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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-14
L. S. MARSHAL'S SALE.

VIRTUE OF ANEXRCUTI0N. TO NE
ID directed, issued from tie United States
Circuit Court for the District Of West Iennes-
sec. In favor OF Baker, Rogers 4 Co., an
against A. Htgicld, for the sum Of one thous-
and four hundred ard seventy-three dollars
and twenty-five cents Csli73 75l and costs.
said execution was levied upen certain per
Of which 10 me on the 10th day Of July. 1907.
said Hitzfeld gave his bond, with S. Isaacs IS
security. and said bond having been forfeited,
and there being no property Of said hitzteld 90
following a. the properly offs. Isaacs. by virt7c
al said execution and forfeited bond, to-wit;
An OF a certain stock Of Goods, on the Biz
Creek Plank Road, twelve miles from the city
consisting Of
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Cents now, as to wait six months. twill
a doctors visits, as no one can read it au
sick. 1t is filed with sense, nonsense au
nncenoc and TWENTY-FIVE
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WIT
TwENTY-FIVE

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laying; the amount is not large, and you
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You will fT.d our paper worth ten times
amount We ask for Il. Wit, humor,, ske'
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w LADIES AND GENTLENEN-Sl00 TO
PER NONrH-To sell the genuine imprC
undcrioed Common Sense Family Ser
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seam every quarter Of an inch. Every mad
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and terms 20 agents, or call at McDQwI
Block corner Fourth and Green sts., Louisv|
n. BLISS A McEATHRoN. General Is
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VALENTINES PATENT TURBTN
v The best in use. Manufactured b. Nd
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NOTICE.-A1 TUE SEPTEMBER tn
- q the County Court q Shelby conn q
I'D sprly to Be appointed guardian of BeT Z
~, Walter D., and Saliie 9. Siouhrnran.
laW-la J. II. STEPHENSON
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PAUL s. CROCHET
Stock of Tennessee Iro'
THE

First thing yon should do, nfter you read
heading. should be to pu' your hand in
pocket, take out twenty-five cents, and
for copy for year. if you do not feel
risking that big amor4nt, why ask your NJ
bor 10 take it; but as an
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A paper twice AZ large as the one We nov
Address all letters to RICHARDSON 4
Inns. p John street. New York.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
The Issue q Square One.

The issue between the President and Con-
gress in reference to the status of the Southern
States is plain and square one-the former
maintaining that they are States in the Union,
and the other that they are merely conquered
provinces. How stands the case in reference
to Virginia? She is either State Or a con-
quered province. If Virginia is not a State,
and the Pierpont government is repudiated,
then it follows, &c aeceSsttate rel, that West
Virginia is not a State, but still part of Vir-
ginia. As the Richmond Dispatch says, Mr..
Chase, as member of Mr.. Lincolns Cabinet,
decided the Pierpont government to be the true,
constitutional government Of Virginia. The
question arose in this wise: West Virginia
claimed to have been formed with the consent
of Virginia. That consent had been given by
the Pierpont government. Inasmuch as the
Constitution Of the United States required the
consent Of the real government Mr. Lincoln
and his Cabinet, and Congress also, had to de-
eide the question. They did so under their
oaths to support that Constitution. Under the
sanction of the same oaths, Congress now de-
clares that it is not the true government of Vir-
ginia. If Virginia has no constitutional gov
eminent, West Virginia has no constitutional
existence. -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
Don't Wish Restoration

