Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

Speaking of reconstruction in the South,
under present management, the New York
Tribune says For months the development
of rascality in the management of the recon-
structed governments of several Southern
States have been growing more and more con-
elusive. No intelligent man longer doubts
that those governments have been fagrantly
expensive and corrupt that they have increas-
ed taxation, incurred debt, and issued bonds to
an enormous extent In the two Carolinas es-
pecially, the robberies appear to have been
quite as gigantic, when the relative wealth of
the respective communities is consider ed as in
New York city"
CATHOLIC ABSTINENCE MoVEMENT.-It is
proposed to hold convention in Philadelphia
early IN the new year for the purpose of form
ing National Catholic Total Abstinence Union.
The number Of members of State Unions Is
now about 10000, and it is thought that a
closer connection between them will enable
then to work more effectively. The signatures
of the Presidents of the State Unions to call
for the proposed convention are now being Sc
PREsIDENTIAL.-Some of the newspapers
are discussing the next Presidential Elec-
tion," and who are to be candidates, &C. Gen.
Grant will be the Radical candidate, and we
hope some honest. capable man, will be select
ed as his opponent; one who is generally Con-
sentative in his views, and opposed to ultraism.
If Democrats, Conservatives, Moderate Repub-
licans, and Anti Radicals can all unite upon
such man, so much the better
The Signal Service displayed, before the late
storm, caationary signals at eighteen of the
twenty signal stations along the line of all the
lakes, the whole Atlantic coast, from Florida to
Maine, and on the coast Of the Gulf of Mexi-
CO. The reports received at the Office of the
chief signal officer show that at every port the
warning signal was given from five to fifteen
hours in advance of storm of unusual exte Mt
and severity.
Hoop poles in large quantities are now sent
from Virginia northward for shipment to the
West Indies. A firm Of Northern gentlemen
have force of fifty hands employed in getting
out hoop-poles near New Canton, SO miles
west of Richmond The hoop-poles are trans
ported by the James River to Richmond, and
at that point are transferred to coasters, and
On arriving at port of destination, are re-ship
ped to the West Indies
MEETING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
This body will meet on the first Wednesday in
December, and not on the first Monday, as we
stated last week. Ia former years the General
| Assembly did convene on the first Monday in
| December; but, by an Act approved Nov. LIST,
1870, the section Of the Code fixing that time
was amended, and the day was changed to
| Wednesday, It falls on the 9th of the month.
MARROW GAUGE IN BUENos AYREs. -Bue-
nos Ayres advices to October 1st, via Brazil
are to the effect that Congress had passed the
! law authorizing construction Of the Teunmau
railway (three hundred and thirty-seven miles,
on the narrow-gauge system, at q cost Of eight
and half millions hard dollars, instead of four
teen millions, as contemplated when making
the recent loan ia London.
The sub Ku-Klux Investigating Committee
which went to Florida has returned after ex-
aiming large number of witnesses. Ii
Jackson county they report that there have
been seventy-iye murders within the past three
years, and that there is not now single white
Republican in the county. They add that the
condition Of things generally is bad, but better
than ii was two years ago.
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''the division Of the State of Virginia into two
States was wholly uncalled for and unwarrant-
able; that the reasons given for it were puerlle
and inadequate that no good has grown out Of
it, &c. And further, it says it is unalteraby fol-
the reconstruction Of the Old Commonwealth
of Virginia. in it's original territorial integrity.
.
An official statement shows that the losses
of the Insurance companies of this country by
the Chicago fire amounted to So, S2l, 1922
Foreign companies lost $685. 0O Fify-sever
Of cur domestic companies have been forced tc
suspend in consequence Of their losses, and i
cannot yet be definitely ascertained what a
mount of the loss will be paid to the assured.
/
A thoughtful observer on women's rights
comes to their defense very effectively as FOL
lows: 81 have seen women so delicate thai
they were afraid to ride for fear of the horse
running away. afraid to walk for fear the dew
might fall, afraid to sail for fear the boat might
upset; but never saw one afraid to be mar
ried, which is more riskfu than all the Others
put together.
The father Of the newly elected q. S. Sena
tor from Georgia. was wealthy man, but be-
lieved it to be proper for everybody to learn
some trade Accordingly he made his son
learn the trade of shoe and boot maker, and
he made the boots with his own hands which
he wore when he went to college.
| The Washington Patriot says that the only
thing constitutional about this administra-
ton is sort Of kleptomania, or constitution
aP' tendency toward defalcation, swndling and
embezzlement-a sort Of morbid insanity"
that seems to have assumed an epidemic form
among Republican Office holders
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Grant is exercising more despotic power than
any crowned head of Europe. There is no
despot of Europe who dares to seize his sub
jects and thrust them into dungeons, without
| FIRST making accusation and proof of crime, and
giving to the accused an opportunity to be
heard