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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

the State government. As yet there has been
no positive indication of what its policy or
its methods will be. While such conduct is
not calculated to inspire the confidence and
respect of the better element of It's organ
ization, yet those who give direction to its
movements will not scruple as to points of
nice sensibilities. They are after the flesh
pots-the more ravenous now because of their
failure in November last in the national con-
test-and will resort to any means to win the
prize they so much covet In State affairs
The Republicans cannot afford to be indiffer-
ent to the attitude of each Of their opponents
and while not modifying anything that should
properly be asserted in the Republican pro-
gramme, they can exercise discretion as to the
time when such declaration should be made.
We hope the committee will be governed
and controlled in its deliberation by becom-
ing sense OF the Importance ofits action and the
effect it is to have upon the progress and re-
sult of the campaign
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Why Of course ifthe State Exec'tve Committee
was right, we should not only have fallen be-
hind. and had q greater per cent of loss than
in other districts. but we should actually have
done much worse than even the Third District
did But on the contrary, il is fact that our
vote ACTUALLY INCREASED as compared with
the last Presidential election IN spite Of tho poll
tao restriction q
Facts are sometimes very significant, but
were never more so than when we compare
the result in the Richmond District with the
result in this district Yours &c,
JUSTICE.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

The 100000 seven per cent. bonds of the
Richmond and Allegheny Railroad Company
have all been taken by private individuals,
and the bonds are now at premium of So to
1916 on the 800. The stock of the company
has advanced So per share within week.
\ Virginia Consol Bonds of 1871 were quoted
in Baltimore Monday last at 80 cts. and the
l0-40s, or the bonds under the McCulloch Bill
at 5l-5S The coupons were stronger. Peel
er bonds at 80 and 81.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03
Meeting of the Central Committee.

Meeting Of the Central Committee
The Central Committee of the Republi-
can party ofVirginia is called to meet in Rich
mond on the 9th inst. The object of the meet
ing is to consider the expediency of calling
State Convention to nominate full State
ticket to be voted for in November next, and
to consider other matters NO doubt, affect ing
the patty's interest. The meeting is an I'M
portant one, and its deliberations should be
characterized by caution and prudence, and
the absence of all personal feeling and imagi-
nary causes of difference. We will not so
much as presume to indicate the line Of policy
best to pursue, for we have no doubt those
who constitute the committee have thought
over the questions which will come up for de
apd will do what is best under
all the circumstances. Ono thing we may
sly, and that is there should be no precipitate
sction. While the Republican party should
have defined policy of Its own, we should
not lose sight of the fact that we have two
hostile organizations to contend with, each
ready to take advantage of any mistake that
may be made, and to hesitate at the adoption
,f NO plan or scheme that may contribute to
To success One organization is in the field with
is platform, boldly bidding for Republican
7otes: the other Is In ambush, watching from
,shind its blinds for the most effective strate-
dc opportunity regardless Of principle or con-
dstsasy, 70 aohisys ito ends-the possession Of
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

The electoral votes of the various States
will be counted in the U. s Senate on the
9th Of February. In view of this stubborn
controversy will be maintained between the
Representatives of the respective parties in
Congress as to the method of counting the
vote The Republicans maintain that it is
the duty OF the Vice President to count the
vote and declare the result, while the Dem
Ocrats contend that the two houses shall
assemble in joint session, appoint tellers to
count the vote. and they shall hand the
vote OF each State as counted to the Vice
President, whose duty it shall be to declare
it. as the presiding officer Of the joint Con-
vention. In caucus the Democrats have
made the official announcements that James
A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, when
the vo G. is counted, shall be declared elected
President and Vice President, but they will
contend for the method they have indicated
In the declarati II of that fact
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

