Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-10-12

October.
A Mexican army $4,000 strong, Differed
by Frenchmen, is talked Of
Government allows Jeff Davis twenty
dollars per week for the purchase of rations.
Ex-Governor Charles S. Morehead is re-
ported dead at his plantation in Mississippi
The convocation of the Episcopal Church
for Eastern Virginia, will occur in Norfolk
on the 23d of October
New York, Oct 3-Fernando Wood
announces himself candidate for Congress
in the ninth district.
The Charlottesville Chronicle of yesterday
says: ga lot of arms and ammunition passed
up on the Lynchburg train on Sunday. =
What is the meaning Of it?
Lindsey, the preacher, who whipped his
child to DEATH has been bailed in S12, 900
to appear before the January term Of Court,
at Albion, New York, on charge of man
slaughter.
The committee appointed by the Georgia
Legislature at its last session to select loca-
ton for the penitentiary have decided upon
Stone Mountain as the most eligible point.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The President
has pardoned Albert G. Brown, formerly
United States Senator from Mississippi and
Gen Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky.
Ex-Governor W1sE.-The Winchester
Neaos learns that General H. A. Wise has
accepted an invitation to deliver an address
on the occasion of defeating the Stonewalr'
Cemetery, near that place.
METHODIST Ep1scoPAL CONVENIENTLY
next Methodist Episcopal Conference of the
Church South, in North Carolina, will be
held in Fayetteville on the 7th of next
month, at which Bishop Pierce will preside
The London Times states that the last
census OF Ireland revealed the remarkable
fact that there were but two Jews in the en-
tire Southwest Of Ireland. One of them
lived in Munster, and one in Connaught.
The Danville (Virginia) Times says that
on Sunday last spider web was observed in
the yard of the Rev. Mr.. Chaplin, of that
town, with the word VAR handsomely
and legibly woven in the web -
The N. Y. Com. Advertiser says in
some way the excluded States must be rep
resented in Congress. The people will soon
discern the full injustice Of keeping them
out" A good many people think so.
The Cholera is spreading alarmingly in
Tennessee. 1t is at Knoxville, Chattanoo-
ga, Nashville, Memphis, and recently has
broken out in great violence at Shelbyville.
The people are fleeing to Tullahoma and
other places.
The proposition made to send from Cali
fornia section Of the g original big tree to
the Worlds Fair at Paris, is said by DR..
Macgowan to be impracticable, for want of
saw long enough to cut it. The cutting
will require saw forty feet long.
"Don't be foolish" You can make Six
dollars from Fifty Cents. Call and examine
an invention urgently needed by,every body.
Or sample sent free by mail for Soc, that
retalls easily for So, by R. L. Wollcott, ITO
Chatham Square, New York June 15-1y.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 3-Ata special election
held on Saturday in Davidson county, under
Brownlow's new franchise law, Hon. John
>. Brlen was elected to the Legislature by
1000 majority over Dickey, radical. to fiji
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Hon. S. j. Carter, radical.
Inc Maine majority is whitfield down to
70, O37, and still falling The Democratic
vote already shows an increase of 25 per cent
over that OF 1868, and the Republican vote
only per cent increase. Like gains in New
York and Pennsylvania will give both States
to the Conservatives.
The Postohice Department finds constant
and increasing trouble in New England ow-
ing to refusals by railroad companies to carry
the mails at established rates. From Boston
to Lowell and Nashua, the mail is RIM bv
morse power, arriving in Lowell fifteen min
utes after the cars. Several of the other
roads have threatened to reject the mails. bnt
the Department steadily refuse to increase the
price. 01 O'''0 ~
The Louisville Courier urges the Presi-
dent no longer to recognize the nresant
piece OF a Congress" until it admits tho Sonth
cru neinoers-to protect himself by deny-
ing It's legitimacy and authority, and resist
ny NY us arbitrary and illegal enactment
y, Uther papers are discussing the same subject
we nave fallen upon threatening times. The
clouds around us appear to thicken and grow
blacker. - " anu s'o"
Jersey city has another Nghost" and
smarter one than has ever appeared there be-
,ore. IL went into sleeping apartmentlately.
eooh from man his shirt without unbutton-
ing the wristbands, and without awakening
niln' after which it hung the shirt upon the
Man 1t then took his stockings, conveyed
tnem to the roof and hung them to the caves
s IN such position that they could be seen
from the street. 'een
a Negro has formally petitioned tile Pro
bate Court of Talledega county, Alabama
70 De allowed to sell himself into slavery :,
: ne says he is twenty-one years old, good
neia hand, and, he believes, worth a tbous-
an0 dollars. He says there are too manv
RESPONSIBILITIES surrounding him, and that he
IS dissatisfied with his present condition The
Probate Court having no jurisdiction in the
Stevens. 'e'''' W. : nau'