The Lynchburg Ncacs says that, so far from
desiring the restoration of the union and the
amicable adjustment of all the differences which
existed, the fanatics dread nothing so much as
such a consummation. Instead of cndeavoring
to restore the unity of the government and the
reconstruction of the Union, they are moving
heaven and earth to defeat this object Instead
of laboring to preserve that spirit of liberty
which they claim as indigenous to the American
people, they only seek to establish a monstrous
tyranny. Instead of battling for the suprema-
cy of civil law, they are persistently striving to
infiict upon the country military despotism
more CALLING, more tyrannica than any of which
modern records furnish an example Instead
of cutivating feelings of friendship, and fasten-
ing the impulses of mutual forgiveness, they
bid let loose the dogs of war, and with demo-
MAC passions demand the Inauguration of anoth-
er carnival of crime, with carnage sufficient to
gut the sanguinary passions of the most blood
thirsty and fanatical
Such are the legitimate consequences of the
supremacy of a party which knows no bond of
union, save an Unsuitable greed for gain, an un-
appeasable passion for power, and fanatical
hatred of all who oppose their mad designs
But Nemesis is on their track-slowly but per-
haps none the less surely will their iniquties be
revenged, and their enormities punished
Whether this vengeance and this punishment
overtake them this month, or this year, de-
ponds on the people. When outraged beyond
endurance, when goaded to madness by the in
famous excuses of fanaticism, the sovereignty
of the people shall be reasserted, the mad zeal
OTIS who now sway the destinies of our country,
will be hurled from power, and the places that
once knew them, will know them no more for
ever"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
Negro Suffrage.

The Lynchburg Virginian says, ''that the
only really great evils which the South has to
apprehend from universal negro suffrage are
first, the degradation Of suffrage; and, second,
the growth Of demagogism And these are suf-
fcient, in all conscience, to cause us to shrink
from the trial of such an experiment. Buty
the fact stands revealed, that the North would
be wholly deceived in the effect which it hopes
from the prevalence of negro suffrage. Itwould
not give the South to the Black Republicans,
as they expect. However much it might de-
moralize the lower class of whites, and tend to
SOW dissensions between the two races, the ex-
pectations of the Radical party would be disap-
pointed"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

cations herein stated for election of delegates
and when such constitution shall be ratified by
majority Of the persons voting on the question
of ratification who are qualified as electors tor
delegates, and when such constitution shall
have been submitted to Congress for examlna-
ton and approval, and Congress shall have APP
proved the same; and when said State, by a
vote of its Legislature elected under said con-
stitution, shall have adopted the amendment to
the Constitution of the United States proposed
by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and known as ar
ticle fourteenth and when said article shall
have become part of the Constitution of the
United States, said State shall be declared en-
titled to representation in Congress, and Sena-
tors and Representatives shall be admitted
therefrom on their taking the oath prescribed
by law. and then and thereafter the preceding
sections of this bill shall be imperative in said
State: Prouided, that no person excluded from
the privilege of holding office by said proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States shall be eligible to election as member
of the convention to frame constitution for
any of said rebel States nor shall any such per-
son vote for members of said convention.
Sec 6. And be 1t further enacted, That I'M
til the people of the said rebel States shall be-,
by law, admitted to representation in the Con-
gress of the United States, any civil govern
ments that may exist therein shall be deemed
provisional only, and, In all respects, subject to
the paramount authority Of the United States,
at any time, to abolish, modify, control or su-
persede the same and, in all elections to any
Office under such provisional governments, all
persons shall be entitled to VOTE and none 9th
ers, who are entitled to vote under the provis-
ions Of the fifth section Of this act and no per-
son shall be eligible to any Office, under such
provisional governments, who would be disqual-
flied from holding Office under the provisions OF
the third article Of said constitutional amend
ment.
The following is the third article of the con-
stitutional amendment to which reference is
made is the last clause of the bill:
SEC. g. No person shall be Senator OF
Representative in Congress, or elector of Presi-
dent or Vice President. or hold any office, civil
or military, under the United States, or under
any State, who, having previously taken an
oath as a member Of Congress, or as an officer
Of the United States, or as a member Of any
State Legislature, or as an Executive or judicial
officer Of any State, to support the Constitution
of the United States shall have engaged in in
surrection or rebellion against the same, or Civ
en- aid and comfort to the enemies thereof but
Congress may, by vote of two-thirds of each
House, remove such disability.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
Southern Loyalists. p"

