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Shenandoah Herald.
WOODSTOCK, VA.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11. --- 1867.

Senator Wilson on the Situation.

Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, has announced his intention to make a tour of the South, in a short time, for the purpose of enlightening the freedmen relative to their duties, privileges, and obligations under the republican dispensation, and expounding to the whites their condition un- the late so-called reconstruction measures of Congress.  He accordingly visited the old "Cockade" city, Petersburg, last week, and delivered a characteristic speech to a mixed assemblage of blacks and whites, who seemed eager to hear what he had to say.

After thanking the people for the kind manner in which he had been received by them, he discoursed as follows, relative to the origin of the war or "rebellion," as some are pleased to term it: - "Now, I wish to say to you that we have just passed through a bloody contest, which, in the course of events, was inevitable; a contest of ideas which shook this continent for thirty years.  It had to come; it was inevitable.  It came, and we fought it out; and now let me say to you that when the last gun was fired I was in favor of forgetting all the bitterness engendered by the contest, and of marching with you shoulder to shoulder in support of a united country."  This "contest of ideas," Mr. Wilson truly remarks, grew out of "human slavery in America."

On the one hand, the people of the South defended the institution of slavery, because it was recognized by the Federal Constitution and the statutes of the States where it existed; on the other hand, the people of the North, many of whom had sold their slaves to the planters of the South, abolished slavery because it was unprofitable, made war upon the institution because they believed, or pretended to believe, that it was inconsistent with republican government and a great moral sin, or, in abolition parlance, "the sum of all villainies."  The South fought for their rights under the Constitution and laws, and Mr. Wilson's party made war upon them, and have not only abolished slavery, but they have revolutionized the government, and radically changed the organic law.  Such was the relation of the parties in this "contest of ideas which shook this continent for thirty years."  Mr. W. and his party aggressing upon us - the [[?]] the Constitution and the laws.  We were overpowered in the contest; and now Mr. Wilson and his brethren would fain have the world believe that we, and not they, fought to destroy "the best government the world ever saw," and accordingly they apply to us such opprobrious epithets as "rebels," "traitors," &c.

Relative to the disabilities imposed on the South by the late acts of Congress Mr. Wilson says: - "Persons who have taken an oath to support the Constitution and afterwards engage in rebellion shall not be permitted to hold office, but this can be repealed by a two-thirds vote of Congress with regard to classes or persons affected by it.  I say when this question is settled, as I believe it will be very shortly, these disabilities will rapidly disappear.  * * I trust these disabilities will vanish in a few months.  I want to see all free and protected in their rights."

Of the abolition-republican-radical party, we think, Mr. Wilson speaks in rather extravagant terms.  He says: - "There never was a party of so much character, intelligence, Christian faith, and devotion as can be found in the republican party."  No doubt Mr. Wilson and those who act with him can lay this "flattering unction" to their souls, and can adopt the language of one of their class of ancient times: - "We thank thee, O God, that we are not as other men; that we are more holy than these publicans."  No doubt a few of Mr. Wilson's auditors, who had witnessed some of the acts of these intensely religious people during the war, regarded the above as a good joke, intended to relieve the tedium of the moment.

Addressing himself to the freedmen, he said: - "Let me say to you in good faith that more blood has been shed for your emancipation than ever was shed before for the freedom of 4,000,000 men anywhere on earth; for Christian men and women have bee praying for you for more than thirty years, and you are not forgotten now.  Thousands of our good men and women are now contributing for your improvement."  The fervent, effectual prayer of the righteous, we are told, availeth much.  To give pungency and effect to these "good men and women," Congress has added its imperial edicts, backed by a military satrapy, the Freedmen's Bureau with its appliances, and millions of greenbacks.

Here is a bit of good advice for the freedmen.  He says:  "To you all, let me say that your fortunes are in your own hands; and above all things, as the last of God's blessings that I have to give you, let me entreat you to give up the use of intoxicating liquors.  Touch not the bowl whose contents degrade humanity."

