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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
THE ELECTION FOR MEMBERS or
| A STATE CONVENTION.
Convention or no Convention.
THE 22D OF OCTo Der THE TIME FIXED ny
GEN. SCHOFIELD FOR HOLDING THE
SAME.
HEAneUaETERs Filsr Military DIST,
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Richmond Va. Sent u lSfz

Richmond, Va. Sept. IL, 1867.
l. In pursuance of the Act of Congress
of March 23d, an election will be held for
delegates to State Convention, and to
take the sense Of the registered voters upon
the question whether such Convention
shall be held, for the purpose of establish
ing constitution and civil government for
the State Of Virginia. loyal to the Union.
:. The number of delegates to be elected
will be one hundred and fve,-to be ap-
portioned among the counties and cities of
the State
4 y x x y
8. The polls will be opened at every
place of voting throughout the State at
seven o'clock A. NJ, on Tuesday, the 22d
day of October next, and viii be kept open
until sunset of the same day In the city
OF Richmond the polls will also be reopen
ed at tie same hour on the following day,
and kept open until sunset of that day.
4. The place Of registration in each dis
trict or ward, will be the place Of voting
for that district or ward, and persons will
be entitled to vote only where they were
registered
5. The voting shall be by ballot. The
votes, "For Concention," or "Aqai,s5
a Conuention," to be written or printed
upon the ballots for delegates
q. The election will be held under the
superintendent of the boards Of registra-
ton. Detailed instructions will be given
in orders to be published hereafter prescri-
bing the mode of conducting the election
and making returns.
I Fourteen days previous to the cleo
ton, the boards of registration will meet
at the courthouse, or other more conven-
lent central place in each county and city.
and make final revision Of the registra-
ton as required by section seven Of the
act of Congress Of July 18th, 1867. For
this purpose, the boards will remain in
session five consecutive days Sundays ex-
cepted). The changes made in the lists
Of the registered voters will be promptly
reported to thesesheadquarters.
8. The Presidents Of Boards of Regis
tration WILL without delay, cause copies Of
this order to be posted in three Of the most
public places in each district and ward
BY command Of Brigadier and Breyet
Major General j. nj. Schofeld, U. S. A.
S. 4. CHALFIN,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
The Indian War.

ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 14-An Omaha dis
patch says: "a telegram from the special
Indian Agent at Fort Laramie reports one
hundred and seventy lodges of northern
Arrapahoe Indians, under Little Shield
offer to surrender if the Government will
protect item and feed their families. Or
ders have been issued to accept the terms.
A Salt Lake train was attacked some days
since~on the Big Laramie river. The men
'corraled' their wagons, and repulsed the
Indians with loss of several killed. A
fight occurred between the Ute and ARA
pahoe Indians, on Green river, on the 2Sth
ultimo, in which ten of the latter were
killed. The Cheyennes and Arrapahoe
were on the Middle Fork. A band of In
dams made raid on Mora, New Mexico,
on the Sd instant, and killed three men,
carried away FIVE Toys, and drove off a lot
Of stock. On the same night they stole
fifty or sixty mules from Col. S. I. Vasin.
The Peace Commissioners were to leave
Omaha to-day for North Plate to meet
Spotted Tail thence they will go to Jules
burg and Denver and be at Fort Larama
on the 18th Of October to meet the South
ern Indians"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
Ew The reaction against Radical rule

