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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-07-27
The ShoWman's Courtship.
by ARTEMUs WARD.

4 Thar was affecting ties witch made me han
ker arter Betsy. Her fathers farm iined
our'n; their COWS and our'n squenched their
thirst at the same spring; our old mares both
had stars in their forreds; the measles broke
out in both families at nearly the same peri
cd our parents (Betsey's and mine) slept
every Sunday in the same meeting house,
and the nabers used to observe chow thick
the Wards & Peasles air! It was a sublime
sight, in the spring Of the year, to see our
several mothers Betsey's and mine) with
their gowns pinned up SO they couldn't sile
EN- efechunitly bilin soap together and abusin
the nabers.
Altho hankered arter the objek Of my af
fecshuns, darsunt tell her Of the fires which
was ragin in my buzzom I'd try to DO it
but my tung would kewollup up agin the
roof of my mouth and stick thar, like death
to deseast African Or country postmaster
to his Office, while my heart whanged against
my ribs like an old fashioned wheat fale agin
barn door.
Twas a earn still mite in June. All ma
ter was husht and nary zefer disturbed the
screen silens. [ sot with Betsey Jane on
the fence Of her fathers pastur. We'd bin
rompin throo the woods kullin flowers and
driving the woodchuck from his native
lair ESQ to speek) with long sticks. Wal
we sot thar on the fence, a swingin our feet
two and fro, blushin as red as the baldinswille
skool house when it was first painted, and
lookin very simple make no doubt My left
arm ockepied in ballunsin myself on the fence,
while my rite was wound luyingl round her
waste. .
I cleared my throat and tremblingly sed
''Betsey, you're Gazelle."
l thought that air putty fine. I waited to
see what effect it would have upon her. 1
evidently didn't fetch her, for she up anc
sed:
you're sheepp'
| SEE I, ::'Betsey Jane, [ think very much
ly of you"
Il don't believe word you say-so there
now Gomez with which observation sh'
hitched away from me.
Il wish thar was winders to my sole,
sed I, so that you could see sum Of m,
feelins. Thar's fire enuff in here sed
strikem my buzzom, ssto bile all the corn bee
and turnips in the naborhood. Versuviou
and the critter amt a cirkumstans
She bowed her head down and commons
chewin the strings of her sun bonnet
! Then drawing herself up to her full hite
she sed
II won't listen to your noncens no longer
4 Jest say strate out what you're driven at. =
If you mean gittin hitched I'm mp
considered that air enuff for all practical
purposes, and we proceeded imejitly to th'
parsons and made l that mite
WHAT IS FAME ?-The following is from
the Washington correspondent Of the New
York Commercial:
The numerous public schools Of Washing
ton City are now being examined, and also
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-07-27

Rev. A. j. Ryan, Catholic priest Of
Knoxville, Tennessee, and an Irishman by
birth, is the author Of the touching poem
1.-The Conquered Banner"
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-07-27

GEN. BEAuREGARD.-The foreign cores
pondent of the Mobile Tribune says a grand
public dinner was recently rendered to Gen.
Beauregard, in London, and that he has
since been further honored by the acknowl-
edgment of his superior skill as military en-
gineer. The British government have made
overtures to the General but he has declined
them u,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-07-27
Personal.

Gen. I'll. A. Wise left here in the g Syl-
vester'' on Saturday for Norfolk, to deliver
lecture for the benefit of the Freemason
Street Baptist Church in that city. The
Dey Book says:
. His subject - The Duty Of Repairing
the Churches of the South lis one that adj
n,its Of the noblest eloquence and we feel
confident that those who hear him will come
away convinced that they have listened to
one whose mouth, like the mouth Of the gol-
,den-lipped Saint in the legend, has been
touched by the finger of an angel"
Gen. Wise is one Of the'most popular ora
tors in America, but he lectures only for
charitable. objects. Even before he was de-
prived of his property and comforts, and be-
fore he knew what poverty was, his heart ev-
er warmed to distress, and the widow and the
orphan never appealed to him in vain. Now
he has nothing to give but his eloquence, and
we have seen him meet the many calls upon
him Gas for instance in this case) when he
was much better off in his bed Energy,
| that indomitable spirit of his nature, is new
er at rest from early in the morning until
late at night his mind and his hands are en-
gagged doing something. He rises about
A. NJ. and works in bis garden until break
fast; SO soon as that is over, he reads the
morning papers, and about A. M. he starts
/! from his home in Manchester and walks
about two miles in the hot broiling sun to
his Office in the Enquirer building, where he
remains until q o'clock P. NJ, when he re-
turns to his home walking daily from four
to six miles in the heat Of the day. Any
other man than Gen Wise would hardly be
able to undergo 50 much bodily and mental
exercise. -En9uirer.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-07-27