He concludes his advice to the crowd as follows:- "Let me advise you to elect a convention of tried and true men who will amend your Constitution in accordance with the provisions of the reconstruction act.  Send men to Congress who can take the oath; recognize the new rights of the negro; concede them as more worthy of respect and confidence, men who God made and Christ died for; develop the resources of old Virginia; build up manufactories; cut up your great plantations into small farms, and will them well, and in the course of a generation you will make her one of the most opulent and prosperous States of the Union.  If you will do this, the people of Massachusetts will thank God for it."

Very good.  We shall endeavor to do our duty like men, and shall be pleased to know that we have the "thanks" of our pious brethren of Massachusetts.

Terrible Catastrophe

The Richmond papers of Saturday give the particulars of an explosion in one of the Clover Hill coal mines, near that city, by which thirty white men and thirty-nine negroes lost their lives.  The explosion was occasioned by the accumulation of gas in the mine.  Those who business it was to see the mine properly ventilated had neglected the matter, and this sad catastrophe was the consequence.-Many of the laborers were poor, some of who had large families depending upon them for support.  The scene at the pit, when it was ascertained that all the laborers at work at the time of the explosion had been killed, was heartrending and created much sympathy among the people.-The board of directors promptly appropriated one thousand dollars for the relief of the families of the sufferers.

Connecticut Elections

The recent elections in Connecticut for Governor and other State officers, Congressmen, and members of the Legislature, resulted rather disastrously to the radical cause.  English, the Conservative candidate, beats his radical opponent for Governor 979 votes, and the result for other State officers was about the same.  Three Conservatives and one radical have been elected to Congress.  The radicals have a [[?]] While the result of these elections will be practically of no immediate benefit to the South, they strongly indicate a relaxation on the part of the people of that section of the harsh feeling toward us.  It is a repudiation of the confiscation scheme of such men as Stevens and Butler, and an endorsement of the late action of the Congress as an ultimatum, so far as the North is concerned.  A few more such blows will break the back-bone of the radical party, and cause it to pause in its mad course.

☞ Major-General Schofield has issued an order, No. 8, that "All elections, whether State, county or municipal, under the Provisional Government of Virginia, are hereby ordered to be suspended until the registration provided for by the act of Congress of March 23d, 1867, shall be completed.  Vacancies which may occur in the meantime, will be filled by temporary appointments, to be made by the Commanding General."

Important Injunction Against the President.

WASHINGTON, April 5.-In the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Sharkey gave notice of a motion for a preliminary injunction against Andrew Johnson, President, and General Ord, commander if the military district comprising Mississippi.  It is stated the injunction is founded on a bill in equity.  The bill he proposed to file was brought by the State of Mississippi, as complainant against the parties named, to enjoin them from executing the acts of Congress recently passed, called the Military bill and Supplemental bill.

Attorney General Stanbery suggested that, as it was a case involving the original jurisdiction of the court, the motion in the first place should be for leave to file a bill.
Judge Sharkey acquiesced, and said the counsel for Mississippi would now file the bill and were ready to argue it.

The Attorney General said he contended the bill in so far as it purported to make the president a party defendant, was in effect a suit against the United States, and he would, therefore, object to leave being given by the court to file the bill, and he further stated that he also was ready now to go into argument of the motion.

The Chief Justice, after consultation, stated that the motion for leave to file the bill might be made and put on the motion docket; but, in conformity with the rule of the court, would not be heard until the next regular motion day.

This motion will, therefore, come up on Friday next.

Efforts are being made to organize a joint stock company in Berkeley county, for the purpose of manufacturing sorghum syrup.  It is proposed to have a steam mill and all the latest improvements.

Accepting the Congressional Conditions.

It is said that there are several leading men of the South, not of the order which, in the cant of the day, is described as loyal, who are in favor of accepting the conditions fixed by Congress for the reorganization of their States, and of kissing the rod of the conqueror, while it is still in active operation.  Whether they are willing to accept, not only the thing as it stands to-day, but as it may stand in the future, while each day is begetting some fresh enormity, adding some new burden, or inventing some more extreme humiliating condition, is more than we are informed; and how far they are prepared to carry their compliance, and how fully they represent the spirit of the Southern people, can only be conjectured.

