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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
Removal from Office.

There is, says the National MtelligeHcer, a
great deal said by our Radical friends about
the =" headman's axe" Considering the few
Office holders who have yet expiated their gross
partisanship by removal, the wonder is that
the Administration has been so lenient We
commend the last paragraphs of the following
sensible letter of tie Secretary Of the Navy to
those gentlemen who are more noisy in their
partisanship than attentive to their official du-
ties Mr.. Wood was foreman of the PhilGdcl-
phia Navy Yard:
WAsuIyGToN, D. c., Aug Is, 1866.
DEAR SIR: Your note of the 18th instant
stating that Richard Wood has, without al
legged cause. been discharged" and asking the
reason of his removal, has been received
The Department does not hold itself bound
to assign reasons in every case Of change that
It makes.
But Mr.. Wood is understood to be an active
partisan opponent Of the President and Of those
who sustain him in his efforts to re-establish
the Union.
The Administration, and those connected
with it, would fail in their duty to the country
were they to retain in the employment of the
Government any one who would weaken and
embarrass the efforts which are made to pro-
mote national unity, or who would, at such
period, impair confidence in those who arc ex-
crting themselves to sustain the President in his
hborS for the welfare Of the whole country.
Very respectfully,
GIDEON WELI.Es.
IL.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
Curious Relationship.

A European friend Of mine related the fol-
lowing story: ] married widow who had a
grown-up daughter. Ny father visited our
house very often, fell in love with my step
daughter, and married her. So my father be-
came my son-in-law, and my step-daughter ny
mother, because she was my fathers wife
Sometime after my wife had a son--he was my
fathers brother-in-law, and my uncle, for he
was the brother of my step-mother.
Ny fathers wife, that is, my step-daughter,
had also a son he was Of course, my brother,
and in the meantime my grand-child, for he
was the son of my father, and my daughter.
Nv wife was my grandmother, because she
was my mothers mother. ] was my wife's
husband and grand-child at the same time
And as the husband Of persons grandmother
is his grandfather, was my own grandfather
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
counting IN America.

An enraptured brother Of the quill thus epit-
on1izes the delights Of courtship in this coun-
try: q Going TO pic MICS and weddings, going
to apple-cuts, sparkling by moonlight, sitting
in the porch Sunday evenings, and stealing a
kiss every time star shoots, that's the incest
gaulej sleigh-riding By The side Of a red-cheeked
girl,-in short, eating happiness with a golden
SPOON"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

FREEDMEN IN VIRGINIA.-The Assistant Su-
perintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau III
Southampton County Va, in his report to the
bureau, says that the condition Of affairs in his
county is very favorable. The state of feeling
existing between the whites and freedmen is all
that could be expected. There arc very few,
if any, freedmen in the county unemployed
Nearly all have made contracts for the year,
eitherfor stated wages or for share in the crops,
and as far as he is able to ascertain, both en-
ployer and employees are we'll satisfied. Those
that have shares in the crops, be thinks, are
much the best of, as those who are working for
money spend it as fast as it is received. Many
of the old planters say that they are making
better crops with half the number of hands
they used to work as slaves.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

Governor Peirpoint has notified theSupreme
Court of the United States that he has retained
the services of Judge Curtis, of Boston, and
Andrew Hunter, Esq, of Jefferson county, Va,
in the matter of the transfer Of the counties OF
Jefferson and Berkeley to West Virginia, under
the act of March 16, 1866.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

A Dacotah chap thinks he has found Para
disc. Hear him " No income tax no infer
nal revenue: no spies to seeif you treat friend
on Sunday; no special police; no dog tax, no
poll tax, school tax or bounty fund. And, to
end with. the Indians and half-breeds can't tell
one grecnback from another, so all our ones are
tens"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

IL Fairfax county, Virginia, recently, James
Boswell, gay ard festive colored gentleman
of ninety-seyen years, was married to Mrs
Sarah a. Burke, a dark complexioned but
blooming lady Of seventy-nine summers.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

