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Long Faces.

What sad mistake it is to suppose that a
man should be gloomy because he is devout. as
if misery were acceptable to God on its own ac
count, and happiness an offence against his dig
nifty. A modern writer of much wisdom and
pith says:
There is secret of unbelief amongst some
men that God is displeased with mans happi
ness, and so they slink about creation, ashamed
and afraid to enjoy anything |"
These are the people of whom Hood says:
They think they re pious when they re only
bilious
! A good man is almost always cheerful one.
1t is fit that bad men scowl, look blue and mel
ancholy, but he who has Gods smile of appro
baton upon him should show his radiance in
his countenance. DR.. johnson said he ''neyer
knew villain in his life that he was not, on the
whole, an unhappy dog" And well he may be.
And an honest man-the man with good con-
science-let him enjoy his sleep, and his dinner
and love of his wife and the prattle of his chill.
dren, and show beaming face to his neighbor.
Surely there is no worse theology than that
which teaches that He who has given such full
ness of joy to beasts and birds delights in the
misery of men or, that having filled us with
gladness, we ought to give the lie to His good
ness by wearing faces beclouded with woe. and
furrowed with pretended happiness.
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g;@s
POETRY.
OURS.


It chanced on beautiful summer night,
When the moon was young, when the star
were bright,
And the blossoms slept in the tender light,
And dreamed of the zephyr's sighs,
That wondrous spell in our home was
wrought
Of hopes and fears and bewildering thought
By fairy flower that an angel brought
From the gardens of Paradise.
The south wind futtered in perfumed wings,
And essayed the song that the bulbul sings;
And the FREELY sparkled in mystic rings,
Like lamps at a fairy ball;
The young leaves whispering sweet and low
In a tongua that only Dryads know,
Made love to the waves that danced below
To the cant of the waterfall.
The cloud ships lay in the far off West,
With their masts and spars and sails at rest;
Or foated along in an idle quest
Of some bright Elysian isle;
And fairy gondolas. here and there,
Moved down the streams of upper air,
And moored their prows to the shadowy stair
Of some Gothic palace pile. -
So the hours of that summer night were told,
The starlight faded from river and world, ea
And morning, in garments of purple and gold,
Awakened the sleeping earth; 5s.. se
But the cherub form, with its face so fair,
Drowned with a glory cf golden hair
Like the morning sunshine cleaning there
Still nestled beside our hearth.
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The Evening Star.
BY JOHN LEYpEN.


How sweet thy modest light to view,
Fair star, to love and lovers dear, G
While trembling on the falling dew,
Like beauty shining through tear.
Or hanging DER that mirror stream,
To mark each image trembling there,
Thou seem'st to smile with softer gleam,
To see thy lovely face SO fair.
Though blazing O. 'er the arch of night,
The moon thy tinid beams outshine
As far as thine each starry light
Her rays can never vie with thine.
Thine are the soft enchanting hours
When twilight fingers on the plain,
And whispers to the closing flowers
That soon the sun will rise again.
Thine is the breeze that, murmuring bland
As music. watts the lover sigh,
And bids the yielding heart expand
In loves delicious ecstacy.
Fair starl though I be doomed to prove
That rapture's tears are mixed with pain,
All still feel tis sweet to love- 81
But sweeter to be loved again.
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NUMBER XIII.
Gods Anvil.
FROM THE GERMAN.1