We confess that we do not exceedingly admire that style of political wisdom which is willing to accept a great injustice upon the plea of thereby escaping a greater.--But these leading men of the South, have not as we understand it, even an agreement of this kind in support of their position.  Congress does not wait for the South to accept or reject the conditions it fixes. It goes on legislating.  The Reconstruction Law, is hardly passed until it is provided with a supplement; and before that has gone through the forms of legislation, another bill of pains and penalties, confiscations and disqualifications is generated in the ever-active brain of the great Radical leader, to be pushed through at his earlies convenience; each fresh creation, if possible, more enormous, ill-advised, and oppressive than its predecessor.

There is such a thing as men being more polite than prudent.  The devil, it is said, did not know what he was about when he made men politic. Southern leaders doubtless find themselves extinguished by the prevailing order of things, and naturally suppose that the country is suffering as much by their involuntary seclusion as they are themselves.  The politician out of place imagines the State to be rushing to ruin for lack of his services; and is willing to make almost any humiliation, rather than witness so serious a catastrophe.  It does not by any means follow, because men can not agitate, or legislate, or negotiate, that therefore, the commonwealth is in danger; and they had a great deal better be tied up and do nothing than be let loose to do mischief.  One of the evils of the Southern economical condition was that it afforded too many men the leisure to become politicians; and that is an evil whose effects, we suspect yet remain, and are not altogether propitious.  There is, in almost all the fields of human pursuit, such a thing as remunerative-sometimes called masterly-inactivity; but, if a country like ours, where there are always more politicians than places, and where the great elements of personal success is to keep one's self before the people, the idea of gaining by not doing so, is the one, of all others, of which the politician is least capable.

We do not believe that either the North or South, the people as a people, or the South, the people as a people, or the [[?]] the acceptance on the part of the South of any terms but such as are strictly equitable; such terms would have been honorable for them to have accepted fifty years ago, or to accept fifty years hence; such terms as put entirely out of the question any idea of demerit growing out of the past events, or of special guarantees for future good behavior.  We do not believe that a settlement upon any other terms than such as we have described can be durable.  Humanity never lays down its love of justice when due to itself.  These leading men of the South may bind themselves but they cannot bind their fellow citizens; much less can they bind posterity.  They may pledge themselves to go with the North, in case the Southern people, finding serfdom intolerable, revolt; but history in its final sober judgement will have little to record in favor of this species of loyalty.

To accept the Congressional condition, in any of its phases or stages, is to admit all that the North ever claimed of the crime of rebellion: to accept the doctrine that the Union is, in its constitutional terms, indissoluble; to allow that coercion is a legitimate remedy, and that in all that the North has done, it has only inflicted merited punishment upon an insubordinate people; and to put upon record, for everlasting reference, the confession that the peoples of the South, being traitors, are unsafe copartners, upon equal terms, with the peoples of the North in a common polity, and are therefore rightly degraded and denaturalized.  Cover them with what sugar-coating we may, these are the terms upon which alone the Congressional conditions - if Congress can fairly be said to have tendered any conditions - can be accepted; and of the full force of the act of self degradation is not seen beforehand, it will not, after the act is done, be long in making itself perfectly palpable.

The peoples of the South should refrain from giving their active assent to the oppressive regime prescribed for them, if for no other reason, to save themselves from the labor and danger of future rebellions. Our revolutionary history does not permit us to deny that there may be circumstances under which rebellion is not only justifiable but laudable. It is the duty of men to rise up and put down a persistently unjust government; and we have, on certain occasions, been accustomed to repeat, with some enthusiasms, the maxim: "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Said Mr-SIDNEY in his Discourse Concerning Government: "The thing is signified by rebellion is not always evil: for tough every subdued nation must acknowledge a superiority in those who subdued them, and rebellious do imply a breach of peace; yet that superiority is not infinite; the peace may be broken upon just grounds, and it may be neither a crime nor an infamy to do it." And illustrates his idea by the following paraphrase from LIVY, which is worthy of notice as showing in the Government of a great conquering people a political wisdom and a spirit of magnanimity which we would do well to imitate.

