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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
EXPULSION OF THE GEORGIA NEGROES.

The Washington correspondent OF
the Baltimore Gazette says: 5t.
"rhe action of the Georgia House of
Delegates in excluding negroes from
that body on the ground ofineligibili-
ty, has produced no surprise here, as it
was known here in advance that the
movement would be made under the
dictation of The Radical committee OF
Congressman. who consider that such
action would be trump card in the
Northern canvass, as showing The Rad
ical party was4not favorable to negro
equality. 1t required a good deal Of
backing and filling before the carpet
baggers of Georgia could be induced to
move IN the matter, as they protested
to see in it nothing but their own polit-
zeal overthrow. In resisting the pro-
position they urged that tile negroes
would easily understand that they
were being used merely as tools and
would turn from them In disgust and
Join the Democracy. The loss, howev-
er, was regarded magnificent, when
compared to the great advantage aris-
| ing to the Radical party in the North
to be able to demonstrate 70 the mass
es that the Democratic speakers lied
when they charged their opponents
with favoriag negro equality. This is
| the key to the action of the Georgia
| Legislature, and the Radical wire-work'
ers are chuckling over it as one of the
smartest tricks of the canvass"
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
THE sUMAc TRADE.

An old business in Virginia has been
revived. and assumed proportions of
considerable magnitude; certainly y,
much greater than it ever before attain
ed i'm this State. We refer to the traf-
fic in Sumac or Shamaeh (colloqually
pronounced Shu-mak.) For some time
past the people of the upper country
have been gathering Sumac in large
quantities, and selling it to the dealers
in the county towns, by whom it was
forwarded to the tanners or merchants
in the cities. The extent of the busi-
ness has been referred to in several OF
our interior exchanges In terms OF
amazement. The woods and fields have
been secured i'll every direction by SUI
mac gatherers. and large quantities have
been brought in. In the country around
Richmond scores of persons, white and
black, have recently been engaged in
the pursuit, and an illustration OF their
success was presented Saturday ut the
store of Messrs. Hultz & King, on Main
street, below Fourteenth. These gen.
tieme n have d .tannefy in Manchester,
and are liberal buyers OF Sumac. On
Saturday their store was almost crowd
cd with the swarthy Sumac-sellers,
while the streets in front and rear were
partially blocked up by the country
wagons and carts, laden with Sumac,
packed in bales, bags, barrels, old quilts
ect. The aggregate bulk was large 4
| the value was not. Every lot had, Of
course, to undergo inspection before II
was purchased, as the quality varies
the prices paid ranging from 50c to 81
per hundred. :,
Several of the SUNK Dealers are al
so buyers of Sumac. hut Messrs. Huits
| e. King have ''the rum of the market
If the sellers find that it ''pays" to gath
CIR Suniac we have no doubt that they
will give their attention to it every sea
son. until the Sumac trade Of Virginis
attains considerable Importance.
Common Sumac grows in Syria, Pal
estine, Spain and Portugal. One spe.
cies is cultivated in Italy with great care
Its shoots are cut down every year quite
to the root, and after being dried they
are Clipped or reduced to powder by
mill, and thus prepared for the uses o
dyeing and tanning. Sumac may b
considered of good quality when its cd
or is strong, color of u lively green, l
well ground, and tree from stalks. IN
kind which sells most readily IN TN
market consists OF the leaves and leai
bearing twigs, dried in the shade.
Common Sumacis useful for drab AM
and dove colors in calico printing, an
is also capable of dyeing black Wing
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
NEGRO THREATS.

New ORLEANS, Sept. o. --Pinchback,
tine mulatto recently installed In jew
ellis place as Senator from the I'd Dis
trict, New Orleans Parish, yesterday
rising to IL question of privilege in re-
ply to newspaper paragraphs concern-
ing him, after charging the people OF the
city with numbering and manifesting a
growing disposition to murder men for
their political opinions and the color of
their skin, uttered the following: 81
want Co tell them TO beware i want
to tell them they have nearly reached
the end of their string. The next out
rage of the kind which they commit Will
be the signal for the dawn of retribu-
ton: retribution of which they have
not dreamed; signal which will cause
ten thousand torches to be applied to
this city, for patience will then have
ceased 20 be virtue, and this city will
be reduced to ashes" He was here
called to order, but, proceeding with his
speech, reiterated his threat; adding a
notification to the Democratic party
that they (the negroes) proposed to take
the matter into their own hands in ftl-
ture, and proposed to have peace, il
they have to conquer peace.
The poor fool, who made the above
speech, had as little idea of his true sit
uation as his ancestors in Africa. His
Radical friends are equally at fault. =
In truth, very few whites outside o
Louisiana and Texas understand wha
has been done and is now doing i'm thos'
States. Even in Tennessee, Gen. For
REST seems to be in the dark. Prudenc'
forbids us to say more. The Radicals ar
willing to pay any price for first-clas
riot, and we fear they viii get a grca
bargain before they are done.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
VIRGINIA HORTICULTURAL AND PoMo-
LOGICAL SOCIETY.

