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VOL. XXXVII. JOS. A. WADDELL, ) L. WADDELL, Jr., > Proprietors. RICHARD MAUZY, j TERMS. _gr The' 'SPECTA TOR is published once a week at Two Dollars and fifty Cents a year, which may be discharged by the payment of Two Dollars at any time within the year. No subscription will be discontinued but at the option of the Editors, until allarrearages are paid. AD VERTISEMENTS often li*es (or less,) inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each tabseqaentcontinuance. Larger advertisements inserted in the same proportion. A liberal discount made to those who advertise by the year. Professional Cards, not exceeding seven lines, will be inserted for one year for $5 00—6 months for $ 8 00. One square, (tenlines) 1 year HOO - " 6 months 5 00 " " 5 " 800 Two squares 1 ysar 12 00 " " 6 months 8 00 «« » 8 " 500 Three squares 1 year 15 00 * " 6 months 10 00 " " 8 " 700 One third column 1 year 18 00 " ** " 6 months 1200 <« «« «« 8 * 800 One colunvn 1 year 50 00 « " 6 months 80 00 All advertising for a less time than three months, wiU be charged for at the usual rates —sl 00 per square for the first three insertion*, and twenty-five cents for each übseauent issue. _ CARDS. M_RKWOOD & GRAVES. FASHIONABLE TAILORS, -Ot Opposite the JUarble Yard, B Main St., Staunton, Va. —■*" WOULD inform their friends and the public gen erally that they are now prepared to execute work entrusted to them in the neatest aud most fash ionable styles. As they'have had the practice of six years as CUT TERS they feel confident of pleasing all who may favour them with their custom, and they hope by prompt attention to business to merit a liberal share of patronage. Staunton, Sep. 6,1859. JAB. H. MCVBIGH. IDOAB T. MCVBIQH. JAS. H. MoVEIGH & SON., (Successors to McVeigh _ Chamberlain,) WHOLESALE GROCERS, AND DEALERS IN Liquors, Wines, Tobacco, Segars, &C, PRINCE STREET WHARF, Alexandria, Va. March 29,1859.—1y. Western Virginia * MARBLE WORKS, m f AT STAUNTON Jj_JL Jl HARRISONBURG. (flfte-l MARQUIS & IIUEY. _§___§ Stannton, April 7, 1858. GBO. M. COCHKA.N. J___9 COCEKaX. COCHRAN _ COCHRAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, STAUNTON. VA., WILL practice their profession in all the Courts of Augusta and the Circuit Courts of Bath and Highland. Strict attention will be given to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Aug. 24, 1858. POWELL HARRISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, WILL practice in the Courts of Augusta and High land. j_gT" He may be found at his office, adjoining the Sheriff's office. Dec. 9, 1857. GA . SMITH Manufacturer of ymm • Ladies' Shoes of all descrip- W\ tions, keeps a large stock constantly on hand and offer, them at very reasonable price*. Abo MISSES' and CHI-DREN'S SHOES. His stand is nbxt door to thb Post Offic*. Patronage is res pectfully solicited. Staunton, May 17,1859. GUY «_ W ADDELL, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, STAUNTON, VIRGINIA. BUYERS AND SELLERS will find it to their ad vantage to call at their office in the Brick fart of thb Old Bbll Tavben. Staunton, Sep. 6, 1859. J. M. HANGER ATTORNEY AT LAW, STAUNTON, VA., WILL practice in all the Courts held in Staunton, and in the Circuit Courts of Albemarle and ckmgham. Office im the brick-row, in the rear of he Court-house. Stannton, Dec. 80,1857. JOHN W. MEREDITH, DEALER IN JEWELRY, CLOCKS, WATCHES, &C, Main St., Stannton, Va. t_F" Watches and Jewelry Repaired. Staunton, Jan.l 7. JOHN C. MICHIE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WARM SPRINGS, BATH COUNTY, VA.. WILL practice in the Courts of Bath, Highland, Pocahontas and Augusta. £_f~ All business entrusted to him will be promptly attended to. March 13, 1860.—6 mc. OCTOR JAMES B. GILKESON-Having located in Staunton, tenders his vices to the public. He may be found, when not pro essionally engaged, at the room over the Saddle and Harness establishment of Mr. G. H. Elick, nearly op posite the Post Office. Staunton Feb. 8.1859—tf. A. D. CHANDLER, UNDERTAKER, Stannton, Va., KEEPS METALIC CASES of all sizes, at Staun ton and Millborough Depot, at City Prices. Staunton, July 19,1859. R. L. DOYLE, Attorney at Law, Stannton, Va., WILL practice in the Courts of Augusta, Rock bridge, Bath and Highland. July 29, 1857. GRAND OPENING —OF — Foreign and Domestic Spring Millinery, TO-DAY 8c TO-MORROW, —AT— D. J. GOLDENBERG'S NEW STORE. Stannton. April 17,1860. EA/i NEGROES WANTED.—I wish to pur nJ\J\J chase 500 likely young Negroes, of both sex es, for the Southern market, for which I will pay the highest market prices in cash. My address is Staun ton, or Middlebrook, Augusta Co., Va. Jan. 24,1860* J. E. CARSON. SPRING AND OTHER WRAPPINGS.— Plain and Zebra Cloth, Black Silk, French Lace, Mohair, and other Dusters and Mantillas of the newest style, just received by D. A. KAYSER. Staunton, March 27.1860—Yin. copy all. HEALING WATER.—DR. W. B. YOUNG, Druggist, has a large lot of Healing Water for sale, and is the regular Agent for it in Staunton. Dec. 13. UST RECEIVED.—The best and cheapestlew price TOBACCO that can be found. Wholesale ©r retail by JNO. B. EVANS. Staunton, July 26,1859. WAITERS,— We have several setts handsome Tea Trays. Also small Waiters. Call and see them at WOODS _ GILKESON'S Staunton, April 24 INDOW CORN ICE.-Very handsome Cor nice, Curtain Pins and Hooks. Also Cords and Tassels for sale by WOODS _ GILKESON. Staunton, April 24. CORN MEAL—For sale in large or small quan tities at the STAUNTON STEAM MILLS at market prices. Apply to May 81,59. _■ A. RICHARDSON, Sup't. TIN CHAMBER SETS—A few very handsome sets just recei.ed by WOODS _ GILKESON. Staunton, April 10, 1860. VIRGINIA^ CASSIMERES.-A full supply just te hand. TAYLOR _ HOGE. Staunton, April 10, 1860- ATTENTION OFFICERS.—Military Cloth, Swords, Sashes and Epaulets, at low prices, by CRAWFORD _ COCHRAN. Staunton, April 12 1852. SOFAS— A new lot Sofas, just to hand, very ehe Staunton. July 19. '59. A. D CHANDLER.n CARPETS.- A few pieces of Super. Ingrai and Brussels Carpet* for sale by Staunton, April 8,1860. D. A. KAYSER. ______ / r_ I?HSC^I_%__EOIJS..".'.'