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KH1 ANTED-AGENTs- to 5000 per
month, everywhere. male and female 10
introduce the GENUINE IMPROVED
COMMON SENSE FAMILY SEWING
MACHINE. This Machine will STITCH
hem, fell, tuck, quilt, cord, bind braid
and embroider in most superior man
ner. Price only SfS Fully warranted
for FIVE years. We will pay $1,000 for any ma
chine that will sew a stronger. more beautiful,
or more elastic seam than ours. 1t makes the
"Elastc Lock Stitch" Every second stitch
can be cut, and still the cloth cannot be pulled
apart without tearing it. We pay Agents from
SIS to 5000 per month and expenses, or q COM
mission from which twice that amount can be
made. Address SEC0MB Il CO., PITTS.
BURGH, PA, or BOSTON, MASS.
CAUTION not be imposed upon by
other parties palming off worthless cast-iron
machines under the same name or otherwise.
Ours is the only genuine and really practical
cheap machine manufactured.
oc 2l-2t
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HAMPDEN SIDNEY COLLEGE.
II PRINCE EDWARD CO., va

The next Session of this College will com.
mence on Thursday, SEPTEMBER the Sd, and
close on Thursday the 10th OF June.
To Students entering on Scholarships all Col
lege expense, Including College fees, board,
fuel, lights, and washingl from S2lo to S24o-
to students who pay tuition, $50 in addition.
By order of the Trustees every one entering
on Scholarship must produce the scrip for the
same. In any case i'll which the Faculty shall
be satisfied that the Scholarship has been paid
for and the scrip lost, new scrip will be issued
on application to the Treasurer.
For further information address the under
signed at Hampden Sidney College, Prince Ed
ward Co., Va. !. NJ. P. ATKINSON.
iv lh-3m
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of proper age, in the shorter catechiSm, and
that this resolution be read by our ministers In
their respective churches.
The Rev D. w Humphreys having re
ouested the advice of Presbytery as to his fu
ture field of labor, Presbytery advised him to
settle in Charleston.
Presbytery adjourned to meet al Mt. Paran
church, on the Thursday before the third Sab
bath of April 1869, at l o'clock A NJ.
HENRY II. PAINE, Stated Clerk.
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SCHOOL AT CLUSTER SPRINGS, VA.

REV. j. B. SHEARER, A. NJ, of University
of Virginia, Principal and Proprietor.
P. II. CARPENTER, Assistant
TERMS: 5000 per Session of forty weeks for
all charges except lights and towels; one-half
at the beginning of session and the remainder at
the end Of twenty weeks.
Next Session will begin September LIST.
We prepare boys for College, University, or
the business of life. For particulars concerning
health, value of the mineral waters, religious
and social advantages, &C., please address the
Principal at Black Walnut Post Office, Halifax
county, Va.
P. S. conveyance will meet pupils at South
Boston Station, Richmond and Danville H. X.
" OFT
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PRESBY T ERA n

THE VALLEY FEMALE SEMINARY,
WINCHESTER, VA.
Will resume its exercises on the first Wednes'
day in September.
For Catalogues containing full particulars
apply to the Principal. ,
MRS. ANN E. T. MAGILL,
iv15-3m Winchester, Va.
PRINCIPALS:
Mr.. AND MRS. CHAS. Fl. McBLAlR.
The Second Session of this School will COM
mence on the l4th of SEPTEMBER, in the city
of Baltimore.
Pupils will be received during the Holidays at
Bonnie Brae, the country seat Of the Principals,
and charged at the rate of Board announced in
the Circulars.
For further particulars, address
CAPTAIN MCBLAIR,
Box 1884 P. o., Baltimore, Md.
Send for Circulars jy 15-6m
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THE MASON & HAMLIN CABINET
ORGANS.

The Standard Of Excellence in their depart
ment, acknowledged the best instruments of
their general class in the world; winners of over
SEVENTY HIGHEST PREMIUMS in Amer
lea, and of the FIRST CLASS MEDAL at the
recent WORLDS EXPOSITION IN PARIS,
in competition with the best makers of all coun-
tries. AS to the excellence Of these instru.
ments, the manufacturers refer with confidence
to the musical profession generally, who will,
almost with unanimity testify that they are UN-
EQUALLED. Every one bears on its name.
board the trade mark, "MASON Il HAMLlN
CABINET ORGAN" Prices fixed and invs-
riable, $1lO to 81 900 each, from which there is
no discount to churches or schools.
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Col. George M. Edgar, recently of Oakland
College, Mississippi. has purchased, in con-
G 9sesGo with h Mr Wa Hy g. Sn Hsqn the
The location is one Of the best in Mississippi
and they hope to make it first class High
School. 1t numbered at the opening fifty
seven pupils The many friends of these gen
tlemen in Virginia, aware of their unusual at
tainments and qualifications, expect for them
a success fully commensurate.
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NORWOOD SCHOOL,

