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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-05-21
THE VIRGINIA ELECTTON-A PROCLA.
NATION BY THE PRESIDENT.

WASHINGTON, May 15.-The following
proclamation has been issued by the
President:
In pursuance of the provisions of the
act of Congressiapproyed April 10, 1869.
hereby designate the 9th day of July,
1859, as the time for submitting the con-
sttution passed by the Convention
which met in Richmond, Va, on Tues
day, the Sd day OF December, 1867, to
the voters of said State registered at
the date of such ubmlssioa--viz,, July
6, l8G9-for ratification or rejection;
and | submit to separate vote the
fourth clause of Section l, Article 3, of
said constitution, And l also.submit to
a separate vote Section z of Article . of
the said constitution.
| direct the vote to be taken upon
each of the advocated provisions
alone, and upon the other portions of
the said constitution in the following
manner-viz. each voter favoring the
ratification OF the constitution, as franz
ed by the Convention of December 8,
1867, shall express his judgment by vot-
ing for the constitution. Each voter
faVoring the rejection of the constitu-
ton, shall express his judgment by vot-
ing l1diIl5G tllc COilSIibubAohs A1dOlt NO-
ter will be allowed to east a separate
ballot for or against either or both OF
the provisions above quoted.
In testimony whereof | have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal Of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
18th day of May, III the year OF our Lord
1869, and Of the Independence of the
United States of America the ninety
third. U, S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Sec'y of State.
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STATE NEWS.

DR.. James B olton, an eminent Rich
mond surgeon and oculist, died in Al :
bemarle county, Va, last Saturday,
after a brief illness.
L. S. Bocock will deliver the adj
dress before the literary societies of
Hanipden Sidney College at its annual
commencement next month.
Mr.. John Smith, for fifty years past
a colpotuer in Southwestern Virginia,
died recently in Abingdon, age So
years.
A terrific hail-storm passed over
Bedford county, Va, Thursday after
noon last. The stones were as large
as partridge eggs, and literally covered
the ground.
A colored man living near Brents-
vile, Prince William county, Va, on
"Wednesday loaded gun and deliber-
ately shot man of his own race with
whom he had difficulty.
The commencement exercises of
Emory and Henry College will take
plate on the eth and 9th OF June next.
Walter r.. Staples is to address the
two literary societies. James w. Shelf
fey, and Col. John Goode, Jr., will al
so participate.
Mr.. Walker, candidate for Governor,
spoke in Lynchburg on Saturday night.
lie was well received. lie goes for
voting for the Constitution, even il
the county organization clause be re-
.ained, but is in favor is striking out
the disfranchisment clauses.
The grand jury of the u. s. Court,
in Richmond, has indicted John Blair
Warrington for perjury, he having, as
alleged, voted for the Ordinance OF Sc
cession and Mr.. Davis, and afterwards
taking the test oath. Mr.. Warrington
is the Janitor of the Custom House.
AS an evidence of the advantage of
the proposed extension of the A., l..
& Ii. Il. X. through Clark county,
the Courier mentions on the best au-
thority that Mr.. Leonard Jones has re-
fused bona fide offer of $3.50 per acre
for his farm near Berryville. on the
Berryville and Wildwood turnpike.
Mr.. Alexander Kelly, of Harper's
Ferry, came to his death by suffocation
on Monday night. last. He slept in his
store that night, and, it is supposed,
went to bed smoking his pipe, by which
means his bed was fired. The bed was
destroyed and the floor partly burned.
He was found dead about five O'Clock
on Tuesday morning. A cat and dog
were in the store-the former also dead
and the dog nearly.
In the u. 5. Circuit Court, at Rich
mond, on Saturday, Chief Justice
Chase decided the case Of Cheston
against Horace L. Kent in favor of the
latter. The title Of VI. Kent's Fauqui-
er estate was invoved in the decision.
He also reversed the decision of Under
wood in two of the Mittledorfer bank
rupt cases. The court was engaged in
Che hearing ola case of dams Express
company vs.. Davidson. The following
lawyers, are counsel in the case: Brent
and Dulany, of A lexandria, and the
Mcssrs. Brent and Smith, of Balti-
NOR @,
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LET US WORK.

