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LEGAL EFFECT OF THE YERaER DE
oIsIoN.-The Washington Republi.
can, of the Goth October, referring
to the recent decision in the Yergel
case, says:
The legal effect of the decision
given yesterday will be to bring all
the arrests made by military author
ity in the rebel States, and all SEN
fenced by military commissions in
those States, under the supervision
ofthe Supreme Court. The court,
by this decision, claims that the re-
peal of that clause of the reconstruct
ton act of March 18th which gave iu-
risdiction to the United States cir
cult and district courts in unrecon-
structed States, and of course appel
late jurisdiction to the Supreme court
iunder which the McCardle case was
brought up and dismissed because
the clause was repeatedly was not
necessary to give the court iurisdic-
ton in the rebel States. The court
claims that the United States had
jurisdiction there without the repeal
ed act, and that, therefore, the re-
peal made no difference. In other
words, they decide that the civil au-
thority extends over the rebel States,
and that the military power is sub
servient.
The actual point decided is that
the Supreme Court has the RIGHT to
issue writ of habeas corpus to
bring Yerger here, and then. to Or
der his unconditional discharge if it
sees proper, although he has been
tried and condemned of the murder
OF a military officer who was at the
time a, in the discharge of the duty,
Inc decision occasioned good deal
OF interest in legal circles, and a
large number of prominet lawyers
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peanut picker was amono I'll

" A peanut picker was among the
new labor saving machines exhibited
at the Virginia State Fair. Hitherto
the nuts have been picked off the vines
by hand-four bushels day fair
average for a hand. A farmer who
raised one thousand bushels required
ten hands for nearly two months to
save his crop, at a cost of fifteen cents
per bushel. The crop raised on the
south side of James River, between
Petersburg and Norfolk, is estimated
at ,OOO, 900 bushels per year. To save
this crop would require the labor OF
SIX thousand hands for two months, at
a cost of 5000, 900. The new machine,
it is claimed, saves much time and Ia
Dor.
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1.-THE Sick Boy"

The following is the evidence up
on which General Butterfeld is
charged with specializing in gold in
Wall street during the battle Of
Chancellorville, and it is brought TIC
light by an ex-army officer. Gener,
al Butterfeld, as Chief-of-Staff at
that battle, prohibited all telegraphie
communication with the rear, not
even the Government being permit
ted to receive dispatches from the
army. The army officer says:
curing this time of telegraphic
suspension, three dispatches were
put upon the wires at the headquar-
tiers of the army for transmission to
this city. The first of these was as
follows:
"ARMY OF THE Potomac May 2 '63.
ITO Leonard w. Jerome, New York:
"The boy is wounded.
D. B."
seThe date of this dispatch and its
tenor intimate that it must have been
sent Immediately after the disaster
to the Eleventh Corps. At a later
hour, when more definite accounts
of that disaster were received at
headquarters, and when Sickles, with
the third corps, was cut off from the
rest of the army, a second dispatch
was sent, reading as follows:
ARMY OF THE Potomac, May 2 '63.
To Leonard W. Jerome, New York:
The boy is badly wounded.
d. B.
And then the following day, when
the rebels pressed their advantages
and drove our army into their con-
tracted and hastily thrown up earth
works two miles nearer the river
than when they first met the enemy,
and the salvation of the army seem
ed to depend on Sedgwick's ability
to JOIN it from below Fredericksburg
third dispatch was sent, as follows
ARMY OF THE PoroMAc, May 3 '63
To Leonard w. Jerome, New York:
The boy we fear, is MORALLY woun-
ded. d. B.
These dispatches were taken of
by General I. T. Eckert, who held
the position of superintendent Of
military telegraphs at headquarters.
and sent to the War Department.
Their peculiar character attracted
his attention. Secretary Stanton
took them to the President and de-
manded Butterfeld's dismissal from
the army. He was suspended and
came to Washington, where he was
most severely leetured by Secretary
Seward, and, at his request, under
an assurance that he would behave
himself in future, was resorted to his
former position.
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MARRIED in New Orleans, La, on
the 18th inst, by the Rev. Father Duff
fic, at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Mr.. I. J. HOWARD. Of
Alexandria, La, to MISS ELLEN l..
FOLEY, of Virginia.
We return onr hearty congratula-
tons to the newly married couple, for
their kind remembrance of the Demo-
crat, and hope that their future life
may be long and happy one, fac
smile of the following:
1.-TWO souls as but single thought
Two hearts that beat as one"
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ANEcDoTE OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.