WHAT IS FAME ?-The following is from
the Washington correspondent Of the New
York COMMERCIAL: go
The numerous public schools Of Washing
ton City are now being examined, and also
the freedmen's schools. A good story is
told of the private secretary Of Senator Sum
ner, who attended one Of these institutions
for teaching the contraband idea how to shoot,
and was invited to PROFOUND some questions.
| stChildren," said he, in grave tone, ''what
Senator can you name :" There was pause,
and then the bright boy Of the class ex-
claimed s'Abrum Lincum !" ssNo," said
the young gentleman, T mean, what sena-
tor in Congress do you know, or have you
heard of? Another pause, and then another
specimen of ebony and ivory timidly sugges-
ted, candy johnson" "He's not a Sena-
tor, either" Just then another pupil was
inspired, and exclaimed, General Wash
ington !" Poor little ignorant colored boys
at school under the shadow Of the Capitol,
and didn't know the name Of Senator (es-
pecially Sumner when Senator'S are doing
SO much for them.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-11
The German Fathcrland.
From the World.


The London Pau MdN Gazette, which, blythe.
way, is usually very good paper, makes a very
strange blunder in regard to what it denounces
as the destruction OF German patriotism by the
war which has lust broken out in Germany
This Austro Prussian war;" says the Gazette,
sis, to all intents and purposes, civil war, and
a civil war, moreover, in the heart OF a people
who have ever been loudest in the proclamation
of their brotherhood as Germans. Where now
are they singing, as they have sung for genera
tions past, their old patriotic song:-
was ist das Deutschen VaterlaudG
ls's Preussen.land, ist Schwaben landP"
Where, indeed? The said "old patriotic
song" being no older than the "war OF liberia.
ticn," fought bv Germany against Napoleon !!
1t was written by Ernest Moritz Arndt for the
purpose of helping to generate, half century
ago, that very "German brotherhood" which
the Pal Mall Gazette sentinentaiizes over as ii
it had for centuries back been the leading oha--
acteristic of German history. As a matter of
fact, German brotherhood has never existed.
The Germans of the south and the north have
hated each other with pure and perfect hatred
for ages; and as IN Italy, 50 also in Germany,
the division of the common tatherlaud into Il
vast number of more or less Independent local
States has produced q corresponding develop
ment OF local loves and hates utterly opposed
10, and Inconsistent with, anything like general
German patriotism.
"What is the Germans Fatherland? ?" asks
Arndt in his song. One result of the present
war, perhaps, will be to answer this question;
but it has certainly never been ans wered before,
though it has been asked by all manner oil
people, in all manner of ways, from the days OF
Conrad of Hohenstautien to our own.
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throw more favorable light upon his strategy,
but lust ow IL does not look like good general
chip, and may expose him to serious com.
plications of revolutionary character In
Naples and Rome. Even the Ineffective
h henpS s' iaI MaSI az noo,,iar ssntSaas.s SHOWS
blowing England is going through a species
of revolution in the present ministerial crisis.
Napoleon Is endeavoring TO keep his dynasty
intact by stand still policy. He knows how
to gave his people Just that amount Of freedom
which is safe for them and for him. and above
all, he has the happy faculty of knowing now to
manage an election. Bismark, in his effort to
follow the same course, upon the sagacious
promptngs OF Napoleon, may 60 a step too tar
in the PRONUNCIATION or the promise of universal
suffrage in Prussia. A twoedged sword in the
hands of an unskilful master is a dangerol rs
weapon. Upon the whole, the elements of
change are looming up in European society.
Crowned heads may make great wars, but the
people can make great revolutions. Without
predicting such q result from the present con-
flict, we are prepared to witness 1t without
surprise,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-11
The Free List.

The following articles heretofore subject to
internal taxation are hereby declared by the
new law, Just passed, to be exempt from such
internal duty, pTOoided that the exemptions
shall, in all cases, be confined exclusively to
said articles in the state and condition specified
in the enumeration, and shall not extend to
articles III any other form, nor to manufactures
from said articles:-
Alum; aluminium; aluminous cake; patent
alum; sulphate OF alumina; and cobalt;
Anilne and anime colors;
Animal charcoal, or carbon;
Anvils;
Articles manufactured in institutions for the
blind, and in institutions for the deaf ami dumb
which are sold to aid in their support or the
support of the pupils;
Barrels and casks, other than those used for
the reception of fluids; packing boxes made of
wood; and boxes OF wood or paper for friction
matches, cigar liehts, and wax tapers;
Beeswax, crude or unre6ned:
Bl-chromate and prussate of potash;
Bleaching powders;
Blue vitriol;
Borax and boracc acid;
Brass not more adyenced than rods or sheets;
Brick, fre-brick, draining tiles, cement,
drains and sewer pipes, and earthen stone
waterpipes, retOrts and tiles made OF clay;
Bristles;
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The Revolutionary Phases OF the War m
Europe.

