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VOLUME XVL-NO. 39. HAHRISONBURO, VA., THURSDAY JULY T, 1H81. TERMS:—$2.()() A YEAH. MEDICAL. IFrom the Washington Sunday Herald.] of the North and South, and after the pas- Marshall Was the eldest son of Thomas What an immortal epitaph 1 It might vity, and control of men. He was six ground is that of the Wilderness, where have been added, that ho was the third times Speaker of the House of Representa- THE CLASSIC TBIAtiGLE. sage of the ordinance of secession by the Marshall, a tiative of Wales, and Mary Generals R. K. Leo and U. S. Grant crossed State of Virginia, and the organization of Keith. He entered the army of General President of the United States; Washing- tives; many years United States Senator, swords for the first time, for several days, BY BIXIK ORET. fhe Southern Confederacy, the Confederate Washington with his father, who wdd Col- ton's Secretary of State; Governor of Vir- and Secretary of State under tlio adminis- in May, 1864. flag, the emblem of a separate nationality onel of the 8d Virginia regimtntt; and ginia ; Minister to France; the piirclmscr of tration of John Quincy Adams. In this county was bora and reared Chas. fmml ■What 18 "7 As OUusie Triangle f" Wc and a dissevered union of the States, could served during a part of the war oh the Lonisiana; the destroyer of the Allen and Mr. Clay was the author of three compro- Fenton Mercer, a distinguished politician, will try and explain. To traverse it you be seen from the Capitol and White ftouso. staff of General Washington, jiist nij his Sedition LaiVs; and died July the 4th, mises between the North and the South : 1. general officer and member of Congress. will take the cars of the Orange and Alex- Colonel Ellsworth, of Chicago, in command nephew, Colonel Charles Mnrshnll, did 1826, just fifty years from the day he drew The Missouri compromise, which excluded General Henry Lee, or "Light Horse andria Railroad, at Alexandria Virginia, of a regiment of zouaves, was ordered to upon the staff of Qoncrnl R: H; Lee, in the and signed the Declaration of Indepen- African slavery from all that part of the Harry," of the first Revolution, and fattur and travel South, through the counties of take possession of Aloxnndrin and re-anscrt 1 late war. ticncq. a Louisiana territory, (acquired by Southern of General R. B. Lee, was for a number of Prince William, Pauquier, Culpeper and what was known as the "national authori- John Marshall was appointed Secretary It was at Charlottesville that the Vir- statesmanship, In opposition to the North,) years a resident of Spottsylvania. He wn.i Orange, to Qordonsville, a distance of ty." He landed with his regiment and of State by John Adams in 1800, and then ginia Legislature was in session during the north of thirty degrees and thirty eeconds. the most distinguished cavalry officer cf ninety-six miles, and then deflect southwest proceeded to the Marshall house, over Chief Justice of the United States, wliich War between the Colonies and Great Bri- 2. The compromise of 1882, growing out the Rcvolutionarj' War. He was Governor through the county of Albemarle to Chnr- which floated the flag of the Southern position he filled for tiurty-fiveconsecutive of Virginia, and member of Congress nt lottesville and the University of Virginia, tain. Colonel Tarleton was dispatehed to of the nullification by South Carolina of States. This hotel was kept by a daunt- years, with an ability rthd iiistrc scarcely capture and disperse that body. The the high tariff laws, enacted to foster New the time of Washington's death. He an- twenty-two miles, returning via Qordons- less Virginian by the name of Jackson, equaled in the judicial annals of any conn- Legislature being notified of Tarleton's In- England interests to the detriment of the nounced the sad tidings, and in his re- ville through the counties of Louisa and who with a double-barrel gun in han.d, de- try, and not surpassed by a Mansfield or tentions, by Jouittc, a noted Virginian murks used the memorable words; "First Hanover to Hanover Junction, then by tbe great staple productions of the South. 