Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1861-03-29
nrKs oFTHE DAY.

SEWS OETHE DAY.
ssy A Charleston correspondent, writing
to tho Richmond Dispatch says:-'Gcn.
Beauregard has stopped Major Anderson from
receiving oil aud tIllOw candles, but as many
sperm candles as he Pleascs. DO tou know
the reason? Because oil and tallow will make
his cannon ork easy and sperm will not, and
oil and tallow do the labor offOur men,"
WOULDN'T ACCEPT HIM.-The Lynch
burg (Vh) Republican states that few days
ago Postmaster General Montgomery Blair
removed Mr.. Pritchard, mail agent on the
Manassas Cap Railroad, and appointed in his
stead republican, named Bear, from Rock
ingharn. AS coon as this change became
known to Mr. Edward G. Marshall the pre-
sidcnt of the road, he promptly informed Mr..
Blair that either his appoinree or the United
States mail must be removed from the road.
The result was the reinstatement of Prltch-
ard.
RtCnMnND, VA, March 25.---Somc excite
ment has been 0ccasoned here in consequence
If an order having been reccIvedat Belle
Tuc boundary from Washington, to send
the guns now on hand to Fortress Monroe
forthwith
reA= John Scott, Esq, of Fauqdier, author
OF the Lost Principle" has accepted a COIN
mission ID be Captain in the Amy Of the
Southern Confyderacy.
Bas- The AlbcIiarlc elizabeth City,
Southerner of the 2Uth instant says that
Hon. Kenneth Rayucr has come out in Ia
eOr Of the secession Of North Carolina.
CONSERVATION is carried into the bust
ness circle of New York by the prospective
operation of the Morrill, tariff So certain
are many firms that it will drive foreign trade
from New York to the South, that they are
about to remove TO commercial points in the
seeded States.
a-Thc States Rights Convention ofKcn-
lucky has adopted resolutions denOuncing
any attempt on the part of the government
to collect revenue as coercion, and affirming
that III case of any attempts the Border
States should make common cause with the
Southern Conlcderacy. They also recon-.
mend a Border State Convention. Secession
speeches were made by the Hon. Humphrey
Marshall and the Hon. james B. Clay.
rea.- The official vote OF North Carolina
fUOLS up as follows;
"NU Convention" 46,603
'CUmvcutiUn," AZ, 400
Majority against Convention. 1914
sa- The Charleston Mercury thus con-
'c!ude; an elaborate review OF the Constitu-
lion of the Southern Confcderacy:
Taken as whole it is the best C6nstitu-
ton we believe, ever devised by man. We
are grateful tor it; and cannot doubt that it
will long endure 4 monument OF the wisdom,
ability and PATRIOTISM Of tie statesmen Of the
South.
Re.y~ John Van Ripper, hailing from Massa-
chusetts, but for three years a resident of
Petersburg, left that city very hurricdly Sat
urlay morning week, to avoid the attentions
OF "Yi@lance Committee" who, learning
that Van Ripper had publicly declared that
he was born abolitionist-rai:cd an aboli-
tionst-and intended to die 6ne," intimated
n determination to escort him out Of town.
TREAcuERY REWARDED Cow
ling ri OHIO, formerly a messenger in the
Interior Department, has been PROMOTED to
the position Of n first class clerk. This pro-
motion Is well deserved, as it was through
him that the trelch6rOus despatch of cN-Sc-
Cret.ry Thompson, in relation to firing on the
Star of the West, failed to reach its destina-
tim, aud its reasonable design was thus frus-
trutc5.-Ndt. Rep.
MS The Virginia Legislature has passed
a bill, and it is law, Incorporating the
Southern Express Company, the incOrpora-
tors being Is. +. Flckllu, D. n. IIarmhn.
and others. The object of this Company is
to establish express lines all through the
Southern States The Company will be or
ganized in few days, and will so into oPer-
utiou in short time.
The veteran of Virginia Convention is
Fleming Bowyer Miller, of Botetourt, lie
has been Il member of all the States Con-
vcntiuus called since the old Revolution. He
first answered to the Convention roIl-call in
19293O, ncxtin 1S5O-a1, aha lastly in 1861
Waldo II. Johs"ri has been elected U. s.
Senator from Missouri, in the place of James
S Green. Mr.. q. recently decla: ed in the
Senate that if Missouri aid not secede he
would seccde IRON Miss ouri. His State seems
to have taken him at his word. Mr.. John
sou is a Virginiun, and sou Of Ex-Gov. 10
scph johnson.
Hon. Fl. A. Edmundson Of Va, having
declined reelection to Cotgress, VIM
Skeen, Esq, announces himself as candl-