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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06
THE CRops IN TIE WEST AND NORTHWEST

THE CRops IN THE WEST AND NORTHWEST.
The Cincinnati Price Current Of W ednes-
day says;
"The wheat, oat. aud barley crops have
been secured in the entire valley Of the
Ohio, in excellent condition and the result
has been highly satisfactory. Hay has been
injured some, while being harvested, by the
heavy rains, but not seriously. The crop
is good. Corn is doing very well in the
Ohio valley, the growth being very rapid !;
but in that part Of this State bordering
on the lakes. and in northern Illinois, it
is in bad condition and cannot be more
than moderate crop, owing to the unusual
amount of rain which has fallen, and the
cold, backward spring. The spring wheat
in the Northwest is in bad condition, and
doubtless will be badly damaged, as rain has
fallen at intervals in that region of country
during the past week. There has been some
improvement in trade during the week
Flour and grain are generally higher, and
there has been q pressing demand for new
wheat, from the lake towns and from the
East far in excess of the supply, and at
steadily advancing prices. Corn has been
very scarce and prices have largely ad-
vaced" ....
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There are eighteen colorcd meabers elect
ed to the new Virginia Legislature. There
are four in the Senate, from the counties Of
Goochland, Buckingham, Prince I'd ward
and Portsmouth, and fourteen in the House
Alexandria elects one, Brunswick, Bucking-
ham. Dinwiddie, Mccklenburg, New Kent,
Norfolk, and York one each. Chesterfield
and Powhatan choose two, and Halifax and
Petersburg two each. The two from Hall
fax are Conservatives; all the rest are radi-
Gals. sg qs
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june9 '69-tf
TRUsTEE's SALE OF LAND

NRUSIEEtS SALE UF LAND. .-s.....
By virture of deed of trust executed on the
9Th day of October in the year 1858. by Bennett
Shifet and Givens Shihet to VIM. S. Fl Baylor
Trustee, and whereas said VIM. S. H. Baylor has
departed this life and the undersigned has been
appointed by the Augusta County Court in his
room and stead I shall, on Wednesday.
to sell, on the premises, to the highest bidder,
the following real estate to wit: tract of land
situated in Augusta county on the Brown Hill,
in the Little Calf Pasture, adjoining the lands of
Luke Woodward, Esq, and others, containing
from 65 to 10 acres .H5l- s@
Terms ofsale.-So much cash in hand as will
be required to pay for the execution of The trust
deed and cost of SALE and the balance in 3, g. and
IL months, thepurchaser executing his bonds with
good security, with interest from the date.
GEORGE BAYLOR, 54'F
julyl6 st ta Trustee.
s q .I-. ID
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

PosrpoNED.-The motions against the
banks Of Howardsville, Scotsville, Month
cello, Pb illipi, Pittsylvania, and the Cen
trail Bank Of Virginia, for injunction and the
appointment Of receivers, set for argument
in chambers before Judge Underwood, in
Alexan dria, have been postponed until the
18th instant. 4.a aoa t sd
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

WHAT CAUSES THE Cool WEATHER. The
Washington Express says: Scientific men
in England have recently expressed the
opinion that there is something out of order
in the solar system, the nature of which they
are at a loss to determine, but from which
they augur serious results Of some kind be-
fore great while. These crudities will OF
course be eagerly seized upon by the end-of-
the-world prophet, who will soon set the
weak.minded in a nervous whirl, and proba-
bly, make a number of candidates for the lu-
matte asylums. No doubt the commotion in
the celestial world is due to the approach Of
the solar eclipse, and productive also of some
of the terrestrial phenomena which have
been observed in various parts Of the world.
A perturbcd atmosphere, such as has pre-
vailed this summer in this country, is evil
IDENTIFY owing to the attractive forces Of the
sun and moon coming into line with the
earth, as they are now doing"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

