The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-08-14

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Col Clarkson and Ernest Wiltz, Esq. on be-
half of Col. Cameron. The latter was woun
ded The duel having taken place before the
adoption of the present Constitution Of Vir
GINA, neither of the parties are disfranc hised
by their participation in it.
| Colonel Hughes edited the State Journal
from about the middle of April 1869, until
the middle of June, 1870. In February,
1871, he was appointed. without solicitation
on his part, United States Attorney for the
Western District Of Virginia, and has ever
the nomination for Governor will now for
ward his resignation to the President
C.P. RAMsDELL.
| The nominee for the Office of Lieutenant-Gov-
| ernor, was born in Ostego county, New York, in
the year 1925, and is therefore man about for
| ty-eight years of age, in the prime of vigorous
manhood Of medium height, with dark brown
hair circling the spot of badness that rises above
! broad and slightly retreating forehead, dark
and expressive eyes, and chin whlskers surroun-
ding a. rather handsome, manly face, over which
| kindly benevolent smile often spreads with the
| utmost naturalness His whole appearance is
progressing. In his early youth his father re-
moved to the Holland Land Purchase in Chaut-
auqua county, and there became an intimate and
warm friend of Governor Seward Embracing
the tenets of the Old Wing party, and when young
| Ramsdell was fourteen years Of age settled in
Venango county, Pennsylvania. Here the sub
iect of cur SKETCH after his education at the FIRE.
donia Academy, was brought up, married, and
resided upon his farm until 1864. Agriculture
has been his lifelong pursuit, ard to 1t he has
devoted his best energies and greatest Abilities
as well as q sincere devotion.
When the Republican party was founded in
1856, Mr.. Ramsdel was one of its earliest adher-
ents, and established the Venango Citizen the first
paper in the county opposed to the democracy and
entered into the famous Fremont campaign of
1856 with all the manly ardor with which his
gallant leader inspired the young men of the
north He was a delegate to the Republican ma
tional convention at philadelphia, and there di-
vided with Thaddeus Stevens the Pennsylvania del
egation between Col. Fremont and Judge Mclean.
In the following year he was elected to the Penn
sylvania house OF representatives, and reelected
in 1858, and then served for two years as jour
nal clerk of the senate During the war he was
firm supporter ofthe national administration,
and advocated the settlement of the war questions
or the vital principles of liberty and equality.
Directly after the war he removed to Delaware,
with his family, bought farms, established col
ony, and founded town and the Wyoming college.
Subsequently he bought lands in Surry county,
Virginia, and moved thither with his family and
colony of friends, and here again his first act
was to build fine school house and church, and
furnish it with fine organ, and all the necessary
appliances of secular and religious instruction.
Here, as in Pennsylvania aside from his many
philanthropic enterprises he is wholly engaged in
agriculture which pursuit he has brought to q
degree Of perfection hitherto scarcely known in
tideWater Virginia.
In 1871 he was elected to the House of Dele