ANEcDoTE OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
The following anecdote of Admiral
Farragut, we believe, has not appear
ed in print: While at New Orleans, the
officers of the Susquehanna, probably
DESTROYS of going North, represented
the ship as greatly in need of repairs.
A board ofsurvey was appointed to
examine and report on her condition.
In due time the report was handed to
the Admiral. After reading it over
carefully, he marked, 81 find nothing
but generalities in this report; it does
not appear that anything is broken in
the machinery, or that anything lis
specially wrong about her."
Then the following dialogue took
place: =
Admiral-What is the matter with
the vessel3 ..-ss1
Engineer-General debility, sir. m.
Admiral-That's very definite; what
do you mean by general debility Z
Engineer mean thas she is very
weak IN many of her parts, and not
safe. @ =. - Ut =
Admiral-Still, quite definite; now
tell me, is there anything wrong in
her movements @ -=->'2 ss';-4 -i--s,''i
Engineer-Yes, sir: she cannot be
reversed; i.e. she cannot be managed
in backing her, sir. .n.e1. -
Admiral-Is that the only thing
wrong in her movements .f-,aHi
Engineer-Yes, sir; believe so.
Admiral-She will then answer my
purpose; do not wanta vessel in nv
feet to move backward. .a& l.
He then tore the report into pieces.
Nothing more was heard of tho s'debil-
ity" of the Susquehana.
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!. -
T The lawyers of New York, in
view of many sdisgraceful abuses which
have been, without the consent of the
majority, attached to the practice Of
their profession, talk about forming q
working society for the purpose of pre-.
venting themselves from being public
" dishonored by said practices They
propose to associate themselves, firmly
so as to be able, by concert of action
and unanimity of will, to resist and
suppress the immortalities, and unjust
and fraudulent practices by which q
few unworthy members of the bar are
rendering the entire profession odious
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FATTENING HoGs.-When hogs are
fairly on their way of being fattened,
receiving several times a day all the
food they can eat, the more they can he
made to eat the faster they will fatten
and the more profit the farmer will
derive from the food given them and
consumed. There was once strife, in
a certain neighborhood of good farmers
as to who shonld annually have the
latest hog. Each one took pig OF
the same litter, so that they all started
alike. But somehow it turned out
that one certain man always came out
ahead. This constant victory excited
wonder and curiosity. But at last the
secret leaked out. The successful far
mer was in the habit of giving his pig
all it would eat, and then turning into
his pen another hungry pig, which, of
course, would commence feeding vocif-
erousiy. This would arouse into action
the slugguish appetite of the other pig,
and he too would turn in eating with
eagerness and rosoIuteIy competing
with the hungry pig. By this means
the hog that was being fattencd was
stuffed several times a day to repletion.
Now, as we have found by experience
there is another way by which hog
can be induced to eat .mncl more than
he otherwise would, and consequently
be made to lay on fat very fast. Let a
hog be fed, for instance, all he will eat
of corn on the ear; then fill his trough
half full with clean water, and strew
into this trough three or four quarts of
shclled corn, and it will be found that
the hogs appetite will come to him
again, and this additional amount of
food will also be consumed. 1t is gen.
orally the case that those hogs which
do not take on fat very rapidly are
poor eaters; and it is an object of i'm
portance, worthy of the farmers atten-
ton, to make them full eaters. Every
fattening hog, which is really thriving
satisfactorily, will always denote that
by this peculiar snuffiing and difficult
breathing, just after eating all he will
eat. And perhaps it win be found that
even scrub hogs, about which so much
complaint is made for their sllyness in
taking on fat, can be made to give much
more satisfaction if some effectual
means are taken to make them greater
eaters.
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FEMALE DISEASES,

All over the South are rapidly yielding
to the magic power Of that never failing
Uterine Tonic, known as Dromgoole &
Co.'S English Female Bitters This pecu-
liar combination arouses the womb to q
healthy action, and at once restores health
been afflicted for years. It is the only GER
tain Uterine Regulator. Sold by all drug
gists. j. P. Dromgoole & Co, Prop'rs.,
Memphis. H
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A L EXANDRIA INSTITUTE
Fob
YOUNG LADIES'.