Pain furnace heat within me quiyers.
Gods breath upon the flame doth blow.
And all my heart in anguish shivers,
And trembles at the fiery glow;
And yet | whisper, AS God will!
And in his hottest fire hold still.
He takes and lays my heart, all heated,
On the hard anvil, Minded so
Into his own fair shape to beat it
With his great hammer, blow on blows
And yet whisper, AS God will
And at his heaviest blows hold still.
He takes my softened heart and beats it.
The sparks fly off at every blow;
He turns 1t o er and o er and heats it,
And lets it cool and makes it glow
And yet | whisper, AS God will,
And in his mighty hands hold still.
Why should / murmur for the sorrow
Thus only longer lived would be;
Its end may come, and will tomorrow,
When God has done his work for me,
So say, trusting, as God will
And, trusting to the end, hold still.
He kindles for my profit purely
Affections glowing fiery brand.
And all his heaviest blows are surely
inflicted by a master hand;
so say, praying as God will
And hope in Him, and suffer still.
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WELL SAID The Petersburg Enpress has
the following manly and feeling paragraph,
which we endorse with all our heart. Says the
Express:
1.-THE New York Times regards the draping
of this paper on Memorial Day, as one of the
unfriendly symptoms of Southern opinion. We
regret that such conclusions should be drawn.
But be this as it may-the North may as we'll
understand at once and forever that no persecu-
ton, however severe; no malignity, however en-
venomed no considerations of policy however
patent, can withdraw the great Southern heart
from its ceaseless ward and watch at the graves
of those who yainly died that their people might
be free We have no desire to connect these
memorial tributes with the political agitations
of the hour. They involve sentiment too sa-
cred for such associations. The noble spirits
who constitute our glorious army of marters,
fill place in the affections of the South which
absorbs every thought and affords no room for
the contentious of earth.
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A MORAL AND AN EXAMPLE Listen"
said l, "isten and attend, and you shall have
moral and example. When the wasp now in
the window entered the room, you flew at it
with all kinds of violence. I wonder it did not
sting every one of you. Now in future, let a
wasp, when it comes, have its about and make
it's little noise. Don't stir a muscle-don't
move lip-be quiet as Venus or Diana, or
any body of that sort until the wasp seems in.
clined, as at this moment, to settle, then do as
| do now" Whereupon, dipping the feather
end of the pen in the cruet of said OIL I ap
preached the wasp, and in the softest and
tenderest manner possible, just oiled it upon
the body-the black and yellow like a green
t-coat-when down it fell, turned upon its
back, and was dead in minute. There, girls
said L, "see what kindness and little oil does" !"
Now, here's my moral and example: When a
husband comes home in an i'll humor, don't cry
out and fly at him, but try little oil-in fact.
treat your husband like wasp.
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T0IIO2s52lg.
uaII0RING! TAILO

yYyAILORING TAILORING! !---The
co-partneship heretofore existing between
Graves Sprinkle has been mutually dissolved
and the business will hereafter be conducted by
P. B. Graves alone.
He has reduced his prices for cash, and will do
all kinds of work pertaining to the tailoring busi
ness, in the very best manner, and at figures so
low that no one will fail to be satisfied. He has
removed his shop to the room formerly occupied
by DIR. B. B. Donaghe as an office, and invites
all his friends and the public generally to give
him a CALL
july 80 r. b. dkA VES
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AND SAILORS.
N. b. HENDRY has just returned from the
East with the cheapest and best assorted stock of
goods he has ever offered in this market. He Of
fers his thanks to all former patrons for their very
liberal favors, and promises to spare no pains in
the future to merit continuance of the same,
and share of the public patronage generally
His stock consists in part of "a
(. LADIES' DRESS GOODS
Challies, Delaines, Poplins, Lawns, Apacas,
Lustres, Silks, Grenadines, Swiss Muslins and a
full stock of White Goods Best prints, &c.
MILLINERY GOODS.
Mrs r. E. Hudson lady we'll known for her
experience in the business has charge of this
branch and will take pleasure in showing all
goods in her line to her old friends, and supply
ing the wants of all who may favor her with a
call,
HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES.
Gents fine Shoes and Boots; Boys, Children S
and Misses Shoes; Ladies' kid, morocco calf,
and lasting boots, of Baltimore make, warranted
to please. ,
Notions, Trimmings for ladies and gents suits,
Gloves and Hosiery in great variety.
A full line of Domestic Cotton Goods, Cass-
meres Satinets and Jeans.
GROCERIES.
A complete stock at very low figures.
Hardware, Tinware, Woodenware, &c. Cum
berland and Anthracite Coal for sale.
&a- The highest prices paid in goods or cash
for country produce. N. b. HENDRY,
may5 corner store, opposite Va. Hotel
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We have thought of innumerable reasons
why Grant is like an army mule. He's always
branded. IF the laws are executed they We
got him on the hip. He's branded U. S. He
can't tell whether that is his name or not He
don't talk much He smokes when hot He
cannot for the life of him make speech out
Of his ,caooin' tongue He doesn't often stand
steady on two legs He doesn't get corned as
often as he'd like to. He would be donkey
but for his relation to horses.-Inder ah
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Nurseries.