The Southern Loyalists," as they inappro-
priately call themselves, are actuated, not by a
spirit Of patriotism and love of constitutional
liberty but by an inordinate greed for the spois
of Office and the exercise Of power. To accom-
plish their ends, they misrepresent the feelings
and conduct of the Southern people, and favor
the reimbursement Of the negroes aud the dis
franchisement of nineteen tWentleths Of the
Southern whites. The Lynchburg Nea0s very
properly says, that ''the anxiety to secure poll
tical power and place lies at the bottom Of al
the mendacious complaints, and fictitious per-
secutions of which the loyal citizens Of the
South have so loudly complained, but the diff
Guilty of securing the object Of their earnest as
pirations seems almost insurmountable. The
| truth is, that they are in so contemplate mi
nority that it is difficult to frame any measure,
which permits white men to vote at all, which
will not insure the defeat of these very patriotic
gentlemen. The only chance for their promo
| ton seems to lie in the enactment Of some such
bill as that of Elliott S, comforting suffrage on
the negroes and DISTINGUISHING the whites. But
even this scheme is by no means certain to re-
suit in their advancement, for the effect Of such
law would be the selection Of negroes to fill
the various Offices The Radicals who suppose
that the negroes, if invested with the right Of
suffrage, would vote for them, reckon without
| their host. They would inevitably prefer man
of their own color, and the disfranchised whites,
who would really control nine-tenths Of the ne
gro vote, would have no hesitation in using
their influence in favor of some respectable and
honest negro, rather than for one of those suf-
fering martyrs who have such yearning desire
to monopolize all the offices Of the State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
Interesting Bills Passed.

The bill which has passed the Legislature for
the exemption Of certain property from distress
and levy will be found in our published pro-
ceedings of the Senate of Wednesday, the Goth
inst
In another portion of the paper we publish
the bill which was passed in reference to church
property, which is of considerable interest
The author and originator Of this bill is one Of
our delegates from this county-Col. John B.
Baldwin. Had there been such law years
ago, how much contention and litigation in the
churches would have been avoided
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

HORSES STOLEN.-Stolen from the sub
LII scriber's stable, on South River, Augusta
county, Virginia, about two miles above Weyer S
Cave, on Monday night, the 18th of February,
1867, TWO HORSES.
One is a tall black Horse, 6 years old, over 16
hands high, rather raw-boned, with one white
hind foot, (Which one not remembered) string
halted in the left hind foot, with dim brand of
j. g. p on left shoulder
The other is a Bay Horse of medium size, eight
years old, very small star in forehead, heavy
name and light tail, and D. B. dimly branded on
both shoulders has several white spots, the effect
of the saddle, on his back
A reward of $50 each will be paid for the re-
turn of the horses or for any information that
will lead to their recovery. Letters may be ad-
dressed to the subscriber at Mt. Meridian Angus
ia county, Va, or B. G. Patterson, at Harrison
burg, Va. JAS. G. PATTERSON.
feb19-3ts*
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
Furniture & Burial Gases.

NEW FUHNITJRE.-We have made
~ late additions to our own make of Furni.
ture in the following, to wit:
Chamber Sets in Walnut, Chestnut, Imitation
Rosewood and Oak; also large assortment BED
STEADS, ranging from $40 to $780, and new style
Chairs, to wit: Rockers, Nursing, Library, Di
ming, and Wood Seat; also Sofas and 1ete-a-tetes
at low prices.
We are the only agents for Fisk's Metallic Bu-
rial Caskets and Gases in the Valley, which we
will deliver to any part of the State or of W. Va
~ We pay cash on delivery for Dry Walnut, Pop
lar, White Pine, Oak, and such other Lumber
as we use in our business Parties having Lum-
Der for sale are invited to call and see us before
selling.
All Repairing done at short notice, including
new seats and backs of cane in chairs
feb 26--3t JNO. A. s. Y NJ BICKLE.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
IN Act
changing the time of holding the terms of the
Circuit Court of the County of Highland
D1CCED JfNTT1 on 1Q67.

