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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
THE PUBLIC DEBTOF vIRGIEIA-AN I'M
P0RTANT PROPOSITION.

In the last cotton circular, Septe mber
10th. of Mr.. Johannes Roth. of New
York Intended for circulation in Europe
very important suggestion hearing
upon the futureof Virgin a lis embodied.
As translated from the German, the
closing paragraph of the circular reads
as follows
according to statement which an .
pears in one Of our leading commercial
prints. the last cottOn crop proves tn
have been two and half millions of
bales, of which our spinpers took direct
by rail 200, 900 bales, while the South
ern States consumed 60 600 bales them
selves. The latter is ain event OF the
most cheerful nature; and on this occa
sion you will permit me to commune
cate to you that with redoubled yigor
the immigration Of whites and Chinese
into the Southern States, will be taken
IN hand by energetic Americans and
Europeans. Under cover Of the Bur-
lingame treaty, hinese immigrants will
De introduced into louisiana and the
other Gulf States direct, from Cuba. via
san Francisco by rail, and in LARGE
whilst General Imboden
aud other prominent ex-Confcderates
are In hopes of drawing what | may be |
auoNeE W Call anlgfatOn oil mUltlttldeS |
into Virginia and North Carolina, the |
Italy ofthis continent. They have al. |
ready secured extensive tracts of land |
in Virginia at s. per acre, and thrown
open to immigration. This movement
is one of the most important which all
oi sudden arises, and a European war
would thus attract towards the South
In couple of years She
negro question would thus meet with
such solution as the brilliant future
,t those now liberated States ensures
The same beyond all donbt.n
This circular We are informed. is in
of plan that gentlemen
argely interested in the bonds of Viz.
snia are eudeavoring to arrange by
Which the creditors Of the State are to
combine in an effort to set her upon her
Get again as speedily as possible. so
nat she may ut once resume the pay
nent ofinterest Oh her indebtness. and
lei securities may advance to their old
'allle. The idea is one of strictly bu.
iness character, is entirely practica BILE
md is fraughs with results of the very
highest Importance to the State. Whq
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND,
cHuNKs OF WISDOM.


DIR. j. ID. Hooker, in his recent adj
dress before the British Association at
Norwich, said: at will no doubt sur
prise many to be told that within three
hundred miles of the capital of India
there still exists tribe Of semi-savages
who habitually erect dohnens, menhirs
cysts, and crofnlechs of gigantic proper
tons" We should think this remarka-
pie statement would surprise many"
Criticism severe-upon the critic
Dolmen and Cromlech are terms as ia
m.liar to the general reader as cyst and
menhir were to the audience DR.. HOOK
Err addressed. 1t is certainly very sur
prising that structures resembling those
at Stonehenge and attributed to the
Druids should be built nowadays by
the Inhabitants of East Bengal. DR..
HooKER's address is the best summary
of the progress of modern science which
has been published for many day
What he tells us in regard to Sir CHAs.
LYELL's abandonment of his long cher
ished beliefin the doctrine of special
creations, of DarwiLs enormous expert
mental lal'ors and of the practical value
to the horticulturist and agriculturist of
Observation-Disclosures into the nature
and functions of climbing plants, is
surely Of prime interest. Nor will the
following extract from the same address,
thoughit may offend the Literalist, be
deemed unimportant. 1t comes from
too high source.
A new science has dawned upon us,-l
the early history of mankind. PIe-his-
toric archaeology Including as it does
the origin of language and of art) is the
latest to rise of a series of luminaries |
that have dispelled the mists of ages
and replaced time-honored traditions
by scientific truths. Astronomy. if not
the queen yet the earliest of sciences,
first snatched the torch from the hands
of dognatic teachers, tore up the letter,
aad cherished the spirit of the law
Geology next followed, but not till two
had elapsed, nor indeed till
this our day. succeeded in diyesting re-
ligious teaching of many cobwebs of
scientific error. 1t has told us that ami
NAL and vegetable life preceded the APP
pearapce of man on the globe not by
days, but by myriads of years; and how
late this knowledge came we may gath
rr from the fact that the late Mr.. Law
renee, in his Lectures, delivered so late
is 1918, says of the extinct races of ami
mails, "That their living e, iStence has
been supposed, with considerable pro- :
pability, to be of older date than the
formation of the human race" And. i,
asst of all, this new science proclaims
nan himself to have inhabited this earth 6
or perhaps many thousands of years
before the historic period,-a result lit t
lie expected less then thirty years ago,
When the Rev. w. V. Harcourt, in his !
ddress to the Association at Birming- 1
lam (Reports, p. ~ observed that Gee n
logy points to the conclusion that the +
lme during which mankind existed on :,
he globe cannot materially differ from \
hat assigned by Scripture, '-referring, C
need not say, to the so-called Scrip h
IRE chronology, which has no warrant
\ the Old Testament, and which gives
;s74 years as the age of the inhabited /
lobe. o
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
THE BAYONET.

