Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-11-20
virginia NeMa Items.

The stockholders of the w. L P. r.
r meetSat Winchester on the Gath of this
month.
1t is stated that there has not been
criminal trial in Bath county since the sur
render of General Lee.
a register of the negroes in BOte-
tourt county, shows that there are 400 more
there now than at the last census.
-Governor Pierpont seems to-have quito
Hania for pardouing criminals. He sets
them free about as fast as the courts convict
and sentence. Negroes. especially.
-Winchester was visited on Wednes-
day last, with squall of snow, the first of
| the season. The Friday previous there was
a slight fall OF snow in Salem.
-Rockbridge county has decided by
vote Of 46T to So, to appropriate 100000
towards the construction of the Valley Rail-
road.
THE Virginia Allegheuies are swarm,
ing with game. party from Albemarle,
who entered The mountains from Stauntun,
killed twehty>one deer in five days One
buck weighed two hundred and fifty pounds,
Mr.. Tut, of Norfolk, has received no.
tice from England that by the death of some
of his relations in that country, a fortune of
two million dollars has bean bequeathed to
him.
-.ZThs greatest 1,oct-orv of .io sooso,,
is the boast uf elcction vic,or;..s in w.
Virginia and Missouri. Why not put the ex-
ultation on its true gre und-the successful
exclusion of the people of those States from
the polls The veriest hack can win a race,
if all others are ruled of the track.
At the city Jail yesterday afternoon
nonnce5 bv the Uns,nt,f, s.. 80 ol,,LS
TLree vvh;;e me-, rsco;,.eJ So f,' =. ..'..
flashes each. Thcv bore II ,r..ttv woIi .,'3
walked off. apnare1tlv satisfied tbs, + was M
worse = b;cbnonJ DHnl,,.S
morn HUI, the residence of the late
zen: II. f. Paxt' n, was sold last week at
pu9lc auction Tor szs:uoO-Mr w. +. Coe,
OF bG[Keiey county purchaser. Mr.. George
y. WHITE proprietor OF Lexington Hotel,
avs" Pufcnnseu at private sale, the hne farm
on No ., river, known as the Harris. Bot
TOMS, owned by Nlr Majors, for $4,000,
''''ep' - c'S'' = 'aNfy '''y.''G"'
|An old negro man from the Southside,
VINO mas been Tor the last year trying TO make
an honest penny or so by cuItivating 'small
crap" OF tobacco, brought down the result Of
ms labor few days since in the shape of thir-
" pounds OF the weed, which he got CONS
mission merchant to sci! tur him. The to-
Oacco was SOLD ut two cents per pound and
when lie came to settle the charges on the
SALE he found that breakagc amounted to
twenty nye cents and commission the same.
which Left HIM balance of ten cents for his
crap" RalsinS tobacco amt that old mans
forte. He would have done better to have
''eha"ed, his "eed.-H'eA. Dis
Tile taxes levied on nronartv in So
lnl
You'd conception. The State government is
in the hands of the floating and unsnbstan-
tial population, and taxutio6, which is thrown
almost wholly on property. is levided Will,
unspuring hand, because those who innosc
it escape almost entirely. and yet heavy mex.
ing in the public expenditures. In short
the patriots are fleeing the people. aud hone
to secure the continuance of the pood time
through tho registry preservation. Snch
grinding oppression is driving the nronertv
holders to the Conservative nertv and sto,,n,.
or later will briu. the nadita,! oarnivoI tn ;.
close:
| ..-rLS T..tr-
.;o..I, 4No'io'N t'IJt"I"" g YES the par.
=, 49,, ~ = Oss pu1i"se inte'y PerpetratcG
~. T'...,ll county as developed before
last: TLf.e free negroes ea'~S s Uh o Wn
ten DlIk Mooten aud john Edraunds, were
wh;nDio u%0 ~" Iu' . Snipgea with gImereItIlly
white man BattheIi is q poor ionorant and
inoffensive man, living near Chuekatuck, aud
Is addicted az to habits Of Incompetence.
S;aSt so',Iy W SJnce aI.eF ne mad retired at
he went out hayiG notEin,, ~ b,,t 10 S3Or S9a
and drawers.p he was seized by Sandy and
his two aceoGplices, carried tothe woods, lied.
from the ground. His shirt was turned ed over ,EeF