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New Pork cuR1NG PROCESS. The Chill

cothe (Ohio) .Adre,tiser says:
"Mr. Bartlett is curing pork by a. new
process. After the bristles of the hog are
taken off, before the entrails are taken out,
the ventricles Of the heart are opened, and
all the blood in the animal extracted. After
this is done, strong pickles injected into one
of the ventricles, and permeates the entire
carcass, curing it in a very few moments
The brine, leaving the heart, circulates
through all the veins Of the animal, and passes
back to the heart and out Of the second ven
ticle. The entrails are then extracted, and
the pork is thoroughly cured.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

The WEST VIRGINIA TEsT-OATH.-The
Independent, publishes in Greenbrier county,
says that Hon. Samuel Price, of that coun-
ty, has returned home from Wheeling, where
the Court of Appeals of West Virginia had
been in session, hearing arguments upon the
consitutionality of the test-oath. Mr.. Price
is in fine spirits as to the final result.
Every person who heard the arguments
was of the opinion that the law would be de-
clared unconstitutional
The constitutionality of the suitor's test
oath Was fully argued. Col. B. H. Smith,
Of Kanawha, ma e a vigorous speech agains t
it. 1t must also fall
The court awarded a writ of mondama'ts
niisi to voter of Brooke county, to compel
the register to register him without taking
the test-oath, thus, iaferentially at least, de-
Gliding that oath to be unconstitutional.
The court also permitted the counsel who
had qualified in that court, to continue to
practice without taking the testoath, until a
decision shall be rendered This, too, is
somewhat ominous.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10
Irish IlemonsiralIons.

The Irish had a grand mass meeting in
Washington on Wednesday night when
President johnson was warmly endorsed
Among the speeches was one from Mr.. Me-
Nerhany, who piled the crowd with the
Know Nothing argument as follows:
Do you not remember when, a little more
than ten years ago, the standard Of persecu-
ton was raised against man because his
eyes had opened in another land or he chose
to worship God 10 another way? Do you
not remember at that time when this man
Banks, of Massachusetts, and Wilson, and
the Radical leaders, who now with so much
hypocritcal cant, profess to be the exclusive
friends of the Irish-do you not remember,
! say, when these men were leading on the
New England lunatics, Do you not remem-
Der that Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee,
with Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, (rebel
though the latter be. | will give him honor
for that, stood np like wall of fire, like
wall Of adanant, and rolled back this devas-
tatiDg tide Of Know Nothingism, which
sought to engulf and ruin the Republic?
1t is too late in the day for the latter day
saints Of the Republican party-for these
protested guardian angels of the Irish citizen
pretty angels they are Tod save US from
all such angels Il say it is too late in the
day for these people to come forward and at
tempt to win the affections Of the Irish peo-
pie from the great Conservative party. of
which Andrew johnson is the founder and
glorious representative Cheers. 1t cannot
be done. Cheers. The Irishmen came from
the green land, and they love the green soil,
but none of them are so green as to be gulled
by such a trick as this.
Why, is there no more affinity between a
wholesouled, noble, brave, generous Irish
man, and Radical of the Wade-Sumner-
Stevens stri pc than there is between an Eng
lish bull and a Fenian. Laughter. There
is no more affinity between them than there
is between liberty and despotism; not a par
ticle more.
The alliance is so utterly abhorrent and
unholy that | cannot bear to contemplate it,
and I should be sorry to believe. that there
was a single Irish gudgeon who could be
caught by such bait. Laughter. The
Irish are acknowledged to be quick, active,
auu pcHctfdtlVc III lnCeliecI. anu lney can see
through the thin DISCUSSES by which the Rad
icals seek to ensnare them, and they know
they are invited only to be betrayed and de-
serted. IF these Radicals can mount to pow
er upon the backs of the Irishmen, they will
kick from under them the ladder by which
they mounted. A l Z
Gentlemen, such coalition will never
take place. The Ifishman is natural Dem
ocrat. Applause. I do not use the word in
its party. but in its broadcast sense. He is
not only a Democrat by nature, but by IN
stinct and by education. The clover of DEM
ocratic institutions, he will cling to that par
ty. which has ever thrown wide. open the
doors Of this republic to him and bid him
welcome to its hospitality - ILGreat cheers. ]
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

