Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-02-03

tax as follows
"Here in the Valley, and in the Pied
mont country and Southwest, where the
thrifty, industrious white element is
largely in the maj ority, the effect of the
repeal would be to render them still far
ther tributary to the Tidewater and
Southside sections in which the negroes
and nOn-taXpayers predominant. Our
people are now paying thousands of dol
lars yearly for the support of the public
schools in the black districts, and should
this head tax, designed for the schools,
be abolished, we will be saddled with an
additional burden.
From some of the articles we have
read in the Mozart organs. it would be
supposed that Virginia, in imposing
| this tax, was clinging to a relic of
! barbarism and not keeping step with
the advanced ideas o. the age, which
prevail in other States of the country.
one is allowed to vote " no has not paid
head tax and who cannot read and
write
In Georgia, the most prosperous of
the Southern States, the voter must
have paid all his taxes for the year next
before the election.
| In Pennsylvania the voter must have
paid State and county tax at least one
month before the election.
| Rhode Island has property qualifi
cation of $l34.
| Delaware and New Hampshire also
require the prepayment of tax and in
| Connecticut the LAND of steady habits"
no citizen is allowed to vote who is not
of good moral character and able to read
and write"
THE COMMONWEALTH have re-
ceived the first number Of The Com
[naon,ceaHh, a daily paper just estab-
lished in Richmond.
"In national affairs it will be a DEM
ocratic journal"
1t Twill CO operate in State matters
with the Conservative party"
It's position in reference to the public
debt is shown 10y the following extrac!
from its leading editorial, foreshadow-
ing the policy it will adyocate:-
1T will advocate the exercise of JUS
tice and the performance of duty, and
in this view will urge upon our people
that it is their duty to pay back money
which they have borrowed and received
and we are now enjoying the benefit OF
and that they can never he people en-
titled to respect or honor-that they can
never hope for material prosperity-st
long as they stand in the attitude of a
people who are enjoying the benefits OF
money which they refuse to repay"
1t is published on the following terms
Six dollars for year; three dollars fol
six months one dollar and half fol-
three months fifty cents for one month
payable in advance.
The following is list of those who
publish The Commonwealth: VIM. L
Royal, owner and editor; Bernard
, Peyton, news editor; Captain Richard
E. Frayser, business manager.
Carter N. Harrison, Geo. c. Jackson,
George G. Wilde, local reporters.
WHAT A WASHINGTON CoRREsPoN-
DENT sAYs.-A Washington correspon
dent of the Alexandria Gazette in
speaking of the many candidates for
supervisor of the census for this District
says:
"rhe application of w. H. Peyton, OF
StauntoD, was signed by Gen. Malone,
and "63 mem bers Of TIE dominant III
General Assembly of Virginia" which
signatures, it is believed, etfectualiy re
moved that gentleman from the list OF
possible aappointees:."
e 1t is reported here from Richmond
| that recently as General Malone and
:, Messrs. Riddleberger and Paul were
talking together on one of the streets of
e that city, they were approached by an
e acuuaintance Just from Washington,
who told the General that he had at least
one friend in that city, one who always
spoke we'll and kindly of him. "Who
is he?" inquired the General. Judge
Harris" replied the acquaintance. AT
t this the expression on the faces of both
t Messrs Paul aud Riddleberger under
, went decided change. not favorable
one either, aud they both uttered re
marks about the faculty some people
3 possess of straddling fences. The Gen
, eral, however, Immediately responded
that they were mistaken, and that he
knew Judge Harris had always been
his friend. At this the countenances OF
the two gentlemen assumed still dark
err hue, but they said nothing. The
point of this will be appreciated when
it is known that Messrs. Riddieberger
and Paul are candidates for the seat in
Congress now occupied by Judge
} Harris"
TIE NEGRO EXODUS INVESTIGATION
, in Col. VIM. S Gilmau's letter tC
the Dispatch under date of Saturday
last, he says 1.-THE pegrO-eXodus in
vestigatiou Was continued to-day, anG
has resulted so far in showing, 6y the
colored man Otey. the sheriff of Putnam
3 comfy, Indiana, and others, that the
s negroes were induced to go faom North
Carolina, not &c better their condition,
but to make that State Republican in
. 1880 Mr.. Window is not ir good
3 humor, and the Democrats say it is be-
! cause he ca mot make the witnesses
, contradict themselves. Mr.. Voorhees,
wears a calm, confident cir as if he had
great deal more behind than has yet
been made public:
THE WANTS OF THE SoIL.-Careful
observation of the grown of the crops
will enable the farmer to asc ertain the
! wants of his soil. while by the applca-
ton of few general principles he may
be led to the general improvement OF
his lands. II, with a good sun expo
sure, his crops wear a pale green, he
may Sately lnI6r lack Ol nitrogen, IL
the straw is soft and too weak to bear
e tic s.sad, it will teach him that his soil
, is deficient ir available potash, if he
has good growth CT straw aud light
yield of grain, be viii GnG, by the
r application Of phosphates, that ttp
s yield of grain will be largely increased,
though Ehiie growing his crop may
not appear TO &c .senefitted.
EDITOR OF THE RICHMoNo WING
The Lynchburg Vis,giaion retorts per
sonalIy with some severity upon tht
editor Of the f>ichtnard Wing whom il
A denonlinates 1.-The Ishnaeiita Of thl
Wig" and refeTs to him, in effect, a.
aiah0ne's nlau Friday" 1t says
"The OK kuoWeth his owner AID the
ASS his masters crit." aud tue same in
) stinct is shown by the North Carolina
adventurer who presides over the coz
umas of Journal that was once re-
! spectacle and influential, but is now