"The Privernates had been more than once subdued by the Romans, and had as often rebelled. Their city was at length taken by PLAUTIUS the Consul, after their leader Vitruvius and great numbers of their Senate had been killed. Being reduced to a low condition, they sent ambassadors to Rome to desire peace; where, a Senator asked them what punishment they deserved, one of them answered, 'The same which they deserve who think themselves worthy of liberty.' The Consul then demanded 'what kind of peace might be expected from them if the punishment should be remitted.' The ambassador answered, 'If the terms you give be good, the peace will be observed by us faithfully and perpetually; if bad, it will soon be broken.' And though some were offended by the ferocity of the answer, yet the best part of the Senate approved it as worthy 'a man and a freeman,' and confessing that no man or nation would continue under an uneasy condition longer than they were compelled by force, said, 'They were only fit to be made Romans who had nothing valuable but liberty.'-Upon which they were all made citizens of Rome, and obtained whatever they desired."

Upon a par with that great and most lamentable error which the North commits in imposing the unjust and humiliating conditions upon the South in confessing its unworthiness by the acceptance of those conditions. Nothing else that the South could do would so undignify it in the eyes of mankind and posterity: for it would not only be a voluntary putting on the badge of inferiority, but would be a virtual admission that, in the place of an innocent party suffering immeasurable wrong and outrage, it was merely a felon undergoing just and richly merited punishment. — West and South

The following Order, just issued from the Headquaters, will interest our readers. 
HEAD’QRS FIRST DISTRICT. STATE OF VIRGINIA, RICHMOND, VA., April 2d, 1867. 
EXTRACT.
Special Orders No. 1. 

1. A board of officers is hereby appointed to select and recommend to the Commanding General for appointment, persons to form boards of registration throughout this District, as required by the act of March 23h, 1867. 

The persons required, will be one registering officer for each magisterial district of a county or ward of a city, and two, four or six for the county or city at large, according to the size of the county or city, so as to form, with the registering officers of the several districts or wards, one, two or three boards of registration for the county or city. 

An officer of the army or Freedman’s Bureau will, if possible, be selected as a member of each board, and the other two will be selected from the following classes of persons, viz: 1st. Officers of the Uni- [[?]], who have been honorably discharged, after meritorious services during the late war. 2d. Loyal citizens of the county or city for which they were selected. 3d. Any other loyal citizens having the proper qualifications. 

These boards must be composed of men who, not only are now, but always have been, loyal to the Government of the United States; men of high character and sound impartial judgement, and, as far as possible, men who have the confidence of all classes of citizens.
 
No registering officer shall be a candidate for any elective office while holding the office of registering officer. 

With their recommendations for appointment, the Board will report to the Commanding General a brief of the testimonials and other evidence upon which their selections are based. 

The board will report from time to time their selections for particular counties or cities, without waiting to complete the list. 

DETAIL FOR THE BOARD. 

Brevet Lieut. Col. GEO GIBSON, JR., Capt. 11th United States Infantry. 
Brevet Major C. R. LAYTON, Captain 11th United States Infantry. 
Brevet Major D.W. VANCE, captain 11th United States Infantry. 
Captain GARRICK MALLERY, 43d United States Infantry. 
Captain J. A. BATES, 43d United States Infantry. 
By command of Brig. and Brevet Major General J.M. SCHOFIELD, U.S.A. 
(Signed) S.F. CHAPLIN, Assistant Adjutant General. 

Another Clerical Rascal. 

The disagreeable duty of exposing the rascality of another renegade preacher, says the Keokuk (Iowa) Constitution, is again imposed on us as a journalist. Rev. J. Petty, who resided in this county, on String Prairie, about twelve miles from this city and who has been lately holding a revival meeting at which, we learn, many converts were made, and who were to be baptized next Sabbath, provided all things had gone along smoothly. But on Wednesday last, the Reverend Pastor of the String Prairie flock took it unto his head to run off with one of the she lambs— a Mrs. Freeman, a married sister— who lest behind her husband and three children. The Reverend Petty had a wife also and five children, whom he has left in destitute circumstances. 

