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SHENANDOAH HERALD IS rU*LlKBl?I> WaSlLT ST 8HENAND0AH HERALD PUBLISHING CO WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA. Wednesday Feb. 6 1878 Leiter frena Rleiaaenal. The diligence with which the senators I and delegates from our judical district | have watched our interests in the mat? ter of re-districting the State for circuit judges makes interference with the 18th circuit among the most improbable things of the sessiou. From the cons- i mittcts having the werk iu charge, j three reports will emanate, and all of them let us severely alone. Very little talk with the members around quite satisfied me, that if all these reports shall fail nothing will be done this winter. I found here quite a formida bk ai ray of plans, prepared by out-1 . some of which will be pushed by j the lobby, aud also a lew uuder-cuiTcnt j acbemee looking to the gratification of pcisonal ambitions ; but neither tne committees, nor the General Assembly, as such, have any intention of doing mere or less than to thoroughly nnalke the reports, aud make such changes as the public ?real may require upon the baall o? pending business in the circuits. 1 have found here but two men from the Valley \Nhoaj>i>car really hostile to iK. and one of the>e asomes me he will not contest beyond the reports of the committees. The chairman of the committee for Courts of Justice. Mr. Coghill, has mature couvictious, so tar ;:- we arc concerned, as also have Major Daniel, Judge Lacy, aud other lawyers who have looked specially into the subject. Just in this connection, 1 would expre? the wish that the people of Virginia could all see and know the gentlemen composing this General As? sembly. todwabUSC their miudsof the oipresaioncreated by au unfriend? ly aud recUesa country press. We be lelve either body ? ill compare favorably with Yirgiuia legislatures in every ca? ll. Their work so far attests their worth, aud. uuless we are greatly mis? taken, the end will show them equal to public debt situation. To their credit, be ii Mud, the} have duue \er\ little iu the way of general legislation. | Too much kgisiatiou and too little care ? has been the baae of our State. This j Assembly seem to be intent upon solving j the debt pioblem and are bestowing] very little though?upon other concerns. ; Tide leads me very naturally to the I e of IHK PUBLIC DEBT B1TUATI0X. The determination to readjust the J debt is now almost uuauiiwous. There ? are certainly Dot a dozen iu direct op? us thereto, despite the many ap- i pl'ances of the coupon speculators who curse our State as| Wall Street does the Nation. The committee bill, kuown ! as the Barbourbil). will be taken up in the House to-day. During its consider? ation both of our delegates will make ..es. which, we hope, they will send you at least abstracts of for publi? cation. This is the bill which distribu ? - the revenue and is relied on to de? ine Funding Bill of its stiug. In competition with this. Mr. Brooke of I Faoqnierhaa a bill to settle the debt on a four per cent basis, wherein lie? the j only danger to readjustment this ses- ? sion. It is conceded by the able corps : of lawyers who understand the subject that Mr Brooke's bill cannot stand the i court ci noble, while its author, with a ; small following, insists that it will. Because of this distinction the opposi? tion to readjustment will support this to defeat that .which they know will survive judical construction. If the committee bill shall pass, then the work of readjustment i* accomplished. After . that will come the consideration of the rate of interest. Thi re is a lamentable, not to say i disgraceful, condition of affairs here, j Coupon? have entirely absorbed the revenue! and tin- treasury is bankrupt. Members of the legislature get their pay in small instalments and government '.-being run on credit, with the debt accumulated lor the last year over a million and a half of dollars, the whole increase being $5.296.409.23 upon which the capitalized interest amounts to ?)317.7tU.?5. The two Auditor'? this ?reekreport the whole debt at 141.220. 7,2.76 with annual interest upon it of i2.'>'i3.71o.3l. What a lie this gives to t:.ose newspapers and stump oraiors who continue to report the debt at 29 m liions with oulv a small yearly deficit to b; easily provided for ! God knows I wish they wi re right and we mistaken. When readjustment shall have stricken out the equivalent of war and recon ?tru< tiou interest, then t he i i figures will not be far from wrong. On Monday 1 presented a claim from a bheuandoahcounty officer for $211.92 and was told ibero was not nionev on hand to pay it. On Wednesday morn iug there was just two dollars and scveutyene cents in f c treasury, and ou Wednesday the curb-stone ?havers were at work heavily discountiug the poor countrymen with claima against the Commonwealth for services. nit. rvtfvr. Would you believe it? Notwithstand? ing this exhibit of the week,the batteries of the pulpit have been whirled into the fight against au honorable adjustment of our debt. The cloth-coated silk skirted salary payers have commanded the parsons to insult their peers with vile denunciation and they obey. The commission to go "into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature' Is temporarily resigned, to take another i a the army of the Branch's, the Maury's the Davenports, et id omne genus. Heavens, what a picture ! Rev. Dr. Curry advertised by newspapers aud dancing for two hours before a lot of engaged claquers ou fiscal polities! God be praised for the remnant of pious re? gard somewhere that suggested Mozart Hall for the gathering of the changers and smirching of the robes of the pranc? ing rhetorician. Thank ?God, rsTerenfly. he is not a Virginian, nod thei while this transplanted genius hi Buccherian thunderbolts, there a a few Virginia minister? holding service in "little churches arou corner" where the thousands of pooi may seek aud find who kno the entrance to the great edifices religion is measured by the gold dard of values. The Great Teacl culcated toWation of the nin preached him without believinrr r but whether He accepts those wh fess to believe aud yet prcai uodoctrines of mammon isa que* unsettled by text? or illustrations Gospels as our public debt itself, we conclude upon the point froi reproof to the Pharisees: "In vi ye worship me, teach in g for <k>< the commandments of men." 01 we had here the 1'. Henry who si cessfully and eloquently staye salary-grabbers of the pulpit graml debut in the "Parsons act': stead of the degenerate William Birth (without the girth) runninj Tennyson's Brook "on and on fort (Brother Moseley's pardon for plagiarism.) But I must stop this letter very or 1 too will be iu the Brook bu in the view of some Herald ty Only let me add that there is little eral legislation of interest to our re,r As said before, the public debt i specialty of the session. The committee on . constitu? amendments have agreed to submi substituting the nt? cce for the 1 system ol voting, and another to al certain offices. The eud of these W beet? three years hence. THE (?OVF.KXoK. We saw the governor in his doing the reutiueofau executive, was the same elegant unostenta gentlemen we knew in the Valley hue social qualities not even alloys the usual gubernatorial standard. is as much unlike his immediate pi cessor as he was unlike the whole of Virginia governors as historii photographed. As soon as our fell upou Governor Hollidny we rcgrt first, that he had ever spokeu an i gura] pitee, and sccoud, that we every read it in print ; for we thoi every lineament of his face marked resolution never to do the like &?? speech ?I Speaker Allen on Ihr Debt <J lion. After the morning hour in the Ht Thursday, the special order being tax bill reported by the Eman?e C< mittec. Speaker Allen took the ? and contiuued until adjourument, will again take up the subject this me log. We quote from the Ricluu Whig; Speaker Allen (Judge B. W. Lacy the chair) said he began the discus; ol this question with great ditliden He had determined to say somethin regard to the bill reported by the nance Committee, but within the 1 few minut?e had not expected to spi at that time. It was strictly a bill the readjustment ol" the debt.but u;il the bill passed, this talk about rdadji m< nt was mere balderdash. The was the necessary forerunner of an for the readjustment of the debt. He was iu favor of such a rendit mentas would make the re?ipta of State pay her expenses. He avowed himself opposed to repu alion. We were, he said, now in I disgraceful attitude of repudiating oi third of the debt. Some such mc tire as was contemplated iu the Finar Committee's bill must be adopted. The bill stated the preamble that crease of taxation was impractical This was the key-note of the wh< scheme. Au increase of taxation up property at this time is impracticab Is it not true? asked the speaker. Lo at the uecessity tor readjustment. l?iiO the debt of Virginia was son where in the neighborhood of $10,001 000, after that schemes for internal i provenants were gotton up. I do t deny that the mouey was expended these works. I am oppescu to calli the geutleman who advance the mon for this improvement of the Sta "bloated bondholders." as they ha been called. Such language is not I coming. In 1*60 this oebt bad swell to $33,000,000. Then it began to attra attention. What was the condition of Virgin then? I piopo'e to contrast the Sta in 18C0 and now. The speaker thi proceeded to show that the loss by po ulation siuce 1*60 has been 370.000; tl population cut off by West Virginia, at including the best and most thrifty pe pie In Virginia. Iu like proportion a lal nig off of almost two-thirds of taxab, values. A difference in the value i personal property of one hundn d ai sixty millions. The value of slaves dl ring the war was two hundred and f? i)-live million dollars?a total los> Thirty-six millions ouc hundred thoi -and dollars lost on internal Iroprovt ments. He would say here that tli lints of internal improvements were i the hands of receivers, appointed b Federal courts hostile to Virginia. 