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THE THIRD TERM.-General Grant, by bis
expressive silence, seems to be in no wise
di>inclined to protract his reign beyond the
customary limit of eight years, and it is as
serted, as coming from a member Of his
household, aspires to reelection by the peo-
pie for one more term. Then, doubtless, he
will feel himself so strong as to assume
the Dictatorship at will or for lite
and appoint the succession to follow
him. Having already shown how strong
his family feelings are, there eau be
no doubt but that his imperial will is that
his eldest son shall inherit after him and the
glory of the family name be preserved
With al! this the people of the South have
nothing to do. They may like it or not
They are powerless to prevent it, and Can
do little to help it on. 1t is for the people
of the North and West to settle. Ii they
| like it, it is useless to discuss it. If they
! are not pleased the remedy is for them to
seek.
| The only wise position the South can take
| is to endeavor to keep peace within her Dor.
| ders to develop her industries; to control
so much OF the National legislation as she
| can to the development Of her material re.
sources, and quietly bide her time. Should
| Ulysses |. succeed in establishing his empire
| peacefully, she will be none the worse of fol
| having pursued this course. II the people
! of the North or West "rebei," she will ther
| be in condition to take such stand "a to bel
| shall seem iii. In no event can the question
of a third term have any immediate interes
for her.-Danrite NeeUS.
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THE CEyrRIpETAL MACHINE. We have
deemed the exhibition at our State Fair OF
the centripetai machine invented in Wheel
ing dcsideratum with our people. 1t Is
known that it is claimed for that machine
that i. increases power at the rate of ten for
one-i. C., by yiItuc of the manner in which
power is applied by this invention either
steam or horse power is promoted at the rate
of ten for one. The inventors are manulac.
turing 4 variety Of these machlnes-espe'
cialy those employed in the operations OF
tillage-to which this power is applied.
Last year the State Society agreed to pay
the expenses of bringing the machine here
and taking it back; but there was none on
hand. the manufacturers being only able Ia
supply the demtDd for their machines. We
NAV meet with better luck this year, aud We
hope the Society will repeat the attempt 10
bring this machine to our Fair.
The inventors publish the certificates OF
the most reliable men in Northwestern Nir
gina, showing the utility of their machines
and of their new mode of applying power
Ii that is indeed what is claimed for il. il
must work revelation in farming, and ado
immensely to the cheapne>s and efficiency
with which the operations Of tillage are con.
Quoted.
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A MEETING or TIE FIRST MORTGAGE BOND
HOLDERS OF TIE PETERSBURG RAILROAD Con-
PANY.-A meeting OF the 1irst-morlgagt
bondhoders Of the Petersburg Railroad
Company was held at the Office of w. w.
Spence, Esq, yesterday morning, to con.
slider what steps should be taken 10 enforce
the payment of the july coupons, which, i!
appears, are still unpaid. Douglas Ii. Cor
don, Esq, was called to the chair, and
Frank Z. Clark, Esq, appointed secretary
The unanimous sense OF the meeting was
that unless satisfactory adjustment of the
matter should be prepared by the company,
proceedings looking to foreclosure of the
mortgage ought at once to be instituted.
On motion, Messrs. Frank p. Clark ant
William Ii. Blackford were appointed a com
mittee to visit Petersburg and confer witt
the authorities of the road, and report tlt
result of their conference TO Il future meet
ing of the bondholders. Baltimore -4naert
can Of yesterday.
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The Trans-Aileghany Road.