Gen. Garfield, member of Congress
nom Ohio, made aspeech the other day,
in which he lie out some of the secrets
OF his party. 1t was unwise in the
General, but it is only what the De-
mocracy have themselves fully believed
for year past. This NJ. C., In his
speech said. '.General Grant will be
elected the next President of the Unit
ed States When thus elected, he in
tends, with the aid OF the Radical ma
lority in Congress, to rule the country
by the help OF little triangular piece
OF steel called a bayonet."
Commenting on this, the New York
Day Book threatens the Radicals with
the bayonet in return. 1t says:
''See to it, General Garfield. that your
party wins its victory at the ballot-box
by honorable means, if it wins at all If
d'shonerable means, if cheating. fraud
and swind!ing are practiced in order to
elect General Grant, we beg to say TO
his hacker. General Garfield, NJ. c..
that the Democracy also understand the
manipulation OF the triangular piece of
steel he allHdes to, and intend to pro-
tect their liberties with it il necessary.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
IF.

live had Southall's brains, Moseley's
vigor, McDonalds's discretion, Smiths
industry, Coleman's endurance, 4 owar-
din's common sense, Orinkard's gra n
mar, Aylett's wit and humor, Keiley's
incision, Cameron's pluck, Venable's
reading, Buttons calmness, Alexander
McDonald's good nature, GLASS; de.
mocracy, Gregory's poetry, CAREERS
jocosity, Hopes vivacity, Houston's
muscle, Withers's character, Little's
management, Kelly's for b earance,
Snowden's scissors, Dimitry's gravity
Sam Letcher's sack-coat, SCOTS pug
nacity, Brady's youth, ALI Stofer's farm
and VIM B. Astor's money, 1--WE would
print paper equal to the N. Y. Home
journal.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02

We the undersigned. do hereby Ger
THY that we have known Miss Mary f i.
Itlmsden from her childhood, and have
always considered her one of the most
discreet and virtuous young ladies of
our acquaintance.
Jos. II. Robinson, Robert o. Chew
ming, John G. Mansfield, William II.
Mansfield, Cordelia ID. Mansfield, Wy
att johnson, John b. jenkins. Jesse II.
Stubbs. ST., VIM. e. Biscoe. Isaac l..
Graves, Edmund Dunaway, r. Il. Her.
ring, James l.. Powell, ST., John r..
billiard, Mary e. billiard. Emily Rob-
inson, Sa.ah johnson. William j. lay
Tor. Frances 4. Taylor.
October 2, 1868.
iGP Richmond Dispatch copy one time
and send bill to this office.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
THERE 1T rs

A writer in the abolition A tlantic
Monthly concludes an article on "The
Man and Brother" by the fatal admis-
sion that "the higher civilization will
unquestionably diminish the product
tiveness of the negro, and will terribly
test his vitality"
"What Judgment" he adds, "shal. We
pass upon abrupt emancipation, consid-
cred" (mark the phrase) ''merely with
reference to the negro? 1t is a mighty
experiment, fraugat ,oith as much menace
as hope"
40 the white race alone it is GER
tain and precious BOOM"
Hear that, colored man! Your Yam
kee friends declare that your freedom
is boon to the white race alone.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
ZINMER.