.' FOR GOVERNOR. GABRIEL HIRSH! FOR LIEUT. GOV. WILLIAM JONAS! NOTWITHSTANDING the failure of the Atlant* Cable to come up to the expectations of some of the knowing ones of the Old and New World, yet GABRIEL BIRSH, one of the largest stockholders in the concern, for the purpose of cultivating a frater nal feeling with all mankind, has extended it as far as the city of Staunton, where it is performing some of the greatest achievements of the age, in the way of exhibiting at his old stand, on Main Street, the largest and most complete STOCK OF GOODS ever brought to this market. The greatest wonder, how ever, even surpassing the operations of the Cable, are the "CHINESE JUGGLERS," on exhibition at his window, where the prettiest man in the country is al ways to be found engaged in Repairing Watches and Jewelry. Of" The $4,000 offered some time since, is still in the hands of a responsible gentleman in Staunton,ready to be banded over to any one who will bring forward a superior workman in his line. G. HIRSH. Stsuunton, Oct. 19,1858—tf CONFECTIONERY ESTABLISHMENT!!! CHOICE VARIETIES STAND FOR THE SEASON AT THE FORMERLY OCCUPIED BT WM. T. MOUNT, Main St., Stannton, Va MAGNUS S. CEASE WOULD respectfully call the attention of the cit izens of Staunton and vicinity to his large and en irely new stock of FALL GOODS, which he is now receiving and opening, cousisting of Water, Sugar and Soda Crackers, Picnics, Raisins, Figs, Currants, Cit ron, Dates, Prunes, English Walnuts, Filberts, Al monds, Ground Nuts, Pecan Nuts, Lemons, Oranges, Sardines, and Candies of every description.— Also Fancy Goods, Fkbnch Candies, Cakis and Tots. S__r* Wedding parties furnished at the shortest no tice, and on the most reasonable terms. Also Fresh Peaches, Lobsters, Pickles, Catchups, Ac, Ac. He will sell on reasonable terms, and respectfully solicits a share of patronage. J3T" Candy sold at Wholesale and Retail. Staunton, Nov. 8. 1859. GREAT EXCITEMENT AT THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF JACOB POLLITZ, (beandkbuko's old stand.) THOUGH the Great Eastern has met with serious accident, yet my large and well selected stock of FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING will abundantly show that my cargo of Goods did arrive safely, and includes the greatest variety of will finished clo thing ever brought to this market. My present stand, at Brandeburg's old Corner and Opposite the Va. Hotel, gives a sufficiency of room to show to my customers as nice a stock of Clothing as can be exhibited this side ot Baltimore and which I will sell at Baltimore City Prices. The public are invited to examine my stock, before purchasing elsewhere, at least all those who consid er that "a penny saved is a penny made." JACOB POLLITZ, Brundeburg's old stand, Opp'te Va. Hotel. Staunton, Oct. 11. 1859. TANNERY. —I have this day associated my son, Wm. B. Gallaher with me in the Tanning busi ness in the town of Waynesboro' and the business will hereafter be conducted in the name of H. L. GALLA HER A SON. Persons indebted to my Tannery are hereby notified to come forward and settle, aud those having claims against it are requested to present the same for pay ment. My son, Wm. B. Gallaher, will always be found at the Tannery and is authorized to settle for me. Public patronage is solicited for the new concern. __~ The highest Cash price will be paid for hides, skins and bark at all times. H. L. GALLAHER. Waynesboro', Oct. 4,1859.—1y*. I>RII<~S JJ_D M£J>lCii*l_S. P. H. TROUT & CO., ARE now receiving a large stock of Medicines, Paints, Oils, _c, which~f they bought direct from the manufacturers and importers, and are able to sell pure articles on favorable terms. Their stock of SURGICAL IN STRUMENTS is very large, embracing all instru ments needed for town or county practice. Also the largest supply of Fancy Articles, Brushes, Fine Perfumery, Ac, ever brought to this market. Staunton, March 6,1860. DE FORK—ST, ARMSTONG, _ CO. DRY GOODS MERCHANTS, 80 & 82 Chambers St., N. V., Would notify the Trade that they are opening weekly, in new and beautiful patterns, the Wamsutta Prints, also the Amoskeag, a New Print, which excels every Print in the Country for perfec tiou of execution and design in full Madder Colors. Our Prints are cheaper than any in market, and meet ing with extensive sale. Orders promptly attended to. Jan. 31, ISfO—ly DR. JAMES JOHNSTON, SURGICAL _ MECHANICAL DENTIST, having been located permanently in Staunton for the last four years, would respectfully inform his friends and the public gene rally, that he still continues to practice Dentistry,in all its various branches, with the strictest regard to du rability and usefulness. Office on the south-side of Main Street opposite the old Spectator Office. Staunton, Nov. 29, 1854. fcfcrpHE BELLE OF THE SOUTH!"—Six J. doz. Skeleton Skirts, ot all makes, as follows: "Thomson's," "Sherwood's." "Moran's," and the "Belle of the South," which is considered the most graceful skirt now in use. The above Skirts have just been received and will be sold as low as possible. PIPER _ FUNKHOUSER. Stauntop, Mar. 6, 1860. —Yin copy WHEAT WANTED.—The Staunton Steam Mills Co. will pay the highest prices in Cash for Wheat. Farmers wishing to dispose of their crops will probably consult their interests by bring ing samples to S. A. RICHARDSON, Sup't. Nov. 15,1859. PLASTEE.— We have on hand a large quantity ready-ground Blue Win_»oi Plaster which we will Bell for $11.50 per Ton of 2000 lbs, for cash on de livery, or will exchange for Wheat or Corn deliverefl at the Stannton Steam Mills, at fair market prices. Feb. 7. S. A. RICHARDSON. Sup't. H. HILB is now receiving and opening at his • Old Stand, opposite the Virginia Hotel, his Spring Supply of Dry Goods. Those in want of bargains are invited to drop in. Staunton, April 24,1860. ÜBT RECEIVED.—A very lot of all kinds of Spectacles— >-«* ted, steel and gold—and all kinds of Spectacle Glas ses, concave, convex and colored. Staunton, Jan. 81—tf A. LANG. WOODEN WARE. —Wash Tubs, Painted Tubs, Buckets, Pails, Measures, Boxes, Wash Boards, Clothes Pins, Bowls, Ac., Brooms, Whisks, Brushes, &c, just received and for sale by Stannton, May 1,1860. GEO. E. PRICE. ROUND AND ROCK PLASTER.—2SO tons BLUE WINDSOR PLASTER. For sale by P. N. POWEIL _ CO., Oct. 25. Union Hall Building. ILL IRONS, MACHINERY AND ALL kinds of Castings made to order at the Staunton Foundry, by A. J. GARBER _ CO. Sep. 13,1859. BOOTS Jk SHOES.—The largest variety ot Boots and Shots on hand, to be sold at a small advance on cost, at J. POLLITZ'S Staunton. Oct. 11.1*59. Clothing House. SOMETHING EXTRA.-Just received a fine article of Lynchburg SMOKING TOBACCO, for sale at the Tobacco House of J. B. EVANS. Staunton, January 17. OOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS, and all kinds of Patent Medicines, for sale by DR. H. S. EICHELBERGER. Staunton, April 3, 1860. PODELDOC SOAP!—For making Rora back's Compound Chemic_l and Toilet Soaps, for sale by DR. H. S. EICHELBERGER. Staunton, April 3, iB6O. HATS.