The TranS-AtleGndny nooo'
we are not In any way by personal feia'
fions identified with this project. e. our
opinion with regard TO it is unbiased by any
personal feeling. We have considered i.
with entire impartality In this respect aha
with only a deep desire for the promo'ioh u
the welfare of Richmond, and per e'is'
queuee, of Virginia.
Briefly stated, the proposition i'eS
these points for consideration:
The proposed road traverSes a f'c' .o"n.
t,y whose trade Richmond once hao, mas
since lost. and which this road may restore
to her.
I, p;erces a highly mineral region, whose
riches in this line are unsurpassed by any
country in the world OF like area.
II has prospective western connexions
with the mos, richly endowed trade.areas o.
the West, and with some of the most THRIFT!
and dense commercial populations.
It must traverse for eighty miles the eXac'
route for straight shoot from Richmond 10
Lvpchbure, and to that extent supply
common stem ioI boen tne Ai'
and the straight shoot.
II can be constructed upon the narrow
gauge for the sum OF $4,000 per mile-soo''
authority says for less. Ii may De equipped
ard RIM for between one-lhird and one.halt
the COS, OF the brcad-Sauge.
Situated rs Richmond is, with her many
enemies, and with the many lines drawing
OF her trade, should not such ROAD as THIS
be favored by her!
Could she get such road and nave con-
troll of it. II such road were butt TO her
hands for her control, is there man IN
Richmond who would not be willing TO give
a million OF dollars tor it,
How is it proposed TO build il: by sub
scriptions from the country 10 be traversed
nv il. and bonds Of the company. The
county and city subscriptions are secured oy
bonds-each county and city executing
bond for the round sum subscribed. The
bonds 80 acquired are by provision OF the
charter of the company to be held until the
work is done. In other words, they cannot
be sold until the road is finished, and there
fore thew constitute an insurance for the
completion of the road.
Who furnishes the money? 1t is stated
that English capitalists will do so. General
lyRopES, who makes the statement, is well
fortified by the fact that English capitalists
oyn an immense domain Of yailable mineral
properly in Southwest Virginia. The adj
yantages of opening that country to market
and enhancing the value Of this property
NAV well induce them to build this road.
f not built, nobody is hurt. But the
Grand results of its construction justify an
ctfor, TO build it. Does it not
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THE SENATORIAL CONTEST" 1t is under
stood that Mckae will appoint delegates "a
yorable to Carringtcn, which will thus give
that gentleman forty votes. lie will thet
have TO obtain only three voles from the
Henrico delegation to insure bis nomina
ton, while Johnson will have to secure tour
teen votes from the same delegation if be
be nominated. as The matter now stands
the chances appear to be 10 favor of Car
ring;on, but the contest will be closely
fought between him and johnson. 1t is
not absolutely certain that the hichae dole
gales from JeEerson Ward will go for Car.
rirgtou, as Johnson received majority in
the popular vote of that ward over Car
rington Of nnety-fve."
So says Richmond letter in the Norfolk
Landmark. We suppose that it does irjuS'
ticc to DR.. McHAE, who will probably re-
main neutral as between the other two can
didalc>, ard who yet claims TO have good
chance himself.
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,,on aud no dininu,ion ofthc liberties now
ra,n,;n;np 10 ia, if the habit OF our anees tors
which nut conventional limit upon the ell.
chilly OF uan to the presidency. were as as
ra,-ardcd by rejecting General GRANT TO o
third term.
# weare right In our view that the pro.
cracs If the Government towards arbitrary
rule has brought US to this point, II IS wen
tina. the people should know it, especially
those Of the North. II, indeed, we have
rot reached that point. and It is possible to
bring back the Government to its true fedora.
live character, it is we'll that the issue should
be made now, and we know nothing upor
which it could be more clearly made thar
the "third term" Indeed, we hold that te
the labors OF the Dispatch Is due much o
the credit for the cry now being raised
against third.termsm in the North, Where
the opposition seem to be anxious to MAKE
the fight upon this issue. Possibly The wal
party-the party in favor of arbitrary rule
and in favor of the annihilation of State au
thority, might be defeated upon 1t. satls'
fed though We are that such defeat cou'o
| at best only produce 4 temporary oeneht
we would, nevertheless, be glad TO see tha'
much benefit secured to the country.
Blu, if the "third term " were triumphant
we have for our consolation the hope oil
benefit for the South which the very Wise
ard venerable author Of the above article
plainly anticipates.
But no matter what is done, we have
full conviction that the prophecies OF both
HENRY and JEFFERSON with regard 10 TINS
country are so fully verified that we bave no
well-founded hope that Republican Liberty
as our fathers established it is ever to be re-
riyri
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CRATER ON NEGRO MlLITIA.-The &c

