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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

The SOUTH AND THE MILITARY BILL.
The New York IVorM of Monday con-
cludes two column editorial on the mill
tary bill and its probable acceptance by
tie South as follows:
Certain it is therefore, that this abomin-
able and tyrannical law will stand for at
least four years, unless it is rendered mo
perative by Southern acceptance of its
conditions. But while there is no posi-
bility Of its repeal without such wide
spread and stable alteration of Northern
opinion as will insure control of the Sen
ate, change, in any one Southern State,
Of white votes enough to make majority
with the negroes, will relieve that State
from martial law if Congress keeps it's
promise. The weight and power of the
excluded States for purposes ofresistance
depends on perfect unity among their
white inhabitants, and unity among all
the States. But to escape martial law by
compliance requires no cooperation, since
each State can act for itself, without re-
gard to the others, and in States were the
negro population is large small detection
will turn the scale. We conclude, there
fore, that mode Of escape from martial
law which requires the conversion Of a
distanthostile community, the cooperation
of many States, and time enough to change
the political complexion of the Senate, is
less likely to prevail than one which re-
quires fewer conversions, no cooperation.
and comparatively little time.
The probabilities. as we estimate them,
incline stronglyto ultimate submission on
the part of the South. If this estimate
be not mistaken, good policy requires that
the submission should be prompt enough
to pervent the, Radicals getting control of
the new State organizations. The planters
can control the negro vote if they begin
in season and by, accepting at once what
they will be constrained to submit to at
last, they can help their friends in the
North elect the next President, and re-
scue the government from Radical domi-
neering and ipsolence.
This exposition of thepolitical situation
is such as we would gladly have forborne,
if fidelity to truth and the responsibility
which attaches to a public journal, which
we should be loath to think without in
fucnce, did not constrainus. IF our South
ern friends are in a den Of cut-throats
that have only one opening for escape, we
do not create the surrounding horrors by
in a friendly torch, but only dis
close them.
In the debate on the new bounty bill
in Congress it was asserted that the deser-
ters among the New England regiments
were three times as numerous as among
the Western ones. Ifso, they must have
been something appalling. The Legisla-
.ure of Wisconsin is considering bill dis
franehising deserters, and we learn from
lie Milwaukee News Of the 21st instant
hat twas asserted in the debate that this
let will deprive Of the franchise the triae |
If twcnyy thousand patriots -Esamincr. |
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

Applications for passage to Liberia have
been received by the American Coloniza-
ton Society, from 342 colorcd people in
South Carolina and other companies are
known to be forming, who will swell the
list to upwards IF ! 200.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13
TIE NEWS.