20 ELECTION SrAr1sr1cs The returns at
Headquarters show that i'll the county Of
Bath there was not one vote for the obnoxl-:
Gus clauses of the constitution /; in Prince
Edward only two; in Warren four, in North
ampton two. In Bath. Wells received only
twenty five votes; in Buchanan twenty
eight Weiss largest majority is in Ports
mouth and Norfolk county (l3s4 J his
smallest in New Kent (2s.) Walkers Wal
largest majority is in Augusta (2so4 ~
his smallest in AIiddlesex GA. Richmond
city polls the largest vote and Buchanan the
smallest. There are thirteen hundred more
votes for the test oath than the disfranclhlse-
ment clause. -FlcG Hlg,qZG -
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Reconstruction RUMoRs -The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Her.
aid says There is semi official authority for
stating that the rumored removal of Gener-
al Candy to Mississippi and his supersedure
bv General Mcdowell is untrue In rela-
ton to the administration of the test oath, it
is also understood that Candy will be guild
ed by instructions from General Sherman,
who has the entire reconstruction affairs IN
der his control by the law, aud as fully three
weeks must yet elapsc before General Candy
will be ready to proniulgate his order con-
corning the result Of the election, reglstra-
ton and assembling of the Legislature, the
matter may by that time be favorably CON
sidvred Leading politicians on both sides
in Virginia are satisfied that'the test oath
will not be administered. ~ 7lgit'l '5'''-
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NTAUNTON NURSERIES,: u
= STAUNToN, AUGUSTA COUNTY VA
.TANNEIIILL & WHEAT, Proprietors.

TANNEHILL & WHEAT, Proprietors
We have now growing in our Nurseries $780,
900 Fruit Trees of varieties that have been tested
as suited to our soil and climate. We have
APPLE, PEACH, PEAR, CHERRY, APRICOT, OUNCE,
&C., GRAPE VINES, SMALL FRUITS, &C.,
and we hope to be able to fill satisfactorily all
orders that may be semitic us.
Our apple are two and three years old from
the graft, and our peach one year old from the
bud-each $40 90 per 100. flEa
/ N. B.-Send in your orders at once. Send for
descriptive Catalogue, containing account of va
rieties and prices. if5ssH-s
june1Sly 49,, 5si 4.'Eu45. --.t
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Rev DR.. William S. Phmmer, the emf
inent theological professor in the South Car
DINA Seminary for Ministers, is supplying
this summer the pulpit Of the Rev. DR.. Van
Dyke, of Brooklyn. FORD. -A> ~
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

!. a wedding took place near Dry Grove,
Miss, a few days since, in which the bride
had scarcely reached her tenth year, the
groom being over six feet high and thirty
eight years Of age. .t'l 4
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

MARKETING Marketing Of all kinds is
coming into town from the country in album
dance, and is chcapcning. Potatoes sell on
our street from 80 to so cents bushel APP
pies, 50 cents a bushel; young chickens
so cents u pair. Some green corn and
peaches have made their appearance but
these articles, command good prices. The
prospect Of the great abundance Of peaches
and corn will soon bring them within the
reach of all-Hagerstoac,a Muil
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

A movement is developing itself IN Ylr-
ginin, having for its object reconciliation
between the two leading factions Of the re-
publican party in that State many OF .ifi ilNe
| radicals who supported Wells having es=;
pressed themselves satisfied with the sentl-
mcnts contained in the speeches Of Cover
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Report of Horace Greeley on Virginia.

Horace Greeley, who has lately made "a
run through Virginia." publishes the result
of his observations. He speaks badly of the
cultivation of the land, which he regards as
naturally fruitful, but declares that he saw
10000 acres that will not yield five bushels
OF corn per acre-mueh of it not one sound
ear to the acre, owing to bad treatment and
poor tillage. He adds
Virginia is to-day the best timbercd
State in the Union. The plantation or large
farm system is to. be credited with this good,
IN offset to its many evils. Men who own
ed 500 to 10000 acres left one. third to
nine tenths Of 1t in timber from necessity"
In regard to mineral lands he speaks of
three adjacent tracts, amounting to 40, 600
acresao the richest iron ore, covering most
OF the western half of Giles and the eastern
half of Bland county. OF this ore he declares
that there were millions oftons ready to be
shoveled up and carted of like any seaside
bank of pebbles" He adds: trps4
The ore is said to be pure, yielding 90
to 0 per cent. of metal of excellent quality.
Our whole country might be provided with
iron for hundred years from this property,
and leave enough to supply the whole world
for ages thereafter. Of course, there are
more such properties on every side, though
L did not visit them. Coal, said to be album
dant aud excellent, is also developed on this
property and all around. y a5tt
In regard to the attraction for immigrants,
MIR. Greeley says:
"That some soreness should still be felt by
those who were badly astonished as well as
discounted by the result Of our late struggle
is inevitable yet think there are few To-
calitics whese an Immigrant from the North,
unless he made himself conspicuously disa-
greeabla, would be annoyed otherwise than
by being. let. alone. Even the natural dis
trust Of and reserve toward strangers would
soon give way if the settler obviously sought
to make himself agreeable and useful. Hence
it is no apprehension that any one need fear
i'll usage that leads me to reiteratc my advice
that those who, from the North, would make
homes in the South, should take their future
neighbors along with them, for the ways of
this people are so different from ours--thclr
ways of thinking as well as acting-that we
cannot at once become good ighbors:. 1t
were absurd to expect it. We could not
cobble harness and work G farm with one poor
WORKOUT pillow, as they will we must have
the blacksmith, the harness-maler, the wagg-
on-maker lat hand We want more tools
for fifty acres than suffice a Virglnian with
FIVE hundred and we could not live among
unbridged mountain streams, which day S
rain swells to raging torrents, imprlsonlng
each farmer on a narrow isthmus until the
foods see fit to subside.'' ,.r.,..: t,-.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