3i< body was to blame lor tin? coniliiiuii i affairs. It was the natural result of tu war and mistortune. The value of th State's luteres*. in banks, amounting t to millions, all gone?not a stiver leii that, we know how VlTgini was divided, how her territory was sev ered from her. Then we have to spen mc.? money in our Legislature than be lore the war. There was the large class ofunfortuna' color lunatics who were before the ?a provided for by their owners?this clai we had to build aiylams for. besides in trmaaioti the appropriations to asylum 1er the wh.tes. Then our colleges?wi have to Increase the appropriations ti them to keep them from the bauds o the receiver. But. said the speaker. will not continue to paint this picture I It will take too much time. The wa j left us nothing but the soil of the State 'and that kneaded With the blood of tin I defenders of Virginia?blood of the de ?fence of that severeiguty now bound ii ! "with inky blots and rotten parchmen ! bonds." What did the L?gislature o Virginia do directly after the war? A Legislature composed of some of oui best men came here, and as if DO! 'cd with some strange iufatuation. poet? ad a bill for the capitalization of the debl and for the payment of full interest ou the whole of it. Passed the fuuding bill, and a part of the debt was capitalized under that bill. The contract under the funding bill was made then and there. It was unwise legislation I have it from a banker of this cits j that one of the gentleman who occupied ?a high position in this House, than whom Virgtuia never produced a nobler sou. told him that he could not imag? ine what they were thinking about; that it was the most unwise act ever done. After this came the agony of the long uights ofreconstruxiion, lasting almost three years. What opportunities had the people of Virginia to pay their debts then ? What mau thought of business during that time? Even in my own country where we kuew our local affairs were safe, yet, looking across to this country, ea?it i ofthe mountain?, our people quit their business and thought of nothing and did nothing eree, except to wi secure to ourselves a republican fc government. And when that que uud that question alone, was befo; people no matter of State policy discussed. The public debt of Vii was forgotten aud cast out of The saivatisn of the- btate was th sorbing question occupying the ? tion of everybody. At that til Legislature was elected containing uy good and true and worthy n men whom I hope the State will Rnue to honor- Legislature came here and passed this fuuding hi don't propose to go into tec questi to the manner of th3 passing of thi ?tha?. is not the question at ?ssi all. Gentlemen who voted for measure did so, I have no doubt, conscientious motives, and as com tious as I am nov in opposing don't propose to use invective an dulge in insinuation, for I give dedil for the same pure and high lives that 1 have'in opposing this ing bill. I do think, however, it the most unwise measure that evei placed upon the statute l*>oks ot State. Whit ehd they do f Vnde specious pretence of cutting off third lor West Virginia, they capita the debt, piled iu the wa? atiel re. traction interest, and compounds? U rast and then after setting aside third lor West Virginia, left Vir with a debt proper of near 130.000 ha\;ngout of consideration the due to the sinking and literary fun in other words the Legislature east a burden for Virginia almost as giv when the Mate went into the war. ' Legislature passed the first act of I ble readjustment. We hear a : deal said about the crime of for readjustment ; that Legislature t mitted the crime. The Legislator I80G-G7 passed the first funding rhey provided for the payment ol whole debt, interest and principal? ting in the interest with principal making it all an interest-bearing el The Legislature of 1869-70-71 ivadju the contract of 186C-67?pssavd an of forcible readjustment. (Here Alien read from act of'71, know? lunding bill, especially the preaml The words of the bill speak belter 1 any argument. i cannot conceive of any act n forcible iu its terms. If the geiitlei will meet us with just such readjust] forcible cnougu t<> accomplish its pose, we i an stand ou a common i form. They had the creditor in t power and they imposed such tenu ?eited them, am) if the creditor decli to come In and accept, he got no iu est at all : and yet we are told ? uuditig bill is a holy thing?lay impious hands upon it ! It was pal b\ the Legislature?the Drat under reconstruction of the Government. has coupons attached ! You cannot terfere with them without violai.iu contract. I now desire to go on fur er and show what is the condition Virginia by reason of the workings this funding bill of 1871 When it was pass? d thi re were < I twen hundred thousand dollar? in treasury. Now look at the eonditior Virginia. Not quite seven years hi elapsed since the passage ofthat bill What is the condition of affaira do Eighteen hundred thousand dollars the treasury then?to-day the State bankrupt ; the Auditor running throi the streets begging for short loans w which to pay the expenses of this Lei. laturc ; the school fund bankrupt ; i schools robbed to pay public creditoi the appropriations to ysur asylums a colleges unpaid. And yet it is said t! re-adjustment is not necessary. WI sir. uules- we adjust, or pay. repud - bound to work out ii-elf. Mr. Allen thi a went on to show tl the increase of the debt proper had be near five mill the funding I. was passed. Wlure are wc drifting to? asked t speaker. Is it not plain to inevitable tion'.