Fifty thousand bales Of cotton have
been received in Boston since January l.
The New York Ladies outhern Relief
Association has received s15,606 SO far.
Wellington Wilmot, lawyer, is now
on trial in New York upon charge of
forgery.
Robert Hartman, well known hotel
proprietor in Philadelphia, died suddenly
Monday week.
Baron Rothschild has given E4, 600 to-
wards the erection of a synagogue at the
West End, London.
i Hon. Clark B. Cochrane, an ex-member
of Congress from New York. died at Al
bany on Tuesday.
Geo. B. Jones, colored man, was
elected one the constables of Blackstone,
Massachusetts,. on Monday.
A German woman, who had for some
time been supported by charity, died last
week in Cincinnati, leaving 81 500.
The Agricultural Bureau will distribute
on mail applications from the Gulfstates,
seeds Of the long staple Egyptian cotton
Beverly Tucker has been appointed su
perintendent of the Escandon estates IL
Mexico, short distance from San Luis
Potosl.
Or. 7. S. Laws, Of Fauquier county
was earroted and robbed of twenty-five
dollars on the streets of Alexandria las
Tuesday night.
Rev. Father Asly Pool, distinguished
Methodist clergyman, died in his s5tl
year, last week, at his residence, nea
Morgaatown, West Virginia.
Fredric Douglass was, on Friday, ad
mitted within the bar of the House Of tn
Michigan Legislature, introduced by tn
Speaker, and received with applause.
An exchange says "decayed cabbag
produces a rich perfume which is sol'
for s1.50 I bottle. It surpasses, in fra
GRANGE, dccayed mackercl by moonshinc
Plus TX, the Pope, is tie two hundre'
and fifty seventh pontiff who has sat in tn
Papal chair. He is now in his seventy
sixth year, has been for twenty one year
the Pope.
George G. Haywood, aplanter, was mul
dered by the negroes on his plantation
near Savannah, Saturday. Haywood wa
u captain in the Confederate service dun
ing the war.
At late fashionable wedding in Ne,
York, "the trains of the bridesmaid:
dresses were SO long that one couple ha
to wait at the door until the other ha
gone some distance up the aisle"
A Pixies Peaker, writing to Mir
nesota journal, says the miners are yer
much discouraged in that region-the
have to dig through solidssvein of silve
four feet thick before they reach the golt
In Iowa the Germans have united wit
the Democracy, and inaugurated '.Pet
PIES movement" with platform COY
demning New England legislation, pre-
tective tariffs, unequal taxation, and othe
Radical measures.
Prince Napoleon is reported as havin
said good thing Of the Emperor. II
hastwice deceived France, says the Prime
first 184S, in making her believe that b
was fool next in 1865, in making he
believe he was genius"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

The following constitute the list Of the
Brigadier Generals Of the army. from
whose number the President must select
his commanders of the five Districts into
which the Southern States are divided
under Sherman's Bill: Mcdowell, St.
George Cook, Pope, Hooker, Schofeld,
Howard, Terry, Ord and Candy.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

DIsTILLERIEs.-T present tax law en-
acted by Congress in no wise alters the
tax on distilleries or distilled spirits. The
only alteration made in the old law in res
pect to them is that the office of local in
spectors Of distilleries is abolished by the
new act, and the Commissioner is en-
powered to provide such other means Of
detecting frauds as he may find adequate
and proper
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What are we to D02


ton, to-day. Both parties arrive at the
same conclusion, from different stand
points both are good and true men, and
have proved tho selves SO on many hard
fought fields. The genera! idea of our
people is to act when the time comes for
holding Convention and to control it
There is some difference about whoshould
call it, but the vast majorityare for action.
Mr.. Wilson's amendment to the Force
Bill settles this question for us, and we
should row turn our thoughts to the best
means of carrying the elections.
1t is no use to dod &c the issue; negro
suffrage is fact and we must accept it.
We think that some of our most intelli-
gent citizens should call the negroes to-
gether and explain the question to them,
and our must respectable colored people
think so too. By prompt action in every
County and neighborhood the colored vote
can be thrown for our side by "inaction"
it will go radical. It is fight now for
our local Governments, and no man has a
right to shirk SO plain duty. York and
this Internal scheme Of the Radicals, for
our ruin, may be turned into weapon to
crush the must odious tyranny that ever
disgraced a country once free.
Our experience, in fighting Yankees,
should teach us that, in union there is
strength. and if twas ever necessary for
people to have concert Of action, that
necessity exists ROW. It was upon this
principle we advocated the calling Of a
Convention by the Legislature, where we
could. by proper action, concentrate and
use all the available talcnt,in the State
Divisions among our people, during the
war, destroyed the brightest promise LIB
ERTY has seen since the creation Of the
world, and any dissensions among us now
will be ruin to all, aphite and 5zack We
must have no such folly as conservative
people exhibited in the Alexandria cleo
ton. True men must stand shoulder tt
shoulder" and act as one.
Our people are gloomy and depressed
They see no "silver lining to the cloud,
but they should remember that afte
"winter quarters" (whose dreary monoto
ny only soldier can realize, comes tn
"spring campaign" The grass will grow
the flowers bloom, the birds sing, and
kind Providence bless us with "goos
crops" at the next 'Harvest Home"
| Never despond; devote every energy tt
recuperating our country; be economical
and take every advantage you can Of GU
and the country's enemies. The worl'
knows we are powerless, and no "dishon
or" can be attached to disarmed people
with ''bayonets at their breasts" for usin;
every means left them to defeat the he'll
ish designs of their enemies. 1t is goo
rule, and one always followed by "Stone
wall Jackson" to s'do what your enem
didn't want you to do" They don't wan
us to accept the situation" Accept
and tgorh, and the history Of this worl'
has been badly written, if We, the South
ern people, do not realize our most san
guine hopes.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

