Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-07-27


Congress in making the law intended our Leg
islature to be that Of a State, subject only to
the provisions of the State constitution and the
constitution Of the United States, including the
Fourteenth amendment They require no test
oath" for legislators.
At the late Memphis Labor Convention il
was shown by the Committee on Transportation
that cargoes of Cinnamon could be brought
from Hong Kong to San Francisco and thence
BY rail to Memphis at a cost Of about 500 a
head. It was believed that if sent by rail from
San Francisco, in lots of five hundred or more,
the total cost Of transportation would be still
further reduced. The time occupied in the
transit from Hong Kong to Memphis by steam.
er and rail, is estimated at thirty-fve days.
The Radicals have not ceased to lie, even
since the election, to the more ignorant colored
men. For some days they had a number very
uneasy, by telling them that they would be put
back into slavery, and that all who voted fol
Walker, would be sent to work on public works
at Washington We cannot imagine what they
expect to gain by such stories now, and pre-
sumo it is but the old habit strong in DEATH
Lying has become chronic
What would be thought Of Southern man
who should 60 to any town in the North, and
after two months residence seek and obtain an
appointment to the position of Recorder of
the town, in violation of its organic law, and
impudently declare that he intended to take
his seat at the council board in defiance OF the
decision of its members Yet such a case has
occurred in Fredericksburg.
The Colored Educational Convention of Ken
lucky, which met in Louisville last Wednesday,
adjourned sine die on Saturday. The delegates
in attendance numbered about two hundred and
fifty, and rep resented nearly every county In
the State The sessions were harmonious and
the business transacted of character tending
to educate and elevate the colored race.
The Lynchburg News says that it understands
that Governor Walker has invited number Of
the most prominent Virginians, including Gen.
r. e Lee to meet him in consultation upon
affairs of interest TO the State, at the Mont
gomery White Sulphur Spring. The meeting
will take place at an early day after Governor
Walker return from New York
New YORK, July l9.-The International
Convention of the Young Men S Christian AS
ISOLATION, at Portland. Maine, closed its session
Saturday The movement towards educating
colored cleTgymen, TO preach to the colored peo-
pie of the South, was inaugurated, and large
amount Of money to further it was subscribed
on the spot.
THE FIFTEEN CENT NOTES -The new notes
Of this denomination Just issued bear some re-
semblance to the ten-eent notes, but are an inch
longer. The left hand upper corner is ornament
ed with head yignette of the Goddess oil
Liberty, and the denomination Of the note is
stamped in the right-hand upper corner.
An attempt is making in Bourbon county,
KY, to raise a fund for the purchase ola home
for Jefferson Davis in that. his native State. A
gentleman OF Louisville has offered, if $50, DOC
or moro shall be subscribed to the fuLd, to give
a splendid building site for house, with ten
acres attached, within four miles of Louisville
If necessary we hope that General Grant viii
interpose special order TO General Candy ,tc
interfere no further, whatever may be the de
liands Of the defeated Radicals to change the
results of the late Virginia election, but fairl;
TO give the Conservatives the fruits of the vic
tory they have fairly won. -New York HERALD
At the Memphis Immigration Convention a
Chairman declared that the staple crops OF
China are so similar to those of the Southern
States that the Chinc-e will soon prove
good laborers amongst US, having, in fact, very
little to learn in agriculture.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
thinks that in the event of Radical majority
in the Legislature of Virginia, FL. Fl. Well.
and l.. II. Chandler would be elected to the
L. S. Senate. How the Radical majority is tc
be obtained it is bard TO conjecture.
The Conservative negroes in Washington are
raising subscription to detray the expenses o.
indicting certain Radical negroes for mobbins
them and melting to riot at the recent election
in that city.
1t Is creditable to the Republicans of Viz
gina, that whil>t Governor Walkers majority
IS only about 5000, the majorites against the
usiranchlsng and test-oath clauses are each a.
bout 10000.