LAMPHERE FOR CoMMIssIoNER.-A promi-
nent soldier writes us that he is Tin favor of
Major Geo. N. Lamphere, Chief of Appoint
ment Division Treasury Department, for Com
missioner of Pensions" We wish to remark
in this connection that such an appointment
by General Garfield would suit everybody we
are acquainted with. Major Lamphere left
one arm on the battle field for the union of the
States. and Is man who fully understands
the soldier question and therefore would make
an excellent Commissioner of Pensions. Heis
man OF education and refinement, and is the
author of celebrated work entitled the
United States Government" We consider
this book the most perfect one of It's nature
ever issued in this country, and we also be-
lieve Lamphere to be the man for Commits
sioner of Pensions.-Natio1al Free Press.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Prudential Scale OF Family Prices adopted:
TICKETS oN4Y. so and IS CTS.
~ Reserved Seats sold at divers Book store
without extra charge. seb S-1s-
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which was covered by the resolution directing
the committee to make the report-the man
ner in. which Messrs. Burr and Loveland en-
with oui correspondent that no district in the
State furnished better workers than the
Seventh, as was evidenced by the increased
Republican vote in every Valley county, not
withstanding the capitation tax restriction and
the absence Of alacge number of the registered
Republican voters ON works of internal i'm
provements and in mines in other States
Highland, Bath, Augusta, Shenandoah and
Page each polled larger Repu blican vote
than ever before, and Rockingham held its
own. Notwithstanding the causes operating
against Republicans we have named Harri-
sonburg precinct, for the first time in its hsto-
~, gave Republican majorty-and this in
crease In the Valley counties was from the
substantial white citizens, the colored vote
falling off by reason of the imposition of a
tax upon the elective franchise and the alb
sence of many of them az stated above, and
the confusion growing out of conflicting opin-
ions about the registration laws. We attach
very little importance to the mention of names,
or their omission, in public prints in connec-
ton with election service. The workers are
generally known and easily found ana wnlle
there are numbers who are entitled to special
notice, it is gratifying to know that all did
their duty actively and efficiently. Those who
most deserve mention are generally those who
care nothing about it, satisfied to feel that they
were not idle spectators in the contest.
Since the letter we have here referred to
was received, another correspondent over the
signature of Justice takes up the subject
and handles it pretty roughly, dealing
in unnecessarily harsh and inconsiderate
language. We are disposed 70 believe
that it was more from want Of informa-
ton of the facts Of the case than dispo-
sition to do intentional injustice, that &C.
casioned the apparent slight Of this district in
the report. Indeed, there was very little per-
tinsncy to the matter ot enquiry, i9 giving der
tailed statements about the operations IN the
several districts, and the parties who had ia,
ken active parts therein, out as this line OF
presentation was INDUCED, 1t would have been
but right to have made it impartial
What we want now Is harmony in the he
publican party Of Virginia and concert Of &C
ton. It Is NO time for unfriendly structures,
or the manifestation of personal feeling, BE-
cause Of non essential differences.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

loRsETs KID AND THREAD GLOVES,
Updegraph KID Gauntlets,
undressed Kid Gloves, &C., SC, at
wELLER's-
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

| III. H. A. McCHESNEY offers his professional SER
~ vices to the people Of Staunton and vicinity
oFFIcE-IN EICHELBERGER BUILDING,
| North Of Loeb's Corner, New st.
| feb 3-2m
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

NEW ADvERTISEMNTs.
WANTED-A Young CoLoREp GIRL to do general
W housework in small family. Apply at
once TO ROBT. o. HAINES
WANTED TO BORROWING thousand dollars.
W.. ample security given. Apply 10 Meade F.
feb 3-4t -
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