-.Now. what is to be don< ? Tl is the nll-absorbiug question. Tin are two horns of th.* dilemma. One to raise the taxe* and meet the iss squarely. Eighteen hundred and seventy-fl thousand dollars deficient lakii from this the income realized by t new liquor law, 1300.000, as estimai by the Auditor in his report of tl morning, and wc have a deficiency nearly $575,000 to be made up at lea! Five million dollars ol arrean be due on the 1st of July. Will you i pudiate it? Capitalize it? P?j lt> If you don't pay it, according toyo theory, you are repudiator?, If y don't pay it all, you mu-t adjust it. you are going to pay it all. then y< must increase the taxes, because y< have already gone lar beyond your r sources. Pay the arrearages say in li years. This will require 1500,000 add tioual revenue annually, which add* to the $575,000, thedelivit, altf-r d< ducting the receipts from the M<?ff register, makes over a million, requi ing from thirty to thirty-five cents in crease of tas on the $100. If you ai not for raising the revenue, what ai you Koing to do? What Is y<>ur achemi Tender to the creditors a bond with four per cent, coupon attach) d. when h has a six percent, one iu his pocki I A wise scheme, indeed! Unless y y pass this bill or one similar, your rea justment don't amount to a snap ol in linger. Now, I come to the questi whether this bill which I hold in m hand will not stand the testa of ;: courts. At i o'clock the time having arrive, for live consideration uftiie spec al i rd (Mr. Barbour,s tax-bill). Speak r Allei took the ll".ir and resumed the discus sion. He said that yesterday he ad dressed himself mainly to the preanibli in Mr. Barbour'a bill, and endeavors to show that it contained nothing ?>u the truth. That further referei this preamble was unnecessary, a i! . question had been settled eouclueivc-li by this House by a vote this moruing that it was in favor of it by votii the resolution and anamendmi : resolution for an Increase of the pr rate of taxation. It also voted down with almost the same unanimity, thi amendment offered by Mr, Carier "Unless the ?aid increase of la: found necessary to meet the horji si r?b ligetieaa of the Government?'1 Tuna as far as this House is concerned, it luu settled this question, aud the li ? declaration has gone forth. The ucxt question I propose In dir, cuss in connection with this bill is tin right to pass just such a law as this, which is a forerunner for an nd for the? re-adjustment of the public debt, gentleman f'iciiii Richmond said in ? h a few days ago that th funding of the public debt was wrong, at ' he In? tended to introduce n lull t>> allow creditors of the State who had bei n ex? cluded from its benefits to com ? in ami enjoy them. As he has admitted a wrong bad been perpetrated, hi (the speaker) admitted that a wrong had been perpetrated in the AaReahu. the wt? interest on the debt, especially ou bond? held by northern boiyjltoklers. These elements of wrong at I asl enters into the funding bill. The debt ought to be adjusted m order to eliminate these wronga. Mr, Allen to)k the ?roun 1 that am did not owe one copper of interest from the commencement of the war to the reconstruction of the State, ITo went h?rtbar, and said thai ara ?li'i not owe after the war one copper of principal of the debt to the northern bondholder, and said he was sustained in Ibis as? sertion by eminent jurists. The sin. ?tate of affairs existed after the revo? lution as to-war interest, and lb*, same arguments nuil invectives were used theu as now, lie cited eases of ish. creditor, who was out of oui during the Revolutionary war aued lor bis debt with interest. waadetermlned the debtor was in titled to e'.lher priucipal or inter the Britiau Wa8 not entitled 'claim, then he claimed the Dt creditor was not entitled to one of tiie, debt. Mr. Allen said that, whether r is transgressed or will be transa by the readjustment uf this del will have to be arraigned before a tribunal than has been erected That n seemed to him. afto lug at till se authorities, we did U these noilierii creditors any it; from the begiuning of ihe war ui re-establishracnlof the State (i ment. lie asked if it was right that V should pay the interest to no bondholders, as providnd for b funding bill, passed by a previous lutqre? 'Phis bill provided for h the interest and baying interest mtoie-L. He said iia wrong had done by a previous Legislature the lioiiudi n ?int\ of the Legialatu lowing to remedy it. "lleadjiistment is light. The ing bill ik Wrong ; it ia our duty i rid of it. I would scorn mySel though) I was capable of voting lb measure I thought' unconstflut Can we gel rid ol it by legal m Here l am met with tbecaeeol A va, Wright, I don'l propose to u an elab.ira;.- leual argumi ut." II in- luid down jhe proposition here Antoni v-. Wright does no( toocl question. The reasoning in the (Iocs uot bear out the ri suit. The .- not ilu same. The ease ai', se under the tax In 71--J. The Legislature passet! fundiug*uill providing that the cm attached to the bond? should be re taxi s. A ni I.-, gislature mcl rind sai coupons s!, uld not be receive ii-- laid down the proposition the case of Antoni -. ?right did ?on. 1, Ibis matt' r. Lie admitted the reasoning of tno com t did to ? extent, ?