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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

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SECOND ANNUAL STATEMENT.
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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
AN ALLEGED SCHEME TO DEFEAT RE-
CONSTRUCTION IN VIRGINIA,

A Washington special to the New
York Herald, dated Thursday, 10th
says
aInformation has been received here
from Richmond of an infamous plot set
on foot by radical l. aders to defeat the
admission OF this State into the Union
at the meeting of Congress. Its main
object, otter the fifteenth amendment
is ratified, is by strategy TO iilbuster the
Virginia que stion over to the next ses-
sion of Congress, and thus keep the
present radical appointees OF General
Candy in office another twelve months.
Under the constitution elections for
iud res. shcri1fs, and city and country
objects take place i'll May, and the offi-
GERS elected enter upon the discharge
of their duties the following July. LII
the State is admitted before May next
all the present office holders by militia
nv appointment would be ousted. In
order, therefore, to save their radical
minions it has been determined to keep
the Stat out another term II possible
With this view number of letters nave
been received from several radical
members of Congress counselipg a
strenuous opposition bS the party here
to the restoration of the State. mong
these are several from General b. r.
Butler, chairman of the reconstruction
committee, and even Mr.. Boutwell, has
volunteered his services in the same
direction"
Doubtless there are individuals equal
| to such purpose as this, but Congress
will hardly prove so false to the profess
si0ns made to the people OF Virginia
| in the act for admitting that State up
on Ger tain conditions, and with all OF
which her people will faithfully COM
| Dly.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
TIE SENATORIAL QUESTION.

We fully concur in the views of the
Richmond Enquirer on this subject, not
only because our Legislature is Invest
ed with no authority to exercise the
function indicated, but for he addition
nj reason that even il it were lawful in
our present status, it is a question re-
onrin0 too much sagaeious elaboration,
and an iniudieious selection would be
too serious in its consequences to adj
nit of any hasty or experimental ac-
ton in the premises.
What are the inducements to TINS
course? Is it to relieve the suspense
of impatient aspirants, or is 1t urged
with view to saving time in the trans
action OF 5usiness2 From neither
standpoint can we perceive sulnclehG
motive for venturing on such step
The ouly plausible pretext we can I'M
agine, is to gain prepossessiou with
Congress by exhibiting our own orthoI
doxy in the character of our Senatorial
CONSERVATIVES. But here again we
would object to the experiment e7en ii
# were advisable under the law, for
the reason that it would place us i'll the
unpraceful attitude of attempting by
ofiicious anticipation, to determine whal
would be most acceptable TO the temper
and the preferences of that body.
We knoic that Congress requires us tC
adopt the XVIII amendment, but we dc
not know whether the election OF Sena
tors would be viewed with favor or not
Let us run 10 risk, but do as the Law
expressly prescribes and we shall hav'
tim, enough to dispose of all othe
questions, when our constitution is ap
proved and our autonomy restored.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

The relation between Spain and the
u. o., in reference to Cuba, continue
to attract attention in Europe. The
London Morning Post says it now APP
pears that America has only made
friendly representations to the Madrid
Government in favor of reasonable de-
mands. of the Cubans. 1t is probable
Napoleon suggested to the Regency
that Spain should act CONSIDERABLY to-
wards Cuba, and so disarm American
influence. The French Government
favors reconciliatory policy at Mad
rid and non-inventention at Washing
ton. The Standard says Prim's attempt
to induce England TO join in protect
crate for Cubr has totally failed,
The independence Beige thinks it
improbable that General Prim would
claim the good offices of England and
France to prevent the recognition OF
the Cuban insurgents as belligerelts
by The United States. If he should
make such demands he certainly would
receive negative answer. But should
the answer of either country be favora-
BILE, the invention of third party
would be sure to lessen the chances OF
success for Spain.
The Journal DIES Debats believes that
France and England are disposed to
support Spain with their counsel, but
the menacing character of affairs has
| considerably diminlshe d, and there is
reason to hope the Misunderstanding
with the United States has been brought
| to satisfactory termination.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
REpUnLIcANIsM IN A BAD WAY.

The New York Commercial Advertiser
seems to have little faith in its party's
prospects ard not much more i'll It's
principles. 1t says:-"From all we can
learn, nothing but supernatural inter-
position can save it from defeat III
States which have been proverbially
Republican. We have to thank the re-
peated plumbers and bungling OF Hor-
ace Greeley for placing the Empire
State in such hopeless minority that
we shudder at its contemplation; and il
these deadly influences are to extend
throughout the land, in short time it
will be said of the Republican as Choate
observed OF the 'Whig Party it will be
heard of only in history The position
of the Conservatives of the South was
forced by the inconsistency of having
in our form of government disfraa-
chised population. The true Republi-
can position is, that men fit to live out
side the penitentiary, are tit to vote
You can't run republic on any other
theory than all those who live in il
should have something to say about
their rules and their laws"
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
A STREAK OF LIGHT IN THE EAST.

