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CT: PAULs CHURCH HOME. RICH
~ hoND, 'A.-Ile Situations OF MATKON
Chufeh ,"me are vacant, The IL stikuttOn being Il
lelhalc orphan a4yun. Applications. with re-
,ssInges' sna' hh"9id una be seat u kep. {. MINNIGE-
H. mo' I,r ~ -" ! tla! street kicbnond Va. before
the iht oi Seplelnbcr Dc the board win elect the
oincers on the eth Of that month. '0'' ''1e
TERMS Furnished rooms and board and q
w gov" anu slO respectively, paid monthly,
&ua-3H
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.


o1.onCrw ApN1srEAD. HENRY s. MORTON.
4 RMISTEAD & MORTON,
a LAW AND COLLECTiON1HOuosGe y,
lis Main street lover the BankingraouSe G u
Lancaster Il Coz, Richmond va
Business attended to in al the courts ss 81 sas az
tention c!yen to claims in bankruptcy. .ro an.
through corresponding, sttGPaeyTs az III Due e. sus
pHxpHI5u aIlea ~ a and DOUBTFUL NOTES and a AC.
COUHTs In a parts OF the HaiLsa S,a.es, tYsctorT to
prompt aha etpeiehS A1"'' au 27. -1w (
terms. --------------
NR. CHASE HAVING RETD kNEp T. -
the city, can be found ut bis res,asgee,, aS,m mo
II Fifth street. -
REEN GINGER, for preserving
~ freshly received. ,rxyup Druu0ist.
au 29-2tF j.. WA0NEh, - ees----
r ONG AND WHITE PEPPER.
lpse-st* sixth spd Esoaa streets.
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RICHMOND, ,tREDERIcKgBURG,.P POTOMAC
RAILROAD COMPANY.
GENERAL TICKET ETDRPARrMENT, a
RICHMOyD- Va A ssSusY II 1ai0 A

NOT1CE.-For the accommodation or
IN persons deairons OF visiting the. country at
points on the line oftiis road bets cen Richmond
and Milford CHEAP ROUND-TRIP TICK ETS
will be sold good only on theSrafn leaving Broad.
street depot at a. M. on sUHDAYS and return
arriving In Richmond at . a8 p. NJ, or on the AC-
COMMODATIoN TRAIN Of the following mon.
aay( morning, arriving In Richmond &c $50
Inc MAIL TRAIN win stop. on signal. for re-
turn M d passengers only at Pc SOLA, CHESTER
LAND, kILBY'S,i TAYLOR,S CROSSING,
MmUNTAiN ROAD, and HUNGARY. -ETE'fs''
any point on signal. j. b. GENTRY. -
au l2-lm General Ticket Agent ~
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GROCERIES, Ee.

CHEESE.-50 boxes strictly PRIME
" FACTORY CHEESE just received on con-
au2S Robert F. WILLIAMS & co.
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RAILROADS.

80 % go % s - 60
RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG 4 POT. *. II. }
OFFICE OF GENERAL FKEIGHT AGENT.
RICHMOND, August 1lth. 1870. }
F0R WANT OF DEPOT ROOM IN
L RICHMOND we are Compelled 10 notify
merchants TO whom grain Ia Consigned that jt
must be removed within TWENTY-TOUk
HOURS after the arrival OF freight trains tdx,Iy
By order OFT the General Superintendent.
j. B. GENTLY, y
au 12-lm General Freialt superintendent.
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AISStlLl fION OF CO-PARTNER-
ss,s i. sSssf s5f ) ONES, hHOWN co,
II 4 ss'esa Sy !Lc dsiih O. Mr; VII; IL;
S 1ea to !te 'ss ns sSat Sas
ni tue late hTn claims against the late firm
hcs - Yr on3 nay Il CO.. are rc4uc sied TO pre-
! ZINES, BK' undersigned for payment. All
~ them q I'd TO the l,te firm Of JONES,
COY Us kudC., Tcqu" sted To come forward
tpers1,A' \ &r accounts without delay.
k"RSa,,.< RICHARD l.. BROWN,
+. WILLIAM FEMBEkTOE,
surviving partners.
<orr; VA, August 18Th. 1870.
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II" " CO.'ARTAERSHIP.-The un-
NtsrsirnsG have e1iS aaI formed cG,parlner-
e. TnndY ne s,yie 'fkoMai rEMBEhI0H
~ Nile ttKGCTk~ AsD LIQUOR BU-
.nnT ~ An tn city Of kichm, ,Hnd.
~. sce,spis Of rhe late firm OF JDnes, Brown
nIn 1ic solicit tie patronage o the lftenaS Oh
80. concern and tue public genel.*uy.
X l.. BROWN,
]. WILLIAM rEMBERJON,
ID. {. DAVIS.
EHMoSD VA, August lS 1870. an 22-.lm
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TRESII. GREEN. AND BLACK TEA.
a Fresh ALMONDS. PECAN NUTS, RAISlNS,
and PRESERVFD GINGER.
WILLIAM G. DANDRlDGE K co.
III 90 827 Broad street.
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GUGARS-CUBA, PORTO RICO, AND
- DEMARARA-fors sale by
GORDON & CRINGAN,
u
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congressional Eloouence.