>u'. denied that the points cided lud. The history of tltat celel edj ase was revu wed. The act bm by ?t under review by the court w g< ?era! lax?bill. Ti.e concluaive smnption of the Court was that the ol fifty cents on lb? one hundn d do .! to mi el all ex . run? nt. pay all that was to the school?, and provide for tin teres i upon the. di bt. They knew n ing i . the contrary. II. re we set wiili the di claralio?! that 50 11 nt nl to all ::- ?( thing?, and we sav to the t und i i . v, rybodv that taxes i aunot increased, Tie- political depnrtiuen thi ' i i riinit nt say - '. :.:.?! '.he c i uniu : i> bel lid Ibal det laration; t ? ? :u. ,-?. tlinn we can tre*p is? upon thi 'l'h re i- gi ai dill ween tv> ) question! I, :.i ? , . WH ? uffi i n* to man la; thai it is not. ;: . \ ' :. lurtht . argued that Lt gls] itun state ? pccificauy iu the tax bill the ject of the tax; that tliia is the first bill wli re the coruiuandiiunl it ti;,tt that tie ? ?? y ''? ing di tat< d to that fund 1 j the Constituai i] .?i- .,;? funding bill could h fully divctt it ?that ii this held truc ai . il lund,il will hold good appl to tin govei the par imoti duty for the 1 tr -. Bul gentlemen will say that reasoning ol in the Ant ? ase estops u-. Mr. Allen In Id that they could bar a vail themsi Ivi s > i' that plea after I expn -sinus from the mein itor and Amh< rst. who a t day- ago said they believed the Ali'.i ! wrong, .u.l niii-t theref the reasoning wrong. Mr. Coghill said that his position w that thai case dc :ided th? whole matt the cBuri Imvmg held that t?tere wa contra Mr. A consider .\ 's np :.'..:i as r- spnnsivc t.i I Ihn any way lie proceed) d argue tliat the reasoning of the Coi was nol correct ; that the Antoni ca hod I? en tlj argued, and w by a divid? d court ; that t judges, able and pure as they are. 1 ail men, are talludo, and may have i r- d In ri : that the i'o:ut luid u - v. i il ii 1 ll?:it even gentlemen do believe thai Antoni t Wright covers the ground, here, win so many grave interests are involve tin re can be no gttod reaaon for n fuah to give the Conn opportunity to revio nion. Mr. Allen did ool agree thai tl ?| ?on of the court w is ? l_ht. On the coi ir;r\. In thought it wrong, and tl n of Judge SI ipl i right. II thoughtthi courts of thi* land had goc fur enough i?i trammelling the represen tatives of the pi 'pie. ami in giving u teranci to th I Sir. Allen pj i> at respi ' for kti Supreit ( - url of A| ; lie closed with thanks to Ihe Flou? for its attention ; anil well he might, In m , . close alt? litii-ii was l:;v. u th ng to the e'n n!' I is arguni nt. L talked rtgl ? f i < i raucous m i1 ti r. He spoki! fifi ?? minutes on Thur dav. anil (Friday). tPIUU.IM; MifTEg, i. . ; ; - .ii i Ui r >LIn* W ill ' K i-.ii iwi:\ i v miles r:- M RI i i \ HAWK. iv,o HaUMlred aud lift? Mail on Boald - Oue iltiiuirrtt anil si&lf Tri Mi. TI ? ? '? ?nu r Met? nd Irou Philadelphia ti Itntzil, went n?h>n Dear t'urrituck liulil-ltouse, which ii si veral mili ? nori i of Kitty Hawk, Im Thursday evening at 7 o'clock, Sin had on board 2f>0 fouls. ICO ol wham ntcmirag to om -;? ial i dagram, wer? lost. The lletronolia Ii ft Puiladelphb oa tlw? --th, and had encountered hard galea for the past twenty-four hoars. The following from our spcginl cor respondent at aTortowthia morning will give the cau-c of the disaster: thi: Silt sTIOJ TKKlMlil.i:. Nokkoi.k. Feb. I?14130 P.M.?Tbc Signal offici i of Kitty Hawk; who is al the wreck of the M Lropolis, telegraph? ad, at 8:30 A. M.. the chief signal oili it Washington as folrowej "The sit? ualiontlii niniuiu,' la tarrible. Dad bo lies 1.1 up m tlie beach for two miles-. They are being remoeed to propel |places back of the beuch. Tfte living arc beiti-^ eared lor to IM best af out abilities, One-third of those found are ic ad, Vraoog tbam are the two saloon woui ii aud eight of the fourteen fore men. Tli?SO saved are destitute ol clothing. I will s'u i the oareea ol ? .o as gathetoeV' mi: Mi.nii'Piii.i ,. The wreeki'l steamer was built in IM I "at Mysttc. Mus-., and waa owned by the l.uiit HrjpthcrS. She ?as |M ? [ncber long, and ?'.! feel 2 mrdsea beam, with a tra?nage of879. Bhebal? from New Vork. It will be rcniiitiihier ed by our readers Unit ?be arrived in this nort on the 1st of pewctuber, tha? lereil by the Seaboard and K'MiM'ke rail? road, for the purpose of transit-mug all freights for d? livery ovar the INamtnji ton and Weldon railroad l>> Wiliuiutou. for the. shipment to thv stations on that : road, owing to destruction of the Wcl I don bridge. Un accouut, however, of a d?rangement In her machinery thochar? ter was annulled, and the Metropolis, which had broken dovn ofl' Craney Is? land, was towed to tho harbor by the United States tug Pinta. TUF, STORM. which stranded the ill-fated s'e?mer, commenced her ? on Wednesday night, with wind fresa the southeast, and ! reached ils lui. height at f>:30 A. M. I yesterday .the wind blowing at the rate ! of twenty-eight mih-a, and continued at that rate till 8 A. IL i UEIWKTIIifc or TRR JUTROSOUS 1 KOM riULAOUU'lIU MoxiiAV ? TOl'CfllRG ISC1DKMS- lIRARTRRMUIXa l'AK tinc.s. From the Philadelphia Times n< Monday Wf have the following parti' : atara ? f the departure id' the- il -fated ateanter from Philadelphia. It would I flfin from the ?icc-oiint the friends as ' well as the pa-erRgvri had and , fore bod higa The Times say.?: ? Tfie steamship Metropolis, ('apt ! Ankers ihe seguid d?s|.all 1. by Sl'Sars 11' k T. Collins to l'ii'!izil,s!iiled y eater day wiib 215 paaaengera MX) lona ol I rails ?ml machinery and 200 luna ol ! sMins, all in charge of Mr. Paul J. ; W hite-, late chief engineer of thi* Le lii-'i Navigation Company, and Mr JamesT Mo-'ie, also as engineer of i reputation and czpericii c. Th?