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IpYANDRIA ACADEMY,

LEXANDRIA ACADEMY,
u No. As North Royal street
Tno Twelfth Annual Session OF tins Schooi
MOS commenced on Monday, Sept. Il. 1867:
Latin Mathematics and the Sciences Will be
taught by the Principal, and competent IN
structors are employed to teAch dfecN' r''h'"'
German, SC.
Charges for English Branch. $3.50
Senior Glass per quarter EG
Professors charges extra Will be mace 'Nr
Greek, French and German
Applications for circulars, containing i9rtner
SEP IS nJ JOIN s. BEACH, Principal,
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FAILS CHURCH, Va, Aug. II 1863:
An ASSESSMENT OF TEN PER CENT
n on the stock of the Fairfax & Georgetow
Turnpike Com pany is hereby called tor, pay
sble in 80 DAVIS from the date Of this notice
By order of the Board of Directors
son l2-law4w w. II. DANIEL, Secty.
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4 SIS MBLY MS.

Tha ASSEMBLY ROOMS have Just beer
fitted up, and are now for rent for Lectures
Concerts, Fairs, &c. Apply to
feb l6-tf WILMER u SLAYMAkEk.
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Fairfax CO., sep l8-lawts

GALE OF LAND N EAR HERNDON- Pur-
y suant to the decree of Fairfax County Court,
rendered on the 18th day Of August, 1869 IN
the suits of w. N. Vauters and Sam !. Stohg
use James T.. Jackson, vs.. Nathaniel Hanna
and others, the undersigned, Commissioners in
said decree named, viii, on MONDAY, the
18th day of October, 1869 that being Court day
to the highest bidder, the undivided interest Of
the said Nathaniel Hanna, being one seventh
part thereof in and to tho real estate Of which
John Hanna, tho father of Nathaniel Hanna,
died seized This land lies near Herndon stm-
ton, on the A.. l.. IL II. X. L., and contains in
the aggregate 500 acres. Persons desiring to
invest will doubtless Wow these lands prior to
the sale
TERMS One-fourth of the purchase money
in hand, liable to be forfeited and the land re.
sold at the risk Of tho purchaser should he fail
to complete his purchase; the residue in three
equal instalments At six, twelve and cigh cen
months. with interest from the day of sale, to
be secured by the bonds of tho purchaser, and
retention of title until the last payment Is made.
Stamps and costs of deed t. be paid by the par
chaser. THOMAS MOORE, Comm r.
FsirCaY 20 sen 1S-1nWts
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COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VALUA-
~ BILE REAL ESTATE.-By virtue Of tho
decree of the Circuit Court of Fairfax county,
rendered at its June term 1860. and OF tho several
DEGREES subsequent thereto. in the suit of Chap
man VS. Broughton tho undersigned substitu-
ted Commissioner of Sale, in the place OF Thos.
j. Murray. deceased, NJ November term, 1851,
will, on MONDAY, the 18th day of October,
1863, that being Court day, sell, t. tho highest
bidder, before the front door Of the Court House
of said county, the following TRACTS or
PARCELS OF LAND:
No. 1-Containing 231s acres, tho property OF
Waite Broughton.
No 2-Containing ~ acre.. the property of
David Broughton.
No. 3-Containing 3i4 acres, the property Of
Lyman Broughton.
These lands lie on the Orange, Alexandria
and Manassas Railroad, between Burkes and
Fairfax stations all wei! wooded and watered,
and being Immediately On the railroad, with
two stations contiguous, offer great Inducements
TO families desiring to locate in the anne noigh-
borhood.
Those desiring to purchase will please call on
John A. Marshall, esq, n Rurke's station,who
will show these lands.
TERMS-Ono-tenth Of the purchase money
in hand the residue in three equal instruments
payable at six, twelve and eighteen months,
with interest from the day of sale, to be secured
by the bonds of the purchaser. and retention OF
title until the last payment is made. Stamps
and deeds TO be paid for by the purchaser.
NJ u. BALL. Commr.
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TUANO.-2C0 tons No. PERUVIAN
~ GUANO, from warehouse Of government
agent, for sale in lots to SUIT purchRaserS' oS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-05
WAR HAS p AssED FOR MONEY.

