The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-02-05

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and Syria In miserable bondage and
Darkness for ages. 1t is for America
and Russia to put an end to this.
The Wing views with apprehension
the prospective quarrel between the
Senate and the President elect. That
trouble rs, we think, inevitable, and
"whatever is, is best"
A legal friend of ours in Richmond,
has got a divorce case on hand. We
hope he will succeed, and avail himself
of the opportunity. He is bachelor.
1t is noteworthy circumstance that
the rlietoricians OF 1860 are no longer
rhetorical. 1t is the Union men of that
day who have taken up the tropes aud
figures. So turns the wheel.
The effect of slang is seen in the fol-
lowing line of hymn sung at the con-
secratlon OF Bishop Littlejohn Of Long
Island. "Christ is gone up, but ere He
passed. &c.
We understand that the winter of 49,
30 was very similar to the present one.
Can DR.. Bagby inform us? He must
have been man ofmature years at that
time.-Lyach. Virginidn.
In 1880, we had been in this world
about as long as It takes Alex. Nc
Donald to get off joke--eighteen
months. a ~
ALBERT LAMAR of the Columbus (Ga.
San, calls BULLOCK "his Expresslency, :
The local editor OF the same paper per-
petrates the following, which is about
as bad as anything NED GREGORY SOUTH
ALL or SANDY LITTLE ever did.
Our CoNUNDRUM THAT WE MADE. WHY
are mans optics tho largest part of
him?
, Because they are just his eyes (size.
Patent secured.
A writer in the New York Times. a
Few days since, expressed the opinion
That Gen. Rawlings and Gen. Grant
were both In favor OF annexing Canada.
and driving England from this conti-
nent. f8t -
AS we have intimated elsewhere, war
with England is believed to be the only
cure for our Internal ills. 1t would be
both cheaper and safer to buy Canada.
- f,f-r t.a
Negro suffrage is the bugaboo Of the
hour. AS slave, the negro was the
pet OF Christendon. AS the politica,
equal of the white man, his doom is
swift and SURF; for whatsoever dark
skin the white man cannot enslaye he
viii exterminate. Witness the Indian.
Again. this craze of universal suffrage
mustrun its course The sooner tie
reduct'o dd dbsurdum is reached, the bet
ter for North and South. - rf,s
The LEssuPs canal through the isthmus
of Suez will play hob with the Pacific
railroad and make the Panama canal
necessity. Here are the figures.
From London to Canton via Suez,
10000. London to Canton via the Pa
cific Railroad, 1880; London to Can
ton via Good Hope, 10000; Canton to
San Francisco, 1000 miles; San Fran
cisco to New York, $500; New York to
London, 5000; New York to Canton
via the Pacific Railroad, 10 500; New
York to Canton via Suez, 1900; New
York to Canton via Panama, the same.
1880. 81
How passionless is the following from
the Wing. The stony lips ofthe Sphynx
might have uttered it. 1t sounds like
the voice Of fate. i-e, 4.sa. Ella. b.
The movementof the military. whctb-
er so designed or not, is that which is
most likely t0fill the vacuum caused by
the overthrow of the old Conservative
bulwarks. This is the old and stale ex-
pcdient, and proves that Yankee inge-
nuity. inventive though it be, is unequal
10 the task of devising any new remedy
Tor the ever-recurrine evil. The nco.
Pile Become unfit for self-goyernment.
either by their dissensions, their follies
DR. their vices; and ''the man on horse
back,' with his mailed legions, is oblig-
I'd to inter2ose to maintain government
and save society from dissolution. We
suppose the permanent Association
formed by the officers of the armies of
the West, and that contemplated by
those OF the armies Of the East, had this
object in view. If unity and harmony
be preserved among themselves, they
may effect their end, and found anew {
The solid despotsm of Rome; If thew
luarrel among themselves, the fate of ,
Mexico presents in miniature the fate
that awaits is - {