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

snip having been conducted by letter. On
the following morning she put on her cloak
and bonnet and ran away, and has not since
returned
The Catholic Teleg,op referring to
Chaplain Boynton's late bloody sermon in the
Hall of Representatives, says it should have
been followed by dog fight instead of a
hymn.
The City Councils of PhiEadelp phia have
fixed the rate oftax to defray the expenses :
the municipal government ut four dollars on
the hundred Of the assessed value of the real
estate. 1t is thought that this heavy rate will
largely increase the rents on houses in that
city.
The first treason case consequent upon
the rebellion is now being tried in the United
States District Court in Tennessee, before
Judge TrIg!g. The case is, The United States
aSt. John 5. Gamble, who was an enrolling
othcer under the Confederate Government in
Blount county, East Tennessee. Col o. p.
Hall IS prosecutor on behalf of the United
States. This is the first treason trial since
the memorable Aaron Burr case.
"A dispatch from Washington to the
Phlladciphid Ledger says that Secretary STAN
ton has again rendered his resignation to the
President, and this time, it is said, insists
upon its acceptance Mr.. Stanton is now on
a visit TO Ohio
The manufacturing jewelry estahlishmsn
OF Messers. Baldwin 4 Company of Newark,
New Jersey, was entered by burglars on Sat
&rday night last, the safe forced open, and
from six to ten thousand dollars in gold, sill
yer, watches and precious stones carried away.
1t was most daring and accomplished peice
OF robbery, to WI Ich no clue has been vet OBJ.
tanned.
1t proves by confession Of the murderer
Corbitt recently convicted and sentenced to
death at Chicago, that three men are now up-
der ten years sentence in the State Prison
under conviction for crime with which they
had nothing whatever to do. They were con-
victed GU circumstautial evidence, and will
be released at once.
- Gen. SaxtOn of the freedmen's Bureau,
South Carolina, has made report in which
he processes to be pleased with the aspect of
affairs. lie thinks the negroes as a class are
industrious and cnterprising. n'
IL is said Gen. Gideon J. Pillow is
building large school house and providing
teachers Tor his former slaves He owned
quite large number some two or three hun
dred, we believe.
= Wcbstcr's Spelling Book is in such great
demand for the reconstruction Of the South,
that American printers cannot supply the de-
mand, and the publishers have sent to Fu-
rope to get it printed. Over one million CO.
pies have been sold since April, and orders
are now one hundred thousand in advance Of
the supply.
- Smuggling continues at lively rate all
along the Canadian frontier. The Detroit
Free Press tells of an exclusive capture of
contraband whiskcy, with the wagon and
horses conveying it, 81 900 on Thursday eve
nlng last, IN the vicinity of Hamtranck, by
the U. S. ofhcefs. '.'
An ocelot or tiger cat was shot and kill
ed in the graveyard at Rushville, Ind, last
Thursday, whara it lad taken refuge in a
tree. The animal escaped from Van Am
burg's menagerie, now in winter quarters near
Connersvllle, about two weeks since.
In Boston, on THANKSGIVING Dav,
beneyOlont Bostonian gave turkeys to the
married members of the Soldiers Messenger
Corps, and to the single turkey dinner at a
saloon. The inmates of the Charlestown
State Prison had extra rations, as usual, and
five OF them were pardOned.
- Monday about one hundred women, BOYS
and children went to Midtown, lust above
Salineville, Ohio, and broke in the doors and
windows ofall the groceries They poured out
all the whiskey and ale they could find. they
were headed by woman whose husband had
been indulging to such e4csss that he had
gone in TO Che show business-shoWig snakes
None of the rioters have been arrested.
- Joseph Ashley, Fall River glutton
bet s25 the other day that he could eat
nine pound turkey at one sitting He did it,
too, il just thirty-eight minutes, and pocket
ed the money.
Among a list of psrdons recently re-
ceived at the Office of the Secretary Of the
Commonwealth in Richmond, from the Pres
ident, were the following from LoudOun ia
cob Potterfeld, John NJ. Orr, J. NJ. Kilgour,
j. w. H. Smith, and j. F. Trayhern.
- The Grand Division of Sons of Tenn
perance will assemble on Wednesday. the
18th of January. The object of the meeting
is to organize the Order under the auspices Of
the National Division.
= In the case of the boy, Eugene Landou,
tried in Buffalo for the murder of Mrs Crocker'
oy administering Poiso the jury on Satur-
day reported disagreement, and were dis
charged. %
Senator Nye of Nevada will tits said in.
troduce bill forever disfranchising all who
have voluntary taken an oath of allegiance to
the Southern COnfederacy.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on
Sunday night to blow up the establishment OF
Grommes 4 Aldrich, La Sale St, Chicago
by an internal machine.
Speaking of beautiful brunette belle
of an Illinois city, our friend accounts for the
browness of her complexion by the fact that
she has been SO often toasted
"A stranger, supposed to be Mr.. At
well, from Westmoreland county, Va, died
in Baltimore on Saturday last; .under the IN
Huence of a.powertul epiate-
= Brigadier General ". R. Peck, formerly
of Stonewall Jackson's army, has had his
property in Louisiana restored to him.