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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-05-25


We publish below few more statements
from the signers and pretended signers of
the Dews-Todd petition.
Mr.. Editor In your last issue I noticed
a petition presented to Congress BY a.num-
Der Of the citizens Of Augusta County, and
was surprised to find my name in the list
That petition | never saw until it appeared
in your paper. The facts are these. Some
time in the month Of January, Mr.. r. II.
Whitlock came to my house and made some
inquiry respecting the loss sustained dur
ing the war. He said, to receive any thing
from the authorities at Washington, it would
be necessary for me to enrol myself as a
Union man, on paper to be found in Mr..
Dews' Office, as none would be paid except
such as were found registered there. Irepli-
ed that I did not know that | would pass
muster as Union man. thought would
pass as a conservative as | had taken no part
in any election from the time Virginia sece-
ded to the election in 1865, and had done
nothing but detailed service and by substi-
tute, but if putting my. name there would get
pay for my horses taken by the Yankees I
would do it, as I did not consider it any
more inconsistent, than to see Confederate
officer and Yankee riding together, which
I had seen seen in Staunton. He said moth
ing about petition asking for armed SOL
dicrs to protect horse-thieves and corn steal
ers, which class it appears, gives Mr.. Dews
, more trouble than the Superintendent of the
Freedmen's Bureau has with all the little ne
groes It 50 happened that I was in Staun-
ton on the first day Of the March Court, and
went to Mr.. Dews' Office and asked for the
paper containing the names of Conservative
or Union men, glanced over it and saw the
names Of several persons knew, put down
my name in the presence Of no one in partic-
ular and went out. It was near the bottom
of the list-not at the top as in this petition
Some one has put it there.
| Why, sir, while was a faithful supporter
of the old Government and hope to be of the
new, if the work of reconstruction don't end
in destruction, yet would be the last man
in the world to pray Congress to send a pack
of blue-devils here, if such as I have seen
Ga few officers excepted) is a sample They
looked as if hell had been raked with fine
toothed comb and their service is as little
needed here now as before the war If I had
my way with the Yankees that took my
horses during Hunters raid-June 1864
in place of praying Congress to send them
here I would ask Congress to send them to
the Internal Regions, and placed under the
command of s'Old Nick" that they might
snuff birthstone through the cracks of the
bottomless pits through the endless ages of
eternity. q. F. CALBREATH.
May 18TH 1866.
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German Laborcrs in the South.

Three hundred German immigrants i'm
ported by the Georgia Immigrant Company,
arrived at Augusta on the 25th ultimo.-
They are all engaged, and are to be paid one
hundred and fifty dollars per annum, with
board and lodging for each man, and one
hundred dollars for each woman. The Co.
lumbus Georgia. Enquirer, abiding to this
importation Of German immigrants, init
mates that the experiment may fail. It
says: Ata
We are told that the German laborers are
accustomed to at home, and would require
here, bowl of soup or coffee early in the
morning before they do any kind Of work !;
then breakfast at eight, consisting Of bread
and generally of cheese, lard smoked bacon
or sausage, and ration of whiskey-half
hour for this meal dinner at noon, consist
ing of thick soup, made of potatoes, turnips,
beans, peat, shelled barley or oats, boiled
with potatoes, and seasoned with onions fried
in lard or bacon-one hour for this meal a
four o'clock meal, similar in all respects to
the breakfast-half hour; and supper after
all the work of the day is done, consisting of
boiled potatoes, soup, milk, etc. The bread
to be "leavened bread made of bolted rye
To fill this bill of fare would require of the
Southern planter not only material change
in his hours of eating, but very or eat
change in the Find of food and mar.ner Of
cooking it. The old system of raielng near
ly all the provisions on the plantation would
have to be changed-for our planters do not
make cheese, nor can t.nep keep the Irish
potatoes of their own raising for any length
of time. All Of these articles, as well as
beans, would have to be bought in most part
from the ttSorth.
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AYERS PILLS

