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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-01-20
City Property
ssignee's Sale of - valuable
\ Farm in Augusta County. v:

In pursuance of decree of the United States Dis
srct Court for the Western District of Virginia, in
the matter OF Adam W. Berry. Bankrupt. Twill, as
the Assignee Of said bankrupt, sell at public auction
In front OF the Court House in Staunton Va,
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 5th 1875,
attract of Land containing
TWO HUN DRED RES,
which said Bankrupt resides and which is situa-
ted on the Mt Scion road. five miles Northeast OF
staunton, adjoining the lands of James Berry and
Others About one-fourh OF the land is welt timber
ei and the balance in good state of cultivation.
TERMS.-One-fourth cash, the balance on credit
Of six, twelve and eighteen months with interest
from day of sale, the purchaser giving bonds with
approved security for the deferred payments and the
title retained as ultimate security
H-a HARVEY RISK. Assignee
Jan I3-tds of the Estate of A. w Berry. b'kt.
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GozADONG, for the TEETH, For sale by
6 GEO. w. MAY co.
nov augusta Street,
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Cease No. 5l2.)
DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Fer the Western District OF Va
ITO Elijah Felin, and to all whom it may coacern

Greetlng:
, NoiiSe IS nerepy gwen, that on me @Th DAY OF
copper stills, one cap and one worm. capacity
spectveiy of stills 80 and 30 gallons 0ga Ions whis
ky. one acre OF land, less of the estimated
value Of $4,000, claimed and owned by Elijah Falin
Spelrs' Ferry, scott county, Va, seized by the
Marshal OF the United States for said District
eited to the use of the United States, and the
IS llbelled and ed in this court in the
OF the United states for ndemn ton for the
es in said Libel set forth, and that said canse will
stand for trial at the courtroom in Abingdon The
22fd day OF May next when and where all persons
are warned 10 appear to show cause why condeln-
nation should not be deereed, and to intervene for
their interests
Dated. Abingdon dec. 50. 1875.
jan 6-1w B. GILDERSLEEVE Dist Clerk
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Tor Sale or Rent.
Il tile Brick Tenement
adjoining Mozart Hall. lately occupied NY Mfr. q. C.
Yeakle / Lave also two BRICK TENEME NTS on
Augusta Street, new Houses, with Gas and " alter
and good lots adjoining Mrs. N. H. Trout, for rent
to careful tenants. Rents moderate.
ian l3-3t R0BT. G. BICKLE.
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A New York letter says: "Mer-
chants who have been selling largely to
the South within the past six and nine
months report collections from all that
quarter as very satisfactory, except from
Louisiana, where they are rather back
ward. There have been few or no fail
ures of late, except in New Orleans and
Montgomery, Ala, and even these latter
were of but comparatively little account.
The people generally have more money
than they have had at any time since the
war, and the indications are, therefore,
that the Southern influence will soon be
favorably felt on the early spring trade" "
Among the many evidences of prog
ress during the year that has gone, that
in political affairs should not be over
looked. Sixteen States have held cleo
tions the past year. The aggregate vote
is 1928, Iii Democratic and 1907 ,623 Re-
publican, Democratic majority OF l5,-
8l8. A comparison of this vote with that
of 1873 in the same States shows that in
that year the Democrats had zig, ,4S7,
and the Republicans 1,S;D, 1863 votes, thus
evidencing Democratic gain of LIS, ,694.
= The Marquis Of Ripon, the English
nobleman who recently embraced the
Roman Catholic faith, and who was at
the time Grand Master of Masons in
England, has lately presented the Pope
with $4,000. His lodge dues would
scarcely have reached this amount Tor
many years.
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TTo BE Continued
For tie anderson, Intelligencer.