This Petty, like his apostate brother, Ballinger, is a ranting member of the God-and-humanity party, and wanted all Democrats to be hanged who refused to vote the Radical ticket and to acknowledge his miscegenation preaching as pure Gospel. 

Gen Report E. Lee has received $377 50 from citizens of Virginia City, Montana Territory, to be applied to the erection of an asylum for the orphans of the Confederate dead, and he has transmitted the amount to the Southern Orphan Association in Baltimore. 

Maryland Convention.

The application by some Radical citizens of Baltimore for an injunction to forbid the holding of elections for members of the State Convention lately called by the Legislature las been refused. The tables are now being turned on these persons. The Baltimore Gazette says thus each and all of them will be vigorously sued for libel, on account of the allegations of manifold crimes, misdemeanors and iniquities, which they alleged in their bill, against various officers of the State government. The following is the opinion of the Judge above referred to: 

The application for an injunction in this case is rejected. The allegations in the bill involve the consideration of political questions or legal questions cognizable only in a court of law which a court of equity has no concern, and over which it has no jurisdiction. 

There is no power in a court of equity, at the instance of contestants in the position of the complainants and upon the allegations in this bill, to interrupt the progress of an election, ordered to be held by the legislative department of the government, on the averment that it is unauthorized. There is no branch of equity jurisprudence within which this power can be concluded. In 2 Story, eq. juris. Sec. 872. And in Eden, in injunctions 1. The cases proper for the application of the writ of injunction are enumerated; and it is not pretended that a case of this character is within any of the designated classes. After an election is accomplished, parties claiming office under it, or against it, may, if the asserted illegality of the election depends on legal grounds contest the questions by mandamus; but it is not within the power of any court, by injunction or by mandamus to arrest the progress of an election directed by the legislative department by deciding in advance questions connected with the alleged illegality or irregularity of the election as stated by the complainants.
 
A practical illustration of the necessity of thus guarding and qualifying the authority of a court of equity, in the exercise of its preventive powers, is found in the fact that, if an injunction was granted in this case, it would be partial in its operation; and, as the election in other portions of the State would proceed, its only effects would be to deprive the voters of the city of Baltimore of the privilege of expressing their opinions as to the expediency of a constitutional convention. 

It is, therefore, on this 2d of April, 1867, ordered and decreed by the Superior Court of Baltimore city, as a court of equity, that the application for an injunction in the above case be rejected, and the bill dismissed with costs. R. N. MARTIN. 

EGYPTIAN CORN - We are in the receipt of several inquires with regard to the value and culture of Egyptian corn. We can only say that some people are pleased with it, and others regard it a humbug. It is a matter of taste, therefore, whether valuable or otherwise. We have heard it said [[?]] desire to have it ground into meal, they will have [[?]] till mill-burs are made of a harder substance than at present, as the corn is a little harder than the stones in common use Our friend, Gabriel Stickley, who, by the way, is one of our best farmers, has discovered an heretofore unknown property in Egyptian corn, which its medicinal virtue as an antidote for hog cholera. He says it is so hard, that labor a hog has to undergo in masticating it, puts him in a profuse perspiration, from the tip of his snout to the end of his tail, which as in the Thompsonian system, knocks all diseases higher than a kite. — Abington Virginian. 

CANADIAN CONFEDERATION — A special cable dispatch to the Montreal Gazette.. dated March 29th, states that 'the Queen has sanctioned both bills for the confederation of British North America." The Gazette says; "Both the bills are therefore laws. From this time these colonies start upon a new era, and it is one which will determine their destiny. United and connected by rail, they will build up a great northern nation. Disconnected, like a bundle of sticks, the probability is that they would, in time, have been, one by one, absorbed in the seething political confusion to the south of us."

