Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-21

DR.. Mcfarland, Of this county, informed
me that he was born within sight of those
mountains. He also showed me an octave
volume called sTaylor & SINNERS Maps
of the Roads in Ireland,'' published in
London, in 1888, and on one of the maps
the mountains appear.
During the latter part of the 18th CEN
fury, there was a large immigration of
Scotch people to the North of Ireland,
and a hundred years later. their descend
ants, our Scotch-Irish ancestors, came in
crowds to America and settled this part of
the Valley We can now readily under
stand how our Staunton hills got the names
they Ego by so to speak.
[ have written on both sides of this
sheet to prevent you publishing me-tO
force you to re-write and give the true
story as much prominence and interest as
you have the fiction. You are not going
to let that falsehood pass without CONTRA
diction! Remember your responsibility.
The rising generation look to you for the
truth, and hereafter the VINDIcAToR will
be quoted as authority far - fiction,
unless you Immediately recall what you
have published, and, like man, tell the
true story. Think Of George Washington.
Yours, OLD FoGY.
Another correspondent signing himself
"Inquirer,' writes us that both barrels of
, OH double barreled romance bursted. It
begins to look like it, and that's fact.
DISTINGUISHED VIsIToRs.-A very dis
tinguished party arrived in the city on
Monday on their way to West Virginia.
They were Gen. Humphreys, U. S. A :,
Chief of the Engineer Department.; Col.
Craighill, U. s. A., Engineer in charge of
the Improvements of the Kanawha river
ginia; Gen. Wright, y. S. A., who COM
manded the late corps during the war and
who is now stationed at New York; Gen.
Poor, U. S. A., of the Engineer Depart
ment; Hon. Ambrose W. Thompson, of
New Jersey, a capitalist who has pur-
pose Of establishing yard in tide-water.
Virginia, for building iron ships; q. s.
Senator Henry Davis, of West Virginia;
Maj. Chas. S. Darlington, President of the
James River and Kanawha Canal Com
pany; Col. Henry Peyton, of Loudon coun-
ty, who was on Gen. Lees staff, and
who is now Consulting Engineer of the
James River ana Kanawha Canal Com
pany; Col. Ell. D. Whitcomb, Superinten-
dent of the. Government improvement Of
James River at Richmond Gen. WINS
G. Wickham, vice President of the Chesa-
peake Il Ohio railroad; and MI. James Fl.
Dooley, member of the Virginia House of
Delegates from Richmond. The party
was ON its way to Charleston, Kanawha.
The municipality of that place has voted
$3.50 to give an entertainment to the visit
ors upon their arrival, a.ld we hear that
Huntington, in the expectation Of their
visiting them has made similar prepara-
tions. There is 100000 appropriated by
the United States Government to the i'm
provement Of the Kanawha River 1t is
thought that by the construction of locks
and damns, above Charleston, good naviga-
ton will be given up to Loup Creek, five
miles below the falls of Kanawha. Sec
retaries Bristow OF the Treasury and Belk-
nap of War were expected to join the party
but did not; the former being too busy
raising the ''damns'' of the Western
whiskey ring to attend to those on the
Kanawha. The party left Staunton Fri
day night for the West, having experien-
ced as much courtesy from the citizens as
the shortness of their stay would permit.
The time was not too brief however for
the renewal of an army acquaintance be-
tween Gen. Echols and Gen. Wright, and
some attention from the former in recogni-
ton of the kindness with which he was
treated by the latter after the surrender
at Appomattox Court House.
On the arrival of the party at Charles
ton salute of 100 guns was fired, and a
grand ball was given them that night.
They went down the river next morning.