VA AYERS PILLS.-Are you sick
III ~ feeble and complaining? Are you
out of order with your system de-
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fit of sickness is creeping upon YOU, and should
be averted by timely use Of the right remedy
Take Ayers Pills, and cleanse out the disordered
humors-purify the blood and let the fluids move
on unobstrueted in health again. They stimulate
the functions Of the body into vigorous activity,
purify the system from the distinctions which
make disease. A cold settles somewhere in the
body, and deranges its natural functions. These,
If not relieved, react upon themselves and the
surrounding organs. producing general aggrava-
ton, suffering and arrangement. While in this
condition, take Ayers Pills. ana see how directly
they restore the natural action of the system, and
with 1.-THE buoyent feeling ofhealth again. WHAT'S
true and so apparent in this trivial and common
complaint is also true in many of the deep seated
and dangerous distempers. The same purgative
effect expels them. Caused by similar obstruc-
tons and arrangements of the natural functions
of the body, they are rapidly and many of them
surely cured by the same means. None who know
the virtue of these Pills will neglect to employ
them when suffering from the disorders they cure,
such as Headach, Foul Stomach, Dysentery, Bill
ous Complaints, Indigestion, arrangements of
the Liver, Costiveness, Constipation, Heartburn,
Rheumatism, Dropsy, Worms and Suppression,
when taken in large doses. ,t5tI
They are Sugar Coated, so that the most sensi
tive can take them easily, and they are surely the
best purgative medicine yet discovered.
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Staunton Advertisement
NEW AND CHEAP GOODS.
BAKER BROTHERS