GRAPE VINES and Grape Cuttings for
VI sale by M. 7. PAKIIOW.
eT GRAPESl GRAPESl
From connexions that we have established with
other Nurseries, we will, this Spring. be enabled
to furnish our patrons and others with Adirondac,
Israella, Iona, Concord, and every variety OF
choice Grapes, as cheap as any one else.
Send in your orders at once.
marcb3. TANNEHILL & WHEAT. =
ORNAMENTAL Trees Evergreens.
About March 18th, we will be prepared to
take up Ornamental Trees and Evergreens, for
Spring planting Send in your orders
N. B.-Peach, Plum, Apricot, &c
marcb3 TANNEHILL & WHEAT.
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WHEN AND WHERE THE Day BEGINs.-As
we travel eastward, the day begins earlier near
the equator starlight appears an hour earlier
for each thousand miles going east. When it
is sunrise in New York, the people of Europe
have had sun light for many hours, and the
Cahfornlans are still in their beds dreaming
Evidently the day has first beginning and at
the eastward. But how far and where? Who,
are the people who first see the light OF Mon
day morning?
1t is the sun which brings the day; where
does he first bring Monday? live could travel
with him, we might find out. Let us suppose
a case. We will take an early start. at
SUNRISE on Sabbath morning, with the sun lust
at the point of peeping over the horizon behind
US. As we go. the people give US Sabbath
greeting; we bring with US to Pittsbure, St.
Louis, Salt Lake, San Francisco. At San
francisco, our faithful chronometer informs ms
that we have been on the tramp about five
hours. But we started ON Sabbath morning
and 1t is Sabbath morning still We 90 on.
still on Sabbath morning. VIII this Sabbath
morning never end? The quiet Pacific knows
very little of Sabbath or any other day. and our
question scarcely receives an echo for reply
When we get to Yokohoma, in Japan, or
Shanghai, in China, we search for some Yankee
wide awake in early morning, and we are told
for the first time that Monday has come. Every
where now We bring Monday, ami in twenty
four hours, by the chronometer, after starting.
we are in New York again, and find the mer
chants taking down their shutters, and the
Monday newspapers telling US what has hap
pened during our absence.
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.
WAR-Give ME the money that has been
spent in war, and will purchase every foot OF
land upon the globe. | will clothe every man,
woman and child in an attire Of which kings
and queens would be proud. / will build a
school house on every hillside and in every val
ley over the earth l will build an academy in
every town and endow it; a college in every
State, and ell it with able professors | will
crown every bill with place of worship, con-
secrated to the PRONUNCIATION of the Gospel of
Peace-I will support in every pulpit an able
teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sab
bath morning the chime ON one hill should an
swer to the chime on another around the earth $
wide circumference-and the voice of prayer
and the song of praise should ascend like un-
iversal holocaust to Heaven. Rufus 4Steeens.
The easiest way to get living, says a vaga-
bond poet, is sit on gate and wait for good
luck In case good luck don't come along, you
you are no worse off than you were before.
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Ly2lchOIrg Advertisements.
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
Ip New Hands! ~

yTyHE WASHINGTON HOUSE,
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA,
In New Hands!
Beng the owner of this valuable property l
have taken charge of it on my own account with
the DETERMIN ALTON Of making it FIRST
GLASS HOTEL in all of its departments, hav
ing had it thoroughly retitted and furnished so as
to accommodate both ladies and gentlemen with
all conveniences and comforts.
The table will be kept well supplied at all meals
with the best that the MARKET will AFFORD
while the bar will be furnished with the purest
of Liquors. Vines &C.. and neither surpassed by
any in Virginia.
The services of Mr.. Nj. P. Bedsoe have been
secured to take charge as principal manager, as
sisted by Mrs. NJ. j, Gibbs both of them highly
capable of conducting the business of hotel keep
ing, and being well known as such I can with
confidence assure the public that in patronizing
the house, they will have cause to complain.
The omnibus will attend the Depots regularly
to take passengers up to the house and return
them to depots free of charge. Being centrally
located, convenient to the principal business of
the place, with the Post-office in the building and
with first class accommodations at reduced rates,
confidently expect fair share of patronage
from my friends and the public
se T. G. S. FERGUSON.
Lynchburg Va, Feb 5, 1868 feb11-Cm
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Tobacco. Snakf Ged Cigars.

Large and we'll selected Stock Of
"A Hair Oils and Perfuinery, Cigar Stands
and Gases, Tobacco Pouches and 81.
Boxes Pocket and Memorandum Books Pocket
Knives, Hair, Tooth and Nail Brushes, Combs,
Looking Glasses and Fancy Toilet Soaps for sale
by ARMENTROUT& q SON
ETTER PAPER, Zoe per Quire, good ar
] 4 ticle, and No. l Envelopes, 10c per Pack
Pens, Ink, Twine Wrapping Cord. Backing
and Blackiag Brushes, for sale low by
ARMENTROUT & SON. s.
IFVhe Largest Assortment of Pipes ev-
er brought to the city, such as
Meerchaum Imitation India Rubber, Brar
Wood, Clay and Chalk.
All 4or sale by ARMENTROUT u SON.
NHEWING TOBACCO, -
zoe to 75c per PLUG.
SMOKING TOBACCO, 25, 80, 40, so and 90 OTIS
per pound, only to be had of
noy5 ARMENTROUT s. SON
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-06-23

