Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-06-05
General New.

of the Adams Express Company, win be
sold at Winchester, if not claimed on or before
Wednesday, June 9th.
= Mrs. Robert Toombs, who has returned
to her home in Georgia says her husbands
advice to the young men of the South is that
they remain there, which he still considers a
country much preferable to Brazil, Mexico
or Cuba, and, by patient endurance aud active
industry, rebuild upon the surest of founcia-
lions their own shattered fortunes and that
oftheir native land.
THE laying of the cornerstone of the
Douglas Monument at Chicago has been post
poned from the 18th of June to the 4th of
July, when it is intended to make grand
affair. The Masonic Fraternity will conduct
the ceremony.
The military commission which recently
tried Dexter, a late United States cotton agent
at Mobile, charged with combining with
others to defraud the government out of
SSH bales of Gotten, found him guilty, and
sentenced him to the penitentiary for one
year, to be fined S250,0OO, and be forever
disqualified from holding any Office. The
Secretary of War, however, has suspended the
sentence until the record can be revised by
the Judge Advocate General.
= Reports hav reached Atlanta, GA, of a
bloody riot between the whites and blacks at
Quincy, Fla. a negro was arrested for some
offence and committed to jail, and large
number OF blacks assembled and attempted
to rescue him; whereupon a fight ensued
between the party and the town officers, in
which the marshal was Killed and several
citizens wounded.
= The last exhibit of Comptroller of the
Treasury shows that there are fifty national
banks, with an aggregate circulation of
S2I6.54O,5 $40. -Four hundred of these banks
are repositories for the reception of govern,
ment funds.
by the treaty of Vienna in 1915. of
which Napoleon in his speech at Auxerre.
expressed his detestation, which has so much,
alarmed all Europe, "the ancient republics of
Venice and Genoa re;:aboliShed; the territo>
RES OF the former were given to Austria, while
the latter were assigned to the King of Sar-
olnla, Poland was annexed to the territories of
Russia, and the Prussian dominions ENLARGED
at the expense of Saxony" This arrange
ment was never satisfactory to the French
and Louis Napolean thinks this favorable
time to correct the boundaries.
-Paymaster General Brico reports to tl,e
Committee on Banking and Currency. which
Is now engaged in investigating the condition
OF the national banks, that the amount standino
to the credit OF the disbursing officers in the
national banks is upwards of fifteen millions of
dollars, for all which the Government has
little or no security. Mr.. Huyck, the Presi-
dent of the late Merchants National R,nL
Washington, offers to compromise with the
Government and other depositors, by paving
them forty per cent. Of the aggregate amount
placed on deposit.
That old. eloquent man, General IT. A,
Wise, recently qualified as an attorney in
JufRe Lyons court. When he appesred to
take the oath Of fidelity to the constitution of
Virginia, the General remarked that before
DONG SO he would say what, to Ms mind, that
oath meant. He recognized Virginia ac-
eor1lnG to her ancient boundaries, from 1776
to the present hour. lie did not recognize
any liieglmate offspring of political rape
For, said he, "West Virginia, so-calIed, is
a bastard"
- Admiral Semmes will soon prepare his
adventures on the high seas-while in com
mand Of the Alabama-ior the press He
has been offered $4,000 in England for the
copy wright Of the work, but the offer was
declined. 1t will rsobably first appear in
numbers, in a Southern monthly. and after
wards be gathered up and published in book
shape.
The Richmond Circles of the Fenian
Brotherhood are at present considerably excit-
cd, at the prospect Of speedy visit from
James Stephens, the remarkable man who is
now regarded in this country, as he has long
been in Ireland, as the heart and soul of the
vast organization whose. object is the Indepeu-
dence of Ireland.
The Boston Post says the Freed S Bureau
IS the biggest cutworm that ever afflicted
plantation, and letter from the South saws
that sub-ageucy of the Freedmen's Bureau
IS worth moro than the Presidents salary.
= General J. b. Gordon was at Atlanta
Ga, few days since. He is now eppooed
IN the lumber business in Brunswick, and is
doing remuncrative business
The new Fivc-cent coin will be ready
Tor distribution in month. Orders are
now being received at the mint in Pbiladel-
phia. and in sums Of $50 or upwards. coin
will be sent by express at the expense of the
mint.
- lomax Smith, colored barber in Rich>
mond, closed his shop Thursday, 10th, and
placed on the door card saying ''closed in
memory of General StoneEall Jackson and
of the Confederate dead"
The result of the investigation into the
Memphis riots, as reported by Gen. Stoneman
to the War Department, is that the negro
soldiers, and not the white citizens we're the
aggressors. This takes the winds out of the
Radical sail on that sensation.
- The Legislature of PENNSYLVANIA. in
1854, passed the following: "ResoIved. That.
no member of the Legislature will be allowed
to come into the House barefooted"
An EvENTFUL CAREER.--A Confederate