To Cure SCRATCHES Is HoRsEs.-Tell your
subscribers who have horses which are troubled
with scratches, to try simple remedy viz
Keep the fetlock clean with CASTLE soapsuds.
and then wash twice day with butterinilk.-
Give them good rubbing at each time.
American Farmer.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

SAY what you will Of old maids, their love
is generally more strong snd sincere than the
milk-and-water creatures whose hearts vibrate
between the joys Of wedlock and the dissipa-
ton of the ballroom. Until the heart Of the
Young lady is capable Of settling firmly and ex-
clusively on one object, her love is like May
showers, which make rainbovs, bat Ell nc ois-
terms -
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
TERMS PER SESSION:

Board, including lights, fuel and washing, fifteen
dollars per month tCurrency.)
For further particulars address either of the
Principals.
RErERENcEs.-Philip Williams, of Winchester !;
George II. Murphy. of Woodstock, formerly OF
Martinsburg; b. +. Beall, Charlestown.
August %, lS66-lm.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
THE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG
LADIES,
In GssaFaeStOWn,

TTNDER the care Of the undersigned, will be re-
sumed on Monday the 10th day of September
next.
COURSE or STUDIES, AND TERMS;
PRIMARY CLASS Spelling, Reading. Wri-
ting, Primary Arithmetic, Geography and
History per session, OO
JUNIOR CLAsS.-Reading Definitions, Arith-
metc. Geography and Atlas, Common
School History Grammar, Composition,
and Writing, W
SENIOR CLAss-Arithmetic, Reading, Wri-
ting, Grammar. Composition, Ancient and
Modern Geography and History, Univer-
sal History, Natural Philosophy, Astrono-
nv, Chemistry, Mythology Mental Phi
losophy, History of English Literature,
Evidences of Christianity, ........,.......S20 90
The course embraces Latin,
French, % w
Music on the Piano.
An extra charge for fuel for each session of IS
Boarding will be provided application to the
subscriber. Payment one half in advance.
The second session will commence February lst,
1867 and close the last Friday in June.
ROBERT I. BROWN.
Charlestown, July u, 1866.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

a CHILD, speaking of his home TO a friend,
was asked I" Where is your homer" Looking
with loving eyes at his mother, be replied,
"Where mother is !" Was ever question 60
truthfully, beautifully, or touchinsly answered.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
NEW JFWRLRY sToRB.

nounee to the citizens of Charlestown and VI
cinitv that he has opened splendid assortment OF
Watches and Jewelry, including, in part,
Gold and Silver Watches,
Of various grades all Of which will be warranted as
represented; also Jewelry Of all kinds, such as
GOLD SETTS, EAR RINGS, FINGER RINGS,
SPECTACLES, EYEGLASSES,
In variety and in fact everything usually kept in
a store OF the kind. l would also announce that
have secured the services of a competent workman
on watches and repairing jewelry, so that all VINO
may want anything done in the line of repairing oil
watches, clocks or jewelry, may rely upon having
il done in the most workmanlike style, and all Work
will be warranted as represented.
would. therefore, ask call, as am determined
to suit purchasers and please all who may be dis
posed TO patronize me. Room, the one lately oeeu-
pied bv Mcintyre aud Rallston.
Sept. 6, ls66-ly. l.. DlNhLE'
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
COAL.

CUMBERLAND AND ANTHRACITE COAL.
7 WILL keep on hand, at the Charlestown Depot
L COAL of the different kinds, which will be sold
bT the Ton or Car Load at the lowest prices.
August 30. 1856. J. D. STARRY.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

To avoid the cholera-work eight hours 8
day, and more ii you feel like it.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20

II voE. wors. esssts, hore in yolr host,
fear; in al, be eircumsrect,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
SCHOOL BOOKS.