PASTURE OF Cows.-It is well known that
Cheshire, England, is great dairy county.
This lies not far from Liverpool. Chester,
the market town, is, perhaps, a dozen Or fif-
teen miles from that city. Most Of the land
has been underdrained and top-dressed with
ground bones, and such land will carry one
COW to the acre Where it has not been
top-dressed and drained cow will require
two acres. They use / 200 to l 800 weight
of bones to the acre about once in seven
years. ...
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

THE FIRST BLooD OF THE WAR-The
Adjutant General of Virginia, in his report
for the year 1861, has the following:
81. @. Marr-Graduated July 4, 1916.
Lawyer. Member of the Virginia conyen-
tion-.Entered Military service as Captain of
Virginia volunteers April !, 1861. Killed
at Fairfax Courthouse, Va, May 10, 1861.
First blood of the war"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

A PAPER IN A FAMILY. never saw a
newspaper that was not worth greatly more
than its cost in family 1t is to a great
extent true Of every collection Of written mat
ter, book or news paper; butmore especially Of
the latter, for it covers much greater variety
Of matter, and is necessarily more condensed.
1t is well-known fact there is no royal road
to learning. The brain full Of knowledge,
whose activity sends light over our daily
pathway, has been acquired by hard and
constant study Every book and newspaper
which the careful OF careless reader picks up
is filled with the result of laborious investi-
CATION. Take the single issue of daily or
weekly paper, and see in it's editorials, its
financial articles it's reviews, its mere druid
gerry of daily facts its SOUP and quidities
its philosophy and fun, how much care and
labor must have been necessary to furnish it
ali with the regularity of ones meal. 1t
makes no pretentions. It is furnished to
every man for fraction Of what his ice or
any one of the simple Injuries of his house
hold costs him, and yet it is teeming with
thoughts which are constantly influencing
his actions, and forming the opinion of his
children to govern their after lives. Into
the columns Of the newspaper come the
mature opinions of the greatest thinkers and
statesmen of the old world and the new, and
at a cost compared with the value of the in
formation acquired, utterly Insignificant in
amount. No man, no head of family es-
pecially, who would qualify his children to
pass respectfully, probably, and with salts
faction to themselves through the world
should ever deny to them the advantages of
daily, or at least, weekly newspaper.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10
Home and iI0fher

Home, where father and mother, brothers
and sisters have unity Of interest syn1pa-
thy and affection, becomes in mature life the
most sacred picture
'That hangs on Memory's wall.
If in after years, when the destroying angel
has crossed the household, and siienced its
familiar voices in their death; when the hand
of changing time has torn down the wood
bines that climbed above it's portals and its
windows, and when its paths echo only to
the tread of strangers feet; how often does
remembrance lead US back to its sacred pre-
cincts, and makes US realize that the home
of our childhood is the brightest spot, the
farest oasis on the desert Of life. tits during
these moments of retrospection that the rellg-
ious instruction Of youth flows back upon the
soul. 1t is then we kneel by the side Of her,
Whose breast with gentle pillows
Rocked to rest our infant woes,
and lisp over the prayers she taught US. Po-
etry has encircled the name of mother"
with halocs of beauty, but its language will
never be adequate to measure her influences.
To her the first years Of our lives belong, and
it is then in her power to plant seeds of vir-
tue that will bud and blossom in the soul
when age has plowed her deep furrow in our
pale cheeks. The prayes Of a plous mother
are q priceless legacy They are like the
dews Of Heaven, which first ascend from the
earth to the skies, and then descend again to
bless and revive the unfolding plant. inf
deity may array itself against the Bible, and
its clamors may be loud among the assem-
bles Of men, but it has not the courage to
enter the sanctuary Of a religious home, and
there listen to the earnest prayers Of holy
mother, as she points her children to the
throne Of God
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

THE FALL ELEcTroNs-Th first election
this fall takes place in Kentucky, but not for
members of Congress. Vermont and Maine
follow in the early part Of September, with
Pennsylvania, Ohio and other Western States
in October, the elections ending with Mary
land New York and Massachusetts in No.
yember.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

TnE New REVENUE Law ON DIsrILLERs.
The new revenue law. which will soon be in
operation, will maternity increase the diff
eulties Of illicit distillers. It provides that
an inspector shall be placed in each distillery,
and that each proprietor shall pay him S.
per day for the privilege Of being watched
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

To PRorEcr SHEEP FROM DoGs.--f sheep
are kept in the same lot with cows or fat
cattle, no dogs will disturb them. As soon
as the dogs approach the sheep, they run to
the cattle, who drive off the dogs. A far
mer for thirty years, in Shelby county, by
adopting this plan, never lost ASLEEP by dogs,
although in the same night the same dogs
killed sheep to the north and south of him.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10
p II n R y.
TFrom the New York Watchman.
MANACLED.