Dr. johnson was wont to say that habit of
looking at the best side OF every event is far
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-06-23
cPRING & SUMMER GOODs.-T

CPRING & SUMMER GOODS.-The
- undersigned would respectfully inform his
friends and the public generally, that he has just
received his stock of Spring and Summer goods.
His stock is now complete, consisting of ladies
and gentlemens dress and Furnishing Goods of
the best qualities and latest styles also variety
of Hats, Shoes, Notions, &c.
His goods have, been purchased on the very
best terms for cash and will be sold little cheap
er than the cheapest. All he asksis an examina-
ton of his stock. feeling assured that he give
satisfaction, both as to the price and quality of
his goods. b. F. HARDWOOD.
mayo
CPRING !-Another large supply
y of STAPLE and FANCY GOODS
by our arrivals of this week. In ladies' goods
we have quite show of nice fresh styles, in all
grades of dress goods: ~
Chinese Poplins, Satin faced and plain do,
Lenos, Bereges, Tissues Organdies, &c.
Our stock of Black and Dress Silks isnow COM
plete. Great variety of Buttons and Trimmings.
Nice assortment of Cassimeres, Cloths, Tweeds
and boys Wear. We now say that goods are
f APT ~ = KAYsER & YOUNG.
II ARGE SUPPLY OF STRING AND
Ia SUMMER GOODS WITT s. BRO.
have just received a large and carefully selected
which they invite the special attention of the
Ladies and the public generally. Their stock
consists of the very latest styles of Ladies and
Gentlemen's Dress and Furnishing Goods.
Also large iot ol w al aPSi,, Oii ViHuoW
Shades, a full line of Boots and Shoes. and some
of the best city made Ladies' and Children shoes.
Their stock has been selected with great care
and purchased on the best terms, which enables
them to sell very low for cash.
Give them an early call and examine the
Spring styles. march 81 tt
II AYSER & YOUNG ask special atten-
N ton to their fine line OF Black Silks, En-
broideries, Laces, Linen Cambria Handkerchiefs,
Muslins, Cambrics, Irish Linens, English Cotton
Hosiery, City made Shoes, and Dress Goods in
all their variety.
Their stock is very full and complete.
aprl4-tf ~ sts 4.4a ass
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The Word of God Abideth Forever.

We find the following beautiful thought in
the North BRITISH Reue,o s.gg "a
1t is a matter of congratulation that the
Bible has passed triumphantly through the or
deal OF verbal criticism. English infdels of the
last last century raised premature p9an over the
discovery and publication of so many various
readings. They imagined that the popular
mind would be rudey and thoroughly shaken.
that christianity would be placed in imminent
peril OF extinction, and that the Church would
De dispersed, and ashamed at the sight of lis
Magma Charta. But the result has blasted all
thelr hopes, and the oracles of God are found
''The storm which shakes the OAK onlv loosens
the earth around its roots. and its violence ena-
bes the tree to strike its roots deeper in the
soil. '"0
so 1t Is that Scripture has gloriously sur
mounted every trial. These gather around the
Bible dense sscloud of witnesses, from the
ruins Of Nineya and the valley ofthe Nile from
the slabs and bas-reliefs of Sennacherib. and
tombs and mountains of Pharoah from rolls of
Chaldee paraphrast, and Syrian versionists:
from the cells and libraries of mouastic scribes'
and the dry and dusty labors of scholars and
"Our present Bibles are unduted bv the
lapse of ages. Her oracles written amid such
strange diversity of time, place and condition
among the sands and cliffs of Arabia, the fields
and hills OF Palestine-in the palaces of Bah
ylon, and In the dungeons Of Rome-bave come
to US In such unimpaired fullness and accuracy,
that we are placed as advantageousy toward
them as the generation which hung on the lips
OF Jesus, as He recited parable on the shores
OF the Gallllean lake, on those churches which
received from Paul or Peter one of their epistles
of warning exposition b
Yes the river of life, which issues out from
beneath the throne of God and the Lamb, as it
nows through so many countries, sometimes
bears with it the earthly evidences of it's con-
quests, but the great volume of its waters has
neither been diminished, nor dimmed in it's
transparency, nor bereft of its healing virtue'
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auction Dc Commission Houses
yulHE OLD ESTABLISHED

AuCGIOu t1OuSCs
We have removed our Auction House to the
Wharf Row, 2 doors north of the bridge, on Au-
gusta street, where we propose conducting on an
AUCTION s. COMMISSION BUSINESS |
in all its branches
Consignments of all kinds are respectfully So
licited We will attend to the sale of all kinds
of property in the town and country,
Regular sales at auction every Wednesday and
Saturday evening at our Store Room and every
Saturday morning in front of the Court House
We refer, by permission, to any Gentleman in
Augusta county. PECK & CUSHING, =
ian 14-tf Auctioneers.
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Hotels.