-BLACK MOLE-SKIN AND C A SSI MERE HATS of the latest style and very supe rior quality at DAVIS A KAYSER'S. Staunton, April 8, 1860. OF THE SOUTH" and other new JL> style HOOPS of the best make just received by DAVIS A. KAYSER. Staunton, April 8,1860. PHYSICIANS can always be supplied with a ful assortment of Medicines of the best qualiti at DR. H. S. EICHELBERGER'S. Staunton, Jan. 25, '59 ALL kinds of Iron Machinery fitted up at the work Shop of the Staunton Foundry. Sep.lß, 1859. A. J. GaRBER A CO. FOR Hats, Caps, and every style of Gents' Furnish ing Goods, call at j. POLLITZ'S Staunton. Oct. 11,1859. Clothing Hcesn COAL OIL—A splendid article, at " DR. W. B. YOUNG'S. Staunton, Nov. 1. CORN HOES.—I 2 doz. Cast Steel Cora Hoes in store and for sale by Staunton, April 24. WOODS _ GILKESON. CORDAGE.— Italian Hemp, Manilla and Jute Ropes from %to for sale cheap by Staunton, April 24 WOODS k GILKESON. HOG SKINS—I DOZ. PRIME ENGLISH HOG SKINS just received. Staunton, May 1, 1800. GEO. E. PRICE. STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1860. POETRY. Don't Fret. Has a neighbor injured you, Don't fret, You'll come off the best Never mind it—let it rest— Don't fret. Has a horrid lie been told, Don't fret; It will run itself to death, If you let It alone, It will die for want of breath— Don't fret. Are your enemies at work ? Don't fret. They cannot injure you a whit If they find you heed them not, They will soon be glad to quit— Don't ft et. Is adversity your lot! Don't fret; Fortune's wheel keeps turning round, Every spoke will reach the top, Wbich, like you, is going down—■ Don't fret. MISCELLANY. A Noble Wife. Many of our public men have been blessed with wives and mothers who were ornaments to their sex, and their quiet and ennobling influence contributed largely to the subsequent great ness ot their children and husbands. Mr. Par ton tells the following story of Gen. Jackson's wife: When General Jackson was a candidate for the Presidency in 1828, not only did the party op posed to him abuse him for his public aots, which, if unconstitutional or violent, were a le gitimate subject of reprobation, but they defamed the character of his wife. On one occasion a newspaper published in Nashville was laid upon the General's table. He glanced over it, and bis eyes fell upon an article iv which the char acter of Mrs. Jackson was violently assailed.— So soon as he had read it he sent for his trusty old servant Dunwoodie. "Saddle my horse," said he to him in a whis per, "and put my holsters on bim." Mrs. Jackson watched bim, and though she heard not a word, she thought she saw mischief in his eyes. The General went out, after a few moments, when she took up the paper and un derstood everything. She ran out to the South gate of the yard of the Hermitage, by which the General would have to pass. She had not been there more than a few secouds before the Gene ral rode up with the countenance of a madman. She placed herself before his horse, and cried out: "O, General, don't go to Nashville 1 Let that poor editor live." "Let me alone 1" he replied; "how came you to know what I am going for?" "I saw it all in his paper after you went out; put up your horse and go back." He replied furiously, "But I will go—get out of my way 1" Instead of doing this she grasped his bridle with both bands. He cried to her, "I say, let go my horse; I'll have his heart's blood—the villain that reviles my wife shall not live." She grasped the reins but the tighter, and be gan to expostulate with him, saying that she was the one who ought to be angry, but that she forgave her persecutors from the bottom of her heart, and prayed for them—that be should forgive if he had hoped to be forgiven. At last, by her reasoning, her entreaties and her tears, she so worked upon her husband that he seemed mollified to a certain extent. She wound up by saying: "No General, you shall not take tbe life of even my reviler—you dare not do it, for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saitb the Lord 1" The iron-nerved hero gave way before the earnest pleading ot his beloved wife and replied : "I yield to you; but had it not been for you and the words of the Almighty, the wretch should not have lived an hour." Ancient Rains in the United States. Dim and mysterious is the early history of man on this continent. It is enveloped in thick darkness, never, it may be presumed, to be pen etrated by human research. And yet the ruins of ancient cities are frequently discovered, that tell of a race that has long since existed—probably exterminated by the ancestors of our present Indi ans, who are also fast departing from the human family—fairly dying out, before tbe ever advanc ing influence of tbe pale faces. But these mon umental cities indicate great populations, and prove the existence of mighty men of old. A new stmulus is likely to he given to American archaeology, by a discovery recently made some ninety miles Northeast of Fort Stanton, a long account of which has just appeared iv the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times. We condense. The plain upon which lie the massive relics of gorgeous temples aad magnificent halls, slopes gradually Eastward towards the river Pecos, and is very fertile, crossed by a gurgling stream of the pur est water, that not only sustains a rich vegeta tion, but perhaps furnished with this necessary element the thousands who once inhabited this present wilderness. The city was probably built by a war-like race, as it is quadrangular, and arranged with skill to afford the highest protection against an exterior foe, many of the buildings on the outer line being pierced with loop-holes, as though calculated for the use of weapons. Several of tbe buildings are of a vast size and built of massive blocks of a dark granite rock, which could only have been brought to their present condition by a vast amount of labor. — There are the ruins of three noble edifices, each presenting a front of three hundred feet made of ponderous blocks of stone, and the dilapidated walls are even thirty-five feet high. There are no partitions in the area of the middle (supposed) temple, so that the room must have been vast; and there are also carvings in bas relief and fres co work. Appearances justify the conclusion that these silent ruins could once boast of balls as gorgeously decorated by the artist's hand as those of Thebes and Palmyra. The buildings are all loop-holed in each side, much resembling that found in the old feudal castle of Europe de signed for the use of archers. The blocks of which these edifices are composed are cemented together by a species of mortar of a bituminous character, which has such a tenacity that vast masses of the wall have fallen down without the blocks being detached by tbe shock. We hope, ere long, to be favored with full and descriptive particulars, as it is probable that visits and ex aminations will be made amongst such interest ing relics of the unknown past, by some of the United States officers attached to tbe nearest fort.