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of the male and female schools at Winches-
ter, Christiansburg, Abingdon, Frederick8-
burg, Lynchburg, Cluster Springs, and other
places,-they cannot have shadow of ex-
cuse for-I will not say, sending to Roman
Catholic institutions, but-doing what other
denominations have too much denomination
al policy and feeling to do, mean sending
their children out of their own pale to be
educated
A ride of eight or nine miles along the
macadamized road toward Harrisonburg,
brought me to a spot which had never yet
trod, though | had seen it from the public
road in passing-I mean the grove-crowned
elevation on which stands the old augusta
church" The building is now, | suppose,
the oldest in all this region-having been
erectedin the ante-revolutionary times, 1747,
while "the Indians were about" The marks
of the old fort within which it stood are seen
like mounds running around it. The fine
old oaks which surround it must have had
their growth since the period when the fort
was occupied for purposes of military pro-
lection; and the church, with its venerable
stone walls and curious antique gables, shews
quite picturesquely and prettily from among
them, as it is seen from the highway. On
the southern and opposite side of the road is
the manse, and beyond it the burying ground,
within whose enclosure one finds the grave
of man whose name has made the Stone
Church" historic, | mean DR.. Conrad Specie;
and within the same precincts sleep the ashes
of the two pastors that preceded him. As |
stood and gazed at his name on the monu-
mental tablet-a name in days gone by so
familiar-aud saw the name on another
tombstone right by it, his form and face,
and that of his elder and friend, James Nell
son, who formed so remarkable contrast
with him in size and appearance, seemed to
present themselves before me, as they used
to come to Presbyteries and Synods. United
in life, they are not divided in death. And
as entered the church and looked around,
fancy seemed to bring up, as if standing in
the high old-times pulpit which once stood
against the wall, the huge figure and pecu-
liar face of Specie; and l almost heard roll
ing through those walls that deep, sOnorOus
voice which seemed only to require that he
should open his mouth to make it fill a church
of the largest capacity.
My travel of recreation in the Valley,
while it Showed the blight of the drought
upon the corn-felds, brought before my eye
every where the golden signs of most am,
pie wheat crop, to which the meadows and
fields had added good supply of hay and
oats. Let the Christians of that region not
think when they compare themselves with
their brethren of the struggling churches in
our almost famine,stricken regions of East
Virginia, that they cannot support their
ministers. And let them shew themselves
worthy of the Lords munifcence toward
them, by helping their brethren in less fa-
vored parts, and the destitute of far distant
lands, according as the Lord hath pros
pered them
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Office No. 1915 Main street, nearly opposite
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l. kcademical Course.

The Student selects his own course of study. I'M
der the advice of his Parents of The Faculty The
several Schools are so arranged as to admit of a
complete course of study in the following directions
l. Department of Arts, to which is attached the
Degree of Bachelor of Arts
2. Department of Scence-w,th the degree of
Bachelor of Science.
Department of Philosophy degree of Bachelor
of Philosophy
The Degree of Master of Arts is conferred on
Students who have completed the course of study in
eight of the Schools and have taken the highest
distinction in seven of these.
2. Professional Courses.
l. Department of Civil Engineering with the di.
ploma of Civil Engineer.
2. Department of Mining Engineering, with the
diploma of Mining Engineer.
3. Department of Law and Equity, with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Law.
1t is proposed still further to extend the practical
and Sc entifc Departments in the direction of
l. Mechanical Engineering. 2. Applied Chemis-
try. 8. Agriculture. 4. Commerce.
8. Preparatory Department
This course embraces the subjects of Latin, Greek
Mathematics and English, preparatory to the regu-
lar College classes.
4. Students Business School
In this School Penmanship, Bookkeeping Ac-
counts, &C., are taught, unuer the authority OF the
Faculty.
Special Privileges and Honors.
AS special inducements to diligence, three Gold
Medals and FIVE Honorary Scholarships the latter
covering tuition and College fees, are annually
awarded.
Three Masters of Arts are annually appointed as
Resident Masters, with valuable privileges and
emo 'uments.
The College educates, free of charge, all cand
dates for the Ministry, properly recommended. 1t
appoints to free Scholarships twenty five young men
to make Journalism their profession. 1t
gives long credit to meritorious young men with
)ut means.
The next Session opens on the 10th September,
md closes on the 25th June.
Necessary expenses need not exceed 1926 pc.
lnnum.
For further information address
j. NJ. LEECH, Clerk of Faculty,
au 18-1y Lexington, Va
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Rest for Mothers.

