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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

Charles Moore, well-kpown and eater
prising citizen Of Shenandoah county, died
at his residence near Mt. Jackson, on Fri
day of last week.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18
A tabular statement, ust published BY FRS

A tabular statement just published by Frs
Auditor, W. F. Taylor, shows that the whole
value of lands in 1856 was $3.50, 421, s21 50
and in 1870, $277 800, 1877 II, showing de-
crease Of sl1 ,60o,924 A. Augusta, iuclud.
ing Staunton, presents the largest increase of
any county in the State, being $1,437, 900.
Loudoun, 81, 1876, 779; and Caroline, 81 144,-
347. None of the other counties reach higher
than 100000.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

The District Council of the Tunkcr Church
was held at Cedar Grove Church, few miles
below New Market, on the Valley Turnpike,
on Friday and Saturday last There were
present two hundred and fifty or three hum
bred members, embracing perhaps fifty Min
isters
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

Fredericksburg wants Richmond to take
back a second hand Fire Engine, purchased f
the latter city, and return to the former her
bonds sIni;n'' trade
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

A Maryland Democratic paper nominate
John w. Garrett, for President, and jim
Fisk for Vice-P President.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

Co Saturday last, Mr.. Topper, an En-
glishman, recently arrived in this country,
was drowned while attempting to cross North
River near Davidson s lumber house in Rock
bridge.
The registration in Petersburg shows a
black majority Of 588 in a total list of 1882
Three of the wards have white majorities and
three black. . +.
Rev. WIS. White, D. D., Of Lexington
one ofthe most venerable and highly esteem.
ed dlvines in the State, is dangerously i'll. =
There are now more than 100000 in tie
State Treasury, and the amount daily IL IN
creating.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

Ga the night of the 18th, the stage coach
from this place crossed the river at Lexington
f,r thc first fine in MN. davs.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

The SECOND RAILROAD BRIDGE ACROSS
THE OHIo-Another channel span of the
Baltimore and Ohio company S railroad bridge
over the Ohio river at Belair, four miles be
low Wheeling, was completed last week, and
the trestle removed. Viewed from the shore,
the span just finished is described as present.
ing light and graceful appearance, yet it is
strong aud massive. The trestlng is now be-
ing put up in the other span, and is expected
to be in place in the course Of two or three
weeks Thus the Baltimore and Ohio road
will soon have its two great bridges across the
Ohio river-one at Parkersburg, the other at
Belair.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18
STATE POLICY.

The question of State policy cannot be
too seriously considered as affecting the po-
litical complexion Of the next Legislature of
Virginia, and the very existence of the Con-
sentative party of the State. The outcrop-
pings at this early day. seem to indicate very
clearly that the party now in power will have
division in its own ranks, and that it will
open the breach and separate off into two
columns, inviting Neapolonic movement on
the part Of the Republicans to crush them in
detail. 1t is not our purpose, at this early
day to 60 into discussion of what we think
should be the true policy of the party. Ger
tainly there are great fundamental truths
which lie at the fase of the States honor and
interest upon which all who value the well
fare Of the Commonwealth, and her future
hopes and prosperity, may harmonic. But
if men, led on and controlled by personal
ambition, will not rise to the imminent peril
which threatens, but, losing sight of the per-
manent interests of the State, be animated
by personal desire, we have serious forebod
ings that disaster will follow. We have a
willy, well-organzed and determined foe to
fight, backed and supported by the influence
and means of the Federal Government. It
will require caution and unity to overcome
them It is, therefore, we think,a grave
folly to be cultivating -prejudices and feelings
at this time, which may lead to eventual es
rangement.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18
Ne1U 4AdUertIse72a e7ats.

