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n ATEsT ARRIVALS OF WINTER


IL Dry Goods:-Boots, Shoes, Hosiery, Notions
gnia Hotel. I would respectfully call the atten-
ton of my friends and the public to my stock Of
new goods which is larger, better assorted and
this market. We notice first:
silk stripe poplins, silk warp alpacas, Scotch
plaids, French epingline cloths, and reps, cash
meres, French merinos, coburgs, deIanes, Sc
TRIMMINGS, GLOVES, HOSIERY, &c.
silk velvets, silk imps, piping ribbons, buttons
ruflng of all kinds; kid, doe, silk cloth, thread
gloves, British and American Hose, merino Hose,
cheap.
cloths, cassimeres cassinets jeans, fuled linseys,
&c.
DOMESTIC DRY GOODS =
Brown and bleached cotton cloths glnghams,
plaid cottons, tickings, plaid lnseys, and large
stock of prints.
We pay special attention to the
BOOT AND SHOE TRADE.
Ladies' sewed calf morocco, and kid boots of
Baltimore make warranted to give satisfaction.
Mems heavy boots, from the celebrated Prairie
to common article.
BOYS BOOTS AND SHOES,
Mems brogans and womens heavy kip shoes.
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES,
Imperial and Green Powder Teas, Porto Rico,
brown, crushed. pulverized and granulated SUI
CARS Rio Laguayra and Java coffee.
Country produce bought sold and traded for,
on fair terms
nov3-tf N. B. HENDRY.
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Dry Goods.
TUyHE BLACK FLAG!
III !. to-

THE DOGS OF WAR LET LOOSE!
The Panic and Tumble of -Four Months Ago is
upoa as again
Let the people answer how we have driven
back into their native obscurity the countless
called cheap stores, and squelched the swndling
system of these greedy Intervals.
The dose was powerful and went through like
lightning. Our purchases from the Gallego
Whitney Blanket Factory, from the winding up
of Oliver Mawbray in Grand Street. New York,
we got the lions share at 60 cents the dollar.
From the smash of Whitmarsh & Bro. our pur-
chases, in single day, amounted to over seven
thousand dollars. This is the music that brings
the everlasting crowd. Whilst other merchants
sleep upon their counters our skirmish line of
sharpshooters is upon the front, day and night
unwavering, unflnching and untatering, never
looking backwards in the auction rooms, at the
sherifs' sales at the marshaFs the bankrupt's
and the assignees. This accounts for our low
prices. We believe in square fighting and cheap
goods, and to this we attribute the unusual popu-
larity Of the house in its giant strides to great
ness. This is the secret of this incompatible
stock and these matchless prices.
Shun the shams and delusions of
Selling off, closing out"
And all that kind of cheap humbug,
As you would Beast Butler.
Our stock is larger than ever before, land will
be replenished from time to time,) consisting of
French English and American Cloths and
Cassimers large line of Shawls, Black
and Fancy Silks, Cloaks and Cloak 4
ings, Empress Cloths, French
and English Poplins, Figured
and plain Alpacas,
Bombaznes,
all wool Delaines, half wool Delaines, French
and English Mernos, Ginghams, Calicoes
| Tickings, Checks, Swisses, figured and
plain Cambries, Needle Work. do,
Balmorals latest style, Hoop
| Skirts, a large line of Ho-
sery, Gloves and La
| dies Garments.
The largest stock of Furs ever before exhibited
in this town. Carpets, Mating and Oil Cloths
Hats Shoes, Boots, Ladies', Gents, and
| Childrens Gum Over Shoes
White, Colored and Mixed Yarns,
Cotton Yarns &c. at
HILB & WELLER'S,
| oct27-tf .Crawfords Corner.
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Extract of Letter to the Citizens Of Macon,
Ga
QUINCY, MASS, Oct. %, 1865