AS general thing American woman have
to work too hard during certain part of
their lives. Not that they should be idle or
have nothing to do, but they should never
overwork if they would have their children
of high order. Mrs. Josephine G. Bate
man, of gainesville, Ohio, in speaking on
this subject, in the Ohio Farmer thus dis
courSes:-
The causes of this too early decay of
mother and neglect from children lie, we
think, far back, commencing in the anxious
overburdened young mother. We understand
your position, sisters; you love your hus-
bands, you feel that their interest is yours
also; you are anxious to help to economize,
as far as possible, and, at the same time, de-
sirous of gratifying your husbands fastidious
tastes; so you hire no help (for you really
can't afford it, yet the house must be the per-
lection of neatness, the table must be album
dainty, if not daintily, spread; the babe
must be cared for, and as well dressed, too
as any of your neighbors children; and, in
fact, you are as healthy and as smart as
your acquaintance, and many of them do
all this, so you will. Soon there is another
child and then another, and still you strain
every nerve to do all the work without help.
You have no time for reading or rest; you
forget the future, and do not ask what will
be the end of all this. Your husband too
admire8 your industry and forgets that the
time will come, when he lays aside most of
his active labors, that he will want that in
you he can not fnd-an intelligent compan-
ion. You forget that you will soon be dis
tanced by your children in the acquisition Of
knowledge, and they will be sure to make the
sad discovery that mother is more ignorant
than they; and, with this discovery, gener-
ally comes the loss of respect for her judg-
ment and opinions Woman seldom rest but
little at night; yet they need it, and should
take pains to secure it. 1t is not wasting
time to rock and read, without the knitting.
Your husband would think it hard to work
so steadily at all hours; and, in consequence
of their hours of rest, men do not often
grow old so fast as women. The frailest sex
work the most necessarily, and the work is
more arduous where there are but one or
two little ones than when the family becomes
larger, and some are old enough to assist the
mother. If you do not love reading, still
practice it till you do love it, and you will
become interested. In addition to the Bible,
which we hope no mother will neglect, let
books be read, when they can be;
but for those who have as little time as the
housewife, newspapers and magazines must
'orm the staple reading, as the short arti-
lies and items are we'll adapted to the spare
moments that can be snatched here and
here. Woman must be intelligent if she
would win both respect and love from hus,
,and and children She must constantly
improve if she would be what she should be,
y no means considering education finished |
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The Pulse.

The pulse of healthy grown person beats
seventy times in minute; there may be
good health down to sixty; but if the pulse
always exceeds seventy, there is disease
the machine is working too fast; it is wear
ing itself out; there is fever or Inflammation
somewhere, and the body is feeding on itself,
as in consumption, where the pulse is always
quick, that is over seventy, gradually in
creasing with decreased chances of cure, un-
til it reaches 10 or 100, when death comes
before many days. When the pulse is over
seventy for months, and if there is even a
slight cough, the lungs are affected. Every
intelligent person owes it to himself to learn
from his family physician how to ascertain
the pulse in health; then, by comparing it
with what it is when aling, he may have
some idea of the urgency of his case, and it
will be an important guide to the physician.
Parents ought to know the healthy pulse of
each child; as, now and then, person is
born with a peculiarly slow or fast pulse,
and the very case in hand may be that
peculiarity. An infants pulse is one hun
bred and forty; child of seven years about
eighty; from twenty to sixty years it is
seventy beats minute, declining to sixty
at four-score. There are pulses all over the
body, butt where there are only skin and
bone, as at the temples, it is most easily felt,
the wrist is the most convenient point. The
feebleness or strength of the beats is not
material, being modified by the fingers pres
sure. Comparatively, rapidity is the great
point; near death, it is one hundred and
forty and over. A healthy pulse imparts to
the finger a feeling as of woollen string in
fever, it feels harder, like silk thread; if
there is Inflammation, which is always danger
Gus, it beats fast, spiteful end hard, as if a
fine wire was throbbing against the finger.
When the pulse beats irregularly, as if it
lost beat, then hurried to make it up, there
is something the matter with the heart. But,
however, unnatural you may think the pulse
is, do not worry about it; take nothing, do
nothing, except by the advice of an intelligent
physician.
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Rome's Method of Conversion.