Is there Fancy Ball at the White
Sulphur or Commencement at WASH
ington College? Lo ZIMMER. Does a
| Convention meet in Richmond? There
is ZTMMER! A concourse anywhere
South ofthe Potomac? Behold ZIMsER |!
Wherever there is great gathering, a
meeting of delegates, partir g of stu
dents, what not-ZIMMER is there. At
one and the same moment, he is buy
ing chickering's at Gordonsville, grapes
at Culpeper G. H., handing in his va
lise at the Maltby, arriving at JARRErT's s,
leaving for Greensboro. arranging
routes at Raleigh and running heavy
schedule in Lynchburg. Wherever
ZIMNER is not, there is nowhere. AL
ways in high good humor, helping the
distressed traveller, befriending every
body and Smelling out bran-new frac-
tional currency TO induce melodious ne
groes to sing Dixie, omnipresent vet
lifting forever to and fro--such is I'm
MER. Clearly he is not human. Whence
he came and whittier he goeth, no man
knoweth. How he came to pass, passes
comprehension. Mysterious but usefu
being, who and what art thou? He an
swers not, but we have spotted him.
lie Is the external manifestation of an
other and far greater per on-of one,
who is himself but the embodiment of
a grand corporation. So to speak, ZiM-
MER isthe outward form orvisible shape,
the travelling habiliment, overgarment
surtout or buster of john w. GARRETT. |
In this shape, and this alone, GARRETT
himself to Southern eyes,
lie has other shapes for other sections,
There Is, doubtless, a Northern, a Wes-
tern and an Eastern ZiMMER; all endow-
ed with like supernatural power of om-
nipresence and perpetual good humor,
all visible signs of JOIN w. GARRETT; all
servitors OF the mighty Baltimore &
Ohio X. K. Ages hence, when Cor
shall have overgrown Louisa
and Pea6e's Turnout shall have be-
come metropolis, ZMMER will still be
lisporting himself in the freshness of
immortal youth, buying ginger cakes
or poor womens' babies. attending
Conventions, running schedules, help
ng everybody, winning favor for the b.
Z o. r. R.-whose branches will then
over the earth as the waters cover the
displaying the soul of MARK
rAPLEY in the body of Count Fosco. to
he wonder, the delight and the unend-
ng admiration OF mankind.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
FREE WILL,
To the Editor of Native virsinian:

To the Editor of Native virginian:
Did this view ever occur to you? The
whole is the sum of its parts; man is the
sum ofEis atoms; no atom is free, ergo
man cannot be free. Or will you con-
tend that man is the sum of his atoms
and something more? Prove it, then.
Prove the existence of spirit wholly
ASSOCIATED from matter. Il. L. W.
ANswER.-We cannot prove the un-
proveable. Logically, as Sir WM. HAMII..
TON is forced to admit, there is no free
will; practically, there is nothing
else. Govern ment, laws, society, all
are based on free will, and it is no: easy
to see how it can ever be otherwise.
"W" has found mares nest.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
ORANGE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.

The success of the tal,leaux should
stimulate us to fresh exertion. With
an ample cemetery already purchased
with part OF Mr.. DAVID GRAHAM's gen.
erous donation of $500, the grounds vir-
tually enclosed--thanks to the liberall-
ty OF Mr.. ROBERT STANIRD-and the live
ly interest manifested on all sides, the
Association has every encouragement to
press forward. Strike while the iron is
hot. Don't let the enthusiasm die out.
Keep the ball in motion, and we shall
have beautiful cemetery, which gill
do credit to the county.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
SHALL VIRGINIA vOTEi

PENDLEToN writes to a gentleman liz
Texas. about your beng allowed to
vote, be not alarmed; we Shall see that
Texas is represented. Vote, by all
means.
The Washington Express trusts that
Virginia and Mississippi will also vote.
Virginia has never lost her status in the
Union, having ever been represented in
Congress, even during all the rebellion,
and has as much right to vote as Mas
sachusetts.
The President is understood to have
expressed mselfemphatically in favor
o. the vote being cast, and then. should
the possibility Of it deciding the contest
become fact, a question would arise
vastly important III the history of the
country. So says the entirely reliable
ashington correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
NEW BOOKS,

