Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-04-16
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William Scott, a nephew Of Sir Walter
Scott, died at Montreal on Wednesday, aged
slxty-four years
VERY Coop. The cars will be running
to the Greenbrief White Sulphur Springs by
the list Of July next. We have heard it IN
tllnated. that grand affair will take place at
the White on the 4th of July,-Greenbrler
Independent
General Toehman informs us that the first
cargo Of immigrants to Virginia is expected
IN May or June, and not in April as stated
by US, some time ago They will probably
be settled in hunenburg, six miles from
'"Blacks and Whites" station on the South
side railroad -Dunealc Times
JEFFERSON DAv1s.-A letter received in
New Orleans from this gentleman says:
lit has been my purpose to return this
spring to what was my home, and if permit
ted to 90 so, without injury Or embarrass-
ment to my friends, to engage in some bust
ness which may yield a support.
The Chicago Tribune of the ID says ::
Nobody, We presume, will suspect US Of not
being sound on ssthe main question:, and
therefore We may frankly say that we think
the negro questions has got to that stage
which all questions in ethical and religious
progress most generally reach--the stage of
can't Let us have done with it, and give
the negro chance TO help himself.
The Richmond correspondent Of the Pc
tersburg E'apress declares positively that
the election will be held some time in May,
and that either Col Withers Or Hunnicutt
will be Governor. He predicts that both
Col. Walker and GOV. Wells will withdraw
from the contest, and that the fight will be
narrowed down to a straight out battle be-
tween Conservatism and Radicalism. So
mote it be.
John + Lewis, Of Rockingham county,
administrator of the late John Minor Bolts,
on Wednesday presented to President Grant
a ring the signet of which was made of the
filings from the bell that hung in the old In
dependence Hall, in Philadelphia. Mr..
Bolts, prior to his death, requested that this
ring, which he had worn, should be given
to General Grant, whom he considered the
most fit recipient Of the relic Ahrandaia
Gazette
Some amusement was created in the Sen
ate Friday afternoon on the reading of the
Presidents proclamation converting the Sen
ate in extra session The language reads,
ION the 18th of April next" Mr.. Fessen-
den said "Ihat will be next year," and
the clerk was called on to read it again,
when Mr. Drake remarked, ..Why, Of
course that means 1870" The message
was then sent informally back to the Presi-
dent, that he might make it the 18th Of
April, instant. - Washington lette, IN Bazti-
more San. Ja s.s 4.eY s
KEEP YoUR RaoE1prs. The Knoxville
Press and Herald says that one Of the most
telling points in Mr.. Johnsou's speech was
made when, as the evidence Of his loyalty,
he produced the following document:
"Received, Nashville, March "a, 1862,
of Andrew johnson, Military Governor OF
Tennessee, fifteen hundred dollars to aid in
the establishment ola Union press at Knox
vile, Tennessee, and to defray my expenses
while passing from under secession oppres-
sion to the city of Nashville.
ISL 500 WILLIAM G. BRowNLow."
For time be withheld the signature
while he dwelt upon the intrinsic proof the
paper afforded ofhis own loyalty but when,
in response to repeated inquiries, he read
| the name Of William G. Brownlow as the
maker Of the receipt, a tunult Of cheers and
laughter arose