Branding Prohibited in North Carolina.

WILMINGTON, N.C., April 6. -- In the case of Nicholas Carr, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to be branded, an order has been received from Gen. Sickles prohibiting the carrying out of the sentence, as it comes under the section forbidding whipping and maiming. The court then sentenced the prisoner instead to be fined $2,000 and imprisoned a year.

GOVERNOR WISE AND SENATOR WILSON.

I have just learned that an interview took place between Governor Wise and Senator Wilson, by request of the latter. It is represented as being very agreeable and satisfactory. Wilson stated that compliance with the terms of the reconstruction bill would inevitably insure the admission of southern representatives to Congress without any further conditions. He said that this bill was the ultimatum of the Radicals. -- Richmond letter in New York World

LARGE HERRING -- A herring 18 3/4 inches long, 12 1/2 inches round the body, and 2 1/2 thick through the back, weighing 3 3/4 pounds, was caught yesterday at Fowke's landing, and was sent to this city this morning with a lot of other fish. -- This is the largest herring, it is said, by old fisherman, ever caught on the Potomac. -- Alexandria Gazette.

The New York Times says the Republican defeat in Connecticut is due to "the intolerance of the party to everyone who failed to respond to its most ultra and extravagant demands. In Massachusetts the party is strong enough, perhaps, to eject every man who fails to come up to 'highwater mark;' but is not so in Connecticut."

Some liquor seized by the State authorities in Middlesex county, Mass., was analyzed a few days since, and on a bottle which was lettered in gilt "D. Brandy." thirty cents per glass, the chemist put the following label: "Unable to decide what the manufacturer of this intended to imitate; it contains more or less camphene." He also added, as a private mark, a skull and cross-bones.

DIED,

At La Porte, Indiana, on the 1st inst., Mr. John J. Fay, a native of the county, aged about 54 years. 

The deceased emigrated to Indiana, more than twenty years ago, and established himself in business in La Port where he resided up to the time of his death. He was a man of indomitable will and untiring energy, sterling integrity and business tact, and was called upon on several occasions to discharge the responsible duties of various civil offices in his adopted town. He has left a widow and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.

OBITUARY.

Died at her residence, in Powell's Fort on the 15th of November, 1866. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Clem, widow, aged 78 years, 8 months, and 16 days.

Our departed mother, M. E. Clem, in her pilgrimage, "attained unto" nearly four score years, "An age that few do live," and enjoyed the privilege of seeing great grand children. Yet, when her appointed time came, she was removed form this present life, and with all her predecessors when in her "long home." She was a worthy and virtuous associate of our female society; a regular member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, and as such, her christian deportment, denying her long and temporal life, was commendable and exemplary. She endured her last will rings with christian resignation and patience; and manifested as true and living Faith in her Redeemer, whom she had so zealously endeavored to serve, for many years. And in her last dying hour she was heard to say, with him of old: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." After which, as we trust, she "fell asleep" in the arms of Jesus, and if so, she is freed from any further suffering, "and there shall no torment touch" her. For, "a voice from heaven" has long since said: "Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them." Let her surviving and sorrowing children, with other sympathizing relatives, comfort one another with these declarations.

On account of the inclemency of the weather, at the time of the death of our departed mother, a notice of the same was deferred until after a funeral sermon could be preached, which was delivered to the large audience, by the writer of this notice, from the words John [[?]].10 in the church at Dry Run, on the 31st of March. '67. J.S.

Tribute of Respect. 

At a special communication of Cassin Lodge, NO. 142 F.A.M. held in the Masonic Hall at Woodstock, April 3d, A.D., 1867, the following resolutions were adopted:
 
WHEREAS, it has pleased the Supreme Architect of the Universe to call from our midst our esteemed brother, JOSEPH H. CLOWN, who departed this life at his residence in this place, on Monday evening, the 1st instant; and whereas in his death this Lodge has lost a zealous and worthy brother, and the community a useful and enterprising citizen—therefore, 

1. Be it Re deed, That the members of this Lodge have heard with sincere sorrow of the death of brother JOSEPH H. CLOWEN, and that we hereby tender our sympathy and condolence with the relatives and friends of the deceased, from whose society he has been removed by the inscrutable Providence of Him who is “too wise to err and too good to be unkind.”