tOther notices on the first page
HARPER & BRoTHERs, through WEST &
JOHNSTON Of Richmond, send us the fol.
lowing.
TIE Book of PSALMS. with notes Criti-
cal Explanatory and Practical. By AL.
BERT BARNES. In three Volumes
Vol. l.
Or. BARNEs's name is household
world with every reader of Biblical
literature. The present work closes the
critica' labors of his life, nearly forty
years of which have been expended in
expounding the Holy Scriptures. In a
touching Preface, DR.. b. takes leave of
his many readers, and states that during
4O years of labor he has sent forth more
than half million of volumes of Com
mentary on the Scriptures in America,
perhaps more than this number i'm
England, Scotland and Ireland, be-
sides an indefinite number translated
into the French, Welsh, Hindoo and
Chinese languages. No word of ours
can add to the fame ofthis great divine;
his name is his best eulogy. The book
is neatly printed and durably bound in
the style Of Bohn's classical TRANSACTIONS.
Would that handy -books of this make
were more common. American pub
ishers are too fond of thick, ill-sized
and ill-bound volumes, uninviting in
appearance and inconvenient to hold
while reading.
The DOVER HOUSE. hailed with
pleasure another work by the author
ess of sTheo Leigh and were not dis
appointed. ANNIE THOMAS fully realizes
the promise she gave in her earlier
works, and the book before us is pure,
interesting and full of suggestive
thoughts, which may we'll De recon-
mended to the attention of our readers,
especially the young women.
The MooNsToNE.-Like all of Wilkie |
Coilins's novels the volume before us is |
exceedingly fascinating. The plot is |
rather a new one inasmuch as the inter-
est does not hinge upon bigamy or any
domestic tragedy. Three Brahmins of
India with their sublime devotion to the
Jewel belonging to their god, sacrifice
caste and pursue it to England. But
we will not let the reader further into
The secret. The book is oopiously and
prettily illustrated.
''BRAKEsPEARE" by the author of Guy
Livingstone, is tale of the 18th centu
y, graver, stronger, and less pedantic
han his former novels. Few men write
UGH pure English, and fewer still have
he art of portraying vividly the life
nd manners ola bygone age. Brakes
'eare is an untading laurel in the au-
hor's crown.
CAPE COP SToRIEs.-A selection Of
eadable stories which appeared origi-
ally in HARPER's MAGAZINE.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
STATE NEWS.

The custom OF worrying the new ca
diets a. the Lexington Institute las been
abolished,
The session at the Virginia Military
Institute has opened with an increased
number of cadets.
I Governor McMulIen has been invited
to canvass Missouri aud will probably
accept.
Nlnety-seven logsheads and $1,000
pounds of loose tobacco was received at
Lynchburg last week.
Seventy-t five students have arrived
Mt the Deaf, Dumb. and bind institution
at Staunton. One hundred and thirty
eight are expected in all.
Students for Washington College are
daily arriving. The prospect is more
iiatterlhg than at any previous time for
an Increased number OF students.
We understand that the fall session of
Hamden Sidney College opened with
seventy students and that many others
are expected TO join their ranks.
st. Pauls Catholic Church in Ports
mouth, is nearly completed, and will be
shortly dedicated to the services of
God.
Mr.. V. j. Clutter, the contractor
for the building of the Atlantic Hotel,
in Norfolk. has failed. He lost on his
job, according to his balance sheet, ST.
900.
General r. Lindsey Walker has re-
ceived an appointment on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad, and been as
signed to duty in the company office
at Richmond, where he will act as chief
of staff to the Superintendent and Pres
ideEt.
Rev. Crawford Ii. Toy, who has been
in Europe for the last two wears. has
returned to his home i'm Norfolk. Mr..
Toy will take his chair IN the faculty of
the Richmond, College, tor the duties
OF which he has been studying during
his European residence.
The citizens of Norfolk are making
grand preparations for the approaching
meeting of the Commercial Convention.
The Journal ofyesterday contains list
of subscriptions amounting to Sl.175, to
wards paving the expenses thereof.
Monday, Mr.. Harvey, of Campbell
county was arraigned before Col. Coo
ley, charged with having created 6is-
tnrbance at meeting at the Co irt III. |
on Friday. When the matter was sift- |
ed, it was found that he merely Kissed,
when miserable scallawag said in his |
speech that Gen. Lee was a liar.
Judging from the quantity of land
prepared for the next crop along the
line of railroad between this place and
Covington, there will be tremendous
crop seeded and what shows well for
the enterprise of onr farmers is that we
have not seen man seeding with hand
but with machines. = Valley Viginian.
Two attempts were made last week
to burn the White Sulphur Springs
property. Three of the cottages were
entirely consumed. and but for the time
y assistance rendered by the visitors
present much of this valuable proper
y might have been destroyed. Two
negroes were arrested in Covington, Va
suspected of the crime aud taken to
5reenbriar county.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
HOW TO PAY A PREACHER.