The Legislature Of Illinois has entirely
abolished capital punishment. We hope
Massachusetts will not, while Butler lives.
We have great hopes Of that worthy
Eaominer.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13
Sundries.

Heinstreits Inimitable Hair Cologne, Lon
don Hair Color Restorer, Mrs. Ailan's HAIR
Restorer Chcyalier's Life for the Hair, Halls
Hair Remover, Stcrlings Ambrosia Burnetta
l-ocoaine, Creole Hair Gloss, Prof Barrys
Tricopherous, Lyons Kathareon.
March l3-tf Dr., WAYT i GNQ.
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WASHINGTON, d. c.,

has the finest assorted Stock this side of Phila-
delphia.
He has all the latest designs made in Phila-
delphia, New York and Boston. The stock is
always selected by Mr.. Moses, and bought at
tbs lowest rates for cash, which enables him to
compete with Eastern Prices. His finest Fur
niture is made to order in Philadelphia, and
of the best material that can be found.
Purchasers should study their own interest
by calling at his Stores and examining the well
assorted stock of CARPETS, FURNITURE,
&C. And obtain his Price List before going
elsewhere, which he will furnish with pleas
ure.
His assortment of Mattresses, Blankets, Com
forts, Counterpaines, Pillows, Bolsters, Feath-
er-beds, and all kinds Of Cottage and Kitchen
Furniture is complete, which he offers at the
lowest New York and Philadelphia prices.
Remember Nos. 521 and 519 Intelligenccr
Building, cor. of It'll and D, and No. sos It'll
street, Thorns Building, adjoining OddFet-
lows Hall, between D and E streets.
w. Is. MOSES.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

4S5. Israel Denning, 4S0.
WHOLESALE s. RETAIL DEALER
in fine
Family Groceries, Teas, Wines and
Liquors.
Will Exchange for, or purchase, Butter.
Eggs, Flour, White Beans, Dried Apples and
Peaches, Honey, Beeswax, SC.
The attention of country customers and
particularly my friends in the Valley is called
to tho above Don't forget the number, 4o6.
9th Street, between D & 4, Washington, D.. c.
For further information address by mail.
March 13-1y
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

THE PUBLIC DEBT.-From the state
ment of the Secretary ofthe Treasury it
appears that on the first of March instant,
the total debt ofthe United States was
$2,69O,578 10. The cash in the Treasury
was, coin s107 ,271 ,o31 II; greenbacks
So, 552, 1868 q. The total debt, less cash
in the Treasury, was, on March $685.
859 AZ less than on the LIST February last
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

Belle Boyd Harding is about to play
in Boston.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13
1851 J. MARKRITER, lass.

