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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-13

Patrick Kean, long resident of Richmond,
the most accomplished Stenographer, or
short hand writer, III the South, and well
known as the reporter Of the proceedings Of
Of the Va, Convention Of 1861 and Of the
Confederate Congress, during the war, died
suddenly in that city, on Sunday last, in the
thirty eighth year of his age.
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Schools, Colleges, Sc.
NOISY CREEK
M BOARDING SCHOOL,

MESSY CREEK
lY BOARDING SCHOOL.
ATGUSTA COUNTY, Vi.
The exercises of this Institution will lie re-
isumed on the
FIRST Wednesday in Septic mber Next.
In the School will be taught the usual branches
of liberal English education, Natural and Moral
Philosophy, Chemistry, Mathematics, the French,
Latin and Greek Languages.
The Session will continue withoutintermssion,
except vacation of two weeks at Christmas, till
the 18th day of June, 1868.
TERMS. rrt-r
Ny charge for Tuition and Board, including
fuel lights, washing, and furnished room, will
be $3.50; $l25 to be paid at the beginning of
the session, and $125 the lst of February, 1868.
No extra charge.
Address,
T. j. WHITE,
Messy Creek, Augusta Co., Va.
Aug. 23-4t.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-13

The New York Tribune approves the late
Amnesty Proclamation, and the Times OPP
poses it.
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MONTE HEAEEA ACADEMY
WI OF Visitation.

RICHMOND, VA.
Tho duties of this Institution will be resumed
ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF SEPTEMBER.
Parents and Guardians desiring First-elass
Boarding School for their daughters and wards
will find here every advantage. Located in the
healthiest portion of one of the most healthy
cities of the South, in retired and romantic
situations and with large grolfnds it affords, in
addition, every facility for acquiringan educa-
ton (mental and moral) Of high grade,
Large additions are now being made TO the
building to meet increasing applications for az
mission.
Apply, for Prospectus and Terms, to ''Tls
Superioress of the Academy, by mail or other
wise. Aug. 30th-2t*
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-13
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER IS. 1861.
We published last week very important

We published last week very important
proclamation of the President, enjoiniug up
upon all United States officers and citizens
an earnest support of the Constitution and
Laws. Whether it will or not, it should
arouse the people from lethargy as regards
the Constitution. induced by passion and pre-
JUDGE, to an earnest and active support of 1t
as the great bulwark of liberty in this coun-
try.
It is amusing however, to notice with
what sang froid Radical journals endcavor
to lift the necessity for its PRONUNCIATION from
the shoulders Of the Northern people, whom
they declare to Re possessed with love and
reverence for and to be ardent supporters of
that Instrument, and saddle it upon the poor
Southerners whom they denounce as despi
sers of and acting in opposition to its man
dates. This is really refreshing when we
remember that, but yesterday, the Hon
Thad. Stevens declared that the Represen-
tatives Of that very same Northern people
had either repudiated the Constitution or
else were usurpers Of authority" in the acts
they had passed, and that their constituents
endorsed their every act. We nust take it
then that repadiating and supporting the
Constitution, with Radical Journalists, mean
one and the same thing or how can we give
them credit for truthfulness Or even con-
science.
The Southern people have sworn to sup
port the Constitution and are more than
willing to abide by its provisions, and yet it
is insnuated that the necessity for the pro-
mitigation of the proclamation existed among
them. If that be SO, what becomes Of that
portion of it which enjoins upon United
States officials, civil and military, to support
the constitution for surely no "rebel" is al
lowed to touch an United States Office, civil
or military, with a forty-foot pole''
We look in the distant future for the time
when reason will take the place Of passion
and prejudice, when it will be frankly &C
knowledged who were regulators and des-
, pisers and who we're supporters Of the Con-
stitution. In that day it will be clearly un-
derstood how fear that the Constitution
would be repudiated and overthrown induced
the attempt at separation on the part Of the
Southern people and that now as then they
stand as one man in support Of that long dis
regarded and yet sacred document.
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. REAT WATCH SALE.
on THE POPULAR ONE PRICE PLAN.
n; ,;oo e,gru Patron a Handsome and he
Liable Watch for the low Price
of Ten Dollars
tWITHO UT REGARD no VALUE,
AND'Nor TO BIZ
Paid for Unless Perfectly Satisfactory.
100 Solid Gold Hunting Watches. $3.50 to 100
100 Magic Cased Gold Watches...... 200 to 800
100 Lads Watches, enameled...... loo to 300
200 Gold Hunting Chronometer do. 25O to 300
ono Gold Hunting English Levers. 200 to $50
400 Gold Hunting Duplex Watches 10 to 200
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l 900 Gold Hunting Lapines. 90 TO 20
/ 900 Miscellaneous Silver Watches. 90 10 loo
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s. 900 Assorted Watches, all kinds. III 10 20
Mss~ Every patron obtains a watch by this ar
"a noement. costing but $1O while it may be worth
$3.50 No partially shown.
Messrs. Hill. Porter & Co., 2 4 Dey street,
New York City wish to Immediately dispose OF
the above magnificent stock. Certificates, ma
ming the articles, are placed IN scared envelopes
and well mixed. Holders are entitled to the arti-
clos named on their certificate, upon payment OF
Sll. whether it be watch worth $3.50 or less
The return of any of the Certificates entities you
to the article named thereon, upon payment, IRE
spectve gifts worth and as no article valued less
than $40, is named on any certificate, it will at
once be seen that this is
No Lottery bit Observation-Disclosures Trans
action, aclsich may be participated in epea
Jy the most tastidious.
A single certificate will be sent by mail, post
oaid, upon receipt of % cents, five for tor 81
eleven for 81 thirty-three and an elegant pre-
MUM for SIS sixty six and more valuable pre-
mium for $40 zone hundred and most superb
watch for SIS. TO agents or those seeking EN-
ployment this is a rare opportunity. 1t is lie
Ultimately conducted business, duly authorize
by the government, and open to the most careful
| scrntinv TRY IT. Address
HILL, PORTER & CO.,
Aug. 80, '67-4m. 2 4 4 ney ST, NY
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Q100 HE " a ssHs /!