QUINCY, MASS, Oct. %, 1868.
Gentlemen, your case is not one which admits
of lulling strains or intoxicating melodies to
soothe your pains or obliterate your memories;
and those who seek to lure you always backward
to the dread past, or cast deceptive glamor
ever your stern future, are not, as think, do
ing the best service possible for the South. Your
position materially and politically is, to my
thinking, to the last degree serious, and holiday
orations or deceptive assurances OF premature
good feeling cant help your hard case. You must
try frankly and cheerfully to meet like men the
fate you dared like men to invoke. flour peo-
pie cannot suddenly renew their shattered con-
| fidence, or dare not grasp your stretched out
| hand why, take it coldly as part otyour pen
atty, and set yourselves to extort fresh faith,
and compel US, from sheer admiration OF your
pluck, to grasp your hand unobserved.
You want but little politics. as | take it; but
you do need, every man of you, to bend his
every energy to build up your waste places
restore your languishing industry, renew your
decayed trade, replenish your exhausted capital
educate and elevate the poor, ignorant, and de-
graded within your borders, and allure all to
leave no device untried to reconcile and adjust
your people to the new era.
| [ do not mean by that the era OF reconstruc,
ton, for [ do not believe that such preposter-
Gus and topsy-turvy continuance can stand
Yet even for that, I would urge federation un-
til it peacefully topples over. What do mean
is the era which is coming, and must come,
whether you like it or not, when the American
people shall become homogeneous, and ANNA
ted by one spirit, which shall pervade south as
well as north, east, and west, alike-the spirit
of one progressive and productive, peaceful and
! Free Christian nationality. All the men who
feel as you do at the South should spare no eff
fort to hasten the day when we can once more
resume the old touch of the shoulder and dress
up the ranks for the great march,
| Do not be troubled by the croakers the des-
| tiny of the people Will transcend their gloomy
portents. Be steady be cool be patient; be
silent; be hopeful Watch the heavens, and
work the earth, and you shall see ere Ion the
gray dawn creeping up the eastern sky.
Your faithful friend,
TOHN 0TTNcy ADAMS
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For the Spectator.

LEXINGTON, VA.
MEssBs. EDITORS In your last issue ] OBJ
served the complaint of CHIPS" asserting
that many new and useful articles had been
overlooked in the late Augusta Fair. | am
sorry to say such has been the case at Ours. al.
so; in order that publicity may be given them
l send you partial list of the articles which
the Committees sighted:
A fence made from the railing of scolding
wife. 0'N'"s
A roll of butter from the cream of Joke )
Some small coins from the change of the
moon"
A brush to be used in painting the signs of
the times 1' u
The latest contract with the trade winds
A rock from the mountain of ignorancewex.
hibited by a gentleman from Botetourt.
The chair in which the sun sets.
A garment for the naked eye-homemade
The hammer which broke up the meeting
A buckle to fasten laughing stock.
A patent fixture for AIS well.''
Neither have seen anything in the papers
about the fat man, whose shadow fell on a child
and killed it, nor about the Notlazomahuitzlut
phorty. STICKS.
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The Picnic.

If to boil and to bake and to butter,
To bottle, to slice, and to pack,
To get off before you are ready,
And before you are ready come back;
If taking seat in a pie-dish,
And losing your meat in the grass,
And having bugs drop in the pudding,
And snails take bath in your glass;
If toads holding hop on your sandwich,
And beetles inspecting your bread,
While brambles and thorns catch your feet,
And worms pelt down on your head;
If scattering in every direction,
To seek in the foliage a cover,
And find that you have just been outstrippeo
By some Sary Jane and her lover
If gathering up all the fragments
OF such an Arcadian feast
You can't tell whether twas most like
Entertainment for man or for beast;
If that kind of thing is enjoyment,
In longer or shorter measure,
And you are simple enough to believe so,
Why then help yourself to the pleasure
But for me, II speak from experience,
The subject I've closely pursued,)
The reply will be found in Scripture,
81 pray thee have me excused"
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For the Opect'
OWED TU EDNY.

o, Edny Yu tawk about a Teller gittin' up
When awl mankind ar awlwaze gittin' up
Sept them what's gittin' down;
Yu tell us people ortnt tn ly so much,
But how shall Teller believe and oba
When lyin's nat raj
Purhaps, like Chanticlere yu kro at erly daun'
And stratewa go tn slepe agin,
Thinkin' yu've dun nobly!
Rut since woman's took the Greshun bend
She has bin goin gradually down,
And shoodnt wonder
If she d never git up agin-
Sich is my muse.
THUNDER A. SHUNN.
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A SONNET.