q, Many things have been used at differ
ent times for money-cOwre. shells in
Affica; wampum or beads &aade of
clan shells, BY the American Indians /;
soap BY Mexico. The CarthagenianS
ased leather for money, probably bear
| II, at the siege Of Milan, reviving this
custom. assued stamped leather as mon
eys In 1850. sJohn the Coed, king of
FFa9ce, who was taken prisoner by the
!0elebrated Black. Prince, and sent TO
England until ransomed, also Issued
leather money having a small silver
rail in the middle. Salt is the money
in Abyssinia Goldfish in Iceland and
Newfoundland. sLiying money"
slaves and oxen, passed current III am
Client Greece and among the Anglo
lSaxons, in payment of debts. Adam
Smith says that in his day, there was
village in Scotland where it was not
uncommon, for women to carry nails
instead Of money to the BARRIERS shop
and the ale house. Marco Polo found
in China money made of the bark of
the mulberry tree, bearing the stamp of
the sovereign, which is death to coun-
terfeit it, being the earliest specimen of
paper Hnony. 80
Tobacco was generally used as mon
ey. in Virginia up to 1860, fifty-seven
years after the foundation of that coIo-
ny, and men bought wives for such a
weight of tobacco; white in Canada the
beaver skin being the great staple. was,
in like manner made unit and all.
transactioa as estimated in beaver. The,
Legislature of Massachusetts once en-
acted that wheat should be received in
payment of ali debts, and the conven4'
ton in France during the revolution,
on the proposition of Jean Bon Saint
Andrea, long discussed the prOprietv
OF adopting. wheat as money, as the
measure of the value of all things.
Platiua was coined in Russia from,lS2SF
to 1915. But the metals best adopted
and most generally used as coin are
copper, nickel, silver and gold, the first
two being now used for coins of small
valUe to make change the two latter,
commonly designated ''the precious
metals, measures of value and legal
tenders. On the continent of Europe
composition OF silver and copper called
bullion has long been. used for small
coins, which arc made current at a
much higher value than that of the
metals they contain. ' ., .'''. "a
In China, Sycee silver is the prineia
pal currency, aud is merely ingot silver
of Q uniform fineness, paid and received
by weight. Spanish dollars also circu-
late there, but only after they have been
stamped as proof that they are of the
Gtandard fincness.4 AS Asia Minor pro-
duced gold, its earliest coinage was of
that metal. Italy and Sicily possessing
copper, bronze was first coined there.
Herodetus says that the Iydians were
the first people known to have coined
gold and silver Ehey~laad gold coins
ct the eioseJof the ninth century d. c.
Servius Tuillus, King of Rome, made
the the pOnn6 weight, of conner. fsa1cretlt
yer 28l B. e., and gold POI B. c. Some
nations, although they have worked the
metals with skill, seem never to have
coined money, and such was the case
With the Irish, of which no coins are
knowu prior to the English, INVASION In
the twelfth century. s....; s.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-05


TAKE A LEssoN.-For the fourth time
Charles Sumner has been elected to the
q. s. Senate by the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts, and not once has he attend
ed caucus or sohcitedoa single vote. Z
Such a state of things seems almost
incredi6 Die. here in Kansas : lobbying,
promising and buying being the COM
mon incidents of q Senatorial election
here. Indeed our. public men appear to
have come to the conclusion that the
above means the only way to political
Won't some one in Kansas try thu ex-
pertinent of honesty aud ability, against
the lying and cheating that seems to
take possession Of every Legislature
| that conVenes to elect us. Senators,
and every convention that assemblies at
our State Capitol It is q depiorabie
fact, that with the exception of q very
few instances, we have never had q man
| representing US in the high places but
what lacked one oFdfheN other of the
| qualities, and sometimes both, that &C
to make up Statesman--hOnesty aild
ability. ttES -as8Tt GsffuE.Q f0f seHzsf
We are as strict q party man as can be
found any where, but believe it to be .
| moral duty of the press to speak out,
| and spare not, even though we are
brought to the necessity Of hitting men
belonging to our. own political shouse-
hold. We make no charges against any
!indiyidnalliB par tienlar, because if We
commenced, and wereto go through the
whole catalogue, it would fila q book a.
Elarge as Greele.'s history OF the great
Rebellion NOR do Wesexpect to- go into
the Democratic party to find models, for
that would be like going, inte the honse
of q certain lady of Babylonsto find vir-
tue but do expect, if.swe live % few
years longer, TO see some man rise up,
even in Kansas, that viii emulate Chas.
Sumner in politics. .aa
+ Who is the man that will try It. Don't
ali speak at,once.- Usage CkroaScie.,asa
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-05