In obedience to Resolution of the Council of
the City Of Staunton, adopted May I'd, 1871,
have prepared the following statement of the re-
sources and expenditures of the City Council,
from the LIST day of July, 1870, to the LIST day of
Nav 1871 viz:
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

RICHMOND ENQUIRER journal, un
der its new management has improved in all
of its departments local, news and editorial.
We were at first inclined to the belief that it
would tread in the old beaten path-present
the same tameness that had heretofore distin-
guished it. We confess to an agreeable
surprise. Its editorials exhibit high order of
Intellect, comprehensive grasp Of the issues of
the day, and force and power of presenting
them which have not marked that paper since
the reign Of the elder Richie. The uncoln-
promising position it has taken on all cues
lions affecting the honor and true interests Of
Virginia, cannot fail to. commend it to the
solid thinking men of the State.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18

In his speech at St. Louis, Missouri, few
days ago, Senator Carl Schurz said II con-
siaer it one of the most pressing needs Of our
day that we should return to the sound prac-
tice OF constitutional government. The safe
guards Of our common rights and liberties
contained in the Constitution are too sacred
and valuable boon to be permanently jeop-
ardized in, providing for passing emergen-
cy. 1t is time that the American people
opened their eyes to the dangerous character
of this tendency, and that neither a great
name nor an object appealing to our sympa-
thies should be permitted to disguise it
AS for me, I have seen the working of ire
sponsble power and personal government in
other countries, and I may assure my con-
stituents that while | am citizen of this re-
public shall struggle to the last gasp against
its introduction here" f.ss s3assf-ga <. !
These are noble words Would that such
sentiments were held and acted upon by orr
public men of all parties. =.
The Harrisonburg Enterprise has the fol-
lowing items &<s' p
Charles Jones, charged with horse steal
ing, who after serving one year in the Pen-
itentiary; applied for a new trial. appeared be-
fore Judge Turner. Tuesday His counsel,
Hon. e. J. Roller, made an eloquent appeal
for the prisoner Owing to the absence of an
important witness, on motion of Common
wealth, Attorney Paul, the prisoner was
remanded to Jail. '..s.,.. !. s.5 s.
Considerable interest is manifested by prop
erty holders on the square, at present: Geo.
j. Kisling, our County Surveyor being en-
gagged in surveying the land, and startling
several Of on. citizens by difference in real
and supposed lines. Ct
Commissioner Points informs us that since
March 9th to this date 43 cases in Bank
ruptcy have been filed &; and that ~ suits
have been instituted for the benefit Of the
United States Government.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18
The French Civil War.

The situation at Paris is very plainly all
In favor Of the Versailists, and unless some
miraculous blunder bcfail their plans, Paris
must soon be compelled to succumb Nearly
the entire western aud southwestern fronts of
the encelnte, and consequently a large por-
ton of the city itself, are now under the
guns of the Versallist batteries, and the work
OF preaching the ramparts is being steadily
prosecuted at several salient points, while I'M
der the protection Of their batteries the be-
sicgers have advanced their picket lines in
several places to within a stones throw of the
ramparts. The communists are restricted
therefore to the enccinte, and to the three
outer forts on the south, Montrou ye Bicetre
and lvry, and to several advanced positions
on the north side of Paris. They must soon
evidently abandon these outer forts and posi-
lions, however, and the preparations now 60
ing on in the city would indicate that their
main hope is no longer in ramparts or forts,
but in the barbados they have erected in
| the streets. And such is the disorganized. if
not actually demoralized condition of a large
proportion of their forces, that these desper-
ate resources will doubtless afford but tenn
porary though perhaps bloody revenge upon
the victorious columns of Versailles.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-05-18
Net amt chargeable 10 this council
S32,29o IS
Ss,967 AZ
Leaving this Council in debit,

leaving lils council IN debts S., 1857 AZ
lNeIELIhe above tables arranged in juxtaposi-
tlon IN the manuscript but Impossible for us to fol-
low copy in this particular as none Of our TYNE are s
ciently smal--ED) = - ~
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-30
GOULD
AasthsF Revenue Dsfalcation-UnCle Sam
MplOted 10 from SAC 600 10 SCI, 1900.
Ons OF ShsrmaR's Bamners-The Partner
Of KrzI zaBOWskl, Hhs says rs is
as Seed as a Niger.
the savannah lGal Nsws.l

Major j. II. Gould, who has for the
past two years occupied the position
Of Internal Revenue Collector for the
First District of Georgia, has
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RlTaAlLLEUsE OF THE SKIES.
The FrIahifal Explosion e an Eaarmous
Ball Of Fire on the Deck Of
Schooner at Sea.