Taken out ofmy pasture on the night of the 9th
inst, dark Chestnut SorTes sa0Ese.
about Is hands high eight years Old well proper
TONED. trots and walks we'll, He has small
white spot in his face and SMALL dark spot on
left rump, and crack in the front right hoof
Collar mark plain.
will give $50 for the apprehension of the
thief and $50 for the recovery OF the horse
BAXTER CRAWFORD.
Post Office, Churchville, Augusta CO., Va.
AUG 30 1S61.-3t. Spectator Copy
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A New ORDER BY TIE PRESIDENT.

4 New ORDER BY TIE PRESIDENT.
Washington, Sept. 8.-The following order
was promulgated on Saturday:
EXECUTIVE Mansion, Washington, Sept. Z,
1867. The heads Of the several Executive
Departments Of the government are instruct
ed to furnish each person holding an APP
pointment in their respective Departments
with an official copy Of the proclamation Of
the President, bearing date the Sd instant,
with directions strictly to observe the re-
quirements of an earnest support of the con-
stitution of the United States, and faithful
execution Of the laws which have been made
in pursuance thereof.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
This has reference to the proclamation
which we published in our last, which en-
Joins on officials strict obedience to, and
support Of the Constitution and Laws.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-13

The first exhibition of the Va Uorticul-
ture and Pathological Society, will be held
at Richmond ON the 18th, 10th and 18th
days of October next.
Suitable premiums are offered for best
Horticultural Implements, Orchard Pro
ducts, Garden Products, Flowers, Honey
and Bee Hives, Ham, Round of Beef &c
Bread, Cake, Pickles, Jelly &C., &C., Do
nestle manufactures, Ladies' Ornamental
and Fancy Work, Grape Wines &c.
Gen. Wise will deliver the address on the
night Of the 10th.
We learn that the various Railroad lines
leading into the City will transport articles
sent to the exhibition at reduced rates, anc
return free all members Of the Society at.
tending
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-13