The figures presented by the Agri-
cultural Bureau show by the returns of
the growth OF wheat that the West is
bound to be tile bread basket of the
world aud to furnish -four enough to
feed all creation. The progress OF wheat
culture, observes the report, is remark
able. Not only does it go with popula-
ton westerly, but its movement is in an
acceierating ratio, yielding results in
bushels to each inhabitant surprising to
Eastern farmers. Thus has the terrific
ry between the Mississippi river aud
the Pacific ocean, which in 1859 yielded
about Is, O0O, 600 bushels, harvested about
$500, 600; while the. country east of
the Mississippi, with its accession of
population and wide Distribution of ag-
riculturaf implements, has made no i'm
crease as a whole, q few of the Western
States barely making up the deficiency
suffered in Virginia aud Keatucky. 1t
is q remarkable fact that q region which
nine years ago produced only one sew
enth Of the wheat in the country, now
supplies nearly one third OF, IL. A small
er progress in another decade will carr
ry the center Of wheat production be-
yond the Mississippi. and were Il posi-
BILE for the Pacific coast again to quad
ruple its yield, that distant wheat field
will giVela larger product than the ag-
gregate production Of the United States
in 1850. The history of wheat raising
is not altogether unlike that of cotton,
in its occupancy of new lands and their
desertion after few years use, not in-
deed to grow up in sedgs and forest
but to be laid out in grass or employed
in varied range of production.-N, r.
Commercial Advertiser. = - =9stDd1nf.
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NUMBER g.
PRAxKNEss.

Frankness is supposed to be COM
mon virtue, Ii is most uncommon. 1t
is indeed an extraordinary thing. ltre-
quises truth, simplicity, love and gem
uiRe goodness. Many men speak truth
very plainly when angry; many speak
pleasant truth frankly. hut few there
are whose souls are 80 balanced in an
atmosphere, of love that they speak
whatever needs to be said, to each and
all, plainly. gently, fully. The dearest
friends i've Together for years without
daring to speak things which they know
and which each party knows that the
other knows. Parents live with re-
serve years long toward their children.
Children carry untouched, unsyllabled.
thoughts and feelings that take hold of
their very being. Friends meet and
part day by day-friends so true that
they would almost die for each other,
or what is harder than this, who are
willing to live for each other-and new
err speak OF things that each knows is
passing in the others mind. 1t is very
strange to see people come up to con-
versation in topics, that by tacit free
masonry are sacred, and without word
or look, one glides past on one side and
the other upon the other side, and meet
beyond, going down the common chan
mel again. Was, there ever a thought
full, sensitive person, that dared TO be
open, Transparent, frank
But, however this may be, there can
be no doubt that Christian people are
not frank enough for each others good.
If men knew how to speak the truth in
love, how rich might one become. A
man might stand then in the focus of
the wisdom of all his friends. But re-
fusing to let their light shine, men now
grope in the partial light of their own
wisdom, distempered by seIf-Iove. 20 2
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-05