One day, an old gentleman in the West
End of London met with serious accident,
when Immediately Roman Catholic FASTENED
to his bedside, and the next day priest
dropped in. He was coldly received, and
at once retired; but the next day herepeated
his visit, taking another churchling with him.
Producing one of the tools of their craft
"For working out salvation
BY mere mechanic operation"
cruci6x-they presented the weapon of
their carnal warfare at the old gentleman,
and asked him to kiss it. Herefused, saying:
81 want none of those things-all want
is my Saviour; go away, don't want you, "
His wife also urged them to leave. At
last they left, not forgetting to drop cate
chism by the way But little daunted, they
renewed their tactics, bringing with them a
third priest, who had not called before. The
old gentleman thought it was the DOCTOR
assistant. The wife said-for her suspicious
were aroused:
"What do you want?'
Entering unbiddeu, and against their will,
the bedroom, one of the priests asked for
some water, The wife replied;
81 have none-go away"
He replied;
you're bad, wicked woman"
Fastening downstairs to a friend, who
came up with her, imagine her surprise at
cries of "Murder l' issuing from her hus-
band. fastening to the door, she found it
was locked! Threatening to break it in if
not opened, the ROmish priest let her in.
"Take him away, take him away" cried
the old man. "He's wetted my face, and
thrown water over me-
The water was soon explained. When the
wife went downstairs, the priest locked the
door, and, finding some water in jug, pro-
ceeded to baptize the old man, who responded
to the performance with cries of "Murder,
murder" The wife scOlded and threatened
and in the midst of the confusion this impu-
dent priest departed. The poor woman told
her story to some neighbors At first it was
thought he would not come again, but some
who knew the willy character of these creep
ers into houses felt that he would come again
for Extreme Unction; and come he did
not this time, however, to find defenceless
woman, for four men were prepared to meet
him. The priest, finding himself in rather
queer fix, said he had been sent for. At
this, city missionary had him face to face
with husband and wife. The priest appealed,
"Send him away. Do go away; go away,
| neither sent for you nor want you.
At this, one of the four friends took hold
If the priest by his shoulders and elected
lim from the premises.-Eaglish Paper.
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GENERAL. ROBERT r. LEE. Pres;i

GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, President
CARTER J. HARRIS, A. M Professor of Latin.
JAMES j. WHITE A. NJ, Professor of Greek.
EDWARD 5. JOYNES A. NJ Prof. Modern Languages
.--, Professor of English.
Rev. L. KIRKPATRICK, D., Professor of Moral
Philosophy.
VIM PRESTON JOHNSTON, A. NJ, Professor History
and English Literature
ALEXANDER l.. NELSON, A, NJ Prof. Mathematics
WEI ALLAN, A. NJ. Prof. Applied Mathematics.
RICHARD ). MCCULLOCH, A. NJ, Prof Natural
Philosophy.
JOHN l.. CAMPBELL, A. NJ Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Applied Chemistry.
Hon. j. w. i tOCKENBROUGH, LII. d. Prof Law
M. w. HUMPHREYS, A M, Assistant Professor Latin
and Greek
ROBES MASSIE A. NJ, Asst Prof Modern Languages
DUNCAN @. LYLE A. NJ, Asst Prof. Mathematics
CHARLES A. GRAVES, A. NJ, Assistant Prof. English
JOSEPH WALKER Assistant Professor Chemistry
and Principal of Business School.
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j. W. GIBSON,