The Jewish Messenger says that at the
auction sale o, pews in the new Temple
Emanuel. in New York, the amount re
ceived reached about s750,0a0. The
trustees eXpecteda presumption OF $50.
0C0, but il amounted to 100000. The
highest price paid was s4.600; the pur-
chaser selected the pew directly in front
Of the pulpit.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
THE ART OF DRUMMING.

a friend in Baltimore, who sends MS
TINS, assures is that the occurrence actin.
ally took place and the agreement was
really made.
Ihose who suppose the life of a citA
drummer, to be passed upon s.bed OF
rosesp should try it once. A green-horn
recently went to Baltimore surprising
fortunes could be picked up there. as
easily as Wilmington made his i'm Lon
don, but soon learned that ineredulous
merchants would not believe all the
stories poured into their ears by aily
tohgued erlmmers, about low prices.
good stocks, DC, aud was soon sick en-
ough OF the, business TO grasp at any
straw to relieve himself. A brother.
emp, who is fond ola practical Joke soon
discovered this and feigning to be SINH
larry aHected, represented that he had
a certai amount OF capital aud propos-
Ell TO enter into business with Green
norm, who was to draw up the article of
agreement. The following etfusion re-
suited. However green in other re-
spects, he seemed TO have a just appre-
clatlon OF well known infirmity of his
proposed partner, as expressed and
guarded against in the last clause.
ORIGINAL AGREEMENT
First part, LIST. This is to certify that
- of the first part and - of the
second part do hereby agree.
"a. TO enter INTO partnership,
5rd. Wh,ch partnership is to be, Mr..
- ST., is to furnish the CAPITAL and
- the time,
4th. And hat the Capital is to be in
" reen Back Currency,
9th. AT what so ever the valuation is
at the present, in the gold Currency
oil the so-cdRed United States of America.
9Th. And that this is binding only at
ter signature.
"a. ahdin the second place. according to
present law Of the SO called u. s., thus
document
81. must be stamped by Government
stamps OF the valuation OF (05) live cents.
provided the law has not been changed
Two or three times since the once glorious
= = mon fought against it in 1776 In the
irst place Mr.. - Jr., not ST.. is to
lfaw $4,000 pr month out of the con-
- only X the amount.
~ and lastly. lfeither one oftae afore- |
'ald partners OF this concern tell the |
'ther lie about business. he must Day
to the other 800, Gold.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
LEES MIsERABLEs.u

In 1868, this present writer, desiring
to give his friends, WEST & JOHNSTON,
(who were then publishing Victor HUI
COS great work. good notice, repre-
sented JOHNSON as tearing his hair in
perplexity at the question of soldier
who rad just asked for LEES misera-
bles, taintin"-Les Miserables, Fan
tine. This is the origin of the title to
the chapter of our friend CookE's new
novel, Mohun, which the reader will
find on the first page.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
sLACKwooD AND THE NORTH BRITISH.

We have received the September num-
er OF these excellent periodicals. The
articles on Postivism, the Education of
the Imbecile, and France in Europe and
Africa are entertaininga and valuable
The writer on Postivism endeavors to
prove that Comte was almost Chris
tan, and gets confused. Some of the
biographical incidents related are new
to us, and Interesting.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
HON. JOHN RANDOLPH fuckers LAW
SCHOOL.

Do you want your son to learn law
thoroughly and joyously, and have
something to look back to with delight
during his whole lifetime? Send him to
Mr.. TucKER's law school at Middleburg,
Loudom county, Va.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
BREITMAN IDEA OF THE SUBLIME AND
BEAUTIFUL.

'Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas;
He have puily dime:
Blu t vas in oidt NJ issouri
Dat dey rooshed him up sublime,
Dey took him to der Blot Mob,
Und all der nobs around:
Dey spreed him und dey tea'd him
Dill dey room him to de ground.
"Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas
Troo all dis earthly land;
A vorkin' out life's mission here
Soobyectifiy und grand.
Some beoblesh runs de beautiful,
Some works philosophie,
Der Breitmann solfe de Infinite
Ash Won eternal sphreep'
&SubjectiVely.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02
WAR.

Gee. II. Pendletoh, in his great speech
at Centralia, said:
II any man, or any set of men, under
any organization, by whatever name
they may be known, shall undertake to
make war because the people Of the
United States shall put into The hands
OF the DemocratiG party all the powers
OF TINS Government, they had better
uniform themselves in winding sheets
and dig their graves.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-10-02

Our market this week has been active.
for prime qualities. and shows no de-
cline except in corn Bets. Much Wheat
is out of orderand sells at comparatively
lower figures. quote
Wheat white. Prime 255; ordinary
good 235 $50; damaged and inferior
l70a 220; Red, prime 235 245; com
mon-good 215 $50.
Corn White--I25.
Oats-63 60.
Rye-l32 1917
Flour market irregular and dull. Ex-
ira lD54; Super 90 10, Family lls4
II by the dray load.
TOBACCO MARKET.
So dull and irregular, that quotations
re usele SIS.