We are indebted to the courtesy Off.
A. WILLIAMS, Esq, General Agent OF
the Society, Tor complimentary tickets
to their L exhibition. to be held in Rich
mond, on the 22d of September.
We are gratified at the energy and
enterprise OF this Society. its exhibit
tions ought to be attended by all who
feel an interest in the important objects
of its organization. Nowhere on the
Continent. is there a finer fruit-growing
region than Eastern Virginia.
The Society offers very generous
list of premiums, under the circum-
stances, for the best specimens of Hor-
tc,uqt Implements, Orchard Products, Vege-
tables, Eouers, cut and gro,oing, Butter and
Cheese, Honey, Hams, Domestic Mdnutac-
tares, Grape Vines, &C., dc.
We hope to see Orange and the ada
cent counties largely represented.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
DANIEL ON JACKSON.

Our young friend, Major JoHS WAR
WICK Daniel, of Ly nchburg, has sent us
copy of his .pamphleton the "Charac-
ter of SToNEwALL JAcksoN." 1t is adj
mirably printed on toned paperby those
masters of the topographic art, ScHAF-
FER & BRYANT. In q literary point OF
view, we can and do commend it highly.
We know ofno other young man In the
State who could have done the work SO
well; few ofany age could have done 1t
better. The rare talent of compression
is displayed as we have seldom seen it;
the citations show extensive reading,
well applied, land the style is singular
" mature. There is a uis Vitae IN GER
tain sentences which tell Enthusiastically
the strength of the writer's nature. In
the main, the estimate of JAcKsoN's
character and genius is correct, but the
book is not without errors The late
war vas not on our part, a Revolution,
but resistance to Revolution. DAVIS
was not the greatest man Oh either side,
but moro nearly the reverse Of that
DAvIs's eye did not "flash Indignation
when he left the Senate chamber; on
the contrary it is said, and we relieve
truly, that ne wept. He was Unto
man. LEES disbelief in State Rights
aud slavery had little to do with his
cautiousness--it was in his blood. Jos.
l.. JonNsToS had less, not more military
talent than JACKSON. NAPOLEON would
never have made poet. His literary
eifusions, When he was writing for bread
in Paris and Talma was lending him
money, are feeble. These, however,
are minor defects. AS a whole, the
pamphlet deserves praise. 1t is not q
tulsome eulogy; it metes out even-hand'
ed justice to all parties. Where rar
is needed, it is given fcarlessly. DA'
Wis, LEE, JOHNSON, the Confederate gov
ernment, Cook, McCABE, and DR.. DAB
NEY are all sm:t.e'n. The forceful way
in which the writer says his say is very
notable. L.tvater declares that "tht
more chin the more man." JouN DAN.
lEL's nose and chin are not for nothing
He will make his mark anyway, but /
another war come and enough of his
body is left to ''tote" his soul look out
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE.

