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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
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SCHOOL EYANTED.

4 SCHOOL yyANTED.-The undersign-
"A ed who has had fifteen years experience
School for the ensuing year. All the branches
pertaining to liberal English education will be-
taught. including the Latin language
Or, he would take charge of a Primary School
in StauntOn. (if sufficient encouragement be Civ
EN- in which pupils from to II years ofage will
be thoroughly instructed in all the elementary
branches, thus preparing them to enter the high
| er schools with credit to themselves;
apr9-1t T. j. ALFRED.
WTANTED SEQ bushels CORN, for which
w will pay highest market price in cash.
APP 2-3m JOHN B. HOGE.
so bushels Clover Seed,
70,0OOp pounds Bacon.
feb 26-V&V copy W. III. POOLE.
WANTED-Flour, Corn, Oats and Rye, in
w large or small quantities The highest
cash prices paid by RICHARDSON,
at j. w. s. Taylors old stand, Main street
jan29-tf opposite First National Bank
w 5000 BUSHELS OF CORN,
'00V LIDO CASH r0Sf on DELIVERY.
PECK & CUSHING,
jan 8 AuctiOneers-
WTANTED 5000 pounds clean COTTON
w RAGS, at my store in Staunton or Mid
dlebrook WIN. NJ POOLE
jan 1T Y and 7 copy
NNTANTED-iOOO lbs FRESH ROLL
w BUTTER.
Cash will be paid
dec4- JOHN B. HOGE
NMANTED-ALLP PERSONS who NEED
w GROCERIES, such as Fish, Sugar Cof-
fee, Buckets, Backing Candles Matches &c.,
to call and see me before buying elsewhere: any.
thing and everything at cost, at
RICHARDSON'S
at j. w. S. Taylor's old stand, Main street.
jan 29-tf opposite First National Bank.
Id AGS.-3OOO Corn or Meal Bags for sale at a
Id very small advance on wholesale cost by
VIM, M. POOLE.
jan 15-tf ' & V copy
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The Baltimore Gazette thinks, that on one
account, it is pity that Congress closed its
session SO soon-for the Radicals having ap-
parently, finished, for the present, their meas
ures for harassing and devastating the South
and being quite at loss to know what to dc
next, had hit upon the happy expedient o.
quarrelling among themselves, and the conse
quence was, that the public were beginning tc
get good deal of information from states
evidence as to matters and things past and pre-
cont
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
Disastrous Explosion.

On Wednesday last, there was an explosion
in one of the pits at the Clover Hill coal mines
in Chesterfield county, about twenty miles from
Richmond, by which all the men, about seventy
in number, and all the mules that were in the
pit, lost their lives OF the victims Of the ex-
plosion, some twenty or twenty-five were white,
and the remainder colored What was the
cause of the disaster must ever remain an i'm
penetrable secret, for the lips of all who might
have explained the mystery, are closed by the
death which spared none to tell the tale.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
The Richmond ENQUIRER saws 1.-The Rad

The Richmond Enquirer says 1.-THE Rad
icals claim great merit for bestowing on the
colored people the right of suffrage. But why
is it that in many of the Northern States, they
will not allow the few colored people there to
vote? Look at Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
and Ohio, and Others IF these men had indeed
any regard for the Southern colored men, they
would show some little regard for the few in
their own midst -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
Mr. Jno, Shutters drowned j.,

We learn from the Shenandoah Valley that
Mr. Jno. Shutters was drowned near Timber.
vile, in Rockingham county, on Monday week.
He was driving team, and it is supposed the
saddle horse fell, and that he became entangled
in the gear His body was found the next day
about half mile below the place where the sad
accident occurred He was about fifty five
years old, and was an estimable man.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
The following Order, just issued from Head
quarters, will interest our readers in District
HEAD QRs FIRST DISTRICT, J
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
RICHMOND Va, April I'd, 1867. !