The Bedford Sentinel says:-We may
avert many evils of fearful magnitude
by prompt and united action now. We
can take the shackles off the thousands
of our best citizens who are now dis
franchised and disqualified for holding
office. We can drive from our border
the horde of hungry adyenturers who
are now gloating over the prospect of
living upon the public treasury, which
they will take good care to keep well
filled by such taxation as we have never
yet felt, We can secure the Legisla-
turc, and this is more important and
vital to our interest than anything else.
Is not this enough to work for? Do
we need any other stimulous to arouse
us, to putforth every exertion to secure
full registration and a full vote The
struggle is one of life and death. 1t is
no time now to minee words. We
must work, and work vigorously, to
save even a remnant of liberty.
We have decided upon our own
course. We think that every consider
alton of honor and duty requires us to
labor with all our might to prevent the
infliction upon our long-oppressed
Commonwealth of such evils as the
election of Wells and his negro lieuten-
ant and the adoption OF the unamend-
ed Constitution. We can sec no way
TO do this, but to vote for Colonel Gill
bert g. Walker, and voting in solid
column against such obnoxious clauses
as the President is pledged to submit
to separate vote.
Bitterly opposed as we have been to
the course of the twenty eight and their
committee of nine, who have been so
influential in bringing about the circum
stances which now surround us, we
shall indulge in no idle vaporlngs. We
cannot afford to indulge in the luxury
of ill-humor. The times are too seri-
GUS tor that. We shall work as earn
estly and cheerfully to carry out the
views of the Convention as if our own
wishes had been met. 1t is true that
the Convention did not, in words, re-
commend MIR. Walker. Their silence
upon this subject was proper, for rea-
sons obvious to all, We know very
we'll what they intended.
Let us fall into line, and organize for
q fight against carpet-baggers and
thieves.
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tEe The New York Herald says:--
"Weightier words are rarely used in
formal reports than those in which the
Coroner's Jury on the six victims Of
the late Long Island Railroad accident
render their verdict: ave find that
"they came to their death on the morn
cling of A pril %, 1860, by an accident
"whlch occurred on the Long Island
"Railroad near Willow Tree Station,
sin the town of Jamaica, in conse-
sequence of a car being thrown from the
''track by defective rail, and hold that
the Long Island Railroad Company
s'are responsible tor said accident by
''neglecting their duty in keeping their
track in order" We beg Mr.. Charlck
and his associates 70 understand that
the community accepts that as YER
dict against them for completely in
MURDER
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sECEs8I0E-s0ME TRUTHS FgOE 1.-THE
ROUND TABLE"

The Round Table is read By the cultlya-
ted minds of the North. From an ar
ticle in the last No. we quote few SEN
fences culled ont here and there:
Our States being equal and voluntari-
ly joined, the Con stitution being the
expression OF their will and the Federal
Government being their agency, In the
very nature of things no coercive pow
er over them could be derived from the
Constitution.
Buchanan, Lincoln, and others, ar
gued that the recent exertion of FEEDER
al force against certain States, was not
coercion of States, but was military CO.
ercion of persons banded to oppose the
Federal laws, or, In other words the
putting down of rebellion; but such
views are dIgnified by calling them
weak sophistry. For the said States
acted as bodies in making the Consti-
tuition; they moved as such in seeding;
and they warred as such in resisting
coercion. And, in such case, they re-
spectively exercised that right of COM
mand over the citizens which results
from the social compact, binding each
to obey the collective Will, and which is
sovereignty itself.
The word "States," used IN the Con-
stitution to designate the contracting
Powers that ratify and make il, is used
in aposition.with, and has the iden-
tical meaning of, the word ssStateso
that signifies the Powers of Europe
(see Article ILL.,, section 2; Article XI. i,
amendments); and it is absurd to sup
pose that Massachusetts, New York or
Virginia in making constitution of
government, deprived herself of state
hood or nationality, when she merely
declared her riH, which remained in
her, and expired no portion of her own
being, and when her name, description,
and essentials were, after associating,
entirely unchanged. Neither the Con-
stitution nor history warrants the re-
stricted meaning vulgarly given in our
country TO the word estates"
In seeding, the Southern Common
wealths exercised an indisputable
right, though they acted with impoliey
and eered in Ignoring the operations of
international law.
The southern Commonwealth were
really fighting for constitutional liber-
ty, which, under the circumstances,
they thought seriously imperilled, and
likely to be preserved by secession
Earl Russell's assertion was true, that
'the South fought tor independence,
the North for empire"
As to the right of secession, it will
hereafter be shown by authorizes that
no one will venture to gainsay that it
is (not constitutional, butt inherent
and inalienable that it is absolutely
| essential to.and pro t0nto indentieal with
freedom and that it was taken for
granted. or EXPIRE ssly stated by the ia
theirs as indispen sable to preserve state
hood and liberty. is, indeed, right
as absolute and indestructibie as the
State itself. Without it sovereignty
cannot exist, and there can be no self
preservation of the original and only
constituents of our "republic of repub-
liou
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THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