Boston is sghast The cyenled de Ia creme
Of her society--the lady part-are nadly
adopting the fashion Of b(ackcning a half
circle under the eyes. What shall be done
to relieve Boston FROM this horror?
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A DMINIsTRAToR,s sALE.--As admiuistr

3 A DMINISTRATOR,S SALE.--As administrat
IN tor of John Brown, decd, will offer, a.
public sale, at his late residence, near Fishers
vile,o Wednesday, August 4th, 1860, all the
personal property, consisting of Horses, Colts,
Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Farming Implements, about
80 tons Of Hay, Household and Kitchen Furniture
&C., SC. Is srlaf4. ie,l- t5fE
TERMs.-All sums of $40 and under cash over
that smount, four months credit, with negotiable
notes satisfactorily endorsed. sl[
will also, at the same time, sell the celebrated
Morgan and Messenger Stallion, Vathek. This
celebrated horse has taken first premiums at all
tie Augusta and Rockbridge Fairs since the war
He is of the best stock Of horses in the State, as
his colts will ahundantly prove.
He will be sold on a credit of six months,
and interest from date, with negotiable notes at
istactorily endorsed. HIP,fr.
Ga A. S. LARA. Admir- h Agent
Peck h Cushing, Auctioneers. m so.jra
% d
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Valley News.

---~ -
The cats crop in this county is unusually
large. Shenandoah Herald.
Appo1sTMENr.-N B. Meade, ESQ, of
Winchester, has received the appointment of
Clerk of tho 9th Districs Court Clnhe
Courier
Dry WEATHER AND THE Crops. Com
plants are coming from every direction be-
cause of no rain. The corn and other grow
ing crops arc suffering on account of it, and
great scarcity is predicted. Page Valley
Courier. N
The FRu1r.-Reports from every section
represent the fruit crop as being unusually
large. Peaches and early apples are already
selling in the markets at good prices In
this county the fruit is represented as not be-
ing good.-Page Valley Courier.
An exceedingly copious rain. refreshed and
gladlened the parched earth in this region
son Tuesday morning last Croakers had
said the corn was going to wither and dry
up; but we had faith in Providence, that it
would be better than the dissatisfied had
feared. The result has proved that it is al
ways safest and best to believe that the Di-
vine Goodness mover failcth. -Rockinqhana
LEICESTER, 8;s.a4 M sf
SEE1oUsAcclDENr MIR. Charles Stone
burner, of Mt. jackson, brakesman on the
freight train running from uarrisonburg to
this place on Wednesday evening the Dist,
had one leg cut off and the other so badly
mashed and bruised that it was apprehended
that amputation would be necessary. 1t APP
pears that he was running from the rear to
the front cars, on top, when he slipped and
fell between the cars on the track. His re-
covery is thought very doubtful. -Shenan-
dodh Herald.
CunD DRowNED.-Wc regret to learn
that young child of Mr.. David Maphis,
living near Mt. Olive, in this county, was
found in a spring near the house. 1t APP
pears that Mrs. Maphis had left the house
for short while, and had left the child in
the care of servant, who had not noticed
the absence of the child for some minutes,
when search being made, was found in the
spring. Every effort was made to recussi-
tate the child, but to no purpose. 1t was a
severe blow to the parents, especially as it
was the only male heir. Shenandoah Her.
aid.
A LADY OF THE OLprN T1ME-"Old
granny Silfus,' white lady residing in
Brooks Gap, in this county, now in her 94th
year. is one of the most active and industri-
GUS women in the county She yet does the
work of an ordinary Young woman: indeed
does more, for she has been willing, old as
she is, in cases Of necessity, to go into the
harvest field and assist in securing the crops.
She can spin, knit, sew. and do al! the or
binary work of one Of the industrious women
of the olden time, who thoughtit no discred-
it to earn her bread by the sweat Of her
brow, as the bible has it. We sometimes
think such industrious old folks linger upon
the shores of time to teach the rising gencr-
alton habits of industry -habits that, we are
sorry to say, are falling into discredit in this
| "fast ace. ''-R0ckin1ham Re0ister.
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! Wastlrsopoa, july g ,-@q4ageFaor Wells
of Virginia, requests q GENIAL ottte. ssfa.eT'
ment that he islexerting himself to procure
the rejection Of the fifteenth amendment III
that State B so a f ~ ~
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