4ob. j. MAR IA III ER, I4oo.
No. 4S6, It'll Street, between D s. L,
WASHINGTON CITY. d. c.,
Dealer in CHI dice Stock Of
Paper-lIangings,
Window Shades,
Oval Picture Frames,
Picture Cord Il Tassels,
Paintings, Engravings, &c
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED
at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
March l3-1y X
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13
". b. HARMON, with
w. B. MOSES
CARPET, FURNITURE
BEDDING STORES,

Nos 521 and $40 IntelAgcncer Building, cor. III
and d. and sos 7th Street, Thorn's
Building, adjoining Odd-Fel
IN
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13
Il. I. SON,
with
j A MI ES B. DO ID s o N j,

DEALER IN
Carpetings, Oil Cloths, Mattings,
DRUGGETS, RUGS, MATS,
CURTAIN MATERIALS,
FURNITURE DRY GOODS, &c..
GENERALLY,
Penn. Avenue, Sd door East from 9th St.
WASHINGTON CITY.
March 13-1v
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13
SEATON HOUSE,

SEATON HOUSE,
Louisiana Avenue, bet. 9th and 18th Sts.,
WASHING TON, ID. G..
This House is entirely new, elegantly fur
nished, and supplied with water and gas
throughout 1t also contains supurb Billiard
and Bathing Rooms.
Rooms on the first and second floor are re-
served exclusively for transient guests.
TERMS, $3.50 PER DAY.
JOHN H. SEMMES, Proprietor.
GEO. W. BUNKER, Assistant.
formerly at National Hotel.
March 13-6m.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13
Pianos! Pianos!! Pianos!!!

To all in want of Pianos, or any Musical
Instrument.
Being compelled to move from my Store by
the 1st of April in order to rebuild new
music house, offer my very large stock at
COST 1t consists of Pianos, new and Sec
ond hand, from six of the best makers Of our
country, ranging in prices from 500 to $500.
Also Melodeons, Violins, Guitars, Flutes,
Banjos, Accordeons, Music, Music Books, in
fact every article in the music business.
Any further inform alton given if request
cd by mail. JOHN F. ELLIS,
30d, Pa, Avenue, near 10th Street,
March 1876 Washington, d. c.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-13

Will be presented, for the second time, with
additional splendid scenery and beautiful mu-
sic the faYorite play of
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blasts of winter, and cooled themselves be-
meath the shades of Mountain Businesses
and retreats from the searching rays Of the
summers Sun.
They have got in fighting mood, at
least tvo gears too late. Be still Be
quiet !! Ye degenerate sons Of your Moth
er State Thesoldiers who faced the enemy
and shed their blood, look upon you with
scorn and derision. The ashes of the no.
Bile and heroic dead command Silence
Silence!
Let US reflect for moment Where
are those great nations; those mighty monu-
ments of human skill, of human ingenuity,
Of human ambition which arose in such
majesty on the face Of the earth, and have
rendered antiquity SO venerable? They
once stood forth in such grandeur and
magnifcence, that we might suppose time
would have fingered long and been loath
to apply to them the finger of decay They
have faded and persisted. And why p
We reply that the causes are to be traced
for the most part, to those elements in the
human character which are at war with
all that is truly great and noble. Ambi-
ton and selGshness, with their kindred
spirits, on whose affairs nations have been
cruelty sacrificed, were their great enc
mics their real murderers.
And as it was with Corinth, Athens and
Rome, SO it was with the Southern Con-
federacy. Whilst around her clustered
the hearts Of the masses Of her people, and
in her soldiery were combined all, that
makes up an army Of valor and heroism,
yet demagogueism and selfshness were the
rocks upon which she was wrecked She
is 'gone-glimmering like school boys
tale, the wonder of an hour" We mourn
oyer her downfall, but ne hare the con-
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-09