a. ANDERSON, s. O., Jan. IL, 1876.
"But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head
and wash thy face."-MATT. SD
Be perfectly natural Be yourself at
Church, and at home, in worship, and in
'gork for you have an inner self that
would neither carry yoke nor an aus
terity out of season-a substantial, ma
tive self that rebukes the shams of taste,
of morals and of piety. When thou
fastest, hunt up no sad countenance diff
ferent from thine own, nor put on an ex"
terror solemnity to which thy heart plays
truant. Religion is Gospel. 1t is not
the executioner with his axe, but the
herald with pardon. Let US not deport
ourselves toward the munifcence as we
might toward the wrath of the King.
"Anoint thy head and wash thy face"
God does not propose to kill thee, nei-
ther hast thou any commission to prove
to the world that thou art more holy than
the rest of men. Never has this ex-
quisite sentiment, "who am the least of
all saints" ever been inferred by obsery-
ers from lugubrious countenances and
mysterious manipulations. - j.,
But, then, let US not rush into the op-
posite extreme of lightness and vanity,
| scarcely dissembled. How beautiful |!
What JUNCTION, what fragrance hath it !?
Gravity without pomp; solenlnity with
out occurrences, commingled with joy
without ightness. Oh what mistake
to be sad, or sour, or cynical in Church! !
What jarring discords these with notes
of overture and promise, with emotions
of love, gratitude and hope !! An olien-
tai did not anoint when he was mourn
ing, but when he received a guest or be-
came guest. In the sanctuary we are
Gods guests. The entertainment is His,
the viands from his garner. If you we're
annoyed with spot on the garment of
your fellow-guest, it would betray more
of an appetite for flaws han celestial
food. Would you pick quarrel with
your neighbor in the Kings chamber ?
Would it be the time to mend rent in
his garment? Didst thou invite him?
Somehow, the world has got lost about
religious manners. We mourn when we
ought to rejoice, and we rejoice when we
ought to mourn. We Have levity when
we sin, and sadness when we worship
God. We go to Church to converse
about the state of the market, and our
finest expositions of Church themes are
heard amid the hurry aud inspiration of
market duty. Anoint thy head and wash
thy face when thou fastest, and both at
the Church door and within, be careful
not to soil the manners or adulterate the
| ioy of the guest.
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Z love YOU" j"
eyes, Walter, know it now, I love
you! but papa, dear papa my own, my
poor papa! cannot leave him." she
said, impetuously, her beautiful eyes fill
ing with tears. ...
"I will not have you love your father
less, dearest. 1t will be one of my great
est pleasures to assist you in making him
happy. would be to him dutiful and
affectionate son. Annie sweetheart, the
love plead for cannot rob your father OF
his child's love or duty"
"I know not" she answered, sadly,
"papa says am his all since dear man.
ma died; and, oh, Walter, / would not
cost him, my precious papa, one sad
thought! He is SO loving and so good
to mel' s:s
"Then, Annie, l. must plead my suit
with him. I will beg him to give ME his
little girl for my darling wife. I will re-
mind him of his own young love. and
ask him if he can deprive his child and
her lover of q ife.joy so intense and fer
vent as that of hearts united by the holy
ties of welded love: be-
"No, Walter, papa will deny me moth
ing, but 1 fear it will grieve him land,
oh, no, he must not think it requires
anything like sacrifice 90 give up even
you for his sake. You have indeed
awakened me from dream! I called
you my best loved elder brother, but l
know now it was no sisters love I gave ;
it has grown with me from my childhood,
and I love you as woman only once
ever loves. You have stirred emotions,
and awakened feelings tonight which
can only die with me! Yes, it is joy,
deep and intense, but there is pain and
sadness, too, mingled with the bliss
such pain and sadness as all changes
bring. Tonight am conscious the girl
has become woman. But the bell
rings, I must meet our guests, and leave
these most weighty questions to be dis
cussed another time," she said, holding
out her hand and smiling half gayly and
half sadly. ,,..
He kissed her hand, and 80 they parted
to meet in the brilliant assembly; to pass
the lightjest and well-turned compliment,
with brows as serene and manners as
calm as if the warm breath of love had
not swept over the chords of their hearts,
and awakened their deepest and sweetest
melodies.
TTo BE CONTINUED.
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il of our Government and Institutions,