AHC iSdctloH aSillHSJ haulcal rule
IS unmistakeable. The days Of Radical
ism are numbered California has return
ed to its allegiance to the Constitution bv
overwhelming majorities throughout the
State. Maine shows in It's recent election
wonderful reaction in political sentiment,
and Montana Territory elects demo-
cratic ticket out and out. Elections trans
pre- in other Northern States during the
coming months, and we confidently pre-
dict that Pennsylvania and New York will
give large democratic majorities. Ohio
will probably be carried by the Radicals,
but by greatly reduced majority and SO
with other Northwestern States. The
skies arc Frightening, and we bid all low
ers of their country be of good cheer.
Tyranny and oppression must have an end
The people of the United States are not
ready yet for military despotism.
1.-THE Southern States are not reconstrue-
ted before the next presidential election,
there isa very strong probability that
democratic President will be elected With
the Southern States reconstructed under
Radical rule the Radical party expects to
carry the country, and it is for this reason
negro suffrage has been forced on the South.
1t is hoped that with the Southern States
rendered Radical by negro votes that
majority of the States will go for Radi-
cal President in 186S-and therefore the
Congressional faction is making every eff
fort to reconstruct the South during the
coming winter. The leaders Of the Rad
lcals were aware of the reaction against
them in the North, which the recent cleo
lions have made apparent to all, and this
accounts for their great anxiety for the
speedy Reconstruction" of the "rebel
States on Radical basis. They feel that
the tenure of their political livesis depend
ent on it. It is not because they believe
the negro to be capable Of voting or hold
ing Office that these s.inestimable and ina
lienable' privileges have been conferred.
They believe no such thing And as for
the negro's rights they care not baubcc
for them. They have conferred the right
of suffrage and to hold Office on the negro
from purely selfish motiyes-to use him as
tool and if ii could be ascertained that
majority Of their sscolored brethren in
tended to vote against Radicalism, Congress
would repeal the reconstruction acts with
out delay Whether the people of the
North will submit to President elected by
the votes Of Southern ringers, remains
to be seen
1t was cause Of complaint for many
years that Southern aristocracy"
ruled the country. It may be that "nig-
ger" mobocracy will be more congenial to
purltanic tastes. Massachusetts,, the land
Of free-loveism and miscegenation, may
hail such state Of things as the dawn of
mlllenial glories-but we doubt if it be at
all palitable to the great mass Of the North
ern people. A President elevated to the
Office by "cufee" and 'scuAee" in the halls
of Congress, legislating for the great
States of Pennsylvania and New York will
De sure to raise stink "darr'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
The Coming Elections.

Now that California has so nobly rcspon-
ded to Connecticut, and Montana has an
swered the great Democratic gains in
Maine by an overwhelming Democratic
victory, public attention is turned to the
coming elections in October and November.
In October, California elects Justice of
the Supreme Court. Royal Z Sprague is
the Democratic, and John Curry is the
Radical candidate. An election for a Judge
of the Supreme Court occurs in Pennsyl-
vania, October 9Th; and on the same day
elections will be held in Iowa for the en-
tire State ticket, for Judges and for mem
bers OF the Legislature, and in Ohio for the
full State ticket, excepting Secretary of
State, Judges and members Of the Legis-
lature, while at the same time the negro
suffrage amendment to the State Constitu-
ton will be submitted to the people.
After these come the following elections.
all occurring November 5: In New York
for Secretary Of State, Comptroller, Treas
urer, Attorney General, State Engineer
and Surveyor, Canal Commissioner, In
spector of State Prisons, Judges and mem
bers OF Legislature in Kansas, for mem
bers of Legislature and amendments to the
Constitution ia Massachusetts, for Gov
crnor, Lieut.. Governor, Secretary Of State,
Treasurer, Attorney General, Councillors
and members the General Court; in Min
nesota. for Governor. Lieut. Governor,
Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer,
Attorney General and members of Legis-
lature in New Jersey, members of the
Legislature; in Maryland, the new consti-
tuition is submitted; and in Wisconsin, for
Governor, Lieut. Governor, Secretary Of
State Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney
General, Inspectors Of Prisons, members
of Legislature and amendment to constitu-
tion
The following is Governor elect Haight's
reply to the congratulatory dispatch of Gov
ernor English '.Sam Francisco, Cal,
Sept, 9th, 1867 70. Governor J. e.
English: Thanks for your dispatch. Cal
iforpia has echoed the voice Of Connecti-
cut. You set US a glorious example-we
have but followed where you led in the sa-
cred cause Of Constitutional liberty.
H. Fl. HAIenr."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
Fight Between United States Soldiers
and n egr02S.