THE GREAT EcL1psE total eclipse Of
the sun--oDe Of those great phenomena
which, in the worlds infancy, used to come
unheralded, filling everybody with conster-
nation-is announced for August It'll, and
star-eyed science awaits the event on the day
with as much composure and confidence as it
anticipates the suns rising then. The
Swans are taking great and costly pains to
observe the occurrence and to note all posi-
BILE facts and incidents relating to it. ~
The path which the eclipse will follow over
the earth's surface is quite narrow, begin
ming in the northeast part Of Asia, passing
up to Behring's strait, thence southeasterly
over Sitka Abingdon, Virginia Raleigh,
Goldsboro and Newbeln, and ending in the
Atlantic off the coast of North Carolina Our
country, it will be seen, is singularly privi-
legged with opportunities for observation. and
our Government, as we'll as our professors
and scientists, have made diligent prcpara-
ton to improve the occasion It will of
course not be total in this vicinity. Eth
quirer. AID. y III. -...5
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NTOTICE.-Partiesw wishing to purchase large
IN Roomy House, situated in one of the
most pleasant neighborhoods in the town access
ible to business can hear If one for sale by call.
ing at this office
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Watermelons are selling at Norfolk, Va,
t IS per hundred.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

W. H. II. LYNN and ". j. PesNTs, Solicitors,
LlLG4 f7I Staunton, Va.
is. WALLACE, Solicitor, Waynesboro. al
JNo G. Slower, Solicitor, Churchville,
Agents wanted in every City, Town and Coun-
ty .-, ,.a.7.f +. .:5,-- ~ ,,..,.,-J
oct30-ly ., s-.if.$. L.. ,..,-...s.
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FOREIGN EMIGRArIoN.- From the weekly
statement of the commissioners Of emigration
it appears that during the present year, up
to date, Isl, 019 emigrants arrived at New
York, against 1876, $40 for the same time in
1868. Valuing each emigrant as worth to
the country one thousand dollars, and it is q
low estimate, the revenue from this source
for the current year, at the port of New
York alone, is $3.50, ol9, 900. Allowing as
much for the last six months of the year,
and we have an aggregate at this one port
alone of $31S, OBS 600. Adding half as
much more for ell the other ports Of the
Union, and we have 4 total from emigration
for the entire year of $477 ,057 900. From
this source alone the national debt will wear
steadily away.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-08-06