The telegraph brings interesting news
from California In the last Presidential
election Lincoln's majority over Mcclellan,
in that State was 1928. In the election
for Governor, just held, Haight, Democrat,
is elected by from 1000 to 10 900 majority.
Two Democratic Congressman elected and
Democratic majority secured in the Legisla-
ture, which ensures the election ola Demo
cratic U. S. Senator The following dis
patch to the President, received on the 9th,
explains itself and shows the reason for the
immense change in sentiment in that state:
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 6th:-We have
carried the State by 10000, electing our
whole ticket, two members of Congress and
majority Of the Legislature. This is purely
triumph of the policy of your administra-
ton, condemning distinctly congressional
reconstruction and negro suffrage, North Or
South. 'sTnoMAs J HENLEY,
ssJoHN L. McCAULEY,
That there is a reaction going on North
none can deny, else why the reduction Of
Radical majorities in New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and West Va. and the defeat of Radi-
calism in Connecticut, Kentucky and Cali
fornia? It can not be claimed on local
grounds, for the canvass was carried on, in
each case, on broad general principles and
therefore there must be a change Of senti-
ment on questions of civil polity as well as
public policy. On no other hypothesis can
we account for it, Whether we are wrong in
our conclusions will be evidenced by the re-
suit of the elections to take place in other
Northern States this Fall. At any rate Rad
icalism has met with an overwhelming de-
feat in the ''Land Of Gold" We trust ii
may be ominous of its fate in other States.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-09-13

On Thursday of last week Prof. J. w.
Malet, Professor of Chemistry in the Medi-
cal Department Of the University Of New
Orleans and graduate Of Trinity College,
Dublin, snd the University of Gottingen,
was elected Professor of Chemical Technolo-
gy and Agricultural Science in the Univer-
sty ofya. He has an established reputa
ton as one Of the FIRST Chemists in America.
DR.. Jas. r. Harrison Of Richmond was
at the same time elected to Eli the chair of
Medicine made vacant by the resignation of
DR.. Howard. DIR. Harrison was the rccipi-
ent Of two gold medals, from the citizens Of
Portsmouth, Va and the French Emperor,
for his skill and devotion in the treatment Of
that terrible scourage. the yellow fever, in
the city Of Portsmouth in 1856 and is said
by those who ought to know to be finely
qualified for the position, to which he has
been elected.
In June last Prof L Boeck was appoint
ed assistant Professor of Mathematics. He
was Military Secretary of Gen. BEN and
the trusted friend of many leaders in the
Hungarian Revolution of 1S48 and has the
reputation Of thorough attainments in Mathe-
mates, and especially in the branches of
Engineering and Architecture.
! We publish elsewhere in this issue the
proclamation of President Johnson, extend
ing Amnesty to large number excepted in
his former proclamation. There are now but
i three excepted classes, the present procla-
nation relieving the following parties here
tofore excluded:
Domestic agents of the Confederate gov
crnment; all who left judicial stations under
the United States to aid the rebellion; brig.
adler generals Of the army and captains o.
the navy, and all below these grades; al
who left seats in the United States Congress
all who resigned United Stetes army and ma
Wy commissions, and graduates of West Poin
or the Naval Academy; all who left homes
within the jurisdiction and protection of tht
United States to join the forces of the rebel
lion all raiders on the United States from
Canada, and all engaged in destroying til,
commerce Of the United States on the higl
seas and lakes and, finally, all the persons
engaged in rebellion possessed of proport,
over the value Of $40, GOO.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
A RADICAL SPEECH.