VARIETIES on ERUIT.--Eruit growers
often make mistakes In attempting TO
secure too large variety. Il Is much
more profitable and sAstsiAetcry 60 et1i-
tivate well few choice fruits Of each
SORT than large E1mber imperfectly.
1t can easily be ascsrtained from expe-
.rience and observation what kinds are
best adsptsd to any particular soil and
climate. For . moderate sized place,
where fruit T. not groEa extensively
for market but mainly for home con-
sumption, it is easy TO select varieties
which will furnish fresh fruit for the
table every day In the year. From three
to FIVE kinds each Of oar well estsbIish-
ed favorites OF the various sorts of fruit
will secure this end. Indeed, IL We
were engaged In raising fruits for mar
ke4. we sfouid prefer 20 epna9e our.
selves to IS few vaFieties e practicable,
leaving il for amateur fruit growers and
rich gentlemen farmers 70 experiment
with the new varieties which are con-
stanfsy added - car stock Of fF11t8ss
HorfScnzfaFiGE. - f.ea szs5 - s.g5s
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t'Seymour," the gossiping correspond.
ent'of the Mobile Register, speaking Of
certain libel suits against Greeley, of
the Tribune, and Raymond, of the
Times, shows that theysareable to meet
these little annoyancesa with equsnimi-'
ty. Seymour says: 1aif's II ssba9
a"It rs not bad thing to-oaitlas daily
pepper III New 4 DIRK. All our editors in
this line are rich. Benefits income is
over 100000 a year; Greeley makes
enough money to support dozen fami-
lies in style, but is democratic enough
to take his meals in a fifteen cent res
taurant, instead of going to Delmonico's.
Raymond lives like prince, in Ninth
street, and gives some capital dinners,
at which ourpolitical and social nabobs
stretch their legs under his mahogany.
Marble has been at the business only a
few years, but has already built up quite
a fortune, and lives as well as the best
of them. The Brookses are worth a cou-
pie of hundred thousand. each, and the
E;rpyess is as profitable as ever. Bry-t
ant made enough out of the Post to buy
him fine farm and splendid mansion
on Long Island, where he spends most
of his time, and to which he will soon
.retirerpermanently. Dana and Thurlow
Weed are very wealthy, but as that mo-
ney was made outside, they don't come
properly under the head of men made
rich by editing. The Beaches made q big
fortune out of the San, and sold out for
another. Ben Wood is the only editor
of daily / know who has not made
money in the sanctum. He has made
enough outside of it, however, q and is
worth aquarter of a million. The .Jootfss-
al Of Commerce puts some hundreds of
thousands in the pockets ofthe late Mr..
Halleck, and lis doing the same for his
successors. Who wouldn't be editor of
fourishing New~Yo rk daily
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4
BRIEFA THOUGHTS Forever more II
| takes a pound to balance pound. * =
Never tell your secrets in corn-field,
I for it has atlIousand ears. YES 1h
The test of civilization is the art OF
DRAWN g "a I'm ost benefit outof cities.
OF the field that we reap premature
ly, even the straw is good for nothing.
Great is the value of labor, and il
honors those who devote themselves
to il. T9xEA aFk Nh "
There is no harm in glass of whisky
If You ALLOW it to remain. in, the glass.
Don't pity the man md erplaeedS he
/ VIII md his place. But pity the man
koverplaced.
+ Many a mans wordsissas good asshis
bond but it is well enough to add that
both are often worthless..~nFeA
Young men who are eohfaed to Ia
Dor or business even twelve hours a
I day can take an Hour and as'half of
what is left to study, which will
amount to two months IN the course of
IA year.
IL AL she hours passeds in, sHieasure
were collected together, a life of a great
plumber of years would scarcely furnish
one of a few weeks. The reason why
life is short is that we either employ il
in doing nothing, OF, in doing what we
ought not to do. Would you live
long, live Well.s,r-rss=f esss4.grt
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.rIHE FARnER on rRE sarE SID.

The farmer is apt to think the profess
sional man., or the merchant lives en-
easy and Iuxuriant life. In many I'm
stances their families may do so; but
with the eminent and successful manor
law or science-the artisan or merchant
himself-such superstition, is q great
mistake. There is not under heavens
broad canopy more laborious class of
meno than these Labor of body
and of mind are theirs, and that iRces-
SAINT See them early, late, in season and
out of season-their whole energies de-
voted to their several callings without
rest or intefmission-and far too FREE
quently to the premature wasting OF
life itself. 1t is no wonder that such i'm
dustry directed by good education, land
By this term edueatfon1 mean the entire
training OF the boy to manhood in its
most extended sense, and stimulated
by . laudabIe ambition, should lead to
success. Yet with all these appliances
the labors of such men are often disas-
trous and if not so after life of anxi-
ETY., their tolls too frequently end with
but the means of slender sup
port. '-r
Compared with these, the tolls of the
farmer are light. Physical labor he en-
dures, it is true, and oftentines severe
labor, but his mind is easy, He enjoys
sound rest and good health. He has
much leisure; in many cases more than
is for his good. He has abundant time
to discuss politics, law, religion-every-
thing, in fact; but on what relates to his.
own profession, / lament TO say, his
mind seems less exercised than on any
other subject. Now let the same. early
education be given to the young farm
err of an equally acute intellect, that is
given TO him who chooses professional,
mechanical or mercantile pnrsuits-ed-
ucation each in his own line; let them
start fair; apply the same thoughts, In
vestigations, energy and TOLL each in
his particular spheres, and beyond all
question, agriculture will, in the aggre-.
gate, have the acknowledgement for this
reason, if for no other, there are but few
contingencies connected with agricul-
ture. Its basis is tsUhe firm set earth,
stamped with the Divine promise that
while it remains, seed time and harvest,
shall continue ; while commerce and
trade, mechanics and arts are liable to
extraordinary and continued accidents
Look at the devastation by food and
fire-of ship and cargo upon ocean,
lake, sea and river; confiagrations in
towns and cities, and the thousand 9TH
era casualties which almost daily occur,
allof which are dead weight upon la
Dor and capital not agricultural, and the
risks. of the husbandman are scarce one
to ten in the Comparison.
lRelylupon itthen, farmers, you are on
thesssafe side.T5 Continue in your no.
bic calling and take your positiOnamong
the sons of men, as the sons of men, as
the second creators of wealth.
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KEEP LIST.