In thanking Rhode Island for the
statue of General Greene, the House of
Representatives grew exceedingly elo
quent and literary. The following quo
tations were all made by single gentle
man without the least assistance from
his fellow members
"-homeward plods his weary way"
How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest."
dust to dust and ashes to ashes."
But one original burst of eloquence
was worth all these classic couplets and
time honored extracts. 1t was, made by
the gentleman who said: "The locality
of his General G's) burying place may
be unknown, but methinks that in some
lovely, quiet spot, by the bank-of a rip.
ping rivulet, ('rippling rivulet' is good, J
where the wild flowers of the South ex-
hale their sweetest perfume, and shaded
by some tall and graceful elm tree, he
General G. sleeps; and the merry little
warblers of nature ii. e. the birds perch
themselves upon the boughs of the
shade, and mournfully chirrup his dirge !;
or anon breaking forth into full throated
melody, richer than cathedral ever dis
pensed, with the chorus of his General
G.'s J virtues, and fill the air with the
music of his renownv' This is beauti-
full, and we forbear further comment, lest
we disturb The "mournfully-merryn emo.
tons of the enchanted reader.
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The COrbin Letter.

The public are informed that CoRBIN's
letter to GRANT, concerning the gold
gambling transactions in Wall street, has
been destroyed.
That letter was delivered to GRANT at
Washington, Pennsylvania, in Septem-
Der, 1869. 1t was forwarded by CoRBIN,
the 5rother-in-law of the President, at
the suggestion of FISK.
Who knows whether it has been de-
stroyed? GRANT has never been sum-
moned to testify before the investigating
committee in Congress He knows
where that letter is. He knows what it
contains. Why not summons him?
Until that letter is published, and its
contents reveal the fact that GRANT
and his family were not engaged with the
gold gamblers to bankrupt thousands
and distract the business of the whole
country, to enrich themselves, the Amer
lean people will continue in the belief
that President GRANT &entered into a
combination with CoRBlN, FISK, GOULD
& Co., to fill his pockets through the aid
of the United States Treasury.
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Read Thfsi

No better illustration was ever offered
of the utter absurdity Of high tariffs as
a means of establishing home manufac-
lures than is contained in the remark Of
the New York journal of Commerce,
that, "forcin9 water to run up hill is an
expensive process, and the best machin-
cry in the world will not establish the
current so that it will flow after the
pump is stopped. A revenue tariff is
tolerable only because, like the city wa
ter works, it creates an artificial flow
whose benefits and cost are rs equitabiy
distributed as possible But protective
tariff is an attempt to counteract every
where the processes of nature, on the
plea that if waterfall be good thing
anywhere, all streams should be made to
tumble into lofty reservoirs without re-
gard to the cost" For the better part
of two generations the country has been
cursed with tariffs directly or s'inciden-
tally protective; and to-day the mill
owners are as clamorous as they have
ever been for continuance of the pump
ing business. While manufacturing pro-
cesses were in their infancy here, and
the business of revenae-raising was only
imperfectly understood, there was some
sort of plausibility in the plea for so
much "incidental'' encouragement to
manufacturers as might be found not
wholly incompatible with the fiscal inter
est of the Government. But the fallacy
of this plea was long ago exposed. Dis
eliminating duties mean robbery of the
Government, and tariff protection for
home manufactures is only another name
for the process of plundering everybody
but manufacturers. For every dollar
put into the mill-owners' pockets BY such
tariff, the treasury or consumer must
inevitably loSp rnn s-1E-
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k2r Address all letters:
ssThr SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY"
wovdsneld,
'isa'Ts Monroe County,
M ~ Ohio.
II Pay for All.n

