The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-08-25
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srAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
Thursday, August Is, 1870.
THE OLDEST REPUBLICAN ON EARTH

1nurSday, August 20, Ao1O.
The OLDEST REPUBLICAN ON EARTH
The american Quarterly Re0ie,c contains
letter from G.. W. Irving, Esq, giving
sketch of his visit to Marino a small republic
in Italy, between the Apprentices, the Pc, and
Adriatic. The territory of the state is only
FORTY miles in circumference, and its popula-
ton about6, 900. The republic was founded
more than i 400 years ago, on moral prnci-
ples industry and equality and has preserved
its liberty and independence amid al the
wars and discords which have ragged around
it. Bonaparte respected it, and sent an en-
bassy to express his sentiments of friendship
and fraternity. It's governed by captain
regent chosen every six months by the repre-
,sentatives of the people (sixty in number)
who are chosen every six months by the peo-
,ple The taxes are light, the farm houses are
neat, the fields are well cultivated, and on all
sides are seen comfort and plcnty--the happy
effect Of morality, simplicity and frusality.-
A tale Of horror is told by the Memphis
Avalanche of last Friday. 1t says that Beck,
the murderer of Mr.. and Mrs. Goode on Fa-
-7orite Island, about two months since, was ta-
ken from the Austin, Miss, Jail, on Wednes-
day morning, by large number of men who
had gathered for the purpose, carried down
70 the rivers edge and by the waning light ct
the moon, rowed across to sandbar on the
Arkansas shore, and there, under the long
shadows of the trees, the crowd gathered
round their victim, and as the gray streaks Of
dawn appeared, grave was scooped out of
xhe sand by lot of men, who appeared at
that moment more like demons than human
beings. Binding the wretch's hands and feet
together, they threw him into the hole. Two
or three of the stoutest stood upon his body
while the hole was being filed up, lifting
their feet every now and then to keep on a
level with the rising sand. As the sand went
in those men actually danced upon the smoth-
ering victim beneath; and the whole crowd
broke out in unearthly song. At sunrise the
lynchers hurried to their skiffs and disappear
ed up and down the river along the Mississip-
pi shore.
A FEARFUL FALI-HERoIC EFFORT To
SAVE LlFE-The Kingston, New York, Ca
zette says that on Thursday, the 18th inst, a
party of ladies and gentlemen we're enjoying
themselves at Minor Kill Falls, near Gibson,
Greene county, when one of them, young
lady, named Miss Gill. being near steep
precipice, slipped and fell from rock dis
lance of over 120 feet, into the water below.
The party, with one exception, stood transfx-
ed with horror to the spot. This one was a
young man belonging to Kingston, named
Eugene Newcomb, who, seeing the situation,
at once went to the rescue. Springing from
crag to crag he descended the cliff, and at last
found himself in jumping distance of the wa
ter's edge, which be reached at single bound
Without pausing moment. he sprang into
the water and caught the young lady in his
arms and brought her to the shore. 1t was
found she was in an insensible condition, and
Mr. Newcomb at once bore her to house
half mile away, when restoratlves we're ap-
piled, after which she was taken to her home,
about mile further on. She was found to be
BADLY bruised and cut, but at last accounts
was doing well.
There is serious split in the ranks of the
Republican party in Aabama-one faction,
headed by Senator Spencer, declaring that
there have been eleven hundred assasnations
ia the State in the last two years and that
the Governor has failed in his duty by not
calling out military force while the other
side, headed by the Governor, contends that
the State is, as whole, peaceful and law
abiding, and that the courts are not only I'm
resisted IN the exercise of their functions,
but fully able to deal with all current crime.
The occasion Of the whole squabble is that
Speaeer desires a re election to the Senate.
and, knowing that his only chance is bay
onet legislature, fabricates his bloody tales.
The Governor having no interest that way
tells the truth, and the Senator of course
hates him.
CASUALTIES IN WAR.-A new method, it |
is reported, has recently been devised for as
certaining accurately the fate of every soldier
killedin action. This system has been in
troduced in Prussia, and under it every SOL
dier9is to carry his name, company, regiment,
&C., on piece of parchment, which is to be
attached to his uniform when going into
action. The parchments will be collected
from the dead, who are inferred on the battle
field, and the enemy will also be requested to
collect and return the slips by flag of truce.
fti stated that $4,000 pieces of parchment
have already been cut by, machinery. and arc
in the hands of numerous copyists to receive
the names and descriptions of the soldiers Of
the Prussian army