STATE OF VIRGINIA,
RICHMOND VA, April I'd, 1867
EXTRACT
Special Orders No. /.
l. A board of officers is hereby appointed to
select and recommend to the Commanding Gen
eral tor appointment, persons to form boards OF
Observation-Disclosures this District as required
by the act of March Odd, 1867.
The persons required, will be one registering
officer for each magisterial district of a county
or ward Of a city, and two, four or six for the
county or city at large, according to the size OF
the county or city, SO as to form, with the re-
one two or three boards of registration for the
county or city.
An officer of the army or Freedmen S Bureau
will, If possible, be selected as member of each
board, and the other two will be selected from
the following classes ofpersons, viz, LIST. Officers
OF the United States army or Of volunteers, who
have been honorably discharged after meritori
Gus services during the late war; ID. Loyal
citizens of the county or city for which they are
selected Sd. Any other loyal citizens having the
proper qualifications.
These boards must be composed Of men who,
not only are now, but always have been, loyal
of high character and sound impartial judgment,
and, as far as possible, men who have the con-
fidence of all classes of citizens.
No registering officer shall be candidate for
any elective office while holding the office OF
registering officer.
With their recommendations for appointment,
the Board will report to the Commanding Gen
eral brief Of the testimonials and other evidence
upon which their selections are based.
The Board will report from time to time their
selections for particular counties or cities, with
out waiting to complete the list.
DETAIL FOR THE BOARD.
Brevet Lieut.. Col. Geo. Gibson, Jr, Capt
18th United States Infantry
Brevet Major G. r. Layton, Captain 18th
United States Infantry.
Brevet Major d. W. Vance, Captain 18th
United States Infantry.
Captain Garrick Mallory, 43d United States
Infantry
Captain j. A. Bates, Add United States
Infantry.
By Command of Brig. and Brevet Major
General j. NJ. SohoGeld, =. S. A.
(Signed) s. f. CHALFIN,
Assistant AdiItant General
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

y from buying or trading for two notes exc
cuted to me-one by Mary A. White, for $33. 90,
which has on it a credit of three dollars and the
other by J: n Grouse, for $23, which has on it a
credit OF $lO. The said notes are now in the pos
session of Mrs Iangford, having been obtained
under Misrepresentation All persons concern
ed are hereby forewarned from having anything
to do with said notes.
apr9-3t JOHN VANFOSSEN.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
Installation of Pastor.

/ On Saturday week. Rev. j. A. Snyder was
installed pastor of St. Matthew Church (Luth-
eran) at New Market. The Shenandoah Val
leg, published in that village, thus speaks OF
the Rev. I. j. Miller, the pastor of the Lutheran
Church Of this place:
During the past week the Rev. Mr.. Miller,
of Staunton, who performed the ceremony Of
installation, delivered series Of eloquent and
profoundly interesting sermons. The high re-
gard in which he is held as minister was evil
denced by the large assemblages which always
thronged to hear him."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

gzS~ The Spectator having about as many sub
scribers as both of the other papers published in
this place. it is to the interest of persons to ad-
vertise in the Spectator and it the duty Of those
who advertise for others to advertise in that pa
per which has the largest circulation. 1t be-
comes the duty of agents, commissioners, admin
istrators, executors, and all who are entrusted
with the interests of others to advertise in the
SPECTA TOR, as it has much larger circula-
ton than any other paper published here.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

President johnson has given his approval to
the joint resolution appropriating half million
of dollars for providing for the more efficient
government of the Rebel States, under the
Military BILL He rests his approval On the
ground that the sum is a specific one, instead
of being left without limit, as under the sup
Elementary act At the same time he states
that his objections to the Military bill in all its
bearings remain unchanged.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

Hon. Lewis E. Parsons, one of the Senators
elect from Alabama, in writing home from
Washington, used the following language res
pecting the military reconstruction: why
should our people hasten to make this mon
strous act of congressional usurpation their act,
before its constitutionality has been passed up
on? AS it now stands it is forced upon u.s. Il
we adopt it, it becomes ours, and from that mo-
ment we preclude ourselves.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