RICHMOND, September 10.--A telegram
from Farmville, Va, to night reports a
fight there this morning between some of
the soldiers of the 21st United States
troops and the town negroes. The soldiers
had beaten a colored man for refusing to
sell them liquor last night, and this mora
ing were about to beat another, when the
negroes rallied and street fight ensued
The citizens closed their stores, and cont
pany Of soldiers was sent in and restored
order. One of the soldiers was stabbed
in the melee, and about a dozen soldiers
and blacks badly beaten.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
Gov. PaEpoINT's OPINION OF THE RE

Gov. PaEPoINT's OPINION OF THE RE-.
CENT Action OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. -
Governor Peirpoint, Of Virginia, in con-
versati0n this evening, expressed the opin-
ion that the recent action Of the President
had unsettled the political condition Of af-
fairs in the State to a considerable extent.
He has recently travelled over large por-
ton Of the State. and says that party OPP
posing the call Of a convention is being
formed His opinion is, however, that it
will not amount to more than thirty per
cent, of the voters, and thinks the call for
convention will certainly be adopted
He leaves Richmond tomorrow to deliver
addresses in the south side counties. -
Washington Correspondence N. Y Her
ald, Sept. IL.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
FROM WASHFN GTON.

WASHINGTON, September / -The Cal
ifornia Democrats have twenty majority in
the Legislature on joint ballot, and two
members Of Congress
At Republican meeting in Philadel-
phia, Senators Nye, Cameron and Cattell
spoke. A resolution declaring it the duty
of Congress to impeach, try, and if guilty,
remove the President, was passed enthusi-
asticallv.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
/ lssoL lIIoN OF co-pARrNERsHIp,

me nrm OF Campbell, Banner & Co. having dis
s soisea py mutual consent, and Sam'l A. banner
er. j. w. Banner - D'' = 80
! :, me business will be conducted by Campbell &
UT, where the books and accounts will be found,
they pelng authorized to settle accounts Come
friends, and settle, we are in want of the funds
due CAMPBELL BANNER &c
sept 10 lNoodstock. Sept. Is. '6T.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
o. Montana Election.

DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE ELECTED.
VIRGINIA CRY, Montana. September
.-Kavanaugh, Democrat, has been elee-
ted to Congress by about fifteen hundred
majority.
The Legislature is almost unanimously
Democratic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

MASONIC. -Cassia Lodge, No.
1872 F. 4. NJ, meets on the ID and last Mon
days in each month, over the Male Academy
in Woodstock. j. II. WILLIAMS, w. NJ.
S. G. WILLIAMS, Sec'y.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
The Maine Election.

PORTLAND, Maine, September 12-The
returns from one hundred and seventy
towns, about three ffths of the State, foot
up Chamberlain 30 ,922 Pillsbury "a 1898.
The same towns last year gave Chamber
lain 43 ,32l and Pillsbury 1888, show
ing Joss from the republican majority of
last year Of 10, 664. The remaining towns
will probably reduce last years majority
to about ten to twelve thousand. The
majority last year was 81, 600. Both
branches Of the legislature is radical, but
by largely reduced majority. The dem
ocrats gain seven State senator's.
A man starved to death in the streets of
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
The Confscation Act.

WASHINGTON. September 14.-Numer-
Gus suits have been entered in the District
Court here to test the constitutionaity of
the congressional confscation act under
which the property of persons who went
South was confscated and sold during the
life Of the attainted. Caleb Cushing has
been employed by Dir. Garnett, of Virgin
ia, who occupied high medical position
in the Confederate army, to conduct test
case.
The Coming Elections in the South.
WASHINGTON, Sept 13.-The Cabinet,
General Grant included, is in favor of ST.
multaneous elections in the Southern
States on the first Monday in November.
1t is confidently expected that district com
manders will concur in this view.
Especial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
WASHINGTON, Sept 13.-The President
and Mr.. Seward will positively attend the
Antietam ceremonies on Tuesday next
Other members of the Cabinet may accom-
pany Mr.. johnson.
The following appointments have been
made: Lorenzo NJ. johnson, of texas, con
sular clerk, and John S. Fiske, of New
York, consul at Leith.
There appears to be general belief that
the President will issue instructions to the
district commanders to open up registra-
ton in the Southern States. 7 have good
authority for saying that Mr.. johnson will
do no such thing AS stated before in these
dispatches, the President will advise the
district commanders to fix uniform day
for elections in all the districts.
Under the reconstruction law, registra-
ton is to be opened fourteen days before
the election. This will give an opportuni-
ty for those who claim the right to register
and vote by reason Of the pardon procla-
nation, to assert their right, and the Pres
ident does not regard it necessary that he
shall do anything further in the matter
than what is herein indicated DATA
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