u ~ 1t 80
/. Keep a list of yonr. friends and let
God be the first in the list, however long
it may be. ~. 49,. al
2. Keep a list of the glts you get
and let Christ, who i. the unspeakable
gift be first. 's-,-.stx ssss- ..g9
h 8. Keep list of your mercies and
let pardon ana life stand at the head.
hs AeKsep1 list of your .j0gSy and Let
the joy nnspeakable, and fali of glory,
be The first. nss v4mans ass5IsS2 a. -
81 5. Keep q list d, your hopes !; and let
hope or glory be foremost .s'7
6.gKeep q listof your sosTOtces ana
hlet khessorrow for sin b .fi<st.ssif 0s.s. 81
= q, Keep . list Of your epsgies; and
serpent first, ana pray nor. al ths fess,
& Keep fist ef lyeuk lStsss = and let
thassin Of .uhb0ief bal6es ldoRhaas the
first and worst of all4-R eGFiG, H. z.
II. c. a.
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!
MANUFACTURES IN GREAT BRITAIN
England still maintains supremacy as
an exporting nation, yet there are indi-
cations of great 1depressionlin several
departments of industry. In Germany
and Belgium labor is cheap, machinery
is plentiful and capital has recently d.
rected itself in an eminent degree TO
manufactures Hence, over 80, there is
a decided decrease in exports of carpets
and cloths, while 1868 shows q falling
of from the preceding. year. Meanwhile
the money value of these exports de-
creased nearly six millions of dollars in
gold. Linen shows an extensive falling
of; 50 likewise haberdashery, apparel
and .imachinery. The exporting beer
trade indicates loss of nearly mil
lion over last year. In Goals, tin, cop
per and iron, there were geaexpOrta-
tions in both crude and manufactured
materials. Nevertheless, the London
Times remarks that what was gained in
quantity was lost isI values; ali ciasses
Of goods exhibiting adepressionin rates
of sale. The loss of England iss how
ever, the gain of other nationalities.
Ali the populations along the Baltic Sea
are enriched from the increase of their
manufactures. In the United Stafee,
despite the heavy il ternal tax, industrial
pursuits indicates steady increase. se,e,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-05
NEGRe1 sUFFRlGE.

Several, of the promineHt political
men of the South are giving in their
adhesion to destiny on the question of
negro suffrage. Most Of them argue it
as choice % evils, however. But they
will come TO see, after . little experience
that it il for their highest good. The
development and prosperity Of the
South will depend On the manhood OF
its laborers. Labor must own itself.
govern itself, be responsible for Z self,
or, the country in which IL e viii Lam
guish and the capital perish. Owners
of Southern property are vitality cone
,cerned In the question % the negrUss
civil and political manhood. They will
find that the best way to enhance The
value of their lands and goods is to el-
evate the population around them to
inteiiigent, respected, xself-Fespecting,
citizens. The ballot win levei the me-
gro up, rather than level the white man
down.-AtcAts0a CAnaspf0n,
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A WORD FOR THE GAME.-We have
lately been travelling great; deal oin
Missouri aand9 Illinois, and have been
astopished at the amount of game that
il being taken and sent to the st. Louis.
Chicago, New York, and other mark
cts. The number of q1aiIs dnetted and
shipped is almost increduloIfs. Some
hunters told rs that they make a prac7
ticc of netting at least thousand QuRils
annualiy, and this winter they expect
to do more The entire covey are cap
tured and sshippedrtO the iconmission
merchant. 81 buA 8sW siidgq EH0 rs
The prairie chickens are likewise
nercilessly slaughtered in the dead of
Winter-iIot to supply the family table
st home, but to be shipped TO some
eastern city. This wholesale slaughter
will. ere long, destroy all, our game.
Quail and prairie chicken shooting will
soon only be remembered as one of the
things that we're. This fine sport our
pOsterity will not have the pleasure of
enjoying, .3f., s s -
We do not condemn legitimate hunt
ing but wholesale netting is wrong. 1t
mast prove the determination of the
quail, if continued as now practiced in
many parts of Missouri aud Illinois. :
Prairie chickens and quails are insect
devourers.. Not day do they live
thaS each one does not deyouf hundreds
of insects. Destroy all of these birds,
and our insect enemies will increase at
q wonderful rate. Our object In these
lines is to plead for the lives of the
useful game birds. - Do not nett them.
Do not unnecessarily kill them. Do
not let cupidity cause you to extermin-
ate them ail.-C 0sD1dR'S Rural World