Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-01-18
ENWS ITEMS.

General Mcclellan, it is said, is expected
back from Europe, early in the Spring
A negro woman stabbed United States
soldier in Fredericksburg on Thursday night.
A gentleman in Elizabeth, New Jersey,
is said to possess the pistol with which Burr
killed Alexander Hamilton.
One hundred and sixteen members of Con-
gress have their wives, daughters or other
ladies. with them at Washington this winter.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee has de-
cided that promissory note, given for Con-
federate money, was without consideration. 1
In Massachusetts, they whip young women,
but are shocked at the idea Of the slightest
indignity offered to the sacred hide of ne
gro.
Parson Brownlow and Brigham Young
each received one vote for chaplin of the Idaho
Legislature on the 9th Of December last =
The votes were complimentary.
:. Seventy-fve of the handsomest girls have
been selected from the different houses OF
correction at Toulon to send out to Cayenne
as wives for the convicts of the penal colony.
Congress won't let Colorado and Nevada
come into the Union with the word 'white'
in their constitutions Congress will put
prohibtory tax on whitewash next.
CHARLESTON, S. c., January 9-Advices
from Kingston, South Carolina, say the jail
there was burnt night before last. Twenty
two of the inmates (negroes) persisted In the
flames.
A resident of Bucyrus, Ohio, who gives
r. n e. as his initial, is abont shipping to
the Governor Of Georgia, for the poor of that
State, six car loads of wheat six of corn,
and six barrels each Of pork and beef.
HORSE MEAT-In Berlin. Prussia, horse
meat has found so much favor that the num-
Der Of horses slaughtered in a year has al
ready reached two thousand six hundred,
and is constantly increasing.
BosroN, January 10-The two recently
elected colored members of the Massachu-
sets Legislature, both of whom are in the
House, have been assigned to committees.
one on Printing, and the other on Federal
Relations.
'.Don't be foolish" You can make Six
dollars from Fifty Cents Call and examine
an invention urgently needed by every body.
Or sample sent free by mail for Soc, that
retails easily for So, by R. L. Wollcott, no
Chatham Square, New York.-June 15--1y
Mr.. VIM. MeCord has discovered on his
farm, four miles from Charlotte, rich vein
of gold. At depth of thirteen feet, he
found nugget weighing 80 penny weights,
and the ore is worth, on an average, about
one hundred dollars per bushel.
WAsu1NeToN, Jan. 9.--Secretary Welles
has received, per cable, a telegram from Ad-
miral Goldsborough, commanding the Euro
pean squadron, announcing the departure of
the steamer Swatara yesterday for the United
States with Surratt on board She will reach
here about the last Of January.
We learn from the Abingdon Ni,yinian,
that new factory for manufacturing woollen
goods of all kinds, as fine and as durable as
any made in the United States, will COM
mcnce operations at Elk Garden, Russell
county, Va, in March. The buildings have
been erected, and the machinery is now en-
route to its destination One hundred hands
will be worked, who have already been en-
ployed.
Married, on the 9th December, near
Warrenton, Eugene Callahan, white, late a
soldier in the U. S. Army and native Of
Lowell, Mass, to Roberta Hudnall, colored,
formerly the slave of T. B. Stewart, of Eau
quier. We are informed upon reliable au-
thorty that the parties to the above marriage
were supposed at the time to oe both colored.
-Warremton { Va Indcr
The Vickshurg Herald says that the ia
nous Davis cutoff has at length been made.
The Mississippi river has thus been shortened
eighteen miles. The shute is twenty-five
miles below Vicksburg, on the Mississippi
side. We have heard of one boat going
through but we have learned that the water
is deep enough to permit ALL The 'sBlock
House" erected by the Federas, has been
washed away. The surrounding residences
of Joseph and Jefferson are, therefore, On an
island.
THE PUBLIC DEBT. = Washington, Janua-
ry 4.-The public debt statement for 1867 is
PUBLISHED to-day The debt bearing coin in
terest is 81, 400, 490,741 50, that bearing
currency interest is $685., 379, 44O. The
matured debt not presented for payment, is
81 ,651 1898, 1871. The debt bearing no in.
terest is $40, 567 1888 432 The amount of
c,in in the Treasury is sos, 1874, 1856, IT'S.
The currency in the Treasury is So, 1876, 576
50. The total amount of debt, less cash in