WE have on hand an assortment of School
W BoOks-such are generally used in the
Schools here, and by the middle OF September will
have the books OF the SOUTHERN C'NITERSE
TY SERIES These books are gotten up by the
Professors at the University of Virginia.
AUG. 80. 1866. CAMPBELL & MASON.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-20
Male & Female Academy,
wOODSTOCk. VA,

?. ". MAGRUDEK, ESD, J
TbNHE Exercises Of this School viii be resumed on
the first Monday in September. The scholas-
tic year will be divided into two sessions-the first
commencing on the first Monday in September ana
closing the last Friday in January the second COM
mencng on the following Monday and closing on
the 2lSt of June.
1t is the object ofthe Principals to establish first
class English and Classical School. Students will
be prepared for the University of Virginia and o.
ther Colleges or the active duties of life.
In consequence of the fuctuation of currency,
the terms of tuition are reduced to the rates adopt
ed before the war, payable in specie or its eqriva-
lent.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12
The Newton Court.

DECATUR Oct. 9. lc66
:. Editors Cldrsoa: Our Circuit Court COM
nienced its Fall Term to-day, Hon John
Watts, presiding Judge, and Col, A y liar
per, District Attorney.
There is good deal of business pending
i'm Court on all the Dockets. As yet no
case of any importance has been tried L
think from the number of lawyers here that
there is enough legal knowledge to dispose
of all the business on hand in the shortest
possible time. Besides the local lawyers
there are Judge Evans, of Clark Hardy
Hyde aud Gallagher from Paulding; Smith
and Graham from Seotti Shannon from
jackson Cooper and Mayors from the
Free State" and Watts from Meridian ;
all looking as if they had room IN their
purses for any sonable amount OF ices
Crops are very inferior in Newton and
many people viii suffer for the neeessarles
of life next year unless relieved by the state
OF County.
There are no mail facilities through the
County except on therailroad; and hence
those living remote from the stations do not
have an opportunity Of reading the news
Tho old friends and patrons of the CLARION
regret this state of things.
Newton Station is beginning to improve
in the right way Several most estimable
citizens are going tic remove there to CON-
mence business. Already Jared Watts from
1 Charlottesville is there, putting up commo-
dious building for hotel. lie also has
/ horses and vehicles to convey travellers
/ through the country. He knows exactly
! ltow To keen a hotel
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12
BY TELEGRAPH.
REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE CLARION
NOON REPORTS.
GOLD ADVANCING
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
Further Election Returns

NEw-YoRK, Oct 1.-THE steamer Halvetia
arrived yesterday from Liverpool. She had
twenty cases of cholera on board, and four
teen deaths during the trip, four of which
were from cholera.
Gold 525,
The notorious burglar and river thief,
Bruno Elfey, was shot last night while steal
ing cotton.
The Herald's Matamoras correspondent
saws Gen. Meiia, the Imperial commander,
has moved on Monterey, and battle ere
this has probably taken place. 1t is said
Maximillian has gone over to the Church
party as a last resort to eonciliate the clergy
He has restored all church property, an
nulled the offensive laws, and dismissed the
ablest Ministers.
| INDIANAPoLIs. October 1I.-FuTtber re
/ turns from the northern part of the State
show large Republican gains. From the best
! estimate that can be made, the Republican
majority will be 5000. Henry d. Washburn,
in the 9TH, and G. S. Orth, in the 6th both
Republicans, have been reelected. In the
1st district W. E. NibIack, Democrat. has
/ ,. 900 majority; in the 2d NJ. c. Kerr, Demo
crat, has a majority of ,957 in the Sd NJ Z
Hunter, Republican has 500; in the 4th
VIM L. Holman, Democrat, 300 to 500; the
| 5th, G. w Julian, Republican, 5000 the 9th,
John Coburn, Republican, 1900; the 9TH, ii.
d. Washburn, Republican, 500; the 8th, G'
5. Ortb, Republican, 300; the 9TH, s. Coliax,
/ Republican. 5000 the 10th, w. Williams
Republican, 1000; the 18th, Jno p c.
! Shanks, Republican 1000. The Republicans
claim two-thirds of both branches of the
Legislature.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12