o1A1A1I1G DIV
Branch of the we'll known and old established
house of Baker g. Bros, at Winchester, Va.)
Are now receiving and offer for sale in the 'HOPE
HOUSE, near the Virginia Central Rail Road, a
large and carefully selected stock Of
GRO CERES,
NAILS AND HEA w HARD WARE,
WINDOW GLASS, OIL, PAINTS,
DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, q c..
Embracing such articles as are daily needed by
the farmer, mechanic and every housekeeper.
These goods have been purchased exclusively
for cash, under the pressure of the late great de-
cline in prices, by our senior partner, chiefly
from importers and first hands, and will be sold
at a uery small aduancc upon cost for CASH, or in
exchange for COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Our facilities for procuring goods from the
Northern Cities promptly and cheaply are ample,
and any articles which we may not have in store
can be obtained in few days.
To Merchants we will make liberal abatement
in prices, offering to them the advantages which
we have from making our purchases in connection
with our firm at Winchester, for cash from M
PORTERS and MANUFACTURERS Agents
Ms- We solicit all buyers to call and examine
our stock
BAKER BROTHERS.
1ss> We expect to be prepared in short time
to do Forwarding and Commission business.
Stanton, Va. May lift
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For the information of our readers We give
below the decision of the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue, under date of March 10th,
1866, in reference to instruments of writing
requiring stamps, to which proper stamp
has not been affixed.
IF any instrument subject to Stamp du-
" was issued after October LIST, 1862, and
prior to August LIST, 1864. unstamped, or
insuffciently stamped, the appropriate stamp
may be affixed in the presence Of the Court,
Register or Recorder.
Any instrument issued since August LIST,
1864, unstamped, may be stamped BY the
Collector upon payment for proper stamp
and penalty of $50. And where the
amount of the stamp duty exceeds $50, on
payment also of interest on said duty at the
rate Of 6 per cent. from the day on which the
stamp should have been affixed.
If the instrument is presented to the Col
lector within II months from its issue the
Collector is authorized to remit the penalty,
provided that he shall be satisfied chat the
omission to stamp it was by reason Of acct
dent, mistake. inadyertence or urgent neccs-
sity, and without willful design to evade or
delay the payment of stamp duty.
If the instrument is not presented within
twelve months, the penalty and interest must
be paid to the Collector before he can render
i. valid by fixing the stamp, without regard
to the cause Of the omission to stamp it at the
time Of its issue. The Commissioner has nc
rors, to remit this penalty"
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A PREDICTION VERIFIED In 1889 gen
tleman by the name of Talbot Green, of Ten
nessee' afterwards an officer in the late rebel
army, published popular, work entitled
"a Winter in the Federal City," in which
he positively asserts that ANDREW johnson,
in spite of the fates, would be Chief Magis-
trate Of the United States before the close of
the year 1865" that ''his administration
would be stormy; that he would labor under
extraordinary embarrassments, but would
eventually make one Of the most popular
Presidents that cTer ruled ID America"
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Since our last issue the so-coNcd Convcn-
ton of the Union Republican Party Of Vir-
ginia met in Alexandria and adjourned. 1t
was composed, according to the Washington
Chronicle Of eighty members, pretending to
represent only ten counties out Of about one
kindred. OF the number, taeenty,sir were
from the city Of Alexandria and fcny-oae
from the adjoining county of Fairfax, leav-
ing only thirteen representatives for the re-
naming eight counties. We have heard Of
no meetings to select delegates to this So
called Convention and presume that, like
Bolts and the delegates from Lynchburg and
Rockingham, the vast majority of the mcnl-
bcrs were self-constituted delegates and rep
resented no body but themselves. In truth
it seems to have been gotten up entirely on
the selfish principle, and its resolutions and
doings bear the unmistakable mark of self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. For the purpose of get
ting possession of the State Government and
Offices, they would enfranchise the negro and
disfranchisc the whites who disagreed with
them during the war. The resolution to this
effect is singularly inconsistent with another
passed, which declares 'that if any consider
able portion of the community is denied a
vote in elections, that portion of the people
will be denied such perfect protection as
ought to exist in the rights of person and
property" The one would disfranchise a
large portion of community while the other
sanctions their right; to vote. These may
have been intended to secure the endorsation
Of the President and Congress Gas set forth
in another resolution, by Gliding the radical
resolution in one case and the conservative
(if W emay SO term it, in the other. Without
such an arrangement it would be difficult to
ride both sides of the sapling," as the Con-
vention desired, by securing the endorsation
of the President and Congress. Viewed in
any other light than as strategic move
ment against both Congress and the Presi-
dent, these resolutions, as do the others, show
want of brain and purpose not to be equaled
by any assemblage of men in any communi-
ty, without regard to color" and exhibit
the so-called Convention of the Union Re-
publican Party Of Virginia as the greatest
farce of the day.
This is the last, in all probability, that
will ever be heard Of the Union Republican
Party Of Virginia, and we suggest as suit
able epitaph, f" Born to satiate an inordinate
selfish appetite, it died of Bolts"
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
To the public generally, and to Todd, De'cs
d Co., particularly.
Whereas, my name has appeared among
the list of signcrs to secret petition, pray
ing the return of Federal troops to Staun-
ton for the protection of the interests of
the loyal citizens, so-called," Of this
county, I take this method to inform the
public that l never signed any such paper,
nor did | authorize any one to do so for me,
and furthermore that never was solicited to
do SO by any one. AS Messrs Todd and
Dews have made affidavit to the statement
that all the names to said petition were signed
in their presence, I deny that ! signed it in
their presence, or at all; and | denounce
them as perjurers and slandtrers, and utter
ly unworthy the confidence or esteem Of any
respectable community.
WIN. ARMSTRONG.
May %, 1866. Churchville, Va.
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New Advertisements.
NEW coNcERN'
Clothing! Clothing! Clothing!
GOOD, FASHIONABLE + CHEAP!
At Whites Old stand.

We beg leave to inform our friends ofStaunton
and Augusta and the Public generally that we
have associated ourselves under the style and firm
of Summcrson & Turner for the purpose of con-
Quoting the Clothing B Furnishing Goods BUSH
ness in Staunton, and having bought our stock
at the latest and lowest CASH PRICES are able
to offer greater inducements to CASH purchasers
than any house in this country. We ask a call
on the part of all wanting Clothing and Gents
Furnishing Goods and guarantee that our prices
will not only give satisfaction, but every article
sold by us shall be warranted as represented.
SUMMERSON + TURNER.
Spectator and Valley Virginian copy,
Nav 25th-lmO. "
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GREAT FIRE IN New YoRK-THE ACADEMY
OF Music IN AsHEs-THREE TO Four MIL
LIONS OF PROPERTY Observation-Disclosures
FIREMEN KILLED.
Neac York, May 22.-The Academy of
Music, Lutheran Church, Medical Universe
ty, two piano factories, and other buildings
on Fourteenth street and Third Avenue, we're
destroyed by fire last night. Maretzek's and
Grau's opera troupes lost valuable wardrobes
by the fire. The estimated loss is between
three and four millions Of dollars. Several
frencn were killed. :.
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STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Cou1ltu of Auqusta