The BROOKLYN Union, a Radical paper,
having heard patriotic friend express the
wish that '.Andrew Jackson were in An
drew Johnson's place." says that if An
drew johnson were in Andrew Jackson's
place it would suit the Radicals a great
deal better.
An old resident of jamestown, N. Y,
reports that in 1903, when that town was
first settled, the village common was clear
ed of stumps by fpes imposed on those
who got drunk. The penalty for getting
drunk was to dig up a large stump. and
for getting only tipsy, smaller stump
The removal Of every stump in about two
months was the result,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
NEW I'D VERTI sERI1aYTs
0OMMIssI0NER's SALE OF LAND.

4 NOMMlSSlOAEh SALE OF LAND.
William KILLER and wife and others, complainants,
Virginia Wilkin and others, defendants-IN
CHANCERY.
PURSUANT to decree Of the Circuit Court of
Shenandoah, pronounced in the above named
cause, on the Sd day Of September, 1867 shall
ON SATURDAY, THE 10Th OF OCTOBER,
1867, upon the premises, proceed to sell, at pub
lie sale, to The highest bidder, tract of land,
CONTAINING 1870 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
lying on Narrow Passage Greek, in said county,
about miles from Woodstock, being the same
land OF which Henry WilNin died seized and po-
sseSsed; upon the following terms, namely S
per cent OF the purchase money in hand 285 per
eenton The 25th Of March, 1868, and the balance in
three equal annual payments from the day of sale;
all the deferred payments to bear interest from that
day; the purchaser 10 give bonds with two good
seeu tiles, and the title to be retained until the
whole OF the purchase money shall have been paid,
OF until the ceart directs deed to be made.
MARK BIRD,
sept. ~ Commissioner.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
Sept. 10.

VI URRAH +! HURRAH!l HURRAH!!l
ron GOOD TINES AGAINtt
CoNFIs Is DEADt
President Johnson has issued has great
pardon to the Inhabitants Of the
Southern Districts, incJu1inghe
Shenandoah VaHey, and 1t on
ty behooues The Farmers to
supply themselves Uith
gu Dc Cos SUPER
PHOSP HATE
OF IME
And drill their wheat and raise good and bounti-
lul crops and we will soon regain the good old
times we experienced in past years and REGAIN for
ola District No. l, the wealth she once enioved
Farmers, don't apprehend we deslre to Hum
pug you or sell you worthless Fertilizer but
caii ana Sc Tor yourselves before purchasing, or
redu the array OF Gentsemen's certificates to the
merits OF our Phosphates.
Call without delay Don't Iin0erI don't he
penhy-wlse and peund-foolish, and permit this
season to pass without trying quantity of
GILL & co.'s PHosPHATES.
We want every Farmer to try them along side of
= FuYian uGano, at Sl00 per ton, and our Phos-
pliates at POO, ana decide as others have done,
that Glils Is the best and cheapest
Farmers, only call aud see us we are pleased
70 see and to accommodate the working Farmers,
anu 70 assist them IN raising good crops Farm
eFs that used our Phosphates last fall have laid in
tnelf supplies again, and will use no other but
WI COS Gilt & CO., Manufacturers s
oePt. ~. Pugh's Run, Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
THE MAINE ELECTION.

ANOTHER DEFEAT OF RADIcALIsM.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

Great Britain, as is we'll known now,
has the largest feet of merchant vessels
ahoat. It's tonnage is over 1000. 900 The
United States now has 5000 900, tons,
and third on the list stands Germany, and
fourth France. In 1860, however the re-
lative positions were reversed, the United
States being first, Great Britain second,
France third and Germany fourth.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

The Russian papers insist on a great
European struggle not far distant
The South fears siekly autumn, owing
to the heavy rains.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

REPUBLICAN, Loss OF 1900 VOTES
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

Gold closed on the 18th, at I44Ia.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

IMMENSE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
THE CABINET ON AMNESTY.

On the subject of the effect of amnesty
the Cabinet is said to be unit In the
discussion of the amnesty proclamation,
the Cabinet agreed that its legal effect
would be to relieve excluded whites from
disability as to the exercise of the right of
suffrage.
THE POPULAR REACTION AND NEGRO sUpRE-
MACY.
The result Of the late elections is re-
garded here as certain indication Of pop
ular reaction. The President halls it as a
sign Of the reawakening ofthe masses, and
confidently believes the people are at last
beginning to realize the disastrous tendon
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19

A man starved to death in the streets of
Jersey City last week.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-09-19
WOODSTOCK MARKETS.