RE.OPENED WITH ENTIRELY NEW
FURNITURE & BEDSt
f. SCHEFFER, ......... PROPRIETOR
THos COLEMAN, Proprietor of Bar and Billiard
Table
JOHN STANLEY,Pr Proprietor Livery Stables.
The subscriber would respectfully inform his
friends and the Travelling Public that he has re-
furnished his Hotel with entirely
NEW FURNITURE AND BEDS,
not to be exceled by any of his predecessors, and
has reduced the fare to 50 SO per day. He hopes,
by an accommodating spirit. and good fare, to
make it pleasant home, and thereby receive
liberal share of the public patronage.
The Bar will be supplied with the choicest OF
Liquors. and the Billiard Saloon has been furn-
ished with pair OF patent Tables of kavenach
and Deckerts make.
The Livery Stable has been furnished with ad-
ditional Hacks, Buggies, and Horses, and the
proprietor has the reputation of being one of the
most polite and accommodating gentlemen in the
State.
Nc Summer boarders taken upon liberal terms
apps F. SCHEFFER.
II IMMELL HOUSE.
IN s. @ Street, WASHINGTON CITY d. c..
A. F. KIMMELL, Proprietor.
Room and Board per day, .................s. S 200
" week, ........ ......... - 12 90
Room alone per day y.....................--. 1 90
Room Lodgings, leo
Single Meals each, .75
Table board per month, h,................... 25 90
This House is newly fitted up, and is, in every
respect. a frst-class house.
| invite the public to call and examine.
The best Livery Stable in the city attached
may 19-1y A. F. KIMMELL.
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Marble WOrES.
House Joining.

yuH4E Undersigned offers his services to
such persons in town county as may wish
to have Carpenteriag aoork or Ho"se-Joi'ai'ag
done on the best terms. -
aug 27-tf ID. K. BLACkBUKN5
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Lungs just received Dy
@s. r. FL. LINK, Druggist. :
CANARY SEED.
" Hemp Seed
Cutie Fish Bone, at
may19 T. II. LINKS Drug Store.
nne ETHER SPRAY APPARATUS
" with two Tubes, in perfect order, for sale by
F.. b. LINK, Druggist.
DAINTERS and all wishing Lead Oil, Var
nish and Paints of every kind can be sup
piled at the lowest cash prices by calling at
DIR. EICHELBERGERS,
mar24- ~ So Drug Store
NON-E xplOsive Coal Oil can always be
IN had at DIR. Eichelberger's Drug Store. Al
so Harness and Machine Oil. szs
nOUBLE AND SINGLE TRUSSES,
~ to fit all sizes can be had at -SA-
DIR. EICHELBERGER'S
mar "a Drug Store
(O-PARTNERSHI undersigned
u having entered into co-partnership, under
the style Of YOUNG s. KINNEY, Tor the pur-
pose Of conducting the Drug business, in Staun-
ton, would respectfully inform their friends that
they are receiving a full supply of set3
DRUGS, CHEMICALS, DYE-STU FFS &c.
The prescription business will be solely in the
hands of Dr. Young, aud prescriptions will be
prepared with his usual care.
w B. YOUNG.
marl7 CHAS. N. KINNEY.
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At recent banquet of the Odd Fellows in
Chicago the following toasts among others,
were drank:
The pulpit; it is easier to preach than to
practice.
"The Legal Fraternity-the less said of them
the BETTER s SO aai asa ~
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GEO. BAYLOR MARSHALL HANGER.
nAYEOR e. HANGER,
II ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
STAUNToN, VA,
Practice in all the Courts of Augusta county, and
attend promptly to the collection of claims in any
IF the adjoining counties NOV III
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Drugs d. Medicines.

AEARSHALL'S Pine Tree Tar Troches-
NE For disorders of the Throat Breast and
Lungs. Just received by
@sz E. FL. LINK, Druggist :