MANACLEUs
Stop, soldier stop! this cruel act
Will ring through all the land;
Shame on the heart that planned this deed
Shame on the coward hand
That drops the sword of justice bright
To grasp thes iron rings!
On them, not me, dishonor falls,
To them this dark shame clings
Manacled! 0 my God! my God!
Is this Christian land?
And did our countries ever meet
And grasp each others hand?
Q Mexico on thy red fields
| battled midst the Fray
Ny riAemen, with steady aim,
Won Buena Vista's day.
Manacled far down the South RI,
Let this one word speed fast.
Ny country, thou hast borne great wrongs;
But this, the last, the last, fs
Will send a thrill through thy high heart,
Despair will spurn control,
And these hard irons pressing here
Will enter thy proud soul, nj
Manacled! 0 word Of shame! .f.s.s
Ring it through all the world
My countrymen, on you, on you, a4 y
This heavy Iwrongis hurled. .Htsss
We flung our banners to the air;
I'VE fought as brave men fight; atg
Our battle cry ran Through the land:
Home! liberty! and right
Manacled Forthis am here,
Clanking the prisoners chain
We fought-ah! nobly did we fight;
We fought, but fought in vain.
Down in that bllowy sea of blood
Went all our jewels rare;
And Hope rushed wailing from the scene
And took herself to prayer!
Manacled manacled.! Words of woe,
But words Of greater shame;
I've that within me which these wrongs
Can never, never tame; ~
And standing proud in conscious worth,
represent my land
And that Lost Cause for which she bled,
Lofty, heroic, grand
E. B. G..
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

A box "a by is inches, % deep contains
one barrel $50
A box IS by 49, inches, 8 deep contains
one bushel. agri4 'ta
A box 8 BY s. inches, s deep, contains
one peck. .......-.
A box 4 by 4 inches, A deep contains
half-peck.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10
Weights and Measures,

Persons are. frequently puzzled in their
daily transactions to ascertain what such and
such an article ought to weigh per bushel.
Here is the table which all would do we'll to
cut out and preserve. It will prove valua-
BILE for reference: urS
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

QUEER DECISION -The Frecdme1l's Bu-
reau in Princess Anne county, Va, have
decided that negro who stole gentleman's
breeding sow and kept her until she had
pigs is entitled to the pigs if nc returns the
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

RICHNH oND, WA
Will give their special attention to the Sale of
Tobacco, Grain, Live Stock, Merchandise and
County Produce generally, and to the Purchase of
Goods orders, pledging to give their strict per-
sonal attention to any business entrusted to them.
va Parties making consignments, liberal adj
vances made
REFERENCES IN AUGUSTA
Mcclure & Bungardner, and Baker Brothers,
A. w. Anderson, Moffett's Creek; Bumgardner
4 Lipke Greenville; Nelson, Gibbs & Co., and
OFT, Spencer & Co., Midway John E. King h
Co., j. s. Wallace, and Peter Hanger, Waynes-
boro; William McComb, and p Schumacher &
Co., Fishersyille; Efinger & Walker, Mt. Sidney;
Kemper Patterson, Mt. Meridian; Henry Coiner
Coiner's Store; DR.. Kennerly, Hermitage; I. j.
& John Parkins, and VIM. Crawford, Esq, Will
low Spout. -tgx ~t-a
Feb 23-tf
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10
The Usefulness Of Birds.