2. Re deed, That as a token of regard for the memory of our deceased brother, the members of this Lodge will wear the usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty days. 

3. Re deed That this Lodge attend the funeral of brother CLOWEN, clothed in appropriate regalia at 10 o’clock A.M. 

4. Re deed That the secretary furnish the family of the deceased with a copy of the resolutions, and that they be also furnished the Editores of the Shenandoah Herald for publication.
 
Teste. JNO. HAAS, W.M.
SAM’L C. WILLIAMS, Secretary. 

New Advertisements. 

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF VALUABLE LAND.
 
By virtue of a decree of the circuit court of Shenandoah county, rendered at March term. 1867, the undersigned commission will proceed to sell on the premises, the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 11TH DAY OF MAY, 1867, the valuable TRACT OF LAND, conveyed by George Bowman and wife, and Leah Swartz, of the date of July 12, 1845 to Harry Kern, now dec’d adjoining the George Feckley farm, being part of the George Swartz farm, containing. 1151.4 Ac’s more or less; said land lies on the Shenandoah river, about three miles south of the Strasberg, part of the tract are river bottom, the balance upland, part in timber.
 
TERMS OF SALE: - One third each the residue in town equal annual payment, bearing interest from day of sale; bonds to be taken with good personal security for said payments and a lien retained upon the property as further security. Sale to commence at 12 o’clock, M.
 
AMOS M. STICKLEY Commissioner. April 14.

COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Kendall vs. Kendall — 1: chancery 
Pursuant to a decree of the circuit court of Shenandoah, pronounced in the abuse named cause, I shall of the 3d day of May, 1867, upon the premises is, offer at public sale to the highest bidder, a piece or parcel of land, containing a little more than Two Acres, situated on Tumbling Run, about two miles west of Strasberg, in said county, being the same property of which Leonard Kendall died seized and possessed.

The improvements consist of a good two-story DWELLING HOUSE, & stable and smoke house; and upon the property there is an excellent site for a saw-mill and carding machine. The water power is amply sufficient for any machinery of this kind. 

The saw-mill which formerly stood upon the property was burnt during the late civil war, but the dam is still standing and there will be prepared a frame for the saw-mill before the day of sale. 

The location is an excellent one for a saw-mill, carding machine, or any similar kind of machinery. 

Terms of Sale- ten per cent, on the say of sale, 23 1/4 per cent in four months, and the residue in two equal payments of 9 and 18 months from the day of sale, all to bear interest from that day; the purchaser to give bonds with two good securities, and the title to be withheld until all of the purchase money shall have been paid, or until the court directs a deed to be made. CARTHAGE KENDALL Commissioner. Ap. 11-4w

COMMISIONER’S SALE OF LAND. 

Gochenour and others complainants, vs. Samuel Maphis and wife and others defendants.

Pursuant to the decree of the circuit court of Shenandoah in the above named cause, I shall on Saturday the 11th day of May, 1867, upon the premises offer at public sale to the highest bidder the lands of which Jonathan Gochenour died seized and possessed, consisting of 2 tracts; one of About Thirty Acres, and the other of TEN ACRES--the latter timber about one mile from the former, and accessible by a public road. The tract of 30 acres is that on which the buildings are situated, and is all cleared. The improvements consist of a GOOD DWELLING AND KITCHEN, corn house, stable, &c. The land is of good quality and well adapted to either grain or grass, the soil being blue slate and limestone. Altogether, it is a very desirable property.

Terms of Sale--Ten per cent, in hand 23 1/2 percent, in three months, and the residue in two equal annual payments from the day of sale, all to bear interest from that day; the purchaser to give bonds with two good securities, and the title to be retained until the whole purchase money shall have been paid, or until the court directs a deed to be made. MARK BIRNE Commissioner. Ap 11-2w

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