When Eve brought woe to all mankind,
Old Adam called her woman;
And when she wood with love so kind.
He then pronounced her woman,
But now with folly, dress and pride,
Their husbands pockets trimming,
The ladies are so full of whims
That people call them whim-men
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-11-17

Reader, if you have good live advertise
ment running through our own or any other
good paper, you have hundred thousand SER
wants out at work for you, whether you wake
or sleep, whether you be sick or WELL No mon
arch S slaves ever scattered at his bidding SO
feetly or faithfully, or in such bewildering
numbers, as the literary messengers that bear
your individual word to the people of this great
nation Exchange
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History teaches a lesson applicable to

History teaches. lesson applicable to the
present republic from ancient Rome, which had
wise Senators. For example: ''When Latium
Roman prince, revolted, and the revolt was
suppressed, the question arose in the Roman
Senate, what shall be done with Latium and
the people of Latium? There were some who
cried 'disfranchise. Then others said 'confis
cate their property There were none who
said subject them in vassalage to their slaves.
But old Camillus, in that speech which reveal
ed his true greatness and made his name i'm
mortal, said: Senators Make them your fell
low-ctizens, and thus add to the power and
glory of Rome!'
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-11-17

The following article forcibly illustrates the
necessity of punctuation. 1t can be read in two
ways-making very good man out of bad
man if he has paid for his paper, or very bad
man out of good man if he has not. Read
it accordingly:
He is an old and experienced man in vice
and wickedness he is never found opposing the
works OF lniquity he takes delight in the down
fall of the neighbors he never reioices in the
prosperity of any of his fellow creatures he is
always ready to assist in destroying the peace
OF society he takes no pleasure in serving the
Lord ne is uncommony Ediligent in sowing dis
cord among his friends and acquaintance he
takes no pride in laboring to Promote the cause
OF Christianity he has not been negligent in en-
deavorng to stigmatize all public teachers he
makes no exertions to subdue his evil passions
ne strives hard to build up Satan's kingdom he
lends no aid to the support of the Gospel among
the heather he contributes largely to the evil
adversary he pays no attention to good advice
ne gives great heed to the Devil he will never
60 to heaven he must go where he will receive
the just recompense of reward -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-11-17

ANDREW JOHNSON AND THE TENNESSEE
GoVERNoRsHIP. "A number of papers have
placed the name of Andrew johnson at the
head of their columns as the candidate for next
Governor of Tennessee. 1t is said that Mr.
johnson will accept the Democratic nomination,
and there is but little doubt that he will receive
II
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Variety Work. Shop.

DEMOVAL.-HEWIT PICTURE 6
IL FRAME GALLERY has been removed
from over DR.. Wayts Store to New Street, near
the Virginia Hotel.
On hand large assortment of Frames of all
kinds, Prints, Looking Glasses, &c.
Old Frames re-gilt, Curtains and Parlor orna-
ments put up.
W. PAPER HANGING done at the shortest
notice. A great variety of Wall Paper Patterns
on hand. sep1--tf
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FOaG2adrieS.

WE. the undersigned, would respectfully in
w form the public generally, that we have
rented the Valley Mills Foundry and Machine
Shop, carried ON by St. F. c. Roberts, who has
turned his entire attention to the manufacture of
Farming Utensils generally. We are prepared
to furnish any kind Of work usually done in any
shop in the Valley. This shop not having been
burned by Yankees, it would be to the interest
of great many to give us call before going
elsewhere, as We have a good assortment of Pat
terms, such as Mill Gearing, Cane Mills Thresh-
ing Machines in fact, this shop having been in
operation for the last twenty five years, it is
hardly possible to mention all the patterns that
would accumulate in that time. We are making
the best template Stoves in the Valley. We al
so make the Livingston, Kerr and Virginia Cast
Ploughs-al sizes-and variety of sizes and
styles of wrought share ploughs. Having one of
prepared to do any and all kinds of turning.
We hope by prompt attention to business, with
fair dealing and good work, to get a share OF the
public patronage.
We are also prepared to furnish all kinds of
~ SCHOPPERT s. LONG,
oct20-5m p O. Swoopes Depot.
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6NIGAR FACTORY NO.
STATJNTON VA

ArmentrOut a. Co..
Manufacturers of Cigars,
and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Smoking
and Chewing Tobacco, Snuff, Pipes, Stems, and
all articles generally found in irst-class tobac
co house.
We would call the special attention of mer-
chants to our large and varied stock of Chewing
and Smoking Tobacco. Having effected ar
rargements with some of the largest Factories in
the State we are enabled to sell tobacco at man
ufacturers lowest prices, and upon most accom-
modating terms.
10000 Cigars on hand of our own man
ufacture, ranging from 500 to $40 per thousand
G. ARMENTROUT
C. E. HAINES. AKIN TROUT q GO.
j. A. ARMENTROUT
Corner Main and Augusta streets, Staunton.
Oct20
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BOlt5ng Cloths ;!