I, VIM. A. Burnett, Notary Public for
the County Of Augusta, in the State of Vlr-
ginia, do hereby certify that John Shank, a
citizen of said county, this day voluntarily
appeared before me and made oath that be was
solicited to sign p3tition setting forth that
threats were being made against the lives Of
loyal men, that neither justice nor protection
could be obtained at the hands of the officers
of the civil law or through the civil courts
and asking the return Of troops to this point
to obtain the same, and that afiant did this
under an entire misapprehension off mean
ing, it never having been explained to him.
that he has seen an affidavit made by one
James Todd, to the effect that afiant signed
said petition in his presence. So far from
this being the fact, affiant has not seen Mr.
Todd to speak to him for the space of four or
five years, and has not otherwise had any
communication with him upon any subject,
that affiant now declares that no threats are
being made against any person on account of
his or their sentiments, or to his knowledge
have been made heretofore, tha at he believes
justice and protection can be obtained through
the civil courts and at tne hands of the civil
officers by all classes of persons in this COM
munity without regard to past Or present
opinions, and .onat there is no necessity for
the return ri the troops to this community
to furnie,n protection or afford justice to any
class Of our people whatever, and that affiant
bc.neves one VIM J. Dews was the solicitor
for his name to the paper referred to, and /
further certify that this statement under oath,
was made before me at the request Of affiant
and of his own accord, having applied to me
for the purpose.
Given under my hand this 10th day Of
May, 1866.
WIN. A. BURNETT. N. P.
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WIN. A. BURNETT, N. P.

Mr.. Editor Il find my name among a
list Of signers to petition which you publish
ed week before last. 1t is due to myself that
the matter should be explained. Having
had some property pressed and desiring to
get pay for the same was told by VIM. j.
Dews that the matter would have to 20 be-
fore military court and it would be neces-
sary to enrol myself as Union man. This,
and this only, thought | was doing and
was surprised to see it attached to petition,
with the statements of which, from reading,
I'disagree. in every particular, and did not
believe that was signing such paper and
never would have signed it had known its
purport.
GEO. W. FAUBER.
May 10Th 1866.
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GENERAL JOHNSTON ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF THE ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD
AT meeting Of the Alabama and Tennes-
see River Railroad on Friday last, the 18th
at Selma, General Joseph E. Johnston was
elected President. His acceptance of the
position may be confidently expected. The
salary is $4,000.
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We copy below the speech of John F.
Lewis of Rockingham, one of the self-consti-
tuted delegates from that County to be So
called Convention of the Union Republican
Party of Virginia.
Mr.. John F. Lewis wished to know how
they were to enfranchise the negro without
first DISTINGUISHING rebels. If we were to in
augurate the policy recommended by the
gentleman who has just taken his seat, we
would be hanging from some tree in the for
est before next week 1t was asserted that
Joe Segar was loyal. He held that he was
not, and his antecedents did not show it.
There are one thousand five hundred loyal
celored men in Rockingham who have never
voted with rebels, and if the negro was as
black as the ace Of spades, he would say, "Let
him vote" The speaker never voted for the or
dinance of secession, and he was threatened
with hanging if he did not He would not
be driven out of the Union, and between 60
ing to the Democracy and going to the dew
il he would not know which to choose.
exondria Gazette.
A man of the character of MIR. Lewis,
reared as he has been, to express himself in
favor of enfranchising the negro and dis
franchising his white neighbors, friends and
even relatives, surprises us in the extreme.
We had expected better things of him than
this, but are greatly disappointed. He is as
proscriptive as the most fanatical radical in
the North, and from the fact that he was
reared in the midst of the very men he would
disfranchisc, (for some Interior design VIC
orc IRE forced to conclude,) he must be re.
garded as worse than they.
Though he seems to hesitate as to whom
he will affiliate with, we are satisfied that be
has made his choice, and, instead Of going tc
the Democracy, has, politically, gone to the
devil.
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Mr.. Boris AND NEGRO SuFFRAeE.--It ap-
pears from the report in the Alexandria Ca
zette of the last days proceedings Of the Lips
comb Convention that Mr. Boots has no OBJ
lection to negro suffrage. He voted against
the proposition to allow negroes to vote, but
said that if he could be assured the people
from whom the party had to obtain its sup.
port would sanction the resolution, he would
vote for it too.
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BISHOP PoLK's INTERVIEW WITH Bishop
MEADE, OF VIRGINIA. The New Orleans
Pscayune says:
Well do We remember his departure from
Richmond to seek personally the advice OF
Bishop Meade, then the senior of the House
of bishops, at his home in Northern Virginia,
and his return to the Confederate capital
"And what did.he tell you" said we.
II saluted him. said our good bishop,
'''and said to him, Sir, I have been offered a
commission in the Confederate army, and
have come to ask your advice"
And what did he say. --...,---~-.
He said to me: 'Sir, you hold already a
higher commission than that in tho church
militant" . .@
Il am aware of that, right reverend sir
and l do not intend to resign it, but hope to
hold it in the church triumphant
Well, the senior bishop, then, did not give
his consent?
eyes, he did," said our good bishop, with
a twinkle of his eye and a confident manner
that was peculiarl y his own. eyes, he did.
quoted scripture upon him, and we talked
the matter all over thoroughly, and he final
ly told me that if I felt it my duty to accept
the commission l had his full consent, and SO
say al! the rest Of my brethren"
The TEsr-OATH PRONOUNCED UscoNsTI-
TuTIoNAL. There is no doubt now that the
Supreme Court Of the United States has de-
cidcd the Missouri test oath unconstitutional.
Hon. Frank P. Blair, in speech recently
made at Macon Mission, Mo-, said:
am here to-day my friends, to tell you
that the Supreme Court Of the United States
have already decided that this Constitution
is invalid and void. / was told so myself
by one Of the Judges Of the supreme Court
in Washington, and he told me, in addition,
that the only reason why the announcement
of the decision was not made was, that the
minority of those who held that the law was
constitutional (our Judges holding it consti-
tutional and five declaring it UNCONSTITUTIONAL
was the four who begged that the announce
ment might be postponed till the next term,
which meets in December. CA voice
Until after the election in this State. ~
That language was not used, but it amounted
to that. | can give my theory of this matter,
and tell you what l know and what this
Judge told me-
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"AvING purchased the stock and fixtures
IL Of the Confectionery Store lately occupied
By Chambers / Co., Main Street, I'd door above
Augusta street. we will continue the business
with largely increased stock, and invite the pa
tronage of our friends and the public generally
May 1T kER, STEVENSON & co.
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DUcKEYE REAPER & MOWER.