At the Conservative Convention held in
Nashville, Tennessee, on the lst inst, a colored
man by the name of Williams addressed the
Convention. He took the ground that the owns
ers of the soil and laborers were identified in in
terest and should cooperate for the good of
each other and the country He believed the
southern man the negro's best friend.
Williams is from Pennsylvania, and has
served in the Federal army
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

va The circulation of the Spectator is about
as great as the combined circulation Of both the
other papers published in this place, and has as
many subscribers in this county alone as are con-
tanned in the whole subscription list of either of
the other PAPERS
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
Ready Made Clothing.
OF FASHION,

G, MANDELBAUM,
New Street, Staunton, Virginia,
has received, and is daily receiving, a large lot of
SPRING & SUMNER CLOTHING,
including boys suits. assorted sizes.
Also large and varied assortment of
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
consisting in part of
Boots, Shirts, Trunks,
Shoes, Linen Collars, Valises,
Hats, Paper do, Umbrellas,
Caps, do cuffs, and Carpet Bags
AS our Clothing is manufactured at our
Baltimore House,
from first class material, made expressly for ON
retail trade, and NOT for AaetiOn purposes, and,
merchants, We CAN AND WILL sell mach
cheaper than any other house in the Valley.
We tender our heartfelt thanks for past favors.
and extend to all polite and cordial invitation
to give US call, when anything in our line is
needed. Our motto Is ever,
FIRST IN Fashion and Cheapest in Price
G. MANDELBAUM
ap9-f j. W. NEWTON.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

In speaking of the result of the election in
Connecticut. the National Mtalbgencer says:
The war upon our submissive brethren of
the South is ended Revolution is stayed
New York and Pennsylvania will, in due time,
give much louder and more potent voices in re-
buke Of the Vandals.'
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
Legal Notices.

VIRGINIA, to wit AT rules neld in the
v Clerks Office, of Augusta county, on Mon
day the = day of April, 1867,
OiiA L. OuCcto
AGAINST
Jacob Lantry, .....,............ ..... Defendant,
IN CASE.
The object of this suit is to recover against the
defendant the sum of SCI. 92 cents, for money due
by account, with legal interest thereon, from the
18th day of October, 1866, TIL paid.
Affidavit having been made that the defendant
is not resident of the State of Virginia, and he
not having been served with copy of the sum-
mons issued in this cause, he is hereby ordered
to appear In the said Clerks office, within one
month after due publication hereof, and do what
may be necessary to protect his interests
COpy-teste,
VIM. A. BURNETT, Clerk.
j. BUMGARDNER, Jr., P. Q. ap9-4t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
SusDension of Elections.

1t will be seen by reference to the order OF
Gen. Schofeld, published elsewhere, that all
elections in this State whether State, county
or municipal ale suspended until the registra
ton provided for by the act Of Congress, March
Sd, 1867, shall be completed. Vacancies which
may occur, meanwhile, will be filed by tempo
rary appointments, to be made by the com
mandinr General
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
ITO the Public.
VszTT.s THREsHING MACHINES

DITT'S THRESHING MACHINES.
Il The subscriber, agent fer the above unequal
ed Machines, will furnish any size of the latest
Improvement, at the factory price adding freight.
application All kinds of repairs for any of Pitt
Machines furnished from the factory. Early or
ders are solicited to ensure supply.
ap9--6w GEO. E. PRICE.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The Governor has appointed Thos. j. Niche,
Nicholas z. Trout, David e. Fultz and John
n. Hendren, of Stannton, E. G. Robinson Of
Norfolk, Benjamin E. Garrett, of Halifax, and
Henry J. Gray, of Rockingham, Visitors to the
Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, un
til January, 1868.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

In the Circuit Court of Culpeper county,
Judge Thomas presiding, the freedman, John
Butler, was sentenced to the penitentlary iol
fourteen years for the murder Of another freed
man, Henry Clay Lee.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