and often does. lead to another, but 1t does
not Justify it. We prefer a medium ground,
where all necessary reforms and reliefs may
be effected, the rights OF persons and prop
erty protected and government become
the instrument of conservative, healthy In
fluences, working for the common good
We recognize and court the restraints OF
law, the guards Of we'll ordered society, and
the subordination of the passions and
prejudices to reason and justice. The Re
publican seems to look at the political
movements in Virginia as they may posi-
bly, affect Gen. Mahone's party relations in
the United States Senate. It is entirely
probable that the Republican party Of the
country will view them from more ele-
waited standpoint, and enquire where the
right lies, and whether the maintenance OF
public faith is not of higher concern than
the ephemeral influence of vote in dis
pensing little patronage and determining
the fate of a few reckless part izans. II we
have studied the history Of that party
Alright we are justified In the conclusion
that 1t Is party Of moral forces and that no
passing advantage would sufficiently COM
pensate those who represent its true char.
acter in inflicting an indelible stain; upon
It's escutcheon. The enduring interests
OF party and country are not subseryed by
the political mountebanks, nor would the
moral sense Of the nation favorably Judge
any man or party that would convert the
Senate OF the United States into . stock
jobbing arena for needy politicians. 1t
may answer the immediate necessities of
the case to accuse those Republicans in
Virginia who do not chose to surrender
Internationally to faction of the Demo-
cratic party, with sinister and selfish mo-
tives. That will neither weaken their pur-
pose nor abate their efforts to maintain their
self respect and the integrity ofthe party with
which they were identified. Certainly the
Republican win have to elevate its tone and
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

TEN, and dedicates certain revenues per-
petually to its support and 4th. 1t inhibits
the credit of the State to all works OF inter-
nal improvement and the Legislature from
mourning any Indebtedness except, in con-
tingencies, for the support OF the State gov
eminent.
These vital provisions, which will stand
out as monuments to the wisdom of the
body that made them part OF the funda-
mental law of the State, were supplemented
by an equally important provision, viz
That the elective franchise attached to man.
hood and should not be abridged except for
crime of the grade of felony, idiocy, &c
The only TIVE really obnoxious features of
the enactment. were by Republican procure
ment, submitted separately for the adoption
or rejection of the people, and were rejected
by the aid of Republican votes.
Upon the adoption OF this Constitution
under an enactment Of Congress stipulat-
ing that the right to vote as guaranteed in
this cardinal law, should never be abridged
only as therein provided. the State OF Vir-
ginia was admitted to representation in
Congress.
Row these provisions have been observed
and respected 1t is hardly necessary to
state. The debt has been bone OF con-
ton for political aspirants ever since; and
provision for the payment Of interest on it
Is as far from existing al 1t was when the
vote was taken in 1859; the public schools
have been robbed OF the revenues the Con- |
stitution dedicates to them and the Con- |
stitution has been so mutilated that the |
elective franchise has price fixed upon 1t.
and become the source Of the foulest cor
,uptions and frauds-the ballot-box In
v.ded by fraudulent tickets, and the
popular will nullifed through the instru-
Of the most venal practices.
The incorporation In tho Constitu-
-. Of theae vital ideas Of public
.,.h public intelligence. national adAl-'
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03
CTAUNTON, FEB. 1sr, 1881.

OF BREsEE SON, aenl Agents, Baltimore, Md.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-27
How Whistler Painted Ceiling.

London Letter to Providence Press.l
Probably you have heard of Whistler's ex-
travaganza in houses. He was engaged to
decorate a noble mansion in Belgravia;
the price was no object to the owner and for
that matter neither was it to Whistler. One
day friend asked me to go over and see one
of the rooms that was nearly completed, and 1
fastened to accept the invitation. This is
what we saw on entering: A very
slim, spare figure, extended on a mattress in
the middle of the floor; beside him an enor-
nous palette, paints, q half-dozen long bam-
boo hsh-poles resting on line with their butts
close at hand, and very large pair of hnocu-
lar glasses. Whistler, dressed wholly in black
velvet, with knickerbocker pantaloons stopping
just below the knee, black silk stockings and
low pointed shoes, with silk ties more than six
inches wide, and diamond buckles, was fiat
on mis- back, fshing-rod in hand and an enor-
nous eyeglass in one eye, diligently putting
some finishing touches on the ceiling, his
brush being ON the end of the fish-po Occa-
sionally he would pick up his double glasses
like some astronomer peering at the moon and
having gained nearer and better view of the
effect, he would again begin to agitate the
paint brush at the other end of the long pole.
"Now wouldn't be a fool" said he, "to
risk myself on scaffolding and nearly twist
my head off my shoulders trying to look up
ward, when can overcome the difficulty aud
annihiate space so easily husband he gave
a wave of his tish-pole.
And such room! one mass of gorgeous pur-
pie and blue, ornamented solely with an enor-
mons number of the eyes of peacock's feath-
ers 1t was room to make man lunatic in
week. 1t was as if all the peacocks in
Christendom had settled down upon one, and
were about to smother one in tail feathers.
And this was the celebrated peacock room"
about which all London went wild not long
affarward
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Notes and Queries.l
The American Guess.