it of our Government and Institutions.
Popular elections have thousand
times failed to express the real popular
will, owing to undue influences or dis
honest practices. Shall we then abandon
popular elections and centre all powers
now exercised by the people at the ballot
box in central legislative body? What
has Barnwell County done, I ask, that
she should now be deprived of her accus-
toned rights? Grant that bad men have
burned ballot boxes. Grant if necessary
that the present defeated party have lost
their rights. For all this, shall the peo-
pie of this county no longer have a voice
in settling their most important domestic
affairs? What, I respectfully ask, do the
members of the General Assembly really
know of the real wishes or interests of
the people of Barnwell County respecting
the present question: What does the
Governor know? Leave this question
to the people, to whom it belongs, and
they will settle it by the ordinary agen-
cies of popular elections and the courts.
But all these considerations, so weighty
and conclusive, are made tenfold more
binding on me, when it is remembered
that the door of relief from wrong, to
both parties to this controversy, is still
open. Ifthe refusal of the commissioners
ofelection to canvass the election or to de-.
clare its result is wrong to either party,
there is aclear present legal remedy to the
party wronged; remedy so plain, that
nobody will mistake it. The refusal of one
party to abide the test of the courts does
not suggest to me any increased confidence
in the justice of their cause. I hayexpo
much respect for the courts to be willing
to seem to decline to abide by the result
of their decision when fairly and regular
ly made. Up to the present time it is
an unquestionable fact that the decisions
Of the courts are adverse to the decision
made by the present act. '-
There are other more general and per-
haps more important considerations
which induce ME to decline to approve
the present act. They relate to what l
believe to be the general effects upon che
welfare of the people ofBarnwell County.
I do not think the present act from the.
best information I can gather, will tend
to promote the best interests of that
county. On the contrary, think it is
calculated to disturb the harmony and
hinder the prosperity of that county.
well understand how great is the per-
sonal and political feeling aroused by
this controversy. It would be easy to
find partisan reasons on either side, but
that is not my duty. My duty is to act
impartially in view Of what seems to me
to be justice on both sides. Justice to
both sides, in my best judgment, requires
me, so far as my action can effect it, to
remit this question back to the people of
the county, there to be determined to the
end by the agencies of the courts or by
another resort to popular election if the
courts shall finally decide that the last
election was not valid, or did not, for any
cause, express the will Of the people. '
Very respectfully, al ..;'
.. .-i.l. D: II. CHAMBERLAIN. i. 81
3. Governor South Carolina.
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Blaine,s Mischief.

/ Marc Antony, in the play OF Julius
Cesar" is not lovable character. To
his great qualities, his courage, boldness
and wit. are allied en- insidious dema-
goruery whose cunning display is one. Of
the greatest triumphs of Shakespeare.
Dangling the pierced robe Of the dead
Caesar before the eyes Of the Roman rab-
BILE, he stirs their hearts to mutiny while
deprecating any tumult. He brandishes
Cesar's will; and as the infamed popu-'
lace rush off to burn: the houses of the
conspirators. he rushes down; and cries
with fiendish exultation = -. H.,
Now let It work. Mischief, thou art afooti
Take thou what course thou wilt
IF James G.. Blaine, after his Ander-
sonville speech, had sat for the picture
of Marcus Antonius, the poet would not
have changed a. line. Between the
"curled Antony" and Blaine there is,
however, striking difference. The one
held up the robe of Caesar, newly slain
the other gesticlilates as, with nimbie fin
gers, he holds UP the mouldering grave
Clothes of the Union dead whose corses
he TURNS over, in their sepulchre to get
the makings of o party flag. Outside OF
the minority in the House of Represents
tiyes who cheersd deliriously at the willy
speech, we may ask, can Blaine awake
any other feeling than disgust as the sa-
cred cerements of the dead Union sol
diers drop to pieces in. his busy fingers7
The dead of the Union shall never be tor
gotten, but the ghoul who robs the graves
to make party flag shall not be thought
hero. The flag to sweep the country
must be of fairer bunting than can be
woven from the ".bloody shirt of Morton
or the "graye clothes" Of Blaine. ~
There is one other view of Blaine pos
turing as the Republican Marc Antony
which must not be forgotten, for IT is, in
Mr.. Blaine's eyes, of the greatest moment
namely, How will it tell for Blaine?
Able and cunning, with the. Antonian
favor of ostentatious bluntness, he lets
his wishes appear as the undercurrent,
rather than the tide, of his speech: Like
Antony in his most efhsiye sentences he
would be read between the lines. When
he: fled precipitately to the cloak ROOM TO
dodge the third term vote he let his, halt
ing excuse of delicacy on account Of be-
ing spoken of as Presidential candidate
tell the under story that he only refrained
from striking Grants ambition because
he loved Grant. It is the fault of such
men to reason too finely with themselves,
and expect the world to be cozened with
a half-uttered thought. Mr. Blaine
knows that his fight with Mr.. Hill; in
which the latter deserves to be beaten as
much as Blaine deserves to be censured,
is doubtful advantage to himself: Bru-
tus said to Antony at Philippi:
The posture of your blows are yet unknown;
and this may be repeated to Blaine; tor
as Antony was but clearing the way for
young Octavius Caesar to mount the
throne over Antony's corpse, SO the blows
of Blaine may tell for Grant, whom
Blaine loved too much to. destroy as q
Presidential candidate delicacy that
Grant is not likely to reciprocate if the
gate to third term is but left ajar.-N.
Y. Herald.
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VOL. XI---NO. %.