IMPORTANT DECIsIoN.-An important
decision has been recently rendered in
the Circuit Court of Maryland sitting at
Baltimore, by Judge Alexander. The
substance Of the decision is, that the
law Of Congress making that species
of paper currency called greenbacks a
legal tender is unconstitutional and void
and thatpaper cannot be converted in
to precious metal by the words of an
act of Congress. The case is to come to
the Supreme Court in Baltimore for
final adjudication The decision has
excited great interest here, and it may
be that it has had some influence on
the present depreciation of the paper
currency.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12

CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.-THE returns from
forty-five counties give Radical majority of
1900 The remaining forty-three counties
will probably reduce these figures to $4,000.
Gen sGeorge w. Morgan has been elected to
Congress over the present incumbent Delane
a Radical
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1lth--A dispatch aP-
peared in the Philadelphia Ledger this
morning, dated Washington announcing
that the President had propounded certain
Undergraduates to the Attorney General re-
speeding the constitutionality of Congress,
and that an opinion in writing would be
given against the legality of that body
The dispatch CAUSED a great sensation, the
effect being felt quite seriously in mercan-
tile circles. Gold Immediately rose to 535.
owing to its influence. There is authority
for saying, however, that the statement is
not in accordanee with the facts. No ques-
lions of such character have ever been
submitted by the President to the law officer
of the Government.
The President to day appointed Wickham
Hoffman, of Louisiana, Assistant Secretary
of the L. 5. Legation at Paris.
A heavy rain has been falling since yester-
day; the streams are much swollen and
there has been much damage to property.
At Baltimore all streams are ont of their
banks. Several lives have been lost and
much property injured.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1.-THE papers to-
morrow will publish the correspondence
between Gov. Wells and the Board of Levee
Commissioners respecting a proposition to
call the Legislature together to consider the
repair of the levees This the Governor de-
clines to do, saying the Legislature was not
needed. They then asked him to add his
warrant to theirs that the Legislature would
ratify Il sale at less than par, which is not
allowed by law. He says the Legislature
will no doubt do it.
1t is understood the Governor is unwilling
| to call the Legislature, because he appre
hends the first act would be to impeach HIM.
A fire occurred this morning on the corner
of Camp and Poydras streets destroying a
Petroleum Vapor Stove establishment
Loss $4,000 partially insured. Bloomfield
& Steel, and the German Gazette office were
damaged by the water $40, 600
Advices from the Rio Grande to the 4th
report Col. Qnerroga had routed the Liberal
forces between SaltillO aud San Louis and
Cobedo was expecting to be driven out of
Monterey, upon which Nidauvva, the old
Governor and Gen. Nejai were advancing
Canales was yet in possession of Matamoras,
though two attempts had been made to force
him out. Cartina was advancing to make a
third one Loans have been made in DIata-
npras since Mejia left to the amount of
500, 600.
Cotton has advanced one cent. Saturda
5000 bales Low Middling 36937.. Recei pts
2. 800 Gold 47a.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12

The Friars Point Coahomian is re-
sponsible for the following:
A couple of ladies last week on q
shopping excursion, dropped into the
store where hardware and agricultural
implements were sold. They had
read the merchants advertisement, in
the CoahOmian, and innocently asked
for cradles The storekeeper said
it was rather late in the season for the
article, and he had sold all he pur-
chased. The ladies looked at each
other wonderingly, and whispered
laughingly, when one, turning to the
blushing Joe remarked; ''Out OF
season. I thought babies rere arrays
IN season.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12