CORRECTED WEEKLY BY THE MERCHANTs.)
SEPT. 10, 1867
The New York herald., 1867-02-07
IBE CASE nE CAPTAIN TEMPLE.

Mira Martha @. Temple was recently buried in New
Orleans, and her funeral was attended by Generals
ioyals,s Of that city She was the wife OF Captain H.
Temple, Of the United States Army and her death
occasoned by the fatgues incident 70 his efforts to
escape from Texas where his life In danger from
returned rebels Captain Temple has been soldier OF
fifteen years service In the United States Army In
Of the first engagemens OF the late war he was danger
ously wounded By receiving ball In his right lung
Fracture OF the skull and the carrying away OF par OF
one foot By shc After recovering from these wounds
he re entered tho service In regiment OF Illinois
csvsrv. and rendered distinguished services in East
Teunsssoe - . scout when be was again wounded The
coss Of the found him In service with his regiment
in Arkansas near Pine Blum, where he married tho
daughter Of Union man from Tennessee.
Noving thence 70 the Upper Red river country
he engaged in planting in partnership with somc
consequence Of the great influence which he exercised
over the freedmen he was permitted for time 10
labor crop Of cc SouSS n
novsA By the frsshet Of the river, when most other
planters alsd 70 secure any crop whatever About the
parted and he subjected to series OF persecuons
Hs lfe threatened every sde and attempted on
several oocasions during one Of which he wssasain
% prscaious, without the protection either OF civil or
military authority the life Of himself family and freed.
men, as we'll as his property in consan. peril he went
taai country he could not have done 90 othsrwse
Il 30 r,
return homo with the detachment mentioned, under
command Of Brevet Major Granger, he found
70 tsfs refuge among the freedmen some = miles
into the interior Of Arkansae and young man In his
employ named Davidson, who had also served in the
being murdered. His horses and cotton were seized BY
his partner In the planting business and the former
taken awav into the interior OF the country The force
sent for his protection proved wholly inadequate, and
wese n great danger OF being by the insria
ID reconstructed Johnsonans. who assembled In mum.
The New York herald., 1867-02-07

BY estation and pressure; iES<fon OF the lungs
through the catheter was repeated several times at
various periods Of time frq the beginning to the end
OF the enors the chess struck violently over the
heart and over other portions with the palm OF the
the windows were thrown fully 70 admit air. at ten
present that Tho case NO longer presented possible
ground OF hope she had probably ceased TO breathe o
q iease ten minutes but directed the Efforts q art.
ncia lDspiraon to be continued under my supervision
ana they not suspended until ten minutes aiter
eleven o'clock alarming symptoms we're nrse presented
about fifteen minutes after the inhalatons commenced
and breathing ceased entirely within fifteen minutes
thereafter but the effects OF the respiration were con-
tinued than half hour longer both me ether
and the choroform employed In this case were manu-
made Of either of these articles BY the surgeons VINO
have used them In the hospital % far - am aware
the ether did take effect quickly this had repeatedly
noticed when exhibiting for the purpose OF opeang
during the past year; have administered both cnio.
roform and ether very frequently especially the latter
have never death directly caused BY ether, yet
there are upon record more than hundred cases Of
death by chloFoorm; do not know that there are any
recorded cases. well authenticated OF death from ether
think the chloroform In this case was used with the
ordinary precaution. yet have no doubt u was tho
This closed the testimony, and Coroner Gamble sub
mitted the case 70 the jury, who rendered tho following
VERDICT.
That Ann IcGanau came 70 her death by inhaling
choroform while undergoing an operation for the pur-
pose Of forming nose at the Bellevue Hospital
February T. 1857 and that the said operation was done
at her own request The jury further say IN view or
tho fact that chorofom s used by all the faculty In the
United States for the purpose OF performing operations
We consider that there Is blame 70 be attached 70 r
Hamilton or to,any Of his assistants
The deceased was thrty.sx years OF age and nativo
Of Ireland.