Staunton Vindicator

It is nigh time that somebody told you a little plain truth. You have been watched for a long time; certain class of you; and it is plain enough you are laying plans to cheat somebody. You intend to sell chaff for wheat, and there is danger that some of the foolish "gudgeons" will be sadly taken in.

It may not be your fault that you belong to the "one idea party"-that the single idea of getting a husband is the only one which engrosses much of your time or attention.-Your venerable mother of Eden memory, was called a "help for man, and you are looking for a man to help you; to help you to live in the half idle, half silly way which you have commenced. Men who are worth having, want women for wives. A bundle of gew-gaws with a string of flats and quavers, sprinkled with cologne and set in a carmine saucer-this is no help for a man who expects to raise a family of boys and girls and veritable bread and meat.

The piano and the lace frame are well in their places, and so are ribbons and frills and tinsels-but you can't make a dinner of the former, nor a bed-blanket of the latter. And awful as the idea may seem to you, both dinner and bed blanket are necessary to domestic enjoyment. Life has its realities as well as its fancies but you make it all a matter of decoration, remembering the tassels and curtains, forgetting the bed-stead. Suppose a young man of good sense and of course of good prospects to be looking for a wife, what chance have you to be chosen?-You may cap him, or trap him, to catch him, but how much better to make it an object for him to catch you! Render yourself worth catching, and you will need no shrewd mother or managing brothers to help you to find a market.-Lancaster Intelligencer.

We publish in another column the earnest protest of the people of Augusta, assembled in their Court House, on the 25th inst., (Court day,) against the abominable 'concurrent resolution,' "so-called," proposed as an amendment to the Constitution. Thus has spoken the people of "old Augusta" and right nobly do they speak. They will have nothing to do with the ratification of this miserable subterfuge as an amendment tot the Constitution, involving as it would an entire loss of their self respect, and, by their own act, the sanctioning their own degradation and dishonor.

We commend these resolutions and proceedings to our confreres in the South, and as the citizens of "old Augusta, in their meeting on Thursday last, have done, call upon our fellow citizens of Virginia and other Southern States to hold public meetings and place the seal of their condemnation on this iniquitous radical scheme, and thus show the people of the North, many of whom are led to suppose that we would accept anything to secure representation, that, though having suffered severely, and compelled to bear the burdens of, without enjoying the privileges in the Union, we are not willing, by our own acts and deeds, to consign ourselves and our posterity to everlasting infamy.

"Let us get fifty or sixty of the ugliest, dirtiest, greasiest, raggediest, lou--, yes, and most ignorant cornfield darkies, that can be caught in the country-let us cram their moths full of iron-clad oaths, and send them as our members elect to Congress.

"The Radical members could not deny them their seats without stultifying themselves before the world. They have giving the negro his civil rights, let them have the first benefit of it. Now would not a Congress so composed-made so as the just result of Radical legislation-present a beautiful spectacle? Such a spectacle, indeed, that neither army nor navy would obey their behests.-They would in a very short time, be as dead as the Southern Confederacy."

PROCEEDINGS of the term of the County Court, held Monday last, J. Marshall McCue presiding.

The Commonwealth vs George Hawkins, colored, for felony, dismissed.

The County levy was laid at $3 on each titheable, making total levy $15,627, of which sum $6,500 was appropriated for the support of the poor, and for the building of additional houses at the Poor House for freedmen.

The Constables of the County qualified.

Dr. John W. Gillespie qualified as Notary Public.

A number of licenses for Hotels were granted.

W. J. Dews was required to give counter security on his official bond as Notary Public.

Thomas S. Hogshead was appointed Road Commissioner, vice, J. G. Fulton, and John Wilson, vice, W. F. Smith.

A. L. Turk was also appointed Road Commissioner.

THE work at the Cemetery, as far as digging graves and arranging for setting out trees &c. is concerned was completed on Thursday of last week. There was a general turn out, the places of business, as far as practicable, being closed, and the citizens of town and country, repairing to the cemetry either in person or by substitute, worked with a will, and left nothing undone to receive our Confederate dead, now lying in uncared for graves on many battlefields. When the bodies of our soldiers are removed to the cemetery, we hope to see these grounds handsomely adorned and an appropiate monument rise to commemorate their many virtues and gallant bearing.

In conclusion we take pleasure in mentioning the fact that Colin Scott, John Christian, Jno. Bumgardner, Fleming Burnett, Alex. Patterson, Rich. H. Brown, Jno. Bridges and Deaf and Dumb George (colored) voluntarily presented themselves or sent substitutes to aid in this work.

PROCEEDINGS of the Town Council, at their meeting held June 23rd.

The water Committee, having considered complaints against the Superintendent of Water Works, and fined him $30, upon an appeal to the Council the fine was reduced to $20.

Robt. Knightly was awarded the contract to clean Lewis' Creek, from the Beverly Street to the west side of the bridge on Lewis Street, for the amount of $650.

Several unimportant resolutions were adopted and the Council adjourned.

A difficulty occurred at the Depot on Wednesday evening last, by Mr. Madison Doom striking one of the Virginia Hotel porters, whom he alleges was portering against the rules, on the platform, into which Mr. Bernard Peyton was drawn. Some harsh wods passed when pistols and knives were drawn, but by the interposition of bystanders a collision was prevented. The case was investigated before Mayor Trout and Mr. Wm. B. Kayser, Recorder, who decided to bind Messrs. Peyton and Doom over the sum of $500 each to keep the peace for three months. They also bound Mr. Doom over in the sum of $100 to answer an indictment to be preferred by the Grand Jury for assault and battery.