Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-01-22

be lmpeached, now writes that the men VINO
insist that the adoption of General Ashley's
resolution by the House Of Representatives on
Monday last will necessarily lead to impeach-
ment, dc not speak by the book, and those
who are trying to excite, by. predicting a new
panic as sure result of impeachment, are sim
ply making themselves ridiculous
Since high tariff of duties is to become the
settled policy of the government, it is the duty
of the South to accommodate herself to that
policy, as fast as her resources will permit. No
country, in the world, presents such inducements
for the investment of capital in manufacturing
enterprises, as does Virginia And we are glad
to see that attention is turned more and more
to that field of enterprise.
The National Inteligencer says that mo man
who loves his country can read the extraordinary
doctrines, avowed in the course Of the discus
sion in the House of Representatives on the
bill for the admission Of Nebraska into the
Union, without feeling that constitutional lib
erty is endangered by the ill-considered notions
of those who pretend to be the champions Of
liberty.
A Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier, in his letter dated the It'll instant,
says: 1t is certain that Congress will enact
law providing that the constitutional amend
ment shall, after receiving the assent oftwenty-
one States, be held as part of the Constltu-
ton. But will the Supreme Court sustain such
a proceeding? The President thinks not.
The bronze statue of Chief Justice Marshall,
for the Richmond Washington monument, is
on its way from Munich. The statues OF Nelson
and Lewis, and the alegorical figures and tro-
phies designed as ornaments for the lower por-
ton of the monument, will likewise soon be
shipped to this country from Munich.
Some Of the papers of the State have favored
the postponement of the elections to next Fall !;
but this cannot be done, as the time for holding
them is prescribed in the Alexandria Constitu-
ton of Virginia, under which we are operating
the machinery of Government.
CONTRACTS. Persons making written con-
tracts with freedmen will bearin mind that such
contracts must have stamps upon them, other
wise they will not be held as binding by the
officers of the government. A five cent reve-
nue. stamp is required on each one.
Trumbull has been nominated for reelection
to the United States Senate by the Radicals of
the Illinois Legislature.
lc hot of
Colorado Legislature favor admission into the
Union.
4 terrible riot, growing out of a controversy
on the question of new county, is said to have
occurred at Paramount, Vermillion county, IL
inois, on the Sd instant. Seven persons are
reported to have been killed and Is wounded.
It has again, and again been decided that at
tempts of express companies, baggagemen and
railway companies to make limitations to their
responsibility as carriers, when losses occur,
will not hold good in law.
Prominent factors have estimated the pro-
bable cotton crop of the present year, taking
the receipts thus far as a criterion, at 1885,
900 bales This estimate is regarded as close
one.
It is said the Radicals of Missouri will amend
the law so as to allow preachers and teachers
to follow their callings without taking the test
oath.
A man named Hunt has just got verdict
for $4,000 against Tennessee Colonel tor
false imprisonment at some period during the
war
The New York Herald says that reconstruc-
ton by the territorial theory would necessitate
the assumption of the debts of the Southern
States.
General Howard said in speech at Column
bia, South Carolina, recently, that there were
already $4,000 colored children in the free
men schools.
1t is believed that the emigration to America
from Ireland and the Continent, the coming
spring and summer, will be the greatest on re-
cord
In consequence of the death of Bishop Elliot,
of Georgia, Bishop Wilmer, Of Alabama, has
been invited to officiate at the diocese.
Troops Left.
The company of q. S. troops which, for sew
eral months, have been quartered in Union,
Monroe county, West Virginia have been Or
dered to New Orleans The Union Register
says:
MADE up almost entirely of foreigners and
with their barracks in the centre OF the town,
the discipline under which they were kept was
yet so rigid, that beyond the fact that their
presence was an implied aspersion upon the
loyalty and law abiding-temper OF the commu-
nifty, they have given no cause OF ofiense what
ever to Our citizens.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, January i8.-The steamer
Platte Valley yesterday struck the sunken wreck
of the gunboat JEFF. Thompson and sunk In
forty feet water. Sixty lives were lost, ipcud-
ING thirteen of a family named Roberts, Most
Of the cabin passengers were saved.
Mr.. Reverdy johnson Remuneration in the
Senate Of Mr.. Davis imprisonment produced
a profound sensation, and may be indicative OF
his discharge en- parole by the President.
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General Butler has commenced h5el suit
against Brick Pomeroy, La Crosse, " lsconslp.