"The Maine election proved one thing
that Radicalism has touched the ze-
NTH and now tends towards the nadir.
Our Radical friends, says the Prince
Georgian, have long been in the habit
of telling lis that revolutions never go
backward. We commend the lesson
home. They do not. The revolution
begun in the most Northeastern oil the
States will sweep the country. Penn
sylvania and Ohio will feel It's reslstless
impulse, and the nice schemes of Radl-
calism will be converted into so many
of those famous inventions which the
poet tell us return to plague the inven-
tor. The South, to-day, shows indica-
tions of revivihg power which unmis-
takably point to the elevation once
more of King Cotton. Her waste
places are reviving under the influence
of her genial skies and magnificent soil
Politics, too, are, as Lamartine has
said, undoubtedly ia the blood, ant
Southern wisdom aad tar-sightednesi
are again foiling the usurped power o
"these headquarters" and all the art
of military satraps and the devil. Poll
tics are in the blood, and Maine has al
ready given signs and manifestation
that they course in life giving current
wherever Democracy has foothold. -
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
RoBBING THE PEOPLE.

The Radicals boast of Mr.. Boutwell's
doings toward the payment of the pub.
lie debt. By hi, manner ofpaying thedebt
he is robbing the people. He is guilty
of malversation. He transfers from
the treasury to the bondholders what
is not due from it or to them. He pays
from twenty to twenty-three dollars
premium upon every hundred dollars
worth of bonds he buys. Two series OF
these bonds are now redee ming at the
option of the Governme mt, and the OPP
ton will continue as to one series UNI
ill 1892 and as to the other till 1851.
The Secretary, instead of redeemin.g
the bolds at the rates designed on their
face, has already paid the premium OF
twenty-three per cent. on some forty
millions of them, and his policy is to
dispose of immense sums hereafter IN
the same way. 70 pay the whole ma
tional debt upon the terms on which
he is paying it would require the vast
sum of more than three hundred and
thirty millions of dollars over and "a
boye the actual amount of the debt.
The Secretary has no law for his action,
No statute sustalns or countenances
him in it. He can plead no authority
for it. 1t is without justification or eX-
cuSe.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA.

The anticipated completion of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, now
running to White Sulphur Springs, in
West Virginia. and to be extended ito
the Ohio within the next two years,
will open another and most important
avenue to trade between the Great
West and the Atlantic cities.
From Richmond to the White Sulphur
Springs, a distance of 225 miles, the
road is completed and in good running
order, From White Sulphur Springs
to the Ohio River, distance of 20O
miles, the road is yet to be construct
ed.
The Messrs Huntington & Co. CT the
Central Pacific Railroad and other in
fuential parties of New York City have
during the past six months, examined
thoroughly the present condition and
future prospects of the Chesapeake and
| Ohio Railroad, and have recently con-
cluded to undertake the completion OF
| this important road to the Ohio River
| BY the terms of the agreement Will
| the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroat
| Company, Mr.. Huntington and his as
sociates (ten in alD will have the con
troll Uf this road from Richmond TO
the Ohio River, a distance of 40 miles;
and thus Ne,o York. loM control the most an
portant railroad IN Vugifsid-a road cal
cnlated to accomplish more good for
Virginia than all their other interna
improvements combined, and destined
to make Norfolk q great commercial
CITY, IN. Y. Tribune.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
GOOD ADVICE TO NEWSPAPER PUB
LISTERS.

Establish a living scale for advertis-
ing and adhere tenaciously TO it. Ii
your neighbor is so foolish as to cut
under you aud refuses to listen to rea-
son, do not follow his weak example,
for he will hurt his own business tar
more than he can yours. When pub
Usher puts down his subscription rates
people begin TO suspect he is hard up
and they decline to pay in advance,
least he may fail; and if he reduces his
advertising rates below customary PR
ces, it will be taken as confession that
his circulation is diminutive and declin-
ing. Such are always the effects OF the
cut-under game of the player; for if
you set a low value on your services or
paper, :he public is sure to place low
err. How, then, are you protited by in
sane efforts to cripple or kill your
neighbours paper? Rather ''live and
let live" be the sentiment that governs
your action. Stand by your rates, and
do as nearly cash business as 1t is
possible. Long ere ditsis the bane that
destroys so many country papers. 1t
is this slow poison that kill them, or
causes them to drag out miserable,
sickly and unremunerative existence.
A IL the expenses attending the publish
ing business are cash, and unless you
receive cash for your labors, how can
you expect to succeed or prosper?
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
A QUESTION oF IDENTITY.