Changing the time of holding the terms of the
Circuit Court of the County of Highland,
PASSED JANUARY 21ST, 1867:
Be 1T enacted by the General assembly, That
the nineteenth section of chapter one hundred
and ffty-eight, of the Code of Virginia, of eigh
teen hundred and sixty,as amended and re-enact-
ed by an act passed on the twenty-fourth of JAN
uary, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled
IAN act changing the time of holding the terms
of the Circuit Courts of the counties of Hardy
and Page be enacted so as to read as follows:
gle. 1u the twelfth Circuit: For the county Of
Warren on the twenty fifth day of March and
the twenty-ffth day of August for the county
of Shenandoah, on the thirtieth day of March
and the thirtieth day Of August. for the county
of Page on the eighth day of April and the
eighth day ofSeptember for the county of High
land, on the twenty fifth day of April and the
twenty-ffth day Of September; for the county
of Rockingham, on the eleventh day of May and
the eleventh day of October.
2 This act shall be in force from its passage.
A copy from the Rolls-Teste:
j. BELL BIGGER,
G. III. d. s. K of r. of Va.
By W. j. BIGGER,
Asst c. III. d.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
Be We not Cast Down.

In the present adverse circumstances, We
would counsel our people to practice the virtues
Of frmness, patience and fortitude-not to re-
pine, but to exhibit heroic manliness, to en-
dure with fortitude what they cannot prevent.
and to use increased industry and energy in the
labors of their respective vocations in life. Vi
client storms soon expend their force. Action
and reaction are equal, and reaction may take
place sooner than we anticipate
Hone ON. hone ever
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

~ In discussing, in the Senate, the military re-
construction bill, Mr. Salisbury expressed very
forcibly his opinion of those Southern Loyal
lists" who have been slandering the mass of the
Southern people by their misrepresentation.
Referring to the allegation of the preamble
that lawlessness and crime are encouraged In
the Southern States, he said it came from a
class of mercenary men from the South, who
were disgrace to their own section, and who
would sell the cross upon which their Saviour
died to make frewood out Of it, if they could
make little money out OF it.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
The Question.

The passage of the military bill does not star
tie our people so much as the fact that Hon.
Reverdy johnson, Senator of Maryland, the
able constitutional lawyer, voted for it. How
could he do it, under the obligations ofhis oath
to support the Constitution of the United
States? This is the question which is now per-
picking the minds of our people, and to which
they would like to have an answer Will that
Senator furnish it?
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
AUCTION Sales.
AkGE SALE OF VALUABLE PER-


Owing to the extreme inclemcv of the weather
and bad roads my sale is postponed until the 8th
and 9th OF March, when the following property
viii be sold to the highest bidder, and the farm
II head of horses, of them Young drauobt
horses, riding horses, stallion, pair of bug
gy horses-well matched-a lot of young cattle.
cows-one OF them recently fresh-5O head of
hay, a lot of fodder, OATS bran, and buckwbeat
flour, z elegant wheat fans, sets of farm harness
! sets OF buggy harness, sets stage harness, new
hy straps ana harness, big plows 3 harrows a
gies one with top, two two-horse wagons with
tongues and shafts, l sulky, plantation wagon
sleigh, grindstone grain and clover cradles
bedsteads and bedding, one gold and two silver
watches, pistols, rifles, one new cooking stove
parlor stove, apple butter, fruit of all kinds, i
new falling leaf table, dishes, &C.. in short every
thing belonging to a well regulated farm will be
sold. Is A PTFCKER
fob Cf-0t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
LeNOL Notices.


IN FICE, to wit-ESTRAYS:
Taken up, by James Cross, on his land in the
county of Augusta, of the following description
viz
1st-A Heifer, of pale red color white face.
some white along the back and rump. marked
with crop off left ear, supposed to be two years
old last fall and appraised at $40.
2d-A Heifer of spotted color, white and brin-
die the sides, crop off the left ear supposed tc
be one year old last Spring and appraised at SIS
by n. Ryan, John B. Hamilton and Danl Long
before VIM. W. Montgomery, j. P.
Extract-teste,
VIM. A. BURNETT,
feb 26-3t Clerk
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

