Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-01-02
GENERAL IFEMs.

tnVLnsnts % s uetoEe the people seated on either
side Of hin discovered the fact.
MIR. and Mrs. Brown were released from
the Chicago Jail on Thursday. on writ of
! nabeas corpus. This couple had been confined
in the Jail three hundred and seventeen days
for debt of 5000. =.
= During the recent Indian Summer prai-
rie fires have swept over various sections of
the State OF Iowa, doing immense damage to
the hay and grain stacks. In Monoua County
| over 900 tons of hay have been burned.
= Mrs. Partingtou invited an old friend.
who called upon her the other day, to take a
seat upon the sophia. that they might freshen
their memories with sweet renlissnesses of tho
past!
The Chief Secretary of the French Le.
CATION at Washington left that city for Eu-
rope on Wednesday. 1t is understood that
his departure has reference to recent develop
ments on the Mexican question, and that he
has been dispatched by Count Montholon for
definite instructions from the Emperor
Chief Justice Rowe of Maryland has
given decision sustaining the constitutions
ality of the registration law of that State,
which excludes from voting those who can.
not take the test oath.
General Stephenson commanding at At
lanta, has issued an order allowing citizens
to carry arms for personal protection. This
action was rendered necessary by the preva-
lence of lawlessness at that place.
A sailor. on board the United States
gunboat Glasgow, at New Orleans, while ra-
pidy devouring pie, swallowed piece of
glass, from the effects of which he died in
twenty-four hours. After death the glass was.
taken from the right lung.
The editor of the Dayton COhio) Jour
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ism, in his life of Gen. Sheridan, adding that
twenty pages of said book was the lucubra-
ton OF the editor, who was a war correspon-
dent. Abominable to steal from au editor!
THE Senate of Kentucky, as in duty
bound, passed resolution respectfully re-
qucstlng General Palmer-who has proclaim
ed all the blacks of Kentucky free-to com-
municatc to the Legislature his authority for
such proclamation,
"A New Haven, Conn, grocer had for
some time past missed small sums of money
from his drawer, but couldn't guess where
it went to. Last week he had occasion to
remove an old counter, under which he dis
covered rats nest composed of seventy dol
lars in bills and currency.
The County Court of Spotsylvanin. Va.
has expressed to General Harris its fears ofa
negro instruction duripS Christmas. Cen
eral Il. will take prompt measures to repress
any disturbance should one occur, but does
not share the apprehensions felt by the Court.
The correspondent of the London fines,
writing from North Carolina, says that Gov!
Holden remarked of the freedmen that their
Pr"pCGts could not be regarded without sorrow
by any feeling man, and he spoke of the abo-
lIlon OF slavery as great calamity to the black
race. lie was quite sure they would never
IaSS l. l.
President johnson positively declined to
accept carriage made for him by the work.
men of the army repair shop Washington,
after their working hours, and it has been
purchased by Secretary Stanton.
"A company has been started in Au-
gusta, Ga, with capital of $50, 900, for the
purpose Of manufacturing rice.
Maj. Gen. R. Ransom has been elected
captain Of a military company at Wilmington.
A good appointment.
: Hon. w. w. Boyce, of South Carolina.
is going to settle in Washington to practice
law. -'' 800" .
One cf the Southern States, in its new
code OF laws, provides an appropriation for
support Of a church and school for every
community of one hundred or more souls.
The census of 1860 gives the negro
population of Florida as G3 900 Since that
time it has increased, as ascertained from re-
ports of the Freedmen's Bureau, to about
100000. .
1t is stated that orders were issued by
the President, several weeks since, restoring
to their proper occupants the Episcopal Church
edifices in Alabama, but they seem not to have
reached headquarters. A failure OF the mail
doubtless.
The Messrs. Lamar of Savannah, who
were arrested on the alleged charge Of attemt-
ing to bribe United States Treasury Agent,
have been released on s25, 600 bail.
1t is said that President johnson will
pardon the Hon A. II. Stephens. and that
Georgia will elect him to the United States
Senate. Madam rnmOr is the author.
Some of the capitalists of Erie, Pa, are
contemplating the establishment of line of
vessels between that port and Europe for the
transportation of oil.
- 1t Is said that the withdrawal of the
| French Legation from Washington will take
place in case of the formal appointments of
United States Minister to the Mexican repub~
| lie.
The President has commuted the sen-
tencc of Edward Lambert oft the twenty-eigth
Louisiana Regiment, to be hung, to ten years
! Imprisonment in the PententiarY.
The Kentucky Senate, by the casting
vote of the presiding officer, has voted down
a bill looking to State Convention to amend
the State Constitution.
There are said to be 10000 refugees
and freedmen in Alabama and Florida de-
pendent on the government for retions du-
ring the winter.
= The Mayor of Louisville refused to sign
city railroad charter last week, Rhsreupon
the Common Council formally imPeached him..