A pnngent parable is pictoriolly con-
vcyelin neat engraving just issued by
a Western agricultural journal, 1t rep
rcsents sturdy farmer, the central figure
Of q groupmaae up of preachers, law
yers, soldiers, and other professional
non-produccrs. Each is magnifying his
Office in his own way. One sprays for
ALL another fights for ALL and SO on /;
but the man Of the plow closes the dis
cussion with the remark, II pay for all :
The farmer pays for all'' the protcc-
ton granted the East that Western tax
paying farmers may be robbed
Are the farmers not growing tired OF
paying to support Radicalisp?
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Greenbacks for the Bondholdcrs,
e Q Z Al TAX ton
White Men Shall Rule America
Light aud knowledge Alone are Re.
quired to Restore the aFarmer
Republic" of Our Fathers.

TIE circulation Of Democratic newspapers
and especially Of county papers in their sew
eral localities, Is Of the greatest Importance.
To ereoursge this enterprise, and to aid In
the dissemination of correct doctrines, We
have determined to reduoe our rates OF sub
ecription to the lowest possible point consis-
. tent with the Price of paper to us.
Fifteen dollars will procure ten copies Of
the eriarr forths full term Of one year. with
An extra copy to the person who sends Us that
nrm6er Of names.
There ought not to be township where it
would bs difficult to raise that small sum
among SO many subscribers.
II is conceded tha. the SPIRIT is one Of the
best representatives of Democratic principles
In Eastern Ohio, while at the same time 1t
gives : very large qusntity Of family and
miscellansods reading. together with the i'm
portant local news Of Monroe County. and
full reliable market reports will be given
each week.
We shall earnestly oppose the unjust sys
tenn, inangurated by the Radical party, o:
taxing the laboring man to make the rich
man richer.
The laboring MN takes greenbacks for his
PLUuaCc, Uuiio tuo UOuuuOiucr oPuaHs tAAeAA
as "rags," and demands gold for his bonds.
This is unjust; If grsenbacks are good
enough for poor men who pay taxes, they are
good enough for the bondholders who pay
no taxes, and they win be compelled to take
them (and pay their Just proportion Of taxa
tion,) in exchange for their bonds, or nothing
INST a. they may elect.
In conclusion. We ask the old frierds Of our
paper to make an effort to increase our cir-
cuiation on the basis Of these terms. There
is no paper in the country whose terms are
more liberal than those which We now offer
to the patrons Of tho SPIsIr, The rates for
single copies, one year. ...............Sz W
single copies, six mon.hs ............ 90
Clnbs Of Ten, each, (if paid within the
year,) with extra copy TO club agent. 90
Club Of ten and over, each, (in ad-
vapesO with extra copy to club agent
fes ssssy ten names 30
n. r. WEST,
iw5lisker Soira.
0ooberfELp o. Feb 1870.
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Law te Profess Conventions.

A bill has been introduced into our
State Legislature to protect, by law, pri-
mary elections, or, as they are better
known in this vicinity, conventions
What may be the merits or dement's of
this particular bill we cannot say, as we
have not seen it; but a law for this pur.
pose might be so framed as to be highly
useful.
Measures of policy, it is true ere not
finally determined by these Conventions !;
but as a general rule, suck Conventions
are the only authorized exponents of
party measures, and whatever contrib
utes to fairness in the organization of a
Convention contributes the same amount
tewam announcing fairly the average
sentiments Of the party represented by
such Convention.
But it is chiefly in securing perfect
fairness in nominating candidates that
the passage of such law is important.
The party having the majority in any
county or district selects its candidates
through the medium of q Convention !;
and party fealty demands that the candi-
dates thus selected be voted for by every
member of the party: The result of
which is that nomination by the DOM
inant party is equivalent to an election.
The legal election which follows is the
mere formal ratification of the selections
made by the Convention. 1t is, there
fore, an almost universal rule, that Con-
ventions, and not elections, make our
officers.
Our statutes fairly bristle with penal
laws protecting the purity of elections,
Indeed in some particulars our caution in
this behalf has been excessive; some
times putting legal voters to great incon-
venience to get the privilege Of deposit
ing their ballots.
If our severe penal laws are necessary
and proper to secure fairness in cleo
tions, is it not highly necessary and
proper that some legal safeguards be es-
tablished to secure fairness in our Con-
ventions?
But those engaged in fixing such safe
guards should bear in mind that it is
much easier to make bad laws than good
ones; they should therefore exercise
great care lest instead of furnishing pro-
lection they merely intrude incumbran-
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The bible in the Public schools.