THIS Institution will open it's THIRD
l. SESSION on the FIRST MONDAY OF
SEPTEMBER next. 4.....
Considering the short period which has
elapsed eince its establishment, it has met
with q fair share of success; and the Prip.
cipal, Mira g. A. CANTIELD. hopes, by
assiduous attention and an increase Of
public patronage, to raise it, during the
ensuing Term, to the first rank among
Young Ladies' Seminaries in this or the
adjoining States.
The want Of Select Female School has
long been felt in this COMMUNICATIVE
want Mas. CANFrELD purposes to supply,
and she hopes that the people Of Rapides
will second her efforts by patrOnixing q
Home Institution. instead of sending their
children to build up schools in other Par.
iShes. Js p
Competent teachers in FRENCH and
Music have been employed, and o thor
ough course of ENGLISH studies win be
gone through under the personal nstt &c.
tion of the principal. \
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FLowERs AND VINES IN HousEs.-There
are many beautiful botanical experiments
which may be conducted in the house dur.
ing winter, which are not embraced gener.
ally in the list of flowers and vines in our
parlors and windows. ''
How many of our fair readers have the
beautiful vine of the sweet potato running
over their mantel-shelf! This pretty sight
can be enjoyed by placing sweet potatoe
in timber or other glass vessel, filled
with water; passing a pin through the
tuber so as to keep the lower end from enc
to two inches from the bottom of the yes
sci. Keep on the mantel-shelf in warm
room, and every day give it the sun for an
hour or two, and in a few days rootings
will begin to appear, aiming for the bottom
of the vessel, and in two or three weeks
the eye will begin to shoot and rapidly
grow and run upon suspended Irvine OF
any little trellis-work prepared for it. The
dioscorea batatas is the prettiest for this
purpose, when it can be obtained.
The morning glory can be propagated in
parlor windows, when there is some sun,
to perfection, during winter it flowers
with its natural colors, and the delicate
llttic WIG Cdll NC tDdue W over Tue
window. "A hanging vase is the prettiest
for this.
Suspend an acorn by cotton thread, so
as nearly to touch the water in glass
vessel, IA hyacintIi glass is perhaps the
best J set upon the window or mantel, and
let fireman there for eight or ten weeks,
more or less, without being interfered with
except to supply evaporation of the water,
and the acorn will burst, ard asst throws
root down into the water a sprout or
stem will be. sent upward, throwing out
beautiful little green leaves thus giving
you an oak tree, in full life and health,
within your parlor.
There are many of the MOSES which can
be very successfully grown in the house
through the winter, and with the foregoing
afford an interesting and refined enjoyment
for the femines of a family, and a real
pleasure to5aH who have o taste for the
beautiful to witness. We trust to sec a
greater inclination on the part of tho ladies
to introduce into their houses this most
agreeable addition to their domestic, pleas
ures. y = < ~ - t-- ~ ~
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Vs. Horse flesh in Franno ;

sA Horse flesh in France is daily oc.
capying more considerable place in the
supply OF the public food. In 1867 the
quantity consumed in Paris was s16,oO0
pounds, ard in 1868 s6s, 400 pounds beins
an increase ofl52,OO0 pounds in the wear
ID the principal towns of the provinces at
Rneuen, Marseilles. Toulon, Bordeans
thaelms, Troyes, Charleyille and sedan
ou!chers shops for the sale Of that meat 70
oolng q good business. One has inst haar
opened at Havre. The prices of the 1 d;fr
erens joints vary from twenty cants I'M ~
seventy cents per pound. WIS "
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u "Mother wants to know If won

Mother wants to know if you
won't please to lend her your preserv-
ing Kettle, cause she wants to do up
some apple-sarse." III would with
pleasure, boy, but the truth is, the last
time we lent it to your mother she pre-
served it so effectually that We have
not seen it SINCE" "WeH, you needn't
be sarsy about your old kettle. Guess
At was full of holes when we borrowed
1t, and mother wouldn't have troubled
you agin, only we seed you bring home
new one"
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Faceti@.
Deep Mud-The Tai mud.

