Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-03-30
NERS ITEMS.


week.
Gen Burnside has been nominated for
Governor of Rhode Island by the Union Con
yeution Of that State.
A cotton factory at Macon, Georgia. is in
full blast, turning out niilety-slx thousahos
wards Of sheetngs per month.
The Southern soldiers Cemetry in Win
chester is to be enclosed with neat stone
fence and called 1.-The Stonewall Cemetry."
General Robert Ransom has been elected
chief marshal of Wilmington, n. c., and his
salary fixed at Two thousand dollars.
Hon. Pierre Soule's mansion, on Espalan-
ade street. New Orleans, for about two years
occupied as Freedmen's Orphan Asylum,
has been restored to him by order of Presi-
dent johnson.
Several names have been suggested to sue
coed Hon. Milton Brown as President of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and among them
Generals Braxton Bragg and Dabney IL.
Maury.
1t is reported that the testimony of Gencr-
al Robert E. Lee. Speaker Barbour, AMI
other Virginians, await the return Of Scna-
tor Howard before being given to the public,
Henry S. Foote, father-in-law Of Senator
Stewart, is the person supposed to have sugg-
gested the Stewart resolution proposing gen
eral amnesty in exchange for universal suf-
frage.
The Mississippi has at length cut chan
mel through Terrap.n Neck, in the vicinity o.
Vcksburg. by which the river is shortened
some fifteen miles This has been expacte
for years, AMI is gratifying to steamboat nlcn,
but disastrous to the plantations below FicIs
burg.
It is reported that the headquarters Of the
National Express and Transportation Com
n,nv are being removed from Richmonl to
Baltimore; the reason assigned thereto being
the facilities from that for transportation OF
freight North aad West.
Just as one John Elton had closed a most
feryid exhortaton for sinners to tiee from the
wrath to come, at one OF the baptist church
es at New London, Conn, on Sunday night,
the sha,i.f arrested him for stealing u minis
ters overcoas.
4 SMILE. A certain elder preached a
sermon some time since, when he made the
following comparison in 'dissectlng" the MI.
ser. s.'Ihe soul of the miser is SO shrvefed
that it would have more room to play in a
mustard seed than bullfrog in Lake Mich
igan."
The following are the largest sales in New
York houses during last year: Ii. Claflin u
Co. AZ, 500 .7l5; A. TStewart & Co.,
$3.50, 39l ,6S3; Anthony & Hall, 1865,
i'll: George Bliss 4 Co., $lo,273,oo !;
George A. Wicks & Co., $50, 900.
In his speech before the Democratic State
Convention Of Indiana the Hon. D " Voor
heas remarked, in regard to his expulsion
from Congress, that it RENTED him to the
society Of gentlemen, and permitted him to
choose his own company.
The New York Tribune says that the tax
es in this country are heavier than are or
ever were borne by any other Thirty Millions
Of people on earth Adding our State and
municipal to our National taxes, and they
amount to not penny less than $50 each
per annum for the whole American people.
A dispatch to the Executive, dated yester-
day, from the Secretary Of the Missouri State
Central Conservative Union Committee, gives
o most encouraging account Of the feeling in
that State and the determination of the peo-
pie to support the President. Out OF forty
ne newspapers, twenty-e; ght are hearty sup
portcrs Of Mr.. johnson ami his policy
Poor CoMFoRT The editor Of the Ra-
yenswood (iVest Virginia) Chronicle having
applied to Congress for pay for his printing
oaiee because it was destroyed by rebels, the
committee have denied him relief. They
saw, eve commend his fidelity, but can nev-
cc recognize the liability Of the Government
for his losses
The Washington Chronicle says lit is
believed that all the u S colored troops will
be withdrawn from the interior Of the South
ern States as soon as other troops can be sub
STUFFED in their place, and those that the
Government has determined to hold until the
expiration Of their respective terms Of enlist
ment, will, doubtless, be transferred to duty
on the Western frontier"
In the cellars Of the Baron Rothschild s
mansion, Rue Laftte, Paris, are twenty -four
thousand bottles Of every species Of the wines
existing at the commencement Of this cantu-
ry, from the Lachryn.a Christi, which every
visitor to Naples has tasted, to the purple
tinted sweet wines of the Cape; from the
common wines Of the Macon vineyards to the
rare villages of Medoc The value of this
collection amounts to about fifty thousand
dollars.
As an instance of the spreal Of divorces in
tn, West, we are told that there are at rr IS
ent living in Columbus, Wisconsin, two wo-
men and a man who has been married to the
women aforesaid. The man has been mar
ried four times has now two wives, living,
and has no wife, The first woman has been
married three times, has two husbands living
and has no husband. The second woman
has been married twice, has two husbands