Captain Joseph Robinson, from
BroOkhaven, who sailed from Paler-
mo on the first Of February, in the
schooner GeOrgetta Lawrence, arrived
at New York on Wednesday. After a
run of thirty-three days in variable
weather, he passed the Rock. From
here the weather was rough. Both
jibboOm and foretopmast were carried
away in a gale. Ia lat. AZ, long. GO,
while the captain vas sitting aft, be
was startled by a tremendous explo-
sion, similar to the reverberation Of a
rlted cannon. The flash came Whiz-
zing through the skies like a red-hot
ball, glittering with sparkles, and fol-
lowed by a brilliant trail. What is
most wonderful is that this aerial Wis
ttor came directly in a straight line,
At an angle Of about hlty-fve degrees
toWard.t the schooner. Between the two
mast5, at about two feet from the
deck, the ball which seemed to mea-
sure from two to three feet in diam
eteT, exploded. The reverberatiOn was
like that of cannon discharged in ram
id succession. The explosion was a.
cOmpanied by q flash of flight which
Illuminated the sea to the horizon
lights that are used in th~eaters, I'M
mediateIy after the shock followed a
terrible peal Of thunder; then, after a
lapse Of half an hour, the phenome-
non was repeated, but in a lesser de-
gree. The second ball, which came
at the same angle and from the same
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THE ALABAMA QUESTION
English Doubts IS to the Result Of the
High Conn Ilslan's LabsFs.


The London Times observes that it
is impossible to avoid misgivings re-
specting the result of the Joint High
Commission at Washington, when we
find the most extreme proposals put
I forward as the natural and only salts
{ factory issue of the negotiations. The
/ Americans are evidently under the
! delusiOn that our liability for the Ala
| bama claims is a settled matter, and
| that the commissioners will meet for
/ no other purpose than TO estimate the
amount of the penalty to be eXacted
/ from Us. But this IS an assumption
which we absolutely repudiate. We
are willing to submit our case to the
decision OF an impartial arbitrator,
but until such an Independent decis-
ion has been pronounced, the Ameri-
can government has no claim upon US
whatever
NO PROPOSAL FOR DAMAGES
/ can have any standing ground before
! the Joint High Commission. The ut
most they can consider is how the
| preliminary question of responsibility
Is to be settled. But if the Senators
and politicians of the United States
/ misapprehend our attitude respecting
the preliminary inquiry, their error
with respect to the kind Of COnces-
siOns we might ultimately make to
them is simply amazing. The policy
of the
CESSION OF BRITISH AMERICA
| to the United States is earnestly dis
cussed." OF course, if such a sUgges-
ton were made before our commits
siOners they would take good care
that it was never mentioned to them
again. Butthe Senators will do we'll
further to understand that they may
lust as we'll eXpend earnest discussion
upon the policy Of anneXing this
island to the continent of America.
The Daily Ne1Cs observes that it will
be a
CALAMITY To BOTH NATIONS
If extreme views are forced by Amer
lean opinion on the American COM
~missieners. The wide scope Of the
commission is hardly appreciated by
the public of the United States. They
approach the subject with an assump-
ton which We are not preparedtO grant
10 is not American opinion OF Ameri-
can feeling that the commission has to
Salty, but it has, if possible, to find
out the Justice of the case, the interna-
tiOnal law of the case, and the true
facts of the case. Having found out
these points, it will then suggest some
means Of satisfying them, with an
especial view at that point, to
AMERICAN OPINION AND FEELING
so that the settlement will be satfsfac-
tory to both sides. It is just the re-
quirement of a settlement satisfactory
to both sides which the Americans do
not seem to understand. All that they
seem to be thinking of is how far Great
Britain will yield to their demands.
We will, however, the NeJCS says, still
hope that more moderate COunsels will
prevail. We have often noted that
American craftsmanship must be
Judged rather by its deeds than its
words. 1t often talks wildly, and then
acts with prudence.
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Prusslan Amenities.