The CASE DE Mr.. DAvIs.-District
Chandler, of Judge Underwood's
court, has addressed a letter to the
Attorney General in relation to the trial
of jefferson Davis Mr. Stanbarry re
plies at length, casting the entire blame
of the delay on Congress and the chief
justice. He quotes from laws passed
at the last session to show that Con
gress fully recognized the restoration
of civil law in Virginia.
In a few days. a telegram tell US
Executive announcement will be made
declaring that Mr. Davis is held liable
to be handed over at any time to the
civil authorities on the proper legal
process.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12

The anniversary of Mexican inde-
pendonce, the 10Th uItimo, was cele-
DRAFTED with great magnifcence. -
The troops were reviewed by the En-
peror, the theatres were thrown open
gratis to the people, and bull fight
took place; no disturbance occurred,
although it was contemplated by the
Liberals that the people of the whole
valley should concentrate ut the Capt.
toll on that day and ask Macmillan to
get rid of the French. The Imperial
authorities heard of the intention,
however, and arrested several promi-
nent citizens two days previously,
thereby breaking up the plot Senior
Lacunsa. President of the Council of
State, made feeling and highly patri-
otic address to the Emperor, to which
his majesty replied in a short but neat
speech in which he urged all loyal
patriots to support with energy, each
in his own sphere, the work Of regen-
Grafton, assuring them that they have
the inevitable task to perform of con
solidating and crowning the work of
independence began by the great he
roes of the country with their precious
blood.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12

Capt. Alonzo Greenlaw who killed
young Taylor in duel near Memphis
some months ago, made an attempt
to commit suicide by shooting him
self, having laid down on the bed and
placed the pistol to his left breast,
near the heart The pistol snapped
three times before going of, the ball
passing above the heart, striking a
rib, and glancing around, lodged in
his back 1t is probable that he may
recover.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12
The Grave of Jackson aud the Home
of Lee.

/ Even thus writes from Lexington, Vir-
i ginio a correspondent OF Horace Greely, IN
( the New York Tribune
With the Blue Ridge trowning upon 1t on
one side and the North mountains sneering
stit on the other, and lying IN 50 pictur-
esaue "a valley that the little town is hid
4 eous scar upon the face of mother earth, the
chief glory of Lexington IN the region round
about has grown to be that 1t Is the grave of
! jackson and the home OF Lee.
Putting the greater before the less, brings
/ the dead jackson before the living Lee
! The eemetry where the greater les Is on
/ the edge OF the struggling town, opposite
+ the college and institute. 1t IS small, Very
I small-nOt more than dozen acres,
1 should Judge, and of the common type of
country church-yard the world over In
its exact center issa small lot about twenty
feet square, surrounded by one of those hid
cons iron fences that the purer taste of the
present is 80 rapidly driving from our cities
of the dead
There is. of course, gate in this palisade
of iron the gate bears plate, and on it,
in simple Roman characters. the single
word jackson" Within this enclosure.
with the great everlasting mountains look
ing down upon him from the dim distance
from every side, sleeps him whom this peO-
pie style the great Stonewall. An ascetic
taste has been shown in the surroundings
feet in hight. slightly curved at the top,
aud bearing nothing more than the words
General Thomas J Jackson and an mp
right tootstone of foot aud a half in hight,
with nothing more in the way of legend
than I. J. J.-.these are all of the words or
monuments that are about the grave of
jackson But there are other visible signs
and more significant. Yesterday morning
was the holy sabbath, but the green turf
was covered with the rarest flowers. At the
head of the grave was an elaborate wreath,
andi almost every inch from stone to stone
bore a fiowcry tribute to the sleeper be
meath Nearly all these flowers were as
fresh as if pulled from the stalk but an
honr before, and the villagers bear witness
that they are renewed almost every day.
Tins sleeps jackson. where he lived and
was loved so long, and the kindly hearts
that each day deck his grave are mourning
for the ,chiyalrous gentleman, the kindly
Christian and loving neighboF and friend,
rather than for dead hero, and the cause
for which he died. This is their own ex-
PLANTATION.