Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1866-02-03
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are imperative on this subject. An investiga-
ton into the Bsgdad affair willtake place.
Gen. Crawford is now incarcerated at Fort
Jackson, by Gen. Sheridah's order. Many
souvenir, of the Bagdad affair, it is reported,
were found among his papers.
The Rockingham IVA Register states that
the valuable iron works property near Port Be-
public in that county, has been sold by It's pro-
prietors, lIessrs. Lewis Crawford s. Co, TO
Messrs Abbott s. Co of the Abbott Iron works
Company, of Baltimore city, for $50, 0D0 cash.
The same paper says the iron works property
in Page and Rockingham counties, known ss
the Shenandoah Iron Works, lately owned by
Msssrs. D. & H. Forrer, has been sold within
the last few weeks, for S240, 000 equivalent to
cash. 1t was purchased by Messrs. Mines <
Johns, Of Pennsylvania.
A NICE LITTLE THNG.-We are informed
that the Hon. SiHon Cameron. Secretary OF
War of the United States, t.ook several miles OF
the iron of The Manass', Gap r. R. and had il
transported and lar down at Government ex.
Pense on private railroad of his in Pennsyva.
ma, ne company made application for the
return, of the iron, it was approved by the Quar-.
ltrtmaster General, but Secretary Stanton dis.
missed the claim by disapproval.- StIunion
Virginian.
The Senate of Virginia have passed the fol.
lowing bill 10 prevent horse.siealDg Be il
enacted by the General Assembly Of Virginia,
That any person who shall be guilty Of The lar
ceny of horse, mule or jackass, shall be pun
ished with death, or in the discretion Of the
Jury, by confinement in the pententlary for a
period Of not less than FIVE nor more than eigh-
teen years.
The West is filled with produce yet to come
forward by rail to the seaboard
Gen, Beauregard publishes a ''stirring ap-
peal" in the Now Orleans Delta for the delive-
ry of fifty thousand cypress cross-ties along a
Louisiana Railroad OF which he is General Su-
perintendent and Chief Engineer.
In Nelson county, Va, the negroes are to
work on contracts Tor The year, at wages Of
from sixty TO eighty dollars.
GENERAL Grant AND THE RADIcALs.-A COR
respondent Of northern paper says General
Grant has lost cast " 18th lie radicals since his
report on the affairs Of the South Of course
he has, but has gained much in favor with hon
est and r'ght-hinking people Of the whole
country The prejudices Of many Of the rad-
Gals are stronger than their love Of justice, and
they seem TO Iegi,!ate 10 crafty their prejudces
rather than do what is right.
THE PRESIDENT AND CoNGREss.-It is stated
that letters from influential conservatives in the
New Englan States are pouring into " ashing-
ten urging their Senator'S and Re representatives.
TO avoid rupture with the Executive, and TO
abide, as far as possible. by the policy he has
seen fit to mark out for the restoration of the
Union.
A llt!le cherub out West who is three and
half years old, weighs l32 pounds. Higgins is
his name and Barnum is 10 have him.
Representatives Hubble of Ohio, and Wha-
ley, of West Virginia, in addition to John l..
Thomas, of Maryland, have sought TO have their
names recorded against the District Of Colum-
bia suffrage bill, but the request has been denied
because VI their absence from the House at
the time the vote was taken Oh the passage OF
the bill.
GEN. EARLY.-A letter was received Of Pc
tersburg, Va, from gentleman III Mexico, " no
announces the arrival III tn It country Of Gen.
Early. lie rode on horseback in disguise from
Lynchburg to Galveston, Texas, aud thence
took ship 10 Havana,w was wrecked finally reach
ed that city, and after short say sailed for
Mexico.
From the Lexington, (ky Observer and Re-
porter, we learn that "Asniand," so long the
home Of Henry Clay, has been purchased by the
Trustees of the kentucky University, al a cost
Vi SJU ne laTul COHtdHS 'hiCS
hundred and twenty-five acres Of the best land
in the Blue grass region of kentucky
Fifteen hundred Freemasons have held "a
meeting in Paris in honor Of those who died dil-
ring the year Of 1865. President Lincoln, King
Leopold and Marshal Magnan were mentioned
among The deceased Freemasons.
dispatch from Washington says that man
named Peyto formerly of Fredericksburg, Va
and worth, before the war, over one huhdr, d
thousand dollars. has been sent TO the Washing
ton almshouse, having lost all his property by
the rebellion, and being too old and feeble TO
work.
The grand jury of Lafayette County, Miss,
have found ''true billr against Gen. A. }
Smith, U. S. A., for burning the court house
and town Of Oxford in the summer Of 1864
and that is probably all they will find
The holy sacrament of babtism was confer
red upon Major-General B. F. Cheatham, by
Bishop Qulnlard at Christ Church, Nashville,
on Tuesday night.
sung out, Jim, jis come here Tarnatlon, if
here amt woman pulling music out of her
chist 10
Mr.. George NJ. Fitzhugh of West Virginia,
was pardoned to-day.
The President refuses to interfere with Gen.
Terrys re cent orders aunulling The vagrant
act passed by the Virginia Legislature.
Several Of the Virginia delegation called up
on the President to inquire as TO the report tel.
egraphed from New York relative 10 the depo-
sltion of Gov. Pierpont, and were informed by
him that there was not the slightest particle Of
truth in it.
There is movement on foot, we learn, to
elect Mr.. John Nj. Bolts, to the United States
Senate by subscription. A paper is being han
ded around TO members Of the Legislature, the
sgners of which pledge themselves TO vote for
Mr.. Bolts; the understanding or pledge being,
that Judge Underwood, Senator elect. so-called
will resign, to make him room. We do not
vouch for exact details, but such are the facts
as generally receiyed.-Richmond Sentinel.
The Common Council in convention last