y NELSON CO., VA.
WILLIAM d. CABELL, Principal
L NJ. BLACKBOARD NJ. A., Asso. Principal.
With FIVE competent Assistants
This School is designed to prepare youths for
the University of Virginia, or for immediate en-
trance upon the duties of life.
The Fourth Session begins Wednesday, SEP
TENDER 23d, 1868.
For Catalogue containing particulars address
the Principal at NORWOOD, Nelson county, Va
iy 22-3m
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MUTUAL LIFE ms TRANCE COMPANY
M of New York.
ANNUAL INCOME, $4,000, 900
CASH ASSETS YEAR ENDING FEBRUA-
RY l, 1868, OVER
S25, 900. o0O
NUMBER OF POLICIES INSURED DUR
ING THE YEAR, 1850.
NUMBER OF POLICIES IN FORCE FEB
RUARY /. 1868, 52,9S4.
"MUTUA AL LIFE"
is now by far the wealthiest company in the
world. 1t is conducted on the only principle
which time and experience has proved to be ul-
timatey safe and trustworthy. Its assets are
not invested in fancy stocks or personal securi-
ties, but in bonds and mortgages on real estate,
being first lien on same, and thus placed beyond
the reach of any contingency.
The company, being purely mutual, divides its
whole profits annually among the assured, and
this dividend can be used in payment of premi-
ums or to purchase additional insurance, at the
option of the policy holder.
d. n. WALKER d CO., Agents,
1914 Main street, Richmond.
DR.. j. B. MCCAw, Medical Examiner.
jy Sly
N n. WALKER d CO.,
IL. SUCCESSORS TO o. F. BREsEE, ESQ.
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS.
Office 1914 Main street,
first door east of the Post office, under Messrs.
r. II. Maury Co.
Buildings, merchandise, furniture and per.
sonal property of all kinds, in the city or coun.
try, insured against loss or damages by fire al
the lowest rates in companies of the highest
standing.
Losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid
Marine and inland insurance also effected al
current rates. sly
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Geelesiastital Autiees.
SYNODS AND PRESBYTERIES.

81 NUUS AND PNESB1 IEhIE1o.
Times of Meeting.
SYMBOLS.
Memphis Oxford, Oct. %, Z! p. m.
Mississippi. Vicksburg, Nov. a.
North Carolina. Wilmington. Nov Is, "a p m.
Texas. Columbus, Nov. Is, II a. IN.
PRESBYTERIES.
Fayetteville. Rock6sh CHI, Nov. IA.
The 55th Session of the SYNOD OF NORTH
CAROLINA will commence in the First Presbyte-
rian church in the city of Wilmington, N. c.,
on Wednesday the 18th day of November, 1868,
at y clock, p. M.
JACOB DOLL, Stated Clerk.
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ORGAN S.
THE BEST. THE CHEAPEST
THE LOWEST IN PRICE.

THE MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN COM
PANY have now such great facilities and re-
sources that they undertake to offer not only
the best and cheapest instruments in the greatest
variety as to capacity and style, from plain to
very elegant but also the 0s st ssS organs
America They now manufacture three grades
of organs, viz:
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DUY THE BEST FERTILIZER.
0WILSON'S AMMONIATED SUPER-PHOS-
PLATE OF LIME"

WILSON'S ANNOTATED SUPER-PHOS-
PLATE OF LIME"
Patented August 18th, 1868.
One ton of this standard manure is composed
of the following ingredients:
100 pounds of dried Bone Sulphate of Lime,
which contains AZ per cent. of acid Phos'
plate of Lime.
$50 pounds of Crystals of Sulphate of Ammo
MIA.
600 pounds of BiPhosphate of Lime, obtained
by treating bones, bone ash, and bone coal
dust, with an equivalent of oil of Vitriol.
1000 pounds
We guarantee that no other material whatever
enters into its composition.
Farmers can Judge for themselves whether it
ought to be valuable or not, and whether it is
worth trial by them.
For sale by SPOTS Il GIBSON,
Agents for the Manufacturers,
and Commission Merchants, Richmond, Va.
sep 9-2m
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EU Ell DEPOT,

