The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-09-29

Col. VIM. E. Cameron, editor Of the Pc
tersburg Iadens.has been nominated by city
convention of Petersburg as the Conservative
candidate for the State Senate. The vote for
Col c. was unanimous.
The veteran editor Of the Alexandria Ca
zette, Edgar Snowdcn, Esq continues to be
named candidate for Congress, notwith-
standing repeated disclaimers from him Of not
desiring the position
A St Petersburg dispatch says the cholera
has appeared at NJivi Novagorod. 1t is
spreading rapidly. At St. Petersburg 200
cases were reported iu the hospitals yester
day.
Gov. Walker, offers a reward of 800 for
the apprehension of W. W. Lewis, who some
months ago killed Mr.. Drummond, in Bruins
wick county, and who has sine: avoided ar
rest.
1t is thought that Judge Critchcr will be
the Wcstmorcland district King George,
declared in his favor
In the Oregon Legislature the Senate re-
fused to pass the House resolutions inviting
Gen. Sherman and his staff to the capital,
alleging that the civil service was under no
obligations to the military.
Senator o. P Mortoo, of Indiana, having
been appointed Minister to Great Britain, in
the place of Mr. Motley, removed, a vacancy
will be made in the U. S. Senate, as his term
in that body does not expire until 1873.
The stock holders in the several roads COM
posing the Consolidated Line, to Norfolk are
notified to meet III Lynchburg on Thursday,
the 10th of November next. to perfect an or
ganzation under the title of the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company.
The ravages of the vomito at Barcelona are
increasing, and the panic among the iuhabi-
tants is frightful. Yesterday of thirty FIVE
cases there were twenty four deaths All the
Government offices have been emoycd from
the place.
The Massachusetts militia, of which Ben.
Butler is the Major General, had grand
parade at Concord the other day. We do
not know that the chief air of the band was
the Rogue's March, but the march of the
Major General unquestionably was.
The steamship Lafayette, which sailed from
New York for IIavrc on Tuesday, had as car
90 hundred thousand Remington rifles,
three million cartridges, sixteen cannon and
necessary ammunition, and other war materi-
al for the French army.
s'Let the men beware" says an exchange
| Gfha rirhfc foo ctYII nd
quiet for the future good of society" There
is indeed cause for alarm The whole shrek
ing sisterhood are as silent just row as that
sequestered tomb in which they should each
have been laid in early infancy.
A Kansas lady, on retiring to her room,
one night, found it literally filed with mar
tens which had flown in during her absence.
Instead of harshly turning them out into the
cold, the kind hearted lady captured nearly
all the little creatures, and had them served
up the next day in pot pie.
The farmers of the vicinity Of Salem re
monstrate through the Warrenton Index
against the owners of Texas cattle allowing
them to roam at large or to be driven where
their COWS may be made to suffer from con-
tagion. The Texas cattle disease continues
to destroy the cows of Salem and its vicinity.
Very serious disturbances are reported to
have taken place in Laurens and Barnwell
counties, South Carolina between the whites
aud blacks. Two negroes murdered two Of
their own race and wounded one white man.
Both parties are said to be armed and organ
lied 1t is charged that the distur Dances are
purposcly caused by secret leagues for polit
cal effect.
| Cujo Eye, the leader of the negro insurrec-
bonists in Jefferson county, Ca, is reported
by the Macon Telegraph and Messenger to
have declared that he was backed by Gov
ernor Bullock in his unlawful and incendiary
conduct. This statement is corroborated by
a correspondent Of the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel who writes from Louisville,
the county seat of Jefferson.
The Mormons are being deprived of some
of their power. Gov. Skaters has issued a
proclamation disbanding Brigham Young's
military forces, and preventing their reorgan
ization in the future, and Chief Justice Nc
Kean has decided null and void the Terrific
rial legislation by which the Mormons have
hitherto controlled the jury system of the Su-
preme and District Courts of Utah.
RE Prince William Advocate says: "On
Tuesday morning, the 18th inst, Mr. Osmun,
missed valuable dog from his premises, and
though diligent search was made it was not
found until Wednesday the 2lst inst when
it was found in an old dry we'll 80 feet deep.
having. it is supposed, been in there eight
days without food or drink. The animal was
able to walk home when taken out"
On Tuesday last the annual session of
Washington College opened under fattering
auspices The students assembled in the
Chapel and after the usual service conducted
by Rev DR.. Pendltt ton, Gen. LEE made
number of announcements concerning the or
ganization of the classes, and expressed the
earnest hope that both professors aud students
would attend regularly the daily prayers at
the Chapel 1t was, perhaps, the longest
speech which the old hero ever made Every
morning since, the Chapel has been largely
attended.
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