- pas ? sei gris were 1'1,'IM ll'M.I V UtRORSRfl ami foremen engaged to work on the Madeira and Mamore railroad, the laila and machinery for the plant of the- road ami the stores for the anbei?!* eiice of tin1 workmen on the vessel and those WOO tHVe already, reached ihe scene of the enterprise. Th* long wharf of the Krading rail? road at Willow street, at the end of which the departing steaming lay wa? tilled wiih un immense concours' of pe ph. whose numbers could only be computed by thousands. ?ih on >:> i!Yi:s. ?The majority of them were Irish' tren, women and children assembled to give- a long nnd sal good-bye to the- husbands, fathers, brothers and fiie-iols who were about to bury them? selves for eighteen months, at least, in the <l"ii'? and i ombre foresta in the Upper Amazon, and the- scenes were auch as the quays of Queeoatowa and Londonderry witnessed in the Hays o ? half centnry ago m hen stalwart suis of the Greta Isle bade tender and learful farewells to their friends and relativ? s as iltey embarked on the- v?a? sela whioh were then about to convey tin-in 10 a laud as much a ferra incog? nita to them at that day as the heart of the South American conti? nent is to the emigrants of yesterday. The- iuridcnts as the passengers embarked were Irequetly exceedingly patbedo,, the- sorrowful partings ol wives snd children brincia*-tears in the evi s of bystanders Inns, unnsed to the- melt ng mood. Une fine locking woman, the wife of one of the fort. mu?; clntigtO her husband with such intense sorrow that I he latter wa* compelled to remain on th* warf. A stalwar Irshmsn cLssrao 10 ins heart a fins manly b??y?a motherleaa boy? ufaeVi-n years, and Dogged, with t<-;ir> n his eye-., fur pi rniissi..ii to lake him ilong. 'Vou went put us':' the fathei entreated, 'h is ?inpossiblo for VOB to lake linn."'replied Mr Colima- ''Then I can't go; I won't go." aaid the father The little fellow km W of tin Mem want that was driving his fa in i sway to a distant lard to earn Hie bread so hard to will her, and the In nur man welled up in him as he said m spite of the sorrow "f tho pal i?ng: ?*P"P, go,and I'll stay wilh Uncle Jin he'll take- care of me," an I the father. now Ihe W"Sk?r of the two, sailed away. There were on ihe WbS'fan? o\ TiiK. BTEAXRR embraeinga ?n 1 kis-inu's, and tent- an cite* of sorrow nmil the steamer cas ?>ff her moorings and alerted "ti hei w;i\ to tin- ata, ami such a ptt-rsure ?I the gangway that ,-evi il ol th? past li? gera wer" It-It behind and persona'or* taken away in their places. The pu lice arraiigi menta were excellent; a il? ud? of fifteen men un 1er Lieut. Al blight, of the Seventh district,beiog i* i'hargo of (bewarf. So much plram-d. indet'd, were to? Messrs. Collins with ih" hi ufen nt and hit me? that the parp?se giving tuen a oompti atentar) dinner Nt? A-lrciti- tiit.rntx, GARDEN SEEDS. 5 ten cent Papers for 25 cisa [a order to allow the people no ?icua* foraea i iiasiug un-cliabl? commission il asada. I), Laudritii .1; sous bave made aa astonishing re? duction la th,' prie* of tlmtr seeds enanlin,; na t. sell then at ihi- price naaaad si >?*, 1.. H guar rsuiec of th'1 Ire-hue??, purity au'l rseell tli -j r rodaict*. Pern? and Beans by the qnart, til paper or 5 papi ri Fab. I Ban a, I RMITT. R'lHOlMA, 10 \MT: la VacaiiuS In thuciirk'? ??:n , . ;'.. Coartol sheoaodosn,conutj Feby. tin li'i Thcmiss ,i. Braisa ?lohn Jone?, tlif unknown heim of Wie. Jow dco'd, Lean lonas, ?ldow of Tb n Jonc, Matilda Jones, ]',rasaa>. t Jones ami Ttinaaai Maa*, ' ; is v ?i.,s. aar. TV objeet oi this suit i? te m the r?ai estate of ?fetch l bornas J - snd Bnajsesasd an It am aariBg by alridaTit hied that the defer Unta Jnhn Joii'M and other uknown fair? nl William Jones dee'd are not inhabitants of thi. Bfafs. It i-or.It-red, ThatRba ?aid defeadsiti doappe r ;liin one month after dnepobliratl q nere if, an i do ?hat is atoMaarj to prated in thai a ropy r.f I published in In aeaat asoayaa-ot pnuio.1 la W a -i-i... ., one? a ? ekforfonr successive week?, anta copy postad al Mm front AM ?fUieeavrl fei aas of fsid eoaatj on UM or-; da] loi ';<". w. Mrtey, e, r, a, c. A i'(-i>v?Test a (Jeo. W. Mih-T c. o. e. s. c. Feh. (',-i,v. J.. Ttiplctt p q. ClOllMlSSIORIOBa "IU' I', J Wi .Islock, Va., Jsn.21<i II To Ikujamin lismiau aud all otkwr cw I l*inr S. Ilcs-kmau fle< d. eomplts. and V, M. lihodes admr. of Isaac H. ll,H-kiiiiu dr, J, Cslhortu Rock ? inan ?Ido? of said dacedeal Ks oui I II. 11 ?kosali, I.erl Him ( nan. I liialxth lloriman Haann 1 I . Miller and < alherin 1,1- srtfaFfeili] IUniman and Anna hi. ?lie, Mlrliael Uockmau and G>o. U. Mi I | I ; ,lnt , . Yon are hereby notified thai I bar? flied ujvon Ib-' tt? day of rebmai J nut listwrm IRs h So'cloel', A, M. anda o'clock, f. M. If not, on the next 1*1' day llure afltt (Sunday exsepUd) to take and sollte, at no offl, e, MM arr-oiiuts I. V. M. Uli l?i.linr. r.f '|. -. Ui?