A PRESIDENT WITHOUT CHARIOT. There
was laugh this morning at President
Grants expense He walked to Welcker' S
for his breakfast, and Peter met him with
his usual promptness, asking what he would
have The President said he wished pri-
vate room, and his breakfast at the earliest
moment Pete said he could have no private
room there was the restaurant, and any
thing he might order would be served there.
Whereupon the President walked out. A
gentleman sitting by, who had heard the re-
fusal with some establishment, at once asked
Pete if he knew who that was? Peter said
he didn't ''Why that's President Grant !"
'sWell," SAID Pete, eff be had rolled up in
his chariot, like u gentleman, he might had
a private room but now the ID was I to
know but what he was a shoemaker, with
his best clothes on, and could Mt pay for any
room ?"-Washtngton Express July 90. /
THE SITUATION IN VIRGINIA. The VI ash.
ington correspondent Of the New York Sun
writes :''e ~ ii2 rs sif2q siT asH +
Alexander Riyes, John B. Baldwin, A.
II Fl Stuart, Major Sutherland. Wickham,
and other native republicans of Virginia,
all advise q friendly course OH the part Of
nothcrn republicans toward Governor Walk
err, and express the belief that his election
may be made the means Of building up the
party down there, which will bring forward
better class of men in sympathy With the
administration then those controlling things
in some other Southern States he speak;
of Lewis, elected Lieutenant Governor, as {
republican in every sense of the term, al I'll
having faith in Walker He thinks. tina
Baldwin or Sutherland will be one Of th'
! Senator'S" ea3ll1d -i ts y75ai.
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THOR RENT.-On accommodating terms, d.
Il sirable Dwelling House. pleasantly stua-
ted. For terms, apply to the Editor of the Vim
dicator.
july30-tf ''t ia
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ARRESTED FOR RoBBING THE MA1L.-John
Thompson, Deputy Postmaster at the Uni
versity, promising son OF Cliff, and chip
of the old block, was arrested on Saturday
evening by Deputy Sheriff MeGehee, at the
instance Of detective from the 2. U. De-
partment in Washington. It seems that the
young hopeful had aroused the suspicious
of the authorities at Washington, and on
Saturday they sent letter with a marked
preenback in it to some fictitious address at
White Sulphur Springs, and directed the
mail agent to put it off at the University
Mr.. Thompson, thinking it was put off there
through mistake. took possession OF the let
ter, opened it and.pocketed the note, which
was, found on his person when searched, and
identified by the marks upon it.
Thompson is in jail awaiting trial. - Char
lottesvlUe Chronicle.
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= AWNs AND ORGANDIEs-Cheaper than
= JAS. A. PIPER & SON.
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BURKE's IRON Works,

BURKE's IRON Works,
Staunton, Va, July lst, 1869.
TlCE. = Having increased my facili-
IN ties for the manufacture of heavy castings
l desire to call the attention Of Iron Masters to
Players Patent Hot Blast Stoves, for Blast Fur
naces, which are giving such general satisfaction
in all the Ironing producing districts both in this
country and Europe, also to Weatman S Patent
Roasting Kiln, for calcining Iron ores. I have
secured the exclusive rights of both these great
improvements in the Southern States.
l am still manufacturing mill and other ma
chinery, both heavy and light, of the very best
material and workmanship and at short notice.
I am still making the best Livingston Pillow ever
put up in the State A large lot made for the fall
trade.
Particular attention paid torepairing all kinds
of old machinery. NEt
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TIE INTEREST ON THE VIRGINIA STATE
DEBr.-The Wing spoke by authority when
it stated that General Candy, day before
yesterday, had instructed the State Auditor
to pay two per cent of the january interest
to the extent Of $3.50, 00O,. the amount of
available funds in the Treasury. The Cen
eralsubsequently reconsidered this determin-
alton, after an interview with delegation of
our bankers, &C., and determined that one
per cent. should be paid. q - @
We are now authorized by Auditor Stan
ton to state that on the 18th Of August the
State authorities will, under instructions
from General Candy, commence the pay
ment of the one per cent. of the January in
terest on the registered bonds Of the State.
These, in the aggregate, amount to about
fifteen millions. They will also, as soon
thereafter as practicable, proceed to pay the
same interest on the coupons, which amount
in round numbers to about twenty millions
Richmond Wing, july 20. +" iA
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Copper & Tin Ware.


CT0vES, STOVES, sc.
Would respectfully inform tue public, that h.
hasjust opened his shop oppositeto Bickle' score
ner, where he is prepared to do all kinds of
TIN, SHEET IRON AND COPPER
work. A constant supply of
STOVES F
always on hand,
LARD JARS,
COFFEE MILLS,
JAPANNED WARE, &c.
All ndsofcountry producetakenin exchange
for work.
Particular attention paid to Roofing, Spoutng
and Guttering houses.