DUCKEYE REAPER & MOWER.
- Acting as Agent for G. Autman Co., for
their unrivalled Mower and Reaper, again offer
this machine to the farmers of the Valley as the
best and only one adapted to all kinds of land,
having many decided advantages over all other
machines now in use, having most perfect self
rake; also self-dropping arrangement, and also
the handwriting machine. Also for their celebra-
ted Sweepstakes Thresher and Cleaner, and the
Farmer Horse Rake and Buckeye Horse Rake
will have a supply at all the Depots on the Va.
Central and Orange and Alexandria Railroads. -
Please call on or address me at Waynesboro, Va.
w N. BUSH, Agent
may o5--1m for G, Aultman j Go.
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NJ @ Il ! & E.-Application will be made
~ to the Virginia Central Railroad Company
10 renew Coupon Bond No. 100 for $1,000 paya-
Die July 1st. 1884 to which was attached Cou-
pom for $3e for interest due January lst, 1865
and subsequent Coupons, which said Coupon
Bond was damaged and nearly destroyed by e
fire which occurred on the Danville Railroad on
Juy 22d. 1864, and afterwards totally destroyed
byfre in the Bank of the Commonwealth Rich
mond, April I'd. 1865.
NJ. G.. HARTMAN
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Staunton, Va. May 4th l86s.-4t.
INSURANCE COMPANY

t Books of subscription to the Capital Stock OF
this company are now open at the Banking house
of W. H. Tams & Co., and at the offices of the
two Banks in Staunton. The attention of Capt.
taists is called to the merits of this stock, which
is recommended to them as probably the most re-
By order of the
Jan l2-tf COMMISSIONERS.