Thurlow Weed, in his salutatory, says: The
work of impeachment, if it is to be beneficiay
prosecuted, should include the members Of Con
gress who are leading the country through reck-
less expenditure to inevitable Reputation.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The Washington Chronicle relics upon ssthe
treble influences of Gen. Sohofeld, Gov Peir-
point and Justice Underwood. y to keep things
straight in Virginia, in reference to theap-
pointment of registers of voters, &c
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

Gen. Robt. E. Lee has received $377.50, from
citizens of Virginia City, Montana Territory, to
be applied to the erection Of an asylum for the
orphans of the Confederate dead, and he has
transmitted the amount to the Southern Orphan
Association in Baltimore.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The National Lincoln Monument Association,
to erect monument to the late President Lin
coin, in Washington has been organized, with
Mr. Harlan as President. Contributions to be
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

At the request of the Masonic Lodge OF New
Market Col. Chas. T. O'Ferrall, of this place,
consented to deliver an address IN the Metho-
dist Church in New Market on Saturday even
ing last
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

Another Of the periodical revolutions has ia
ken place in Hayti and the efforts of the in
surgents have been crowned with success. The
Richmond Wing says that the Radicals ought
to keep things in better order in Hayti. Ifrev-
olutions are permitted to occur there so fire.
quently, it may come to be thought that ne
groes are no more capable Of selfgoEernmcnt
than the white race.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

RADICAL CONSISTENCY wish to KEEP
IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, black as we'll as white,
that this Radical party which claims to be pc
culiarly the Champions Of political equality be
tween the races, has just REFUSED in Ohio, in
New Jersey, in Kansas, in Connecticut, in
Pennsylvania and in New York, to permit COL
ored citizens to enjoy the right of suffrage In
New York Radical Legislature has just passed
law providing for the election of Delegates to
a Constitutional Convention, but have refused
to permit the black population to participate in
the election Does this look as if they were so
devoted to the interests Of this class, as they
profess to be. Cannot any one, possessing the
least particle OF bralns see that their whole de,
sign in extending this right to the freedmen of
the South, was designed only to promote their
party purposes, and can any one doubt that
they would to- morrow disfranchise every one,
if they believed such measure would rebound
to their interests as political organization, or
tend to the perpetuation Of their power.
Ljoc1buT0 Mems
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The Richmond Ecanainer says that Holden,
the leader of the 'loyalists' in North Carolina,
once described the Republican party as made
up of ''nprtncipzed politicians, ignorant Janat-
les and mean, lazy, loaobred, aohite men and
free oelsrOos -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The telegraphic dispatch from Washington,
dated April, the 4th, says:
1T is stated that the Attorney-General has
advised the President that General Sheridan
has exceeded his powers in removing the Lou
isiana provisional officers. The Radicals claim,
however, that the second and sixth sections of
the Reconstruction bill confer the questioned
power General Sheridan writes that the faith
full enforcement of the lay will necessitate fur
Their removals "
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

We learn from the Cuzpeper Observer thai
on Friday night {, week, the dwelling and
kitchen Of Mr.. Peter G. Smith, near Culpeper
G. H., was destroyed by fire.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The Petersburg Ladec says that the editor OF
the Charlottesville Chronicle should show
more fairness towards fellows whose trade IS
turning somsrsanlts than to abuse Forepaugh
while Mating the Dispatch on the back.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

By a late act of the Legislature it requires
two Justices or two Notaries Public to take the
acknowledgment and privy examination OF a
married woman in any deed Or conveyance OF
real estate, This act will take effect on the list
day Of June next.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
The Conservative WING.