Deep Mud-The Tal-mud.
War-Fare-Army food.
Money Grams tMonograms) -Finan-
cial items.
A Dish for Carlotta-Oyster Patties.
= Good Stock Actors Vanderbilt and
Fisk. To- d
People who are always taken a-back.
Eqnestrians.
F.are-W ell Performances-Goo
Meals. y II
If all's well that ends WE'LL" "how's
the Island of Blackwell z"
Pills for oculists and teachers-Pu-
pills. s
The boy who feels smart is the one
to whom sound thrashing was adj
ministered.
The proprietor of gents furnishing
store contemplates writing shirt tale
(taiD soon.
Appropriate "A certain Journal clas-
SITES divorce DEGREES with Co partner
ship dissolutions.y
|'1naispntahles"- Ladics, if you arc
DESTROYS of having your correspondence
retained by the gentleman to whom it
is sent he sure to beg him to destroy
it.
If Yen are particularly anxious to
pay the highest prices for goods, do
your shopping among your acquain-
tainces WHO comfy. sell at wholesale"
To make evident the quality of your
real lace handkerchief at ball, lose it
there; but don't claim it until the
manager has shown it around the hall.
To ascertain the true time of lover,
an hour at least should be added to
that which his watch calls for.
To insure the publicity of your be-
trothal, by all means get engaged
privately.
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u Cotton, Sugar, Molasses and 9TH
er freights stored and shipped at cheap
and reduced rates.
PRICES REDUCED TO SUIT ALI
THOSE wishing their own or their
i children's teeth saved, can do so by
calling on an2
O.. w. Ia NJ "A Y.
who can always be found either at his resi-
dence, on Third street, or at the Drug
Store Of TAFT & Laney, on Front street,
Alexandra, La.
10- Nerves destroyed and teeth ex.
trscted without pain.
October 18th, 1s69-tf.
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TERMS PER MONTH:
Established 1853.
Established 1858.
Joseph McHvoy.
-5s -DEALER H. ,iEp
Fine Watches, Jewelry, Clocks,
SpectacleS, etc.,

Ice HOUSE Hotel
IL AS just returned from New Orleans
- with q select stock of the above ar.
All articles guaranteed. No bogus jewelry
or articles kept my establishments.
= Engraving neatly executed, and
watch and clock repairing done in the
nest manner. a foot 20-tf
Your back hurte Use Dromgoole Il Co.'S
Buchu. Dromgoole e. Cos Buchu cures
bad dreams. For ineontinence, use Drom-
gooie q Cos Bnehu- elect or Gonorrhes
-Dromgoole s. Co.'S Buchu.
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II The rumor is not true that Rip
Van Wrinkle is offended with Mr. Eyt-
inge for the figure he cuts in the
Uncle Sam Series ," on the other
hand, he is said to be altogether pleas
ed to be under Eytinge's pencil rather
than the Danes broOmstick. Snyder
has not been heard from. r.',,.s.
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q In st. Joseph, on Tuesday night
a railroad train ran into and over a
COW, scattering beef and unmade milk
promiscuously in pieces and pints.
The train came to a dead stop, just
in timeto prevent putting dead stop
to the life of a man lying on the track
senseless and drunk, 30 feet beyond.
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Deranged Kidneys-Use Dromgoole's e.
Cos. Bnchu. Gravel and Dropsy-Use
Dromgoole q Co.'S. Buchu. Dromgoole &
Cos Buchu is the best and cheapest. Pains
In the back, use Dfomgoole & Co.'S Buchu,
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Dromgoole & Cos Liver Pills are shure
shot. For the Liver-Dromgoole & Cos
Liver Pills. For clear skin-Dromgoole
& Cos Liver Pills. 10 g
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NO11CE !

y NOTICE
4 LII persons are warned from trad.
IA ing for a note drawn by George
Nugent in my favor, due on the ist
day of January 1868, for the sum of
One Hundred and Forty Eight Dollars
% 146,) which was lost or mislaid by
me, in September last.
JNO. s. BUTLER.
Nov. 20 1869, 81.
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TRY ST. JOHNS COUGH Elk.
Il. PECToRANT.
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FOR RENT.

ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERS.
Cures all Female complaints.
Cnres wife, daughter and mother,
Cures cases pronounced incurable,
Cures all irregular uterine actions,
Cures Mysteries and chlorOsis,
Cures diseases peculiar to females,
j. p Dromgoole s. Co.
Prop'r. Memphis Tenn.
Sold by all Druggists. ~"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1869-07-22
Virginia Paper Company.

By an advertisement in another column it
will be seen that this company, located at
Halltown, in this county, will commence the
purchase OF straw after the first Of August
We hope our farmers will meet this demand in
a liberal spirit, as it is a new enterprise in the
county, and should be fostered and every pos
sjJle encouragement given it, Straw, hereto
fore, has been regarded as of SO little value
many farmers have conteuted themselves with
getting it away from tie machine in the most
hurried manner leaving it to rot, or suu-dry
and blow away. We would now advise them
to stack or rick it carefully, 50 that it may be
manufactured for useful purposes. The money
they can set for it, will, III many instances,
more than pay for their plaster aud c'oco' seed.
which are really the best and most important
fertilizers for the lands of this county.-Spirit.
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Book Notices.
Life of Jefferson Davis.


Li.cot Jefferson Davis, with 4 Secret History
Of the Southern C0u(eiemcy Gathered Be
hind the Scenes az Richmond, etc. etc By
Edward A. Pollard, author of THE Lost
Cause, &c, &C. Philadelphia, Chicago and
st. Louis: National Publishing Company
Syo.. PIP. 535.
We have received a copy Of the above. The
following from the Baltimore Gazette, is so
admirably expressive Of our own opinion Of the
work that We adopt It:
The FIRST forty pages Of this book are writ
ten with a fairness aud good taste Of which we
duj no evidences in the rest Of the volume
The authors hostility to Mr.. Davis is so mark
ell that it sadly damages his reputation as an
impartial historian and his attacks upon Mrs
Davis are not Of a character 70 give weight to
his book.
Mr. Pollard is q fluent writer and with the
exercise Of little taste and more judgment
would make. what be is not @ most agreeable
historian. The book is very well printed
TErgesoNs MAGAZINE for August pleas
ant. entertaining uumbor-full as usual Of va
nel and interesting reading i is an agrcea-
be companion for leisure hour
Goorys LADY's Book for August lies on our
ab,e-lr.,Gaat with fashions, ful Of attractive
reading. useful recipes, patterns, &c. &c
Each number IS wen worth its price to the in-
lu~trirvs and economical lauSpkcopcr
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White sulphur
Springs
FREDERICK COUNTY, fiRGlNiA'
Fire lfles Gom B7acLeSter and one @ Ha.f
Niles jrom Stephenson DGO'.

TEIIIS place will be opened on the 1T day Of June
! for the reception of Visitors and every exet-
ton will be made give entire satisfaction to all
the guests.
A fine BAND OF MUSIC will be in attendance
during the season.
The Bowling Alley, Billiard Room, Gymnasium,
Swings. &c. will be in good order; new and eN-
cellent Coaches will run between the Springs and
Stephenson's Depot, the distance being \ miles
over good road.
The Telegraph Line will be extend from Stephen
sons Depot, to the Springs without delay.
Force Pumps with q full supply Of Hose, have
been erected, which will serve tn cxunguish hrc,
and sprinkle the walks, trees and lawn.
Esc- Guests viii be received at any time before
the regular time Of opening
&c Mails twice daily. Also, three Passenger
Trains daily each way.
TERNs.-S3 per day Sl7 80 per week, and SEQ
per month. Children and colored servants half
price white servants three-fourths price.
May 6, 1869. l. {. JOkDAN.
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rosac,o. Tobacco :

n.--.6-e.- s;1rc-room Of LLOYD Loo
GAS. I-a. on Main Street Winchester /,
rru'.. NTH T.Jlcccs, Sc-ars SHUTS, Nc.-
r5-.r. doubt. tie most extensive supply m
..r t..s .. Virginia. See advertisements.