The beaks of birds differ from each other,
but the beak of each is formed exactly for
taking the. insects it's instinct teaches it to
choose as its food Many Of the birds live
exclusively on insects-as the Warblers, blue
birds and creepers. Some again, that are
classed as -insectivorous, will occasionally
take berries, cherries Or grapcs-as the orr
oles, hooking birds, cat-birds and thrushes.
Some seem omniyorous, and eat almost any
thing, as robins and cedar-birds, and are
gross feeders A large class, as the bob-o'-
links, black birds,q fnches and some of the
sparrows, will live on insects in summer and
seed in winter; or mix them when they can
find both Others again have still a wider
range, as jays, crows and butcherbirds.
The WuJlers The family Of warblers
include some thirty or forty species. They
are all SMALL but exclusively insectiyorous
most Of them are very beautiful, and some
are charming songsters. Many are with US
all summer, but others breed further north
They sometimes remain with us few days
going and coming In the spring they will
be feeding on plant lice as found in the orch
ards in the fall they will stop and feed On
the late brood of Palmer worms that so infest
our elm and maple. trees, becoming exceeding
Iv fat H-
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Che 5tamton Dinoisatsr.
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The Ono5e.-The Orioles are becoming
quite numerous This family is chiefly il.
sectivorous. When it first arrives it feeds.
upon leaf-curling caterpillars- injurious
to our fruit and shade trees Later in the
season it is found eating the drop worms; =
The oriole feeds also upon that terrible.
enemy Of the fruit grower --the curculo.
The Doacny Woodpecher.-This is the
most valuable Of all the birds of our country.
It knows where to find and is busy IN search
ing out the apple worm--the second in I'M
portance of the insect enemies Of fruit, which;
with the curculio, are the chief cause Of the
ruin Of the fruit business The little chick
a-dee also feeds upon the apple-worm, but
finds it accidentally and not by boring for it
as the downy woodpecker does.
The Cedar Bird The Cedar or Cherry
bird is gross feeder, and consumes immense
numbers Of canker worms, span worms and
other injurious insects Of that class.
The Wd5ppooraoW. The Whippoorwill
will snap up dozens of moths in a single night.
The whippoorwill is a nocturnal bird, and
its beck is SO formed that it takes in moths as
net takes in fish. The eyes Of flies enable
them to see all around them and the nuscu-
lar force of their wings is 50 quick that they
can dodge the rain drop in a shower, yet the
swallow is so formed that it lives exclusively
On insects taken on the wing. ~
The Ichne,maons are those peculiar flies
wasp shaped, and with four wings-that de-
post their eggs in the bodies of other insects
the young feeding upon the living flesh of
these victims, and upon which they grow to
maturity. Without such an agent the Hes
sian fly would have destroyed the wheat crops
of this country, but with it the Hessian fly
was controlled in single season, and has
been kept in check for fifty years. Thou
sands of other insects that would soon be trou-
blesome are controlled in the same way, and
so quietly that we hardly know how.se,.,, :
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-08-10

THIS COMPANY has resumed business in WIN
! CHESTER, at the new Office on Water ST., form
erly occupied by r. Y. Conrad, Esq, as a Law
Office, and prepared to receive applications
and issue Policies on BUILDINGS, MERCHANDISE,
FURNITURE, &C., &c. B
All losses equitably adjusted and promptly
paid. s5ss-as Posse. 31.s..< +
DIRECTORS:
o. aes7oa, President.
JOHN KERR, DIR. DAN L. CONRAD,
ROBERT STEELE, l.. P. HARTMAN,
VIM. B. BAKER, s o. NJ. Brown. ss
GEO. E. PRICE, AGENT,
Sept, g. 1865 If Staunton, Va.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-25

as SASn as AA1SSuEAs
Some time since, Gov. Fletcher, OF
Missouri, issued proclamation calling
out several companies Of Missouri MI
lltia to put down tho bushwhackers
and other conservative" disturbers OF
the peace who were committing acts OF
lawlessness and violence in several OF
the counties Of that State. Troops were
Immediately raised in several portions
OF the State in accordance with the
Presidents orders. 1t now seems that
President johnson has interfered in the
matter, and through Generals Grant
and Hancock, ordered Federal troops
to Lexington and other places, without
the request Of Governor Fletcher or the
Legislature. Governor Fletcher has
LOFT the State Capital to take command
OF the State militia In person, and be-
lleves he can quell the disturbance
without the Presidents Interference.
In the Senate on Friday, Mr.. Hender-
son, of Missouri, introduced u resolu-
ton requesting the President TO inform
the Senate whether, since the 1st OF
December, 1850, he has caused any
United States troops 10 be marched Into
the interior OF the State Of Missouri;
and II so, whether any request has been
made for their presence by the Legisla-
ture or the Executive Of that State.
Mr.. Henderson read dispatch from
Governor Fletcher, saying that General
Grant had sent troops TO that State, and
asking the design. lie said he knew
nothing of tho matter. He supposed
they were sent to enforce tho laws OF
the State, but he understood TINT the
Executive felt himself perfectly ablo to
do IL. Tho people of the State would
take 1t upon themselves, without tho
interference OF United States troops.
Until tho Governor communicated with
him by letter, ho know nothing moro OF
tho facts,
Tho resolution was adopted.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-25
The Court Of Appeals.
FurA tha BerkslsIj IJafoa.

