Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.

w AH' DOISSl IaI6 OF the COltederatH
army, was arrested by the authorities of Fred
erick county, Md, last winter on a CHARGE of
robbery, for driving off drove of cattle whilst
Gen Lee was on his way to. Gettysburg. He
was thrown into the Frederick citv
jail and ironed, from whence he was released
upon giving heavy bail, His case came un
at the last term of Frederick County Conrt.
He moved his case to Montgomery County
Court, where he thought justice would be
dealt him. He was tried on Thursday last
by a jury trial and acquitted, they squirting
the idea that he could be guilty of robbery
by capturing drove of cattle whilst acting
under orders of his superiour officers. His
acquittal of this charge will settle many SIM
liar cases now pending in different coufos
against returned Confederate soldiers.
Mr.. Speaker Colfax, in one of his late
harangues In Indiana, to g fire the hearts, of
the Northern Radicals, ':took occasion to say
that he hudlatey visited Arlington, and heard
that Mrs. Lee had been there, and said that
when she got possession of the place, not q
Yankee bone should stay in the ground.''-
we SIMPLY " take occasion to say that Mrs
Lee has not been at Arlington since the war,
The commission, consisting Of udoe Al
vocate General Holt, General Buchanan. and
! General Barnes, to whom was referred the
provision in the civil appropriation bill for
| the payment of additional bounties of soldiers.
reported favorably on Monday, and submitted
! set OF regulations to govern the payment of
bounty claims under this act. The report.
| however, has not been given to the public
and 1t is understoodsto have been suppressed
by direction Of the President We learn that
the Secretary of the Treasury has given in
structions that no money shall be nlid out of
the Treasury under the provision of the civil
| ION m IVRT. H
The name of Mr.. James NJ. Wallace of
Lecsburg, was recently published as one of
the Delegates to the proposed Radical Con-
vention, to be held in PHILADELPHIA next
month. Mr.. W., in note to the Loudoun
Mtrr0r, states that his name has been used
without his authority and that he has no
idea OF taking part in any such Convention.
He adds: &C was in favour of settling our
difficulties in the Union, but never had one
drop of Abolition blood in my veins. and am
now unalterably opposed to negro suffrage
in Virginia"
The La Crosse Democrat gives the follow
ing notice OF the Beast
Ben. Butler, the National Spoon-Stealer
and Silver Ware Thief will be in Milwaukee
this week on tour of inspection connected
! with the soldiers National Asylum. Ben.
will doubtless bring along his Italic ewes and
purloining disposition, for Which reason chill
dren OF tender years should be kept within
doors and valuable portable property locked
| up.
-Thad Stevens, ON the occasion of his re.
cent nomination to Congress, took the liberty
| OF speaking of Andrew johnson in the fol-
lowing apostolic strain:
" You all remember that in Egypt the
Lord sent frogs, locusts, murrain and lice
and finally demanded the blood of the first
born OF all the Oppressors Almost all of
these have been sent upon us. More than
the first born have been taken from u.s. We
have been oppressed with taxes and debts;
and lie has sent us more than lico, and has
afflicted us with Andrew johnson.
Somebody in letter to the Treasury
Department, burlesques the small sums which
nave peen sent IN as conscience money, when
so many hundreds of millions have been sto-
len He sends g dilapidated ten cent note"
! that he Is not justly entitled to. He saws the
Secretary will oblge him very much bv in
yesting it in the great National Soldiers
Concert, and draw brick house, (if he CAM
and give it to the Fenians.''
The Mobile Advertiser is informed bv
W. 81. Harris, late Confederate scout, that
Lieutenant Maury, of Virginia, of whose fate
recent inquiry has been made, was captured
by party OF the enemy, and taken across the
Mississippi river, where he was murdered by
deserter from the Confederate service Har-
ris further says he was buried where he was
thus murdered, eight miles below Vicksbure.
He says that John 81. Rainey, of Kinds
county, Mississippi, was present when the
prisoner was thus massacred, and can proba-
bly, identify his grave.
"A correspondent of the New York Re.
cord says that brother of Governor Andrew.
OF Massachusetts, who is running a cotton
plantation in Louisiana, was very severely
beaten by "a man and brother in the
shape of a freedman, for interfering with the
amusement of the latter in whipping his wife
Andrew retreated, terribly demoralized abont
the face and eyes, and disguised with South,
ern plantations and all. He told some of the
members that he had expended thirty thou
sand dollars in starting the cotton planting
adventure, but would give it up. He said
that he had fought four years to make the
negro free, AMI now was willing to fight the
remainder of his lifetime to put him back
into slavery again" SIC transit glorta mum
dill
The Richmond Wing truly says that if
the views OF the Southern people prevail,
conflict between the whites and blacks will
never occur. 1t is their desire to live on
pleasant terms with the colored people, to en-
ploy them as laborers, to pay them liberalIy.
and to contribute to their advancement and
happiness. If it occur, it will be forced by
those worst enemies of negroes-the radicals.
and all the blood that shall be spilled will CRY
out against them.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says that
South Carolina walking down the aisle of the
Philadelphia Convention, weeping on the boz
som of Massachusetts, is, one of the most touch
ing pictures since the laying of the Atlantic
Cable. If that doesn't melt the North. they