Sometime IN 1868 Mr.. w. II. Hotopp
lost roam mare, stolen from him. and
never could hear anything more OF her.
A few days ago, however, his attention
was called to mare, in wagon driven
bv Mr.. Shitllet from the edge of Greene,
and, he thought he identified it as the
one stolen from him three years ago, as
did several persons about town, among
whom were Messrs. Remedy and An
drew Hartnagel who had been owners
of the mare before Mr.. Hotopp; even
the negro man who had driven her for
Remedy, thought he could identity her
as the same, when the case was brought
before Justice Thornley, on Monday
morning.
Mr.. ShifIlet, however, brought for
ward Mr.. Loughlin, who proved that
he raised the mare in dispute and sold
her TO Shifflet and that he had never
lost knowledge of her from the time
she was a colt. Several other witness
es, swore to the same effect, viz: Mr..
Hall, young Mr.. Loughlin, Mr.. Parish
and Mr.. Shitilet. DIR. Thornley, at once
turned over the mare to Mr.. Shittiet.-
Char. Chronlcle.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
THE RAILROADS AND THEIR STATE
INDEBTEDNESS.

The following, which comes from
reliable source, shows the indebtedness
of our railroads to the State:
srhe Richmond and Danville Rail
road on Thursday paid INTO the State
Treasury one-half of the interest due
the State on it's loan, and the remain
der is to be paid December 18th, under
instructions from General Candy. The
Orange and Alexandria railroad Is yet
behind the annual interest due from
that corporation, about $4,000, while
the Southside railroad shows the large
sum of 1852 900. The Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad owes about S420, 1000
interest TO the State, and neither OF the
two last mentioned roads appear IN
condition to meet these liabilities at
present. The Chesapeake and ONO
railroads. negotiating a lone with which
1T expects to liquidate its entire lndeDt-
edncss to the State, principal and In
terest-.in all about $3.50 900. -Rtehmond
DISPATCH.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
A GREAT INVENTION,

A Mr.. Kenndy has invented clock
whose works are moved by electricity.
The whole affair is said to be very SIM
pie. The clock, which thus far has
kept excellent time quires no wind
ing. all the pats being moved auto
matically, and no attention after 1t is
once set and regulated, except to place
a spoonful of acid in the battery about
twice year. Clocks made upon the
same principle by the inventor of this
one.have been running for several years,
and have been left without attention,
and witoout stopping in house closed
up from November to July.
1t will be seen that as the currants of
electricity supplied by the battery turn
ish all the motive power, the clock will
ego" as long as these currents are kept
uD.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
FIGHT WITH LIONS.

Mr.. Lucas, the lion tanner, had mar
row escape of being eaten up By his Ii
ons, August 20, at the HIppodrome in
Paris. lie went into the cage where
there were two lionesses, with only a
whip in his hand, instead OF a heavy
cudgel which he generally carries. A
lioness, presuming upon his being UNI
armed, sprang at him aud seized him
By the nape of the neck. a cry of hor-
ror arose from the spectators. Many
women tainted, and others rushed out
of the theatre. The other lions, at
traeted by blood, rushed upon Lucas,
and bit and scratched him severely
In few moments he would certainly
have been killed had not one of the as
sistants, who was not in the habit of
entering the cage, come forward and
knocked the lion about the head with
an iron bar. 1t is reported that Lucas
said to him, SEQ away, leave me to die
alone" However that may be, the
man dragged Lucas away from the Ii
ons. He is now at his mother-in-lAw's
house, No. 81 Avenue Montague, in a
most precarious state. The doctors
have discovered no lees than thirty-one
wounds.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24

lip Corn seems to be remarkably
steady in the Richmond market at a.
bout Sl.20, and it is said that the indi-
cations are, that it will hold at that for
$ ono time. Wien it got a little above
this, few days ago, several ship loads
were at once brought around from New
York, the freight around being only
about six cents a bushel. The fact Of
the supply there being fair, so as to
keep it, at about this figure, together
with the ease with which 1t may be
transported, gives sufficient guaran-
tee that it viii not be much. higher in
Richmond.
The wheat crop in England is now
reported to be larger than for "a long
time. whether correctly or not it Is inl-
possible to say. If this is so, however,
It will limit the demand for expectation
and prevent any great rise in the price
Those generally we'll informed seem to
think that both corn and wheat will
stand at present prices.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
Ely. SENATOR HUNTER FAVORs CHINESE
EMIGRATION,