— Pennsylvania Enquirer. New Territories. —The five new Territories which the House Committee on Territories pro pose to organize, contain respectively the follow ing number of inhabitants:—Chippewa, from eight to ten thousand ; Nevada about tbe same number: Dacotah, eight thouaind ; Pike's Peak, fifteen to twenty thousand; Arizona, six to eight thousand. Each of these bills contain the fol lowing proviso: Provided, that, nevertheless, slavery has no legal existence in said Territories, and nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or prevent its existence therein. — These measures will come up for consideration early this week. Tbe people of Ireland are again emigrating in large crowds. A Dublin paper says: "They are flying; through Dublin our flying people pour daily in weeping crowds. For years our streets bave not beheld such soenes as those of the past week, though, alas! the ebb of pop ulation has not wholly oeased at any time for a quarter of a century." J Blunders of Vision. It is estimated by those who have taken spe cial pains to investigate the matter, that twe persons out of every hundred are decidedly col or-blind. Many comical mistakes have been made on account of the inability of parties to distinguish colors. The following oases are re ported in the Philosophical Transactions: A gentleman relates how he was shocked, just before the marriage of his daughter, by the appearance of the bridegroom in a suit of black; for in earlier times it seems color was indispen sable to matrimony. Papa insisted that the poor fellow should go home and assume some less melancholy attire; but the bride, who would probably have married bim in sackcloth, like a noble woman —at least so we suspect—rushed to the rescue, and declared that her lover was oorrectly clothed in a rich scarlet-colored dress. Such was the fact. One day, after service at church, a gentleman went up to a lady and in quired, with great concern, for whom she was in mourning. For no one, was the reply ; why should he imagine that such was tbe case ? Tbe querist exclaimed —was not her bonnet a deep black ? Certainly not; it was crimson velvet! A person who had lost a relative greatly scan dalized his friends'* by sealing his black-edged letters with red wsi, just as many an heir-at law would probably do, if, after testifying bis regard for the memory of the departed by using a sheet with tbe deepest and darkest of borders, he were at liberty to symbolize his genuine sen timents when he came to the seal. But this was nothing to the blunder of an upholsterer's apprentice, who was sent to purchase some black cloth to cover a coffio, and returned with a quantity of scarlet, under the impression that it was as mournful a sable as the occasion required. Next let us mention a series of cases in whioh i one color is simply confounded with another.— Red, for example, may be habitually mistaken for green, or crimson identified with blue. Take the former species of defect; for the clashing of green with red is one of the most popular forms of heterodoxy in regard to the hues. A gentle man was asked if he saw any object stretched upon a hedge. He declared there was none.— The fact was that a red cloak happened to be thrown over it, and though the exact position was pointed out to him, he could not perceive any difference in color between the garment and the green of nature. Boys bave more than once become acquainted with their paracbro matism—not certainly under that title—by find ing that their companions could make easy havoc amongst the cherries, while they, from their inability to discriminate between the hues of the fruit and the leaves, were compelled to explore the tree laboriously, and to commit their depredations on a very unsatisfactory scale. — The same difficulty has attended their opera tions whilst foraging in the strawberry beds. Other most amusing instances are on record. A gentleman was requested to pick out all the greens from a number of pieces of stained glass; he selected the red, brown, claret, yellow and pink; and when asked to say which was the most emphatic green of the group, he unhesitat ingly fixed upon tbe claret. A surgeon called upon his tailor, intending to order a pair of brown pantaloons; he selected tbe cloth himself but when the garment came home the color proved to be as sanguinary as if he were on the point of starting for the wars. He went on an other occasion and determined to secure his fa vorite brown, but the result was just as unfor tunate as before. This time the color adopted was a violent green, and the poor fellow was compelled to get tbe articles dyed in order that he might not be mistaken for a soldier or a hunts man. A nobleman, whose vision was similarly affected, began to banter bis lady one day for wearing a scarlet dress. Her ladyship was at a loss to understand tbe joke, for her dress was as verdant as the garb ot Spring. A gentleman who was fond of drawing used to perpetrate landscapes in which tbe trees were adorned with red foliage; and when he attempted to execute a marine view, his waves —contrary to all .pre cedent, except they were intended for the Red sea —were tipped with fine crimson crests. For the Spectator. Messrs. Editors: —We learn, from authentic sources, that an impression has gone abroad that the worthy and efficient Commissioner of the Revenue in the 2nd Distriot of our county, who is a candidate tor re election, is in independent oircumstanoes, and, therefore, has no need of the office he now so ably fills. Now, we have nothing to say in regard to others that are can didates for the same office, but we are unwilling that our friend and neighbor, Mr. Jno. G. Sto ver, shall be placed in a false position before tbe people, especially as he has proven, by years of service, that he is worthy of the trust confided in him. We hold that Mr. S. is entitled to a re-elec tion ; not on account of his infirmities, although we well know that he is constitutionally unfitted for enduring physical exertion ; not on account of bis necessities, though his only means of liv ing is this office, and a large family is dependant on him for its support; to say nothing of others that are aided, that might be named to his cred it. We do not admit any man's claim to office on such grounds; but, because be gave np oth er business to become a candidate for this office as one congenial to his feelings, became a public servant, and has served the publio with other than "eye service," making his books models of accuracy and neatness, and earning for himself the name of being one of tbe very best Commis sioners in tbe State, from the Sheriffs and Audi tors, who are the scrutinizers of bis official du ties; because he is, we honestly believe, the choioe ot a large majority of the people of bis own District, (and certainly our fellow-county men of the other Distriot do not wish us to elect tor them a man not their choice, though an absurd law puts it in their power to do so.) We wish him to stand upon bis own merits; and since he has proven himself to be tbe right man in the right plaoe, we have too much con fidence in the good sense of the people of Au gusta to suppose they will turn out of office an obliging, honest, capable, _iligent and tried offi cer. Chubohville. May 5,1860. Absence of Mihd.