DOLTING CLOTHS.-I keep constantly
ID on hand full supply of the celebrated
ssAnker'' Boiling Cloths, from No to H.
These are the cloths used by the City Mills, and
are to be found in the best mills of this eounty.-
They are the genuine article.
je23 GEO. E. PRICE.
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Portable Fence.
NEW FENCE-Tbo attention

A NEW FENCE.-The attention of the
N farmers of this county is requested to a
new style of BOARD FENCE, a specimen of
which is to be seen in the Courthouse yard.
1t is erected without posts, costs less to prepare
than the ordinary board fence, can be put up and
taken down with great rapidity, is irm-and dura-
BILE, can be prepared during the winter and pre-
sents many points of advantage for the consider
alton of the farmer.
Farm rights will be disposed of upon reasona-
BILE terms, either by GEO. E. PRICE or the under
signed. DAVID BUCHER.
mar 24-tf Wind copy B. .T.f
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An exchange says: 1t is convenient to farm
ers and choppers to have an easy and correct
rule by which to measure corn in the cribs
Here is one-having leveled the corn in the
crib, measure the length, breadth, and depth,
and multiply them together, and deduct from
the product one fifth; and you have the number
of bushels in the ear-for shelled corn take one
half of this To be strictly correct, add half a
are fond of cyphering can test the correctness
of this rule by taking 1,728 solid inches for a
foot and 2, l59 inches in bushel, and see that
the latter is nearly one-ifth larger than the
former.
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l.
WTM. KNABE & CO.,
Manufacturers of First Premium, (Gold MedaD
Grand, Square, and Upright Pianos,
BALTIMORE, MD.
These instruments having been before the pub
lie for the past thirty years, have upon their ex
'cellence alone, attained an unpurchased pre-ean-
t7aeace that pronounces them unequalled Then
TONE
combines great power richness, sweetness, and
fine singing quality, we'll great purity of in
tonation and harmoniousness throughout the en-
tire scale, Their
is plant and elastic, and is entirely free from
stiffness found IN so many pianos, which causes
The performer to so easily tire. In
WORKMANSHIP
they cannot be exceled. Their action is con-
structed with care and attention to every part
therein that characterizes the finest mechanism.
one but the best seasoned material is used in
their manufacture and they will accept the hard
usages of the concert loom with that of the par
ior upon an equality-unaffected in their melody;
IN fact, they are constructed 'Not for a year-5ut
forerer." All our Square Pianos have our new
Grand Scale and Agraffe Treble Every Piano
fully warranted for five years.
+. L.. lDE, sole agent for Augusta county, is,
by special arrangement, enabled to furnish the
above Celebrated Instrument at lowest Factory
prices. An assortment constantly on hand at his
new rooms New street, opposite Drs. Yeakle s.
Youngs Drug Store, in Phillips & CARRIERS In
surance Office. dec3-12ma
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House JOLHli2lN.

THVHaE Undersigned offers his services te
L such persons in town or county as may wish
to have Carpentering a0ork or House-JoisasaS
done on the best terms.
aug 27-tf =. r. BLACKBURN.
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Tobacco.

c. T. COCHRAN. J. E. GUY.
old FIRM REVIVED!
" G. 7. COCHRAN & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
TOBACCO, SNUFF AND CIGARS,
at the old stand, on New street, would respect
fully announce to their friends and the public
generally that they are receiving and will keep
constantly on hand we'll selected stock of
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, and Cigars,
ranging from the choicest to the cheapest grades.
Also Snuff, Pipes, Stems, Matches &c
StauntOn Oct 9th 1893
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Carriage Factory.
4 AMES N. WATERS.

ID CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS
(Hardy's Old Stand Staunton, Va,
will warrant all new work and will furnish it
cheap as any shop in the country; will also pay
special attention to repairing, and hopes, by strict
attention to business and fair dealing, to merit
the patronage of the public.
feb4-tojanT69 JAS. 81. WATERS.
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IN SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Richmond Advertisements.
EORD,S HOTEL.