CINcINNArI, February l5.-The Judges
of the Superior Court have rendered their
decision in the case involving the read
ing of the Bible in the public schools
The action was to dissolve tae Injunction
heretofore granted, restraining the oper-
alton of the resolutions of the School
Board providing that the reading of the
Bible and all religious instruction in the
public schools shall not be permitted
Judge Hagans held that the provisions
of the Constitution recognized the relg-
ion of Christianity, and acknowledged
that religion and morality were necessa-
ry to good government, that the State
used religion as q means to promote.
good government, and, therefore, exclu.
sion of all religious instruction from the
public schools wac contrary to the pro-
visions of the Bill Of Rights Judge
Storer concurred, and the Injunction was
made neraaAknal. Judge Taft dissented.
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Eg-A New York cotemporary, in the
1 Il

Eg-A New York cotemporary, in the
following notice of NJ. Rochefort, the
French Red Republican agitatorssays:
'sThis uneasy miscreant has not a sim
gle title to respect. He has q vulgar,
sinister face !; a repulslve bearing; an up, !,
start insolence of temper; no talent that ]
fits him for any other trade than that of
a libeler no quality which can bind his
associates to him by any other tie than
common taste Cor violence and rancol;
or common hatred of the Imperial fam
lily. The Liberal statesmen of France
scorn, despise. and shun him; they wash
their hands of all ffiliation or completely
with him, and would think themselves
disgraced by consenting to follow him
as leader. The prudent moderation
of NJ. Olivier, supported as it was by
the great body of the deputies, is set off
to great advantage by contrast with such !
4 vulgar demagogue, and reckless, vip,,
lent libeler as this miscreant Rochefort::" !
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Contested Elections.

The decision of contested election
cases in legislative bodies has become a
public scandal. No where else is the
partisan rancor of the Radicals SO dis
tinctly marked as in these cases.
1t is admitted and proclaimed by Mr..
DAWES, Radical, who was for several
years Chairman of the Congressional
Committee having charge of these ques-
tions, that no contested election case of
late years has been tried upon its merits
that constitutions and laws are utterly
disregarded-that contestants chance
for success depends nothing upon
whether he received majority of legal
votes or not. but all upon whether his
party has a majority in the body which
decides the case.
This is an abomination which Radi-
calism dragged into our system, and it
will never be eradicated until the Radi-
cal party Is eradicated.
The New York Herald, of the 10th
inst, determined supporter of Radi-
calism, refers to contests in the present
Congress in the following extract:
s.The contested election case of Van
Wyck against Greene, from the Eleventh
District of New York, was brought up
in the House to-day and discussed by
Butler, of Tennessee, for Van Wyck, and
Burr, of Illinois, for Greene, until the
hour of adjournment. Of course Van
Wyck being a Republican, will get the
seat whenever vote is reached. Thus
far, during the present Congress, every
Democrat whose seat has been contested
has been ousted, no matter what major
ity he may have received from the peo-
Pile. Judging from the action of the
Committee on Elections, which is always
sustained by the House, one would sup
pose that it is impossible for Rcpubli-
can candidate for Congress to be elected
by fraud, while the Democrats can be
elected in no other way. The indications
are that every Democrat in the House
whose seat is contested will be cleaned
out The incubation of the Committee
on Elections, and the dry, uninteresting
discussions in the House oyer these ca
ses are the merest farce"
What further evidence do the people
require of the utter unfairness and dis
honesty of the party in power?
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the difference how he is

and what is the difference how he is
treated
Another ingenious provision of the
bill is that it requires witnesses to be
citizens" Applicants cannot save costs
by going two together, and being wit
ncsses for each other.
If this Radical scheme becomes law
mine out of every ten foreigners who
hereafter arrive in this country, or who
are now here and not fully naturalized,
will die of old aye before they can spare
the time and money to make them citi-
Zcas.
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The Soldiers and the Recent De.
ciSiOn Of the U. S. Supreme Court.