1t is we'll known in England the non-use or
the misuse of the letter is not more certainly
an English social test than is the use of the
word guess (as the synonym of think, reckon
conjecture or fancy)-a distinction by which
Americans are instantly recognized as such.
An Englishman, you will be told, never
guesSes. But Carlyle, in his "reminiscences,
though himself recognizing the so-called
American use, uses the word precisely ia the
sense in which cultivated American woud
use it. He says of Scotch Miss Graham, who
had lived some time in Philadelphia and then
returned to Scotland, that she was lone of the
amiablest of old maids; kind, true, modestly
polite to the very heart; aud in such curious
style of polite culture-Pennsslvania Yankee
grated Oh Annandale Scotch. Used to 'ex-
pect' instead of suppose, would guess now
and them" etc. But he says, 81 forget wheth-
er as farmer or as shepherd, but guess the
former. ;, Again: II guess she might be
ABOUT SIX" Again; II forget, or never knew,
what time they had come to Templand, but
guess it may have been in 1922 or shortly af-
ter" In all these cases Carlyle used the word
correctly, but so does the cultivated American
use the word correctly. He means that he is
not entirely certain, but ventures a confident
conjecture There is not so good a word in
the language for the purpose and it has the
authority of the oldest and best use. Never
theless, in England, man using this word in
conversation just as Carlyle used it, would be
Judged American at once. "Ah, he is an
American-he guesses." Even as to the less
correct and more general use of the word
''guess," it could be defended as preferable to
the universal Il fancy which one hears in
England. Guess approximates the meaning
Intended as fancy 'lmore rarely does. "Ex-
pect" for suppose is a vulgar error, not Of
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-27
Lincoln's Freedom from Resent
mentS.
Nebraska State journal. 7

Nebraska State Journal
To show that Abraham Lincoln vas no. a
man OF resentments, would state IN this c1n-
necton that one of his first acts after his eiec-
tion to the Presidency was to appoint Norman
b. Judd, of Chicago, as Minister to Prussia
Mr. Judd was one of the Trumbull coterie vino
had persisted in the opposition to Mr.. Lincoln
for the United States Senatorship. A few
months prior to the meeting of the Republican
National Convention Of 1860, Mr. Judd, as as
pirant for the Governorship of Illinois, called
at my office in Rock Island, while on an elcc-
tioneering tour, aud, in the courss of coi.v.r-
sation, asked: "Name your man for the Pres
idehtial nomination at Chicago" promptly
replied: Abraham Lincoln" Mr.. Judd in a
Sneering tone, said: II am not ioking-tell me
your honest choice" / repeated abraham
Lincoln" He quickly responded: 81 am as
tonished that any one should think of his nom
ination when we have first-class statesmen in
our party like Lyman Trumbull, Salmon p.
Chase aud John M. Palmer"
The appointment OF Mr.. Judd was generally
opposed by Mr.. Lincoln's most intimate friends
David Davis, Jesse X. Dubois and others
On one occasion in Springfield, when hard
arguments to bear against Mr. Judd s appoints
ment, Mr.. Lincoln replied: 81 cannot under
stand this opposition to Judd's appointment
1t seems to me" "a favorite expression) "he has
done more for the success of our party than
any man in the State, and he is certainly the
best organizer We have" Unlike his most in-
innate friends, the great President cared not
for the fact that Mr.. Judd placed no high esti-
mate on his Lincon's) ability or statesman
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-27
The Star Route Business.