—Talking of absence of mind, (said tbe liev. Sidney Smith,) the oddest instance happened to me once in forgetting my own name. I knocked at a door in London and asked if Mr. B. was at home. "Yes, sir; pray what name shall I say ?" I looked in the man's face astonished—what name? Aye, that is the question—what is my name? I believe the man thought me mad, but it is literally true that daring the space of two or three minutes I had no more idea of whom I was than if I never had existed. I did Bot know whether I was a dissenter or a layman; I felt as dull as Sternhold or Hopkins. At last to my great relief, it flashed across me that I was Sid ney Smith. I heard also of a clergyman who went jogging along the road until he came to a turnpike. "What is to pay P "Pay, sir, for what?" asked the furnpike man. "Why, for my h»rse, to be sure." "Your horse, sir, what horse? Here is no horse, sir." "No horse! Go! bless me!" said he, sud denly looking dowt between his legs, *I thought I was on horseback." Thb Cow Distimpbb in Massachusetts.— The Commissioner} appointed to examine into the causes of the epidemic that is now prevailing among the cattle _ the Bay State, in pursuing their investigation!, found one farmer who had lost eleven cows bypneumonia. The lungs of two of the animals were found to be diseased. The progress ot the disease is so insidious, that tbe owner stoutly declares that the cow has not been sick. The whole stick of another young farmer —eighteen head—bid to be sacrificed, compris ing very fine animal In every herd of cattle visited, the disease vas found. Teg thousand dollars were appropriated by the Legislature for the extermination o'the disease; on Wednesday last, this sum had bten exhausted, and one hun dred fresh case, wer* reported. The greatest a larra naturally previls throughout the grazing country. The inalaiy is as infectious as small pox. For the Spectator. Messrs. Editors:—"We don't know what bet ter to do than to enclose these few lines from Mr. Oooney to yon and request their publica tion. The poor man seems to be greatly dis turbed about his dead friend, and it is onr wish also to do him justice. Youre, Respectfully, ZEKIEL FLINT, EBENEZER STONE, Ex'ors of Adoniram Countryman, dec'd. Possum Hollbb, May Bth, 1800. To the Executor* of A-oniram Country man, Deceased. Gentlemen: —His name were Adoniram, a Yankee Skulemaster, but didn't want peple in these "John Brown" times to know where he comes from, and so put it "A," which would aound more popular here, where Farmers is all the vogue, with Countryman to come after, so as to read "A Countryman," wbioh is more nearer like to "A Farmer." He was a self-made man, the same as Major Grips, or as Mr. Fults in his card more poetically expresses it, he was '•the architec of his own fortunes." He be gun with play in' Marbles with his boys for their cold vittles, and so got his boardin' fcr nothin', tor he was mighty lucky at Marbles, and always carried off bis handkerchief full of bread and butter every evenin'. A good many of these self made men is bad jobs, o win', I 'spose, to the bad material and the blunders of the architec. — But Adoniram Countryman was a exception to the general rule. He wasn't as purty as ole Mas ter's make, but he was a great deal more cuter and tbrivin' like. He was a kind feelin' man, too, as his writens showed him to be till after he died that horrid detb, and that cuss, Judas, and others bribed a illiterate devil to write for him in the paper. His bein' a Yankee and per terrin' white niggers was all that could be sed agin him, and I think it lays in the bounds of your duty to defend his name, now be is ded.— Tbe new man sinin' himself "A Countryman" has got so mad with Izzaid, that he's playin' the d 1 with "Adoniram" and Fultz too, and the whole concern. He don't mind what he's say in' and Izzard has jumped him up in two or three places already, and you ort not to let Adoniram, in his grave, lay under the muss they'r kickin' up. I know all about them Receiver bonds my self. The new Countryman had not mentioned the Clerk's bonds at all, till Izzard told about them. Nor he could not have mentioned them, for he and Judas and me, while I was for Fulls, went to the Office to look for them, and we look ed in the rong place, and couldn't find em. The way we happened to go, we was at Judas' plottin' to bring out some new charges agin Tomson, since them plagy Records bad blowed Fults' card all to atoms and Izzard had waktd tbe people up about the '"sleepin docket." And Judas sed the only chance was to make another searoh in the Clerk's Office. Sez I, "that's it— come let's go right away." But now country man sorter hesitated, and sez he, "I don't know whether that would be dignity, for us to go.— But I turned round to Judas, bein' he had ji_t finished bis book on "dignity," and sez I, "what do you think Judas ? you kuow all about that." And Judas put on a mighty wise look and pleased like, that he should be consulted, and looked as it he did know that, and a good deal more. And I thought he would a talked all day about the Pope, and the German Princes, and Louis Napoleon and the Austrians. He is a slow man, and it's often hard to make out what he's drivin' at —but let him alone, and he'il al ways come out with somethin'. So he wound up at last, sayiu' that all them peple he named, and a good many besides, was not dignity be cause they published their devilment to the world, and put it in books. And then, sez he, "If nobody knows of our goiu' to the office to make this searoh but us, it's my opinion it's 'true dignity.'" It's true Mr. Fults has sed in his card "Office is oot to be sought." But it's plain he didn't mean the Cleik's Office., because his cards show he sought them himself, diligent ly." So we gave Judas three- cheers and started. But as Judas thought that true dig nity were keepin dark, of course we did not ex plain to any body what we were after, and as bad luck would bave it, we looked iv the rong place for the bond.. And this is the way the new Countryman come to say Kinney had not give no security as Receiver for twenty-one years. We would all a knowed them ten thou sand dollar bonds kivered all his acts as Clerk, as well as his handlin of money paid into Court, which could not