FUEL DEPOT,
CORNER 7TH AND MAIN Sis.
Constantly on hand full supply of the best
Anthracite and Bituminous COAL. Also, Sea.
soned Oak, Hickory and Pine WOOD, sasced
and long, which we will sell at lowest market
rates.
Liberal inducements offered those purchasing
their winters supply.
sep l6-6m BURROUGHS l. HARRIS.
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THE METROPOLITAN ORGANS.

new series of organs Of great power, fine
quality and much variety of tone. Elegantly
and thoroughly made in every particular, and in
general excellence second only to the Mason Il
Hamlin Cabinet Organs. Each one has the
trade mark, METROPOLITAN ORGAN"
Prices $3.50 to $500 each. A liberal discount
to churches, clergymen, &c.
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TNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
(OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
PRINCE ONWARD COUNTY, VA.
FACULTY.
REV. s. 3. WILSON, d. d., Pastoral Theology.
r. l.. JABN.Y, Systematic and Polemic Theolo-
gy, and Sacred Rhetoric.
B. NJ SMITH, Oriental Literature.
T. E. PECK. Church History and Government.
SESSION of eight months begins I'd Monday of
SEPTEMBER.
Board, from SIS to S18 month in regular
boarding houses Other necessary expenses,
exclusive of books and clothing, from S25 to
S35 per Session of eight months. All deserving
students placed on liberal scholarships.
Post office address, Hampden Sidney, Va.
The Seminary may be reached daily by Rail
road To Farmvile, Va, and stage seven miles.
Catalogues with full details furnished. on ap-
plication to X. l.. DABNEY, Clerk.
mr. 25-1y
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A Mn SMITH ACADEMY.

A mn SMITH ACADEMY, ~,
n LEXINGTON. VA.
Will be opened on the oath of SEPIEMDEn
next and close oath of June, 1869.
Ample provision will be made for the com,
Portable accommodation of large NUMBER Oh
boarders and day scholars. ~
The course of instruction will embrace all .he
branches usually taught in female schools Oh Ine
highest grade, and full corps of able ana e3,
perienced teachers, both male and female Will
be secured -
The Terms for half session-one halt paya.
BILE at the commencement and the other at inc
middle of the term-are as follows:
Board, exclusive of washing and lights, o On
for half the term 9lOo w w
p;ober Enol;ob 80 90
Anc;ent on1 Wodern 7 ,anonaoes. each... 10 90
Instrnmentol Music 80 90
H. &c Tnatrnnnant 5 90
VoooI Wms;o tamSht in classes 5 90
Draw;na 10 90
pa;,',;ne 10 90
Pupils will furnish their own towels.
For Circulars apply to
WM. S. WHITE, Principal,
an l2-tf of Ann Smith Academy.
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IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR LAND
SURVEYING.
INVENTED BY

INVENTED BY
j. M. LILLEY, Stanton, Virginia.
THIS INSTRUMENT has been adopted a, the
q. States Military Academy, West Point; Keny
on College, Ohio; Wake Forest College, North
Carolina; Trinity College, N. Carolina; Hamp-
den Sidney College and Washington College, Va,
and others; and by number of the best En-.
gineers and Surveyors. 1t is highly recommend
ed by the Professors of Mathematics and En-.
cheering in most of the Military Academies,
Universities and Colleges of the country, and
many other gentlemen of high scientific attain.
ments.
Circulars containging description of the In
stument, price list, and certificates of recon-
mendation, will be sent TO persons who apply
for them.
Orders for instruments filled promptly.
Address K. ID. LILLEY,
feb 1T Stanton, Virginia,
TURNIP SEEDS,
EARLY FLAT DUTCH,
RED TOP TURNIPS
GLOBE 40
NORFOLK "
RUTA BAGA d"
YELLOW ABERDEEN TURNIPS.
Warranted pure and true to name.
Price 81 per h., sent anywhere on receipt of
price, post paid.
PALMER & TURPIN,
No. 1926 Main street, Richmond, Va.
ia 30-ly
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COUTHERN HOME SCHOOL.
y FOR YOUNG LADIES.
Nos. 1877 and 1879 N. Charles st., Baltimore, Md.
ESTABLISHED IN 1912.
Mr. AND MRS WILSON M. CARY,
Mr., GEN. JOHN PEGRAM,
PRINCIPALS.
Assisted by a full corps Of able Instructors.
Duties Resumed on September 18th,
French is the language of the School.
No pains are spared to render this Institution
deserving of the encouragement it has always
literally received from the Southern people.
Upon these friends alone it now depends for
patronage.
For circulars containing full information, ad-
dress either of the Principals as above.
au 5-3m
CCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY,
y PIANO FORTES, AND MUSIC.
The subscribers deal extensively in BOOKS
in every department of literature, especially
SCHOOL BOOKS, embracing primary, elemen-
tary and advanced Text Books used in Colleges,
Academies and schools of the Southern States.
Also, STATIONERY of every description.
PIANO FORTES and MUSIC.
A liberal discount made to teachers. Country
dealers supplied Orders by mail faithfully and
promptly filled, with the assurance that they
will be furnished at the lowest rates.
WOODHOUSE & PARHAM,
sep 16-4m 1895 Main Street, Richmond.
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q NJ WILLIAMSON,
-. (FoRNERLY OF A. Y. STOKES a co.
WHOLESALE GROCER AND
COMMITS SION MERCHANT

