Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-03-26
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General Early is in Baltimore

General Early is in Baltimore.
Texas is supposed to contain FIVE million
cattle.
| The Delaware Senate has rejected the
Fifteenth Amendment.
! Ex-Governor Melville Of Mississippi
died March 3rd.
| Seventy-two cotton and wooden mills are
being erected in Georgia.
Items about land buyers from the NORTH
till all the Southern papers
The sheriff of Alexandria will continue tt
collect taxes "because that is unfinished bust
ness.
DR.. Mudd, recently released from Dry
Iortugas has arrived at Baltimore, from Key
! West
On the Chicago and Northwestern railway
recently train ran ninety-one miles in nine
ty minutes.
Virginia has nine colleges ana two theo-
logical seminaries, with IA instructors and
2,277 students
Kansas is said to have better system OF
railroads constructed and projected than an :
other State in the Union
Mr.. Charles O'Conor has been elected
president Of the New York Law Institute, ir
the place of james T. Brady, deceased
Letters received from africa and Tacna
South America, give most startling accounts
OF the ravages Of yellow and typhus fever
The U. S. Marshal, at Atlanta, Georgia
has suddenly disappeared, and large sum
of other peoples money disappeared with
him.
The Winchester Times says that Genera
Malone sis like John w. Garrett. Meth.
er Of them has any more politics than the
steam-engines on their railroads"
One and half million dollars have beer
RENTED to New York from Cuba, the in.
terest on which is to be devoted to the sick
and wounded Of the patriot army.
Mr.. Washburne has received his instruc.
tons as Minister to France, and left for hi
home in Illinois, where he will make brie
stay previous to his departure for France.
LARGE REQUEST 1t is understood tina
MIR. Samuel Miller has donated the sum O.
one hundred thousand dollars to the Univer
slty of Virginia. A noble gift to a noble
institution.-Lynchba~y Vsryinian.
There is great oommotion among the
officers of the army caused by the recent con.
solidation orders, which are being carried ou
with rapidity. Among the officers left without
commands by the consolidation of Regiments
are Doubleday, Sickles, De Trobriand, Wa
ger, Swayne and Butterfeld.
A Washington dispatch says that it i,
definitely settled that Joubert, wealthy
(French) colored man, is to be the Assessor
of the First District of Louisiana Secreta.
ry Boutwell, sent for him and rendered hin
the office. Supervisor Creepy will be retain.
ed, and returns at once to New Orleans.
A marriage took place at Concord, N. H.
last week, in which the bride was only six.
teen years Of age and widow at that. She
was married the first time when she was on.
ly thirteen years old. The bridegroom or
this occasion was twenty four years Old
'Early and often" seems to be her motto
The London underground railway has re.
Gently been completed so that it is available
for inhabitants for all parts Of the metropolis
Seven hundred trains run over the variou.
trains daily. The system of signals, to pre-
vent accident, is said to be wonderfully in
genious. A collision is almost an impossi
bility.
An old lady lately applied for pension
in Indiana as the widow of soldier Of ISL 2
stating that her husband was lost on the
Ohio river in 1S47. The Department re.
piled that the soldier was still living and re
ceiving a pension in Tennessee The old
lady is now after the truant of twenty two
years.
NJ. Roberto, the newly accredited Minis
ter Of the Provisional Government of SPAR
to the United States, was officially presented
to the President yesterday. In reply to hi:
address of congratulation, President Grant
said that the recent events in Spain had ex
cited, and would continue to maintain,
lively interest in this country, and he hopee
that they might ultimately lead to an in
crease in the welfare and happiness of thu
people of Spain.
Artificial stone though it has failed il
several instances in this country to furnish
the requisite strength for building purposes
yet is very popular abroad. 1t is stated
that in the magnificent aqueduct now ir
course of construction in France, to bring
water from the forest of Fontainebleau t6
Paris, some of the finest arcadcs. on which
the work is supported in crossing valleys are
composed Of a mixture Of sand and cement
exclusively, no stone or brick being used
Colonel T. Bigelow Lawrance died or
Sunday in Washington Of malignant sore
throat. The deceased had been i'll since in.
auguration day, when he contracted a severe
cold, but serious consequences were not ap
pretended until few days ago. The de.
ceased was between forty-fye and fifty years
of age, and was son of Hon. Abbott Law.
renee, of Massachusetts, He will be remem.
bered in the South as the gentleman who,
many years ago, created quite sensation by
his marriage to, and subsequent divorce from
Sally Ward, Kentucky heiress.-BaHi.
more Sun.
SLAVERY THE MAIN SPR1NG OF OUR Ma,
r1oNAI PRospER1Ty.-Senator Sprague OF
Friday made the following remarkable ad.
mission-remarkable as coming from New
England Republican. He said:
''Tne main-springs of our prosperity had
been slavery and foreign immigration. The
former had stimulated the growth of cot.
ton and made it an American monopoly, and
L.l ,.lt tho