3. clared he would kill any man who dared to an Ellcnborongh. From the Marshalls of scout, adjourned to Stalihton, Augusta The admission of California as a State "in- in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts Virginia Central Railroad, distant in a pull down the flag. Colonel Ellsworth Pauquier have sprung a race of men rarely county. After the Surrender of Bnrgoync, to the Union," in the interests of anti- of his countrymen." southeasterly direction from the University proceeded to haul down the flag, when equaled in any age. For forensic attain- nt Saratoga, the prisoners of his army were Robert Goodloo Harper was a native of of Virginia fifty eight miles. At Hanover slavery, when its population was not com- Jackson deliberately fired and kflled him, ments, splendid eloquence, and, as the detained at Charlottesville until exchanged. mensurate with the fundamental law, and Fredericksburg, a Senator in Congress from Junction, you take the Richmond, Pred- when he in turn was instantly Silled by knightfi of chivalry, they havfe well illtiBtra-- One mile from Charlottesville is located Maryland, and a Major General jn the war erieksburg and Potomac Railroad, and in the face of that fact that the annexation the soldiers of Ellsworth's command-. Col. t'ed Virginia and Kentucky, the Jefferson University of Virginia, an in- of Texas was in opposition to the wishes of 1812, move north through the counties of Caroline Ellsworth was the first person who lost his Fauquier has been the birth-plaCC and of a majority of the Northern people, out John Forsyth was another distinguished and Spottsylvania, crossing the Rappnlmd- stitution of learning equal to any in the life in behalf of the Federal Government abode of many,very many men, distinguish- world. The region, round about, for of which grew the Mexican war, and the son of Fredericksburg. He became Gover- nock river at Predericksburg, through the on the soil of Virginia, and Jackson was od in the annals of the Country. The gal- nor of Georgia, a member of Congress, Min • county of Stafford, and skirting the county bcnlthfulncss, and for tbe grandeur of its acquisition of Caliioraia. Southern officers iiEilfflSl, the first who gave his life on the bosom of lant Turner Asllby , the knight of the Sben- and Southern soldiers with but little assis- ister to Spain, United States Senator, and of King George, and finally reaching the scenery, is unsurpassed in any clime or Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, bis beloved State as a sacrifice to a cause nrtcioali, was bom and reared in this coun- country. tance from the North conquered up.eacc in Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson. broad and beautiful Potomac river, at the which be most ardently lotted. ty, with others of like name and blood re- Angnstin S. Clayton was also a native of Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, mouth of Aquia Creek, distance from Han- On the western boundary of the Univer- Mexico and thereby acquired California Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Thus began upon the soil of the Old nowned as the boldest of cavaliers. War- sity, commanding a magnificent view of with its immense mines of gold and quick- Fredericksburg, a member of Congress from over Junction, fifty one miles. renton, the county town, is the homo of Georgia, and author of that torse nullifica- Sprains, Burns and Scalds, At Aquia Creek, you nieet the steamers Dominion—yea, within the very precincts the beautiful landscape, was the home for silver. General Bodily Pains, of the sacred ashes of the Father and Colonel John S. Mosby, the most distin- a scries of years of Colonel James Monroe, Gallant Massachusetts, however, lurnish- tiou phrase, "He who dallies is a dastard, Ironside, Vanderbilt, or Keyport, in readi- guished and intrepid partisan leader any , and he who doubts is dammed." Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet ness to waft you most pleasantly and safe- Founder of the Republic—that terrible the fifth President of the United States. cd one skeleton of a regiment, and, like and Ears, and all other Pains struggle which lias well-nigh strangled revolution has ever produced In any ago The accomplished D. Gilmer, of Pen Park, the King of France with forty thousand Commodore M. F. Maury is one of tho ly over the placid bosom of the grand old or country. In this county was born Jnlnes most distinguished sons of shell-torn and Aches. Potomac, to Alexandria, your starting the priceless heritage of constitutional lib- a native and distinguished scholar, lived men, she marched up the hill and then No Propriration on earth equals Sr. Jacobs Oil as erty ! S. Green, a Senator from Missouri; and died in Albemarle. His son-in-law, Wril- marched down again. In nil these com- Fredericksburg. He stands pre-eminent point, or to the Capital of the Republic, a Henry S. Foote, Govcrnorof and theUnitcd as a man of letters and science amongst distance from the creek of fifty-five miles. Belair—one of the seats of the Fairfaxes linm Wirt, of Rose Hill, was for many promises the South surrendered her rights can have cheap and positive proof of its clalnui. —was baronial in all its surroundings. It States Senator from Mississippi. It is also years a resident of Albemarle. Mr. Wirt and interests for the sake of peace and i the most renowned living scientists.

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