Nos. 1916 AND 1918 CARY STREET, BETWEEN
18th AND VIRGINIA SITS.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
Will give strict attention to the sale of Coun.
try Produce, and pledges to his patrons full
market prices and prompt returns. Advances
will be made on consignments in hand.
REFERS BY PERMISSION TO:
Planters National Bank of Va; A. F. Harvey,
Esq.,, President National Bank of Va; Messrs.
Harvey Il Williams; Messrs. A. Y. Stokes Il
Co.; Messrs K. H. Maury Il Co., Bankers ;
Harrison, Goddin Il Apperson, Real Estate
Auctioneers; Wilson, Son Il Co, Baltimore
C. C. Srayer, Esq, Cashier First National
Bank, Harrisonburg, Va.
no l3-ly
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THE MASON & HAMLIN PORTABLE
nRGA Nc


Very compact in size; the interior always of
the very best quality, but cases quite plain
Each one bears the trade mark, "MASON Il
HAMLIN PORTABLE ORGAN" Price S75
to $l25 each, fixed and invariable.
VALUABLE IMPROVEMENT.
From this date, October, 1862 we shall in
troduce in several styles of our Cabinet Organs
a new and very beautiful invention combining
several recent patents. 1t will be known as
THE MASON & HAMLIN IMPROVED
VOX HUMANE OR FAN TRE lOLO,
And excels every other attachment of this gene
eral class in the beauty of its effects, the per-
feet ease with which it is operated, It's dura-
bility and freedom from liability to get out Of
order.
l. In connection with the Automatic Swell,
Exclusively used in the NJ. & 81. Cabinet Or
CANS it produces the nearest approach to the
peculiarly sympathetic, rich and attractive quail
ty of fine human voice yet attained in any
reed instrument.
2. 1t is operated by the ordinary action OF the
bellows of the instrument, and requires no sep
arate pedal being played by the same motion,
and as easily as an instrument without it.
3 1t has no clockwork or machinery, and is
entirely free from liability to get out of order,
and as durable as the instrument itself
Circulars and catalogues with full descriptions
and illustrations free. Address the MASON 4
HAMLIN ORGAN CO., 154 fremont Street,
Boston. or 500 Broadway, New York.
sep 30-6t
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THOMAS J. SPENCER,
GENERAL COMM

GENERAL CUMMISSIUN MERCHANT,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
Office, West end of Shockoe building, up stairs.
jy LIT.
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National Expenditures.

