Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-09-24

eouuty VIII d VIEW w linking purchases anu
establishing works there for the manufacture
of the metal. These gentlemen were Messrs
W. Firmstone, of Easton, Arco Pardee, Of
Hazlewood and Hester Clymcr, of Read
ing. The Wing o. Friday last says:
"We now learn that these gentlemen
have become the owners of the valuable aud
extensive properties known as the Lucy
Selma, the Australia and the Dolly Ann
Furnaces, containing in the aggregate 49,
90 acres of land. For the first named prop
erty they pay if we are correctly informed,
the sum of 500, 900, for the second SIC, 900
and for the third S35 600 These sums
bear very insignificant proportion to the
amount required to be expended in erecting
works of the magnitude designed for smelt
ing the ore with mineral coal and manufac-
turing pig iron which will require hundreds
of thousands of dollars. The purchasers are
not only experts in iron and coal, but they
are among the largest operators in Pennsyl-
vania, and represent capital more than ad
equate to the largest plans that may be
forme in reference to their present enter
prlses. Their investments are not with an
eye to speculation, but to improve and de-
velop the properties they have purchased,
and to bring out of them the enormous treas
ure they contain. They have under consid-
Grafton, we learn, the immediate starting Of
one or all the above furnaces upon charcoal
fuel. not, however, with the expectation of
present profit, as charcoal iron can now
hardly be made with profit, in competition
with mineral coal iron, but in order to get
their mines and works in good working Or
der whih the Chesapeake and Ohio road is
being completed to the coal banks of the
Kanawha, so that when this is done the
mines may be fitted to yield with regularity
the immense quantities Of ore required in
mineral-coal iron operations on the scale
they contemplate operating. It is under
stood they will at an early day begin to erect
their mineral-coal works, which will require
several years labor. with the view ola large
production instantly upon their connection
with the Kanawha coal field being made
This step at this time is contingent upon the
rates the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad will
freight the charcoal iron at. and other facili-
ties"
LETTER FROM GEN LEE.-The two hun
dred and thirty fourth annual gathering at
Salisbury Beach, Mass, took place last
Thursday evening. AS in former years, it
was great success, not less than Is, 900
persons being present, and among them ma
ny of distinction. Letters apologize were
read from several gentlemen The follow
ing is copy of Gen. Robert E. Lees:
oo,,,aJoo, r., Oh Goat QeH na,.
Sir: Your letter of the 10Th ult, inviting
me to attend the Salisbury beach festival on
the 18th instant would have received an
earlier answer had been here On its arrival
Having been absent during the greater part
of the college vacation, have just returned
to prepare for the resumption of studies,
which will take place on the 10th inst 1t
will, therefore, not be within my power to
attend your celebration, as my presence at
Washington College will be necessary at that
time. ! beg that you will present my thanks
to the committee for their cordial invitation,
and express to them my hope that the festi-
val this year may be attended by even more
than the customary number of representa-
tives, and be marked by greater enjoyment
than has been experienced by the tens Of
thousands who have Joined in its celebration
for more than one hundred years
With my grateful Acknowledgements to
you for your kind sentiment, [ am, with
much respect. your obedicnt servant,
r. +. LEE"
AN INFAMOUS PLor.-Yhe Washipg tor
correspondent of the New York Herald, dis
closes another infamous plot to defaatre
struction in Virginia. that they may hold on
to the fesb-pots yet little longer. The
Herald says:
Information has been received here from
Richmond of an infamous plot set on foot by
radical leaders to defeat the admission of |
this State into the Union at the meeting of
Congress. Its main object, after the fifteenth
amendment is ratified, is by strategy to
filllbuster the Virginia question over to the
next session Of Congress. and thus keep the
present radical appointees Of General Candy
in Office another twelve months. Under the
constitution elections for judges, sheriffs and
city and county officials take place in May,
and the officers elected enter upon the dis
charge Of their duties the following July
If the State is admitted before May next
all the present Office holders by military APP
pointment would be outsted In order,
therefore, to save their radical minions it
has been determined to keep the State out
another term if possible. With this view
number Of letters have been received from
several radical members of Congress coun-
selling strenuous opposition by the party
here to the restoration Of the State. Among
these several from General B. f. Butler,
chairman of the reconstruction committee,
and even Mr.. Boutwell, has volunteered his
services in the game direction"
ATTEMPTED ELopEMENT OF ONE OF BRIG
HAM YoUNG's DAuGuTERs.-A Salt Lake
Of the Chicago Tribune re-
ates that one Of Brigham Young's daugh-
ers recently fell in love with handsome
young Gentle. and an elopement to land