prom
Use them the speedy completion of an improve
ment which will dome than any other in con-
temptation for the advancement of our interests
The commissioners in each county will open
books of subscription at once, and are earnestly
desired to have the stock subscribed promptly. !,
M. G.. HARTMAN, President,
may S-tf of the Valley Railroad.
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CITIZENS & PEGRAM,
TOHN &. EFFINGEIs

John q. EFFlNGEK
% with JONES s. HEWITT,
Commission and Forwarding Merchants,
For the sale of COUNTRY PRODUCE and
all kinds of MERCHANDISE,
NO. 6 18TH ST. BETWEEN MAIN q CARY,
RICHMOND, VA.
Va Particular attention paid to orders.
Will give their special attention to the sale of
Tobacco Grain, Live Stock Merchandise and
Country Produce generally and to the purchase
of goods on orders pledging to give strict atten-
ton to any business entrusted to them
We are well insured sufficient to cover all con-
signments
BAGS FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE.
REFERENCES IN AUGUSTA:
Mcclure & Bumgardner, Baker Brothers, S.
NJ Woodward s. Bro, and A. NJ Pierce
Staunton
M. D. W. Hogshead, and A. A. Sproul,
Middlebrook;
VIM. F. Smith, and Bumgardner & Lipky,
Greenville
Nelson, Gibbs & Co., and OFT, Spencer & Co..
Midway;
John E. King & Co., J. S. Wallace, and Peter
Hanger, ;o -. Wv Waynesboro
and John Patterson, Coiner's Store;
Kemper s. Patterson and Benjamin Craig,
Mt. Meridian;
L. M. Stout & Co., and Logan j. Maupin,
New Hope;
Effnger s. Walker, VIM: Crawford, Mt. Sidney;
/. j. 81 John Parkins, Willow Spout;
P. & G. E. Schumacher and William McComb
Fishersville;
DIR. Sam. Kennerly, Jr., Hermitage;
P. III. Wheeler IL Co., Moscow.
sep 25-2m Vim copy
914 Ri aaas S T!9sls!si s'4'
PAPER AND RAG WAREHOUSE,
Wholesale and Retail.
ROBINSON & FAIRBANKS,
Dealers in
Twines, Papers of all kinds, Blank Books and
Stationery.
Highest Price paid for Rags and Paper Stock.
Orders solicited from Merchants in City and
Country.
Printers, Publishers, Teachers, Schools, Cole
ges, Offices and Courts will find it to their advan-
tage to inspect our stock and prices.
sep 25-tf
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Yonng and Old.
hen all the world is young, lad,

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green,
And every goose swan, lad,
And every lass queen,
Then fly or boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young love must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.
When all the world is DID, lad.
And all the trees are brown,
And all the sport is stale, lad,
And all the wheels run down,
Creep home and take your place there,
The spent and manned among;
God grant you find face there
You loved when you were young.
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n OOK no YOUR INTEREST.
IA READ! READ!! READ!!

STAUNToN, Va, SEPT. 18th, 1866.
Dear Friends:
1t affords us pleasure to inform you that we
have just received very Choice and carefully Sc
hcted stock Of .-.-t -.
FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS.
Special attention has been given to DRESS
GOODS, and hazard nothing in saying our stock
is now superior to any we have ever had.
Among every other f Fabric =, and Style, you will
Silks, Blue and Brown Camise, Ga new article
Empress Cloth, French Plaid Popln, Satin Strip;
Crepe Cloth, Printed French Merinoes, Printed
and Plain ali W DOL Delaines, Alpacas, Prints, &c
Also, Cloaks, Shawls, Hosiery, Gloves Real Gu
ny Lace Handkerchief, Real Point LaceCollars,
Dress Trimmings, Bleached and Brown Cottons,
Cloths and Cassimeres, Sattinets, together with a
great variety of Notions.
AS we are determined to sell our stock Gerry loaU
for Cash. you will find it to your interest to give
us a call. We will take great pleasure in show
ing you our Goods, whether you buy or not.
Respectfully, yours, &c,
PIPER Il FUNKHOUSER
PIPER & FUNKHOUSER expect a very
large addition to their present stock of DRESS
GOODS in a short time. rsre
o1~s0E se,1@ -
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Comforts of an Editor.