ciSiOn OF the U. s. Supreme Court.
The decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court, that all debts made prior to Fell
ruary 25, 1862, are payable in golc, in
wolves the Government in considerable
trouble.
From April, 1861, to February 25,
1852, not less than 100000 soldiers en-
tered the army. They enlisted for three
years, when their wages were thirteen
dollars month for the privates, paya-
pie in gold. They are entitled, under the
late decision, in equity, to those wages:
during the entire term of their service
The contract was made between the
soldier and the Government, and when
the mastering officer examined and re.
ported the soldier fit for military duty,
and the Government accepted him "for
three years, OF during the war, unless
sooner discharged the contract was
closed, and the Government ,ras bound
to pay him the stipulated price, in gold,
for every month Of has sercice.
In the face of the agreement the Gov
ernment compelled the soldiers to take
legal tenders when they we're only worth
for months pay, flee dollars in gold.
The late decision, carried out, will add
several hundred millions to the National
debt. 1t is better that it should increase
il that way, to pay white men their just
dues, than to increase for Negro recon-
struction and carpet-bag elections in the
South
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Important 10 Tobacco Dealers.
The following letter has been address
ed by Commissioners Delano to Super
visor Williams, at Lafay ettc, Indiana:
OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE,

(, r
ed by Commissioners Delano to Super
visor Williams, at Lafay ettc, Indiana:
OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE,
WASHINGTON, February 8, 1870.
SIR: have received your letter OF
the Goth ult, in which you inquire under
the construction of the 69th section OF
the act of July 20, 1868, relative to deal
ers in leaf tobacco, as given in my let
ter to Assessor McMeily of January 10.
A purchases of planter S25,0oO worth
of leaf tobacco, and sells the same through
b, commission merchant, both A and
B being required to pay the special tax
us dealers in leaf tobacco, whether both
A and 3 would not be also liable to pay
the tax of 50 per $1,000 on the excess
Iof $4,000.
In reply, have to say that the specl-
al tax in this case of S25 is tax on the
business, and every person who sells or
offers for sale, for himself or in commits
sion, to the extent of making such sale
business, is held to be liable to pay this
special tax of $25 The 50 tax addl-
tional for every 81 900 in excess of SlO,-
600 is a tax imposed upon the amount
of business, determined by the sales In
excess of a given amount, rather than
tax on the BUSINESS, as such.
1t is expressly provided in paragraph
No. 2 of the 10th section of the act OF
June 2, 1864, as amended, that in estl-
mating the amount of sales for the pur-
poses of said section, any sales made by
or through another wholesale dealer, ON
commission, shall not be again estima-
ted and included as sold by the party for
whom the sale was made. The evident
intent and scope of this proviso was to
limit the liability to single assessment
when only one sale was effected, and that
sale was made by another person than
the owner of the goods. The act Of
July 20, 1868, does not repeal the provl-
so to paragraph 2, section 79 of the act
of June 80, 1864 before quoted; neither
is that proviso inconsistent with any OF
the provisions of section SO OF the act
of July 90, 1868.
Dealers in leaf tobacco were, prior to
the passage of the last-named act, as
sessed as wholesale dealers, andsin esti-
mating the amount of their sales, were
not required to include the sales made
for them on commission. While, there
fore, hold that any person who enga-
ges in the business of buying and sell
ing leaf tobacco, though his sales are all
made through an agent, factorsor COM
mission merchant. Is liable to the special
tax of S25, do not regard hima as hahie
to pay the tax of 80 on excess OF sales
above $4,000, when such agent, factor
or commission merchant has made return
of the same, and paid the tax.
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Spartan Virtue,

If our Congressman are not ambitious
to rival the Spartans in heroism, they at
least emulate one of the Spartan virtues.
The particular virtue referred to may
be formulated in this way, Don't be
caught stealing"
RoLLIN writes that Spartan teachers
instructed their pupils III all the arts and
tricks of stealing and coneealing; and
when one of the tyros was detected, he
received severe fagellation-not for
stealing but for allowing himself to be
detected.
SO with our Congress. They encour-
age plundering, wholesale and retail, but
when one or two of their fellows are de-
tected selling cadetships, a committee of
investigation is appointed, and the
amount of cheap indignation expended
is immense. Ii will probably result in
two cr three carpct-baggers being scorn
fully and contemptuously kicked out of
Congress.
1t should be borne in mind by the vir
tuously indignant members that these
carpet Daggers are new at the business.
The older hands do not do their stealing
III such slovcnly manner.
SCHENCK, for instance, can build three
story brown stone fronts, and SHERMAN
and GARFIELD can clip coupons from
bonds representing hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, all saved out of sal.
airy which didn't pay half their expenses.
| But we have not heard of any indigna-
ton in Congress about it-cause why,
nobody has found out how they did It,
Give the carpet.baggers chance. 1t
is not fair to expect them in their infant
efforts to steal, as well as BUTLER, and
hide as well as ScnENcK