Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-07-02
$tauntott Spectator.
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1873.
To the voters of the Seventh Congressional District

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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1873. L
the Voters Of the Seventh Congressional District.
The voters of the several magisterial districts
the counties tie Of the Seventh Congressional
ldoah, Page, Highland, Bath, Albemarle,
reeD, Goochland, Fluvanna, and the city OF
aunton, will assemble at their usual places Of
Getting on
Saturday, the 9th day of July,
I'D appoint two delegates and two alternates
.ch to represent them in a convention of the
Conservative party of the district, to be held in
August at two CLOCK, p. NJ, to nominate a
andidate for Congress. Chairmans of county
ommittees will see that the proper notices for
o on to be held on the day named above.
W. A. BURKE,
MANN SPITLER.
District Committee.
Conservative papers in the District please |
opy.
WHIPPING POSTS IN VIRGINIA.
Virginia's new criminal code became
operative on the 1st of July. Under it
one or more whipping posts will be es-
tablished in each city and county with
in the Commonwealth. In future there
will be no imprisonment for petty larce-
ny, except for second offences, and
where, in the judgment of the justice
or judge, the condition Of a female Of
fender may render stripes unadvisable.
The Legislature determined on this
change at the last session, in view OF
the crowded condition of the prisons,
the cost of maintaining convicts, and
the impoverishment Of the Common
wealth's financial resources. The right
of appeal from the judgment of JUS
tice to trial by jury Is of course reserved.
There is some division of opinion as to
the necessity for the establishment of
the whipping-post, but the majority of
the people undoubtedly expect great
things from it as an economical and
crime-preventing measure.
THE SILVER DOLLARS.-The an
nouncement has already been made on
the authority of the treasurer of the
United States that there are nearly eight
million of silver dollars on hand, and
that the department has in vain tried
various methods to get them into cir
culation. The weight of this immense
aggregate of silver is in the neighbor.
hood of 800 tons, and the minis are still
coming the dollars. The prediction OF
the silver men that these dollars would
go off like hot cakes does not appear to
verified. Unless some way is found to
get this coin into circulation the quaint.
ity now on hand will be doubled by De-
cember, when Congress again meets
Perhaps the silver men will then impose
fine upon all people who refuse to take
their dollars. 1t does not seem thai
there can be any other way to make
people take SO cents when they are en-
titled to 100.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has addressed {
letter to the Hon. o. r. Singleton. O
Mississippi, in which he reiterates hi
denial of the charge which, he says, ha
been so often made, that be melted tn
people of Mississippi to precipifate seces
sion. He says his position was thai
secession should only be adopted as thu
last resort, and thata single State coult
not exercise the right to Withdrawn from
the Union without the most serious in.
jury to herself, even if permitted peace
ably to do so. He claims that in 1866
he was one of the few who believed tina
secession would inevitably be foIl0we'
by war, albeit no one more positivei!
held than himself that "the coercion O
State by the federal government wa
the most palpable violation Of the com
pact ofour Union-the power to do 81
not having been given in the constitu
ton, but expressly denied by the con
vention which framed that instrument
THE PENSION LAw.-The law passet
by the last Congress amending the pen
sion act has this effect: Under the lat
law the payment of pension com
menced with the date of the order direc
ting it. The law as amended directs
that all pensions heretofore or hereafte
to be issued shall begin payment will
the date of the death or discLarge-nO
disability-on which they are based
This will give back pensions TO all nov
receiving them from the date of dis
charge to the date of the order from th
pension Office. In cases where heir
draw death pension the same rule Oh
tains. The gap between the death AM
the order from the pension bureau is t.
be paid for.
The Baltimore Gazette remarks =
"Mrs. jerks is the most marvellous wo
man who has appeared in Washington
since the days of Ann Royal. Sh
threw such shadow over Butler ant
the big members of the Potter Committe
Saturday week, that they really looke'
like midgets. Then, after five hours O
continuous chin-whackiDg she informe'
the weary and exhausted Committe
that she was fresh as daisy and read.
to go on for the remainder of the sum
mer. Mrs. jerks seems to be about tn
best man identified with this admins
tration. sShe is evidently 'specia
case.' She should be provided with
place where the climate is saluhrious.
LARGE SALE OF WEST VIRGINIA
LANDs.-In New York, on Wednesday
1850, 600 acres of land in Mcdowell coIn
ty, w. Va, represented as heavily tim
bered white oak and mineral lands, was
sold at public auction. The lands wer'
soln in lots of 900 acres or more to sui
purchasers. One-half of the tract wa
knocked down to e. P. Bonner & Co., a
half a cent per acre. The balance was solo
mostly to Germans in lots of from ] ,00(
to 10000 acres at from one-half csnt
to cent half per acre. The average
price realized for the entire tract was
cent. per acre.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI
AT the meeting of the Alumni Asso.