The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-09-24

WASHINGTON, september Il.-Geh. Emory
telegraphs to tie War Department under date
of New Orleans, September 20, as follows:
yesterday the State authorities replaced the
temporary police force by the regular police
force OF that city. Tt was feared that this change
might cause some disturbance. and troops were
posted at various points in the city, but the
night passed very quietly. Think this may be
! takeE, rs an evidence that the Surrender was
complete and in cool faith, fol by a regularity
| of the law of Louisiana the police force Of this
city is organized under the State law and is un-
der direct control of the Governor"
Core spondence of the vIRGINIAN.
Congressional Contest Tilt Between Har-
ris and O'FerraA.
SrANAR1osvILLE, VA, Sept. II, 1874.
Mr. EDIToR:--On yesterday in Stanardsville
Green commenced the campaign between Judge
Harris and C. O'Fe rrall for Congress in the 7bh
District, and very hard though flor Coliserv-
atives) good-natured Kilkenny cat-tight was the
result.
Judge Harris led off in an hours Speech
showing first that Congf essmen should, by re-
election, be retained in Office Is, 20, so or 40
years consecutively, as the longer they remain
members, the more Influential thy become,
and there was no more use for a new member
in Congress, than a fifth wlee, to wagon"
He said New England, with her sandy barren
soil, rocks, mountains and ungen;al climate,
had made herself the money centre of the gov
eminent, aud we had all become tributaries to
her wealth, by changing our members fire.
quently, whilst she had retained hers in Office
! for the the terms above mentioned that IN
SO doing, she had constantly secured to herself
the chairmen Of all important committees, aud
| also protective tariff, whereby she made us
pay hundred per cent. more than the actual
fOEcl h D.,tn
| tectons, two or three hundred per cent. for AN
our machinery, and thus accommodating wealth,
| the (cuss-Word) Yam. avs, had become The hold
! ers of all the bonds 2 I'd valuable stocks of the
| nation.
| He next touched upon the currency, showing
| there was great deficiency in the South,
evinced by the fact that we cannot sell our
| lands for more than one-third or one-fourth of
| their intrinsic value, and that he was in favor
of imitation to the extent that all our pockets
should be so filed with money that it would be
as easy to sell our farms for their full value as
it is to sell COW or horse. L Judge he must
| have liked our Confederate ISSUES. He was
opposed to the present monopoiizing system OF
banking, and wanted one so free that every
man might become a banker if he thought pro-
| per. itt
/ Next, anticipating his antagonist, he launeli-
ed into the salary-grab pool Of affiiction, and
there padded his boat with such spiashing and
| tlounderings, and stirred the mud and slime,
SO thick and latisous. that the very efforts he
made to save himself seemed the more to
threaten his hasty burial in the slough of des-
pond. He said it was the duty of Congress
men to fix their salaries by law, that in this
case the law had increased their pay from five
to seven thousand five hundred a year, that
| that amount had been placed to his credit, and
that ne was compelled to take it OF let it 60
| into the hands OF the d-n Yankeys. He, indeed
voted against the bill, though several times dur
ingit tendency, he unfortunately happened
to be absent, when votes were taken that niighG
have defeated it, and after it became Il law he
took only what the law allowed him, and he
believed that every man in the sound Of his
voice would have done as he did, except per-
one so self-righteOus as to refuse, was too sane
| timonious to be trusted with the pursc-strings
| Of the nation.
| Judge O'Ferrall followed in speech of the
same length, in which he promised, that if
elected to a seat III the forty-fourth Congress,
he would introduce bill to the effect that the
U. S. should assume the payment of our State
debt, and fight it out OH that line during his
term Of election, but that he would get it
through. Surely he has some OF Gen. Grants
stubborn firmness. He would also introduce
a bill empowering the President to appoint Il
Commissioner to regulate railroad charges for
| Interstate travel and freiyhts. after which he
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left Harris struggling for life, topplcd his boat
and gave him such an awful strangling, that
| [ doubt whether he will be able to recover the
| full emphysematous capacity of his political be-
| ing during the remainder Of the canvass. He
! then ventilated Harris convention record, and
| finally pitched into the Va. Conservative Cen
| trail Committee III Richmond, the Magi OF their
party, in the full sense of the Persian term,
politically, and closed by defining Mead, the
name of one of the triumvrate, as a fermented
drink, male from honey and water sufficient
to na,lseate any stomach in the world except
that Of Judge Harris, who seemed to gulp it
| down with mpunity, and with even a gllsto
that seemed to do him good.
An effort was made to get up three-corner-
ed game Of cat in discussion, that the Repub-
licans might have hearing, but was refused
! on the ground that We.llad no candidate in the
| field, and they were unwilling to arrange ex-
cept with a candidate.
| But little enthusiasm was evinced by the
| people, indeed, think that fully one-tllird of
the people on the Court Green, did not go into
] the Court House at all, and many who went in
were running in and out continually ,and SEEM
| cd not particularly interested. I saw many
leading men Of their party. walking hither and
thither in the yard OF the Court House, entirely
! unconcerned, and heard some, and heard of
/ others, who said they could not vote for either
of the candidates.
I There seemed to be considerable interest felt
to know whether the Republicans would run
! candidate and universal wonder was ex-
pressed why they put off their nomination SO
! late as the 18th of October.
| omitted to mention above that che only
squirting towards a. hateaeting the Republi-
cans, was Harris onslaught on the Civil Rights
Bill, in which he tried to leave the impression
it was Republican measure, and that he was
the p0ter-pot0rum Of its defeat.
Permit me to suggest in conclusion. that in
my very humble Judgment, the great want
of the republican party all over our State is a
thorough canvassng, whereby the people may
learn the true principles of our party. But
few Of the masses ever see republican paper
or hear republican speech-aheir minds have
been poisoned against us by Democrat papers
and demagoguical speeches to such an extent
that when they have an opportunity to hear a
republican speech, they express utter astonish-
ment to learu that they have any principles Oh
any arguments in their favor.
had truly hoped we would have had a stan
llarl-bearer in the field to canvass the whole
district with the conservatives-but if no NOM
Iination IS made till the 18th OF Oct. only nine
teen DAYS before the election, that would be inn
possible. s.There is a tide in the affairs Of
men, il taken at It's flood,'' &C., SC.
l. Hon. j. II. Plat, is making a gallant ean-
vass in the Norfolk district. His enemies are