IRON the Herald
The defeat of the Italian troops under Victor
Emanuel in the great Austrian stronghold OF the
Quadrilateral at the very outset of the war may
have an unexpected influence upon the reyolu-
tionary elements which are here and there sUil
latent in Italy, and which may introduce some
new phases into the present great European
struggle. If, tor instance, the Vaccinations OF
the Bourbons IN Naples, stimulated by the TEN.
porary disaster OF the KING OF Italy, should
assume a formidable shape, or the discon-
tented puhtclans ot the STATES of the Church
should avail themselves OF The occasion to gam
advantage tor the Pope's temporal power M
his present straitened and somewhat du.
bious condition, Victor Emanuel would nnd a
difhculty III his rear which might prove highly
embarrassing And yet these are circums rances
which are NOT unlikely to occur. rne united
Kingdom OF Italy does not embrace within its
prestige and popular enthusiasm the whole
peninsula. There are latent ideas and discon-
Jenls in the Roman States and in the dominionsi
OF tAe Bourbons that might be developed INTO
dangers should tue opportunity present itself:
ana IT is thus that any disaster to the arms OF
victor Emanuel may call up a revolutionary
demonsCl alton, OF which we would probably
near the hrst whisperngs from the agents or
Louis Napoleon III Rome.
Whatever may be the issue of the present con.
rest IN Europe IT is certain that Prussia now
represents the progress OF modern European
IDEAS, while Austria and the States OF the
Church are the representatives OF all that
remains OF the old imperial construction OF
Charlemagne. The father of imperialism in
Europe created two emplres-one IN Southern
Europe, representing religion and stagna ion in
the person OF the Pope and one IN Germany
which was political empire, and became The
nursery OF progressive ideas. Prussia to-day as
an integral part OF The German Confederation
that We have seen so recently dissolved is the
type oil modern progression, as lar as EuroDe
comprehends that teru; while Austria Is the
embodiment OF the old teudal idea, tlme-worn,
churchridden, ana almost efete. Prussia. IN
word, Is the great vital power OF Germany.
Austria Is the dry bones o. German civilization.
In the struggle for mastery in Central Europe
his line Of demarcation is very distinctly
dl wn in the synfpathies extended by the
sma er German power to each of the rivals
The NogIessive States favor Prussia, the non
progressive are with Austria. and new Italy Is
iound, as might be expected, on the side of
progression. n. n
There can be little doubt, however, that
danger Turks IN the rear OF the armies OF the
King OF Italy. He seems to have fallen into a
great military error at the outset by risklng an
attack upon the overwhelming forces OF Austria
In her strongest position. Future events may
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would witness the departure of the last Austrian
soldier from the soil of Italy, whilst une 10 bar
rassed by the necessity which now cOmpels an
immense body OF her troops to guard against
the Italian attacks, Austria would stand face to
face with Prussia, and. on the historic fields OF
the fatherland, commence that tateiul struggle
whereof the guerdon of the victor would be
supremacy in Germany
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-11
SADDLES AND HARNESS.
THE OLDEST AND LARGEST
SADDLE AND HARNESS
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE
COUNTRY.
LACEY, MEEKER u CO.,
No, 1915 CHESTNUT STREET.

OFFER OF THEIR OWN MANUFACTURES;
BUGGY HARNESS, from to elSO
LIGHT BARoUCHE do............,...... 80 90 to $50
HEAVY do do ............ ....... IS OO to 500
EAPIsS, BRASS MOUNTED HARNESS 27'50 to 20
WAGON And sELF-ADJUSTING......... 1900 to 20
STAGE AND TEAM do................ 80 90 to 50
LADIES SADDLE, do............... 1900 to I5a
. GENTS do do.............,.. 800 20 IS
Brides. Bountings Bits Rosetts, Horse Covers,
Brushes, Combs, soaps, Backing Ladies' and Gent.
Travelling and Tourist Bags and eacks Lunch Baskets
Dress lg ana Shirt Gases, trunks and Vaiises
59emrp No. 1916 CHESTNUT ST
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Brooms made from corn, brush, or palm-leaf;
Building stone of ali kinds, including slate,
marble, frecstoDe, and soapstone, and rock,
grourd and calcined gypsum;
Bunting and flags OF the United States, and
banners made of bunting of domestic manu-
facture;
Burrstones m1llstones, and grIndstones. rough
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-15
The National Finances.