CRATER ON NEGRO MlLITIA.-The New
York Herald of Tuesday says:
"a remarkable practical commentary on
one Of the provisions of the Federal Con.
stitution has been furnished by Governor
Moses and Acknowledgement Williams.
Moses made application to the President on
Friday for troops to suppress domestic vio-
leuce in the town of Edgefcld. The Al
:orncy. General replied on Saturday, inform
ing him that one company was already there
and was deemed sufficient. The gro
tesque absurdity Of contcssing that the
whole militia of South Carolina is
incompetent to cope With a local dis
turbance which single company Of Federal
soldiers sutfices to hold in ave needs no
words to set it forth. 1t is burleSque on
| that part of the Constitution which declares
thut "a well.regulated militia being ueces.
Sary TO the security Of free State, the right
of the people to keep and bear arms shall
not be inlriuged." The South Carolina mi.
litia affords q wonderful "sCcurily' to thar
free Stale" when it is cou!c:Sedly unequal
to an txgcncy for which one company of the
regular army is ample! Bot this correspond
eucc has its sad as wellas itsridicuouS side. Ii
is shame aud scandal that an American State
is organized or sc false AID unsafe basis
that petty local emeute threatens to topp!e
it into ruins. Moses gave as his reason fol
applying TOR Federal troops that | am pow.
erle>S to enforce ny orders except by the use
of The inexperienced State militia "a con
te>sion hat the negro militia is utterly worth
less In II state where the negroes outnumbel
The white, in the proportion OF nearly two
to one. By the last census the white popu'
lation Of South Carolina was only 2S9, 1867
and tbe negro population was 4l5,S14. And
yet Mo>c& quivcrs with fear, and telegraDhs
10 Washington for aid against small local
disturbance il 4 rural town
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We attempted to say yesterday that when
incompetent persons very pcrsislently press
their claims 10 position we had case of i'm
pudcncc and iucompeteucy allied from
which we could not expect honesty. But
the word "impudencc" being nisprinled
"ind,pendence' the lficaning Of the remark
was DESTROYED.
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Governor Woodson, Of Missouri, has ap-
pointed twenty delegates at large and two
from each congressional district to represent
Missouri in the Convention at Louisville,
October 22d, to consider the question of re-
moving the national capital from Washing
ton to some point in the Mississippi Valley.
An Indiana Democratic newspaper says
that the Louisiana rebellion has cost the De-
mocracy in that State i've thousand votes.
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BEAST HuntR explains that his fee wa.
as counsel for KELLOGG before the Supreme
Court Of the United States. But that is all
the same. 1t controlled his conduct in the
House, except that he voted, so be says, fol-
his recent fierce TRADE against the Louisiana
Const ryatiye>,
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SENATOR CARpENTER's LETTER TO kEL.
LoGG.- IeW York, September 29.-Tbe Trs.
Gune'S New Orleans correspondent telegraphs
tie following copy OF Carpenters letter to
Kellogg, which lie says he obtained from the
original
Dear Keiioae: / am desperately short.
Can't YOU seBI me 81 900. II so, it would
be Z God>end. Yours truly,
aug. l, 1873. MATT. II. CARPENTER"
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MARRIAGES.

Married, Sunday p. NJ, 20h September, at the
residence of Mr.. Washington Burnett Ia brother.
In. law OF The brde), by the Rev. MR. Woodward, OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, MIR: JAMES l..
BADkiNs, OF New Kent county, and Miss LUCY
Is. BaDklNs, Of this city.
Married, at the Monumental church, September
3Uth, by the Rev. George Woodbridge, ID. D., MIR.
kOBckT HARROLD to bliss SALLlE w.
MAULE.
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COMPROMISES IN THE PARIsHEs.-Neu Or.
ieanS, September 29.-It is stated that com.
promises will be made in every parish in the
State by the Conservatives, similar to that
recently effected In Terre Bonnie parish, by
dividing the offices equally between the CO..
lored Republicans and white Conservatives.
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LOST, sTRAYEfo, &C.
PERSONAL.

NOTICE.-Having qualified as executor
~ OF the late JOHN MChESSA, all persons Ill
debtcd 10 Linn will please make prompt payment 10
me, and those 10 whom be was Indebted Will pre-
sent 10 me heir accounts, properly authenticated,
for settlement.
EDWARD MARTIN, Executor,
on First between Jackson and Duval streets.
sc 29-Slk
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IT is stated that President Grant has caused
an iUtimati0n TO be conveyed to Kellogg that
ia his Judgment it would pc unwise TO insti-
tute any legal proceedings against the ring
leaders in the recent revolt in the present
excited state Of the pubic mind in New Or
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~ NEW AND ELEGANT STOCk
FOR OCTOBER.
H- THE BEST TOOTH-POWDER.
MEADE 4 BAKERS

MEADE & BAKERS
SAPONINE DENTIFRICE
the most efiicacious and elegant preparation known
for preserving and whitening the teeth. Used and
recommended by our best dentists. Prepared only
by MEADE d EAkER, Pharmacists.
9l9 Main street.
Sold by druggists generally. Price, so cents a
box. auS
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A Good suggestion to fhs POSTMASTER
General. IS.
Evprvbot,v who mas had need for postal
.RIcBMoSD, September 20, 1874

RICHMOND, September 20, 1874.
Ei,tors Dispatch, Please, suggest to the
Post. Office Department the propriety 'oi
issuing teeo cent postal card, SO o., arranged
that there may be two addresses and tWo
notes-in other words, double.breasted :
postal card. This would he . great con-
veDicnce. The return postage would DC
thus paid by the party asking Information
have no doubt but that the suggestion car
be easily carried out. Yours, L.
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ITO THE LEGAL PROFESSION.