We have in the Montgomery AdUer-
tiser report of Radical speech that
was not interrupted, though it might
Justly have been. The Advertiser says:
During the early part Of the day quite
a respectable number Of the citizens OF
Tallapoosa held public meeting for the
purpose of sending delegates to the June
Convention at Montgomery, and every
thing passed off quietly and harmonious
"; and as the meeting adjourned this man
Knight drove up hurriedly, went up into
the courthouse, and cried out aloud to the
citizens on the street, come up, that he
wished to administer few doses OF
poison. He commenced his address in
the most blasphemous, obscene asd
insulting language, which caused most OF
the citizens of the former meeting to
leave in disgust; however, curiosity led
a few to remain, and hear him through.
The correspondent of the Advertiser
gives his speech, SO far as deceHcy will
permit" as follows:
Perhaps you wish to know who | am
my name Is Knight. am Deputy
United States Marshall Radical /
wish to have your respect and love, but
Cd d-n you, l defy your hatred. |
know you would put a rope around my
neck, but Cd d-n you, you are afraid
to, and / defy any one to interfere with
me. have bayonets to protect me. |
am a native OF England, but have been a
citizen of Alabama for twenty years; |
am acting under orders of General Pope,
and it is made my duty to see that the
Civil Rights Bill is regularly enforced,
Tin the meantime reading portions Of
the bi and General Pope's order this
law has been the law-I know you do
not like it, but Cd d-n you help
yourselves. You are traitors and /
am going to physic you awhile; you can
reconstruct under the Sherman bill, but
Cd d-n you, you can let it alone if
YOU wish. Turning toward the colored
men present, be said: Your former
masters had their overseers TO drive and
whip your naked backs, at the same time
each having for himself five or six con.
cubines; but now it is your day, and
your former masters property shall be
confscated, and they shall lose as many
dollars as each Of you have had stripes
on your back. BE appeared terribly
exasperated during his whole discourse,
and bis eyes sparkled with fire.
That language is but the outspoken
thought and feeling Of Radical leaders
and officials generally. Some Of them
are too prudent, some are afraid to say
all they feel, but move to their designs
with all their smOthered hate burning in
tbarn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
FREEpMRN,s ADJUSTMENTS.

A party of freedmen, six in number,
on the plantation of Mr.. Zimmerman, in
South Carolina, visited his store on the
pretence of buying some articles, few
nights ago, and while the young man was
waiting on one Of them, the rest loaded
themselves with bacon, shoes and other
articles and left. The gentleman and
his son afterward visited their premises
and recovered most Of the articles. On
their way back they were waylaid and
again robbed by the same gang, who
were armed, and threatened to call a
hundred armed men from the swamps to
their assistance. Subsequently they were
arrested, but broke Jail and are at large.
This gives a glimpse of plantation life in
the South under the new order of things.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
CASE nF GAYLE.

The Mobile Tribune says: I" The case
of Judge Gayle, of Cahaba, Ala, charged
with treason and conspiracy to assassi'
nate Lincoln, was finally disposed of on
Tuesday in the United States District
Court, Montgomery, Judge Busted pre-
siding. Judge Gayle was present in
Court, and by his counsel, Ex-Governor
Watts, plead pardon by the President,
when the case was taken from the docket
and the Judge fully discharged" The
pardon, says the Montgomery Mail, was
"full, complete and unconditional" y
Thus ends q case of some magnitude,
and at one time fraught with much dam
ger to distinguished fellow.citizen. We
congratulate Judge Gayle upon his being
at last relieved from all trouble in this
m after
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
MEETING OF SCOUTS.

A meeting Of General Braggs scouts
was recently held for the purpose of
paying tribute to the memory of three
of their number: Samuel Davis, who was
unjustly executed as spy at Pulaski,
Tennessee, November q, 1868, under
sentence of a drumhead court martial
approved by the notorious Brig General
G. NJ. Dodge; D. ]. lobe, who was
brutally murdered by a squad of Gends
calling themselves Federal soldiers, in
Williamson county, Tennessee, and R.
NJ. billiard, who died in prison of a
wound given him after he was taken pris-
oner.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
FROM NEW YORK.

New YoRK, June 3.-Juarez' oficia
papers comment upon the capture o.
Macmillan in a manner that would indi
cate that the Arch Duke would receive
no mercy. ,H
The HeralGs Fort Laramie special
says the Southern Cheyeunes crossed
South Platte yesterday, going north;
they attacked Pole Creek Station, near
Fort Sedgewick,a and drove off four mules
one Indian killed. General Anger with
achievements is on his way to the post.
Ex-Governor Terry, ofSouth Carolina,
has written another letter, wherein he
says that confscation is preferable to
negro rule. General Pope is being pc
titioned by FIVE hundred negroes to re-
move the mayor and council of Savan-
nah on the ground that negroes cant
obtain justice from them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
RETURNRD.i

A young man, whose name had been
published as one Of the fallen COnfeder-
ate dead at Murfreesboro, aHd whose
funeral was preached about year ago,
suddenly appeared at his old homestead
near Nashville few days since. BE had
been in California all the while, and re-
turned in fine health, just in time to
share an estate about to be divided among
the family. His return win cause longer
division to be used.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
A PAINFUL REPORT.