IF he does not ell his paper with news of i'm
portanee, whether there is any Or not, it is con-
demned for not being what it purports to be-
a newspaper.
If he does not fill up one column every week
with something laughable, his folio is pronoun-
ced uninteresting.
Is If public nuisance should exist, notice of it
would offend; and failure to notice would be
censured.
IF he does not publish all the marriages and
deaths for 20 miles around, whether he hears
Of them or not, he is not fit for an editor.
If every paper does not contain goodly Dor
ton Of suicides; horrid murders and melancholy
accidents, it is a dull and unwelcome visitor.
If the paper contains advertisements, the
general readers murmur; if it does not, the
business men will not give it their patronage.
1t he writes against hoops, the women are
down on him; if he don't, the men are
If he steers an impartial course, he is said to
BE- on the fence. if he jumps off he is besmeared
If dozen or so kind friends call on him
while he is correcting his proof-sheet, and one
error escapes detection, he is the greatest blum
derhead in the world.
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The Late Elections.

In review of the late elections, and their
probable consequence, the New York World
has the following remarks:
On the South the late elections will probably
produce no effect whatever That section is
peculiarly unfortunate The diminished labor
supply consequent on the losses Of the war, the
inefficiency Of the freedmen and worse than all,
the bad harvest of an unfavorable season, keep
the Southern people In the same state OF poverty
and prostration in which they were left by the
war But their helplessness will not induce
them to ratify the Radical amendment What
would they gain by doing go? Admission to
Congress, perhaps-but of that they have, no
promise-with a diminished representation.
But since the Representatives they would have
under the amendment, added to the Conservative
representatives now elected fromHthe North,
would still be minority, they would have no
more power of selfprotection in Congress than
out of it, Until the political complexion of
the North changes, admission will do them no
good Why should they renounce for all time
rights for which nothing substantial is offered
in exchange? The South will preserve, order,
obey the laws, and leave the Radicals to pass
such measures as they please. The spectacle
of quiet, loyal people ruled by a government
better sentiments of the North, and cause
reaction against the Radicals. When it is seen
that there is no reason in the conduct Of the
Southern people why they should be excluded,
the responsibility ofkeeping the Union dissolv-
ed will come home to the Radicals and before
the Presidential election there will be a great
popular reaction which will sweep them out Of
power. Only a very small chapgei is necessary
to produce this result A change of one vote
in hundred would accomplish it iii New York;
change of one vote in fifty would accomplish
it in Pennsylvania The electoral votes of those
two States, added to those ofall the Southern
States, together with New Jersey and Connec-
ticut, would make majority. A. change Of
about seventeen thousand votes in the four
States of New York, Pennsylvania Connecticut
and New Jersey, would enable the Democratic
party to elect the next President; for it must
be borne in mind that every voter transferred
from one side to the other makes difference
of two in the result Why should Democrats
despair of changing seventeen thousand votes
in the next two years? Why, we should have
carried New York, this year, if the Fenians
along the lines Of the canal and railroads had
not been inyeigled into voting for Fenton. We
would have carried Pennsylvania if moderate
Conservatives had not been dissatisfied with
our candidate. A party which needs to gain
only seventeen thousand votes in two years to
elect the next President, is not separated from
success by that Unreasonable interval which it's
enemies pretend
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5. III. HlLB.
sep 25-tf Main ST., at Crawfords Corner
TIVO THE PUBLIC GENERALLY

Il WISH TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, Being armed and equipped with such
stock of GOODS, as cannot fail to strike the be-
holder with bewildering amazement and please
the fancy of all and
Whereas, having entered the field for the Fall
and Winter campaign of trade, | am determined
to repulse if not entirely vanquish the great sys
tenn of monstrous prices and murderous profits,
which have settled upon our whole country like
mighty incubus, sinking the poor into deeper
depths Of poverty, and dragging down the affiu-
ent, and even driving many to distraction; and
Wh:ereass | have taken unusual pain, in n, the e
SCI OF my stGch ana nave Rurcnased al at
accommodate the purchaser at the lowest posi-
BILE figures:
+. Therefore, I, SIMON 81. HILB, do hereby
issue this my proclamation, to dispose of my new
stock, upon such terms must give entire salts
faction Whereunto, have this the 25th day of
September, A. d. 1866, and of the Independence
of the United States of America, the nnetieth
year, placed my hand and caused the great seal
to be affixed S. Ell. HILB,
sept 25-tf HWS&
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'Non FORGETTING Policies, beyond the reach of
creditors of every class, secured to families by
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Apply at once, while ins good health. Each
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Call and get a Report, with tables and full in
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WIN. H. CARRIER, DR.. b. M. ATKINSON,
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oct 3O-tf
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Printers Warehouse,
agricultural indictments.

A GRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
N The undersigned, agents for H. M. Smith
q Co., Manufacturers, at Richmond, can furnish
at short notice, any of the following named arti-
cles at manufacturers' prices. Reapers 6 Now
ers, Grain Drills, Wind Mills, Pitts celebrated
Threshing Machines, Horse Rakes, a new article
recently patented; corn Shelters cutting boxes
churns, scales, hay presses, betting of all kinds
plough castings cider mills, &c;
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The ladies Of Newbern N. c., have organ
lied memorial Association, . for the purpose
of disinterring and re-burying the Confederate
dead and erecting monument to their memo
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WIsDoM.-Wisdom without innocency, is
knavery innocency without wisdom, is foolery
be We, therefore, as wise as serpents and as in
nocent as doves The subtilty of the serpent
instructs the innocency Of the dove; the inno-
cency of the dove corrects the subtilty 6f the
serpent. What God hath joined together let
no man put asunder.
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Dry Goods, Groceries, dc.

GPLENDID ASSORTMENT
y of all kinds of
MERCHANDISE,
for sale low for Cash or Produce
oct 16-1m T. Fl. ANTRIM,
Vindi copy Waynesboro, Va.
4 MOTHER WAR DECLARED!
AGREAT SLAUGHTER ANTICIPATED!
determination against all High Prices and
Undue Prices.
SIMON FL. HILB splendidly equipped, is in
the field again, with newly purchased stock of
the most choice Goods just received from the first
houses in New York City, and selected with the
greatest care for this particular market. The
stock consists principally of the following articles:
Black and fancy dress silks, all wool and half
wool Delaines bombazines, French and English
poplins of every shade and quality linen cam
brio handlSerchiefs-emb and plain; 800
elliptic spring hoop skirts-from Is to Az springs !;
100 large balmoral skirts French corsets, SPLEEN
did lot of White Goods and Hosiery; ladies' and
mems kid gloves, do silk and worsted 30 pieces
OF all wool fannels of every shade color and
quality; lindseys, ginghams, Canton fannels la
dies black and fancy cloaking; also fine lot OF
Ready Made Cloaks, French and English
Broad Cloth, Cassmeres and Cassinets,
Silk and Silk-Velvet Vestings, Under
Garments, Latest Style OF Hats,
900 pair Mems, Women's, Miss
es', Youths IS Childrens Shoes
in all their endless varie-
ty, both of city and East
ern manufacture
S. II. HILB.
IT, Oh r. 10, ~,
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pURDETT's PHOTOGRAPH
w u
Over Roane & A3by's clothing store, opposite
-t,aa Virginia Hotel

1 am now prepared to enlarge and color in oil,
water or Indian ink, pictures ofevery description.
Those who have lost friends, can have pictures of
them copied from lockets, ambrotypes, daguerre-
types &C., and made life or Al size. - %
have now secured the valuable services ofour
Staunton artist, Mr.. T. B. Coleman, who has just
graduated in the art of Painting in the city of
New York. Specimens. can be seen now in my
gallery. am permanently located in Staunton
and will spare no pains or expense to make my
gallery equal in every respect to any city gallery
L am already prepared to make any style of pic
lures now in use.
One of Stieff7s celebrated pianos will be found
in the Reception Room.
may 1-tf j. II. BURDETT.
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Whoever looks for friend without imper-
fections will never find what he wants We
love ourselves with all our faults, and we ought
to love our friends in like manner
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When flowers are full OF heaven descended
dews, they always hang their heads; but men
hold theirs the higher the more they receive,
getting proud as they get full.