be touched by anybody but the Clerk, as anything else, if we had only found the pesky bonds. But we didn't. So we all went back with Judas, and had a big frolic about not hndin' the bonds, and we thought Fults as good as elected that night, and drunk his health in bumpers till midnight. And Judas sex, "Boys we've got a "good egg" at last that "R. L. J." and Izzard together can't take away trom U6, nor break neither. And about midnight Judas was mighty happy, and asperlite as Judge Fults himself, axin us after our concerns. And the new Countryman put him to bed, and then put me to bed to him, and went off to write the piece to the papers about "no securi ty." When Izzard found the bonds the new Coun tryman ort to a knocked under and gone and made another dive in the Office for somethin' else to put out on Tomson, and not exposed him self and the good name of my ded Yankee friend as he has done by stiekin' to it. I ort to tell'd you gentlemen, I ain't fcr Fults any more, and the fact is I felt mean all the time I was for him. I could not raise the courage to talk to Jenny, and it seemed to me my little children looked reproachful at me, though they didn't know a word about me and Major Grips' con versation. So the next night after my frolic with Judas and them, as Jenny and me was in bed I could not sleep, and disturbed Jenny, tnr in' and groanin' about. So Jenny never rested till she wormed it all out o' me what passed be tween me and Grisps, and jist as soon as I got through she turned her back on me and began to cry; and sez she, "O, Mr. Cooney I thort I had a man for my husband that would protect me and my children lrom Grips or anybody else." Sez I, "Jenny don't cry and talk to me so scornful. What could I do," sez I. "The Major had us all under hii thumb, Jenny, and it was to keep you in bouse and home that I gin' up to him." Sez she, "Mr. Cooney, God made us free white people, and not niggers to belong to Major Grips, or anybody else. We've all been workin' our hands off for him these five years and you've got nothin to show for it but a few coon skins that you cotch o' nights, and now youve gone and soW me and the ohildren to bim and jined him in damin' us in the bargain. I must go, Mr. Cooney, and take them along, and 111 see if the free peple of West Augusta won't vote for a Judge that will perfect us from all the Grips in the world." Sez I, "Jenny, I can't stand that, I'll go with you to morrow if I die by it; and so Jenny turned over and kissed me so lovin' that I'd a gone to my death with the oman; and the very next day we come up here to Possnin Holler, where we've settled rite in tbe midst of Tomson's friends; and from this out I go for him, and for Jenny and the children. Gentlemen, the new Countryman hadn't ort to got mad with Izzard and exposed himself the way he did I know it's a aggravating thing to have a crooked zigzag devil like Izzard sorewed into a feller, but then it's a worse thing to get mad and forget what you are talkin' about. So hopin you will take oare of my poor friend Ad oniram s good name, and save him from Judas and his plots, I remains yoarn tilldeth, and Jen °y 8 > _ Coohbt. A Cobonbb _ Help.—On account of tbe inse curity of life in New York, a correspondent ot the Commercial Advertiser suggests that all cit izens should have their clothes marked with their names and residences, that they may be identified if murdered. In view, however of the fact that they strip bodies there of their olothing and pitch them into the river, with their necks tied to barrels of pitoh as sinkers the Louisville Journal thinks it advisable to have the name tatooed on tbe breast, or some place that can't easily be torn off. As to mark ing the place of residenoe, that would be im possible, for New Yorkers all move every May day, so that a full grown man or woman would look like a printed directory. For the Spectator. •'Still harping on my Daughter." Justice, says Goldsmith, is the foundation ot all virtue—the sum of all morality—the morning star of that bright day that dawns upon every true heart. And never was there a more beauti ful truth, or a more admirable suggestion ; for if we are just to ourselves, to our consciences and to our hearts, to our fellow men and to our country, we can not but be truly virtuous.— Shakespeare reduces justice to a still nearer point. If we are true to ourselves, says one of his characters, we will be true to others. And it is impossible for any man to be just to others and not be just to himself, in every respect— to his heart, to his conscience and to his opinions; and the moment he ceases to do himself justice, that moment he ceases to be virtuous. Let the people in this Judicial election, con sider these truths. Let them consider first, it they are doing themselves justice, in electing Judge T; if they are true to their opinions and to their consciences. Then let them consider if Judge T. has been true to himself in every in stance, true to themselves and true to the trust they have reposed in him. Let them consider that if he has been untrue in one instance, he has failed to be fully just 5 if he has been un laithful in one instance, he has shown himself nnworthy of such high confidence nnd iucompe tent to fill the responsible office of Judge. Let them consider, further, the position of Mr. Fultz; whether he has not been true to others in every instance. He has been in their confidence for many years, and has he ever betrayed them ?— They have placed him in high places of trust, and has he not filled them honorably to himself and satisfactorily to his constituents £ and are not his antecedents the best criterion by which we can judge any man ? Why then should they not select him? His enemies have never (save one booby,) denied his legal abilities. They knew better; because the very moment they de ny his legal abilities, they deny their own, for he has been too long their successful rival. — Upon what, then, do they found their arguments ? Upon personal allusions—the hatred of the law yers and his unpopularity. Their personal arti cles have done him more good than evil; and they will yet find that he is more popular than they would like to think. His friends are many and powerful, and as firm and nncbangeable as adamant. Indeed his enemies are only those who are enemies to the Constitution and those npon whom Justice, through his instrumentality, has stamped the brand of Rascals. In my own immediate knowledge, are several men who can only attribute their hatred of Mr. Fultz to the fact that he once told them in court what every honest man would have told them. Does this speak well of their character ? I shall now leave Mr. Fultz with the people. They know him as well as myself. Asking them, then, to examine