This Court will convene by law on
the second Tuesday In january. We
sincerely hope they will not iritter
awayyaluable time that should be de-
voted to the trial OF causes, for which
they are paid by the people, In LISTEN
lng,to the buneombe speeches Of rebel
lawyers, who, by their own acts, have
disqualified themselves as attorneys,
Nearly all Of the July term OF the Court
was occupied in this manner, whilst
more than q hundred cases were con.
tinued. by the Court; and even after
listening 10 halfa dozen windy speech.
es, thatwere nothing else but apologies
for treason and attempt to make IL hon.
orable by a comparison with the revo.
luton Of '76,i they adjourned without
any decision as to the constitutlonality
Of the lawyers test oath. Thus has
several terms been idly FILTERED away
and nothing done. The people OF West
Virginia haye an idea OF whnt is con.
stitutional, and they do right when
they send up delegates Instructed
70 restrict the rights OF men, who
have attempted TO destroy the pub.
lilo Safety and have oblitefated
State lines; therefore It Is a right
that q sovereign people have, and
should exercise, whenever the pub.
lie safety demands II, and II ever there
was time for prompt aud decisive &C.
ton 1t Is now. II the rights OF any
class OF people or persons should be re-
strlcted or abridged, 1t Is these lawyers
who encouraged and went into the re.
bellion; for as lawyers and Judges of
law, when they encouraged secession
they were guilty as accessories tU a
great crime; when they went In them.
selves, they were guilty as principals,
and ten times more so than others, for
they knew what treason was, Its es.
senee and constitution, and its penalty,
and therefore were guilty OF this great
crime; false 10 their oaths as lawyers,
and maliciously, wickedly aud design.
edly entered into 1t, whilst others igno-
rant OF the law, simply acted upon the
advice Of these lawyers. The people
now know this and they demand and
have shown that demand unmistakea-
bly, at the late election, that there shall
be no more trihing, and we sincerely
trust when the court meets, that they
Will proceedto try and dispose of the
cases on their dockets, and when
through with that, ifthey have any lei
sure time to spare, and wish to amuse
themselves an hour or so a day, listen
ing to these men about indliendJEe
rights, why then, we arc sure the peo-
pie will have no objection.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-25

A SINGULAR sToRY.-A Detroit paper
relates that II SCotcbmnn named Jnmps
Henry McGrcgor, who camO to this
country In 1880, enlisted MS u soldier In
1862, but nfter serving llvo months be-
Cnine dlsgusted and deserted. Ho then
removed West from Massachusetts,
whOrO hO had previously lived, drop.
ping part Of his name nnd calling him.
self James Henry. Ills wife, whom no
had married In 1896, was the only per.
son knowing OF this circumstance. lie
was the second son OF noblomnn, and
would, Of course, succeed to the family
estates II his brother died II bachelor.
This actually hnppOnOd unknown to
tho younger brother, aud sCnfch wns
everywhere mnle for tho latter, an
agent having been sent TO this country
for tho purpose. lIG could bO traced no
further thnn Ohio, and resource WIS
hnd to advertising, Ho chnncCd TO sec
the advertisement, und, suppnslnB II to
hc nm attempt on tho part OF the United
States officers to arrest him for hiR old
crime of dOscrtiUn, hc destroyed nil tho
papers aud records which could Cstnb.
llsh his identity. or this circumstance
his wife WIS Kept In ignorance until
just before Ills dNRth, which occurred
nbOut two weeks since. Since his death
his wilO Inns nsuOrtnlnOd tho truO posi-.
Ion Ofallnirs, but tho lawyers tell hCr
TINT shO cannot establish claim 10 tho
property.