Sir j. Y. Simpson, of Edinburgh, who
adds to his great fame rs the head of the
progressive school of surgery and med
icine in Great Britain touch of poeti-
cal genius and decided bent towards
universal knowledge in his studies, in
dulges in the following anticipations of
the future progress of the healing arts:
"But that day of revolution will not
probably be fully realized till those dis
tant DAVIS when physicians-a century
or two hence shall be familiar with the
chemistry of most diseases; when they
shall know the exact organic poisons
that produce them, with all their exact
antidotes and eliminttorles; when they
shall look upon the cure of some mala-
dies as simply series of chemical pro-
blems and formula; when they shall
melt down all caleuli, necrosed bones,
&C., chemically, and not remove them
by surgical operations; when the bleed
ing in amputatiohs and other wounds
shall be stemmed, not by septic liga-
lures or stupid needles, but by the sim
pie applica: on of hemostatic gases or
washes; wien the few wounds then re-
CURED in surgery shall all be swiftly
and Immediately healed by the first in
| tention; when medical men shall be able
to stay the ravages of tubercle, blot out
fevers and infammations, avert and
melt down morbid growths, cure eau
Ger. destroy all morbific organic germs
| and ferments, annuI the deadly intiil-
ences Of malaria and contagious, and
by these and various other means mark.
| edly lengthen out the average duration
of human life, when our hygiehi, con
| dition and laws shall have been chang.
ed by state legislation, so as TO forbit
all communicable, and remove All caus
es of sickness, that are removable, whei
the rapidly increasing length, OF human
life shall begin to fulfill that ancien
prophecy sthe child shall de an hundred
years old;' when there shall have beei
achieved. too, advances in other walk
of life, far beyond our present state o
progress; when houses shall be built ans
many other kinds of work performed b.
machinery, and not Ivy human hand
alone, when the crops in these island
shall be increased five or ten fold, ail'
abundance of human food provided TO
our fields being irrigated by that vast
organic refuse OF our towns which W
4 now recklessly run off into our river
and seas; when men sliali have invent
ed means of calling down rain at viii
when we shall have gained cheaper an
better motive powers than steam; whe
: we shall travel from continent to cont
aent by submarine railways, or by fly
} ing and ballooning through the air. y
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
AMERICAN UNITY.

"General, is it likely that your SER
vices as soldier will be needed by the
country"
RosEcRAxs, emphatlcally. mo, sir,
never. The great desire of the North
is, first, peace; next, unity. Both par
ties are compelled to proclaim peace as
their grand object. The American peo-
pie will hear of nothing else. They
have 40 idea Of going to war about any
thing. Rather than risk another war or
disruption Of the States, they will ac-
cept despotism. -
The above is part of conversation
which we heard under the oaks at the
White Sulphur Springs.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
WEBSTER MATCHED BY WOMAN.

In the some what famous case. of Mr..
Bogden's will which was tried in the
Supreme Court some years ago. Mr..
Webster appeared as council for the APP
pellant. Mrs. Greenough, wife of Rev.
VIM. Greenougl late OF Weston, Il tall
straight, qlleenly looking woman, with
a keen black eyc--a woman of great
self possession and decision of character
was called to the stand as a witness on
the other side. Mr.. Websterat a glance
had the sagacity to foresee that her tes-
t.mony, lift contained anything of inn
portance would have great weight with
the court and jury. He therefore re-
solved If possible TO break her up. And
when she answered to the first ques-
ton put 50 her, Il believe" Mr.. Web
ster roared out
ave don't want to hear W rat you be-
lieve; we want to know what you know
Mrs. Greenough replied: "That s
jus: what was about to say sir" and
went on with her testimony. And not
withstanding his repeated effortsto di :
concert her, she pursued the even tenor
Of her way, till Webster quite fearful Of
the result, arose, apparently in great
agitation and drawing out large snilil
box thrust his fingers to the very bot
tom, and carrying the deep pinch tc
both nostrils, drew it up with a glsto'
and then extrlcating from his pocket 4
very large handkerchief. which flowed
to his feet when he brought it to the
front, he blew his nose with a report
that ran distinct and loud through the
hall. t.. Z
Webster.-aMrs. Greenough, wa:
Mrs. Bogden a neat woman Z" .fl.
Mrs. G.-''I cannot give you very ful
information as to that sir, she had ont
very dirty trick.
W.-ssWhat was that ma'am ~
Mrs. G.-'sShe took snuff"
The roar in the court house was such
that the defender OF the Constitution
| euhsi1nd
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
GRAPES IN ALBEMARLE,

The Charlottesville Chronicle says:
Mr.. Iotop's experiment. in grape
growing in Albemarle may be set down
us success. He is now sending his
crop on to New York where it must
command the best prices There is no
difficulty at all about the transportation.
Put in small paper boxes, containing
from one and a halfto three pounds, and
these again being put in large wooden
ones, the grapes make the trip without
being at all injured. Mr.. Hotop has
found by experiment that the Delaware
suits the climate and the soil very well,
and it certainly comes to very great per-
fiction, as we can testify. The punches
are very compact and the grapes well
ripened and not single faulty one
among those We saw. The Delaware
lIas the advantage 9ffbelrge gfia!h,llIIy gooa
"a NttIG =, ,Fst,f. l.. III" "a VI
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
FROM THE SAVANNAH HERALD.
A GEORGIA C0L0RED MANS CARD.
ToTHE CoLoRED PEOPLE OF CHATHAM AND
~ ADJOINING COUNTIES.