themselves, their own experience aud individual opinions, and asking the civilized(i) "Z" to for give my moralizing, (I know every body else will,) I proceed to examine briefly, a thing or two. Judge T's friends stake vastly upon his {.roteotiou of the widow and the orphan. There it no more sublime principle of the law, than that which makes the Court of Chancery the guardian of the helpless. But how has Judge T., who constituted the head of this Court, filled the position ? It is contended that he has been the friend of tbe oppressed. Let us concede that in some instances, but he has also proved him self unfaithful to them in others, by not taking sufficient security from him who held their mon ey. How many acts of justice is here cancelled by this act of injustice I He is the lriend ot the widow and the orphan, when no other frieud is coucerned; but when a friend is to be indulged, the widow and the orphan are forgotten or neg lected. As the guardian of the widow and the orphan, he placed their money in the hands of Mr. Kiuney, as Receiver, but it has been shown that he did not take sufficient security for that money. Here he failed to do his duty in one lustauce, and what guarantee bave we that he will not fail, or has not fuiled in others ? Again, "Justice" bnugs to the notice of the people a late "criminal trial." One would think that his sense of propriety, (if he has any,) would have restrained bim from writing upon sucti a delicate subject; delicate alike to Judge Thompson and the people, as well as to the par lies more particularly concerned. Here I ask the people again to examine the facts of the case as they are in their own knowledge, and judge as they have a right to do; and I shall makebut oue observation, thinking that more than sufficient upon a subject concerning which every man of refined feelings must revolt at publicly expressing his opinion. It is the prov ince of the Judge, according to the rules of law, to explain alt the rules by whioh evidence is im peached, while it is the province of tbe jury to apply these rules to any particular ease that may arise. Let us examine a little. In this instance there was a particular case. Judge T. explained all the legal mles concerning testimony. So far all was right. But he went farther, it is said ; and Instead of allowing the jury to apply the rules, he, after summing up tbe evidence, took from the jury their own right and himself ap plied the rules. Instead of allowing them to consider whether, according to the rules of law and justice, the witness was impeached or not, he tells them the evidence must be received and, consequently, the accused is innocent. Once more. It is asked by some and among them, one "R. L. J.," who pretends to be a sensi ble man, If Mr. Fultz was treated uojustly, why not appeal to a higher tribunal ? People do not sufficiently estimate ihe power and po sition of a Judge. - They do not consider that he is the supreme head of the Court; that if it is in his mind, (and especially was this the case under the old Constitution,) be can be as unyielding, as uncompromising and as tyrannical as the veriest despot around whose throne there is heard no other musio than the clank of chains or the murmur of slaves. He may, indeed, be im peached, but who so bold and daring as to at tempt to impeach him, when backed by a pow erful parly, wanting neither means nor will, and bound together by all the ties of sworn and self willed oligarchists ? If Mr. Faltz had attempted to report Jodge Thompson, what would have been the consequence? He would have been throttled by the Court, and a bowl, deeper and longer than that which succeeded his announce ment as candidate for Judge, would have gone up from Court-House Alley and its collateral adjuncts. An intrusion upon the "Holy of Ho lies" can never be forgiven by these legal Phar isees. I have somewhat deviated from my course of last week, but I presume, Messrs. Editors, it is no great offence, I still remain most respect fully. A Countbyman. For the Spectator. Public Meeting:. According to previous notice, a meeting of the people of Parnassus and vicinity took place this day, at whicb Samuel Whitraer was chosen Pre sident, S. A. Burgess Vice President and F. B. Carson Secretary. The object of the meeting, as explained by B. F. Whitmer, being to nomi nate a candidate for the Magistracy; also a can didate for Overseer of the Poor, in addition to the candidates nominated by the Mt. Solon Con vention. On motion, Tbos. S. Hogshead was unani mously chosen for the first office, and Jno. C. Rusmisell for the second. On motion, the meeting adjourned. SAMUEL WHITMER, President, F. B. Oabson, Secretary. May stb, 1860. A lady was told, the other day, by a traveling gentleman, that every lady who had a small mouth was provided with a husband by govern ment. "Ith it pothibul ?" said tbe lady, making her mouth as little as she could. The gentleman added, "that if she bad a large mouth she was provided with two husbands." "My gracious!" exclaimed the lady, at the same time throwing her mouth open to its full extent. Our devil waked up the other morning and saw a bed-bug sitting cross-legged in a ohair pulling pins out of his coat collar, picking his teeth very innocently. NO. XXI. For the Spectator. Messrs. Editors: —I told you some weeks since that I am a lawyer, and became so because that profession has been for ages the enthusiastic friend of liberty. So far do I carry my love of perfect freedom, that I give to every puppy the unrestrained privilege of growling to any tune that his own nature, or bis master's orders may dictate, and to every blackguard tbe right of freely using the only vocabulary he has learn ed. You see then it would be inconsistent with my principles, to make any quarrel with the Billingsgate epithets so thickly abounding in tbe last effusion of "A Countryman." Some might designate them as "impudent, low, the impotent scurrility of a fool who felt that he was laboring ,to sustain a desperate cause—the last kick of a dying Bullock"—I pass them by with tbe more liberal commentary that "they are the natural and inalienable right of the poor being to whom other weapons of defence has been denied by a too frugal nature." Now to the nrgument. I have nothing more to say about tho9© "bonds." I bave given the views about them which tbe ignorant Judges and Lawyers of tbe county had, perhaps, unwisely entertaineduntil the necessities of the canvass raised up an unlettered "Country man" to speak about them "as never man spake" before. In referenoe to them I will leave "A Countryman" in the hands of oue, apparently as unlettered as himself, and when our world shall get quite around, with its tail where its head ought to be, perhaps, it may be illuminated and convinced by the bloody "sefio" between "A Countryman" and contemporary pugilists with Sayers and the "Beuecia Boy."