which I belong, to posterity and, above
all, to my God, to spurn Indignantly
every proposition to resign, especially
when proposed by such parties as the
Ne,os and Courier and Daniel Fl. Cham
berlain.
When the low black schooner sailed
up the James River, bearing its human
cargo of thirty-six negroes, it was not
expected that one OF their descendants,
or of those who followed, would ever ask
to be made Trial Justice, much more a
Judge. They were brought here as.
slaves, and slaves they were for almost
two centuries and half, until God in
his infinite wisdom burst the bonds that
held them down, ard they are rapidly
rising and asserting their manhood. In
their endeavors to do so, I have been one
favored with an honorable position, not
by them alone, for in that vote many
white Republicans Joined. appreciate
the favor and feel the responsibility that
attaches thereto. I have said all that l
desire to say about tie injuries that have
been done me. :i
I know when shall have concluded
my question of privilege there viii be a
howl raised, and I know the source from
which that howl will come. 1t shall
hereafter pass me as the idle wind that l
regard not. I appeal from the pref judices
and vituperation of the present to the
calm and dispassionate judgment Of the
future for that vindication that I feel /
deserve, and I feel assured that nothing
that a venal or corrupt press or mali
cious or ungrateful man like Daniel H:
Chamberlain has said or can say will
either injure me or deceive you.
So far as the Ne,cs and Courier is con-
cerned, their very sanctum reeks with
the toulest corruption, and nothing truly
respectable or descent can be expected to
emanate from that source. So far as
Daniel H. Chamberlain is concerned, /
regard him as unfit for earth; to heaven
he cannot ascend, and were he to make
his advent in hell, I fear he would ircur
the displeasure of his: Satanic Majesty.
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A IJsrFu1 TABLE.-To aid farmers in

A USEFUL TABLE.-To aid farmers in.
arriving at accuracy in ascertaining the
amount of land in different fields. under.
cultivation, the following table is given
by an agricultural paper: Fiveyards wide
by 96S yards long, contains one acre; 10
yards wide 4S4 by yards long, contains one
acre; 90 yards wide by 242 yards long,
contains one acre; 40 yards wide by III
yards long, contains one acre; 160 yards
wide by 30l yards long, contains one acne;
220 feet wide by 1913 feet long contain
one acre; ITO feet wide by 1886 feet long,
contains one acre; 60 feet wide by 726
feet long contains one acre. ','.-l-.-l.
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: Hon. Alexander II. Stephens is op

- Hon. Alexander II. Stephens is OPP
posed to the two-thirds rule in the Ma
tional Democratic Convention. He con-s
siders it undensocratic and monstrous. .
The only reason it was ever adopted, he
saws, was simply to preserve the harfno-r
nv of Democratic theories, since it was.
supposed that, if bare majority nomi-
mated, it might happen that it would not
be vote of a majority of the States. MIR.
Stephens thinks it is only majority rule
that will make smooth and harmonious
nomination. =
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BY STA CAROLINE"
CHAPTER III.