THE "INDEMNIFYING BoND."-The other
day we made mention that a paper was in
circulation purporting to be a bond to in
demnify the County Commissioners If they
will appropriate, rs we at first understood,
$l2,OOO, but now learn, $4,000, from the
County Treasury to buy up the committee.
or " bride" them, as the Journal expressed
1t, to locate the Soldiers Home in this
county, hoping, as we further learn, to so
manipulate matters by the next session Of
the Legislature, as to secure the passage of
an act legalizing what they know win be
an illegal act upon the part of the Com
m~issioners If they so far forget their official
oaths as to make the appropriation from
the county funds above mentioned. g1.
The official c~ustodians of the MOntgom-
cry County Treasury should bear in mind,
in considering this matter, that such a
paper, purporting to be ali " indemnifying
bond, is, in law, of no more value than so
much waste paper; and the parties most
urgent (who, we are told, are Messrs Cor
win' Dunlevy, and others,) themselves
know hat such a bond is of no legal value,
and that their main hope lays with the ac-
ton of the next Legislature. Should that
fail them, we ask the Commissioners, in all
candor, what recourse they can have to
n v themselves from the penalty of such
an Illegal act as the appropriation of $780,
900 from the County Treasury for such a
purpose?
II we believed the move was being made
In good faith, and for the benefit of the
soldiers and for the erection of an institu-
ton that would be an honor to the country
secured by honorable and just means, our
objection would not be ~interposed. But
we have no such belief. On the other
hand we believe it to be a political move,
solely for the benefit of party, all consider
alton for the tOeJGre of the soldier being
entirely in the background. A move for
the purpose OF establishing in this county.
not a soldiers Home, but a political ma
chine, to be used by the leaders Of Lhc now
dominant revolutionary faction, for the in
timidation of voters and the control of the
ballot-box, for the basest Of purposes-the
elevation of political de magogues and
mountebanks TO official position. We again
warn the Commissioners that an apprepri-
alton Of the character mentioned. made by
them, will be an illegal act on their part,
and they held responsible therefor. And
we here take occasion to warn the Treas
urer ofiths County, also, that he, too, will
lay himself liable if he pay this money out
OF the Treasury without authority FLAW.
This money, If paid out for this purpose,
will have to be replaced by the assessment
Of additional taxes npOn tile people Of this
,ounty-au Outrage that viii hardly be sub
nitted to by every one-there will certain !
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-09

RADICAL THREATs-The Radical RUM
organs are beginning to threaten the re-
construction of Kentucky since that State
has gone Democratic, for the purpose OF
preventing the Just elected Governor from
a discharge of his official duties.
The duty Of the Democracy aud the peo-
pie generally, of Kentucky, Is plain in the
event Of such a proceeding as the threats
indicate. Kentucky Is Il sovereign State,
and her people should openly, firmly, and
decisiyely resist any attempt of the kind
Indicated by the Bumpers. to subyert the
State government and impair their rights.
Let them see to it that Governor HELM is
properly inaugurated. and that he be un-
disturbed and untrammeled in the discharge
of his duties, by a Rump Congress, or other
outside influence. And if necessary APP
peal to their brethren of the great North
west to support them in maintaining their
state Rights. The day has gone by for
wordy protest-the time has come when
there must be action-determined and de-
cisiVe-on the part Of the people in the
maintenance of their rights and liber-
ties.
Should such a damnable outrage I'VE can
express it by no milder term be permitted
in the State of Kentucky-that Kentucky
whose record stands upon the page of
American history in the most brilliant of
characters-whose baptism was in blood
whose every throb Of her great heart has
been in unison with constitutional law and
hberty-if such an outrage shall be att
tempted and permitted in that State, SINH
lar outrages will follow in every State
where the Democracy may prove success
ful in the election of a Governor and other
officials, and the rights of the States, the
liberties of the people, and the once proud
boast of every true American, win sink
beneath the dark waves of despotiso. such
as would put to the blush that Of Austria
or Russia.
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iy be one or moro persons who viii test the
legality Of any special law that might here
after be enacted to legalize the act Of the
Commissioners, aud authorize the levy Of a
tax. Our Constitution, II we mistake not,
contains a provision prohibiting speciGileg-
~islation Of the character that would be re-
quired In this case.
p. S.--Siuce writing the above we have
been referred to a statute, which we will
publish tomorrow, which renders not only
the Commissioners, Auditor and Treasurer,
but all who may sign the pretended bond,
liable to imprisonment In the penitentiary.