There is report in circulation to the
effect that the eolored part Of the au'
dience that attended the speaking OF
Etheridge and Stokes at Chattanooga,
offered the former insults of the grossest
character. They are said to have booted,
yelled, and otherwise interrupted him
during his speech. One report is, that
he was prevented from concluding his
speech. This is very ugly affair, but
everybody knows who we're at the bottom
oft. The negroes were instigated, no
doubt, by white men to conduct them
selves in that disorderly manner. Do
these fellows think they can win the
race by such exhibitions of rufiianism ?
They will find themselves mistaken.
Do these foolish negroes, who, only
the other day were slaves, and did
not possess the rights Of free speech or
any other sort of freedom, presume so
much upon their liberty as to attempt to
tie the tongues of white men ? In Mem
phis, and in other parts of the State,
free speech is not interfered with. Pos
sessng it themselves, the freed people
do not desire to deny it to their white
neighbors. One who has only recently
tasted the sweets of liberty, should be
the last to deny it to others. The foolish,
ignorant negroes of Chattanooga, if the
report of the outrage be true, we're put
up to the part they played. One thing
is certain-neither black men nor white
men shall drive Etheridge frem the
atuunn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-03
wRRsTER,s WORDS.

The first and second generations o
American statesmen we're at once pa
triots and prophets. They possessed the
sense and learning adequate to the
formation of free States, the patriotism
TO administer them for the good OF the
people, and the forecast to perceive that,
il destroyed, the last hope of enlightened
liberty would perish with them. Among
the foremost Of the second generation OF
great men, Daniel Webster stood in the
front rank. In one ofhis grand orations,
as if perceiving the state of things now
upon the country, he used this remarka-
BILE language:
Other misfortunes may be borne, or
their effects overcome If war should
sweep our commerce from the ocean,
another generation may renew ii; it 1t
exhaust our treasury, future industry
may replenish it; il it desolates and
lays waste our fields, still, under a new
cultivation, they will grow green and
ripen to future harvest. 1t were but q
trife, even if the walls of yonder capitol
were to crumble, if its lofty pillars
should fall, aud its gorgeous decorations
be covered by the dust of the valley.
All those might be rebuilt. But who
shall reconstruct the fabric OF the demol-
ished government Who shall rear
again the well proportional columns of
constitutional liberty2 Who shall frame
together the skillful architecture which
unites National Sovereignty with States
Rights, individual security and public
prosperity? Now, if these columns shall
fall, they will be reared not again. Like
the Coliseum and the Pantheon, they will
be destined to melancholy, mournful
Immortality. Bitterer tears, however,
will flow over them than were ever shed
on the monuments of the Roman or
Grecian art, for they will be the remnants
of more glorious ediGce than Greece or
Rome ever saw-the edifice of Constitu.
tional American Liberty.
How solemniy these words sound to-
day-how like an awful voice from an
other world they should strike the cor
rupt politicians of this mad hour, and
send them frightened to that obscurity
from which they only emerged when war
lit its baleful fires and tossed treasure
into the hands of all who were base
enough to accept it as the price of lib
erty No. The fabric of demolished
Government cannot be reconstructed by
the party now controlling the Govern
ment. Their interests do not lie in the
direction of a redeemed Constitution and
restored Government What would have
been the words Of Daniel Webster, if he
had looked far enough into the future to
see ten States reduced to territories, and
the order of society reversed in them
the intelligence sent to the bottom, and
the ignorance brought to the top2 He
would have assembled still higher the
steps of defamation, and left behind
him words grander than any ever uttered
by Grecian or Roman orator. But what
effect do the warnings of Webster, or
Washington, or Clay, or any virtuous
statesman, produce upon the conseiences
of the revolutionists, the corruptionists
of our day2 None, none.