-kmso dis d. I. Of a.I dibts and ih'iiianils agsii>?t said I. S. Ilookraan dfod, or hi? eai.-ite aooordinf to Ibe,, prl .11 <?f t?. W. R.ley Trustee for M-ohael IPiekioan in Die manner ludli-ated Iu the bill and II' au atroiiiitol tlie debts ssvuied lu said trust aud ascertain wlial clahns are entitled to the Innl ilr.nti from the ?air unuer said trust and In what proportt a, and Itli. Miy - i her matter he- may c> m pertlmrnt or that either party may rmjulre as reijui ed to be taken by the decree of SUrnan doafe lircnit Court rendered on th. day of 7 lu a lint in rlianeery d?pendin?; in said l it* nl. llarman kc. comerla and I. B. Hocknian-a admr. ftr. Ilefls snd II fron sny cause ihe taring of said accouuta ahall u t I. Deed, ' rh.vlnK heen commenced sh, nid n t l,o completed on that day, the takluR of toe same ?ill be adj. orned Irosa day In day, or from place to placa uuHi tli* aa n? are taken aud completed einen nuder my baud aa C'omrokia.oner in chancery of ihe ?aid conrt, al my office In said couuty the day aud year Aral aforesaid. Jan. ?3-4<\. P. W. MA??RrPKU. I)UULI'.'S.U.E OF V VI.I'AIH I ui ai. i si a 11 : At Mt. Olive. Shanauai ail Cs/tmtv, Va Pui-Huant to the last wlU and te?! imeut of Will? iam li'ker, deo'd. and the ele tion of bis devHSli, I will i.O'er at public sal'-, up in the panmisea, to th highest bidder, 0:1 Fil ?DAY. FEBR??AIlt ?'-V. ?878. allth*r*al estai* oi wbleb Williatn Baker died, m?/.. 1, rftnal d at M\ Oilvi County, ab..at nine 1.1 ? , ii.il... we?t of Btra-I th west t rom lb* Ball Brook. 1 be bom* farm, till 1 . t thrfo trr. la, , hi 1 i.r.x r, .:?-?-<:. ? aere\ 1 . polca, and s acres, containing lath? aggrcgaj .nuda and V nt '1 U. - prise? ilir. ? Irai ? ? I'Jtl ?a II aid* . f ih,- li tie S adjolnli an ..tit it f >r 1 anging cattle, boga an : be found along the mountains. The Improve) -t o? two dwelllni h iu:.e?, ,.iie oomuaraUvely : barn, aton* spring bon? and other D*cea*aryoal building; also ipple. Pea , and other fruit t se*. linn. *r* two apring* upon the ; Uta building*. Th ? 1 r 1. rty will b whole or parts t 1 suit purchasers. TERMS OF SALE: Bittern ?nd I t osul .it.,1. and th rerldne In 1 m , Iwn at .1 ti.r. n 1 q lal inu utentarrota thsdajrol oda ton ssoentedro the ieferred*ps)meiit? the first ?Ith gond persons I security, and aUen t.i in- raUlnso until all Um parch as mi paid, .n tin- option . f tin pun >,., ?? r or pu - its*cash payment nay b* mad* by the n 1 .1 m tl ? ?? ? ni le, nltb good endors? r, at -ixt> day*. il.-to c?mm*ne* ?.t 11 o'elot k, \. M, ? il persona Indebted to the 1 tal 1 Win Hater der'd ,arc r*qn*ated to ?et 11 an pracUcable, In order o a Susi ?ettleiueol .1 Um aatat* al I Inly ol ' law. tir"Aii persona having claim? William Baker di c d., or bis ? --.it.-, will pi . i mim before i\ w Magroder, c.wr. in < h II? gave1. tie* 1 - Um 1. ' in ?a ol ,ae required by law, and ?ill r-.m?:. I, a.d make In- report -. .t!. a) : . GEO. w MI LEY, idmr. wilb the Jan. -M.-t I,. WlUiam Baker, dao'd., am v^crn.i:. 1 he account* "i oiuj nulwci ibei " Woodstock, Muiirertown and neighbor? ing I'o-i UfflVes. have liren placed in the hands ol Hiram n.iu-cini.-iii lor <f*l 1 leineni. These sf-oniits run to O.t 111 S7'i. We hope our pa,'mis wil -'?nil- promptly with Mr. Buiiscrman. ti? ll la nece-.-.tiy thai the business of the nid tli m -ho id be closed up, Oct. 10th, 1877. J. M. URABILL,* CO. The MOST EMINENT LIYING AU1H0?. It I. HcD. W. E. Gladstone. Prof. Max M Prof .1)i c. II. Lr.Vv.B. Carpenter. R. A. C-oc tor. Prcf. Hti.ley. Jas. A. Froudc, Edward A. Href-man, rrancei Power Cobbj, D. Mackenilt Walace. The Uukf of Argyll. Mr.. Muloch, Wm. Black, Jtan Inrjelcw, Mis, Thackeray, Mn. Oil phaBI, Mrs. Alexander. Geo. MacDcnuid.Maltriew Arnold. Turifjcr.le', rtuerbach, Ru,kin, ennysoll. Browning, and BStt] LITTELL'S LIVING ?GE. ?Ian. ?, !-.j, 11.. Living ix--- eaten I I ' I 11 ! - ? I ' :. : . .I ri th n..st authors, est Hertal and Short Htorie* by Leadli L'uapproached by auy other Periodical luable L.t. rar - .f tin leading '? ? K-.. iwli dge au I Pli . : hull THnEE AND A QUARTER THOUSAND ?column octavo pairs of 1 ? yi rly. it prest nt* -.:. . t, .;- ntekly issue, and with rycoin ?- attemptedbj uootber pablicatl i.. 1 Essay*, Bi '?{ travel ana Disc in ry, P graphical, Historical and PoUUcal lufon fr m ibi . :.'. ? It I I fresh and ' ?able because it ? rubt - ABLK?I UVIS . V, ?.1 II...... .1, a . Ltterahti Opinion?.. ? artmei : of seh u.1 Lit* ature. '-1 - ??Iu It writer! v.p n ;..i ml J? Is r<a ly I . . "It -. of the be- current nt- r.. or*."?S ^. E. II -t. ?? v pun .:.>! perpetn ! :? ?-? rntanalument 1 Wiuthrop. Vort I ??Th. ' Curler, O. O. ?? 100 ? ever week."?1 b* Advai irds 'h.- best, I vi nient mean? ..1 km . ' liiia. North " 1 h. the finest p M-trv .. the Kugilab l.iugiuge, a:. 1 t.^'t'i. r."-1 ??\\ ;:', II . -?It Mlndt*n**M*M* to every one ?ho ,i. ? thorsngh como? iidliin "Ongbi t? flau a pac* iu ever) Americsnhooi l'-.ibli-?. .I wecklj al i EX'i'itA 01 ri;i! Pisit is;w I., all H ?rat-.? the sii uumbers 1 from the German -'? l> n, Un hi -t ?rorkol -t luthur? 