Il CAPITOL PLACE.
BOARD BOARD
This SPLENDID HOTEL, lately thoroughly
rebuilt and newly furnished throughout, is now
one of the most popular in the South. Its loca
ton is without rival in the city. it being the
only hotel situated in fashionable portion OF
the city, and from its windows the guest looks
down into the magnificent public park, with its
Monuments and other works of art. A walk
cross the park places the visitor at once in the
business centre of the city,
1t is kept as FIRST GLASS HOTEL IN Ev-
cry PARTICULAR, and its success since opening
has been unparalleled in the history of hotel
keeping in this city A. j. FORD,
nov 3.-1m Proprietor and Owner.
R. R. ROBERTS, B. F. HARRIS,
of Richmond. late of Abemarle
nOBERTS & HARRIS.
General Commission Merchants,
Basin Bank, bet. 10th s. 18th streets,
Richmond, Va,
For the sale of Tobacco, Flour Grain. Lumber
and all kinds of Country Produce
Refer, by permission, to Col. S. D. Crawford,
DR.. c. r. Harris L. J. Maupin Frank Fretwell
Col. r. Turk, DR.. : Churchman, Maj James
Walker, Judge Harris, Rev. VIM. A. Harris
Sep29-3m
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Hotels.
VIRGINIA HOTEL,

+. SCHEFFER, .~............P Proprietor.
Has been remodelled, repainted and furnished
with entirely new furniture and beds, and ranks
now among the first class hotels of the country.
A fine Livery Stable, Bar and Billiard Room
are attached
/, Mss- Omnibus free
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Our stock having been purchased when there
was heavy decline in the market enables us to
offer great inducements to purchasers for cash.
Our stock is made up Of the following goods:
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Lone Jacks.

Another revolution-The earth's since yes
terday.
What did Adam first plant in the garden of
Eden? His foot
Opossum-A marsupial quadruped with
prehensile tail.
''Shot in potato patch, is becoming pop
ular epitaph for negroes In the South.
Julius, did you see the Cats-kill mountains?
mo, Sam, but I've seen the cats kill mice. -
It is said that Butler will go into Grant cab
met Certainly, if he keeps his spoons in it.
A temperance author wrote drunkenness is
folly" and the printer made him say "drdn-
kenness is jolly
''All quiet along the Potomac is now rem
Everything mellifuously serene ada
cent to the Conocohooton.
It is said that the Radical managers In Rich
mond will urge upon Congress the passage of
law directing a speedy vote on the proposed
Virginia Constitution with an election for State
officers at the same time.
A constable somewhere in the northwest ex-
poses for sale ''roan horse Or so mulch there
of as may bee nessary' to satisfy the judgment
A young writer wishes to know of US which
magazine will give me high position the
quickest" We reply a powder magazine, if
you contribute fiery article.
An Arkansas editor has been presented with
new hat, whereupon he says: "A grateful
humor commenced caroling through our veins
like young dog with an old shoe.
George being asked how it was that his dear
had gwen him the mitten, replied Il was
qool Al I ,co1 IL.
got so proud she wouldn't speak to me.
A hoosier, travelling in Europe, being asked
if he had seen Mount Vesuvius replied, Eyes,
| saw her spouting away, and made up my
mind we must have mount just like her near
Chicago"
The fellow who undertook to get free pass
on the plea that he was a railroad man is found
to have spoken the truth-he was rail rode
man, but fellow had hold of each end of the
rail when he rode.
At christening, while the minister was ma
king the certificate, he happened to say
Let me see this is the Goth"
''lhe thirtieth!' exclaimed the indignant
mother, Indeed it is only the eleventh.
To make valuable specked dog bullet proof,
Mark Twain says: Take off his hide and line
it with sheet iron. Russia iron is the best and
is sucker anu more snowy Than the common
kind Dogs prepared in this way do not mind
bullets"
A New Hampshire editor who has been keep
ing record Of big beets announces at last that
the beet that beat the beet that beat the 9TH
er beet is now beaten by beet that beats all
the beets, whether the original beet the beet
that beat the beet, or the beet that beat the
beet that beat the beet that beat the beet.
A club called the Lazy Society has been form
ed in Fincastle. 1t already numbers several
members Two of the members have been dis
charged-one for striking musquito which
had lighted on his face, another for gaping too
quickly, and opening his mouth too wide A
third member was censured for running down
Grove hill, but was let off on the plea that he
was too lazy to hold back! The society is in
perpetual session, being too lazy to adjourn