Some one having told you that Mr..
Seymour said that if he was elected
Presiden. no colored man should vote,
and that the Savannah Republican had
published the statement, wish to say
to you that | called on the editor to
know if he had published or seen any
such statement made by Mr.. Seymour,
and he told me he had not. | will now
say that | am authorized to offer re-
ward of twenty-five dollars to any man
who will produce a copy of any such
speech made by Mr.. Seymour.
Let ME warn you against any such re-
ports. They are gotten up by these
lean, carpet-bag office seekers, who are
trying to poison your minds against the
true white men, who are the men we
have been living with all our lives
They will keep lying this way until
they get up difficulty between us and
our white friends and neighbors, and
then these same carpet-baggers will be
seen skedaddling worse than a scared
dog. There are plenty of honest white
Democrats who will tell you the truth
| YOU will go and ask them about amy Of
| these tales, gotten up by carpet-bag-
gers TO get yOGrvotes. Go and ask any
OF these gentlemen before You pay any
attention to sach reports, and they vii
put you right by telling you the truth
You ought to know this report to b.
u lie, because Mr.. Seymour knows ht
would have nothing to do with our vot
| ing if he was President. Mr.. Lincoli
was President, and would have givci
us the right to vote il it had been in hi
| power. But he could not. The peo
pie of Georgia alone have the right t.
say who shall vote in Georgia, as w
are now in the Union. Even Congress
now cannot say who can vote in Geor
ria. Congress SAID who should vot'
yhie Georgia is out OF the Union. Blu
now, since Georgia is in the Union agai:
the right to say who will vote is lef
with the people of Georgia. Don't lis
ten 30 such lies.
FRANCIS MCNEIL.
President Colored Conservative Club
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
STARVING PRISONERS.

The sshorrors of Andersonville" and
other prisons are freshly exposed by
Conservative prints and the RESPONSE
bility fixed where it rightly belongs
upon the North. GRANTis no more to
blame in this matter than LINCOLN, and
he no more than the Northern people.
They sustained LINCOLN and GRANT In
this hellish cruelty, which will surely
be avenged, and in our day, in tenn
pest of fire and blood such as man hath
not witnessed since the French Keyo-
luton, if then. individuals may es-
cape, but for "the Nation escape is us-
terly impossible. There is God.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
THE WING.

He is blind indeed who has not OBJ
served the marked improvement in the
Wing under the new regime. Cores
pondence from all parts of the country
attest the renewed interest of its sub
scribeis. GILMAN's letters from the
White Sulphur have been copied into
every prominent paper in the Union
We read them in the Courier des Flats
Unis. A new feature of the Wing is the
country markets. Those Of Orange
Culpeper and the adjoining counties
appear regularly.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

AS we passed through Covington, we
saw MASON, the great contractor, busily
experimenting the shooting ofnnbroken
mules. lie had already secured all the
laborers he needed. If the road does
not reach the White Sulphur by June,
the fault will be with the contractors,
not with the Company. A gentleman
who has had dealings for years with
McGISNIs & Co., of New York, assures
lis that the Company could not have Sc
lected better bankers. 1t is as certain
as anything can be, during these times,
that the whole road will be under con-
tract next year. A new era is upon us.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
WHITE SULPHUR CORRESPONDENCE.

The New York .sWorld" referring to
the recent correspondence between
Gen. Rosecrans and Gen. Lee, and 9TH
er distinguished Southerners, says:
The whole letter IS so calm and rational,
that dispassionate men everywhere Will
be convinced that these Southerners
have carefully weighed their words and
will abide in good faith by all they now
declare. 1t cannot fail to have a good
effect in dispelling injurious impressions
respecting the temper and aims OF the
Southern whites.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
III arrir1.

residence of II, Barton Haxall, Esq; Of Rich
montl, on the LIST instant, by Rev. Theodore
Carson MARY HAXAI and ALisXAN
DER CAMERON, formerly of 1yerncsshire,
Scotland, now a resident Of Richmond, Va.
At the residence of Mr.. .. F. Slaughter, at
Criglcrsvlle, Culpeper County, on tho list in
slant, by the Rev. Mr.. Lewis, Mr.. J. LIN
SAY ALLEN, of Culpeper, to Miss BETTE
A. BERRY, of Madison County.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
NEWSPAPER CHANGE.