1 0. rn th.. ?ama nun ? table matter. ? lub-Prici - for Hie Fon igli I.in ral ?fi.tirv linn."- I ? .11 Ji Mnnthrle* (or Ilarpcr'a Weekty ' Basar] ?rid ? ?? ...r, b *h 1 I rnal. LITTELL& GAY, QEORCE PACE & CO. InbleA: SStatlon ?r> Cnarln??a l'ntitit <irrulnr Sit* Mills, UniiK, Wuli-v A rtrask Mill*, Itjrist a I'lottr w?u*. Wate* Wli?.<>ls, Stiliitrle. lle.rrel A WoiMlworklni; Wacli'ncry. -' Tiiiiiti- l'.inery M'lici'N null tirinOi-rs. Snwsi. Mill Mttiiiillen.ft'0.. dre. SEX? lt)R CAT.U-OtiVE A I'itULS. A UOVTH-A-rnl ??? tilted ?very 1 . fc i-.n-ti, ii.ii- seul i ... ? -a ~l*J\? ?'? WO?STII .v ,....- .1 DR. BUTTS; DISPENSARY, . '. ? WOMAN MARRIAGE A MABKUOB OUID? H who a:.d fcov. to AND ??ifr choose, Beprcduoten, i(M>M^a?BBiaiChli'lboaring andBarrc ? nc-ss, causes and cum. A a ?< <.:??? nan nl, :i. 1 it Ing tnarilsgr. ard - ih-'-i-.- I " ?PRIVATE MEDlCAl.AI)VI8EB(:. ?Iihi.. I rinarvind nWnreduebvi O'usn?. Meat? Dis caees. 8eminal Weakness. Impotence. ' ti.?KIdnovsswl ?ladder. Ail.i.sjto Teunir Mon-" Abuse?"! tlif OeuerstiveOrgsns. ?r.J: I os-fiv:-i i , o*? etisnirinfs, sent ande'?est tony sddrsM ,!:-.!< MEDICAL ADVIt'B on - ArMrri?, Dr. Butts' D'lr-vsjry. N-e. i?. 7:eih crroet.S* Lruis It.-. medry In all ehr uic H rnih Bladiler &nd Kl : D. D. CABTER. I), e. M C1110. Sole Act. TRUSSES. Tl ?.? Jones' Ventilated Trns??? hu? - an. the 1 sslPKt, >al?st and I i'- id. KOU ?iu exhibition and lur Ml* b., Dr, I). D. CARTER I) [6S0L?TI0X. t m rxkttlnf ' li. vs. it-- ttandJ. J. Btonabnruer, nndsr th. tinn naaa* ol Prc.ott k Slonehurner is this ?Uy 1 by mutual amatad. I. /. Mowsoartm having purotiis. I thr- n.t.r? iiit..-1'.t o. w. Pf?obW, alletslra* .linthe late Or:,; n. .t'lJ. J. Btou?i>?rner K.hn Lurg Va. ] . . PRESCOTT. J. J. STOXERUllXER. X t) T M ' K . ned having Mented the at rviee? of acnmi-tetl hemlst, takes ples-ure in aim.1111,? ing t . th.- 1 tihll. that he ?rill rontinue the manu factu "of I lio-pliat,- ?t the old st?ti'l under the , ii* leitclirmg l'un .1..I. ?-ToNKr.ritNF.lt. Api. ?Mb. -U. L'dinbur,', Vn. Van L?-.-.ien Furnace, *?or. sth, is-?:. M0TIC1. i^l M partmar? Nreb] f-ihilil.n to html with * g* nism this prop? ?T Of ramp In any of *aor building?. it. ASK ki.no. INK. fse isas' Vif?*?ui4 School tak, Beaniifolrv How? froelv floe? net rorrcd? the pen. r*'?t GREAT .MOVEMENT. Suivie;: M-wninea can b u-eJ with ut itrjuriutr your health ULLIS' ADJUSTABLE T?E W>LE. B nl the G . EDIN Siur-r.-.i!!.;: ThKaDII," for vbicfa Mr. J,. I' I t'roct<?r is ?i;;it. I <-? ndl. ly isanaaaswd it to all t!i -?? a . i.i lit v hi? that lbs pi. ! ?ill effectually proven! the lu Juri ,:i .. aro altribate 11 > the old mi .et ' A. P. lir.i.Ku. if. D. HAWSUiSTOttX Va.. Kur. 1?, 1877. I hare examined i. Hi-' Ad -, Machine* aud bi liev. it to m. ut J. H io S' t 1'. EDINBCKO rth ??? Mr. R, p. Paocroa that ' bave attached t. m) "llitwe '.loh.. ? to all |i. \'i ry '.'i-|v-eifnlly. Mils. l?. W. Ill Mr, B. P, ha- given gri tal or, i - ealtb it la safe, t ? ?? ? ? i . - !.. 11. Mt..I.. kl B 1 . C'OMMi J II ii p dei M. (?co. I'. II I. Kelley ber fen-ba ' li7 lb ? dae'd. Ill I I ..f ?; tharine U tlie isth day ol l I. Bel arina II >i p, d II. Ai ? in. Take ai rend? r if day i f tT'V.M J ? t. Hoir m m. .1 :: ; i h - I . h t: in ii t'l-c ; ' lloB'inan N'i tl eery. To ? 'ii.; '? i ill tl: !ecM tiXe.l ; 187a at . tho ?tl e?ve ii ?ti the L- min ?ettln the ? >f Allrc.l I!' h . m :u MI red lloflui ihC .; \ -?? Mil H V ?InttUI I he -.ii i ? tiiVCII V. .! - - 'I #. .. THE SIX. IT. :m?\work *cnptl ms, i ii - ?ellwUh r- ? i ? operation which hare hither) - ?? r i: v ; . rlt. i'iif. ?? > Tho Weekly su:i. i. h ? THE ATLANTIC FOR 1373. win. r:.i ir. and W. D. li - favorite ? !>' Ilej ? . . r. u. a atudii - I The contribua t: ?iM.Mil 'THE Vtl.VNJV . .:' ..ni?. \ . arltu life alie |7U0. bP .01 ih OFt'Elt_The S ^hitticr aud Lourftellou', und t..,- i f Mr. I ad fr,. to all , ublishi r hem ? >rd< r, diift on N ? . Ii. 0. limi.ll .ON ,\: ' '. U il ; ?'.'> \ HocaitTi n. M ? . Beaten, HAAS & BROTHER Dry Goods, lions, BOOTS, HOE & H AT!, GROCERIES. TOBACCOS. The Light Running DOMESTIC Sewing Macbieo alwavs on exhibition. All to ba aold cheap for produce. IQT Cttl'. mu? examine th? ic sin?-?, -%* .iiim? 13??f. LlPPI.ti.DTrS aU.lZME, AN 11 BO .MONTHLY OF Popular Literatt I Art, Ar*2f?UNCEMEI1 a FO? 1S7*. i Uhtba Bombar lor Ja.tnrT, this magazine jrae a of p ti dl condnet ra ?. their patrous with a Tu? Beat and Bloat Attract Si rial ai .1 and I ? buvila. ion if i haw ? . irai.' v ?'; j several I nil ?I U.J 1, \i. ?. L) al : a> me .: > Ui ? (fell .1. - ah ii. - - ' i. Ii. I EW GOODS! -AT J. J. STONEBUKSKR fcSCN LDINBUKU, AV. MANY Cl ST< Ml RS N'Oi' BE EXCELLED, - Boots, Shoes Ha?s, fl.lLD OILS IIKCKINDORN PLOWS AT COST! AT COST! At Cost. J .! 188?, 1877. JOHN A, SAUM [xnruG. MIEXAXJJOAD LO. \ . PVEALER IN HARD a. X "TSS MS, CALL AND EXAMINE ALUs 'PS Kein y Considered, II ! ! FALL & WINTER 600DS AI P.J%FRAVEVSi ? i \SSIMEBES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, TIES, ( OLLARS, SHIRTS ?n l aadei?ear ? lata? I DRESS GOODS. s all thi- h H ar.d Cnn*j. 11 ftc., e\c, ? aud a - a| Sh.'es, Gaitors, ?-,U-.i?JT. 1"'!| StotU, kc. OTal shall be m< at bappr 11 citaMt air ?? h o , i safes (?Ter me *lt'< a call. iv?_tt i.'.i.rinrf,