The following are the salaries Of the officers
of the Va Central Railroad:
President, per annum, $2,55O; Superinten-
dent, per annum, $4,000; Assistant Superin-
tendent, per annum, $3.50; Treasurer, per
annum, $2,25O Length of Central Railroad
1876 miles
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
A MEXICAN HOTEL.
N Immediately at Virginia c. R. r. Depot,
Staunton, Virginia,
Col. CHAS. T. o'FERRALL, -. PRoPE1Ero

Col. CHAS T. OFERRALL, -. PROPRIETOR.
The proprietor in resumng the entire manage
ment and control of this we'll known and popular
hotel, promises in the future, what has been his
aim in the past to cater to the wants of the public
and to retain the reputation the american has
borne as q FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
1t has been thoroughly
Reftted and Refmnished 10Th NeD and
Elegant Furniture
and is not surpassed by any Hotel in the State.
the different Stage Lines are at this House
There is also a fine Livery Stable connected
with this Hotel
Thanking his many friends and the public gem
orally for the liberal patronage he has received
heretofore, he still extends to then an
IAN OLD VIRGINIA WELCOME"
feb 26-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
StrOHeG or Stolen.

nAMH Estrayed or stoler
DlSC from the neighborhood of Leban.
on Church, on Cedar Greek, Shenandoah county
a BAY HORSE, about 10 years of age, blind in
one eye, a crease on his back from saddle gall
medium size and collar marks on the neck
will give twenty-five dollars for the recovery
of the horse, and one hundred dollars for the ar
rest and conviction of the thief if he has been sto
len said horse to be delivered to Mr.. Levi Funk
houser, near Lebanon Church, Shenandoah co.
GEO. w. EICHELBERGER,
Charlestown, Jefferson county,
feb 26-3ts West Va
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

So WE Go.-The bill to assume the State war
debts calls for more than hundred millions to
begin with, and is quite likely to pass during
the next Congress. Thus the national debt will
be accumulated pile upon pile till the Govern.
ment succumbs under the burthen. National
MteZli0encer
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

On the 10th inst, in the Kentucky Legisla-
ture, the House passed, by vote of SO against
%, a joint resolution that the people of Ken
lucky are unalterably opposed to the movement
in Congress to place the people ofthe Southern
States under military rule the tendency where
Of is to military despotism contrary to the spirit
of union and subversive of the principles where
on the Government was founded, and they en-
ter their solemn protest against all such Con
gressional action
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

Forney publishes the following in the ''Chron-
ice' from Parson Brownlow
NASHVILLE, February 1S.-To Hon. J. w.
Forney: The negro suffrage bill has passed the
Senate-ayes fourteen, noes seven. 1t is now
the law of the State My regards to Andrew
Pharaoh. W. g. Brownlow,
Governor of Tennessee.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
The Situation.

A large athletic man, clad in armor and arm
ed cap-a-pie, stands over the PROSTATE body of
a small though gallant man, unarmed, helpless,
exhausted, and, fearing the small man may
arise and overcome him, the large one pins him
to the earth with a haVonet
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26
be- NECESSARY and proper.

Thad. Stevens says that he intends to pro-
pose the confscation of the property of rebels
to pay the claims Of Southern Loyalists. This
will suit the Southern Loyalists'' exactly
They cannot endorse Stevens military bill
that is not strong enough for them, and puts
no money in their pockets-but bill which
will rob the rebels and put the property into
their possession will meet their hearty approba-
ton
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

John H. Surratt, arrested in Egypt, under
charge Of being one of the conspirators in the
assassination of Mr. Lincoln, is now confined in
prison in Washington On his arrival, when
asked by Marshal Gooding if his name was
John H. Surratt, he replied: 1T is, SIR
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

PROFESSOR ALBERT DALLAS BACHE, Super
intendent of the United States Coast Survey,
died at Newport, Rhode Island, Sunday morn
ing, after long and painful illness, the direct
malady being softening of the brain.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-02-26

STRONG LANGUAGE While reviewing the
Louisiana bill on Saturday night, Mr.. Doolittle
said it's title should be amended so as to read
not to restore civil government, but to organize
hell in the State of Louisiana Applause in
the galleries. mingled with Kisses.