TO TIE LEGAL PRUF ESSIUN.
Published this day
ROB1SSON'S PRACTICE IN COURTS OF JUS.
TlCE OF ENGLAND AND THE UAIT.L
STATES. Volume 7. Price So; when or.
dered by mail, 1892, including pos age.
Volumes ), 6, and form III themselves a com
plctc treatise the Grounds and Forms OF Defence
In Personal Actions.
Volumes l, 2, 3, and are Tout Of print" hui
occasionally we pick them up second hand, anc
command an advance OH the ice of the later vol
umeS. We can furnish plete set At the pres
cut time. MOODHUUSE & PAkH AN.
Oc l .3t
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HAMPDEN SIDNEY COLLEGE,.
The next session of HAMP DEN SIDNEY vii
begin September Sd, 1871

begin September 3u,l 1871
FACULTY.:
Rev. j. NJ. L. ATKINSON, - D.. President and Pro-
fessor OF Moral Sctxnce 80
L. l.. HoLLA2!kY, a. NJ, Professor of Natural
Science.
WALTER BLAIR, A. NJ, Professor Of Latin and
lnstructng In Germap.
ADDISON HncE, j. NJ ,,isroyessar Of Greek and In
strucsos In Esencs,
HAMpDEN siI,y.EY COLLEGE Is situated III
frlbce sg ys ATTY, Va, within few hundred
yards Of Uasea Theological Seminary, snd seven
nlteS irom Ss awhile, the Atlantic, Mississippi
ana Otto rastT ,ad.
Ia taS sgS iituti0n the curriculum Is retained;
itssiIusnes is comprehensive and thorough, and nc
sssasas advanced Z, higher class without pass.
Ms ~ .rching examination.
Lxr anses are moderate, aud, from the retired
osA Of the College. temptations to extraya'
gs'.ee arefew
Provision has been mads for the establishment OF
!! a "MESS HALL n which, To these ayailing shetn'
price of board. "
1 Gataiosues can be ohtaiadd on application 10 th,
i undersigned j. NJ p ATKINSON,
Hampton Sidney College. #
~ l6-eodSm Prince i.tsNsFt county, W
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MILITARY NOTICES.

z COMPANY, ATTEN T1ON.-This X
Il command will assemble at the hall over I. H
r. Price Il Co.'S, corner Eleventh and Main W
streets, THIS Thursday Nc III O'Clock. II
with aims for drill. Members of other companies
whose names have been acted on, Will also meet for
drill. By order of Captain N. L. CLARKE:
Oc 1-1t& j. H. GILLIAN. ". -.
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THE ATTENTION OF ALL PERSONS
l. selling liquor by the drink is called to the fol-
lowing section OF the revenue law OF Virginia:

TbA UN UkDIN MIKES.
l54. The specific license tax on any person 10
engage In the business OF Keeping an ordinary In
the country. or In towns having population of
two thousand or less, shall be twenty five dollars
ana In towns ana cilies having Il population eX-
ceeding thousand, shall be nifty dollar!; ana
additional tax of eight per cehtum ON the annual
rent, over one hundred dollars aud under one
thousand dollars per annum; and oil the annual
rent In excess OF one thousand dollars four per
centuID per annum, TO he aScrrtaiDed In The man
ner provided IN section preceding OF the assess
ment aforesaid; and he shall pay an additional
tax OF TWO and half per cenlum TN the amount
of all sales made by him OF winss, matt liquors,
ardent spirits, or any mixture thereof which shall
be reported and paid by him quarterly. on the 1st
day OF january, April, Juy, and October OF each
year. comm,s,,b o., .. Of H the reveb1e,
(aI tie City Hal).
OctOber 81. 1874. Oc l-3t
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FURNITURE have now % at I1 ntss a.
Il the largest and the mos stsil,n nt, r:d m
90 ,he nupiic -much Of which has ,st ossn exper
M in my waerooms tsaylas bad i % tSsstn!sa pss
eice In The auction business, VIII les lhsa
Walnut Suits from ten 10 Rlss en al saeoss
sp,'s partss should nos buy Until tue; stre
prices. E.GAThkiGHT, no. 10 oo'
II .'za,, q ST
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DRESS-MAKERS, dc.


nRESS AND CLOAK.MAKING.-Fall
~ aud winter styles received
BRIDAL OUTFITS aud OF ders from distance
promptly filed.
CUTTING and FITTING done. SMITHS PAT.
Terms for syie. Miss I'll. BRIGGS,
IL Ainih street, between Main and franklin,
Oc l-3Lx Richmond Va.
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FUREITURE.

