Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-09-12
The Wisconsin Democrats have nominated

Senator Doolittle for Governor.
In their platform the seventh resolution de-
precates and denounces every outbreak OF law
lessness and violence at the North and South,
and declares that the acts of Congress which
authorize the employment of standing army
to garrison places where elections are to be
held, and constitute local police IN States,
and which empowers officers of the Federal
administration to interpose military force tor
the purpose of overawing political conven-
ton, are subversive Of free government, and
perpetual menace of public liberty.
The following is the fifth resolution: THAT
as the late amendments to the Constitution
have been declared by the properly constituted
authority to be part of the fundamental law
of the land, they are binding upon the people.
That the Democratic party now, as IN the past,
know no higher law than the Constitution
That the time honored principle OF strict con-
struction, applied by its trainers and accepted
by the wisest statesmen and jurlsts OF the
country, should be observed in all legislation
by Congress relative to the Constitution and
its amendments. That the Democratic party
are opposed to the withdrawal Of civil and pc
ltical rights from any class OF people, and that
we demand the removal of all political disqual-
ifcatio1s. -
The Petersburg Index says: -We are sorry
to learn from Col r. E. Withers, general agent
IN Virginia Of The Lee Monument Association
that but few memberships have so far been sub
seribed for. and the work is not going OF so
well as its projectors might have rightly antlcl-
pated." He desires the gentlemen recently ap-
pointed assistant agents in the different cities
and counties of the State to communicate with
him as soon as possible, stating whether or not
they accept the positions rendered them.
COL Jas. r. Skinner is the appointee for this
County.
1t is gravely advertised in New ork paper
that process has been discovered by gentle
man of that city, by which he can convert
amethysts and emerads into rubies and dia-
monds. We believe that we can discount that
scientist and give him points in the game. Our
process is simple enough, but by it we can con-
vert ordinary greenbacks into gold coins OF the
largest denominations. All that we lack at
present to conduct our discovery to successful
Issue is sufficient supply of the ordinary
greenbacks.
1t is thought in some quarters that the color
ed Radicals of the country will seek to have a
colored man nominated as candidate for Vice
Nj Al ohah Ic
more than probable, however, that the greatest
possible efforts will be made, especially ins the
Southern States, to consolidate the entire color
ed vote, in behalf of Rad ical candidates for all
Offices and that claim will be made for a
considerable share of the State Offices.
There is annually consumed in and around
Philadelphia 1876, 900 head of cattle, or an ave-
rage OF 10000 per week. This supply, as
shown on the books of the West Philadelphia
drove-yard, is drawn from three sources ''Lan-
caster county, Virginia, and the West,
the last rather general designation including
every portion of the country lying west Of the
Alleghanies, with the exception OF Virginia.
The publication in a New York paper Of
what purported to be the proceedings and ad-
dress of Southern association, looking event
ually to future independence of the South.
has turned out on inquiry, as was at the time
supposed, to be radical electioneering docu-
ment, not having a single fact for basis No
such organization exists, nor ever has existed,
since the war.
The opinion is expressed by the New York
Eventng Posi- Republican, that Mississippi and
Virginia are the most peaceable and the bss
governed Of the reconstructed States. Il
(says the P6st) the Conservatives Of Virginia
continue TO conduct themselves as wisely as they
have thus far, they can probably govern the
State for many years.
The Chicago Post in an article on the sub
iect of protection, says 1.-THE Eastern Factory
fourishes at our expense" This is the boast
of an editor who fourishes so little at his owl
expense that he is compelled to go to bed reg
ularly every six or eight weeks in order to have
his only shirt washed.
The Brooklyn Union says: The man tt
bear the Republican standard this Fall fol
the Office of Mayor must be a true and tried he
publican" It will no: be difficult to find such
man, as large number of the Brooklyn Re
publicans have not only been tried, but con
victed and sentenced also.
A writer in Lppincott says 1t would be dat:
ficult to find man who has made more people
happy than General Grant. General Grant
has made many people happy unquestonaby
A thousand grateful relatives will bear official
testimony to that fact.
John Russell Young asks Horace Greeley
''what are the reasons why Grant should not be
renominated p and is fool enough to suppose
that Horace can crowd catalogue o.
those reasons into single number of the Tri-
bune
Gen. Butler declares that if the people
''would only insist On the enforcement of the
law, the Government would stand on frmer
basis. This is very true, but in that case
Butler would stand on nothing
A ten year-old boy, named Henry Ward
Beecher, has been arrested 10 Kansas City for
petit larceny. Why soiH parents persist in
starting their children down hill by giving them
such names as that?
Sufficient returns have been received to settle
tho foct tbat fha voterc nf West Viroinia ba va