We learn from the National LuteM-
gence1', that the November statement
Of the public debt gives renewed
assurance Of the fact that, with wise
legislation on the part of Congress,
the public credit can be sustained and
improved, the national Indebtedness
gradually and with certainty extin-
guished, the burden of taxation re-
duced and productive industry re-
vived and extended throughout the
country. The Secretary of the Trea-
sury has gone just as far towards the
reduction of the currency as he could
do under the Act of Congress of last
April, restricting thar reduction to
10000, 900 for the first six months,
and 1000, 900 q month thereafter.
Some 100000 or 100000 of the
mpound-interest notes have also
been retired, and several millions Of
the gold interest-bearing bonds pur-
chased for gold at q rate below par.
The national currency has been in
creased, meanwhile, up to the limit
allowed by law-3O0, 100000.
The large accumulation of currency
in the Northern centres of commerce
has led to an increased demand for
national securities at enhanced prices.
All securities of stable character.
like railroad shares, have been, and
continue to be, in great demand.
They are on the rise, and must, ne
cessarily, bring higher prices, while
money for regular business purposes
will not bring more than five per cent.
Any stocks in companies that paw
dividends of eight or ten per cent.
must necessarily rise much above par.
There never was a country so bede-
villed i'll her political affairs and so
party-ridden as this country is at
present, which could make such a
satisfactory financial exhibit. The
payment of the national debt, in the
course of very short time, will be
an accomplished fact.
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Massncll Setts.

The National hatelhgence7- thus dis
courses of Massachusetts and her ne
gro legislators:
The telegram informs us that two
negroes have been elected to the Lee
gislature in Massachusetts,. This is
certainly new idea in this country.
But there is no disputing about
tastes. If the people of NIassachu-
setts desire to be thus represented,
we imagine no one else will have any
objection. If any constituency pre-
fers colored representatives, there
can be no reason why they should
not be allowed to satisfy themselves.
When it is considered how very
peculiar the people of Massachusetts
have become in their politics, per-
haps the existing majority of them
will be as fifty represented by negro
legislators as by any others.
The standard of talent in the public
men of the Bay State has been
steadily running down for the last
fifteen or twenty years. When they
used to be represented by such men
as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Web
ster, Caleb Gushing and Edward
Everett, the State enjoyed large in
tellectual prestige. But of late years
their intellectual contributions in the
public characters they have presented
to the country have been, with few
exceptions, of very ordinary stand
ard
The very meagre talent they have
of late years commanded in public
life has one advantage-that in elect-
ing negroes to represent them t. y
do not run much hazard of losing
anything by the change. The Mi ia
of Massachusetts for the negro is in
teresting as psychological fact. It
is curious to know how much further
they can carry it. AS they are so
much infatuated with their black idol,
it would be well FOR them to obtain
a larger infusion of this element. I'M
migration of the black race ought to
be encouraged there. We have no
doubt some of the Southern States,
where the black population is in ex-
cess of the whites, would very gladly
spare q portion of their colored popu-
lation to accommodate Massachusetts.
This is II point upon which they
might happily find themselves in &C
cord with their Southern brethren.
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unfortunately destined to be govern
ed by such men as beast Butler, crazy
Brownlow, fanatical Wendell Phil
lips, aided by rascally Forney and
others of that stamp-in fact, SO long
as the Constitution of the Fathers of
the Republic is ignored and the true
principles of the Government they
founded trampled under foot by q
faction worse than the Jacobins of
France, SO long will American securi-
ties go begging at the vaults of the
money-lenders of the world.
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From Washington.
We copy the following dispatches
70 ~, y ~

We copy the following dispatches
to the Baltimore SIN:
Hon. Fernando Wood, newly elect
ed to Congress from the Ninth Dis
trict in New York, is in the city. Po-
liticians say he is declaring himself
in favor of the constitutional amend
ment. Doubtful.
Quite number of the Governors
of the Southern States have addressed
letters to the President, asking for
his opinion as to what the Southern
States ought to do, and it is said that
he has the matter under adyisement
now.
The Solicitor of the Treasury has
rendered an opinion to the effect
that Incorporated banks, under the
revenue act of 1864, are liable to tax
upon the amount of their chartered
capital, not including surplus funds.
General Howard, of the Freed
mems Bureau, has addressed q letter
to colored clergymen, seeking their
cooperation in trying to get rid of
some of the surplus freedmen here,
who must be sent away, or supported
by the Government during the win
ter. General Howard says that al
ready about 5000 colored people
have secured employment elsewhere;
that this class Of the population vet
numbers $4,000, Of whom not more
than $4,000 can be provided with
work, leaving 1000 who ought to go
away. He proposes to send them
chiefly to Pennsylvania, New York
and New England.