"All that's bright must fade.
rfhe BRIGHTEST still the heetest."
, 1876-06-29

nO0, 900 Of tho hitter into & ror cohts'
]}y reducing tho rnto Of interest md by pay-
n,en.s If prncirol tho burden Of interest Inns
been l;gh,cnc,l nearly fifty millions Of dollars
per ycnr since 1860. Mono of tl!eso impor:-
taut facta aro allowed to appear In tho Con"
feslcrato platform.
The total Federal expenditures IN 1860, be-
fore tho Democratic Confederate Rebellion
{whicl, ca,lsed Tho debt, and pension, md
depreciation Of tho currency, amounted TO
s77,0oo, 900 in gold for 3l,ooo,ooo of ropn's-
tiou, or $3.50 ror hend. Tho expenses IN
1876 for all purposes aro 81 per head OIL tho
present population; one-l'n!f this s'sln il for
pcnsions nntl interest, leaving 50 In currency
for ordinary expenses ngeinst $?.io in gold
for ordinary expenses IN 1860. Some farther
retrcncllmenis cnn 10 nintle. which will re-
,lnce thu ordinary expenses to about So. II in
aeprcciatcd currencf in GRAsG's last year.
ngainst :2.l in gold during Drc'rANAS's Inst
year. Thus it appoars, when tho truth If
siftcd out, TINT, notwithstanding MI tho h"e
mud cry about waato and extravaganza, thai
the rrosont Administration Is NJ economical
~ itB Democratic predecessor.
, 1876-06-29

issue of certificates. That policy Ind come
down from tho old clnrter, and was i'll ftl4
operation. Mr.. 1irA71s, as II 1nomler Of tho
Council, gnvo all tho assistance in his power
to maintain tho public credit. Tint "as .
question whicl, was abore all rarty eonald-
orations. When there wns Judicial ae-
cision, then there was cloar rule FOLLOW
ing niter this decision camo the oloc.4on' Gnu
Mr.. HEATH left tho Council. While ttlero 10
had resolutely struggled to keep dow', o.
penditures, and had brnve!y content'ea for
the appropriation of s;ooooo 81 fund to
redeem the creai. Of the city. There III now
a now Council, composed of men Of dit-
feront c1ass. Mr.. IIEA7n has confidence in
that Council, and tho Council will have con"
fitlencc in him, and thcrn Is not tho slightest
danger Of any such conflict Of opinion rs
will lend to any disagreement, either M to
the treatment Of tic past or tie policy to bo
pursucd ~ to tho future. Tho objection
That ho will favor borrowing money on tue
tax warrant of 1870 to pay tho expenses OF
1876 is m idle ono, because TINT policy is IN
exact agreement with the opinion OF the
Court, and is m.tter Of necessity, no mat
tcr who ,nny DO elected Mayor.
, 1876-06-29

It seems tlat tho De,nocrntiu House il de-
termincl not soaccctloto to my proposition that
cones from the Republican Scnate, nnl il
willing 10 sacrifice tho interests of tho coun-
try ut my timo in order to crafty this parti-
euo spirit. Tho lasest inatanco of this
is manifested by tho REJECTION Of tho Senate
amendments to thu Silver bill, notwithstnntl-
iag they ha. been agreed tn by aho Confer
cncu Committee Those amendments wcro
to Btriko out tho word "now," Which limited
tho silver issno under tho bill to the coin now
in the Treasury, aud to provide that tho
trads-lollar," which is no longer Of tho
standard value, shall not bo legal-tender.
Tho amendments improved Tho bill, but, iu
auy case, wcrc not OF such materia bearing
us to warrant postponement and perhaps Q
failure Of tho proposed legislation. Tho re
suit is that the country will continue II
suffer from the want OF small chango whit
there are scyeral millions OF silver coin lyint
idle in the Treasury for lack OF facility fo'
getting It into circulation.