We clip the following statement
from the World. II exhibits a climax
Of barbarity, Of which we know OF
no parallel outside Of former
Indian warfare. One cannot bat
remark, too, upon the base pol
icy Of the. British journals no
doubt at the suggestion Of the govern
ment, in suppressing whatever might
excite peculiar indignation against the
I" Christian " followers of the "piOus''
William:
The war correspondents Of the
London papers have all come home,
and they are all hard at work prepar-
ing books in which they mean to re-
coup themselves for the long reticence
which was forced upon them by their
late Prussian hosts. One of them, an
officer in her Majesty's service, says
that the horrors he saw ard wrote OF
/ had all disappeared from his letters
when published in the papers sent to.
He vOuChes for having seen t~hirty-five
Franc Greurs stripped naked by their
Prussian captOrs and laid upon their
/ faces in the snow. Sentries were
placed over them, with orders to shoot
them if they stirred. This went on
| for a whole night, and in the morning
they were all turned over, when three
were found still to show signs Of life.
The terrible drama was then finished
/ by the Prussian sentinels deliberately
| passing their bayOnets through the
| bodies"
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Congress

IT is reported that the French Gov
eminent has in view the levying Of an
import duty on the principal raw ma,
terials used in the manufactures OF
that country, and especially upon the
raw material Of textile fabrics. 1t is
calculated that the duty on cotton
alone viii yield a revenue Of from
twelve to sixteen millions Of dollars
per annUm. The duties on foreign
manufactured fabrics viii, it is stated,
be also raised. The heavy burdens
createdsby the recent war undOubt-
edly compel France to resort to every
practicable means for raising the adj
ditiOnal revenue required by her heavy
debt; but the tax on raw materials,
it is argued, will prove injurious to
the industrial interests Of the cOun-
try. As the price Of the manufac-
tured article viii necessarily be raised,
consumption viii be checked and
although French fabrics, by the beau
ty Of their designs, can always COM
mand a market, yet in the line Of cheap
goods, the English manufacturers
viii have great advantages over their
rivals. The result Of the tax on raw
cotton, it is stated will be to drive
the manufacturer of fine cotton goods.
from France over to England or to the
United States.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-30

THE ghost confined in that ''jar''
told Miss Clara that Kendrick, the
letter carrier, had been murdered,
and that his body could be found in
a well on Exchange street. In this
Mr.. Ghost was mistaken, for Ken
drick has turned up in Michigan, all
alive and kicking. That shows that
the ghost was a wholly unreliable
character. Andwe think withal, that
his ghostship kept rather low COM
pany, judging from the fact that he
was found in the jar in a certain Cabi-
net in which Robertson deposits his
AUaIaacbes and meets his privy
c0unsellOrs. il is strange that any
body should care enough about him
to punch heads and raise pools Of blood
on his account. But then, as
it was done 50 gently as not
seriously to disturb the pulse
Of the victim, perhaps the
intention Of the m|urderoUs -assAssins,
who were so careful to strike him only
with boxing gloves, was nothing
more than to keep his spectral majesty
from being exhibited too freely at the
Greenlaw Opera Hall, where, after
receiving their dollars from a multi
tude of spectators, he might be rather
roughly handled If he did not turn
out a very proper .1person. If the
young hObgoblin is really out Of the
jar, let him now tell plainly who has
interfered with his projects; whether
the jar was bought at Jacks store by
a negro woman with a ragged dollar
bill; whether she was paid for it, and
how much; who put it under the
aforesaid stump, and when and how
whether it was slipped out from
under a certain Unmenti0nable
garment before going under the
stump and being hung in its last
palatial place of deposit; what chicken
was killed TO color the temples and
kiss the ground and lie in a "pOopi
where Jack fell whether Joe was hid
behind the wood pile in the northeast
corner Of the back yard when Robert
son did not call for Joe with the pistol
at his head, and when with the pistol
at his head he did call for Joe before
being knocked into that ''pOol of
blood, and whether each particular
hair on each particular head, at the
Sea1ce OF Tuesday night stood on end,
and also whether Robertson will re-
cover from the serious blows by rea-
son Of which his reason departed.
We beg you, ar. Ghost If you are a
good ghost, to tell US what you know.
If you are not, ego to the deviI.1
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HORRIBLE DEPRAWTY.
A Nan 0ulraBes bis Daughter, sny Thir.
teen Years Of age.