The Washington correspondent OF
the Baltimore Gazette says the report
of the triple alliance is regarded by the
Cabinet as stock jobbing report
General Grant himself would be rather
pleased with the idea, Tor it is very evil
dent that he is in favor of war. He
is convinced that in case of hostillties
England would lose Canada and have
its commerce destroyed. Some of the
members of the Cabinet are anxious to
know what part the Southern leaders
would take in case of rupture.
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DELINQUENT sHFRIFFS,

Major. II. II. Stanton, our new Au-
ditor Of Public Accounts, is after the
delinquent revenue officers OF Virginia
with very sharp stick. He has al
ready obtainedju judgments against some
OF them, and officers are out now finger
ing their assets; and he has caused no.
tees of motions for judgments TO be
served OH one hundred and ten delin-
quent sheritls and ex-sheriifs and their
securities, whose Indebtedness
in the aggregate to over S400, 900. There
are also many smaller debtors to whom
he is now directing his at:ention-slich
as CLERKS of courts, agents of foreign in
surance companies, and officers OF other
corporations, who have not made re-
turns and paid up according to law
Rich. Dispatch.
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BOUTWELL, STANDS FIRM.

Secretary Boutwell, received dis
patch Monday morning from Wall
Street announcing that the premium on
gold had advanced to 142. and that
bonds had advanced correspondingly.
The Secretary says this rise in gold
and bonds will not cause any change in
his policy of selling gold and purchas-
ing bonds at the rate Of million per
week. The Wall-street SPECTATORS
desire him to sell more gold, in order,
as they allege, to put down the premi-
UNI, but he will have nothing to do
with their speculations.
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sllisffllanfnlls.
JOEL MILLER. A. A. HOPKINS.
PIEDMONT LAND AGENCY.


JOEL MILLER. A. A. HOPKINS.
PIEDMONT LAND AGENCY.
MILLER & HOPKINS,
LICENCED REAL ESTATE BROKERS,
CULPEPER G. H.. VA.
BRANCH OFFICE:--Bagby g. stofor,
oRANG E G. H., VA.
MIR. A. HOPKINS, has this day form
1fL ed a partnership with Joel Miller, (the
former sole proprietor OF the Piedmont Land
Agency at Culdeper Court House) under tho
name and style OF Miller 4 Hopkins.
This firm will devote all their energies to
the development of this section by the sale
of lands, believing TINT TO be the only man
ner in which prosperity will be assured to
us, ana while their own interest is certainly
in view, they believe that interest depends
upon the general prosperity of the country,
and promise that its development shall be
paramount in the exercise of their influ-
enee and energies. Our object is not tempo
rary success, but we hope by wide system
of advertising and correspondent to build up
nm office, that will not only be of advantage
to us, but to the country generally. We in
tend 70 visit the North with statistics and
Endorsements and canvass the farming re-
gions. We snail publish letters ana infor-
nation in regard 10 the county,, not only in
ihe country papors OF the North, ouV III the
leaalng CITY Journals. We will very soon .1.ii
complete arrangements to have the coun, w
VISITED by leading journalists, by scientific
and practical farmers. who Will aid us in
bringing into notice most prominently our
section.
We have seen the rapid prosperity OF O
grass country over all other sections, and we
Know nom location, soil and climate, this
particular section Is destined to be thiekly
serted and highly prosperous. II shall be
our effort to hasten that day. All that we
ask is that lands for sale shall be registered
at our ofiiee, with accurate descriptions. We
VIII visit each place so registered, in order
That we may be able to represent IL fully TO
our customers.
we invite all persons who desire to sell, to
can on us, examine our correspondence and
ability to do So See our terms, and compare
with any and all other Agencies.
PERSONS DESTROYS of having their farms
placed in our hands, can have the same at
tendeded TO by calling at the office of the Ma
tive Virginian.
MILLER & HOPKINS.
o1iiee Waverley Hotel, Culpeper &. H, Va.
Aril 2, 1869.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-05-21

