Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-05-24

ty-seventh Congress, and officers in the ju-
dicial, military and naval service of the.
United States, heads Of departments and
foreign ministers of the United States.
Col. Forney has just held closet talk
with Grant. The following is report OF
it:
Grant thought Greeley's nomination
joke.
Forney reptile that His Excellency was
mistaken.
Grant said that he would get as many
Democratic votes as Greeley would Repub-
lican votes.
Forney implored the President not to de-
ceive himself.
BOARD OF V1s1roRs APPOINTED. His Ex-
cellency, Governor Walker, has appointed
the following Board of Visitors for the
Virginia Military Institute" for the year
1872:
Hon John Letcher, Lexington, presi
dent Colonel Edmund Pendleton, Bote-
tourt; Colonel R Ell. Catlett, Stanton i;
Colonel j. NJ. Patton, Albemarle; Colonel
W. II. Taylor. Norfolk Robert Mayo,
Esq, Westmoreland Zeph. Turner, Esq,
Rappah annock Colonel W. Skeen, ALLIE
ghany; General W. H. Richardson, A. A.
G.. (en-o1icio.) The Board will meet at the
Tp,t;tuta IN tbo O6tb of T,ro
Horace Greeley, on the goth, formally
accepted the nomination Of the Liberal Re
publican party, and after reciting and prais.
ing the platform concludes as follows:
''In vain do the whippers-in of parties
once vital, because rooted in the vital needs
of the hour, protest against raging and
boiling, denounce men nowise their inferi-
ors as traitors and renegades, and threaten
them with infamy and ruin. | am conf
dent that the American people have already
made your cause their own, fully resolved
that their brave hearts ard strong arms
shall bear it On to triumph.
In this faith, and with the distinct under
standing, that if elected, shall be the Pres
ident, not Of party, but Of the whole peo.
pie, | accept our nomination in the conf
dent trust that the masses of our country.
men, North and South, are eager to clasp
hands across the bloody chasm which has
too long divided them, forgetting that they
have been enemies ip the joyful conscious
ness that they are and must henceforth re-
main brethren
The State Conservative Executive Com
mittee, pursuant to the clll, assembled in
Richmond on Saturday last After a full
and free discussion Of the political situation
the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
"Resozued, That this Committee being of
the opinion that State Convention Of the
Conservative party of Virginia ought to be
held for the purpose Of preparing for she
coming Presidential election, and the last
State Convention having in express terms
withheld from this Committee, and denied
to to any body OF than regularly organized
State convention, the power to declare for
the Conservative party in Virginia any
opinion or policy it is therefore
''Resozued, That State convention of
the Conservative party be held at Richmond
on the 9th day of June, 1872, at -
o'clock NJ, to be constituted in all respects
as provided by the plan Of Conservative Or
ganization."
Subsequently the following call was pre-
pared by the chairman of the committee and
sent to the press
cat meeting of the whole State Conser-
vative Committee of Virginia, held in the
City of Richmond on the 18th of May, 1872,
it was resolved that State Convention of
the Conservative party be held at Richmond
on the 9th Of June. 1872, at ~ o'clock
NJ, to be constituted in all respects as pro-
vided by the plan of Conservative organlza-
ton. By that plan each voting precinc, of
city, and township of county, is entitled
to one-delegate in the Convention and each
delegate is entitled to one VOTE
(For the Vindicator.)
Mr.. Editor Changes are perpetually
occurring all around us-men and things
are alike subjects to change. Even Old
Waynesboro has, We trust, seen her aoorst
days, and, the Sibyline leaves turned over,
will reveal her rising fortunes new citizens
are found upon our streets, houses are
changing hands, and, we trust, the time is
not remote when our uacant houses and
office rooms will be bought up, or rented,
and, the beautiful building sites all around
us be occupied by palatial mansions and
filled with an enterprising and refined popu-
lation.
Among the lac acquisitions 10 Wayncs
boro Society is Maj. VIM A McCue, ma
tive Of Augusta County, son of the venera.
bic and time honored citizen, John McCue,
whom Augusta delighted 10 honor whilst
living, and now reveres when dead, after an
absence of several years, this worthy son of
a worthy sire joins hands with US and unites
his with our destiny. AS an earnest of love
for the playground of his childhood, he has
purchased residence here aud, from is
furnishing, it would indicate a permanent
he being no loose footed bachelor,
but fairly house-keeper and head Of fam
lily, iuts full acceptation.' The brother of our
newcomer, Judge John Fl. McCue of Mel
son County, gave us a hearty shake of the
hand to day. He briefly visits his friends
here, and the cordial greeting and utter
change Of happy boyhood "reminiscences ill.,
minated bis generous heart with q1oao Of
satisfaction. Old Augusta has
representations in all sections of
our wide extended country Another acces-
sion to the Village society is the surviving
members Of the home circle of Col. Geo. c..
Robertson They have taken house here
and we trust will find Waynesboro all they
hoped or wished for.
Our quiet little Village, Mr.. Editor is not