Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-12-20
TALK or THE WEEK.

and from some quarters disagreeablv so
That is not pleasant talk we have from
Louisiana. 1t is enough to beget very anx-
ious thoughts among even US in Virginia
who are not suffering yet from ''centrajza.
tlon." The story stripped of the party feel.
ing that both sides are SO apt to invest it
with is simply, this. Two State tickets ran
at the Presidential election IN Louisiana :;
one Liberal ticket headed hy Yarmouth,
(from Illinois, cashiered Federal quarter
master, and the Grant ticket headed bv
Kellogg (frcm Obio). Both parties claim
that they were elected, and both were return.
cd by rival election boards. The Grant
election board made their return by count
ing votes of colored men, lists of whom, that
had not been permitted vote, were sworn
to, and the Yarmouth board returned him
by fraud quite as daring 1t is to be said
Of the two candidates, that they are
well known, and their best friends
have never claimed for them any better
qualities than sharpness and INSCRIPTIONS
trickery. The Kellogg, or custom house
side, after defeating Yarmouth, and return.
ing Kellogg Legislators as elected, appealed
to the U. S. Courts to enforce their action,
and U. S. Judge Durelle, (Republican
Judge and U. S. Marshall Packard,
Chairman of the Grant State Republican
Committce) did enforce it by calling U. S.
troops to their assistance. President Grant
backed Durelle in his action and Yarmouth
being deposed, mulatto named Pnchbeck,
Lit Governor, became Governor. The per-
sonal motive of the whole affair is that Pres.
ident Grants brother-in.law, Collector Casey,
will be elected U S. Senator for six years
by the Kellogg Legislature, and the bumilia-
ting part of the whole affair is, that meet
ing Of respectable citizens of New Orleans
was held, which passed resolutions humbly
offering to acquiesce in tie centralizing pol
icy Of the national government, if the presi
dent would only protect them and tell them
what he wants done This looks like ou,
liberties are on the down grade.
The Court of Appeals last Friday decided
(with Judge Staples dissenting) that tie Ia IF
CT the last legislature against recsving
coupons for taxes was unconstitutional and
null. Then commenced scene Of con(u.
sion in Richmond. The House passed an
act repeating the whole Of the act providing
for the payment Of interest On the public
debt, but that hung in the Senate. Then
both houses passed joint resolution to pre-
vent collectors of taxes, buying up coupons
to pay in their dues with, and all this
time the State Auditor refused to receive the
coupons in payment of taxes until the the
legislature should pass an act explicitly d.
recting him. At last on Tuesday the Court
decided to hear argument from the Attorney
General on motion for the re-hearing of
the case and that leaves the matter Just as it
stood before the decision was rendered. with
ing its decision With reference to collectors
buying up the funded coupons with the
amount received ia money for taxes and pay
ing them into the State treasury, the penal
= ty attached is fine Of not less than 500
nor more than 81 900, and, at tie disere.
ton of the court, thirty days Imprisonment
in the county Jail.
There don't seem to be much of that pre-.
cious spirit Of forgiveness, that our Republi-
can friends assured us would be poured out
on Virginia like oil, by congress, if she voted
the Grant ticket. A proposition is 10 con
gress to appropriate $65, 900 for the relief
Of VIM. & Mary College, and strange to
say, IN SO trivial a matter, united move
meat was made by the Republicans to make
it obnoxious and defeat it. Ono dodge was
an amendment to open the college to colorel
students. Of course the bill went down
like it had been shot. And yet Mr.. Robt
W. Hughes, U. S. District Attorney iu
Virginia had used his best efforts for it, and
written an able letter to late Attorney Gen.
eral Hoar, OF Massachusetts in its favor.
The trouble is our Virginia Republicans
may be sincere in their promises, but they
\havn't the influence to make them good,
h the Republicans in congress havn't the
to make them good.
President has heard the thanks Of
some Virginians headed by Mr.. Chas. S
Darlington, President Of the James River
q Kanawha Canal, who presents the rare,
and to be. admired, spectacle of an officer
unselfsh enough to advocate for the good of
his company, a movement which will deprive
him of his Office The President in reply
said he hoped congress would give the
work sufficient encouragement to insure its
completion"
In Washington City, the judges have de-
cided that restaurant keeper or merchant
may refuse to sell to colored man, or white
man, or anybody he chooses, and this has
brought the eolored people to grief They
are now after Sumner, who they went back
on, to help them with his Civil Rights Bill.
But then Sumner has neither friends nor in
fuence now!
GREETINGS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIR.
GINA TO HARVARD "A very graceful let
ter of sympathy for the losses Of Harvard by
the Boston fire has been written by the fac
ultY of the University of Virginia to the fac.