From the Kansas City Bulletin, March %
On Wednesday evening last the
citizens Of Ottawa, Kansas, were
thrown into the widest state Of ex-
element by the announcement Of one
Of those cases Of beastly depravity to
which it would seem almost an impO5-
sibility for any human to reach.
1t seems that a thing in the garb OF
a man, named M. Heruns, has for
some time past been keeping what is
known as the Merchants Hotel.
Heruns is q married man, and the
father Of a lovely girl Of thirteen years
Of age, pa whom, il would seem, he
looked with more than q fathers
l0ve-aye, with the eye OF a villain, a
seduCer, q beast, Tor ne used the love
and respect Of his daughter for her
father TO aid him ia accomplishing bis
hellish designs on her psTs0n.
Ai1a nefune, the mother of the
child, had been absent from the house.
on s. visit to q neighb0r, and, it seems.
returned sooner than anticipated.
Hearing the cries Of the girl, and fear
ing something might have happened.
she proceeded to the room from
whence proceeded the sObs, and hur-
riedly opened the door, and saw her
husband struggling with the child.
Selling the nearest available object,
Mrs. Heruns made a bound 20 the bed
and proceeded to chastise the villain
ia a most severe manner.
The affair having become known,
the neighbOrs collected together and
proceeded TO the house Tor the puT-
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OK Monday next the Connecticut
elections viii take place. Both par
ties count on victory and both are
working to that end. The contest
viii be close, but, judging by the re-
suit in New Hampshire and the effect
Of Summers speech, we have reason
to believe the Democracy will be sue
cessfuL The Democratic candidates
fer the principal positions are James
E. English for reelection as Governor,
and Alfred r. Goodrich, John Ken
drick, John ". Stedman and William
H. Barnum for Congress, the last
named gentleman having been q
member of the Forty-frst Congress.
The Republican candidates are Mar
shall Jewell for Governor, and Julius
L. Strong, Stephen ". Kellogg, Hen
~ II. Starkweather and George COT
fng for Congress, the first three hay
ing been members Of the FOrty-hrst
E
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WE were yesterday plunged in a
gulf Of dark despair" by reading the
ghost organ, for that bawdry journal
contained the sad news that the
thieves had made a raid upon Robert
son and captured the jar with all Its
precious and mysterious contents!
Alas! for the glory Of all sublunary
things. Every body is inquiring how
not who struck Billy Patterson-but
who smOte and thUmped Johnny Rob
ertson? Who got thatjar? The ghost
that revealed the hiding place Of the
jar can tell all about the hiding place
of the thieves. IL is none Of q fu-
neral but we sympathize with the
manned and the wounded, and hope
the outlaws viii be caught and "bot-
tied-upn either in the stolen jar or
the peniteutiary. The sad termina.
ton of this ~stupeudOus humbug Is
another Illustration that "the wages
Of sin is death, or a battered head
and the loss ofa good deal else. The
ghost story was a falsehOOd from
the start; it has been kept alive by
faisehood; it has taken the money Of
hard-WOrking men, without giving
them their moneys worth lie the
ghost; il has encouraged superstition
ana ignorance, made false impressions
upon the minds Of the young, and
finally has terminated in Outlawry
and robbery. We Join our old citi-
zens, an citizens Of Intelligence and
~respecabiity, in expressing the hope
that our city may never again be dis
graced by such Wickedness and folly
Is has been enacted during the last
four weeks, on account of the siIIiest
stories that ever emanated from a dis
tempered brain, or was ever propa-
gated by a corrupt and Hcentious
press.
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pose Of hanging the villain, but chad
made HE escape. The Indignation Of
the citizens runs very high, and they
threaten to lynch him as Don as he Is
caught. Mrs. Heruns says she will
shoot him on sight.
Such are the facts as given to US by
a reliable party. That such a case Of
human depraVity could exist in this
enlightened age, and live in the quiet
city of Ottawa, Kansas, Is beyond our
K1n