There appears TO have been gross mal-ad-
ministration in the matter of the Star mail
route contracts. The indications of corrupt
practices are many and the President has
properly removed the officer who, whether
he had cognizance of the frauds or not, is
responsible for the management of that
branch OF the Post-office department of
which he is the executive General Brady
may be only guilty Of carelessness. Thor
ough investigation may relieve him from the
charge Of criminal intent or of profiting Pc
cunarilv by the frauds of contractors. But
it is evident that he has not paid proper at
tention to his official duties,-and that is
sufficient cause for his discharge. The in
vestigation will be prompt and thorough,
and justice to offenders and offended be
done.
The Republican party has habit of hunt
ing up these things. 1t aims to administer
this government honestly. 1t seeks to faith
fully discharge the great truss the people
have placed in its hands. Its confidence
has sometimes been abused; but it has nev-
er hesitated to arraign offenders or to pun
ish, where punishment was possible, those
found guilty. Its course in relation to the
alleged frauds in mail contracts is in the
line OF its habit. Instead of trying to screen
peculators, as the Democracy did in the case
of Tweed, and in other noticeable cases., it
endeavors to right the wrong done and to
bring the offenders to reckoning. Who can
conceive of Democratic administration ca
pable of doing that?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-27
How Carlyle Talked at Jeffrey's.
[From Mr. Nicolrs New Book on Carlyle.)

From Mr.. Nicolfs New Book on Carlyle.)
The public, he said, had become a gigantic
iackass; Literature glittering lie Science
was cropping aimlessly amidst the dry, dead
clatter of the machinery by which it means
the universe; Art welding feeble, watery
pencil History stumbling over dry bones, in
valley no longer of vision; Philosophy lisping
and babbling exploded absurdities, mixed with
new nonsense about the Infinite, the Absolute
and the Eternal; our Religion, great truth
groaning its last; Truth, Justice, God, turned
big staring, empty words. like the address on
the sign, remaining after the house was aban-
doned, or like the envelope after the letter had
been extracted, drifting down the wind.
"And what men we have to meet the crisis!
Sir Walter Scott, a toothless retailer of old
wives fables; Brougham, an eternal grinder of
commonplace and pretentious noise, like man
playing on a hurdy-gurdy; Coleridge. talking
in maudln sleep an infinite deal of nothing;
Wordsworth, STOPPING to extract spiritual
catsup from mushrooms which were little bet
ter than toadstools; John Wilson, taken to pre-
siding at Noctes, aud painting haggises in
flood; the bishops and clergy of all denomina-
tions combined to keep men in a state of pupi-
lage, that they may be kept in port wine and
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-27

DETROIT Tribune: Ohio's only "Jongee"
Thompson, of course) says the Democratic
party sis the grandest party in the world be-
cause defeat after defeat makes no differ
ence." Certainly, wolloping don't help some
mules, and they keep right on being mules
all the same. 1t is so with "Jongee's" par
ty. Disaster teaches it nothing. And it will
have much opportunity to grow even grand
er if .'defeat after defeat" can keep it in
that direction. Now let some one come and
say meaner thing about the Democratic
party than is thus said by its distinguished
Ohio leader, the ever prattling Democratic
Chairman, "Jongee."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-27

A NOTABLE trait of Disraeli was his fideli-
ty to his friends. Lord John Manners was
one of his earliest disciples and friends, and
though he was made butt of Liberal satire
for his famous lines about England's s'Old
Nobility" and has never been reputed a
great man, he became Cabinet Minister.
Years ago Lord John had the courage to act
on his conviction that Mr.. Disraeli was a re-
markable young man, in spite of the sneers
and irritation of his father, the Duke of Rut-
land. His elder brother, the present Duke
of Rutland, on the other hand, never shared
this faith in the brilliant young author of
"Vivian Grey" and the master of England
did not forget him. 81 see the papers will
insist on making you duke" said friend
to the Premier after his triumphal return
from Berlin. 'Why don't you make your
self one?" ''Make myself duke?" he re-
piled. with the least little CLEAN of a smile
crossing his sphinx-like features ''Make
myself duke? Why! Rutland's duke"