THE Bedford Chronicle, recently pur-
chased by Mr.. NJ. DAVIS, will make its
appearance next week, under the
changed name of the Bedford Sentinel,
and with Rev. w. W. Berry as its edi-
tor.
Now we shall see whether a good
preacher Will make good editor.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
NEWSPAPER LAWS,

letter when a subscriber does not take his
paper from the office; and give the reason
for its not being taken. Neglecting to do SO
makes the postmaster responsible to the pub
asher for the payment
Any person who takes a paper regularly
from the besteffice, whether he has subscrib-
ed or not, Is responsible for the payment of
the subscription.
A person ordering his paper discontinued
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may
continue to send IT until payment Is made.
and collect the whole amount, whether 1t is
taken from the Office or not.
The courts have decided that refusing to
take a paper and periodical from the post
office, or removing and leaving them uncali-
ell for, is printa facie evidence of Intentional
fraud.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
RANKRuprs. ATTENTION!

Persons who have filed their petitions
for the benefit of the bankrupt act, are
required by law to file their applica-
tions for discharge within one year from
the time they are adjudicated bank
rupts. otherwise they wiz not be entitled
under the act to Il discharge.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
THE PUBLIC DEBT.

The following is the official state
ment of the public debt made by Secre-
tary McCulloch on the 3lst ultimo, as
compared with his official statement on
the 31st of March, 1865, at the close of
the war:
July 81, 1868. .........$ $685., 1874, 4S0 81
March 81, 1865 ..........2, 366, 965,07 "a
Increase. ..... ~. 1856, 1868, 4O3 50
This is rather costly: Nearly one hun
dred ald fifty-seven millions ofpablic
debt accumulated by three years Of
Radical rule in time of peace! In this
connection we may add the remark Of
Hon. j eremiah Black, made in speech
to the Democracy Of York, Pa. He
said:
81 cannot speak with perfect accura-
'scy, but believe am within reasona-
"ble bounds when tell you that thou
sssand millions would not cover the
,.frauds committed since the close of the
war. m
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11

Sales this week have averaged from
6.OOO-9.000 Bushels per day.
I quote Wheat-white; Choice 245
good to prime 240 a 245; Red 2SO "a 2lo'
Oats-60 a 81 Is.
Corn White--126 $50.
Rye-137 a l40.
ur--(country) Super. 1O1a a lO&4.
Extra IL Family ID.
Market rather active.
Farmers, in their own interest ought
tosend in their grain IN lots UNIFORM III
quality and order. The same lot often
varies very much, part being dry and
clean and part damp and dirty. ION
mission merchants have mich difficulty
in selling such lots, and are compelled
to dispose of them at prices below the
expectations OF the owners. Inc eoil
order will amply repay the farmer for
the labor and cost ofdrying it and clean
ing it we'll.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
LETTER FROM THE WHITE.

On account ofits length, the coneiud-
lag letter of our White Sulphur cores
pondent is necessarily postponed until
next week.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11

sUP The Rev. David II. Greer Of
Ciarksburg, West Virginia. has accept
ed the call of the Vestry OF the Episco-
bal Church in Charlottesville.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11

Why. Is Ir?-The Petersburg Index
and the Alexandria Commercial Adj
vertiscr DO not reach us regularity
Why .
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-11
alew Advertisements.
yALuARLE LOTS FOR SALE.
Ar ORANGE COURT HOUSE,

AT ORANGE COURT HOUSE.
SHALL offer for sale, on Saturday,
l. the 20h dag Of august lSGS,
e., 40 or 30 Acres
of valuable land, adjoining hevlllage, in lots
of from five to ten acres each. The tots VIII
be Surveyed before the day of sale, ana VIII
embrace some very desirable bulldihg sites
and grass lots.
To persons wishing residence IN the
country, with a small amonnt OF land ana
near village, these lots oller peeuilar 40
VnntageS being very accessible by railroad,
in healthy locality in the mountains. me
land is in good condition, well watered, with
neveT-iailing springs of fine water on nearly
all of these lots the soil and clilnat well
adapted to the growth of fruits of all kinds.
Terms very accommodating, and Will be
made known on day of sale.
b.. II. d. TALIAFERRO, +
August T. 1853.