L. Il. KELLOGG, j. W. GIBSON
KELLOGG & GIBSON.
Importers, Wholesale and Retail dealers in
CHINA, GLASS, EARTHENWARE,
and HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
No. 1907 Main street, Richmond, Va.
We have removedto the large and elegant Store
lately occupied by Messrs. Butler Son, where,
with increasing facilities and much larger stock,
we are prepared to offer to our friends and the
public, complete assortment of goods in our line
at very low prices.
With grateful thanks for the very liberal patron
age extended to us heretofore, respectfully soil
cit continuance. KELLOGG & GIBSON,
ia 1S-tf No. 1907 Main ST., Eagle Square.
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TESTIMONIALS.

TESTIMONIALS.
From PREs'T PIEDMONT LIFE INSURANCE Co.,
Richmond January Sth, 1859. !
JOHN W. RIs0N, ESQ.
Dear Sir: Knowing many who are slaves to the
use of Tobacco would like to quit it, would recon-
mend your 'Antidote'' as a sure remedy. | certify
to its efficacy because, after having used tobacco
for fifteen years, enabled to quit it without
inconvenience, after using your "Antdote," and
have now no desire or taste for tobacco.
w. G. CARRINGT0N.
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IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR LAND
SURVEYING.
INVENTED BY
OISON'S ANTIDOTE.

II
beg to call particular attention to the fact that
Rison's Sovereign Tobacco Antidote,
is prepared only by
JOHN W. RISON, Apothecary,
No. 223, Corner Main and Sd Sts., Richmond
Price so cents
trial is all that is asked, and if it does not de-
stroy the desire for tobacco the moneg toiU be re-
funded. AS evidence of the merit of my prepare
ton, please notice the certificates of persons well
known who have used it.
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MAYEsvILLE, S. c.. Dec. 2Sth, 1868.

MAYEsvILLE, S. c.. Dec 2Sth, 1868.
certify that l have been using Rison's tobacco
Antidote' for two weeks, and find that the prepare
ton will certainly overcome the desire for chewing
Tobacco. | therefore cheerfully recommend all who
earnestly desire to abandon this filthy and health
destroying practice, to use the ''Antidote,' and
they will find it comparatively easy matter to over
come the habit j. A. MAYES, NJ. ID.
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ExANIpLE.-One watch set right will do
to try many by. But on the other hand,
one that goes wrong may be the means of
misleading whole neighborhood. The same
is true of the example we individually set to
those around US.
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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER AND
FARMER.

Vi oOU III u IL y L II q y Il II n y ~
FARMER.
CHARLES B. WILLIAMS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
The Southern Planter and Farmer is now offered
at 81 per annum, in adrance and may be safely pro-
nounced one of the cheapest journals published in
the South. Its pages filed, chiefly, with original
matter contributed by able and practical in Vr
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vertsing sheet offers to business men, of the best
mediums in the country.
Our Subscription list is now increasing rapidly
considering the stringency of the times,) but we
desire to see much larger increase and will spare
effort to make it worthy of support.
Those who wish to subscribe will please enclose
subscriptions to
VIM. L. HILL, General Agent
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From SUPERINTENDENT ORPHANS HOME,
TUsKEGEE, Ala, JAM 2lst, 1869. J
JOHN W. RISON, ESQ.,, Richmond, Va.
Dear Sir: have used one box of your Tobacco
Antidote," and for the sake of experiment, made
the attempt to chew piece of Tobacco, and found
it rather loathsome than pleasant
Very respectfully, A. r. H0LDERBY.
de 16-tf
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Old Established Troy Bell Foundry.

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