Unless some special occasion for II shall
arise, there will be no more Congressional
Legislation until after the Presidential cleo.
ton. In any event, there will be no more
flnancial business transacted by Congress din.
ring the campaign. We leave to PARTISAN
journals The discussion of all Subjects. in.
GLIDING finances, from a political Standpoint ::
but in onr chosen field We fiod much cou.
nected with The proceedings of Congress.
One OF those subjects is The. eApen1i,nres of
tho National Government, for the fiscal wear
ls6s-69. One Of the daily papers Of this city
published recently a fnll li>, Of the appropria
lions, usual and %nnnsnaI, Of the year. The
aggregate iootS mp $3.50 97 500. This is an
enormous shm, yet when We consider That T..
B. Na>hhnrne, Of this State. the Father Of The
House and a ~proveihially economical states
man, is Chairman Of The Committee on Aparo.
prlalIons, We conclude that strenuous effort has
been made 10 prevent swindIinr
upon analysis il is found Thar after aeanc,ing
from this sum total the 81 200 600 pail for
Alaska, The interest on the public debt. HE
'e'irlf from last years Indian war, aud The
extraordinary expenditures for pensions. there
remains not far from Sl2O 600. 900 a. The actual
cnrrent expenses Of the Government. Il would.
a, first thought, be concluded that this amour,
largely exceeds that Of anli-war times. In one
sense, it does: in another. ii does not. /, is
stated upon good authority that. during Mr..
bnchanan's administration Governmental ex.
penses footed up about 500. 900. 900 annually.
Thai was in gold times. Taking into account
the differences betwee gold and currency dn-
ring the past year and we see tina, the Govern
ment under Buchanan was more EXPENSIVE
by over FIVE millions than under Johnson.
This fact must be accepted as an assurance
that, notwithstanding the examinations and
determinations of parlisans, the nation is no,
increasingly corrupt. Thieves there are. and
will be in all parties and Governments. Even
the Sacred Twelve were not exempt. Verv
much of the money appropriated by Congress
goes TO enrich villains. But it is a nrea,
comfor, to know that the evil is not spreading.
Orr people are becoming more and more
intelligent, and this accounts largely for the
good showing in question. If the ma sses
could vote but could not read, or would not.
then the special barrier now interposcd be-
tween Congress and corruption would be
removed. 1t is known by all that no member
OF Congress can cast his vote in the dark.
his course is an open ep,stle, read and known
OF oy his constituents. If he sells himself
they will find it out, and his days are num-
bered. There are, doubtless, exceptions TO this
rnle, but the rule Itself exits and is enforced.
Were every voter a reading man, it would be
swift and sure destruction for any member Of
Congress TO belong TO corrupt %"rings." In a
word, national expenditures will, 10 a very
great extent, be proportionate TO the inteIli-
gence Of the nation. (Chiago Comier)
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Resolutions adapted by he Democrats # The Pa
rfSh y 81. JanqeS. in n4aSS-nleetjng assembled
on ANguSt he 23ra, 1865.
ResoIUed 10. That we cordially endorse and
Iailiy the nomination Of HORATIO SEY-
MOUR and FRANCIS p. BLAIR. as can
dldates for Presiden, and Vice.President Of he
United States, and We Aereby pledge onrse YES
to support them Al The next November Election
Resolted %. That in The Democratic PARTY
we recognize the orly true republican doc.
,ri'es and the only safe guard Of American
liberty.
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ANECDoIE OF Coy. SENMouR-A writer in
the ST. Louis RepnJIica" relates the following:
A few years aen CAV Seymour. being in
delicate health, spent the summer months in
Wisconsin with a friend with whom he made
frequent excursions on and around Green Bay.
On one Of these pleasnre trips. while sailing
on the bay, they were overaken by a severe
thunder storm. which was as sudden as i, was
violent. and which caused hon 10 row rapidly
TO the shore in search OF II temporary shelter.
Upon landing they espied ii low loo cabin into
which they entered. and fonnd it tenantad hy
an Old sailor aud his wife With The .y0rning"
propensity of me tar and The un,rnlonsnpss
natural To an Cd man, he quickly made the
visitors acquainted with bis past life, recoun-
ting the many Iard>hips he had undergone
and the heavy losses he had sustained at
va nous lrying periods Of his life. Everything
around him. though scrnpnlonsiy neat and
clean, bctokrnel needy want, almost, 10 des,i-
tuition. the furniture being Of the poorest aud
scan,ie>t. BY This time the storm had alated
aud the weather was again fine. The friend Of
the Governor took his leave, thanking The old
sailor tot the SHELTER he had afforded him.
Waiting iol Governor Seymour io. min him he
took up n position near the window Of the
cabin where he could command n view Of the
whole interior without being ut-cyel. He
saw the hands OF the ponr man aud his rich
visitor lolneh. bidding each other aiieu. He
also noticed when those same bands parted
that a .liitfring twenty dollar gold piece lay
IN the horny palm Of tie sai'nr. who WAS inyo-
hug tie blessing Of Almighty God npon he
berIticenl dooor. He saw. too, ,ha, tears were.
Standing IN us friends eyes, ana Ieald him
charge The cd man e amy 10 h,m tor relief
should he again fluid himself in need Of assis-
lancc. The rpb!r AIT was performed, as S,y-
monr thought, Win 10 one 70 witness i,
except his humble hostess aud the a.t-seciug
Creator " tile universe.