''The portraits of Gems. Lee and
Stonewall jackson which formerly hung
in the council chamber at Charleston.
s. c., have been removed and replaced
by portraits of Generals Grant and
Sherman The bust of great Ro-
man was not seen in the gorgeous pro-
cession of those who had triumphed ov-
er him-but history tells us that its alb
sence only made the people think
more than ever of him whom it was
thus attempted to slight or dishonor. -
jackson is not with us, and Zee is in
the shades of retirement-but, contrast
him in defeat and adversely with those
now in power, and place, and authorl-
ty
"And more true Joy, Marcullus, exiled feels
Than Caesar with Senate, Mt his heels"
Alexandria GQzette.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-05-21

Up Gen. Lee, in reply to note ac-
companying a present of some goods
manufactured at the Eagle and Phoenix
Mills, at Columbus, Ca, says :-"The
cotton blankets are the best ever have
seen, and prefer the dresses of Eagle
plaid for my wife and daughters to the
richest silks of France. Please pre-
sent my sincere thanks TO your compa-
ny for their valuable presents, which |
prize the more highly as products of
Southern manufacture.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-05-21

We have no travelling agents. Speci-
men copies, posters, &C., sent tree of
charge, wherever and whenever de-
sired. Address all orders and letters
to THE WORLD,
35 Park Row, New York.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

COAMlSSiOhEk'S NOTICE.
ITO Samuel Andrews, who sues for
l. himself and all other creditors of Biek-
erton J. winston, deceased-Plaintin
Mildred I. Gooch, Sheriff of Louisa, and as
such Administrator of Blckerton T. Win
ston, deceased, Mamie Meade and VIM. T.
Meade, her husband, James M, Winston
and Helen Winston, Denis winston, Mar
tina Winston, Bette Winston, Thomas
Winston and VIM. Beadles, Jr.,-Defen-
dants.
You are hereby notified that. by virtue of
q decree, rendered at the last term of Louisa
Circuit Court, in the suit of the ABOVE meme
anu style, therein depending, I, as Commits
sioner or the said Court, will, on Tuesday
the 10th day OF June next, at my office ct
louisa court House, proceed to take, state
and settle the following accounts, viz:
LIST, An account of Miltus Z. Gooch, Sher-
III OF Louisa County and az such Admins
traitor OF Bickerton T. Winston, deceased.
ND, An account of all the levies, by judg-
ment or otherwise, with the order Of their
priorlt1es, on the real estate of the defendant
VIM, Beadles, Jr.
3rd, An account of all the debts and de-
hands against the estate of Bickerton r.
winston, deceased, with the order of their
priorities. If any
And, by virtue of the same decree and in
pursuance thereof, hGreby appoint the said
18TH day OF June next, at my office, as the
time and place of taking proof of all debts
and demands against the estate of the said
Blekerton T. winston, deceased, at which
llme ana place all persons claiming TO be
creditors of the said deeedent, are required
to appear before me and establish, by evil
dence, their said debts and dema IDS; and in
further pursuance of the same decree, here
by warn all creditors of the estate o. the said
Bickerton I. Winston deceased, that unless
they come forward and prove their respee-
tive debts and demands at the time and place
aforesaid, they will be precluded from parti-
cipation in the assets of the said estate.
Given under my hand, as the Commission
or OF the said Circuit Court, this 18th day of
may, 1860.
HENRY w. MURRAY.
Nav IL 1869
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-05-21

There is decided movement on foot
for the annexation of st. Domingo
Contracts have recently been entered
into for line of steamers running from
New York TO SANTANA Bay. An effort
is being made to run railroae through
the richest part of the island, and it is
expected that during the year there
will be considerable white immigra-
ton. Baez, it is said, rather favors the
project. He is a mulatto, educated in
France, and is DESTROYS of more inti-
mate association with the whites. His
great ambition is to come to Washing
ton as United States Senator from the
State OF Domingo.
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NEWSPAPER LAWS,