Under this heading the following articles ap
peared in the New Haven &c onn Register the
morning after the election. Let but this spirit
animate the victorious party, and still greater
and more overwhelming triumphs await it in the
future:
We take the earliest opportunity in this, our
first issue after our victory, to render our hearty
thanks and the thanks of every Democrat in
the State, to the brave and true men who I'm
der their own conservative banner, rallied with
us to the rescue of the Constitution. Believing
them to be acting in good faith, the Democracy
atto,ced them all they asked IN the oody of plat
form and candidates, and they asked for nothing
Inconsistent aoith their principles or ours They
then took their position in the grand line of pa
triots, and, like Morgan rihemen in the Re-
volution, they poured their steady fire into the
Radical ranks until they struck their colors to
the combined Democratic and Conservative
forces. There aCeTe other honest but half con-
verted Republicans that a0anted to go with u.s.
They aoere dissatisfied Uith the Disunionists, net
aoere afraid Of the Democracy Seeing that we
can be both just and generous, and learning, as
they will learn, that we have been shamefully
misrepresentedi in our policy, our principles, and
our purposes, they will be with US hereafter in
great numbers. All honor to the noble band
Of Conservatives In Connecticut-and to this
every Democrat will say AMEN
Our TRUE PoLICY.-A recent number of
DE Bo,0's ReUleaO contains an excellent article
on the subject of Southern manufactures, from
the able pen Of Major William j. Sykes, former
ly Of this State, now Of Mississippi, from which
we take the following extracts:
Our mountains are full OF coal and iron ; our
forests abound with the finest timber; we have
immense water power that we can use during
the whole year, and which is not injured by the
freezes so common in high Northern attitudes.
''The best and surest protection which we can
make against high tariffs and high taxes on cot
ton is to become the manufacturers of the cot
ton which we raise
Major Sykes suggests our true policy Let
US raise our own provisions and manufacture
our own cotton, and we will soon hear no more
Of enormous taxes on cotton and excessive duties
on imported goods Let the South be wise in
the use Of the means of defence left her. which
are the cultivation of her soil and the develop
ment OF her great resources, of which no State
possesses more abundance than Alabama. In
this direction lies the true road to renewed pro
sperity and wealth, and to turn into any other
is to sacrifice our highest material interests.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09
The Lynchburg Ne,os says:

'sWe greatly prefer entrusting our interests
in Congress to some intelligent and honest ne
gro than to surrender the trust to the keeping
Of such Southern Loyalists' as now clamor
for the privilege"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

The following from the Lynchburg Neaos ac-
cords with the view we have previously ex-
>pressed. It says, in speaking of the Radical
party, that though now SO largely in the as
cendant in Congress, the difference in the pop
ular vote u.s. in many of the States, compare
lively small, and the change of a few hundred
or few thousand votes would make great
change in the character of the Congressional
delegation They are willing to risk the fight
on the issue of negro suffrage as applied to the
Southern States, but shrink from the same test
in their own communities This feeling was
strikingly exemplifed the other day in the SEN
ate, when the subject of reconstructing Mary
land was up for preliminary discussion, Mr..
Yates took occasion to allude to the fact that
the State of Ohio had just refused to permit the
negroes to vote, and proposed that Ohio also
should be required to conform to the new doc
trine, but Mr.. Sherman at once took the alarm,
and denied that Congress had any authority to
interfere at all with the question Of suffrage in
loyal State, stating at the same time, that any
attempt to do so, acouM only int7ame the popas-
lar mind, and retard instead Of hasten the &C
conepz,shnaent Of the end desired. y
Those presses in this State which favor the
call of a Convention to comply with the S. S.
S. Bill, have asserted that General Lee was in
favor of it, and had SO expressed himself In
reference to this matter. the Richmond Eequi-
rer says:
eve have full information for saying that
General Lee has not, in the case referred to-,
departed from his uniform rule of reticence on
political matters; and that no one has been au-
thorized, or is authorized, to declare his opin-
ions either pro or con.
* We hope no journalist will hereafter,
under any stress of difficulty in maintaining
himself, undertake to drag out General Lee,
and either knowingly or, as in the late case, I'M
knowingly, declare his opinion.
AS General Lee does not wish to have his
views Of political questions made the subject of
remarks. by the press, those presses that at
tempt to make capital Of them, show but little
respect for his wishes.