In a letter to Mr.. c.. Il. Sears of
Kentucky, Mr.. Hunter assumes that
the question of Chinese emigration is
already beyond our control and that it
will settle itself according to the great
laws Of trade and nature.
Upon moral and political considera-
tions, Mr.. H., you'd not like to see in
Virginia or Kentucky any large infus-
ion OF an inferior race.
AS to States where the negro pre-
dominates, the question changes
When that race and coolies are thrown
together, the experience heretofore has
been that competition and rivalry
spring up between these two races, and
the white holding the balance between
them, gradually acquires the control OF
society.
Mr.. Hunter then proceeds to show
that in an industrial and material point
of view, the introduction of Asiatic Ia
Dor would be of the highest value to the
South, viz:
GA large introduction of cheap and
skilled labor from the East, suited TO
our climate and productions, and not
opposed 10 our social progress and IN
situations, would probably lead to de-
! velopment of all Interests i'll the South,
such as has not yet been witnessed Ill
her history. 1t was the mighty lmml-
grafton from Europe to the North
which contributed most to Its superior
! 10 ri tnn Month,
and which added so much to its polltl-
cal power, as to destroy all hopes OF q
balance between the two sections. A
large Asiatic immigration may, per-
baps, do as much, or nearly as much
for the South MS the European has al
ready done Tor the North. VINO car
. say that when it comes in such namDef'
as the East is capable OF Issuing, tina
the theatre of greatest activity and de-
yelopment may not be transferred from
the North to the South? The grea
and undeveloped manufacturing ca
a pacitles of the South may be called int
!. action. to an extent, and with all ener
! gy not even imagined as yet, with tn
S assistance Of a labor cheaper and NOR
= patient than the European and abun
dant and intelligent enough for all til
purpose of our industry. Inc are
under the cultivation OF the great sta
S pies of the South-cotton, sugar an
rice--will increase with a rapldlt
heretofore unknown. Routes of trade
which, with the means as yet in OH
possession, could not be open for Ger
n fury, would soon be developed, an
IS with the great increase of wealth. tn
= machinery of commerce and soclet.
. would operate with an energy. and e1
II tent which it is easier to imagine tina
: describe"
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
THE PIEDMONT
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

ENSURES on all the most approved
l. plans lis policies are non-forieiting.
II divides S713 per cent. OF profits among
Pit declares dividends at the end OF second
year. ~.
loan, or one third loan, as applicants may
1t allows quarterly or semi-annual pay
ments of cash part of premium
1t accepts no security for the money IL IN
vests except real estate first lien.
No stocks nor governing securities WIZ
be received by it as security for debt.
1t is Differed and managed by gentlemen
born and bred in the south, Oh goo9a onaI nici
ability and for fidelity to their trusts ana
the premiums paid into this Company VIII
not go to increase the wealth OF the North,
but will be used within our own limits, ana
will relieve our own impovertshed peoPle:
w. c. CARRINGTON, President.
]. ]: HOPKINS, Secretary,
@. III. PERRow, Medical Adviser.
DIRECTORS:
d. ]. Hartsook w. d. Cabell, T.. g. Thur:
mond, j. II. PEBBLES, Hudson Martin, Il. 4.
Fitzpatrick, William Gordon, O. A. Schaf-
ter, William 2. Shepherd.
REFERENCES:
Gen. Beauregard, Col. G. G. Garner, Judge
Alexander Walker and Gen. Mason GrahamS
OF Louisiana; Gen. Simon Buckner, of Lou
isville; Gen. ]. b. Hood, New Orleans; Judge
II. p. Mabry, Major j: III. Pratt and Ward
Taylor, Jr., Jefferson, Texas.
Liberal commissions will be given to good
agents. Travelling agents are especially
NINE HUNDRED Policies issued during the
| first eight months of active work.
| Income over $40, 000-a success ahead OF all
precedent-and with bright prospects.
For rates of Insurance. call upon the Local
| Agent, w. III. RICK LIFTS,
July 81, 1868. Orange court House
j. M. M RPHY, Agent
l. ,iordonsville Va.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-24
A PRETTY PICTURE,

The Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore Gazette thus sketches what he
saw, day or two since, in the Treas
ury Department
@The rooms were generally totally
vacant. In one | saw a brawny negro
clerk, cutting capitals on clean sheets
of paper. He was flanked by a couple
of white ladies', who were adding up
long columns of figures, and at his back
was lame white messenger who was
holding in his only hand a tray bearing
a glass of ice water for his 'frieud and
BROTHER In another room where a
couple of white clerks and a colored
sister, all very busily employed in dis
cussing the new ORDER called the DE
duction' law