— If Cooney shall oousent to "take up bis gage" which I rather apprehend, from the scurvy man ner in which "A Countryman" undertakes to treat his effusions, there will be a pair of bloody noses in this legal arena, by election day.— "Cooney" will teach "A Countryman" how to charge his valuable productions as being "dark and unmeaning, and beneath the notice of any sensible man." He will show him by "knock down" arguments, that they are as sensible as his own and as full ot meauiug as an egg is of meat, and the only reason why "A Countryman" won't answer them, is that he can't. I should not be at all surprised if it should turn out that this only new made friend of Mr. Fultz, has by the proud self-conceit and unwarrantable re bukes of "A Couhtryman" been turned back to his first love, and that this and many more re cruits for Thorn psen, will prove to be the only fruit of his labors. He must learn to feed his "babies" on new milk. Not on fire. You have a new accusation against Judge Thompson. When will your black list be filled out ? To hear you and "Junius," and your prin cipal, one would suppose that instead of being the presiding Judge, he has been for tbe last thirty years the principal criminal of the Cir cuit, and that while the outrages to right and justice and law called loudly for reformation, even your patriotio virtue needed the stimulant of a salaried office of two thousand a year to in duce you to expose his criminality. To believe your clamor, tbe good people of the Circuit must first believe in the existence of a desperate state of public morals, in which you and your coad jutors fully participated, and at which you all winked until the hope of reward brought you to testify. But they do not believe your clamor, and at this moment they are nauseated and dis gusted with your petty persecutions and shame less falsifications of all truth, and even of the reoords of the County. This last precious charge of yours is this: "Upon the death of Mr. Kin ney, one of the Banks of Staunton, (you thiuk the Central,) was appointed Receiver, in his stead, and gave but one bond, as he did, and the Receiver ever since hss given no other bond.— Besides this, the singular fact of a Bank —a cor porate body—being made an officer ot tbe Court, I suppose is unparalleled in legal history."— Who are you my "Countryman"—that you talk so much and so confidently of law, and legal his tory ? One might well snppoee you to be the mighty Fultz himself, aud that your effusions are only a long tail to his own cards, so learn edly do you discourse, and so positively affirm of legal niceties. All are prove to conclude either that you are yourself a lawyer or that you have a lawyer to think for you, and that too, not one imbued with the high and noble principles of tbe profession, but what they call "a trapper," dealing in catches and sharp tricks. No plain aud bona fide Countryman ever quibbled as you do. But to your last charge. Mr. Kinney died in Nov., 1859; the Central Bank was appointed Receiver of the Court in November, 1867—two years before his death— "not upon his death," as Countryman recklessly affirms. That Bank gave bond on its appoint ment, in the penalty of $20,000, with ample se curity, as the record shows, and it is true has given none since. But will not the people be surprised to learn that the Act of 1852, on whioh "Countryman" raises all his clamor, authorizes the Court to order an investment of funds paid into Court, in Bank stocks —which everybody knows are not as safe as Bank depositee —and yet this fault-finder is raising a clamor about tbe danger of loss to suitors from deposites in the Bank—when six per cent..compounded interest is secured by the terms of the order, and when the money is perfectly safe. But this appoint ment of "a Bank" is unheard of. Why is that wrong, Mr. Countryman ? The Bank is a person, and it is a safe depository. What moie—unless you are aiming to secure that little loaf to your self, under the new Judge, by raising a clamor against "Corporations ?" But let me assure the people that so far from the appointment of a Bank "Receiver" being "unparalleled," it is often done by the other Courts of tbe State, and al ways by the State itself, and always, I believe, when a Bank is at hand. "Countryman" can find one instance by addressing the Clerk of Al bemarle. But I will not dignify the rant of this writer with further notice. The time is approaching now for action, and I am well content to await the mosic of the Poll?, and to let "A Country man" and "Junius" and their party be judged by the people of the Circuit, who have heard us all, and are prepared to render a verdict both in the case of Judge Thompson and in tbe case of his maligners. Z. ' For the Spectator. To the Physicians of the County. It does seem that our Legislature studies to add to our burden of taxation, while she does nothing to defend us in our privileges, so dearly paid for. We thought our license tax was high enough last year; but this Spring we find that we are taxed still higher. It is true that the law gives us a broken stick for our defence, (a presentment) whioh often breaks our own heads ia its use. What I wish to suggest is that we, each one, notify all persons within the bounds ot our prac tice, that practise any part of our profession, and especially old women that practice mid wifery, that we will present them for so doing, unless they obtain a physician's license. Great protection for our heavy taxation ! I, for one, will do it; and I hope that the physicians of the county will join with me in an endeavor to rid ourselves, if not of the burden of taxation, at least of the persons who rob us of that which ' renders the burden lighter. This is a matter, to many physicians, ot more seriousness than is generally supposed. We are heavily taxed for the privilege of practising our profession, and yet our rights are invaded by very ignorant pretenders, white and black; and their name is legion that choose to call them selves Doctor. Let us hear from you. May 5, 1860. M. D. PbopoßEd New State.—Tbe project of form ing a new State out of portions of Mississippi, Western Tennessee, and the corner of Kentucky has been revived, and has met with the sanction of the Tennessee Legislature. The proposed State would be bounded by the Mississippi river on tbe West, and the Tennessee on the Eaat, and would oontain a population of about 700,000. It would increase the political power of the South in the Senate by two votes. "Ah! how duth you like my moustache Mith Laura," lisped a dandy to a merry girl. "Oh, very much. It looks like the fua on the baok of a caterpillar 1"