FURNITURE, CARPETS, koomH
II ING-ELASSES.-Atull naeot Tue n ay, ITf
goods of every description on hand. r. eaIIhs %
In want viii study their own intesxii' ~ old Ii IT.
aa,, ed, by weekly or monthly iasallneus, ths t!i
"a thsy can be bought from any house ."
for cash GOWN. Please note the sidi.sIs yROS,
..ooem i'i iiss Main s.cZss-:-
, 1874-05-14
EDI2OR

QUEER CONTRIBUTIONS Dem O
cratic party in Wisconsin abandoned its
party organization in the last general
election in that State, went in with the
Independent Refo1mers who carried the
State Offices and large majority of the
Legislature on joint ballot. This was
claimed by the party papers as Demo
cratic victory, and held up as proof
that the Democratic party was coming
into power again. The Legislature and
State officers elected on the Reform
ticket carried out their pledges to the
people in good faith, and enacted laws
regulating railroad fares to prevent ex
tortion and unjust discrimination. BuI
the two Democratic members of Con-
gress from Wisconsin are uoth deadly
hostile to practical measures of reform,
however much they may have favored
the abstract declaration in a political
platform. Mr.. Mitchell is President Of
tho Northwest Railroad Co., the Direc-
tors o. which have resolved to resist the
State law regulating railroad charges
and Mr.. Eldredge was supporter and
is now defender of the Congressional
back pay steal. The only hope for
honest reform is outside of either of the
old parties.
, 1874-05-14

l know of no improvements elsewhere
on the river.
The Cassiar gold fever is getting up
again, aud as fast as men earn enough
to take them, they are off.
Trout and salmon have commenced
running up the river.
lam informed by Preston, of Preston's
Pt that he had partly contracted fer tht
sale of his place, the sum being neal
SIS, 600. 1t is a cheap place.
Over 5,OOO,OOOft of saw logs are al
Priest point. awaiting shipment.
learn that Eugene D. Smith intends
erecting hotel and hall at Lowell.
Several families arrived on the rivel
by the Zephyr to-day. Yours.
OLD SLASHER.
, 1874-05-14

The WRONG MAN ExEcUTED.-A sin.
gulaf tragedy of the late war has been
brought to light by the return of Thos
Clark to his family in Johnsonville,
Rensselaer, County. Clark was doctor,
and deserted his family about the open
ing Of the Rebellion. He entefod the
army and was reported to have beer
shot for desertion. His tomb, marked
by pine board. had been seen neal
Union Mills, Virginia, by aJohnsonville
man. After thirteen years absence
Clark has reappeared in his native town
He is a surgeon of Liverpool steamer
He says that the night before his execu
ton he changed his clothes with com'
rade, and escaped. The comrade, less
lucky was shot in Clark's place. Neu
York Sun.
, 1874-05-14

A TEMPERANCE MovEMENT.-A society
has been formed in Sacramento, Cali>
fornia, called the Individual Drink
Association. The pledge is. not to
abstain from the use of intoxicating
drinks, but that the member will not
extend to any ole an invitation to drink
CT accept an invitation from another, in
any saloon, bar-room. or other public
place. This may seem to some, on first
thought, as a ridiculous travesty of tenn
perance movements; but from observa-
ton and reflection, we are convinced
that if all who nse intoxicating drinks
would take this pledge and adhere to it,
it would diminish the consumption of
liquors more than one-half and the evils
of intemperance in much greater pros
portion. Mr.. Webster, (the statesman,
not the photographer, defined drunk
as can accident of hospitality" In
temperance, as a rule, is a social vice.
When it becomes an individual or isola-
ted indalgence,it it is chronic disease, for
which there is rarely any cure. 1t is a
very rare case when selfish, unsocial
and illiberal man falls victim to habit
ual intoxication. 1t is mainly the free
hearted and social who seek conviviality
and good-fellowship In the saloons and
bar-rooms, and acquire habits of intem-
perance, not so r,uch from the APPETITE
for drink as from the social customs
which prevail in places of public resort,
of treating and being treated. Abolish
this custom, establish places of social
amusement unassoclated with tempta-
tions of this character, and more will
have been done to promote the cause of
temperance than has yet been accom-
plished by all the total abstinence socie-
ties or prohibitory liquor laws.