Postmasters are required to give notice by
letter wben subscriber docs not take his
pc per from the otfice and give the reason
for its net being taken. Neglecting to do 50
makes tpostInaster responsiblet to the pub
asher tor the payment.
Any person who takes a paper regularly
from the postoffice, whether he has subscribe
ed or not, is responsible for the payment of
the subscription.
A person ordering his paper discontinued
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made,
and collect the whole amount whether it is
taken from the office or not.
The courts have decided that refusing TO
take paper and periodical from the post
office or removing and leaving them uneall-
ed for, is prima facte evidence of Intentional
fraud
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-05-21

|W. L. Sutherlin, president of
the Virginia State Agricultural Socie-
ty, has Issued ali address to the people
of Virginia, in which.he warmly recon-
mends to their attention the interests
of that institution, and sets forth its
uses and advantages. He thinks the
next Fair " ill equal, if not surpass, in
interest and in the variety of articles
on exhibition, as we'll as in the number
of persons who will be present, any
ever before held in the State.
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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE
Richmond, July 20, 1868. !
J. r. Benson, Esq:
DEAR SIR-I think 1t due to you that l
should bear nay testimy to the virtue of your
Salalem Broth.
had very bad case of Poison Oak on my
hands, and was recommended to try your
medicine; one bottle has affected an entire
cure. give you, with my thanks, this GER
tiGcate OF its efficacy.
b. NJ. J. PAINTER.
Price 81 per bottle. For sale by all Drug
gists.
PURCELL, LAID & CO., Agents,
May u, 1863. Richmond Va.
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tEP The Reverdy Johnson has been
rendered a complimentary dinner by
the authorities of southampton, Eng
land, previous to his departure for Bal
timore,
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THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

B. Ii. Shackelford, Esq, whose reso-
luton as offered in the recent State
Convention was voted down by the ma
jority, is out in the Alexandria Gazette
in letter declaring that he is still a
candidate for Congress, and in the fol-
lowing clear and unmistakable Ian
.guage pledging himself TO the support
of the Walker ticket (and, what was
not demanded ofiany Conservative by
the Convention, promising to vote for
the expurgated .constitutien). he says:
81 shall, therefore, advocate the cleo
1ion of the walker ticket" and the
adoption of the amended or erpa1gated
constitution as it is expected to be sub
mi:ted; and l entreat all Conservative
men to lay aside cherished opinions
and prejudices, and save us and our
posterity from the tevils of the Wells
Underwood constitution-which means
exclusive negro supremacy and white
acknowledgements"
z, S.-Since the above was put in
type, Mr.. Shackelford has withdrawn
his name from the canvass.
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HOUSE AND LOT
ADMINISTRATORS SALE

- ~ - ~ ~ Iva O1k . pa
VALU ABLE PROPERTY.
ON Wednesday, the 9th day of June,
- 1868, Il fair, II not the next fair day there
after, at the residence of the late Joseph Hi
den, | Will sell, at public auction, all the
Personal PROPERTY
belonging to the estate of said Joseph Hidden,
deceased, consisting in part of
Household and Kitchen Furniture,
-Four Worh Horses, Trio Yoke of Oren,
-Four Miich Cors,
Elerea Head of Young Cattle,
4 Fine Stock Of Hogs,
Three Wagons, One Or Cart,
Lot Of Lumber, Plo,cs, Havotos,
And Plantation Implements Generally.
TERMs.-For all sums of $50 and less the
cash will be required. For larger sums a
credit of nine months will be given, the pur-
chaser giving bond with approved personal
security, with interest from date; the inter-
est to be RENTED if the principal is punctu-
ally paid. 4. Il. HIDDEN, Adm'r
May II, lou9. OF Joseph Hidden dec d.
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w1LL1AMsnrRa Anil q 1890

take pleasure in bearing testimony to the
met that Bensons Salalem Broth will cure
Poison Oak, letter and Ringworm and is
1 have used it with perfect satisfaction.
Respectfully.
l.. Ii. LIVELY.
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" News from Georgia brings ac-
counts of the murder of another man,
Dir. Stone, one OF the members who was
expelled by the Georgia Legislature.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, August II, le6s
HANovrR Gil Julv % ia

AANONih y. H., July -, LOCO.
This is to certify that my little girl had an
eruption OF the skin, which has baflled the
skill OF physieians was induced to use Ben
sons salalem Broth, and in three days She
was entirely well. MARY A. HUGHESqk